Board of Directors

About Our Board of Directors (Current and Former)

MENTOR's strength is in the commitment, expertise and work of its board, staff members and volunteers. MENTOR's board of directors consists of outstanding leaders from the business, government, education and religious sectors. These dedicated individuals are actively engaged in the strategic planning and implementation of MENTOR programs and policies and serve as the organization's chief ambassadors for youth mentoring. Willem Kooyker, chairman and CEO of Blenheim Capital Management LLC, is MENTOR's board chairman.

* Member of the Executive Committee

**Former Board Member

Mr. Geoffrey T. Boisi*	Mr. J. Markham Green	Mr. Bill Russell
Mr. Raymond G. Chambers*	Mrs. Marian L. Heard*	Mr. Haim Saban**
Mr. Willem Kooyker*	The Honorable Thomas H. Kean**	Mr. John A. Schneider**
Ms. Nancy Altobello	Mary Margaret Lang	Mr. Alan D. Schwartz*
Mr. Michael Bolton**	Mr. Thomas G. Mendell	Mr. David Shapiro*
The Honorable Bill Bradley**	The Reverend J. Donald Monan, S.J.	Mr. James D. Sinegal**
Mr. David A. Coulter**	Dr. Tom Osborne	Mrs. Sue Anne Wells
Mr. Jeffrey W. Durkee*	Mr. Phil Ramone** (In Memoriam)	Mrs. Denise M. White
	Dr. Jean Rhodes**	Mrs. Kathryn R. Williamson

 

Mr. Geoffrey T. Boisi*

Co-Founder
MENTOR

Geoffrey T. Boisi is chairman and CEO of Roundtable Investment Partners LLC, an independent private investment partnership providing strategic advice and planning, investment management, and merchant banking services for families of substantial wealth as well as select institutions generating high performance wealth creation and social legacy-building opportunities.

In 2003, Mr. Boisi retired as vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase, where he served as co-CEO of JPMorgan, the firm’s commercial and investment bank, and a member of JPMorgan Chase’s executive and management committees.

Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Boisi was founding chairman and senior partner of The Beacon Group, a premier merger and acquisition advisory and private investment firm, which was acquired by Chase in July 2000. Prior to the formation of The Beacon Group, Mr. Boisi was a senior general partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he served as a member of the firm’s management committee and head of the global investment banking business, which included worldwide mergers and acquisitions, real estate, corporate finance, capital markets and principal investment activities. In addition, Mr. Boisi held numerous other positions during his 22 years at Goldman Sachs, including: chairman of strategic planning, co-chair of the international management committee, partner in charge of global finance, head of investment banking services, and partner in charge of mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Boisi is co-founder of MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership. Founded in 1989, MENTOR ranks as one of the top 100 charities in the U.S. and is leading the movement to connect America’s young people with caring adult mentors.

He is an overseer of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; serves Boston College as a trustee associate and founding sponsor of the Center for Religion and American Public Life; serves Carnegie Corporation of New York as a trustee and chairman of the investment committee and member of the committee on compensation; trustee of The Brookings Institution and a member of its investment committee; member of the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress; director of Oxford Analytica; member of the Founders’ Circle of America’s Promise; serves the Catholic Church as chairman and founding board member of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management (NLRCM); trustee of the Saint Thomas More Chapel & Center at Yale University; director of FADICA; and a Knight of Malta.

Mr. Boisi has served as chairman of the board of trustees, Boston College, co-chair of the University’s capital campaign and chair emeritus of the Boston College Wall Street Council; chairman of the graduate executive board, The Wharton School and co-chair of its capital campaign; trustee of the Papal Foundation; member of the international advisory board of Grupo Santander (Spain); member of the investment banking committee, American Stock Exchange; member of the board of directors of Freddie Mac; trustee, director and member of the investment committee of the Park Agency, Inc. (formerly Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises); member of the Trilateral Commission; director of Communities in Schools; and a trustee of Friends Academy.

Mr. Boisi has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Wharton School’s Joseph Wharton Award; Boston Colleges Presidents Medals for Excellence; Chaminade High School’s Distinguished Alumnus Award; the American Red Cross of Greater New York’s Humanitarian Award; the Cancer Research Institute’s Oliver R. Grace Award for Distinguished Service in Advancing Cancer Research; the National Catholic Educational Association’s Elizabeth Seton Award and honored by Pope John Paul II as a Steward of St. Peter. He is also the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Sacred Heart University as well as the 2006 Lewis Hine Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service on behalf of children.

Mr. Boisi is a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A.) and Boston College (B.A.).

Mr. Chambers, a philanthropist, has directed most of his efforts toward improving the health and well being of children. He is the Founding Chairman of the Points of Light Foundation and co-founded, with Colin Powell, the America’s Promise Alliance. Mr. Chambers is the Co-Founder of the National Mentoring Partnership, and of Malaria No More.

 

Mr. Raymond G. Chambers*

Co-Founder
MENTOR

Mr. Chambers, a philanthropist, has directed most of his efforts toward improving the health and well being of children. He is the Founding Chairman of the Points of Light Foundation and co-founded, with Colin Powell, the America’s Promise Alliance. Mr. Chambers is the Co-Founder of the National Mentoring Partnership, and of Malaria No More.

Mr. Chambers is the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals and for Malaria. The MDGs are the internationally agreed upon set of humanitarian targets which come due in December 2015. He also serves as one of the Secretary-General’s MDG Advocates and chairs the MDG Health Alliance. He is also Co-Chairman of the Board of GBCHealth.

In his business career, Mr. Chambers was Chairman of Wesray Capital Corporation, which he co-founded with Former Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. William E. Simon.

 

Mr. Willem Kooyker*

Co-Founder
MENTOR

Willem Kooyker has been involved with MENTOR since 1993. He is currently chairman of the board and has previously served as a member of the board of directors, chairman of the audit committee, a member of the Telemachan Council, and was a founder of the PATHWAYS Initiative. A strong believer in the benefits of mentoring, Mr. Kooyker is committed to advocating mentoring programs to assist our youth.

Mr. Kooyker is the Chairman of Blenheim Capital Management, LLC, an investment management firm. Beginning his trading career in 1964 with Internatio-Muller in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, he was soon transferred to their New York office, and eventually became managing director of the International Trading Group. In 1981 he joined Commodities Corporation in Princeton, New Jersey, where he became President. In 1984, Mr. Kooyker began a new venture, Tricon Holding Company, Ltd., which remains active in the forest products industry. Mr. Kooyker founded Blenheim Capital Management, LLC in 1988.

Separate from Blenheim, in 1993, Mr. Kooyker became a co-founder and board member of Derivatives Portfolio Management (DPM), which was subsequently sold to Mellon Financial Corporation (“Mellon”) and renamed DPM Mellon, LLC. In addition, he was a founding director of the regional Somerset Valley Bank (SVB) in New Jersey. When SVB was bought by Fulton Financial Corporation in 2005, Mr. Kooyker became a member of their board of directors, and served on the audit committee and risk committee until 2012.

Mr. Kooyker is a majority shareholder and board member of Investor Analytics LLC. His professional affiliations have included a four-year term as president of the Cocoa Clearing Association; board service with the Cocoa Merchants Association of America and the New York Coffee, Sugar, and Cocoa Exchange; and former member of the NY Mercantile Exchange.

Mr. Kooyker’s current not-for-profit activities in addition to MENTOR include his serving as a cabinet member and a member of the investment committee of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., which engages in the study of national and world affairs; and as an advisory board member of The Oliver Scholars Program, which provides support and guidance to African American and Latino children and their families in New York City in seeking better educational opportunities.

 

Mrs. Marian L. Heard*

Vice-Chair
Oxen Hill Partners

Marian Heard is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Oxen Hill Partners, a business specializing on Leadership Development Programs and Brand Enhancement Strategies and she counts Fortune 500 companies, educational and religious organizations and several privately help entities as clients.

She previously served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay in Boston and also as the Chief Executive Officer of the United Ways of New England, an association of 22 United Ways from Maine to Rhode Island. During her tenure, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay rose from #87 to #1 in America in the Leadership Giving category of $10,000 and above for the de Tocqueville Society. This United Way won more first place and other awards than any other United Way in America and Mrs. Heard was called “the most honored Chief Executive Officer in the country.” She retired early after over 30 years of leadership with the United Way.

She is the Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Points of Light Foundation and has served two terms as the National Board Chair. She continues to serve on the Board and is a member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Human Resources/Compensation Committee. President Bush (41) serves as the Honorary Chair. She also served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future, which was the largest gathering of past and the current President focusing on a domestic issue in the history of our Republic. Retired General Colin Powell served as the Honorary Chairman and Presidents Bush and Clinton served as Co-Chair. President Carter and Nancy Reagan also participated and Oprah Winfrey served as the Mistress of Ceremonies for the main program.

In addition, she currently serves on the boards of Sovereign Bank and Santander, USA Holding. She is also a Trustee of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She recently retired from the Boards of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Liberty Mutual Group and CVS/Caremark.

She is a past Trustee at Berea College and Fairfield University and the Board of Associates of the University of Bridgeport where she served as President. She is also a past member of the Board of Governors of the New England Aquarium.

She is a Founding Director of MENTOR/The National Mentoring Partnership and currently serves as Vice Chair and has also served as the organization’s National Spokesperson. She is also a member of the Massachusetts Women’s Forum and a Founding Board member of the Massachusetts Women’s Conference, the largest women’s conference in the country. She is also a member of a number of business, cultural and professional groups, three focusing on corporate governance and leadership.

She earned as Associates Degree in Executive Secretarial Studies from the University of Bridgeport, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Master’s Degree in Education from Springfield College. She has been honored by each of these three colleges with Alumni Awards and Honorary Degrees. A nationally recognized award-winning speaker and community leader, she is often called upon to deliver keynote speeches, commencement addresses and to provide strategic analysis for a wide variety of issues and to lead national initiatives.

She has also completed the University of Michigan’s Executive Leadership Program, where she focused on economics and social policy.

She has received local, regional, national and international awards too numerous to mention. In honor of her innovative ideas, skill in strategic analysis, leadership ability and advocacy for children issues, she is the recipient of 21 Honorary Doctorate Degrees.

She is married to Winlow M. Heard and they are the parents of two married sons and four grandchildren.

 

Mr. Jeffrey W. Durkee*

M&T Investment Group

Mr. Thomas G. Mendell

T.G. Mendell Corp.

Thomas G. Mendell is a Private Investor and on the boards of directors of several private companies. Mr. Mendell was a partner of JPMorgan Partners from 2000 to 2003 and a partner of The Beacon Group, a merchant bank, from March 1994 to July 2000. Prior to joining The Beacon Group, Mr. Mendell was a Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he served as a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and Head of GS Capital. Mr. Mendell had shared responsibility for making principal investments of the firm’s capital as well as for the Broad Street Fund and GS Capital Partners, L.P. Mr. Mendell also spent eleven of his nineteen years at Goldman Sachs in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department where he successfully completed over one hundred fifty transactions for clients in a wide array of industries. Before joining Goldman Sachs, he was an Officer in the United States Navy.

Mr. Mendell is currently Chairman of SonaCare Medical, LLC, Chairman of Knowledge Delivery Systems, Inc. and a director of several private companies including TopGolf International, ZeroWater Inc., RediLearning, LLC and Netomat Inc. In addition, he is on the board of the Cancer Research Institute, MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership, which he has been involved with since 1992, and he served on the Harvard Business School Alumni Board and as a Trustee of St. Bernard’s School.

Mr. Mendell is a graduate of Harvard University (M.B.A.) and Vanderbilt University (B.E.).

 

The Reverend J. Donald Monan, S.J.

Boston College

J. Donald Monan, S.J. assumed the post of Chancellor in August 1996 following 24 years as Boston College President—the longest presidential tenure in the University’s history. Prior to joining Boston College in 1972, Father Monan successively served Le Moyne College in Syracuse as Chair of Philosophy, Academic Dean and Vice President.

Father Monan entered the Society of Jesus in 1942 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1955. He holds his PhD from the University of Louvain in Belgium after which he conducted postdoctoral research at Oxford, Paris and Munich. Father Monan has received honorary doctorates from a dozen universities ranging from Harvard to the National University of Ireland.

He is former chairman of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts, served two decades as a director of the Bank of Boston (1976-96), as interim president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (1996-97), and co-chair of the Massachusetts Summit for the Promise of our Youth (1997). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The National Mentoring Partnership, founding board member of the Massachusetts Mentoring Partnership, of which he served as co-chair from 1992-2001, and of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management. At the request of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, Fr. Monan in 2002-03 chaired a highly successful study of the management of the Massachusetts judiciary.

Father Monan is also a member of the Jesuit Philosophical Association, the Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy, and the Massachusetts Historical Society.

 

Mr. Bill Russell

Center Court Productions

 

Mr. Alan D. Schwartz*

Vice Chair
Guggenheim Partners

 

Mrs. Sue Anne Wells

 

Mrs. Denise M. White

Viacom

 

Dr. Tom Osborne

Former U.S. Congressman
Retired University of Nebraska Athletic Director and Football Coach

Dr. Tom Osborne is a former long-time head football coach at the University of Nebraska (1973-1997) with three national championships. He was later named the Athletic Director (2007-2013). The Cornhuskers mounted a 255-49-3 record under Osborne, good for a winning percentage of .836.

The 255 victories are the sixth-most all-time among major college football coaches while the winning percentage ranks fifth all-time. His achievements were so highly regarded that the National Football Foundation waived its three-year waiting period so that he could be inducted into its Hall of Fame in December of 1998. He is one of only four coaches in history to have the mandatory three-year waiting period waived.

In the classroom, Osborne’s teams were just as successful as they were on the field. Under Osborne’s guidance, the Husker football program totaled 65 CoSIDA Academic All-America awards in 25 years, averaging more than two selections per season. To put Osborne’s dedication to developing complete student-athletes in perspective, he accumulated more football Academic All-Americans in his 25 years as coach than any other football program in the nation has produced in its history, as Notre Dame has produced the second-most football academic All-Americans all-time, totaling 50 selections dating back to 1952.

Dr. Osborne holds a master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Nebraska in educational psychology and is a former three-term Republican Congressman (2000-2006).

He was the lead champion of the creation of the School-based Mentoring Grants. Additionally, Dr. Osborne and his wife Nancy founded Teammates in 1991, now run by his daughter Suzanne Hince. Teammates is the largest school-based mentoring program in Nebraska and a leader nationally serving 6,500 young people.

Osborne and his wife, Nancy, have three adult children, Mike, Ann and Suzanne and four grandchildren.

 

Kathryn R. Williamson

The Gift Box, LLC

 

Ms. Nancy Altobello

Ernst & Young LLP

Nancy is Americas Vice Chair, People, for the global Ernst & Young organization. She previously held several leadership roles at Ernst & Young LLP, including Managing Partner for Assurance and Advisory Business Services in the Northeast, Managing Partner for Assurance and Advisory Area Practices, National Director of Human Resources for the Assurance and Advisory Practice, Area Director of Human Resources for Connecticut and Audit partner in the firm’s Stamford, CT office. Nancy has worked in several Ernst & Young LLP offices – including New Haven, Stamford, Boston and New York – serving clients in the technology, consumer products, and insurance industries.

Nancy and her team focus on the recruiting, retention, learning and development of people across the Ernst & Young organization’s Americas region, which includes North and South America, Mexico and Israel. They are committed to reinforcing leadership around inclusiveness and related diversity issues, and in building and supporting career mobility. Another important component of Ernst & Young's people agenda is a commitment to making a difference in its communities through sponsored corporate responsibility efforts and a culture that values volunteerism. All of these efforts yield a culture that delivers high-quality client service to member firm clients, while building a lifelong relationship with their people. Nancy is a member of the Ernst & Young organization’s Americas Executive Board and its Global People Executive Committee.

Nancy is actively involved in the community. Nancy currently serves on the board of Fairfield University, is both a board member and Treasurer for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. She joined the board in 2012 and was previously a board member of the Mass Mentoring Partnership, the Massachusetts affiliate. She is a board member of The Business Council for International Understanding, and is a committee member for the Greg Wolfe Fund. She served as Chairperson of the 2008 Fairfield University Awards Dinner for Multicultural Scholarships.

 

J. Markham Green

 

David Shapiro*

President & CEO
MENTOR

 

Mary Margaret Lang

MML Jewelry

Mary Margaret Lang is the Founder of MML Jewelry, an antique and estate jewelry business with a special emphasis on pieces from the 1940’s. Lang joined MENTOR’s Board of Directors in 2013.

Lang is a tireless advocate and fundraiser for education. For the past five years, she has served on Duke University’s Annual Fund’s Executive Committee where she works closely with the Development Office to identify and connect with potential donors. She is the recipient of the ”Forever Duke Award” along with her other co- chairs, in recognition of raising the largest reunion gift in Duke’s history.

Lang also served on the Board of Trustees for The Pingry School in Basking Ridge, New Jersey where she served as Chair of the Annual Fund, which raised close to $2 million, and she Chaired the Art Center Capital Campaign which raised over $8 million.

Prior to forming her own business, Lang served as an Account Executive at Affinity Agency Group, Inc where she sold Property and Casualty Insurance to commercial entities throughout the state of New Jersey. Lang has also held positions at Technimetrics, Inc in New York City, where she sold global shareholder databases of institutional investors and brokers to public companies, and Manufacturers Hanover Trust, also in New York City, where she sourced and managed lending relationships with large and middle market companies in the Mid-Atlantic states.

Lang currently lives in Morristown, NJ with her husband Wes. They have four daughters.