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| 2005
Alumni Award Winners |
Pictured
in the top row from left to right are: Charles
J. Hoff, Herby Duverné,
William M. Fowler,
Gary C. Dunton,
Brett Alexander,
Joseph P. Fleming,
and Ian M. Holland
Pictured in the bottom row from left to right are: Honorable
Margot Botsford, Marla E. Marini,
Stephen K. McLane,
Dennis D. Keefe, and
Robin M. Avers
Executive
MBA Alumni Group
The Executive
MBA Alumni Group has been active for approximately ten years.
During this time they have developed a semi-annual EMBA newsletter,
organized various events including EMBA’s 20th and 25th
anniversary programs, and assisted with student recruitment
at information sessions. The group has also sponsored lectures
featuring prominent EMBA alumni, and has established the Marple
Distinguished Lecture Series, honoring Professor Wesley Marple
who was the faculty director of the program for many years.
An EMBA website was developed which features an online directory
for alumni to locate other EMBA graduates geographically and
by specific companies.
The EMBA Alumni Group’s most
recent initiative is a mentoring program pairing alumni with
current students for career advice and development. EMBA alumni
have also been invited to participate in the EMBA program’s
international residencies in Mexico and Europe, its “Welcome
Back” dinner and cruise aboard The Spirit of Boston each
fall, and a welcoming reception for the new EMBA class in January
at the Warren Conference Center.
Accepting the Governors’ Trophy tonight on behalf of the
Executive MBA alumni group is its current president, Thomas
E. Fillingim, EMBA’96.
Brett
Alexander, LA’71, Executive Producer, CBS News Productions
As
a seven-time national Emmy Award winner, Brett Alexander has
risen in his career to become one of Northeastern’s most
accomplished alumni in the field of television production.
Mr. Alexander was one of twenty-five black students brought
to Northeastern on the Ford Foundation grants in 1966. He began
his long and rewarding career in broadcasting as a co-op for
Northeastern’s Radio Production Department and the Christian
Science Monitor, which gave him a head start on the competition.
After graduating in 1971 with a BA in Political Science, Mr.
Alexander attended the Graduate School of International Studies
at the University of Denver in Colorado. He went on to become
a writer for the New York Post in 1974, and later one of the
founding producers of CBS Sunday Morning. It was at Sunday Morning,
where Mr. Alexander won his first national Emmy Award for a
12-minute profile of Quincy Jones. In 1988, he was the producer
of NBC’s coverage of the Olympics in Seoul, Korea.
From 1988-1996, Mr. Alexander became one of the founding producers
of the CBS primetime news magazine show, 48 Hours. Several highlights
of his time at 48 Hours include five national Emmy Awards, including
“Best Investigative Reporting,” the George Foster
Peabody Award, Ohio State Award and the prestigious Lucius W.
Neiman Fellowship from Harvard University, where he studied
drama, foreign affairs and filmmaking.
As producer, director and writer for the CBS Special: The Real
Malcom X, Mr. Alexander won the 1993 Journalism Award for First
Place Documentary from the National Association of Black Journalists.
The Real Malcom X is one of the best-selling documentary videotapes
ever produced by CBS News and is praised by critics across America.
In 1996, Mr. Alexander joined the CBS News Production team and
was named Executive Producer in 2001. He oversees over thirty
hours of television a year and has developed programming for
A&E, the Discovery Channel, ESPN, the History Channel, and
TV Land. In 2004, Mr. Alexander received his seventh Emmy Award
for a documentary special, Inside Flight 93 and in 2005, he
received a fourteenth Emmy nomination for The 9/11 Commission
Report. He has also worked on the CBS corporate diversity committee.
Mr. Alexander resides in New York City with his two children,
Stephen and Alexis, and his wife, Cheryl.
Robin M. Avers, CJ’80,
former Special Agent in Charge, Boston Department of Homeland
Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Robin
Avers has spent the majority of her career rising through the
ranks of the U.S. Customs Service to become one of the most
successful Northeastern graduates in her field.
Ms. Avers found her calling early as a Northeastern co-op with
the United States Customs Service in 1977 in Washington, D.C.
She graduated in 1980 with a degree in criminal justice and
received a Master’s Degree in Management from National
Louis University. Upon graduation, Ms. Avers was hired as Special
Agent with the Office of Management Integrity in the Baltimore
Field Office. In 1981, she was reassigned to the New York Office
of Management Integrity.
In 1982, while working for the Office of Investigation’s
Miami Office, Ms. Avers was assigned to then Vice President
George H. W. Bush’s Florida Joint Task Force, a multi-agency
task force investigating narcotic smuggling. She was later reassigned
to Operation Green Back in 1985, a joint agency task force investigating
individuals and organizations involved in laundering narcotic
proceeds.
Ms. Avers was promoted to Group Supervisor of the Fraud Investigations
Group in 1990 and in 1997 was selected as the Assistant Customs
Attaché in Vienna. In February of 2000, she was promoted
once again to Customs Attaché; and in addition to Vienna,
her area of responsibility expanded to thirteen countries, including
several former members of the Soviet Union and Switzerland.
Ms. Avers moved returned to her native Massachusetts in December
2000 when she was named the Special Agent in Charge in Boston.
Following September 11th, she was named the Special Agent in
Charge, Boston for the newly created office of U.S. Immigration
and Customs enforcement within the Department of Homeland Security.
As a special agent, Ms. Avers she supervised more than 200 criminal
investigators throughout New England, exploring activities that
could threaten national security.
In April 2002, Ms. Avers completed the Senior Executive Fellows
Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She
retired from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in July.
Today, she is a principal investigator at Fidelity Investments.
Honorable
Margot Botsford, JD’73, Associate Justice, Massachusetts
Superior Court
As
an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, Judge
Botsford has overseen countless criminal and civil cases, and
written numerous legal opinions.
Judge Botsford was appointed to the Superior Court in 1989.
Known for her insightful written opinions, she has a reputation
among her peers as a scholar of the law and caring mentor. She
was a member of the eleven person committee that drafted the
revised Code of Judicial Conduct adopted in 2003 by the Supreme
Judicial Court. She also chaired the Commission on Judicial
Conduct, the disciplinary agency for judges, for four years.
Judge Botsford graduated from Barnard College in 1969, magna
cum laude, with a bachelor of arts in history. She went on to
graduate in 1973 from Northeastern University School of Law.
Upon graduation, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable
Francis J. Quirico, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court, who also graduated from the School of Law in
1932. In 1974, she became an associate at Hill and Barlow, a
Boston law firm.
In 1975, Judge Botsford became an Assistant Attorney General
for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, representing state agencies
and officials in lawsuits brought in state and federal courts.
While serving as an Assistant Attorney General, she was appointed
chief of the opinions division. Her responsibilities included
directing the preparation of all formal opinions of the Attorney
General and all conflict of interest opinions. In 1979, Judge
Botsford was one of the founding partners of Rosenfeld, Botsford
& Krokidas, a small law firm in Boston, and in 1983, she
joined the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office
as chief of the Appeals Bureau. At a later point in time, she
also served as chief of the Family and Community Crimes Bureau
in that office.
Judge Botsford has also volunteered her time to work on educational
programs for public school students. She took a sabbatical from
the Superior Court in 2001, and worked with Citizen Schools,
a nonprofit organization that offers after-school programs to
middle school students in Boston. She assisted in developing
the 8th Grade Academy, a program that utilizes lawyer volunteers
to improve students’ writing skills and seeks to serve
as a focused, positive transition to high school. She also assisted
the African-American Scholars Program at Brookline High School,
an initiative designed to bolster the academic performance of
talented students of color.
In 2003, the Boston Bar Association awarded Judge Botsford the
Haskell Cohn Distinguished Judicial Service Award.
Gary C. Dunton, BA’78, President,
Chief Executive Officer, and Director, MBIA, Inc.
Gary Dunton has dedicated much of his distinguished
career to revitalizing companies and businesses.
Mr. Dunton is president, chief executive officer and a director
of MBIA Inc., and is a member of the company’s senior
Executive Policy Committee. Previously, as president and chief
operating officer, he oversaw the company’s global financial
guarantee insurance business lines, as well as its investment
management and municipal services. Mr. Dunton was a director
of MBIA Inc. from 1996-1997.
As president and chief executive officer, Mr. Dunton is responsible
for MBIA’s domestic and international municipal and asset-backed
securities businesses. The company insures financings for state
and local government entities, finance companies, not-for-profit
organizations, banks, insurance companies and other private-sector
entities in the U.S. and around the world. Activities within
these business lines include comprehensive credit analysis,
risk management, surveillance, remediation and pricing. In addition,
Mr. Dunton oversees the company’s asset management business.
MBIA’s municipal services function, which provides revenue
enhancement services to the public sector, also comes under
Mr. Dunton’s purview.
Mr. Dunton joined MBIA as an executive in late 1997 after a
long association with the company, having helped to create MBIA
as a stand-alone entity in 1986 while head of the Corporate
Finance Department at Aetna Life & Casualty. In his 12-year
tenure there, he was head of Corporate Finance and held leadership
positions in Aetna’s property and casualty business. While
at Aetna, Mr. Dunton’s accomplishments include the revitalization
of the commercial property and casualty business and dramatic
cost savings in the restructuring of the personal lines property
and casualty field operations.
Most recently, Mr. Dunton spent five years with USF&G Insurance
Company. As president of the Family and Business Insurance Group
from 1995 to 1997, he transformed USF&G’s largest
and poorest-performing business and returned it to profitability
and growth. Overall, the company exhibited a remarkable turnaround
during Mr. Dunton’s tenure. In 1998, the company merged
with St. Paul Insurance Company.
Mr. Dunton received his bachelor of science in Business Administration
from Northeastern University in 1978 and went on to graduate
from Harvard in 1980 with an MBA. While at Northeastern, he
received the Co-op Recipient Award and the Sears B. Condit Award.
Mr. Dunton is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Property
Casualty Underwriter.
Mr. Dunton resides in Ridgefield, Connecticut with his wife
Lea Anne and their three children.
Joseph P.
Fleming, PAH’70, MS’71, Chairman, Specialty Pharma,
Inc.
Joseph Fleming has dedicated his career to excellence
in the fields of pharmacy and healthcare services.
Mr. Fleming is the chairman and cofounder of Specialty Pharma,
Inc., (SPI) a leading distributor of biotechnology products
and high-tech home infusion therapies in the northeast. SPI
is a cutting edge provider of bio-tech therapies to patients
in their homes, supplying both drug therapy and nursing services.
He is a member of the National Home Infusion Association, and
he is active in issues affecting the pharmacy industry in Washington,
DC.
Mr. Fleming was also co-founder, president and chief executive
officer of Community Rehab Centers, one of the largest networks
of rehabilitation centers in the Northeast, which he successfully
sold in 2001. Other past professional roles include president
of JP Fleming Associates, Inc., a pharmacy and home healthcare
consulting company, and vice president and general manager of
Home Health at ITS, Inc., a subsidiary of American Medical International,
Inc. During the 1970s, he was a community pharmacist.
At Northeastern, Mr. Fleming has established a healthcare Entrepreneurs
Roundtable, which brings alumni in the healthcare industry back
to campus for discussion on healthcare issues. He is also chair
of the Bouvé College Resource Development Committee,
where he plays a critical fundraising role as part of the University’s
$200 million Leadership Campaign.
As a member of the Northeastern University student body, Mr.
Fleming participated in ROTC; was a member of Rho Chi, the Academic
Honor Society in pharmacy; president of Delta Sigma Pheta, a
pharmaceutical/medical fraternity; and student chapter president
of the American Pharmaceutical Association.
As notable as his impact in the field of pharmacy, Mr. Fleming
is also a committed volunteer on several fronts in the community.
His volunteer activities include serving as
Past board member and volunteer for Hospice West, Inc., and
he is past president and current fundraising chair of the Nashoba
Regional Scholarship Foundation, which is part of Dollars for
Scholars, a national organization of more than 1,200 community-based
scholarship foundations.
Mr. Fleming and his wife, Nancy, who is a 1971 pharmacy graduate,
live in Stow, Massachusetts, with their two children, Katie
and Christopher.
Charles J. Hoff, MS’73, Principal Investor,
First Step Development, Inc.
Charles Hoff has dedicated much of his long
career as an entrepreneurial venture capitalist responsible
for transforming businesses on the verge of financial ruin into
successful, profitable enterprises that employ thousands.
A native of Medford, Mass., Mr. Hoff graduated from the University
of Massachusetts, Lowell in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science
in Industrial Management. He then received his Masters in Engineering
Management from Northeastern in 1973. He subsequently secured
full-time employment as an industrial engineer at Gillette.
From 1983 to 1986, Mr. Hoff was the president, chief executive
officer, and owner of ARL Analytical Instruments Company, which
had over 100 million dollars in worldwide sales. He then became
chairman chief executive officer and owner of Universal/Univis,
Inc., a group of designer eye wear companies.
Mr. Hoff has also held senior management positions with Wang
Laboratories and Polaroid. From 1981 to 1984, Mr. Hoff worked
for Bausch & Lomb as a corporate officer, senior vice president
of world-wide operations, and president of the instrument division.
In 1993, former Governor Weld appointed Mr. Hoff a trustee of
the University of Massachusetts where he served as chairman
of the development committee for eight years. Presently, Mr.
Hoff is the Principal Investor for First Step Land Development
Inc. in York Beach, Maine, where he manages significant land
investments throughout the southern part of Maine.
With his brother David, a 1980 graduate of Northeastern’s
Entrepreneurship Program, Mr. Hoff manages a charitable foundation
granting scholarships to deserving students at the University
of Massachusetts campuses and Northeastern University. He has
awarded renewable scholarships to more than 1,000 students in
the UMass system and more than 200 at Northeastern, where he
started the Hoff Scholarship Program in 1995. In 2002, he committed
$1 million to the Leadership Campaign to continue the program.
Mr. Hoff’s service to Northeastern also includes his membership
on the Board of Overseers, the National Council, and his volunteer
service on the Pacesetter Committee for the $200 million Leadership
Campaign. He is a benefactor of The Huntington Society and a
member of the Pacesetter Committee. He has also been a guest
speaker and financial contributor in the Department of Mechanical
& Industrial Engineering. In June of 2004, he was awarded
an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters at the University of
Massachusetts, Lowell.
Mr. Hoff resides in Maine and Florida with his wife Josephine.
They have two daughters and five grandchildren.
Ian M. Holland, PhD’93, Vice President
of Architecture and Systems Engineering, Kronos
Ian Holland is one of Northeastern’s most
accomplished alumni in software engineering and has made a lasting
and important imprint on the software industry.
As a doctoral student at Northeastern, Dr. Holland worked on
the Law of Demeter, co-authoring the program rule known as the
Law of Demeter. The project was established to develop production
techniques for more reliable, revisable software. The style
rule is known to object-oriented programmers worldwide and is
used as a guide in the development of programming tools. The
Law of Demeter is covered in numerous books, including textbooks
for undergraduates. Ultimately, NASA utilized his research to
develop flight software for the Mars Pathfinder.
While at Northeastern, he completed a fellowship with IBM, which
led to six years of employment. Dr. Holland worked in Florida
and Texas as an IBM software systems designer and architect
in the areas of operating systems and network computing.
In 2003, Dr. Holland was named the vice president of Architecture
and Systems Engineering at Kronos Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass.
Founded in 1977, Kronos is a trusted name in workforce management
and helps organizations staff, develop, deploy, track, and reward
their workforce, resulting in reduced costs, increased productivity,
better decision-making, improved employee satisfaction, and
alignment with organizational objectives.
Kronos was named in the Boston Globe’s Top 100 Fastest
Growing Companies list for the past three years and in 2004,
reached the top ten. In 2004, Investor’s Business Daily
reported that Kronos is a “leader in the industry with
fifty to sixty percent of the market share.” This past
June, Kronos released Workforce Leave, a software product that
can help companies track, enforce, and manage employee-leave
policies.
In addition to serving as an adjunct professor in the College
of Computer & Information Science, Dr. Holland has taught
several nationally televised courses through Network Northeastern
and National Technological University. He is an advisory board
member for the CCIS Tech Forum ’04, a series of discussions
featuring expert panelists from the IT industry and business
sectors.
Dr. Holland resides in Westford, Massachusetts with his two
children and his wife, Pamela, who received her Master’s
in Computer Science from Northeastern in 1990.
Dennis D. Keefe, UC’78,
MBA’86, Chief Executive Officer, Cambridge Health Alliance
Dennis Keefe has committed his distinguished career
to the improvement of the health care industry.
He graduated from Northeastern, summa cum laude, in 1978 from
University College and received the Dean’s Citation Award
as the top student from the Health Sciences Program. In 1986,
he received his MBA in Business/Healthcare Administration and
taught numerous courses for healthcare professionals at University
College while pursuing his graduate degree.
In 1982, Mr. Keefe was named the executive vice president/chief
operating officer of Marlborough Hospital. He developed and
implemented the Tufts University teaching affiliation, one of
the first in the State for a community hospital. In 1986, he
became the associate administrator at Cambridge Hospital where
he led a project to open one of the state’s first Child
Psychiatry Units.
As the executive vice president, treasurer and chief operating
officer at Morton Hospital and Medical Center, Mr. Keefe managed
day-to-day operations to profitability for 12 straight years
and oversaw its accreditation. In 2000, he returned to Cambridge
Health Alliance to lead the integration/coordination of a rapidly
expanding healthcare system. He completed the merger of Cambridge,
Somerville, and Whidden hospitals.
In 2003, he was named the chief executive officer of Cambridge
Health Alliance and the commissioner of public health for the
city of Cambridge. Cambridge Health Alliance integrates public
health, clinical care, academics and research. It also offers
unique programs for multicultural populations including interpreter
services and mental health clinics for Latinos, Hispanics, Asians
and Portuguese speakers.
Mr. Keefe is a member of the HealthCare Financial Management
Association, the Medical group management Association, and the
American College of Healthcare Executives. He is a member of
the Executive Committee for both the Massachusetts Hospital
Association and the National Association of Public Hospitals.
He has served on several not-for-profit community boards including
Boston Children’s Institute and Neville Communities Home
Inc. In 1999, he was the general campaign chairman for the United
Way of Greater Attleboro/Taunton, where he helped to raise $2.5
million dollars.
Mr. Keefe resides in Walpole, Massachusetts with his wife, Laura,
and their daughter Kristen.
Herby
Duverné, CJ’98, MJ’02, Senior Security Manager,
State Street Bank and Trust
Since his arrival in the United States
from Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1989, Herby Duverné has
dedicated his life to justice and social activism. He lives
in Somerville, Massachusetts with his wife, Claire Boice, and
their daughter Ashley.
Mr. Duverné studied as an undergraduate at Bunker Hill
Community College and later Northeastern, where he graduated
with a degree in criminal justice in 1998. In 2002, he earned
a Master’s degree in criminal justice administration from
Northeastern. He is now the corporate security manager at State
Street Bank and Trust in Boston, where he is responsible for
the physical security operations of its multiple locations.
Mr. Duverné was awarded the 2004 State Street Chairman
Award for making significant and sustained volunteer contributions
to charitable organizations. He was also selected as a 2005
YMCA Black Achiever recipient for his significant professional
contributions and commitment to community service. He is a member
of the American Society for Industrial Security, the Security
Industry Association, and the Boston Clearing House subcommittee
on Technology.
In 2001, Mr. Duverné was elected the president of the
Haitian Coalition of Somerville. As president, he recruited
new board members and inspired them to conduct the Coalition’s
business in a responsible and professional manner. The Haitian
coalition instituted new procedures to ensure its financial
accountability, and he helped to create a new endeavor for an
after school program that provides Haitian American middle and
high school students with academic support. In 2004, he designated
the Haitian Coalition to receive a $10,000 grant for its after
school program as part of a State Street Corporation Award.
Mr. Duverné also serves on the Somerville Human Right
Commission as commissioner, where he works with the community
on human rights issues. He helped to establish “The Somerville
Conversations: Facing the Challenge of Racism,” a public
dialogue that brought together over one hundred participants
over a four-week period. The success of the program paved the
way for the creation of a new community coalition: Somerville
United Against Racism, which works toward the elimination of
racism in school systems and other institutions.
Mr. Duverné is currently running for a seat on the Somerville
School Committee. He is the first Haitian-American to launch
a political campaign in Somerville.
William M.
Fowler, Jr., LA’67, Hon.'00, Director, Massachusetts Historical
Society
Since his graduation from Northeastern
in 1967, William Fowler has become one of the University’s
most distinguished faculty members, authors, and historians.
In 1971, Mr. Fowler became an assistant professor of history
at Northeastern and steadily rose through the ranks to associate
professor and eventually professor of History. During his tenure,
he taught courses including American History, the History of
Boston, Maritime History and the History of New England. In
1977, he was named the associate dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences, where he assisted the dean in matters related
to student services and undergraduate curriculum.
From 1985-1988, he was the chair of the Campus Campaign, a fundraising
effort that raised more than $1.5 million from faculty, staff,
and retirees to support the construction of Snell Library. He
was named the vice provost of Undergraduate Education in 1988,
collaborating with the provost in development, implementation,
and review of all undergraduate programs, including matters
of admissions, accreditation, and budget planning. In 1993,
he was named chair of the Department of History, a position
he held for four years.
Today, Mr. Fowler is the director of the Massachusetts Historical
Society, a research library containing millions of rare documents
and artifacts vital to the study of American history, many of
them irreplaceable national treasures such as the Adams Family
Papers and the personal papers of Thomas Jefferson. He is also
the consulting editor to the scholarly journal The New England
Quarterly.
In addition to his time at Northeastern and the Massachusetts
Historical Society, Mr. Fowler has taught at the Mystic Seaport
Museum and has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution, the
United States Naval War College, and the Sea Education Association.
He is a trustee of The Wayside Inn, The Ralph Waldo Emerson
Association, The Paul Revere Memorial Association, and the Old
North Church Foundation. He is also a member of the Massachusetts
State Archives Advisory Commission and an honorary member of
the Boston Marine Society.
Mr. Fowler is the author of many articles, essays, editorials,
scholarly publications, and a number of books relating to American
history, including The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of
John Hancock and Samuel Adams: Puritan Radical. In 2000, Northeastern
bestowed upon him an Honorary degree. He also holds a Masters
and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. He will return to
Northeastern in January 2006 to resume teaching.
Marla E. Marini, N '06
Senior Marla
Marini, a Nursing major in the Bouvé College of Health
Sciences, is the second generation in her family to attend Northeastern
University. Her mother, Diana Downs Marini, graduated from Northeastern
in 1979 with a Business degree, and her aunt, Elizabeth C. Downs,
earned her degree from Northeastern’s University College
in 1976. Active as a peer tutor, Marla has helped her fellow
nursing students reach their academic goals. After graduation,
she hopes to pursue a masters degree and a career as a maternity
nurse. Ms. Marini is from Natick, Massachusetts, where her family
still lives.
Stephen K. McLane, BA '08
Middler Stephen McLane is a Supply Chain
Management major in the College of Business Administration.
He is a dedicated athlete and proud member of the Men’s
Crew Team, having been awarded the silver medal at the Men’s
Division One, Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships
in June 2005. Stephen represents the second generation in his
family to attend Northeastern. His mother, Janet Feeley McLane
is a 1980 graduate of University College. He is a native of
Bedford, Massachusetts, where his family still lives. Mr. McLane
hopes to pursue a career in his areas of interest, transportation
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