City Year Greater Boston board

Before assuming that role, Joe served in a number of other operational and human resources roles including: the head of human resources for asset management; the Chief Operating Officer for Pyramis Global Advisors, a Fidelity Investments company focused on servicing the needs of the institutional marketplace; the head of talent management for asset management; and as an in-house performance consultant, supporting multiple business units within Fidelity. Before joining Fidelity, Joe was the Chief Executive Officer at SofCheck, president and Chief Operating Officer at Availant, and a director at Cambridge Technology Partners. Joe began his career as a member of the Edison Management program at General Electric, where he held a variety of positions. Joe is a graduate of Dartmouth College. He is also a lecturer for Babson College and remains active with the boards of several local charitable and educational institutions.

In addition to her client work, Shweta actively participates in people development at Bain — global and local training programs, mentorship activities and promotion evaluations — in addition to consultant recruiting. Further, she is the former General Manager of our Global Consumer Watch group, a team dedicated to observing and reporting how consumers are feeling, how they are spending time, and how they are spending money, on a global scale – particularly critical amidst the current pandemic. She has also led pro bono engagements on behalf of the firm, most recently partnering with former Superintendent Tom Boasberg in the assessment and acceleration of the Teacher Leadership Program across Denver Public Schools. Shweta has partnered with clients across the Americas and APAC, having formerly worked in Bain's Atlanta and New Delhi offices. At Bain, she partners closely with FRWD, Bain’s Digital Marketing and Marketing Technology expert team, and I&D, Bain’s team of product managers, researchers, designers and engineers driving innovation and design work with clients. Shweta holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science, with honors, from the University of Virginia. She currently resides in West Newton with her husband, Jason, and two children, Karsin (seven) and Simi (four).

Chris is also responsible for identifying, hiring and mentoring new advisors for the region. He relishes the opportunity to help advisors broaden their skills and improve their client outreach. Team oriented, Chris defines success relative to the advisors in his region. Pointing to the extensive offerings of the Private Bank, Chris notes that advisors are able to address both sides of a client’s balance sheet through an extensive complement of services and strategies: investment management, concentrated and restricted stock guidance, specialty asset management, liquidity event planning, credit structuring, wealth transfer strategies and charitable giving. Chris actively participates in diversity networks at Bank of America and is the executive co-sponsor of the Massachusetts Pride LGBTQ affinity group. Chris also strongly believes in education equality for all children, and currently serves on the Board of City Year Greater Boston. Chris began his financial services career in 1997. He previously was a branch manager and wealth advisor at Neuberger Berman in Boston. His tenures also include regional director for Lehman Brothers/Neuberger Berman in San Francisco and private banker for Deutsche Bank National Trust Company. Chris is a native of Newton, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Belmont Hill School and Harvard University. Chris was drafted in the first round of the 1985 NHL Draft by the Calgary Flames after which he played professional ice hockey for six years.

Previously, Ambar has served in several leadership roles including Deloitte India’s Strategy & Operations practice lead and the US Strategy service line lead. Ambar has more than 20 years of consulting experience with both Monitor Group and Deloitte. He has served some of the organization’s largest clients on corporate and business unit strategy, particularly in the Consumer and Industrials industries. In his client work, Ambar has focused on defining breakthrough growth strategies and then translating those into organization-wide transformation programs that deliver sustained impact. Ambar holds a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.

Latoyia is celebrating 14 years with the company. She has covered a variety of impactful stories including Superbowl Victory Celebrations, World series titles to presidential campaigns, celebrity interviews, to high profile trials. Latoyia has worn many hats, including Health Reporter covering the latest medical breakthroughs, highlighting research at hospitals across New England and producing in-depth stories about health disparities. Latoyia’s medical reporting earned her the coveted Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Coverage Fellowship in Boston, which focuses on public and mental health. Over her 20-year career in broadcasting, she has flown beyond the clouds covering the Navy's Blue Angel and he even traveled as far away as Paraguay profiling a partnership between that country and the United States Military. She joined the NECN family as a morning live reporter in 2005 arriving from WWLP-22 NBC in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she had been a weekday anchor. Latoyia's connection with the community was immediate and she soon worked her way up to the top positions at her station. She began her career as a news writer for WBZ-1030AM radio, and later reported for the Fox affiliate WICZ-TV 40 in Binghamton, New York.

Kristie joined Manulife in 2021 as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Global Head of Strategy for Manulife Investment Management. In that role, she was responsible for financial planning and analysis, forecasting, management reporting, and overseeing internal risk controls. As Head of Global Strategy for the firm’s wealth and asset management business, she also managed financial due diligence and the structuring of transactions on a global scale. Before joining Manulife, Kristie served as CFO for the Americas and Global Head of Treasury at Invesco. Prior to that, she held progressively senior finance roles at OppenheimerFunds, including Business Controller and Corporate Treasurer. Kristie earned her MBA in Finance from Columbia University, where she was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. She graduated summa cum laude from St. Cloud State University with a BA in Economics. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) designation and is a member of the CFA Institute. Additionally, Kristie is a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) and a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and holds multiple industry licenses.

Prior to SSGA, Rocky was at OppenheimerFunds for over 20 years. She held various product, sales and client facing roles both in their institutional and intermediary business units. She was a team leader for their Institutional Clients in North America, Europe and the Middle East. She led her firm’s business strategy for product development and distribution of their 529 college savings business and donor-advised funds. She was a former Advisory Board member of the National Association of State Treasurers from 2014 - 2017. She is a FINRA licensed registered representative. ​ She graduated college from Iona University with a BBA in Marketing and obtained her MBA from Columbia Business School. During her free time, Rocky serves as a Board Member for City Year Greater Boston. She stays active with her husband and two sons. Together they enjoy golfing, hiking, pickleball and great food.

In addition to her consulting responsibilities, Dianne is currently the Chair of Bain’s Global Nominating Committee. She has previously served on Bain’s Global Board of Directors, and has served and chaired Bain’s Global Promotion and Compensation Committee. She is actively involved in consulting recruiting and has led talent initiatives locally and globally. Dianne joined the Board of Directors of Pegasystems (NASDAQ:PEGA) in 2016. Dianne has also performed pro-bono consulting over the years, including work with America’s Promise and Boston Public Schools, as well as strategies for some Boston-based private schools. Prior to Bain, Dianne was a chip design engineer for IBM and held positions in marketing and sales. Dianne earned her MBA from the Harvard Business School with distinction. She is a graduate of Brown University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with honors. Dianne is married with three children and resides in Wellesley, Massachusetts

Eran is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and received a Master of Business Administration from Boston University. Eran has served on City Year Greater Boston’s Seven Generations Board since 2015 and joined the City Year Greater Boston Board's Media and Government Relations Committee in 2016, where he has been an active and valuable member. Eran’s wife, Lisa Lobel, is the co-founder/casting director for Boston Casting. She currently focuses her efforts on growing and managing Boston Casting’s 60,000-person online database and is a leader in innovative technologies for the casting industry. She’s also a former early childhood educator in Boston and former elementary school teacher in New York City. Eran and Lisa have three children.

Todd received an MBA with Honors from the University of Michigan and a BA in Political Science from Brown University. Todd currently resides in Milton, MA with his wife Alice and two kids, Harper and Oliver.

Prior to that she was director of the Aspire Institute housed at BU Wheelock School of Education, 2017 until 2021. At the Federal education level from 2015-2017, she served as Executive Director for the National Board of Education Sciences at the US Department of Education for several years, which oversees all funding for education research via the Institute for Education Sciences. Prior experiences add to over 20 years in education policy, advocacy research and teaching. In 2022, she was recognized with the Heroine Award by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Commission on the Status of Women.

Kate is actively involved in her community.  She is a firm believer that educational experiences can meaningfully change people’s lives. She has been a member of Villanova’s School of Business (VSB) Finance Department Advisory Council for the last eight years working closely with the chairman of the Finance Department and the dean of the business school advising on curriculum, engaging with their women’s network to help attract more female students into finance, providing strategic input to help shape the long-term vision for VSB and the University, focusing on student preparedness for jobs and working to provide career opportunities for Villanova graduates in the Boston area.  Kate has also been actively involved with City Year Greater Boston working as a vice chair and most recently co-chair for the Women’s Leadership Breakfast.  As a member of City Year’s Women’s Leadership Network and the Red Jacket Society, Kate and her husband Warren have enjoyed sponsoring regular lunches for the unsponsored schools and Civic Engagement teams.  Kate believes that City Year, its passion for service and all of its inspiring corps members are making a real difference for thousands of Boston Public School students every year.  She has also been engaged with Horizon’s for Homeless Children, sponsoring a number of play spaces throughout Massachusetts. Kate received a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1997) and a Bachelor of Science in finance from Villanova University (1993), graduating magna cum laude.  She is a CFA charter holder and a member of the Boston Society of Security Analysts.  She lives with her husband, two teenaged children and golden retriever in Medfield, Massachusetts.  She grew up in Colorado and is an avid skier and hiker.

Merrill holds a Bachelor of Science from University of Maryland. She served as a council member for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (2012-2016). Merrill also served as chairman of the board of directors of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants (2013-2014), where she was also founder and former co-chair of the Women in Accounting Committee, and past vice chair of finance. Merrill holds a license as a Chartered Global Management Accountant. Merrill's civic engagement includes serving as a board member and executive committee member, Wellesley Community Children’s Center, and past vice president of finance at the National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Association. Merrill has been recognized in Boston Business Journal's Who’s Who in Accounting.

Tarun is actively engaged in the Boston startup community, as an angel & advisor to several early stage startups. He serves on the advisory board of AdClub.org, the trade association for the New England marketing & communications industry. Tarun lives in Boston's South End; he grew up in India and is an avid tennis player.

She serves as President of the National Society of Black Engineers Boston Professionals, a leading Boston based organization dedicated to the academic & professional success of Black/African American engineering students and professionals. Whose aim to inspire the next generation of STEM professionals and serve as a catalyst for transforming the culture of engineering. Alexis received her Bachelors degree in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was a Jack Welch, American Chemical Society, and NIH scholar. She completed her research thesis is polymer science engineering, working on the early development of the dissolvable stent. She went on to contribute to voltage limiting software on fuel cell vehicles, developing a process to reuse and recharge membrane systems for air separation, scale and improve resilient manufacturing and supply chain processes, and develop other novel manufacturing processes across industries served. As an engineer who loves science and innovation, Alexis aspires to be the role model girls who look like her, and love science, can look up to. Alexis is a STEM advocate and supports STEM initiatives, mentors youth and enjoys being active in her community. She is originally from Springfield, MA and has resided along the east coast from NY to Delaware and now the Greater Boston area, where she has settled with her husband and two daughters, who are avid movie enthusiasts. She enjoys the beaches of the North Shore, the Museum of Science, and a good brunch!

Sam facilitates "Strong Men Strong Leaders", an organization at the Henderson Schools that supports boys of color through leadership training, community service, healthy physical competition, combating negative narratives about men of color, and engaging in conversations about successes and challenges in our neighborhoods and lives. Additionally, Sam is the high school teacher representative on the Henderson's Governing Board and the History Department facilitator. Previously Sam has served as a senior advisor, student council sponsor and a former Boston Debate League coach. Sam has also supported the district as a mentor in the Boston Public Schools High School to Teacher program and curriculum writing initiatives. Sam is a winner of the 2019 Boston Public Schools Educator of the Year Award. Currently, Sam is a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Boston in the urban education, leadership and policy studies program. He is a proud resident of Dorchester.