Board of Trustees Public Meeting Schedule
2009-2010 School Year
October 19, 2009
December 7, 2009
February 8, 2010
April 5, 2010
May 3, 2010
All meetings of the Board of Trustees are held at
City on a Hill Charter Public School
58 Circuit Street, Roxbury, MA
Robert Mazzarella, Chair
Robert Mazzarella has over 33 years experience in the securities industry and more than 18 years at Fidelity Investments. Before he retired from Fidelity Investments in February, 2002 he was president of Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC. Mr. Mazzarella served on the Securities Industry Association’s Board of Directors, chaired the SIA’s Discount Brokerage Committee, and was a member of the Market Structure Committee (also at SIA). He has also served on the boards of the Philadelphia Stock Clearing Corporation and Depository, The Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the Cincinnati Stock Exchange, the Boston Stock Exchange and Redibook ECN, Inc. Mr. Mazzarella was a member of The New York Stock Exchange, and served on the NYSE’s Regional Firms Committee. Mr. Mazzarella holds an accounting degree from New York Institute of Technology. He is now serving on a number of boards and is also providing consulting services to a number of major financial services firms and advising venture capital firms regarding financial services investments.
Chair: Executive Committee
Member: Finance Committee
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Bobbie Knable, Vice-Chair
For close to two decades, Bobbie Knable served as the Dean of Students at Tufts University before retiring in 2000. Currently she works as an educational consultant and serves on the Board of Trustees of Bennington College in Vermont. During the 2003-04 school year, Knable served as the Interim President of City on a Hill. She is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music and over the years taught courses on Black Literature, including Black Women Writers as well as on the topics of Leadership and Gender, Class and Race. She makes her home in Brookline with her husband, and is an elected member of the Brookline Town Meeting.
Member: Executive Committee
Ryan Thornton, Treasurer
Ryan Thornton is currently a Director of Institutional Equities at Deutsche Bank, a leading global investment bank. He earned his Master of Science in Investment Management from Boston University. As a student athlete at the University of Notre Dame, he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration while playing Division 1 hockey. After spending a few years in Chicago, Ryan returned home to Boston in 2000, where he currently lives with his wife, Lia, and son, TJ.
Chair: Finance Committee
Member: Executive Committee
Ginger Parker, Secretary
Ginger Parker has been a Managing Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers for almost 10 years. She also has years of experience in city planning, including working for the City of Boston and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. Ginger has a MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, a masters degree in City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in Urban Studies from Brown University. Her volunteer experience at Rosie's Place, Habitat for Humanity and the Walk for Hunger shows her deep commitment to our community. Ginger resides with her husband Marcus in the Jamaica Plain area of Boston.
Member: Executive Committee
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Maurice Wright
Maurice Wright has a long record of service in the area of education, including his present position as the METCO Director for the town of Belmont. Prior to that he was the Vice President of Human Resources at the Renaissance Charter School in Boston, was once the METCO Director for the town of Lincoln, and served as a trustee of the Beaver Country Day School. Wright received his B.A. from Allen University, his M.A. in Urban Affairs from Lehigh University and an M.A. in Educational Management from Boston University. He is a member, past chair and founding organizer of the African American Federation of Greater Boston, and lives in Mattapan with his wife.
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Lee Delaney
Lee Delaney is a Partner in Bain & Company's Boston office. Prior to joining Bain, Lee led consulting engagements for Electronic Data Systems and Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group. He attended business school at Carnegie Mellon University, earning a Masters of Science in Industrial Administration (MBA). Lee is also a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he received a Bachelor of Science with highest honors in computer science and mathematics. Lee currently lives in Beacon Hill with his wife.
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Kevin Mohan
Kevin Mohan is a general partner with Summit Partners, a $5 billion private equity fund based in Boston. Mohan leads investments in private, profitable growth companies and assists management with growth strategies as a board member. Summit has a 20-year track record of strong returns for its limited partners and aggressive assistance for its companies. Mohan previously worked for McKinsey & Company and for the Harvard Management Company. He graduated from Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, and Harvard College. He was born and raised in Milford, Massachusetts where he attended public schools. Kevin currently lives in Boston.
Michael Grossman
Michael Grossman is an equity research analyst for MFS Investment Management and lives in Boston's South End. Michael has been active in youth civic affairs having participated in the Citizen Schools and Power Lunch programs and coached ice hockey in South Boston. In addition, he has led in the development of a young alumni association for his high school, the Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, CT, where he currently serves as a Co-Chair of the Young Alumni Club and is involved in fundraising efforts. Michael is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he received a bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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Stephen Kraus
Stephen Kraus is a Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he helps lead up the firm's investment activities in the healthcare sector. Prior to joining Bessemer, Steve was a Director at the Ironwood Equity Fund, a growth-stage private equity firm, and a management consultant at Bain & Company. In 2002, he served as Speechwriter and Operations Director for the Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts. Steve graduated from Yale University and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. He serves on the boards of City on a Hill Public Charter School, Big Sisters Association of Greater Boston, and Inner City Entrepreneurs. Steve lives in the South End of Boston.
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Michelle Dipp
Michelle Dipp, M.D., Ph.D., is currently the Vice President of GSK's Centre of Excellence for External Drug Discovery. Prior to this, Dr. Dipp was the vice president of corporate development at Sirtris, which is focused on discovering and delivering small molecule drugs to treat diseases of aging. Before joining Sirtris as a founding employee, Michelle worked in healthcare private equity at The Wellcome Trust, London. Dr. Dipp also serves as the President of the Healthy Lifespan Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about the aging process and advancing research that can help us live longer and ultimately healthier lives.
In 2009, Dr. Dipp has been recognized as a Boston Business Journal 40-under-40 honoree, as an Emerging Pharma Leader by Pharmaceutical Executive magazine and in the PharmaVOICE 100, a list of the 100 most inspiring people in the life-sciences industry. In 2008, Dr. Dipp received the Stevie Award for Women in Business in the category of Best Executive of a non-services business under 100 employees and the Tech Dealmaker of the Year Award in the category of Life Sciences Mergers and Acquisitions. Dr. Dipp holds an M.D. and a Ph.D. in pulmonary physiology from the University of Oxford.
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Kim Wechtenhiser
Kim Wechtenhiser is an experienced charter school authorizer, educator, and researcher. She is the former Associate Vice President of the Charter Schools Institute at the State University of New York, where she had primary responsibility for the Institute's charter renewal process. Prior to her work with the Institute, Ms. Wechtenhiser served as the Coordinator of New Schools Development in the Charter School Office at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. There she led the review of new charter school applications and provided technical assistance to newly chartered schools. Ms. Wechtenhiser regularly works with the National Association of Charter School Authorizers to support quality authorizing, and has researched and documented best practices among charter school operators and authorizers. She holds a B.A. in Spanish and Secondary Education and a M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature, both from Simmons College. In addition, she possesses an Ed.M. in School Leadership from Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
Aretha Miller
Aretha Miller is currently the Senior Director of School Supports at the New York Charter School Center. During her two-year tenure at the New York City Charter Center, Aretha served as the interim Chief Operations Officer and Director of School Improvement. Aretha is a 17-year educator who has expertise in school evaluation and accountability, school improvement planning, and workshop design and facilitation. Prior to joining the Charter Center’s team, Aretha was a project manager at SchoolWorks; the curriculum coordinator for the Diploma Plus initiative—a nationally recognized alternative education model designed to re-engage at-risk and out-of-school youth to the learning process, at the Commonwealth Corporation’s Center for Youth Development and Education; and, a special education teacher and literacy specialist in Boston Public Schools. Aretha graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. She holds a Masters in Special Education from Lesley College.
City on a Hill Foundation Board Members
Meeting Minutes
October 19, 2009 minutes
May 4, 2009 minutes
April 6, 2009 minutes
Feb 9, 2009 minutes
December 8, 2008 minutes
October 6, 2008 minutes