April 2009
Dr. Karl Case Speaks at the Cutler Center BIMA Conference
For more information, see the complete details.
March 2009
BCF Students are Finalists in the Third Annual New England Investment Research Challenge
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New Advisory Board Members Added
The Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments and Finance is pleased to announce the addition of five new advisory board members.
Robert E. Gallery is the Eastern Massachusetts market executive for the U.S. Trust Private Wealth Management group with Bank of America, and is the Bank of America Massachusetts president, responsible for bank-wide initiatives and the company’s community efforts in the Commonwealth. He serves on several nonprofit boards, including the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, the executive committee of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts, Cradles to Crayons, the Board of Overseers of WGBH and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and is a trustee of the Boston Plan for Excellence. He is a graduate of Loyola of Chicago and earned his MBA at Northwestern University.
Warren A. Johnson is president of Johnson Portfolio Group of Boston, a firm he founded in 1986. He is past president of the Boston Security Analysts Society, and currently is Eastern Regional Presidents Council representative for the Association for Investment Management and Research. A Chartered Financial Analyst, he is an executive in residence for the Babson College Fund. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University and his MBA in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
James F. Spencer ’73 is chief investment officer of Cambridge Bancorp and its subsidiary, Cambridge Trust Company. Institutional Investor magazine named him a member of its All-American Research Team for eight years. In addition to his professional responsibilities and accomplishments, he is a youth soccer coach and club president in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and a former trustee of the Dana Hall School in Wellesley. He is an executive in residence for the Babson College Fund, and a 1973 graduate of Babson College.
Thomas J. Hollister is the chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Global Partners LP, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Committee, vice chair of the Board of Trustees of Wheaton College, and a trustee of Tufts Medical Center. He has chaired fund-raising efforts for numerous organizations, including the New England Center for Children, St. Francis House in Boston, the New England Aquarium, Thompson Island Outward Bound, and Wheaton College. He earned his BA from Amherst College and his MBA from Boston University.
Bill LaPoint is a partner at Halpern, Denny & Company, a lower middle market buyout firm he helped form in 1991. He has more than 16 years of experience in private equity and venture capital investing. He serves on the boards of Boston College High School, The Catholic School Foundation (Inner City Scholarship Fund) and the Wellesley Community Center. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.
For a complete member listing, see The Cutler Center Advisory Board