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Luncheon Panel and Discussion sponsored by sponsored by the Institute for Executive Education at the Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University.
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 11:30am - 2:00pm(lunch provided)
Location: 1st Floor Function Room, Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont Street, Boston
Fee: $30.00

Panelists include:

• Trish Gannon, Executive VP Finance & Planning, CFO, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston
  Trish provides strategic leadership for the organization and direct oversight of all financial functions, ensuring long-range sustainability as well as fiscal stability for the agency’s programs and Clubs.  She manages a range of activities to support the financial, facility and technological functions of the agency, including relationships with auditors, vendors and insurance companies.  Formerly Trish served as VP for Fiscal Affairs and CFO of Merrimack College, and spent ten years at the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency.  She began her career as Assistant to the CFO at Boston’s Children’s Museum, and has served on boards and committees for several nonprofit organizations.  She is a member of the Sawyer Business School Alumni Board of Directors. Trish holds a BA in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross and an MPA from Suffolk University. 
  
• Mark Kripp, Interim VP Operations, Director of Finance, Oxfam America
  Mark joined Oxfam America in July of 2005 after working most recently as the Vice President of Finance for Spryance Inc, a socially progressive organization with operations in India and the United States. Prior to that Mr. Kripp was the founder and principal of EJE Associates Consulting. In this capacity he directed financial activities of multiple organizations, including corporations, foundations, and the Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti. Mr. Kripp has over 25 years of extensive and varied experience with all aspects of finance, and has brought the weight of that experience to bear in Oxfam America’s operations department. In addition Mr. Kripp has served as a Graduate Lecturer at Northeastern University and on the Board of Directors and various Board Committees of the Grant Foundation/Hospital Albert Schweitzer, American Leprosy Missions (Greenville, SC) and is former Treasurer of the Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School (Franklin, MA).Mr. Kripp received his MPA from Suffolk University, and his BS in Economics and Finance from Bentley College.
  
• Michael Weekes, President/CEO, Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers
  The Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers is the states’ largest statewide human services trade association. As the chief executive officer for the Council and its subsidiary organization, the Human Service Providers Charitable Foundation, Michael is responsible for policy development, operations, legislative advocacy, membership service development, and creating an agenda for improved state and federal policies for providers and the people they serve.
  He currently serves as a co-chair of the human service industry group, The Collaborative. This alliance of trade associations is engaged in activities to promote the contracted human service industry.Nationally, Michael is the elected Board Chair of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations. He has served on numerous commissions and task forces focused on the human service, government and nonprofit sectors. He has spoken to various groups on the Human Services Workforce, Nonprofit Funding, and Leadership in the sector.Prior to accepting this position in 1998, he served for four and half years as the Deputy Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Social Services. In that role he served as chief policy writer and led program development activities for the states’ child welfare agency. He was principally involved in developing the nationally recognized Teen Living Program for parenting teens affected by welfare reform. He’s a founder of Masachusetts Families for Kids, a partnership between the Kellogg Foundation and communities seeking permanency for children.In 1992, Michael was appointed to Governor Weld’s Special Commission on Foster Care. He has served on the administration’s Minority Business Enterprise Oversight Committee and was appointed by Governor Cellucci on the Father Absence and Family Support Commission.
  
• Celeste Wilson, Executive Director, Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston
  Celeste has spent most of her working life creating and advocating for programs that lead to greater prosperity for the arts. Two of her successes at the Arts & Business Council are Business on Board through which business professionals are educated in all aspects of Board service and placed on the Boards of art organizations, and Strengthening Your Organization which teaches nonprofit administrators how to manage their Boards.   Formerly, Celeste was the General Manager of the C. Walsh Theatre at Suffolk University and in Florida she was Director of Public Relations, Audience Development and Corporate Sponsorship for the Broward Center for the Performing Arts; Managing Director of the Hirschfeld Theatre; and Director of Public Relations and Marketing for Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theatre. She currently serves on the Board of the Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts Sciences and Humanities (MAASH), a state wide lobbying and education organization.   Celeste received her Executive MBA from Suffolk University, and her BA in Theater from Florida Atlantic University.

Moderator:
Beth Smith, Excutive Director of The Hyams Foundation

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