S. Hayden Anderson, MBA 1969, Treasurer & Vice President

Hayden Anderson has been treasurer and a member of the Board of Governors of HBSAB for three years.  After retiring three times, Hayden continues to consult with small businesses.  He was previously vice president of finance for Accent Optical Technologies in Bend, Oregon, and York, England.  He was group controller for Bio-Rad Laboratories, and he held a series of finance positions with Digital Equipment, including assignments in Switzerland, Japan, and Singapore.  Hayden has served as a member of the executive committee of of the Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission, and he has been board chair and treasurer of Lutheran Outdoor Ministries of New England.  Hayden and his wife, Michelle, live in Dracut.  They have five children, twelve grandchildren, and one delightful great-granddaughter. Email Hayden. 

Emile Bellott, MBA 1978, Governor

Emile Bellott is a Biotech Industry consultant, based in the Boston area.  In over 30 years of industry experience, he has served in a variety of positions in the management of research and discovery and was VP of Operations, and co-founder of two development-stage biotech companies and founder of a life-science software company.  His work has resulted in issued patents and development and licensing of several new candidate drug compounds.  He also serves as a contributing author to European Pharmaceutical Review. Emile earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard Univeristy.  He is a resident of Beverly and enjoys photography and equestrian sports.

George M. Berman, MBA 1949, Governor

George M. Berman is founder (1960) and retired Chairman of Unitrode Corporation, a $200 million (sales) NYSE semiconductor company.  Active as mentor of technology start-ups and in development work with two Harvard hospitals.

Andrew Bernstein, MBA 1990, Governor

Currently, Andrew Bernstein is the CEO and Co-founder of Kearsarge Energy.  Kearsarge develops, manages and finances renewable energy projects including wind, hydro, solar, biogas and biomass. The company focuses on transactions ranging from $5 to $50 million.  Kearsarge manages four operating companies, focusing on new development, public-private partnershps, tax equity and hydropower.  Andrew has extensive experience in project finance and has consulted on energy development for various clients for more than 18 years.

Iphigenia Demetriades, MBA 1989, Governor

Genia Demetriades has over 25 years experience as a portfolio manager and real estate executive in the real estate investment advisor industry and most recently worked for AEW Capital Management. She is active on several non-profit boards and is a commissioner of the Back Bay Architectural Commission.  She is a graduate of Wellesley College.

After a 30 year career as a high-tech marketing/management executive, Chuck founded Saybrooke Associates to apply his experience and training to a consulting role in both nonprofit and commercial organizations. He has worked with CAP for 10 years as a volunteer and board member. He currently has commercial clients in the defense industry and theatre arts marketing. He served in senior management positions with leading display integrators including Fusion Optix, Aydin Displays, Three Five Systems, and Advanced Video Display. His international experience included serving as VP International Operations for Vitrion Computer Systems and the Baird Corporation. He has served on the Board of the Harvard Business School Community Action Program, the Bedford VA Research Inc., the Arlington Friends of the Drama and the Lexington Historical Society and has also served as member of the Lexington Tourism Committee and the Bedford Historic Preservation Commission, the Bedford TV Committee and Friends of the Bedford Depot. 

Renee Fry, MBA 1999, President

Kristen Giarrusso, MBA 1998, Governor

Kristen Giarrusso joined Brown Brothers Harriman upon graduating from HBS in 1989.  She is currently the Partner in charge of Firm wide Strategy, Marketing and Communications.  She also heads up the business development, marketing and risk management disciplines for the Investment and Wealth Management businesses. While at BBH, Kristen also helped to launch BBH Infomediary, a technology servies company, for which she served as Chariman and CEO.  She also headed up the Americas region for their largest business, Investor Services.

Adrian Gill, MBA 1998, Co-chair, Programs and Vice President

Adrian is the founder of Adhoc Industries, an agency providing brand strategy, creative marketing advisory, film production and design services.  Through extensive brand and general management experience, he serves as board advisor to several startups focusing on building consumer and brand equity in the social/digital media space. He stays close to creative ventures, and is Executive Producer for a short film that premiered at Sundance Film Festibal 2011.  Adrian is the former Vice President of the Global Footwear Division at Puma, a $1.8B business, where he ran all operations and led the global design team. Prior to Puma, Adrian spent two years at AT Kearny, Inc. (Consumer Goods Practice), and four years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (Technology Practice). 

Bernie Heine, MBA 1990, Governor

Bernie Heine founded Professional Business Coaches, Inc. in September 2009.  He has 20 years of experience advising senior business leaders (mostly in large companies) including: leading strategic planning for Textron Inc., advising the CEO of Coca-Cola in Germany, and as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (also in Germany).  He started his career as a marine engineer building ships globally. Bernie holds a BS in marine engineering systems from the US Merchant Marine Academy and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is fluent in German, and lives with his wife and 2 children in Massachusetts.

A. Christian MacKenzie, MBA 1988, Chair, Shared Interest Groups (SIGs)

Chris MacKenzie provides strategy, marketing and business development consulting services to senior management and boards of firms in the computer software industry. His specific expertise is in the development and launch of new technology products and services that are adjacent to established core markets. Chris has held executive positions in marketing, strategy, business development and general management functions at early to mid-stage technology organizations including Black Duck Software and Biscom. He has also served on the advisory boards of several technology startups. Prior to his entry into the software industry, Chris architected the fixed income trading system for a major Wall Street broker-dealer.

Katie Martin, Director of Alumni Clubs and Associations at HBS,
Ex officio Board Member

Katie Martin is Director of Alumni Clubs and Associations at Harvard Business School. In this role, Katie is solely focused on partnering with the more than 100 alumni organizations worldwide to increase alumni engagement both with each other and with the School. Katie holds a BA from Colby College and an MBA from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Kathryn McKinnon, MBA 1989, Vice President of Membership

Kathryn McKinnon has served the HBSAB as Chair of the Membership Committee from 2011-2012.  Professionally she has been an Executive Life Coach since 1992.  Her 32 years of corporate and entrepreneurial business experience include Member of the 1980 Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee, Assistant Editor for Adirondack Life Magazine, Advertising Manager for the Chittenden Bank, Product Manager and Marketing Director for the Shawmut Bank and the Bank of Boston, Innovation Management Consultant for IdeaScope Associates, Harvard Business School Officer for MBA Career Management Services and Executive Education, and Executive Education Consultant for The Center for Executive Development.

Bill Morrison, MBA 1998, Co-chair, CAP

For the past six years, Bill has worked with a variety of non-profit agencies on issues of strategy, marketing, governance and finance as a consultant and board member. For the preceding fifteen years, he worked in the computer industry as an entrepreneur and senior manager in product management, marketing and engineering roles. Morrison co-founded Sports Reward Systems, creating customer loyalty programs for Major League Baseball fans. Prior to starting SRS, Morrison worked at ATG, a leading Internet commerce and loyalty marketing technology vendor and as Director of Product Marketing at Avid Sports, LLC. He also held a number of engineering management positions at Avid Technology and Learningways, Inc. 

Bill has been a member of nine HBSAB Community Action Partners (CAP) projects and has served on CAP's Board for four years.

Janet Nicholas, MBA 1980, Co-chair, CAP

Janet Nicholas is currently Director of Strategic Initiatives for Dassault Systemes, a $2 billion French software company that sells a portfolio of product lifecycle management software.  She joined Dassalt Systems in April 2010, following her retirement from IBM where she spent fifteen years in a number of roles includng strategy, sales and marketing leadership positions focused on the Chemical and Petroleum industries and consulting service business management roles.

Arden O'Connor, MBA 2008, Co-chair, Programs and Vice President

Arden O'Connor graduated from Harvard College in 2000 and started an agency dedicated to serving youth transitioning out of the foster care system. During her time managing Rediscovery, Inc., Arden remained responsible for over $1.5 million in state contracts and raised approximately $250,000 in private donor money. In 2008, Arden graduated from HBS and transitioned into the healthcare system.  She recently joined a small healthcare services company called Dovetailhealth, focused on preventing hospital readmissions.  Over the past few years, Arden served as the Rediscovery, Inc. Board Chair, a Winsor School Corporation Member, Victory Programs Board Member, and a board for the Harvard Club of Boston.

Christine Phillpotts, MBA 2009, Governor

Christine is the Global Portfolio Manager for the Grassroots Business Fund (GBF), a global impact investment fund that provides capital and business advisory services to companies targeting customers or suppliers in developing countries.  Christine earned a B.A. in economics and psychology from Columbia University, where she graduated summa cum laude, and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School, where she received first-year honors. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and was awarded the Robert Toigo Foundation and Morgan Stanley MBA fellowships. Christine served as Co-Chair of the 2012 New Venture Competition of the Harvard Business School Association of Boston.  She is fluent in French and has a basic knowledge of Haitian Creole and Spanish.

Habib Rahman, MBA 1983, Clerk

Habib is a tax accountant and estate planner for individuals and small local businesses.  For almost three decades, he worked with aspiring and active entrepreneurs and helped them with their tax and legal issues.  Since 1986 Habib has been a faculty member at Suffolk University's School of Management where he teaches business law and accounting.  He also taught at Bentley and Regis colleges in the Boston area and the University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). 

John L. Sherry, MBA 1979, Governor

Jay Sherry has an extensive background as a Chief Marketing Officer for technology companies.  His recent work includes clients such as Eka Software Solutions, where he was interim CMO for the Bangalore-based provider of commodity trading software.  Past roles include Vice President of Marketing & Solution Frameworks for Pegasystems, a $340M public company provider of business process management software.  He has more than 20 years' experience in both public and venture-backed software companies. After HBS, his early career included 13 years in product marketing and brand management at IBM, followed by start-up experience with companies such as Kenan Systems, Excelergy, as well as Senior Vice President of Marketing for Geac, a $400M public software company.

Jay holds a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics from Brown University and an MBA from HBS, class of 1979 section H.  He is the immediate past president of HBSAB, and also serves as treasurer of his HBS reunion class.  Jay and his wife Kathy have four children and live in Wayland, Massachusetts.  

G. Bickley Stevens, MBA 1969, Governor

Bic has more than 30 years of venture capital, investment banking, and business development experience. He is the founder and principal of Stevens Capital Advisors, a cleantech advisory investment banking firm, and is currently advising and raising capital for a number of cleantech companies.  Stevens Capital Advisors is affilated with Growth Capital Services, Inc., a registered broker dealer operating under the regulations of the Financial Industry Regulatory Agency (FINRA).

Maura Sullivan is a former Marine Corps Captain and is presently a Director in PepsiCo's General Management Leadership Development Program, currently running Frito-Lay’s Central New England business.  A native of Chicago, Maura attended Northwestern University on a ROTC scholarship. After completing Marine Corps Officer Candidates School and earning her commission, Maura served more than 5 years on active duty including a tour in Fallujah, Iraq and 2 years in Okinawa, Japan supporting Joint Military Exercises throughout southeast Asia. Maura is a 2009 graduate of Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School where she was both a John F. Kennedy Fellow and a George Fellow and was elected Co-President of Harvard’s Armed Forces Alumni Association. In 2009, she was appointed to The American Battle Monuments Commission by President Obama. Maura sits on the Board of Directors for Orphans Against AIDS and Crimson Serves. She resides in Boston where she serves as a Year-Up mentor and is elsewhere active in her local community.

Saeko Tsuchihashi, MBA 1992, Governor

Saeko manages Market Ignition Group. She brings US technology companies to Asia (and vice versa), providing market entry strategies and arranging strategic partnerships and capital infusions. With Global Emerging LLC, she helps US companies enter the Chinese market by providing incubation spaces and investment from an affiliated private equity fund. Saeko was at Sony in product marketing, Cargill in strategic planning, and the Inter-American Development Bank investing and lending in Latin America. She founded a mobile internet startup and worked as a strategy and marketing consultant driving the development of innovative products, services, and market initiatives. She speaks English, Japanese, Spanish and some Chinese. Former chair, HBSAB programming committee.

Nathaniel Welch, MBA 1979, Vice President

Nat and his colleagues at CFAR-The Center for Applied Research, work with senior leaders and boards to help them address difficult issues involving strategy, transformational change or collaboration.  Working at the intersection of behavior and business performance, Nat helps executives with innovative solutions that develop people and improve performance in sustainable ways.  Nat spent 20 years building and leading two small, high performing technology organizations in customer facing roles.  In 2000, Nat left high tech to leverage his interests in social capital – how human relationships drive value in business.  He spent the next 8 years consulting to senior executives on how to effectively use collaboration and alliances to improve organizational effectiveness, grow revenue, and innovate more rapidly.

Frank Wezniak has had a distinguished business career as both a technology CEO and as a venture capitalist.  Since 2001 he has been the Chairman of Photovac in Waltham, a manufacturer of analytical instruments to detect volatile organic compounds in gaseous form in the atmosphere. Frank has been an active alumnus in support of both Brown and HBS. He has been a Trustee of Brown University since 1983, and has been active in the reunion activities of his MBA Class of 1959.  He served as president and director of Brown’s Third Century Fund, the venture capital component of Brown’s endowment management from 1981 to 1986.  He has lectured on business management topics at both Brown and Babson College. Frank served his country as a Lieutenant (J.G.) in the United States Navy after his graduation from Brown.  Frank currently is the Teasurer and Director of the Farm Institute, an educational non-profit institution in Edgartown.

Marc Zablatsky, MBA 1992, Governor