Jan Cady, a lifelong leader in building dramatically successful philanthropic programs, joined Boston Children’s in 1997 and founded Children’s Hospital Trust in 1998 in partnership with Steve Karp, its inaugural Chairman. Jan served as the Trust's President until October 2011. She is nationally sought-after as an inspirational speaker and philanthropic leader. In her role as Executive Chairman, Jan serves “of counsel” to the Trust President and Board. She leads strategic projects to advance philanthropy for the hospital, and sustain and advance key philanthropic relationships, building on her wealth of experience and knowledge. A frequent speaker at national conferences on fundraising and philanthropy, she has served on numerous nonprofit boards and conducted pro bono workshops for nonprofit trustees and staff.  She is a member of the Massachusetts Women’s Forum.  A member of The Boston Club since 2000, Jan has served on several of our committees, including as chair of the Governance Committee where she developed and led The Club’s first board assessment process.  She was elected vice president in 2008 and president in 2010.

JoAnn is a principal and founding partner of DeCava Consulting, a strategy implementation firm consulting to  leaders of large and midsized enterprises and entrepreneurial firms in diverse industries. Before founding DeCava Consulting, she was an operating executive in the telecommunications and broadband industry. Most recently she served as vice president of Charter Communications, the nation’s third largest broadband provider.  JoAnn is a member of The Commonwealth Institute, a former trustee of the Board of Women in Cable & Telecommunications, and a volunteer for Community Servings of Boston. She has served on the Corporate Board Committee since 2001 and has been its chair since 2008.

Janet is a business, real estate and construction attorney as well as a former litigator. She represents closely held businesses in a wide variety of industries, European companies doing or seeking to do business in the U.S. and is local counsel for national and global corporations.  Previously she was a partner in Cohen & Fierman, LLP. Janet was also an international trade economist with the U.S. Department of Commerce. For more than ten years, Janet has been a member of the Town of Brookline Building Commission, which she also chaired. She has also served as a member of the Boston Bar Association's Diversity Committee and the Boston Bar Journal Board of Editors. Janet joined The Boston Club in 2005, and has served on the Membership and Governance Committees.

Becky has been a financial services professional for over 25 Years. Now a partner at Sharp & Linhart Financial Strategies, she focuses on working with individual clients and small business in the areas of wealth management, financial planning and retirement planning. She was chief financial officer for a nonprofit organization for ten years before joining Smith Barney in 1999. After several years, Becky started her own firm to bring a holistic wealth management approach to private clients. Over her career, Becky  has served as treasurer of several nonprofit organizations. She is currently vice president of her Rotary Club.  Becky joined the Club in 2008 and is a member of both the Finance and Corporate Board Committees.

For more than 20 years, Lucinda has applied her expertise and experience to the unique issues confronting organizations in flux. With extensive line management, business development, board, and cross-functional experience, Lucinda has earned a reputation for pragmatic vision, and action with finesse. As its President & CEO, Lucinda guided the Center for Quality of Management through a financial crossroads. She successfully repositioned and sold the multi-national organization, saving CQM’s well-known intellectual property, guaranteeing obligations to clients, and securing jobs for 95% of its employees. Before that, she founded The Corporate Advisory Group. CAG provided customized executive and organization assessment, measurement and effectiveness support to CEOs and boards making high stakes talent and organization decisions.  Lucinda started her career in marketing, advertising, and PR management positions at DMB&B, J Walter Thompson, Ash/LeDonne, and Public Relations Associates in New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, and London. She earned her Ph.D. in Strategy, Management and Organizational Behavior from New York University’s Stern School of Business and is a licensed Organizational Psychologist. Lucinda joined The Boston Club in 2003 and served on the Governance and Research Committees before joining the Corporate Board Committee.  

Sue was President of Northeast Training Group, Inc. (NTGI) from 1995 until she dissolved it in August 2010. She has over 30 years experience as a teacher, systems analyst, salesperson, and sales manager.  NTGI made the list of the Boston Business Journal’s 20 largest Computer/software Training Companies in Massachusetts 9 years in a row. Sue is often quoted in publications such as ComputerWorld, Inside Technology Training, Service News, eWeek, Boston Business Journal, and Amtrak’s Arrive magazine. She also authored a monthly column for Service News.  She serves on numerous boards including the American Technion Society, Primary Source, and the Touro Synagogue Foundation, where she is co-chair of its annual George Washington Letter Reading in 2011.  Sue joined the Club in 1998 and served on our original sponsorship committee, as well as the Technology, NonProfit Board, Mentoring and Corporate Board Committees. She’s well known to members at our large events for wearing a pin that says, “Hi!  I don’t remember your name either!”

Martha is Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager for Commercial Banking at Blue Hills Bank (subsidiary of Hyde Park Bancorp) where she and her team are developing the bank’s first commercial program in its 140-year history.  Previously, Martha was a commercial banker for Sovereign Santander and its predecessors Fleet and Shawmut, where she served as a commercial loan officer, assisted in the development of a professional services program, and developed a program to address the needs of woman-owned and minority-owned businesses. Martha is a Director and member of the Finance Committee on the board of the YWCA Boston, volunteers at Babson College in the Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork program,  and is involved with New England Baptist Hospital as a member of the Board of Visitors, member of the Finance Committee and Honorary Trustee.  Martha has been a member of The Boston Club since 1995.  She served on the Corporate Relations, Program and Strategic Planning Committees before joining the Governance Committee in 2005.

Jane is executive vice president of Denneen and Company, a growth strategy consultancy with particular expertise in strategic marketing, brand development, market research and business analysis.  Her clients cover a broad range of sectors from academic medical centers and biotechnology firms to packaged goods companies, energy and chemical companies and public transit agencies.  Previously, Jane was vice president of strategy and business planning at Tufts Health Plan. Prior to that, she was a brand manager at General Mills in Minneapolis where she turned around failing brands and introduced award winning new products. Jane is on the advisory board of the Big Sisters Association of Greater Boston, and was previously a Big Sister, herself. She also serves on the Corporate Executive Council of WGBH.

Claire is a partner with Kaplan DeVries Inc., offering executive coaching and leadership development services.  Kaplan DeVries is headquartered in Greensboro, NC, but Claire is based in Boston.  She has been consulting with executives for over twenty-five years.  In addition, Claire posses extensive corporate experience, having served as the top HR executive in three companies (in the financial services, telecommunications and energy services industries).  Claire also has significant M&A experience, has twice served in expatriate assignments, and has worked with boards of directors to implement programs in succession planning and the management of executive searches.  Claire holds an undergraduate degree from Indiana University (Phi Beta Kappa), an MBA from Northeastern University, and completed the Executive Program in Business Administration at Columbia University.  She is the past president of the New England affiliate of the Human Resource Planning Society, and is also a member of the International Coaching Federation.  She joined The Boston Club in 1995, served on the Membership Committee from 1998 until 2008, and rejoined the Committee in 2010. 

Ruth has been an executive, both in management and consultant roles, in hospitals, health insurance companies and nonprofit organizations.  She has provided strategic planning, capacity building and business development, often in turnaround and crisis management teams.  Her current consulting practice includes working with boards and management leadership to assess organizational challenges and opportunities, evaluate and restructure operations, including financial and human resources, and manage operations and community and fund-raising relationships.  She has guided boards of directors to consider collaborative ventures amidst public funding challenges and increasing financial constraints.  Ruth provides leadership transition in interim executive roles, recently serving as the Interim Executive Director of CASPAR, Inc., a comprehensive substance abuse organization in Cambridge and Somerville. Ruth’s prior experience includes positions in the healthcare and health insurance industries, specializing in ambulatory care, physician practice, community-based healthcare services, physician hospital organizations and managed care operations, including UMass Memorial Medical Center, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.  In 2004, Ruth joined The Boston Club and shortly thereafter joined the NonProfit Board Committee.  She has also served on the Awards Committee and organized the nonprofit board education program series.

Rochelle founded her design firm, Seltzer, in 1984. She and her team developed strategically-based visual brands and a wide array of marketing tools that garnered numerous awards and wide recognition. In the spring of 2011 Rochelle sold her firm and launched a new professional venture as an advocate for Design Strategy. She now speaks at national and regional conferences, writes, teaches and consults to both design firms and businesses. She is an active member of AIGA, the professional association for design. She is a past Vice President and current member of the Board of Trustees of Temple Sinai in Brookline, MA. She has served on the boards of the PALS Children's Chorus and Art BeCAUSE. She has been an active member of The Boston Club since 1996 and became chair of the Program Committee in 2011.

Dorothy is the founder and president of Marketing & Management Associates for Nonprofits, a management consultancy that applies best practices from the for-profit sector for the benefit of nonprofit clients. Dorothy works with foundations, arts commissions and arts councils, cultural, educational, and human services organizations and museums. She serves on the board of the Visitors Studies Association, a national association affiliated with the American Association of Museums, and Arts Extension Service of the University of Massachusetts.  She is president of the New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum Alumni Association and serves on the President’s Advisory Council of Barnard College, the WGBH Community Advisory Board, and the IdeasBoston Advisory Committee.  She joined The Boston Club in 2005, and became a member of our Strategic Planning Committee almost immediately.  Dorothy was elected Chair of SPC in 2011.

In 2001 Linda founded Salem CyberSpace, a nonprofit community technology center to help low-income and unemployed people living north of Boston gain access to technology and computer skills training. Two years later she started CyberYouth, an after-school math and technology program for the low-income, primarily Hispanic youth of Salem.  Before these ventures Linda spent 12 years with RSA Security, where she served as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Linda has been a member of The Boston Club since 2001. She became chair of the Technology Task Force in 2003; the Task Force became a standing Committee in 2008.

Maureen is managing director of Horton International, LLC and an active participant in many civic, business and community affairs.  She has been honored by the Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of the ten most outstanding young leaders in Boston and nominated twice in Boston’s Women’s Business Journal as one of the top ten recruitment experts in Boston.  She serves on the boards of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston and the Bessie Tartt Wilson Children’s Foundation. She is an overseer at WGBH and the New England Conservatory of Music.  Maureen also serves as chair of the board of the Boston Center for Community & Justice, and has served as president of its signature program’s alumni organization, the Lead Boston Community Board. Her other community activities have included Tufts Alumni Association, Boston University School of Management, The Epiphany School, and the National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP).  Maureen joined The Boston Club in 2007, and has served on the Governance Committee since 2008.

In her 25 years in the wireless services industry; Lisa has held senior positions in finance, business development, marketing, multi-channel sales and sales & service operations. For many of those years, Lisa was at GTE/Verizon Wireless, where she was region president for Verizon Wireless.  In 2002, Lisa joined General Dynamics as vice president of business development for the company’s wireless services division. Lisa joined The Boston Club in 2008 and is an active member of the Strategic Planning and Governance Committees, as well as the Brave New World and Second Stage affinity groups.

Monica is executive vice president of Charles River Associates, a publicly-traded consulting firm of approximately 550 consultants serving law firms, businesses and government. Monica previously headed the firm’s Litigation and Applied Economics Group and was responsible for the firm’s growth initiatives.  She specializes in antitrust and merger analysis and other competitive issues for law firms, professional associations, government agencies, and other clients.  Monica joined The Boston Club in 2009.

Pam is president and chief executive of LVCC, Inc., a consulting firm that advises investment management firms, nonprofits and entrepreneurs on business development and organizational issues. She has over thirty years’ experience in financial services, including six years at State Street as senior vice president and director of advisor relations for Schoolhouse Capital, LLC.  Pam serves on the board of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, and as a trustee of Salem State College. She is a member of The Partnership, the National Association of Corporate Directors, Women’s Corporate Directors, Corporate Director’s Group and the National Association of Securities Professionals. Pam joined the Club in 2001. She was elected to the board as an at-large director in 2008 and again in 2011, and also served on our Membership Committee.  In 2010, she was elected chair of the Strategic Planning Committee.

Vicki began her career as an accountant at a big eight firm. In 2000, she moved into financial services to help clients with implementation as well as planning. She joined Merrill Lynch in early 2005, where she works with a select group of successful families. Vicki is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the Women’s Association of Venture and Equity.  She is an honorary board member of both PCI, Inc and Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.  She currently serves on the finance committee of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.  Vicki has been a member of The Boston Club since 2006. She became chair of the Programming Committee in 2008 and in 2011 became an At-Large Director.

Constance Armstrong is Executive Director of The Boston Club, having served as the Club's manager since 1996.  She came to the Club after 25 years in banking and commercial real estate.  From 1992 - 1994, she was President of Portfolio Services, Inc., providing commercial real estate portfolio and litigation valuations for individual investors, accounting firms, and government agencies.  Constance has been a literacy volunteer for many years, receiving special training in teaching adults to read, and also has volunteered making recordings for the blind.  She has a BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.