The Brown Club of Boston is run by a Board of Directors who govern for at up to two terms of three years each. We organize guest lectures by Brown faculty, volunteering with organizations, social events for Brown alums, and information sessions for potential students. Directors are all volunteers from the Boston area and are committed to seeing Brown University achieve the greatest potential possible.

We are always looking for diligent and dedicated alums to join our Board. If you are interested in attending a Board meeting or joining the Board, please contact Alex Slawsby '00 or Sonia Gupta '06 at president@brownclubofboston.com. Board Meetings are held on the first Monday of every month.

 2009-2010 Board of Directors

Officers

Senior Co-President, Alex Slawsby ’00 (Political Science)

Consultant, Innosight

While a member of the Innosight team, Alex has worked on engagements in the information technology, wireless, healthcare, and defense industries.

Prior to joining Innosight, Alex spent more than 4 years with the technology industry analysis firm IDC as a mobile and wireless device analyst. From 2000 through 2005, Alex was one of the most quoted mobile and wireless device analysts in the world, appearing on CNN, Fox News, NPR, and inThe New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. After leaving IDC, Alex interned at IDG Ventures before attending the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Alex received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Managementin 2007. While at Sloan, Alex interned at Innosight and was awarded the Seley Scholarship for outstanding leadership, professional promise, high academic achievement, and contribution to MIT Sloan. He was also co-president of the MIT Innovation Club. His master’s thesis, Collective Innovation, examined how organizations can leverage collective intelligence, openness, and Web 2.0 technologies to innovate more effectively.

Junior Co-President, Sonia Gupta '06 (Community Health)

Senior Analyst, Health Advances

Sonia is a Senior Analyst at Health Advances, a health care consulting firm in Weston, MA.  Herwork is focused on building corporate management and strategy for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics corporations. Prior to working at Health Advances, she worked at a general management and strategy consulting firm in Back Bay.

Beyond academics during her time at Brown, Sonia was committed to student government, class activities and alumni relations.  She was elected co-President for the Class of 2006, and will remain in that position through reunion in 2011.  During her senior year, Sonia served as an ex-officio member on the Board of Governors for the Brown Alumni Association.

Sonia is in the third year of her first term on the Board, and was the Young Alumni Committee Chair prior to assuming responsibilities as Junior co-President. Currently, Sonia serves on the Board for Brown University’s Association of Class Leaders and also sits on the Pembroke Center Associates Council. She plays ultimate Frisbee and snowboards in her free time. 

Treasurer, Cristi Gigon '00 (Economics &Organizational Behavior Management)

Credit Analyst, Fortis Investments

Cristi Gigon is in the second year of her first term on the Board and has recently assumed the treasury responsiblities for the club.  Since graduation, she has spent most ofher career in banking and capital markets, working in New York and Boston. Cristi played lacrosse at Brown and currently serves as the Vice President of Communications for the Women's Lacrosse Friends Board.  Shecurrently resides in Hingham, MA with her husband.

Secretary, Healther Gelchion '97

Directors

Past President, Nominations and Strategic Planning Chair,Eugene Mahr '77 (Biology)

Major Gifts Associate Director, Massachusetts GeneralHospital

Eugene's first job was at the Brown Admission Office, wherehe was Associate Director until 1985. He left to get an MBA at Yale, and then worked in international marketing for over a decade, including a three-year posting in Hong Kong for Polaroid. After a short stint at an Internet company, he returned to higher education 8 years ago in Development and is now at theMass General Hospital. Eugene was a member of AASA in its early years, and was Vice President his junior year. He is a long-time BASC volunteer, and afounding board member of A4. For better or worse, he is part of an all-Brown family. His wife Jody is also ’77, and they have two sons, Christopher ’07 and Daniel ’11.

Past President, Renee Inomata '87 (Neuroscience)

Partner, Burns and Levinson

Ms. Inomata is Chair of the Labor, Employment & Employee Benefits Group at Burns & Levinson LLP.  She is a Partner and also amember of the Business Litigation and Intellectual Property Groups.  She received her J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Appleseed Center of Law andJustice, Inc., the Harvard Square Business Association and the Board of Editors of the Boston Bar Journal.  She is active in the efforts of the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, and in the Asian-American community in the Greater Boston area. 

Her legal practice focuses on employment laws and workplace solutions and all aspects of securing, obtaining, enforcing and maintaining trademark, service mark, trade dress and trade secret rights and copyrights.  Ms. Inomata counsels and advises clients and also represents them in litigation.  Ms. Inomata speaks frequently on employment and intellectual property law matters, including chairing thetrademark panel for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education’s AnnualIntellectual Property Conference the New England Chinese Information and Network Association (NECINA) Information Security Conference.  She has also developed and conducted educational workshops and training for harassment and discrimination awareness for managers and non-managers.  She is a member of the American, Massachusetts, Boston and Women’s Bar Associations and the International Trademark Association. 

Ms. Inomata also speaks on career development for women attorneys and Asian-American women, most recently at the Women’s Bar Association Law Student Committee’s annual conference entitled Women in Law: Options and Opportunities and at the 2006 Asian-American Women in Leadership Conference, hosted by ASPIRE.  She is also a founding member of the Saffron Circle and Asian Women's Connection. 

Past President, Ethan Flaherty'93 (Biology)

Partner, Pabian & Russell, LLC

Ethan M. Flaherty is a Partner at Pabian & Russell, LLC,a boutique business, estate planning/probate and immigration law firm. Ethan concentrates in the areas of mergers and acquisitions (buyer and seller side),corporate contracts, software licensing, joint ventures, private placements of securities (angel and venture), asset-based financing, lender- and borrower-side loan transactions, trademark and copyright, corporate entity selection and formation, executive employment agreements and compensation, family business succession planning, and general business law.

Ethan received his Juris Doctor from the GeorgetownUniversity Law Center in 1996 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology fromBrown University in 1993. While at Georgetown, Ethan was an executive editor ofthe Georgetown International Environmental Law Review and a member of the American Inns of Court. Ethan is currently a member of the Boston Lawyers Group.

Prior to joining the firm at its inception in March 2005, Ethan was an associate in the Boston office of Nixon Peabody LLP from 1996 to 2003, and in the Boston office of Keegan Werlin & Pabian, LLP from 2003-2005.

Ethan was selected by his peers as a "Super Lawyer/Rising Star" by Boston Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine in2005 - 2009, a distinction given to only the top 2.5% of up-and-coming attorneys in Massachusetts. Ethan is admitted to practice before the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He also is a member of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations.

Young Alumni Chair, Peter Bergman '06 (Applied Math –Economics)

Senior Business Analyst, Fidelity Consulting Group

For the past two years, Peter has served as a member of theBCoB Young Alumni Committee, planning events including the annual ski trip, anIvy-Plus Charity Cruise and a Wine Tasting.  He joins the Board this year also as the newly elected Senior co-Chair of the Young Alumni Committee.  While on campus, Peter was known for his commitment to the community and was recognized as the lead Senior Class Commencement Marshal in 2006.   He received a Citizen Citation from the Mayor for planning a 500+ person celebration to unveil the Senior Class Community Service Project. Also on campus, Peter was the CEO of one of the Engineering Entrepreneurship business teams, the Captain of the Brown Club Tennis team andfilled various leadership positions for the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.  Since graduation, he has served as aSenior Business Analyst in Fidelity Investment’s Consulting  Group, managing projects focused on institutional investment management strategy, business innovation, and Lean operations transformation.
 

BASC Representative, David Grace '76 (Human Biology)

Physician

David is in his 20th year of private practice in internal medicine in Plymouth, MA.  His focus is on geriatrics but he sees anyone from age 18 and up.  David remains busy as the president of the large group practice which has over 27 doctors and is affiliated with Partners Community Health in Boston. In his spare time, he likes to fish, golf, and travel with his wife to visit their sons all over the world.

Ivy Plus Representative, Luke McCullough '03 (Public andPrivate Sector Organizations)

Structured Finance Associate, Fortis Investments

Luke was born and raised in Wrentham, Massachusetts, wherehe attended King Philip Regional High School.  Luke's many interests growing up included sports, music, andhis education.  He was inducted into the National Honor Society while at King Philip, and he was also captain of the football and basketball teams during his tenure there.  After graduating in 1999, Luke attended Brown University, where he majored in Public and Private Sector Organizations.  During his time at Brown, Luke was a member of the football team and also joined the Delta Tau fraternity.  Upon graduating in 2003, Luke moved to Boston and became a mutual fund accountant at State Street Corporation.  Luke currently works at Fortis Investments in the Structured Finance/Leveraged Loans group.

Community Service Representative, Margaret Woo '79 (Anthropology/Urban Studies)

Professor, Northeastern University School of Law

Professor Woo teaches civil procedure, administrative law and comparative law. In 1997, she was named the law school’s Distinguished Professor of Public Policy. She is a former fellow of the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and is presently an associate in research at the East AsianLegal Studies Center of Harvard Law School and the Fairbank Center of Harvard College. She is also a faculty director for the law school’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy.

Professor Woo has published and spoken widely on China’s legal reforms. She is the co-editor of East Asian Law—Universal Norms and Local Cultures (Cruzon/Routledge Publishers, 2003), a collection of interdisciplinary studies on the competing tensions of global/local forces on East Asian identitiesand legal systems. She is also the co-author of American Civil Litigation (Aspen Publishers, forthcoming), which places American civil procedure in historical, empirical and sociological context.

BASC Representative, Jim Koch '01

Project Analyst, Fidelity Investments

Jim Koch works as a business consultant on a variety of internal company initiatives. While at Brown, Jim completed a double concentration in Business Economics and Organizational Behavior and Management. He was also actively involved in many extracurricular activities: a member of the Brown Jazz Band, Campus Tour Guide, as well as many intramural sports. Jim recently received his MBA degree from the Carroll School fo Management at Boston College. 

Prior to joining the Board, Jim remained active in the Brown community through the Brown Alumni Schools Committee, acting as the Boston Central Area Chairman from '04-'07. In this role, Jim coordinated and scheduled Brown applicant interviews on behalf of the Admissions Office, served as a point of contact for the University, recruited alumni volunteers, and organized University events. He has participated as an alumni volunteer in this program since graduation. 

Outside of his professional endeavors, Jim competes in triathlons and has completed two Ironman distance races. He was nationally ranked in the top 4% of his age group by USA Triathlon, and qualified to be a member of the Team USA Triathlon Team in both 2007 and 2008.
 

Events Team, Joel Rosen '75 (English)

Principal, Rosen Law Office, P.C.

Joel Rosen is the principal of Rosen Law Office, P.C., an Andover firm specializing in business, real estate, construction and employment law.  Mr. Rosen was formerly apartner supervising the litigation department at Metaxas, Norman & Pidgeon in Beverly.  He is chair of the Boston chapter of the Northeastern University School of Law Alumni Association and on the board of directors of the Haverhill Bar Association.  He is a member of the Haverhill and Merrimack Valley chambers of commerce and the Massachusetts and Lawrence Bar associations.  He serves on the disciplinary committee of the Board of Bar Overseers.  He has been a faculty member at Mass. Continuing Legal Education and taught business law at Bradford College. 

Before becoming a lawyer, Joel was an editor at Boston Magazine and has written hundreds of stories and columns for the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, the Boston Herald, the Columbia Journalism Review and other publications.  In his spare time, he enjoys playing in an Irish band, boating, and running.  His wife, Shaw, is chief operating officer of Mass Innovation, a sustainable real estate development company.  His son, Andy, is a newspaper reporterin Baltimore.  His daughter, Emily,is a medical assistant who plans to attend graduate school next year.

Communications Co-Chair, Jay Candelmo '99

Communications Co-Chair, Alison Lobron '97

Membership Chair, Marcos Ortiz '03

Events Team, Jeff Upton '84