Kayleigh Fraser
Kayleigh is a graduate of Endicott College with a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Interior Design with a concentration in Sustainable Design. She has worked in the Design Industry for 10 years and is currently the Regional Manager of Architectural Interiors at Teknion for the NorthEast region. Kayleigh was introduced to Art in Giving while volunteering with IIDA New England. She is a graduate of the IIDA NE Emerging Leaders program, co-chaired the annual Art Uncorked event from 2019 - 2020, and was a member of the Philanthropy Committee for over 6 years.
Ira Federer
Ira is Senior Vice President, Divisional Director of the Eastern Division of Raymond James & Associates, Inc. Ira is a graduate of Rutgers University and received an MBA from the University of Miami. He is a graduate of the Securities Industry Institute at the Wharton School. He also holds the designation of Wealth Management Specialist. Ira is past president of the Florida Securities Dealers Association (FSDA) and has been on the FSDA board of directors since 1993. He is chairman of SIFMA’s Bulls Sales Management Roundtable Committee. He is on the board of trustees for Tampa Preparatory School and on the American Heart Association’s Executive Leadership Committee. Ira is also Raymond James’ company leader for the Tampa Bay Heart Walk. Ira and his wife, Denise, reside in Tampa and have two sons, Mitchell and Craig.
James Joyce
James is currently the executive director at WCAC-TV in Wellesley. He has been working in mass communications for over 18 years, both in television and in print, and holds a Master of Arts degree from Emerson College in television video production. Prior to coming to Wellesley James worked as executive director at CCTV in Concord/Carlisle and municipal programming director at Lowell Telecommunications Corporation. Under James’ supervision the municipal channel in Lowell won the “Outstanding Achievement in Government Access” award from the Northeast region of the Alliance for Community Media. James also worked as a news-tape editor at KSUA-TV in Denver, Colorado and produced a documentary on an attempted rehabilitation and re-habitation of the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY. That documentary is currently being used in the environmental studies program at University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to working in video James was a writer for CPI Purchasing magazine, The Beat magazine, and the Weston Wayland Sudbury Town Crier newspaper. He also worked as the west-coast regional sales manager for Media 100, Inc. selling and supporting a complete line of digital content creation and delivery systems.
Frederick A. Kramer, AIA
Fred is the past President of ADD Inc, a nationally recognized Planning, Architecture, Interior Design and Branding design firm with offices in Boston and Miami. The firm’s work included award winning office spaces and campuses for both corporations and developers, urban multi family housing, college and university residence halls, and complex mixed use projects throughout the country. When ADD Inc merged with Global Design firm Stantec, Fred led their Eastern United States region for 5 years before retiring in 2019. Upon retirement, he founded Kramer Consulting, offering design business consulting services to a range of different clients. A passionate believer in the power of teamwork and collaboration, Fred brought a heightened focus on design vigor to his roles as ADD Inc’s President and subsequently as a Regional Business Leader for Stantec. Fred is involved with a range of organizations including but not limited to: Past Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Boston Council, NAIOP, The Boston Society of Architects, AIA Large Firm Round Table / Dean’s Forum, Past Board Member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, United Way, A Better City, and Boston Chamber of Commerce Development Committee. Fred remains intimately involved in a number of charitable initiatives including the American Diabetes Association, Heading Home, Building Impact, and Art in Giving. Fred graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977, and from the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters in Architecture in 1981. An avid cyclist, woodworker, and skier, Fred resides in Plymouth, MA with his wife Sue, and has two children, Lauren, a nurse at Mass General Hospital and Jeff, a math teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. He and Sue are the proud grandparents of three grandchildren: Maeve, Bodie, and Olivia.
Gregory Dunn
Greg is VP of Global Business Development at Hypersecu Information Systems, Inc. working with Information Security products specializing in PKI token product, One Time Password tokens and display cards, Software protection dongles, Smart Cards, Smart Card Readers, Mobile Smart Card Readers, Bluetooth smart Card Readers, Mobile PKI and much more.
Audrey Markoff-Dunn
Audrey has private sector experience in public relations and marketing. She has worked as a marketing program manager in a high tech company engaging clients in influencing product strategies. Audrey is a graduate of Skidmore College with a concentration in Economics. She received her MBA from Babson College in 2012. She is the founder of www.sowamosaics.com.
Audrey enjoys hosting corporate team building mosaic workshops and teaching all ages to create their own mosaics.
Eliane Markoff
Eliane is the Ombuds at Bentley University. Prior to Bentley University, she launched the Ombuds Office at Wheelock College, before Wheelock’s merger with Boston University.
Eliane comes from the business and academic world. She worked twenty years for a Fortune 500 high tech company managing work forces in the United States and Europe. Her background is in Research and Development as well as Sales and Marketing.
Eliane lent her considerable listening and mediation skills as an unofficial ombudsperson to build bridges among corporate divisions and individuals who needed to collaborate to be successful. With a high emotional IQ, Markoff brings creative solutions to workplace conflicts. She has mediated shareholder disputes within close corporations and conflicts among family members over will and estate contests.
Markoff was Adjunct Professor at Bentley University teaching organizational behavior and conflict resolution to both undergraduate and graduate students. Eliane is one of the 125 women to appear in Boston Globe's Bill Brett's book, Inspirational Women of Boston. She is one of the Wellesley residents honored in 2012 by the Wellesley Free Library Foundation as an individual who has had an impact within and beyond the Wellesley Community. Eliane was also honored in 2011 with the Giving Back Award by Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology (WEST). She is co-Founder of the gallery Art in Giving. Eliane received her mediation training from the Cambridge Dispute Resolution and the Boston Law Collaborative.
Markoff is fluent in French and Arabic and earned her MBA from Boston College and her BA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Gary Markoff
Gary is a former managing partner of Sherin and Lodgen LLP, a downtown Boston law firm of 45 lawyers. He is a member of the Corporate and Real Estate Departments. He works with clients primarily on business, corporate, real estate transactions, and bank financings. He joined the firm in 1984 with a background in accounting, having previously been a certified public accountant with the Boston office of Arthur Andersen LLP, where he gained experience auditing small business clients and doing tax planning, and compliance work. Gary represents all types of lenders, borrowers, and investors. Many of his clients have developed or financed diversified types of real property including multi-family and commercial condominiums, retail centers, office complexes, manufacturing, and warehouse facilities. He also represents closely held companies. Gary has served for many years on the Board and Steering Committee of the Boston chapter of the American Jewish Committee. He has also been a Co-Trustee of The Rachel Molly Markoff Foundation since 1999.
Dr. Victoria Richon
Dr. Richon, President and CEO of Ribon Therapeutics, is a scientifically trained executive with decades of leadership experience in small biotechnology companies, global pharmaceutical companies and academia. Before joining Ribon, Dr. Richon was the Vice President and Global Head of Oncology Research and Translational Medicine at Sanofi where she led the company’s early oncology efforts. Prior to Sanofi, Dr. Richon was Vice President of Biological Sciences at Epizyme, Inc. a biotechnology company pioneering therapeutics based upon epigenetics. Earlier in her career, she was Founder and Executive Director of Aton Pharmaceuticals which was acquired by Merck in 2004. Aton was formed to develop HDAC inhibitors, including Vorinostat, an HDAC inhibitor that Dr. Richon developed during her tenure at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Vorinostat was the first HDAC inhibitor approved by the FDA while she was at Merck. Dr. Richon received her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and a BA in Chemistry at the University of Vermont.
Dr. Debasish Roychowdhury
Emeritus
Dr. Roychowdhury is a leader in the pharmaceutical industry with a strong background in research and development , regulatory and commercial operations in the oncology field. He recently joined the founding members of the Seragon CSAB as Acting Chief Medical Officer to help advance the pipeline of therapeutics. Dr. Roychowdhury most recently served as Senior Vice President of Global Oncology and Head of the Global Oncology Division at Sanofi from August 2009 to September 2013. Prior to that, he served as the Vice President for Clinical Development at GlaxoSmithKline since 2005. In 2008, he was a member of the team that created GSK’s new Oncology R&D Unit. Dr. Roychowdhury served in oncology clinical research and later in regulatory affairs for Eli Lilly and Company. During his tenure in industry he was involved in the approval of nine drugs, including, Alimta, Tykerb and Jevtana. Prior to his role in industry, he served as faculty member at the University of Cincinnati, where he directed a number of clinical programs. He moved to the United States in 1989 where he specialized in internal medicine, hematology and oncology at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Roychowdhury received his Doctorate of Medicine from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
Julie Stanley-Cicalese
Julie served as a Human Resources Leader for nearly 30 years empowering and leading HR teams. Her senior leadership positions included interim Associate Dean for Human Resources at both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School, and Assistant Dean for Human Resources at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In August 2011 she was appointed the Chief Human Resources Officer for Harvard Medical School where she brought leadership teams together to advance the mission of the school until June 2017. Memberships included the Society for Human Resource Management, Northeast Human Resources Association, and Association of American Medical Colleges. Julie currently serves on the advisory board for Art in Giving in addition to the Board of Directors and Compensation Committee for Addgene, a non-profit plasmid repository. Past volunteer appointments included the Belmont Human Rights Commission and mediator for the Massachusetts small claims court summary process. Julie is dedicated to volunteerism and ran the Mayor’s Midnight Sun Marathon in Anchorage, for the Leukemia Society, the Boston Marathon for the MGH Pediatric Oncology and the Chicago Marathon to benefit Neurofibromatosis, New England. Julie lives in Duxbury with her husband Michael and enjoys sailing, Pilates and jewelry design.
Joe Tierney
Joe joined PriceWaterhouse Coopers LLP in September 1998. Since joining PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Joe has led the tax engagements on a number of Technology and Life Sciences clients in the Boston office. Prior to joining the firm, he served as Vice President and Tax Director for Digital Equipment Corporation, a $14B computer hardware, software, and services company doing business in 150 countries around the world. Joe has an undergraduate degree in Economics and a Law degree from Boston College and a graduate degree in Law, specializing in taxation, from Boston University. He is admitted to the Bar in the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Prior to joining Digital, he worked as a tax attorney for Exxon Corporation in New York. Joe and his wife, Christine Langley Tierney have three children who are out of college. He and Christine have lived in Wellesley for 30 years.
Timothy White
Timothy M. White, PE, is Senior Vice President at Alexandria Real Estate. In his current role on Special Projects, he is responsible for the conversion and tenanting of two highly valued assets. Previously Mr. White managed the Capital Projects Team and was responsible for leasing, construction, and operations of a portfolio of more than 35 buildings in Alexandria’s Greater Boston region, including the Company’s flagship campus, Alexandria Technology Square. During his 19 years with Alexandria, Mr. White has been involved in operations, construction, and leasing, including the oversight of 20 building conversions, from office to laboratory, totaling over 1,500,000 rentable square feet. He has also coordinated over two million square feet of tenant laboratory renovations. Utilizing his expertise in mechanical systems design and laboratory building operations as well as his key client relationships, Mr. White supports a number of Alexandria’s most important science and technology campuses. Prior to joining Alexandria, Mr. White spent 18 years with Arthur D. Little managing their laboratory complex and support operations as well as providing client consulting services in laboratory design, operations, and indoor air quality. He received his Bachelor of Science in management engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is a licensed HVAC/Mechanical Engineer in Massachusetts. Tim enjoys skiing, boating and playing hockey; and more importantly spending time with family including wife Beth with children Evan (married to Annabelle) and Kelley (engaged to Ben) and granddaughters Ellie and Maddy.
Salvatore Zinno
Salvatore Zinno is a Vice President of Development at BioMed Realty, where he provides real estate solutions to the life sciences and technology industries in the northeast United States and the United Kingdom. His work touches on all aspects of commercial real estate development, including ground up construction, zoning analysis, entitlements, tenant improvements, and underwriting. In particular, Sal is an advocate for unique and creative methods of amenitizing commercial projects to attract tenants and engage with neighboring communities. This model of development can be seen in his latest project, located at 585 Third Street in the Kendall Square area of Cambridge, MA, which involves the development of a groundbreaking new office/lab complex combined with a performing arts center. Sal received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Master of Business Administration Degree from Bentley University. Sal currently resides in Westwood, MA with his wife Christina, son Leo and daughter Lorenza and spends most of his spare time on his boat, skiing, and renovating his home.
Kayleigh Fraser
As well as serving on the Advisory Board, Kayleigh is also a Curator for Art in Giving, bringing her crossover experience in art and business to help with children’s cancer research.
Carol Seitchik
Carol Seitchik has had a lengthy career as a visual artist, helping found the first women’s cooperative gallery in Philadelphia in the mid-70s, then moving to Chicago where she showed with ARC Gallery and then moving to Boston where she joined The Bromfield Gallery. In the past thirty years she has been an art curator, organizing the first temporary outdoor sculpture exhibition in the greater Boston area that continued for fifteen summers at Bradley Palmer State Park, Topsfield, The Art Complex Museum at Duxbury and The Fuller Museum of Art In Brockton. Carol has also curated shows at the Brattleboro Museum and The University of New Hampshire. Carol’s work as a curator has also included corporate clients, including Genzyme, Delta Dental, Cell Signal Technology and (for the past twenty-seven years, ongoing) New England Biolabs. She has helped develop a corporate art program where the employees are involved in choosing the art that is displayed in six week shows throughout the year. Carol lives in Beverly, MA with her husband.