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Gisela Cowan-Bondick
Gigi was born and raised in Mexico City and now lives in Carlisle with her husband and her son. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in International Business and a minor in Petroleum Engineering. She attended Southern Methodist University School of Law in Dallas, TX. Her professional experience includes working at the law firm of Baker & McKenzie, followed by the Patent and Trademark department at Frito-Lay, and eventually as Associate Counsel for ENSCO International, an off-shore oil services provider. She also logged many hours as a volunteer attorney for Legal Services of North Texas. Having left her legal career, she is a full-time mother.
Amy Capofreddi
Amy Capofreddi works at Nashoba Brooks School in Concord as Director of Annual Fund and Leadership Development. Prior to joining Nashoba Brooks, Amy spent ten years working in institutional asset management, most recently as a Managing Director at Babson Capital Management where she was responsible for product and marketing support. She holds a B.S. from Syracuse University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Amy has been an active volunteer at the Thoreau School and is currently a member of the religious education council at First Parish in Concord. Amy grew up in Boxborough, Massachusetts and now lives in Concord with her husband Matt and their two children.
E. Kate Galusza
Kate grew up on a horse farm in Virginia, and graduated from Va. Tech with a BS in Management Science/Management Information Systems. She was with Fidelity Investments in Boston for 11 years in their institutional companies, and more recently in their Global Equity Trading Technology Group. Since staying home with her three children, she has served on the board of Milldam Nursery School as Membership Chair, served on the Nashoba Brooks PA as Treasurer, Country Fair chair, Raffle chair, and acquisitions co-chair for two auctions. At Fenn, Kate has co-chaired the annual auction and worked on the annual sports sale. In 2010 she co-chaired the Jericho Road Auction. As well as serving on the board for the Community Chest, Kate currently serves on the Guild Board for the Concord Museum.
Amanda Young Hickman
Amanda is a partner at Insight Experience, a leadership development company specializing in computer-based business simulations, based in West Concord. Her background is in business strategy and change management. She has been involved on the Allocations Committee for the Chest several times. Amanda lives in Carlisle with her husband and two sons who attend the Carlisle School.
Lindsay Smith Kafka
Lindsay grew up in Concord from the age of 8 years old, graduating in 1985 from CCHS .From there, Ms. Kafka continued her education at Stanford University and Boston University School of Law. Lindsay is a trusts and estates attorney at Henshon Parker LLP in Boston. She is a current member of the board of trustees of the Concord Carlisle Scholarship Fund and is a former board member of Concord Youth Theatre. She is active in the OVAL program for Stanford University, a alumni volunteer program for interviewing applicants to Stanford, as well as the Concord PanMass Challenge Kids’ Bikeride. Lindsay also does pro bono legal work at the Open Table Food Pantry and the Concord Council on Aging.
Wayne Patenaude
Wayne is currently an EVP and CFO of Cambridge Savings Bank and has been in the Banking industry for his entire career. His particular areas of expertise are fixed income portfolio management, project palling, budgeting and business line analysis. He has served on many non-profit boards such as the Finance Committee for the American Red Cross in both Berkshire County and Hartford CT and Trustee of the Berkshire Museum. He lives with his wife and two children in Concord.
Mark Russell Prior
Mark works as Data Management Team Leader for the Administrative Office of the Massachusetts Trial Court. Mark and his wife Abby live in Concord and have two daughters. Mark has worked on the Concord Finance Committee and the Community Chest Allocations committee most recently as a team leader.
Edward Prewitt
Ed lives in Concord with his wife and their two boys. He has been a business journalist for much of his career (Fortune magazine, Harvard Business School Publishing, and CIO magazine, among others) and currently works as Research and Editorial Director at ECC Partnership, a startup strategy consulting firm based in Concord. Ed's community service activities in Concord include Vestry, Stewardship Committee chair, and Search Committee at Trinity Episcopal Church; Cub Scout leadership; and youth soccer coach. Previous activities include City Year projects, literacy tutor for inner-city youth, and an allocations committee for the United Way of Wake County (Raleigh, NC). Ed is an expatriate Southerner who came to New England for graduate school 18 years ago and never left. He is a graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and of Duke University. For fun, Ed likes to compete in triathlons and play soccer.
Bridget Saltonstall
Bridget is a long-time resident of the Concord-Carlisle area. She and her husband Jim lived and worked for many years at Middlesex School, where she held many positions, while raising two children, including tutoring and testing coordinator for students with learning issues and editor of school publications. For the last 13 years, she has been the Assistant Director for Constituent Relations and Publications at Nashoba Brooks School. She has served on the board of the Concord-Carlisle Human Rights Council for 15 years and is a facilitator with the Communities for Restorative Justice. She served as President of Milldam Nursery School and volunteered every year at every school her children attended, short of college. She spends summers on a salt water farm on the coast of Maine, where she has promoted youth sailing at the local and state level and served for many years on the board of the local yacht club. Bridget holds a BA in communications from Simmons College and a certificate from the MGH Program of Education in Therapy for Specific Learning Disabilities.
Ann Sgarzi
Ann earned a BA in Journalism from Rutgers College and then worked for several years in the technology group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. before earning an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and switching her focus to marketing. She has more than 17 years experience in marketing communications and public relations, focused primarily in the high technology and financial services industries at companies including Thomson Financial, the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, and several startups. More recently Ann has done communications work in the in fundraising for cMarket, an online auction provider for nonprofits. Ann is currently working as a marketing consultant on a freelance basis for several companies and nonprofits, and serves on the Marketing and Allocations committees of the Community Chest. Ann lives in Concord with her husband and two children.
Valerie Kolligian Thayer
Valerie lives in Concord with her husband and their two children. Valerie graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in History and Romance Languages and a minor in Economics. After completing the Loan Officer Development Program for The First National Bank of Boston in 1987, Valerie worked for 10 years in the bank’s Middle Market Corporate Lending division. After that, Valerie left the bank to be at home with her family, with a small detour at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts where she completed the Professional Chef’s program. Valerie served on the Guild of Volunteers at the Concord Museum for six years, served as Treasurer and then President of the Alcott Parent Teacher Group and is VP of the Waukeela Foundation, a non-profit organization which raises scholarship money to send girls to overnight camp.
Henry Vaillant, M.D.
Henry Vaillant is a semi-retired physician and teacher. He joined the staff at Emerson Hospital in 1971 and chaired the Department of Medicine from 2004 to 2010. Other key positions held at Emerson include medical staff president and hospital trustee. He was the medical director at Rivercrest Deaconess Association for more than 25 years and also taught courses in medicine at Northeastern University, Tufts Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Vaillant has lived in Concord with his wife Janet since 1970. They have three children and five grandchildren. Dr. Vaillant is a Trustee of The White Mountain School in Bethlehem, N.H.
Adam D. Winstanley
Adam is a founder and principal of Winstanley Enterprises LLC, an investor, developer and asset manager of commercial real estate throughout the Northeast. He has over 20 years experience in acquiring, repositioning, financing and selling various commercial real estate products, and specializes in returning obsolete commercial properties back to functionality and productive use. The foresight, creativity, and in-depth relationships Adam brings to each individual investment have made him a recognized market-maker throughout the New England states. Adam is a patron of the arts, serving on the boards of the Concord-Carlisle Community Chest and The Concord Art Association. He is also past board member and President of The Copley Society where he oversaw the redevelopment and repositioning of its Newbury Street headquarters. Adam holds a BA from Denison University. He and his wife Susie are natives of Concord, MA where they reside with their two children.
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