Member News

In 2020, MWF accepted many new members! Each day, we will be highlighting one. Please join us in welcoming, Elliot Bostwick Davis, Ph.D.

Elliot brings a wealth of experience to art museums as a curator, strategic thinker, and, most recently, as Director and CEO of the Norton Museum of Art.  From 1990 to 200, Davis was a fellow and assistant curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was responsible for American, British, and Contemporary works of art in the Department of Drawings and Prints, and later for American paintings in the American Wing.  After resigning from the Norton in June 2020, Davis has spent the pandemic contributing to online exhibitions, expanding upon her work on the art museum as a catalyst for empathy, and serving as a guest curator for the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, MA.

In 2020, MWF accepted many new members! Each day, we will be highlighting one. Please join us in welcoming, Angela Gomes, Partner, Sullivan & Worcester.

Angela focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance, in addition to handling general corporate matters. She advises clients, including public companies, on a broad range of corporate and securities matters, including securities law compliance, disclosure and periodic reporting, and corporate governance matters. Angela also advises a number of nonprofit organizations on general corporate law matters, as well as state and federal tax-exempt status.

In 2020, MWF accepted many new members! Each day, we will be highlighting one. Please join us in welcoming, Catherine D’Amato, President and CEO, The Greater Boston Food Bank.

Catherine D’Amato’s passion for ending hunger was instilled in her from an early age by her Italian-immigrant father who never turned away a hungry person in need from his modest restaurant in Redding, California. A trailblazer and leader in food banking for 40 years, D’Amato has headed up The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) since 1995.

In 2020, MWF accepted many new members! Each day, we will be highlighting one. Please join us in welcoming, Diane Lopez, VP, General Counsel, Harvard University.

At Harvard, as the Vice President and General Counsel, Diane assists the University on a variety of commercial transactions, with a focus on ways the University can protect and manage its intellectual property assets. She advises on health care, privacy, and student affairs issues, on concerns involving the use of human subjects and animals in research, and on issues involving third-party access to research data. Ms. Lopez has spent significant time on legal and legislative matters related to human embryonic stem cell research.

Member Colette Phillips was recently awarded the largest contract to a minority-owned company by the city of Boston.

Additionally, Colette has launched GK! Market, a game-changing small business platform for BIPOC and women-owned businesses for corporate procurement and to give small business a digital presence and marketing support so they can thrive and survive during the pandemic. Read coverage of the launch here: Boston Magazine, Boston Business Journal, Boston Globe, NBC10 Boston.

In 2020, MWF accepted many new members! Each day, we will be highlighting one. Please join us in welcoming, Anne Klibanski, M.D., CEO, Partners Healthcare.

Anne is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mass General Brigham, a Boston based integrated health care system that includes internationally known Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, nationally recognized specialty hospitals including Spaulding, Mass Eye and Ear, and McLean, seven community hospitals, a health insurance company, physician networks, community health centers, home care and long-term care services. The largest private employer in Massachusetts with 78,000 employees and annual revenue of $13.4 billion, the non-profit health care system is the nation’s leading recipient of NIH funding and a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, establishing the health care system’s position as a national leader in medical research and teaching.

In 2020, MWF accepted many new members! Each day, we will be highlighting one. Please join us in welcoming, Eneida Roman, President, Roman Law / Omega Global.

A nationally recognized leader, Eneida is a trained attorney and organizational psychologist, and for two decades, she has used her expertise in law, conflict resolution, cultural competence, and public affairs to advise her clients. Eneida is Founder of Roman Law, a Boston-based boutique law firm and Partner of Omega Global Advisors, a government relations firm. She is known as a catalytic pacesetter and an ardent champion of advancing women and Latinos.

In 2020, MWF accepted many new members! Each day, we will be highlighting one. Please join us in welcoming, Desiree Ralls-Morrison, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Boston Scientific Corporation.

Desiree Ralls-Morrison is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Boston Scientific, a position she has held since November 2017.  In this role, she is responsible for providing global legal leadership across all of the businesses, regions and functions, and overseeing the company’s global compliance function.  She also advises both the Board of Directors and CEO.

In 2020, MWF accepted many new members! Each day, we will be highlighting one. Please join us in welcoming, Yvonne Hao, Managing Director, Cove Hill Partners.

Yvonne has spent her career in strategic operating roles within the consumer, technology, and private equity industries. She is currently a Managing Director and Co-founder at Cove Hill Partners, a new private equity firm focused on partnering with outstanding management teams to build market-leading consumer and technology companies. The Firm manages a long-duration fund with over $1 billion of commitments from its investors and founders.

In 2020, MWF accepted many new members! Each day, we will be highlighting one. Please join us in welcoming, Deborah Theobald, Co-founder and CEO, Vecna Healthcare.

Deborah has spent over 20 years developing and deploying automation solutions to the health care sector across the globe. As the Co-Founder of Vecna, a leader in health care information technology and robotics, Deborah has positively impacted millions of peoples’ lives through innovative new technologies that improve access to and quality of care. Deborah has brought to market QC PathFinder for electronic outbreak surveillance of hospital acquired infections (HAIs) and Patient Self Service Kiosk, Portal and Mobile solutions. Vecna’s Department of Defense funded BEAR (Battlefield Extraction and Recovery) and the QC Bot Hospital Logistics Robots are among a number of robotic tools and products fulfilling Vecna’s goal of better technology for a better world.