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Board of Directors
Joseph P. Craven, Vice Chair Joseph P. Craven is a senior vice president at American Century Investments whose background includes both public and private sector experience. A former senior executive with Aquiline Capital Management and Boston-based Putnam Investments, his expertise includes business strategy, client relationship management, marketing, product management, and sales and consultant relations. In his role as Director of Institutional Retirement Services, Mr. Craven managed Putnam's institutional full service defined contribution business, serving 250 clients and 1.2 million participants with $50 billion in assets under administration. Mr. Craven joined the Office of the State Treasurer as General Counsel in 1993, later serving as Deputy Treasurer, Pension Investment Division. In that capacity, he was responsible for oversight of pension plans with assets in excess of $8 billion. He has practiced public finance and commercial finance law in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York, where he worked as an investment banker. Mr. Craven holds an AB in Economics from Brown University and a JD from the Fordham University School of Law. Mr. Craven was appointed to the MassDevelopment Board of Directors in August 2005. Top of the Page David M. Abromowitz David M. Abromowitz is a partner in the law firm Goulston & Storrs, where he has worked on a variety of economic development and community revitalization initiatives, particularly involving housing and historic tax credit investment, HUD-assisted housing, public housing revitalization, assisted living, community land trusts, shared-equity homeownership, multifamily rental housing development, planned homeownership communities, and other multi-layered public/private projects. A Senior Fellow at American Progress, where he focuses on housing policy and related issues, Mr. Abromowitz is a past chair and founding member of both the Lawyers’ Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing and Homelessness and of the American Bar Association’s Forum Committee on Affordable Housing and Community Development. He is a board member of the National Housing and Rehabilitation Association, and a member of the Multifamily Leadership Board of the National Association of Home Builders. Mr. Abromowitz co-chaired the Housing Policy Working Group of then Governor-elect Deval Patrick and has served on other housing advisory groups for public officials including Mayor Tom Menino. He serves on a number of charitable boards, including YouthBuild USA, The Equity Trust, Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly, and B’nai B’rith New England. Mr. Abromowitz also served as a board member of the National Economic Development and Law Center based in Oakland, CA. A former adjunct professor at Northeastern Law School, Mr. Abromowitz received his BA from Princeton University and his JD from Harvard Law School. Mr. Abromowitz was appointed to the MassDevelopment Board of Directors in May 2009. Top of the Page Gerald D. Cohen Gerald D. Cohen is a founding partner of SSG Development, LLC, and founder and manager of SF Properties, LLC, SF Properties, Inc., ("SF Properties"), and CGI Companies with expertise in financing, leasing, developing, and managing real estate. Mr. Cohen is in charge of financing and strategic planning for SSG Development. In addition, he operates more than 30 properties consisting of shopping centers, downtown store blocks, and office buildings. SF Properties has extensive experience in the renovation and restoration of properties throughout Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Mr. Cohen was an organizer of Commonwealth National Bank, a nationally chartered bank in Worcester. He currently serves as a member of its Executive Committee, chairman of Nominating and Governance Committee, and the Board of Directors. Mr. Cohen also serves as a member of the Board of Overseers at The Children’s Hospital in Boston; a member of Kellogg’s Graduate School of Management’s Real Estate Research Center Advisory Board and the Kellogg Alumni Advisory Board; a member of Brown University’s Corporation Committee on Facilities and Design and its Strategic Long Range Committee and Chairman of the Real Estate Sub-Committee; an overseer of the Museum of Science; and member of the Executive Board of the New England Anti-Defamation League. He is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and a licensed Massachusetts and New York real estate broker. From 1989 to 1991, he was a member of the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority Board. A graduate of Brown University, Mr. Cohen received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Mr. Cohen was appointed to the MassDevelopment Board of Directors in November 2007. Top of the Page Katherine P. Craven Katherine P. Craven is Executive Director of the Massachusetts School Building Authority. She most recently served as Director of Policy for the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In this capacity, she provided counsel to the Speaker and members of the House on major legislative initiatives, including the financing of the $7 billion state Medicaid program and the Uncompensated Care Pool, the Commonwealth's $23 billion annual operating budget, the 2003 Economic Stimulus Act, the 2003 municipal relief package, and billions of dollars in capital bond bills. Prior to assuming this role, Ms. Craven served as Deputy Budget Director for the House Committee on Ways and Means, the legislative committee charged with analysis of more than 5,000 pieces of legislation with a fiscal impact, including budget and tax matters. In addition to working on the recently enacted school building assistance reform in 2004, Ms. Craven assisted in drafting the first major comprehensive reform of the school building assistance program in 2000. She has lectured on the intricacies of the state budget at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Donahue Institute of the University of Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Harvard University and Boston Latin School. Ms. Craven serves on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health, and has been nominated as a member of the Board of Incorporators for Partners Healthcare, Inc. She was appointed to the MassDevelopment board in March 2005. Top of the Page Jay Gonzalez Jay Gonzalez currently serves as the Undersecretary of Administration and Finance. In this capacity he is responsible for developing and overseeing the state's capital finance program and serves as the Secretary's designee on the boards of a number of public authorities and agencies. Prior to joining the Patrick Administration, Mr. Gonzalez was a partner at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP where he served as counsel to hundreds of cities, towns, school districts and other governmental entities throughout New England in connection with the financing and development of major capital projects and other governmental programs. He has assisted governmental entities with a wide array of public projects, including the construction of schools and other municipal buildings, water and sewer projects, economic development projects, land conservation, transportation projects, and other municipal infrastructure improvements. Mr. Gonzalez also served as general counsel to a number of municipal and other governmental and quasi-governmental entities, primarily on finance-related matters. Top of the Page Christopher E. Goode Christopher E. Goode is Senior Director of Corporate Government & Community Affairs & Public Policy at EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks, and services. In this position, Mr. Goode is responsible for representing the interests of EMC on various state and federal public policy issues of importance to EMC’s competitiveness and to the long-term health of Massachusetts’ economy, as well as supporting the approval processes for the various real estate development projects in Massachusetts that are of importance to EMC’s long-term growth objectives. In addition, Mr. Goode manages EMC’s Office of Global Corporate Community Involvement, where he oversees EMC’s philanthropic support for education reform, improvements to math and science education, efforts to reduce violence and support conflict resolution, and other local and global philanthropic activities. During his twenty years in the public policy field, Mr. Goode previously was the Director of Public Policy at the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, an organization of eighty of Massachusetts’ leading chief executives, where he led the Roundtable’s efforts on major issues of long term importance to Massachusetts, ranging from education reform to transportation infrastructure improvement. Prior to that, Mr. Goode served as Director of State Relations at Boston University, where he led initiatives on real estate development, state scholarship aid, the Boston University/Chelsea Schools Partnership, and other issues. Mr. Goode graduated from the Boston Latin School and Holy Cross College. He was appointed to the MassDevelopment Board of Directors in October 2006. Top of the Page Matthew J. Gorzkowicz Matthew J. Gorzkowicz is the Assistant Secretary of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance. He serves as the designee for Undersecretary of Administration and Finance Jay Gonzalez. Top of the Page John F. (Jay) Hurley John F. (Jay) Hurley is 6th General Vice President of the Iron Workers International Union in Washington, DC and President of the Iron Workers District Council of New England. He also serves as a commissioner on the City of Boston Zoning Commission. His career as an ironworker began in 1974. He possesses 19 years of hands-on field experience in all aspects of the steel construction industry. His executive duties include fiduciary responsibility as a trustee of the Iron Workers District Council of New England Health and Welfare Fund and Iron Clad Insurance. He is a Vice-President of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and Co-chairman of the Ironworkers/Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust (IMPACT) for Region 1 (New England) and a member of IMPACT's national board of directors. Mr. Hurley is active in numerous philanthropic endeavors with non-profit entities around New England. He was appointed to the MassDevelopment Board of Directors in November, 2008. Top of the Page W. Estella Johnson W. Estella Johnson is Director of Economic Development for the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to joining the City of Cambridge, Ms. Johnson spent nine years as President and CEO of the Gate City Community Development Corporation of Greensboro, NC where she focused on small business development for women and minorities, housing development for low-to-moderate income families, workforce development and community outreach initiatives. Previously, she served as Assistant Commissioner of Economic Development for the City of Chicago. There she worked with numerous business associations and community groups, assisting them in implementing neighborhood development projects. In addition to housing and community development expertise, Ms. Johnson's background includes banking and college administration. She worked as a senior management analyst for Continental Illinois National Bank and as an academic and admissions counselor for the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y. Ms. Johnson has held office on boards including the Cambridge YWCA, and served as Vice Chair of the Women's Resource Center and Board Secretary of the N.C. Association of Community Development Corporations. She is a past member of the Yerevan Sister City Association Board. Her awards and recognitions include Harvard Square Business Association Community Preservation Award, City of Greensboro Human Relations Housing Award for 2001, Greensboro Chamber of Commerce 1998 Small Business Advocate of the Year Award, and the Golden Eagle Award from Dudley Products in 1997. Ms. Johnson received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Psychology from Connecticut College in New London, CT and holds a Masters in Public Administration from American University in Washington, D.C. Top of the Page Meghan T. Lynch Meghan T. Lynch is a Senior Analyst at Abt Associates, Inc. She specializes in human health risk assessment, including quantifying human variability in response to toxicants and incorporating this information into the current risk assessment framework. Dr. Lynch also has expertise in reviewing and utilizing the toxicological and epidemiologic literature for environmental policy and benefit-cost analysis. She also has several years of professional experience in brownfields redevelopment, both in the field work necessary to clean-up and develop a site and the many policy issues surrounding the funding and regulation of brownfields redevelopment. She is the former Project Manager for the Worcester Business Development Corporation, a partner in the Gateway Park Brownfields Redevelopment project in Worcester, Massachusetts. This project was the recipient of the 2007 EPA Region I Phoenix Award. The co-author of seven published journal articles and a patent holder, Dr. Lynch has also worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Lynch has a BA in chemistry from the College of the Holy Cross, and an MPH and a D.Sc. from the Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Lynch was appointed to the MassDevelopment Board in November, 2008. Top of the Page Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell is the former Secretary of the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development. He is an attorney and a former real estate developer with extensive management experience. He has worked in federal, quasi-public, and private institutions in Boston and Washington. In December 2005, Mr. O’Connell joined Meredith & Grew as an Executive Vice President, Partner and senior member of the firm's Development and Advisory Services Group. From 1998 to 2005, as a principal in the Development Services Group at Spaulding & Slye Colliers, he provided strategic counsel and execution capabilities to governmental, institutional, and corporate clients. Mr. O’Connell was in charge of several large-scale permitting and development projects, including Fan Pier, Boston, Massachusetts; NorthPoint, Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville, Massachusetts; and the Puerto Rico Convention Center District Authority, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Mr. O’Connell also served as the executive director of the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency (now MassDevelopment), and as the director of planning and development for the Massachusetts Port Authority. For eleven years, Mr. O’Connell was a lead real estate attorney with the Boston and Washington law firm of Gadsby & Hannah, including serving as managing partner of the firm. He also was the first chief of staff for Congressman Edward J. Markey. Since 2003, Mr. O’Connell has been a guest speaker on "The Permitting and Public Approval Process" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Real Estate Development. Mr. O’Connell served in 2006 as a Commissioner of the Massachusetts Legislative Commission on Metropolitan Beaches. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and a member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia bars. He was appointed to the MassDevelopment Board in January, 2007. Top of the Page
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