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David Aldrich Bill Bacic Jonathan Bush Chairman and CEO, Skyworks Solutions New England managing partner, Deloitte CEO, athenahealth, Inc.

David Aldrich has led Woburn-based mobile Deloitte named Bill Bacic managing partner Th e impassioned athenahealth CEO hasn’t technology maker Skyworks Solutions since it for New England in 2004, by which time he’d always worked in health IT, though he has a was formed by a merger in 2002, and was named already racked up 25 years of experience at lengthy record working in health care. Following board chairman in May 2014. A graduate of the consultancy. Bacic came to Boston in 1989 an earlier career as an EMT in New Orleans, Providence College and the University of Rhode and helped grow Deloitte’s footprint in the Jonathan Bush moved on to train as a medic Island, Aldrich previously worked at a number city’s ﬁ nancial services sector. A graduate of in the U.S. Army. He eventually found himself of other area tech startups and established Villanova University, Bacic is a past chairman working as a management consultant with Booz electronics companies, including M/A-COM Inc. of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Allen & Hamilton. Athenahealth, the cloud- and Adams-Russel. He is also a member of the Merrimack Valley. based electronic medical records provider, would board of high-speed networking company Belden. later be born out of a ﬂ oundering startup in What makes him influential: Bacic leads an San Diego. A graduate of Wesleyan University, What makes him influential: Leading one of the organization that is not only one of the region’s top Bush also holds an MBA from Harvard Business area’s hottest publicly traded technology companies professional service employers, but also a trusted School. adviser to some of the region’s largest financial and supplying technology to some of the world’s top wireless companies, Aldrich has clearly earned the services companies. He also helps Deloitte stake out respect of the Massachusetts innovation sector over leadership positions on internal management issues What makes him influential: Bush wants to the course of his career. He was named 2014 CEO of shared by clients, with the firm widely honored for revolutionize health care, from changing the way the Year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership its work in retention, workplace satisfaction and doctors interact with electronic medical records, Council, which called him one of the state’s “elite inclusion. As United Way chairman, Bacic helped to how doctors access information on drugs. He innovators.” coordinate charitable fundraising eff orts that raised advocates for more open aff ordable health care with millions, much of it directly from area businesses. more customer choice, and for change through a book and speaking engagements.

Robert Caret David Chang Elyse Cherry President, University of Massachusetts COO, PayPal Media Network CEO, Boston Community Capital As the 26th president of the University of© AmericanIn 2009,City DavidBusiness Chang Journals began working - Not as for vice commercial As CEO use of Boston Community Capital, Elyse Massachusetts, Robert Caret presides over the president of product at media startup Where. Cherry also serves as president of the nonprofi t’s fi ve campuses of the public university system. When it was acquired by PayPal in 2011, Chang affi liated funds: the Boston Venture Fund, Aura He came to UMass from Towson University in stayed on and was promoted to chief operating Mortgage Advisors and NSP Residential. An Baltimore, where he served as president from offi cer at PayPal Media Network, where he attorney and a former partner at Hale and Dorr, 2003 until 2011. Prior to that, he was president currently leads strategy and business operations. Cherry also served as CEO at Earthwide Products of San Jose State University, a role he held Chang then helped launch the PayPal Start Tank, Corp. She is graduate of Wellesley College and from 1995 until 2003. Caret has a doctorate in an early-stage startup incubator within PayPal, Northeastern University School of Law. organic chemistry from the University of New in 2012. Th e organization provides six months Hampshire and has an undergraduate degree of no-cost professional space, infrastructure, What makes her influential: Boston Community from Suff olk University. coaching and community to early-stage startups. Capital is widely seen as a model for community Since then, Start Tank has launched in London investment. Under Cherry’s leadership, the organization has grown assets under management and Chennai. Chang serves on the Massachusetts What makes him influential: Caret has worked 35-fold and expanded into new areas, including diligently to shift perceptions in Massachusetts about Innovation & Technology Exchange board. tax credits, mortgage-lending activities aimed at the value of a public university system in a state with stabilizing urban neighborhoods and an alternative- many competitive private colleges and universities. What makes him influential: Chang’s vision for energy initiative. Cherry has held board seats at He has successfully made his case to the state Pilgrim Insurance Co. and Zipcar. She is the past legislature, which has increased state funding for the the startup scene extends far beyond PayPal. He has not only played a significant role in helping chairwoman of the Massachusetts Cultural Council five campuses and now splits the cost 50-50 with the and a member of Gov. Deval Patrick’s transition team. UMass system. In exchange, Caret has taken the bold startups succeed, but he has made sure that the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Boston functions Cherry was chairwoman of the LGBT advocacy group step of freezing tuition and fees, an agreement now in MassEquality when the Bay State passed landmark its second year. just like a well-oiled machine as evidenced by his involvement in startup accelerators MassChallenge legislation recognizing gay marriage. and Techstars. NOVEMBER 7, 2014 5 POWER 50 — MOST INFLUENTIAL BOSTONIANS

Bill Cummings Ralph de la Torre Robert DeLeo Founder, Cummings Properties / Cummings Chairman and CEO, Steward Health Care System Speaker, Massachusetts House of Representatives Foundation As chairman and CEO of Steward Health Care Robert DeLeo has been speaker of the Bill Cummings bought his fi rst business for System, Ralph de la Torre oversees a network Massachusetts House of Representatives since $10,000 in 1964 and later sold it for $1 million, that includes 11 hospitals, a home health 2009. He previously served as chairman according to a Boston Business Journal profi le care company, a nursing college and 17,000 of the powerful House Ways and Means earlier this year. Th e deal provided the seed employees. A former cardiac surgeon, de la Torre Committee before succeeding Sal DiMasi as capital for a commercial real estate empire that also founded the Cardiovascular Institute at Beth speaker after DiMasi stepped down amidst today encompasses more than 80 buildings Israel Deaconess Medical Center. De la Torre is ethics controversies. A native of Winthrop totaling 10 million square feet across the state. a graduate of Duke University and holds a joint and a graduate of Boston Latin School, DeLeo, Th is includes conventional properties such as most degree in medicine and technology from Harvard whose father used to head a restaurant at of the three-dozen buildings Cummings owns in and MIT. Suff olk Downs, got his bachelor’s degree from Woburn and the 700,000-square foot TradeCenter Northeastern University and his law degree from 128. What makes him influential: De la Torre has made Suff olk University School of Law. He has been a it clear he intends to change health care delivery. state representative since 1991. What makes him influential: He has earned respect His decision to give up his role as one of the nation’s leading heart surgeons to tackle hospital the way businesspeople usually do: he possesses an What makes him influential: Come this January, uncanny eye for deals and a great nose for talent. The administration — and his early success rescuing the Caritas Christi Health Care system from bankruptcy as DeLeo, a Democrat, will be the old-hand at the Winchester resident is influential beyond the business State House, as both Gov. Deval Patrick and Senate community because of the extraordinary generosity part of the creation of Steward — give him significant credibility. He has been named one of the most President Therese Murray step down from their he and his wife have shown through the Cummings respective off ices. Not that a new governor and Foundation, which among other things gives 100 local powerful physician executives in the country by Modern Healthcare magazine. Senate president will be pushovers, but they’ll still be nonprofits $100,000 each every year. finding their leadership feet by the time they sit down with DeLeo to hammer out compromises on the state budget and other policy issues on Beacon Hill.

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Arthur T. Demoulas Andrew Dreyfus Phil Edmundson Demoulas Super Markets President and CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mass. Chairman and CEO, William Gallagher Associates

If you learned nothing else this year, you Andrew Dreyfus has had to steer Blue Cross Phil Edmundson co-founded William Gallagher probably learned the diff erence between Arthur Blue Shield of Massachusetts through a massive Associates (WGA) in 1983 and was named CEO in S. Demoulas and Arthur T. Demoulas — two amount of change since taking on the role four 1997. Since then, he has helped grow WGA into names that were in the news for years as years ago. He has helped pull Massachusetts’ New England’s largest independent insurance members of their extended family quarreled largest health insurer through an increasing brokerage. Edmundson served as a selectman with, and sued, each other over control of the amount of regulation and oversight, and through in Hingham and is trustee of the Massachusetts Market Basket supermarket chain and its profi ts. the implementation of the Aff ordable Care Act. Taxpayers Foundation and the Trustees of By treating employees well for decades, Arthur T. Despite added pressures to keep costs down, the Reservations. A graduate of Amherst College, earned fi erce loyalty that was displayed almost insurer continues to be profi table and prolifi c. Edmundson holds advanced degrees in business as soon as he was ousted by Market Basket board Dreyfus has a bachelor’s degree from Connecticut from Babson College and public policy from members who sided with his cousin Arthur S. College. Harvard University. By managing public opinion brilliantly, Arthur T. and his army of supporters strong-armed the What makes him influential: Dreyfus helped What makes him influential: Edmundson has grown board into rehiring him. implement a new payment methodology known WGA into a regional insurance powerhouse since as Alternative Quality Contracts, which has largely taking the helm in 1997. WGA has become a go-to changed the game in how doctors interact with adviser on the challenges around insurance coverage, What makes him influential: Arthur T. injected an out- insurers. It places a budget on care, incentivizing risk management and employee benefits. Edmundson of-vogue notion into the business climate — the idea doctors to manage patient health. Dreyfus also serves also has a hand in public policy advocacy, serving that employes should help make key decisions about on the boards of the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center, the as chairman of the Alliance for Business Leadership the direction of their workplace. Whether the idea will Harvard Risk Management Foundation, and the United and director of the Council of Insurance Agents and spread beyond the one company remains to be seen. Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley. Brokers.

Drew Gilpin Faust Anne Finucane John Fish President, Harvard University Global chief strategy and marketing off icer, Bank of CEO, Suff olk Construction Co. America Drew Gilpin Faust is the 28th president of© American City Business Journals - Not for commercialAs chairman use and CEO of Suff olk Construction Harvard University and the fi rst woman to Anne Finucane has worked at Bank of America Co., John Fish leads an enterprise that generates serve in that role. Before becoming president for 18 years and is currently global chief strategy $2 billion in annual revenue. Fish also serves on at Harvard, Faust was dean of the Radcliff e and marketing offi cer. Her role gives her direct the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Institute for Advanced Study from 2001 to oversight of the bank’s strategic eff orts, its and as chairman of the Greater Boston Chamber 2007. Faust attended Concord Academy in advertising campaigns and its public advocacy of Commerce and the Boston 2024 Partnership. Massachusetts. She then went on to receive her both domestically and around the world. Fish also supports a host of nonprofi ts, including bachelor’s degree in history from Bryn Mawr Finucane previously worked at Boston advertising the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston and Boston College and her master’s and doctoral degree fi rm Hill Holliday and early in her career was an Symphony Orchestra. in American civilization from the University of aide to Boston Mayor Kevin White. Pennsylvania. What makes him influential: At first, many scoff ed at What makes her influential: In her role, Finucane the idea of Boston hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics. What makes her influential: She leads a faculty of flexes the advertising and lobbying muscles of one The fact that a host of political and business leaders 13,000 and a community of 21,000 students. During of the country’s largest banks and she has long been have become supporters of the eff ort underscores her tenure, Faust launched edX, the popular online seen as a key adviser to the bank’s CEO. She also Fish’s connection to power and his ability to change learning partnership with MIT. She’s also expanded oversees the bank’s charitable foundation, which has minds and rally the community around a vision for the access to financial aid to Harvard College for a 10-year goal of giving away $2 billion. Through her future. Fish has already left his mark on the region, students of all economic backgrounds and pushed oversight of BofA’s corporate social responsibility and bringing the Olympics to Boston could help for additional federal funding for scientific research. program, she helped roll out a number of splashy accelerate the pace of change in the city, advancing In addition, she’s raised the profile of arts on campus charitable eff orts, such as partnering with U2 to raise infrastructure projects and opening the door to new and expanded Harvard’s international reach. funds to fight AIDS in Africa. private development post-Games. NOVEMBER 7, 2014 7 POWER 50 — MOST INFLUENTIAL BOSTONIANS

Carol Fulp Gail Goodman Gary Gottlieb President and CEO, The Partnership Inc. President and CEO, Constant Contact Inc. President and CEO, Partners HealthCare

Community outreach is what she does best. Meet Gail Goodman had a single product and a few Health care mogul Gary Gottlieb has spent the Carol Fulp, president and CEO of Th e Partnership employees when she launched her own online last 16 years at Partners HealthCare, ﬁ rst as Inc., a group that provides services to more than marketing ﬁ rm in 1999. Today, the now-public chairman of Partners Psychiatry and Mental 3,000 professionals of color and 250 corporations. Constant Contact has 1,100 employees in seven Health and now as CEO. As a Robert Wood Before Th e Partnership, Fulp was head of locations and provides online marketing tools Johnson Foundation scholar at the University corporate responsibility at John Hancock to more than 600,000 small businesses and of Pennsylvania, he earned an MBA with Financial and oversaw its $12 million organizations. A graduate of Th e University of distinction from the Wharton Graduate School philanthropy program. She attended the Pennsylvania, Goodman also earned an MBA of Business Administration and received his University of the State of New York. from Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth. medical degree from the Albany Medical College of Union University. What makes her influential: When she took on the What makes her influential: A first-time CEO, role of CEO in 2012, Fulp was tasked with taking the Goodman built the Waltham-based company to What makes him influential: Gottlieb, who served as group, which was created 25 years ago to increase more than $250 million in revenue and has become president of Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals the profile of African Americans in the state, into a thought leader in the world of digital marketing. before joining Partners, played an integral part in the next phase. Since then, the group has built a Goodman has cleared a path not only for future the company becoming a strong force throughout new leadership model for professionals of color and women executives but also the number of founders health care in Eastern Massachusetts. As part of that has launched the first senior executive program who are faced with scaling their businesses. As a mission, he has led a controversial eff ort at Partners to that focuses on leadership from a multicultural trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership acquire South Shore Hospital and two hospitals north perspective. Fulp’s eff orts earned her the appointment Council and the board of directors of SCORE — of Boston. And now Gottlieb has a diff erent mission of U.S. representative to the 65th session of the which off ers small-business mentoring — Goodman in his sights: joining Partners In Health as its CEO in United Nations General Assembly. She also received influences others to push the envelope both mid-2015 to focus on providing health care to people the Living Legend Award from the Museum of African personally and professionally. in some of the poorest areas in the world. American History.

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John Hailer Rob Hale Jr. Tim Healy President and CEO, Natixis Global Asset Management President and CEO, Granite Telecommunications Co-founder and CEO, EnerNOC Inc.

John Hailer got his start in fi nancial services in A serial entrepreneur, Rob Hale is no stranger Tim Healy is a veteran entrepreneur in the 1986 when he was tasked with selling retirement to the ups and downs of business. Th e former Boston area, having previously co-founded plans and pension fund management services for CEO of Network Plus and now president and Boston-based marketing fi rm Student Advantage Fidelity. Today, he’s president and CEO of Natixis CEO of Granite Telecommunications, Hale has before going on to co-found public company Global Asset Management, a company with been instrumental in growing the company that EnerNOC, a Boston-based energy intelligence $930.5 billion assets under management as of provides middleware to help ease the burden software provider. Healy graduated from June 2014. Hailer received a bachelor’s degree in for companies with multiple locations and Dartmouth College with a bachelor’s degree in history and government from Beloit College. multiple invoices by decreasing accounting and government and economics, and he received administration costs. his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at What makes him influential: In addition to running Dartmouth College. He also held positions with the show at Natixis, Hailer also takes center stage at What makes him influential: Hale has been on a Merrill Lynch, Waltham-based venture capital conferences and in the media talking about corporate roller coaster of a ride with the Quincy company he fi rm Commonwealth Capital Ventures, and is taxation, regulatory reform and retirement. As started in 2002 with an $800,000 investment from currently an adviser to several startups. chairman of the New England Council’s board, Hailer his father, the late Bob Hale. When other companies also co-hosts a New England Cable News show, “DC no longer wanted their public switch business and Dialogue.” He often makes his voice heard at the state focused on broadband and wireless, Hale’s company What makes him influential: In 2010, four years and federal levels, speaking about job creation and was happy to step in. Today, Granite has surpassed after Healy co-founded EnerNOC Inc., he was on the economic development. Under Hailer’s leadership, $1 billion in annual revenue. To celebrate, Hale gave fence about whether to continue on as CEO and lead Natixis has grown its philanthropy program through each of his 1,200 employees $1,000 bonuses and his company through the next stages of growth. In the relationships with several agencies, including also donated a total of $1 million to several charities, end, he stuck it out, and grew the company to be the Best Buddies International and the Home for Little including Alzheimer’s Association and Autism Speaks. poster child for the Massachusetts cleantech industry. Wanderers, where he is chairman of the board.

John Henry Diane Hessan Jay Hooley Principal owner, Fenway Sports Group and Boston Founder and chairwoman, Communispace President, chairman and CEO, State Street Globe Media Partners © AmericanAfter City co-founding Business Communispace Journals - Not in 1999, for commercialJay useHooley is president, chairman and CEO John Henry has been the principal owner of Diane Hessan served as president and CEO until of State Street Corp., having held a variety of the Boston Red Sox, via Fenway Sports Group, March 2014, when she became the company’s leadership positions across many of the ﬁ nancial since 2002 and the owner of the Boston Globe, chairwoman. Communispace, which was services giant’s business lines over the past 28 via Boston Globe Media Partners, since 2013. acquired by Omnicom in 2011, has helped more years. A graduate of Boston College, Hooley Previously, he was the owner of John W. Henry & than 700 clients launch social communities serves on that institution’s board of trustees and Co., a Florida commodities trading ﬁ rm where he that can be mined for marketing and customer is a director of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, the made his fortune. He also has previously owned service insights. President’s Council of the Massachusetts General Major League Baseball’s Florida Marlins. Hospital and the Massachusetts Competitive What makes her influential: Hessan’s Partnership. What makes him influential: When you own two Communispace helped create the market for brand- storied institutions in Boston — the Boston Red Sox focused social communities, helping corporations What makes him influential: Hooley’s firm helps and The Boston Globe — you automatically become such as HP and Bank of America find avenues for decide where the money goes. With his hand influential in this town. By taking over the Red Sox, growth through customer insight. Hessan’s book, on the rudder of State Street Corp., Hooley has Henry and his partners won widespread respect and “Customer-Centered Growth,” was a Business Week responsibility for $28.4 trillion in assets under custody acclaim when the Sox finally won a World Series in bestseller that has been translated into 11 languages. and administration and $2.5 trillion in assets under 2004 and then went on to win the World Series in A member of Gov. Deval Patrick’s Innovation Council management. He also helps shape fiscal policy as a 2007 and 2013. Since taking over the Globe, Henry and past chairwoman of the board at The Boston board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has already launched new sections and online sites in Philharmonic, Hessan sits on numerous boards, and guides industry advocacy as a member Financial attempt to broaden its readership. including Horizons for Homeless Children. Hessan has Services Forum. received numerous honors, including the Pinnacle Award from the Boston Chamber of Commerce. NOVEMBER 7, 2014 11 POWER 50 — MOST INFLUENTIAL BOSTONIANS

Abigail Johnson Karen Kaplan Stephen Karp President and CEO, Fidelity Investments President, CEO & chairwoman, Hill Holliday Chairman and CEO, New England Development

Fidelity Investments named Abigail Johnson its Karen Kaplan fi rst worked at Hill Holliday as a As chairman and CEO of New England CEO in October. Johnson takes over the position receptionist in 1982, after being handpicked by Development, Stephen Karp has been having from her father, Edward “Ned” Johnson III, who agency founder Jack Connors. From there, she a signifi cant impact on the New England retail had held it since 1977. Abigail Johnson began her climbed the ladder until she ran out of rungs, landscape since he helped develop the Liberty career at Fidelity before starting college and has being named president in 2007 and CEO in 2013 Tree Mall more than 40 years ago. Karp is an worked in most of the fi rm’s business units over and adding the title of chairwoman in 2014. active philanthropist, serving as chairman of the the course of her career, which also includes a Kaplan is a past chair of the Greater Boston board of trustees of Boston Children’s Hospital brief stint as a Booz Allen Hamilton consultant. Chamber of Commerce — the second woman to and the Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital hold that role. Cancer Care, and sitting on the boards of the What makes her influential: Though her ascension Boston Youth Sanctuary and Boston Symphony to CEO was long expected, having the title removes What makes her influential: Kaplan has left her Orchestra. any doubt that she is in charge at Fidelity, where she’s imprint on Hill Holliday, one of Boston’s most now the third generation of Johnsons to run the firm venerable creative shops, and across the advertising founded by her grandfather in 1946. At 52 years old What makes him influential: Karp’s impact on the landscape, where she has helped win clients such New England landscape is undeniable. Some of his — and if history is any guide — Abby, as she is known, as Dunkin’ Donuts and Major League Baseball. will likely have her hand on the rudder at Fidelity, the earliest mall developments remain retail landmarks Advertising Age named her an industry “rainmaker” decades later. And his plans to redevelop the country’s second-largest mutual fund firm, for some for helping grow the agency’s billings — now over $2 time to come. With a net worth estimated by Forbes Anthony’s Pier 4 site into a 1-million-square-foot hotel, billion annually. Kaplan also works to shatter glass apartment and condominium project will permanently at more than $13 billion, Johnson is also one of the ceilings for others locally and around the globe, wealthiest people in the state. alter the Boston waterfront. Karp also helps shape serving on the board of Jobs for Massachusetts and policy as a member of the Greater Boston Real Estate the Massachusetts Conference for Women. Board and the Urban Land Institute.

Jim Koch Robert Kraft Gloria Cordes Larson Chairman, Boston Beer Co. Chairman and chief executive, The Kraft Group President, Bentley University

Boston Beer Co. has come a long way from © AmericanAs head City of Th Business e Kraft Group, Journals Robert -Kraft Not leads for commercialGloria Cordes use Larson has been president of when Jim Koch started brewing his fi rst batch a sprawling empire of high-profi le businesses, Bentley University in Waltham since 2007. She’s of Samuel Adams lager in his kitchen 30 years such as the New England Patriots and New the former state secretary of consumer aff airs ago. Th e Harvard-trained business consultant England Revolution, and quietly powerful and state secretary of economic aff airs under started selling his beer to local restaurants out of businesses, such as International Forest Products Gov. William Weld, and she’s the former co- his car. His company is now the second-largest and his family’s own private equity unit. Owner chairwoman of Foley Hoag LLP’s government domestic brewer in the country, after Yuengling. of Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Kraft also strategies committee. She’s served on, and As chairman, he still plays an important role in oversees the New England Patriots Charitable often led, numerous boards and commissions, each beer that his company concocts at its test Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic including the Massachusetts Convention Center brewery in Jamaica Plain. nonprofi ts in the region. He has owned Authority and the Greater Boston Chamber of International Forest Products since the early Commerce. What makes him influential: Koch’s role in the 1970s and the Patriots franchise since 1994. booming craft beer industry can’t be understated. What makes her influential: Larson is one of the He certainly wasn’t the first to launch a successful What makes him influential: Kraft is one of the most most politically wired leaders in Greater Boston. craft beer company. But his has become the biggest respected and well-known businessmen in the state, She’s played key roles under both Republican and in the country, churning out as many as 50 diff erent driven largely by the tremendous success of his New Democratic administrations, most recently serving beers and ciders a year. Koch is a ready mentor, England Patriots, the three-time Super Bowl winner as a business and economic adviser to Gov. Deval and he fosters the growth of promising young beer and one of the most successful professional sports Patrick. It would take a lot to break her completely businesses through the company’s Alchemy & franchises in the nation. That gives him a statesman- away from Bentley University, which Larson is Science incubator. Along those lines, Koch guides like clout. currently helping transform from a largely regional other food and beverage entrepreneurs through his business college into a nationally recognized Brewing the American Dream program, which off ers university. grants and coaching advice. 12 BOSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL POWER 50 — MOST INFLUENTIAL BOSTONIANS

William Lee Jeﬀ rey Leiden Douglas Linde Partner, WilmerHale President and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals President and director, Boston Properties

William Lee started at WilmerHale back in the Jeff rey Leiden was appointed president and CEO Since 2007, Douglas Linde has been president of late 1970s, when he was fresh out of law school of Vertex in December 2011, but the past year Boston Properties, the giant Boston-based real and the law fi rm was known by its previous has perhaps been the most transformational for estate investment trust co-founded by his late name Hale and Dorr. Since then, Lee has come the company in his tenure. Th e Boston biotech father, Edward H. Linde. He’s previously served to be known as tops in his fi eld as a patent stopped selling its one-time blockbuster drug as executive vice president, CFO, treasurer and and commercial litigator. And he served as for hepatitis C, and refocused attention on the vice president of acquisitions and new business co-managing partner of the fi rm for a decade, disease for which its become known, cystic at the fi rm. He’s also the former president of stepping down from that role in 2011. fi brosis. Th e company has 1,800 employees Capstone Investments, a Boston real estate worldwide. investment company. What makes him influential: Lee is a force among intellectual property litigators, representing some What makes him influential: Under Leiden’s What makes him influential: When your company of the biggest technology-focused clients in the leadership, the company got approval for the first- owns or manages about 13 million square feet of industry. He has served as the lead trial counsel for ever drug to treat patients with cystic fibrosis in 2012, off ice space in the region — including Boston’s Apple in litigation related to its smartphone patents, which will do about $460 million in sales this year. But prestigious Prudential Center and John Hancock and he has worked on cases between Broadcom and it’s also brought a drug to treat many more patients Tower — you have instant influence. And so that Qualcomm. Earlier in his career, Lee was an associate with the disease through a successful late-stage trial makes Linde, as president of Boston Properties, a counsel on the Iran-Contra Investigation and he has this year, with approval expected next year. By the powerful, though quiet, business force in Boston and worked as a special assistant to the Massachusetts end of next year, Vertex drugs will likely be approved across eastern Massachusetts. Besides its high-profile AG’s off ice, investing alleged racial bias in the state to treat nearly half the people in the world with cystic holdings in Boston, Linde’s firm also owns key off ice court system. Adding to his impressive career is the fibrosis, and other drugs in the works will expand on properties in Cambridge and along the Route 128 fact that Lee has risen to prominence amidst relatively that. corridor. few Asian American lawyers in Boston.

David Long Richard Lord Sheila Lirio Marcelo Chief executive and chairman, Liberty Mutual Group CEO, Associated Industries of Mass. Founder and CEO, Care.com

David Long has been chief executive of Liberty© American For City nearly Business 25 years, RickJournals Lord has - Not been for commercialIn the use early 1990s, Sheila Lirio Marcelo became Mutual Group since 2011 and the insurance advocating public policy in health care, economic pregnant as a young college student around the company’s chairman since 2013. Long has development and other issues of signifi cance to same time her father suff ered a heart attack. been with Liberty Mutual for more than 25 employers in Massachusetts, fi rst as the executive She said that personal crisis was what inspired years, starting out as an entry-level analyst vice president for legislative policy and now as her to launch Waltham-based online caregiver and moving up the ladder to assume a number CEO of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, services marketplace Care.com. Frustrated with of executive positions over the years. Before the largest employer association in the state. the options in the Yellow Pages, Marcelo set out becoming CEO, he was president of Liberty Lord is a graduate of Williams College. to leverage technology for millions of people Mutual Group. around the world to easily search for and employ What makes him influential: Lord joined AIM, which all types of caregivers — from babysitters and What makes him influential: With 50,000 employees has 4,500 members, in 1991. Since then, he’s been dog walkers to senior care and housekeepers. and $39 billion in revenue, Liberty Mutual is the the force behind a number of undertakings, including Marcelo resides in Weston and holds degrees its recent e-learning initiative with Waltham-based largest company in Massachusetts and ranks 76th on from Mount Holyoke College, Harvard Business the Fortune 500 list of the nation’s largest companies MindEdge Inc. The alliance has provided thousands School and Harvard Law School. based on revenue. Liberty Mutual is the third largest of Massachusetts employers with access to online property and casualty insurer in the U.S. and has professional development courses. The executive is operations in 30 countries around the world. Long has also leading AIM’s eff ort against a ballot initiative that What makes her influential: Marcelo, 43, is one of pushed to make Liberty Mutual more of a household would enable workers to earn an hour of sick time for the few female CEOs to be running a public company name across the country. In Boston, Liberty Mutual every 30 hours worked, with a max of 40 per year. in Massachusetts right now. Founded in 2006, Care. recently completed its new $300 million, 22-story Lord is a member of several boards, including Boston com went public in January and became the first headquarters complex in the Back Bay. Catholic Charities. venture-funded tech company headquartered in the Boston area to do so in nearly two years. Many female startup founders consider her to be an influential and inspirational figure in the tech industry. NOVEMBER 7, 2014 13 POWER 50 — MOST INFLUENTIAL BOSTONIANS

Ioannis Miaoulis J. Keith Motley Girish Navani President, Museum of Science Boston Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Boston Chief executive and co-founder, eClinicalWorks LLC

Ioannis Miaoulis has been president of the Taking the helm as chancellor of the University Fifteen years ago, Girish Navani co-founded Museum of Science since 2003. His tenure at the of Massachusetts Boston in 2007, Keith Motley eClinicalWorks LLC, a Westborough-based museum follows a long academic career at Tufts oversees operations for about 16,000 students provider of electronic medical records software University, where he held a number of positions, and 1,000 faculty members. Previously, he was that’s seen explosive growth over the years, including dean of the school of engineering, vice president for business, marketing and public hitting about $300 million in revenue in 2013. associate provost, interim dean of the graduate aff airs within the University of Massachusetts Before starting the privately held company, school of arts and science, and professor of president’s offi ce. He’s also previously served Navani used to lead IT and business activities mechanical engineering. He is a native of Greece. as interim chancellor of UMass Boston, vice at Fidelity Investments, Teradyne and Aspen chancellor for student aff airs and as dean of Technology. He received his bachelor’s degree in What makes him influential: Overseeing the most student aff airs at Northeastern University. engineering from Gujarat University in India and attended cultural institution in Boston is responsibility his master’s degree in engineering from Boston enough. But Miaoulis has also been overseeing the What makes him influential: UMass Boston is at a University. Museum of Science’s massive $250 million capital crossroads, as the Dorchester university expands its campaign that’s funding the institution’s first major size and prominence within the UMass system, under What makes him influential: The nation’s health- renovations in decades. The campaign has already led Motley’s oversight and following a 25-year master to, or has plans for, renovations to the Charles Hayden care sector is currently undergoing a historic plan that sets out the school’s long-term goals. UMass transformation — and one of the firms at the forefront Planetarium, upgrades to the Mugar Omni Theater, Boston’s rise in stature and size could accelerate construction of a new Sophia and Bernard M. Gordon of that change is Navani’s eClinicalWorks, one of considerably if current plans for Boston to host the the largest providers of EMR software in the nation. Wing, opening of three new major exhibits, and a new 2024 Summer Olympics come to fruition. Motley also Charles River gallery and entryway into the museum. Navani was named Ernst & Young’s New England serves on a number of civic boards in the city. entrepreneur of the year in the health-care technology category in 2009.

R. Robert Popeo Robert Reynolds Girard R. Sargent Chairman, Mintz Levin Cohn President and CEO, Putnam Investments President, Citizens Bank of Massachusetts Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC © AmericanRobert CityReynolds Business is leading Journals the charge - Not at Putnam for commercial Jerry Sargent use was hired in 2010 as president of R. Robert Popeo is the chairman of Mintz Levin Investments, a company with $157 billion in Citizens Bank of Massachusetts after a near decade Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC, a Boston law assets under management as of September. of calling the shots at the bank’s all-important fi rm he joined decades ago and helped transform As CEO and president, Reynolds is considered a commercial banking division. A Bowdoin into a national powerhouse representing a wide driver of innovation in institutional and retail College graduate, Sargent worked eight years variety of clients and corporations. He was fi nancial services. He joined Putnam in 2008 as a commercial banker with State Street Corp. founder of the fi rm’s white-collar defense practice, after having served as vice chairman and COO and another six years in various positions with representing over the years chief executives, at Fidelity Investments. He earned a bachelor’s Shawmut Bank before joining Citizens in 1999. political fi gures and Fortune 500 companies. degree and received an honorary doctorate, both in business administration, from West Virginia What makes him powerful: Sargent’s near 30-year What makes him influential: Popeo and his firm University. career in the banking sector has served him well since are well known for handling high-profile, white-collar taking the helm at Citizens Bank of Massachusetts, cases. Popeo has achieved a statesman-like status which has maintained its rank as the second largest What makes him influential: Reynolds, who is also deposit holder in Massachusetts despite a tumultuous within Boston’s business, political and civic circles. president and CEO of Great-West Financial, is a firm With Mintz Levin consistently ranked as one of the period that saw its parent, Royal Bank of Scotland, believer in creating a better retirement plan and often fall into receivership following the 2009 credit crisis top law firms in the city and nation, Popeo is often touts two ways to save for retirement: start young the guy people turn to for both legal and political and ultimately spin-off its Citizens Financial Group and use automatic savings. In fact, Reynolds has subsidiary in an IPO this year. With its independence advice and counsel. He’s also heavily involved in said changes in federal law are needed to make auto civic aff airs, serving over the years on the boards in hand, Citizens is expected to solidify its local talent enrollment a part of the retirement savings system to and retrain its resources to expand market share. His of Boston College, Northeastern University, and the increase participation in 401(k) plans. Massachusetts Business Roundtable community involvement has included an executive committee seat with MassEcon and board positions with the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation and Lawrence Academy in Groton. 14 BOSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL POWER 50 — MOST INFLUENTIAL BOSTONIANS

Ronald Sargent Eric Schultz Niraj Shah CEO and Chairman, Staples Inc. Chief executive off icer, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care CEO, Wayfair

At the helm of the largest online and retail In 2010, Eric Schultz became chief executive Niraj Shah, a former software company CEO, co- oﬃ ce-supplies business is Ron Sargent, CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the second- founded an online home goods retail company and chairman of Staples Inc. Sargent joined the largest insurer in Massachusetts after Blue Cross called CSN Stores with Steve Conine in 2002. Th e Framingham-based company in 1989 and was Blue Shield. He came to Harvard Pilgrim after company was rebranded as Wayfair in 2011. named COO and president in 1998. Only four spending 10 years at Fallon Community Health Having raised $358 million in venture funding years later he’d become CEO. He is a graduate of Plan. Previously, he served in executive positions since its inception, Wayfair’s sales have been Harvard College and Harvard Business School. at CIGNA Healthcare in eastern Missouri and steadily growing over the years. Last year, the southern Illinois, Prudential Healthcare in company brought in $915 million in revenue, up What makes him influential: Under Sargent’s Tennessee, and at Nashville Healthcare Group. 55 percent from $600 million in 2012. Wayfair. leadership, Staples has grown from a private regional com has 16 million site visitors monthly. retail store into an public international and online What makes him influential: After more than 25 vendor with more than 2,200 store locations and $23 years in health care, Schultz knows the ins and outs billion in annual sales. Despite a plan to close up to What makes him influential: The Boston area of the industry, and has proven he can turn around has been reeling from its loss of Facebook to the 225 of its 1,846 stores in North America by the end companies, which is exactly what he did at the of 2015, Sargent is working hard to position Staples West Coast for years now. And many pundits have once-struggling Fallon Community Health Plan. Now been crying foul over the loss of consumer tech for long-term growth by developing a reinvention he’s running Harvard Pilgrim during a period of vast strategy. Part of that strategy is reinvesting in the ever since. But over the past few years, Shah and changes within the health care system, nationally others have helped Boston regain that focus on the online and delivery segments of the business by and in Massachusetts, which is moving aggressively adding 250,000 new products to be sold online and consumer. Shah took an e-commerce company that to change the way health care is both paid for and he co-founded right after the dot-com bubble and growing its delivery business, a segment that Sargent delivered. was responsible for launching in 1991. transformed it into a major publicly traded company, one that’s being called the Amazon of furniture.

Micho Spring Mark Th ompson Kate Walsh Chairwoman, global corporate practice and president, CEO and president, Boston Private Bank & Trust Co. CEO, Boston Medical Center New England, Weber Shandwick © AmericanIt’s City been Business20 years since Journals Mark Th -ompson Not for fi rstcommercial Four use years ago, Kate Walsh became CEO of Leading the charge at Weber Shandwick is walked through the doors of Boston Private Bank Boston Medical Center, the primary teaching a woman who’s been recognized for her role & Trust Co., a wealth management company, affi liate of Boston University School of Medicine. in government and her constant focus on of which he is CEO. Prior to joining the bank Prior to joining BMC, the Brookline native engagement. Micho Spring, Weber’s global in 1994, Th ompson was one of the founding served as executive vice president and COO of corporate practice chairwoman, has been at offi cers of Wainright Bank & Trust Co. A graduate Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and before that the fi rm for 22 years. Since she has arrived, the of Norwich University, Th ompson received his she served as the COO of Novartis Institutes client list has grown and includes Brigham and bachelor’s degree in business administration and for Biomedical Research. Walsh received her Women’s Hospital and MIT. Spring attended earned his MBA at Clarkson University. bachelor’s of arts degree and a master’s degree in Georgetown and Columbia universities public health from Yale University. and received her master’s degree in public What makes him influential: Thompson had a administration at Harvard University’s Kennedy vision to extend the Boston-based company’s private What makes her influential: As CEO of BMC, School of Government. banking services throughout the region and beyond. Walsh leads the private, nonprofit, 496-bed medical The bank now has 33 locations. He also led the center which has approximately 4,500 employees, company through its recent acquisition of Banyan 1,200 doctors and an annual budget of $1 billion. What makes her influential: While many executives Partners LLC of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. The deal In addition, Walsh is a member of the boards of in PR will change the face of products and services, allows the bank to add to its bottom line with revenue trustees of Emmanuel College, the YMCA of Greater Spring has changed the face of Boston both during created from fee-based services. He is also former Boston, the Boston Public Health Commission, the her tenure at the Boston agency and as Boston’s director of the World Aff airs Council and is involved Massachusetts Hospital Association, the Council of former deputy mayor. Spring, who is not from Boston, in Northeast Arc, a nonprofit that provides services to Teaching Hospitals, and the Yale University School was named Distinguished Bostonian by the Boston the disabled. of Medicine. Walsh is also a member of the Advisory Chamber of Commerce and was the first PR person Board of the National Institutes of Health Clinical to be inducted as a “legend” into the Ad Club’s Hall of Center and the Health Care Institute. Fame. NOVEMBER 7, 2014 15 POWER 50 — MOST INFLUENTIAL BOSTONIANS

Marty Walsh Steven Wright Mayor, City of Boston Partner, Holland & Knight

Th e late Tom Menino leaves some big shoes to fi ll. As executive partner at Holland & Knight, In a way, though, Marty Walsh isn’t going to try Steven Wright oversees the management of to fi ll them. Instead, he’s carving his own path as the fi rm’s 142-lawyer Boston offi ce, where he’s the new mayor of Boston, after he was elected served Fortune 500 companies as lead counsel last November. Walsh previously was a longtime since 2008. Previously, Wright served as deputy state rep from Dorchester and a leader in Boston’s counsel to the mayor of New York City and Get nationwide business news, organized labor community. Both roles forced him was Deputy Bureau Chief in the Massachusetts just for women in business. to learn the art of consensus building, a skill that Attorney General’s offi ce. He received his law will come in handy at City Hall. degree from Boston College and bachelor’s degree bizwomen.com/newsletter in business from East Carolina University. What makes him influential: Walsh is determined to improve the diversity among City Hall’s leadership, What makes him influential: Wright influences to make city government more accessible and better change through law and by advocating for diversity reflect Boston’s changing demographics and political through groups such as the Massachusetts Black power base. Walsh inherits a strong economy, with Lawyers Association. He developed a strategy for cranes rising on the South Boston waterfront and a presentation to the Centers for Disease Control and new wave of tech startups. But he also inherits major members of Congress, which resulted in expanded problems that he’ll try to tackle: a redevelopment use for a new children’s vaccine. The increased use authority in need of reform, a flailing school system, eliminated a racial health disparity. “Excellence in and soaring property values that threaten to squeeze legal services is paramount,” he said. “But having out Boston’s middle class. diversity is a reflection of a law firm’s ability to partner with them in a way that reflects their values and SPONSORS PARTNERS judgments.”

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