College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Deans Alumni Advisory Board
Directory
Henry Barr ’68 (government)
Barr & Cole Attorneys at Law
1172 Beacon St. Ste 202
Newton Highlands, MA 02461
617-969-1381
barrandcole@aol.com
Scott Burke ’84 (psychology)
Morrison, Mahoney LLP
250 Summer St
Boston, MA 02210-1181
(617) 439-7578
sburke@morrisonmahoney.com
Sean Dandley ’85 (journalism)
CEO, DSCI Corporation
275 Wyman Street
Waltham, MA 02451-1200
781-861-4603
sdandley@dscicorp.com
Dan Feder ’84 (political science)
Managing Director
Washington University Investment Management Co
11 North Jackson, Suite 1000
St. Louis, MO 63105
314-935-5723 (W); 650-863-3932 (H)
Daniel.feder@wustl.edu; dfeder47@gmail.com
Denise Gaudet ’77 (economics)
Deputy General Counsel
Santander Bank, N.A.
75 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
617-757-5435; dgaudet@santander.us
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Benjamin Happ ’98 (psychology)
Head of Marketing & Investor Relations
Myriad Asset Management
15/F, Agricultural Bank of China Tower
50 Connaught Road Central
Central Hong Kong
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
benjamin.happ@gmail.com
George Hertz ’69 (government; ’73 MPA)
P.O.Box 269
Westwood, MA 02090
781-727-0922 (cell)
gkhertz@comcast.net
Lew Hoff ’62 (economics)
Bartizan Connects
217 Riverdale Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10705
914-375-798; lew@bartizan.com
Kristen Keel ’88 (psychology, MPA ’92)
317 Echo Valley Lane
Newton Square, PA 19073-1619
KAKeelMA@cs.com
Alan LeBovidge ’64 (economics)
93 Bonny Lane
North Andover, MA 01845
alanlebovidge@yahoo.com
Christine Savage ’92 (political science)
Choate Hall & Stewart
Two International Place
Boston, MA 02110
617-248-4084; csavage@choate.com
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Julia Sears (communication)
Executive Dev. Mngr., Client Facing Syst
TIAA-CREF
730 3rd Ave.
New York, NY 10017
203-645-8864; Julia.sears@gmail.com
Elizabeth Segers ’81 (economics)
Empirical Research Partners LLC
477 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10022
beth.segers@gmail.
Rachel White
Director, Philanthropic & Strategic
Partnerships
Guardian News & Media
900 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
+001 646-726-1884
+001 202-309-1752
rachel.white@theguardian.com
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Membership Bios
Henry L. Barr ’68 (government)
Senior Partner, Barr & Cole Attorneys at Law, Newton Highlands, MA
Henry Barr is a senior partner in the law firm of Barr & Cole and is also president and
director for the real estate investment company, Duco Associates, Inc. He was formerly an
attorney with Looney & Grossman and the Administrator of Courts for the Trial Courts of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Henry is a lifetime member of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation and a former president of
the Massachusetts Lender’s Association. He has served as chairman of the Massachusetts
Interpreter Services Committee and the Massachusetts Court Clinic Services Committee
and as acting chair of the Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines Committee. He also
serves on the Community Advisory Board of the Grand Circle Foundation, president of the
Board of Trustees of the MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation, and is the past
president of the West End House Boys and Girls Club in Allston, where he continues to
serve as a member of the Board of Directors.
Henry’s commitment to UMass Amherst is extensive; he has served on the board of
directors for the UMass Amherst Alumni Association. He was a member of the Advisory
Board at the Center for Public Policy and Administration within the College of Social and
Behavioral Sciences. Currently he serves as a director of the University of Massachusetts
Amherst Foundation. In 2012, Henry was recognized with the UMass Amherst Alumni
Association’s Distinguished Service Award.
Henry graduated from UMass Amherst in 1968 with a BA in Government (now Political
Science). He earned a law degree from Boston College Law School in 1972 and an MBA
from Suffolk University in 1978. He completed the Senior Executive Program at Harvard
University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1980. Henry and his wife, Andrea
(’68 Education), have two grown sons and they reside in Framingham, MA.
Scott Burke ’84 (psychology)
Partner, Morrison, Mahoney LLP, Boston
Scott Douglas Burke, is a partner in the Boston office of Morrison Mahoney LLP. He has
been with the firm since 1990 and a partner since 1995. Scott primarily concentrates in the
civil defense of non-medical professionals against claims of malpractice and improper
employment practices. Scott chairs the non-medical professional liability group of the
firm's Boston office. Along with his trial work, Scott serves on the Massachusetts Bar
Association's Committee on Professional Ethics, the MBA's Education Committee and the
Ethics Curriculum Committee of MCLE.
Prior to joining Morrison, Mahoney LLP, Scott served as an assistant district attorney in
Manhattan in the office of Robert M. Morgenthau. He is admitted to practice in
Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York, and has tried cases in additional states.
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Scott graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center where he was a
member of and published in the American Criminal Law Review, and cum laude from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst with a B.S. in psychology.
Scott is a Founding Life Member of the University of Massachusetts Club and serves on its
Board of Governors. While at the University, Scott took advantage of a number of
opportunities on and off campus including serving as a photographer and photography
editor for The Daily Collegian, Resident Assistant, Student Head of Residence in Southwest,
New Students Program summer counsellor and Student Firefighter/EMT with the Amherst
Fire Department.
Scott and his family reside in Swampscott, Massachusetts, his hometown, where he has
provided volunteer service on the Zoning Bylaw Review Committee, Finance Committee
and as an elected Town Meeting member.
Sean Dandley ’85 (journalism)
CEO, DSCI Corporation, Waltham, MA
Sean Dandley is President and CEO of DSCI Corporation, a telecommunications firm that he
founded in 2000. While the company began initially by reselling telecommuni-cations
services from other service providers, in 2005 they built their own carrier-class IP
network. The company now serves more than 1,100 customers, primarily in Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, but extends its reach to over 600 cities in 60 countries
on 6 continents. Besides being tops in customer service, DSCI has been named one of the
best places to work in the region—twice—by Boston Business Journal.
Prior to starting DSCI, Sean worked for New England Telephone and then NYNEX/Bell
Atlantic agents, focused on sales and sales management of services to small and medium
enterprises. Looking for a new challenge, Sean and his business associates started their
first start-up, Digital Signal, in 1997. The following year, he was part of the team that
created Digital Broadband, which purchased Digital Signal.
Sean completed his B.A. in Journalism at UMass Amherst in 1985 and his M.B.A. from
Bentley University in 1987. He and his wife Jayne ’85 (nursing) have two children who are
also attending UMass Amherst, Erinn is studying bioengineering and Michael is in the
studio arts program.
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Dan Feder ’84 (political science)
Managing Director, Washington University Investment Management Co
Dan is the Senior Investment Manager for Private Equity and Venture Capital at Covariance
Capital Management. Dan has worked in the private securities industry for 25 years as an
attorney and an investor. Most recently, Dan was the Managing Director of Private Markets
for the Sequoia Capital Heritage Fund where he helped develop an endowment style
(multi-asset class) investment management service sponsored by Sequoia Capital.
Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, Dan was the Managing Director of private equity and
venture capital with the Princeton University Investment Company (“Princo”) – the
investment office for Princeton University’s endowment. At Princo, Dan led the
development of a $4.0 billion global private equity and venture capital portfolio, including
168 fund commitments in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Australia.
Approximately half of the manager relationships established by Dan were instituted with
newly-formed firms or firms raising their first institutional capital. Dan has served on the
Advisory Boards of over 60 private equity and venture capital funds.
Dan began his career as an attorney in the area of corporate finance (private placements,
buyouts, project financings, securitizations, bankruptcies, and corporate reorganizations).
After serving as in-house counsel at CIGNA Investment Management, Dan joined the
investment team at CIGNA as a Vice-President, where he completed a broad range of
transactions, including control buyouts of middle market manufacturing and service
companies. Prior to joining Princo, Dan was a Portfolio Manager in the private equity area
at CalPERS.
Dan holds a B.A. cum laude in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts
(1984), a J.D. cum laude from the Boston University School of Law (1987), and an M.A. in
Economics from Trinity College (1997). He is a Fellow in the American College of
Investment Counsel and has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Covariance Capital Management is an independent subsidiary of TIAA-CREF that provides
outsourced investment management services to clients with long investments horizons,
such as endowments and foundations.
Denise A. Gaudet ’77 (Economics)
Deputy General Counsel, Santander Bank, N.A.
Denise Gaudet is an attorney who has practiced in the financial services sector for over 30
years. She is currently Deputy General Counsel of Santander Bank, N.A., a national bank
owned by the Spanish company, Banco Santander, one of the largest financial services
providers in the world. She manages a team of approximately 45 attorneys and paralegals.
Prior to her current position at Santander Bank, formerly known as Sovereign Bank, Denise
worked for The First National Bank of Boston, Shawmut Bank, N.A. and Fleet National Bank.
She was also in private practice as Gaston Snow earlier in her career.
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Denise graduated from UMass Amherst in 1977 with a BA in economics. She earned her law
degree from the Boston University School of Law in 1981 where she was a staff member of
Law Review in her second year and an Executive Editor during her last year of law school.
Denise also sits on the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee. She has resided in Newton,
Massachusetts for almost 30 years and has two grown children, both of whom are in
graduate school.
Benjamin Happ, CFA ’98 (psychology)
Head of Marketing & Investor Relations, Myriad Asset Management
Benjamin Happ '98 (psychology) has recently relocated to Boston, where he is responsible
for coverage of international hedge fund clients of Credit Suisse. Prior to this, he was the
Head of Capital Services, Asia Pacific, at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong. In this role he advises
both institutional investors on their hedge fund investments and hedge fund managers on
their capital raising activity. Prior to this, he was the head of business development at Abax
Global Capital, a Hong Kong-based hedge fund focused on private transactions across
Greater China and South Asia. In this role, was responsible for capital raising, investor
relationships, and strategic business development.
Prior to this, Happ was a vice president of Morgan Stanley Investment Management in New
York, and was responsible for strategic acquisitions of alternative investment managers for
the firm. Before this, but still at Morgan Stanley, he was a senior member of the Capital
Introductions group in Prime Brokerage, serving as the lead advisor for several multibillion dollar hedge-fund launches. He was previously a vice president of Allianz Hedge
Fund Partners, the multi-manager hedge fund platform of Allianz Group. In this role, he was
responsible for due diligence and investment recommendations for global fixed income
strategies. Before that, he had responsibility for long/short equity-related investments in
Europe and Asia.
A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Happ is also
member of Phi Beta Kappa. As an undergraduate, he was awarded the American
Psychological Association's Psi Chi National Convention Research Award for his thesis
work. This research was later published with Professor Bob Feldman and James Forrest in
Basic and Applied Social Psychology (June 2002).
In 2001, Happ earned an MA in psychology from the University of California Berkeley. His
studies of behavioral economics and investor decision-making were funded by the National
Science Foundation. While a graduate student, he also was a Visiting Scholar at Beijing
University in China.
He lives in Acton, MA, with his wife Amy and their daughters Abigail and Charlotte Jane.
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George K. Hertz ’69 (government, ’73 MPA)
Former Executive Vice President, Massachusetts Port Authority
George Hertz is the recently retired executive vice president for the Massachusetts Port
Authority. He began and ended his long and successful career in the public sector, starting
off in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Human Services and Department of Mental
Health. From 1979-1982 he served as budget director for the Commonwealth. From there
he went on to a variety of positions in the private sector. He was managing director and
senior vice president with Fidelity Capital of Boston; president of Advanced Mobilecomm;
senior project manager of Fidelity Investments; president of Phase One Development
Corporation; vice president and project manager with Zip Call. He also served as vice
president of operations for a period of time in between two stints as executive vice
president at MassPort.
To express his commitment to public service and to honor the memory of his father, a wellknown community leader in Holyoke, George created the Phillip Hertz Memorial
Scholarship at UMass Amherst. This award is given to a graduate student who is committed
to a career in public service.
George earned his BA in government (now political science) from UMass Amherst in 1969
and his Master of Public Administration in 1973. George lives in Westwood, MA with his
wife, Camilla, and their son, Jacob.
Lew Hoff ’62 (economics)
President and CEO of Bartizan Corporation, Yonkers, NY
Lew Hoff is president & CEO of Yonkers-based Bartizan Corporation. Before co-founding
Bartizan Corporation in 1970, Lew Hoff graduated from University of Massachusetts with a
BA in Economics and attended Fordham Graduate School of Business. He graduated from
the U.S. Air Force officers’ training school and served more than four years active duty as
an Air Force Officer. Prior to founding Bartizan, he worked for United Airlines, served as
Assistant Director of the American Management Association's New York Management
Center and as National Sales Manager for ICV, Inc. Lew is also Chairman of AddressographBartizan, the world's largest manufacturer of credit card data recorders.
Lew and his wife Hannah are charter members of the newly created UMass Amherst Parent
and Family Council, connecting with donors and helping to plan and staff Family Weekend
in April. Hoff is also engaged with the Employer Networking Night run by Career Services.
Kristen A. Keel ’88 (psychology, ’92 MPA)
Former Vice President for Financial Planning and Analysis, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
In June 2006, Kristen retired from her position as vice president for financial planning and
analysis at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Wellesley, Massachusetts. While in this role, she
helped clean up the health plan's books, reformed its business processes and established a
"credible 2000 budget to allow us to get out of receivership." Kristen’s diligent attention
allowed Harvard Pilgrim to turn its fortunes around, earning about $36 million in 2002. In
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2004, Kristen was selected by the Boston Business Journal as one of Boston’s 40 business
people under 40.
Prior to her success at Harvard Pilgrim, Kristen served as the undersecretary for the
Executive Office of Administration and Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The road to this position started at UMass Amherst. In 1991 Kristen was working on her
master’s degree. The Commonwealth was in a fiscal crisis when she resolved to volunteer
at the Executive Office of Administration and Finance to experience government
functioning from the trenches. She worked as a capital budget analyst. "I decided, what
better way to write my thesis?" she says. Her thesis project led to an eight-year stretch in
state government, first as director of finance within the Budget Bureau and then as
undersecretary. She left in 1999 to join Harvard Pilgrim to sort out another financial crisis.
Kristen is happily retired and spends her time traveling, building furniture and renovating
her 1950s colonial home. She and her husband, Tom Todorow, reside in suburban
Philadelphia.
Alan LeBovidge ’64 (Economics)
Former CFO, Brandot International; former executive director, Massachusetts Turnpike
Authority
Alan LeBovidge is currently retired, having had a long and varied career in the both the
public and private sectors. Most recently, Alan LeBovidge was the chief financial officer for
Brandot International, an investment company specializing in joint venture partnerships in
the apparel and textile industry. Prior to this, he served as executive director of the
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority from 2007 to 2009 after serving as Commissioner of the
Massachusetts Department of Revenue – having been coaxed out of retirement in 2001 by
Governor Jane Swift.
Alan retired in 1999 after a 32-year career at the firm that started as Lybrand, Ross Bros. &
Montgomery and is now PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was a partner in the firm, which is
considered one of the Big Four accounting firms, for 25 years. He held a number of
management positions including Vice Chairman, Taxes for five years. In that capacity he
oversaw the national tax operations for then Coopers & Lybrand and managed about 3,000
tax professionals.
Before being named partner, Alan spent seven years with as a tax professional serving
private and public companies in both state and federal tax matters.
He graduated from the UMass Amherst in 1964 with a BA in economics. He earned a law
degree from Boston College School of Law in 1967. He received a master of laws in taxation
from Boston University and certified public accountant’s certificate from the
Commonwealth.
Alan is a trustee and head of the audit committee at both the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center and the Lawrence General Hospital. He chairs the finance committee in his
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hometown of North Andover, MA, where he resides with his wife, Carol. They have two
grown children and five grandchildren.
Christine G. Savage ’92 (political science)
Partner, Choate Hall & Stewart, Boston, MA
Christine G. Savage, partner, is the Chair of Choate, Hall & Stewart’s Health Care Practice
Group and also is a member of the Firm’s Government Enforcement & Compliance Practice.
She also served on the Firm’s Executive Committee for five years.
Christine represents a wide variety of clients including hospitals and academic medical
centers, hospices, home health agencies, long-term care providers, physician groups,
and ancillary service providers to address complex compliance and regulatory problems
and developing practical business solutions. Christine also spends a significant portion of
her time defending cases brought under the False Claims Act and anti-kickback laws and
providing strategic counseling and focused health care advice to private equity clients of
the Firm. Additionally, Christine has experience with human subjects research, federal
grants and IRB related matters.
Christine is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, and the Boston Bar
Association’s Health Law Steering Committee. She previously served on the Board of
Trustees for the Massachusetts Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. She currently serves
as a member of the Partners Healthcare Institutional Review Board and as a trustee for the
Elisabeth M. Todaro Fund. She was named to the Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 in
2007 and was named a Top Woman of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in 2010.
While at UMass Amherst, Christine was selected as a Truman Scholar (1991). She received
her B.A. from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1992 cum laude, and her J.D. from
Harvard Law School in 1995 cum laude.
Julia Sears (communication)
Executive Development Manager, TIAA-CREF
Julia is an executive technology leader responsible for client facing technology at TIAACREF, a Fourtune-100 non-for-profit company dedicated to the investments and goals of
over 15,000 universities, medical and research facilities across the United States.
Previously at NASDAQ OMX, Julia held a number of senior roles during her 15-year tenure.
Julia was Head of the Risk Management business and cloud solutions; led the launch of the
Global Index platform across 45 countries; and, in 2006, was an early adopter of mobile
and cloud technology. Julia and her team developed the award-winning Market Replay,
patented the technology for board-book-digital-distribution, Directors Desk, and designed
the top-rated financial Qfolio application at the request of Apple for the first iPad launch.
Born in London and raised in New England, Julia attended the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, where she studied Communications, resided in India and then entered into her
first role at The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. in 1999.
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Julia lives with her husband and two beautiful little girls in Connecticut. In her free time,
she enjoys competitive sailing, photography and travel.
Elizabeth Segers ’81 (economics)
Empirical Research Partners LLC
Elizabeth R. Segers is a partner at Empirical Research Partners in NYC, a broker-dealer
founded in 2002 with the aim of providing high quality research on a wide range of topics
of interest to institutional investors. Beth’s focus is on the money management business.
She joined ERP in May 2009. Beth also maintains a private research consulting practice of
her own.
Prior to Empirical, Beth was a managing director and head of Market Planning and
Development at Putnam Investments where she worked for nearly a dozen years. Prior to
Putnam, Beth worked in banking and at Fidelity Investments, always focused on market
research and investor behavior. Ms. Segers has over 28 years experience in the investment
and banking industries.
She currently holds her NASD Series 7 license and was recently named by Pensions and
Investments as one of the top 25 people to watch in the next 25 years. Within the
community, Beth's passion has been serving as a mentor and math tutor in urban education
for many years.
Beth received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where
she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Rachel White ’91 (Social Thought and Political Economy)
The Guardian
Rachel White is the Director, Philanthropic & Strategic Partnerships based in Washington
DC. White leads the organization’s relationships with a range of philanthropic partners,
building on the Guardian’s longstanding work in this area, and identifying new
opportunities to increase the impact of its award-winning, independent journalism around
the world.
Prior to joining The Guardian, she was with New America where she was Senior Vice
President and Director of New America Live, and lead development and strategic
partnership efforts with private foundations, individuals, corporations, academia, media,
and government. White also worked for the World Wildlife Fund where she played a lead
role in securing funding for their Living Planet Campaign. She is a graduate of Social
Thought and Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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