Jane Morse
Board President

Jane is a retired senior executive of the former BayBank and BankBoston, where she headed the technology planning department. Upon retiring, Jane began rowing and since that time has become a gold medalist at Masters National and International Competitions. Since becoming the CRI Board President, Jane has led CRI’s $15 million capital campaign to build a new boathouse.  For many years she has been a very active volunteer for the G-Row Program, assisting with both on the water training and in the classroom providing homework help.

Peter Silberstein
Board Vice President

Peter brings to the Board his 27 years of experience as an attorney advising individuals and businesses on all aspects of real estate and general business matters.  He is regularly involved in his clients’ business decisions and is often called upon to provide business and management advice as well as legal analysis.  Before starting his own firm in 1994 he was a partner at a mid-sized Boston law firm.  Peter also brings to the Board the experience and perspective he has gained from having been involved with and having served on the Board of many other non-profits and community organizations.  Peter has a JD from Boston College Law School and an MBA from the Boston College Carroll School of Management.

Peter’s involvement with CRI and with rowing began when his oldest daughter joined the Competitive Junior Women’s Program as a coxswain in 2001.  His other daughter joined the Competitive Junior Women’s Program as a coxswain shortly thereafter.  Peter was actively involved in reviving the Competitive Junior Women’s Parent’s Association and has encouraged the furthering of community building at CRI.  Peter has been on the Board of Directors of CRI since 2006.  He started rowing at CRI in the General Sweeps Program until switching to sculling.

Jamie Hintlian
Board Secretary

Jamie Hintlian began his rowing career at the age of 12 as a coxswain for Belmont Hill (MA) varsity crew.  Later he became a rower there, and subsequently on to Cornell University, where he was on the lightweight crew team.  Fast forward to the present as Jamie is starting his second term on the Board of Directors at Community Rowing as Secretary and Clerk of the Board. Jamie chairs CRI’s Adaptive Rowing program, and led the re-launch of the program coincident with the opening of the Harry Parker Boathouse in October, 2008.

After a hiatus from rowing post Cornell, Jamie became an active rower on CRI’s Comp Men’s team, medaling in several Masters Nationals events and numerous head races, including successful Head Of The Charles campaigns.  Jamie recently competed at the Henley Veterans’ Regatta at Henley on Thames, UK.  Now, each of Jamie’s three children, ages 10 - 14, have had some introduction to rowing through CRI and elsewhere, and share his passion for the water.

Professionally, Jamie is Vice President and Managing Director for Aspen Technology’s Pharmaceutical Business Unit.  Prior to that, Jamie was a senior partner at Accenture, where he led the health and life sciences supply chain practice.  He holds a Masters degree in Operations Research as well as an MBA, both from Cornell.

Jamie is an actively involved with Best Buddies International, an organization serving individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities by providing employment opportunities, transition to more independent living, and sometimes just friendship.

Kelley Doyle, CPA
Treasurer

Graduated with a BS from Connecticut College and a Masters in Accounting from University of Hartford.  Worked for 7 years in public accounting with Coopers & Lybrand in Hartford and then PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston achieving the rank of Audit Manager specializing in Insurance and Not-For-Profit clients.  Currently Director of New England Self-Insured Groups for First Cardinal LLC, a workers compensation administrator.  I was a walk-on rower freshman year and elected Captain of the team senior year for this Division III rowing program.  Live in Brighton, Mass with my wife and two kids (6 and 9).  Have served on the Board and as Treasurer for CRI for 6 plus years.  While I have not rowed since college I am getting closer every day.

Aquil H. Abdullah
Board Member

Aquil H. Abdullah is a former US national team sculler who competed in the double sculls in the 2004 Olympics in Athens.  His international rowing credentials also include competing in the elite Diamond Sculls at the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley-on-Thames in the UK in 2000, the first African American man to do so.  His book Perfect Balance tells of his quest to make the national team and his disappointment in 2000 in narrowly missing it.

Aquil was born and raised in Washington, DC, and attended Wilson High School, where he started rowing as a high school senior, giving up football.  He was awarded a rowing scholarship at George Washington University in 1992, rowed all four years there while majoring in physics.  He was elected to the GW Hall of Fame in 2008.

Aquil resides in Boston, Mass., where he is a software developer at Microsoft and plays a ‘mean saxophone’.  He is a member of the Potomac Boat Club in Washington, DC, and the Cambridge Boat Club.  At Cambridge Boat Club Aquil has been the star speaker at the club’s annual Learn to Row day for eighth graders at the King and Amigos schools in Cambridge, inspiring many of them to try rowing at Cambridge Rindge and Latin school.
Ted Fields
Board Member

Ted Fields, with an established history of dedication to and a career in city planning and development, brings his experience in asset management and strategic planning to Community Rowing. His professional responsibilities currently include asset management for the city of Waltham, Massachusetts, as well as community development and oversight of Waltham’s ongoing city and municipal development projects.

In addition to this, he served as Housing Planner for the City of Cambridge in the Community Development Department from 2001-2002, with a focus in affordable housing, oversight of development, and cooperation with local real estate, non-profit organizations, neighborhood groups, and the Cambridge Housing Authority.

He also worked from 1997-1999 as a city planner for Newton, Massachusetts, and from 1993-1997 in New York City as a research analyst on the Rent Guidelines Board.

He attended Cornell University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Studies in 1990, and continued his education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a Masters degree in Regional Planning in 1993.

Maura Glandorf
Board Member

Maura Schoenfeld Glandorf brings over 30 years of business experience to the Board of Community Rowing. She recently retired from over a decade at Meridian Investments where she was CFO and, most recently, President of Meridian Clean Fuels (a renewable energy equity placement firm). Prior to her involvement with Meridian, she served as President of Texas Emergency Medical Services, an ambulance and health care provider and Treasurer of a Boston based consulting engineering firm. Maura is a graduate of Boston College and earned her CPA while working at Ernst and Young. In 2008, she joined forces with Gail Silberstein to form Rowers Edge, a consulting and advisory firm specializing in college recruiting for rowers. Maura’s involvement with CRI began in 2003 when her daughters began their rowing careers and continues to this day volunteering her time to advise the G-Row team on the college recruiting process.

Maura served as President of the Competitive Jr. Women’s Parents Association from 2007-08 and has detailed knowledge of the extensive planning, organization and effort required by the staff and parents in order for the teams to effectively and safely attend each regatta. In addition, Maura has been involved in many CRI fundraising efforts and was responsible for raising over $32,000 for oars and boats by chairing the Jr. Women’s 2005 Erg-a-thon and the 2007 Jr. Team Raffle fundraising events. She is grateful to CRI for the many opportunities, friendships and skills it provided her three daughters.

Tom Gonsiorowski
Board Member

Director of Technology – Adaptive Optics Associates, Inc. (a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation)

AOA is a high technology company specializing in sophisticated laser-based machine vision systems for defense and industrial applications.  I joined AOA nearly 25 years ago and in various leadership roles have helped take AOA from a small 30-person startup to a thriving mid-size company employing nearly 200 people.  Over the years I have led numerous complex engineering programs both large and small.

Former Board Member – Friends of Menotomy Rocks Park, Arlington, MA

In the mid-90’s the town of Arlington undertook the clean up and restoration of a local park.  With limited funds and lack of technical experience the project was headed for trouble.  Park neighbors with the technical skills necessary to aid the town in planning and executing the project formed a non-profit friends group to help oversee the project and bring it to a successful completion with great benefit to the town.  The Friends have continued to aid the town with park use planning and on-going maintenance.

Past Commander – Charles River Sail and Power Squadron, Lexington, MA (a local chapter of the United States Power Squadrons)

The United States Power Squadrons is a national volunteer organization committed to enhancing boating safety through education and fellowship.  The local squadrons conduct on-going educational programs covering many topics from basic boating safety to advanced boating skills like celestial navigation and weather forecasting.

John Horgan
Board Member

John is a Senior Research Analyst for the Massachusetts House of Representatives and brings legislative and budgetary experience to Community Rowing.  John has worked for a number of legislative offices during his thirty year professional career on Beacon Hill. He graduated from college and graduate school with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree in English Literature.

As a youth John participated in a number of sports activities, including baseball, basketball, football, etc. In high school he was a member of his school’s basketball, baseball, and football teams.  During his Junior Year at Saint Peter’s High School in Gloucester John was seriously injured during a football game, leaving him with a diagnosis of quadriplegia from a 5-6 cervical spinal cord injury.  Following a lengthy rehabilitation period John completed his high school, college, and graduate degrees.

After his injury John competed in a number of adaptive sports, including scuba diving, tennis, handcycling, downhill mountain biking, and skiing.  Nine years ago John was introduced to the sport of rowing through Northeast Passage, an adaptive sports organization sponsored by the University of New Hampshire.  This introductory session eventually lead John to Holyoke Rows, where he became an avid rower under the tutelage and coaching of Stephanie Moore as a member of her adaptive rowing program.

Over his rowing years John has participated in a number of race regattas, including the Bayada Regatta in Philadelphia, the Paper City Regatta in Holyoke, the Ernestine Bayer Race prior to the Head of the Charles.  This year John won a bronze medal at the Crash-B’s in his adaptive class.

John’s involvement with Community Rowing began two years ago when Alyson Mangian contacted him to ask if he would help with the club’s efforts to establish an adaptive rowing program.  John initially sat on the first Adaptive Rowing Committee, the AIR-C committee, and has been invited to participate in discussions to include an adaptive rowing event in future Head of the Charles events.  John is an active participant in Community Rowing’s adaptive rowing program, and can often be seen exercising on his erg at the boathouse trying to get faster and stronger for future races.

John is interested in learning all he can about the organizational structure and the day-to-day operations of the boathouse during his first term as a Board of Directors member.  He fully supports Community Rowing’s mission of bringing the sport of rowing to people of all abilities and will work with other members of Community Rowing to accomplish this goal.

Mike Hyde
Board Member

Mike Hyde, Harvard Class of 1969, was drafted to serve in the US Army from 1971 to 1973. After serving, he returned to Boston and earned his PhD in English from Tufts University, specifically, in 19^th century British Literature. He went on to teach at Tufts University, Wellesley, Harvard Extension School, UMass Boston, as well as UMass Lowell.

In 1980, Mike embarked on a career change, working for Kidder Peabody from 1980 to 1989, principally as a municipal bond sales trader. He was subsequently employed by Alex. Brown and Sons, from 1990 to 1999, working in ventures, startups, ipos, and private clients of corporate assignments.

Following this, he worked for the Deutsche Bank from 2000 to 2006, in corporate and individual sales trading and accounts, as well as for Jeffries & Co, 2006-2009, a wealth management group in Boston.

His trustee/fiduciary duties have included Town of Winchester, Winchester Unitarian Universalist Society, and other Winchester organizations, particularly in youth sports, as well as for Community Rowing. Mike has also been involved with fund raising and fund management for all entities mentioned.

Bartlett Leber
Board Member

Bartlett Leber is Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Atlantic Broadband, a cable, Internet and phone provider employing more than 700 people and serving nearly 300,000 customers throughout the eastern United States.  A 1981 graduate of Boston University Law, she brings nearly 30 years of practical legal experience, including 10 years in senior management roles, to the table.  Bartlett is a parent in a lively family with five young adults, one of whom rowed competitively in high school and college.  Inspired by that athlete to leave the shore and try the water, Bartlett had the great luck to find CRI and started her mid-life rowing career in the summer of 2005.

Lila McCain
Board Member

Lila brings over 20 years experience in human resources management to the Community Rowing board advising businesses on topics including organizational development, personnel policy administration, diversity, compensation and benefits. She is currently Director of Human Resources at American Student Assistance (ASA), a private, not-for-profit, 500+ employee organization in the student loan industry focused on debt management education. A Boston College graduate, Ms. McCain went on to BU and then PACE University in NY to complete her MBA. The first 19 years of her career were with Verizon, which gave her the opportunity to work both in Thailand and then Costa Rica. Ms McCain also has work experience in the biotech and high-tech industries. She is most interested in continuing to enhance the community at CRI through cross program activities. She joined the board in 2008 and co-chairs the Social Committee.

Lila was introduced to rowing at BU’s summer rowing program in 1983 and then joined “the new club up the river” (CRI) in 1985. She was instrumental in starting the Rowing Club at Boston College in 1984. Lila is thrilled that rowing is now a BC varsity sport for women and that Boston College shares the boathouse. Lila started in the General Sweeps program and now rows with the Competitive Women’s team. Her husband and teenage daughter also row with CRI.

Tim Pattison
Board Member

Tim Pattison is Director of Real Estate at Partners HealthCare System, Inc. in Boston, the parent company of a number of hospitals including Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women’s, Newton-Wellesley and Spaulding Rehab. Tim currently oversees a large portfolio of leased property and is responsible for a wide range of other real estate transactions.  His background includes real estate development, urban planning with the City of Boston as well as consulting with two national firms, where he advised corporations, financial institutions, developers, non-profit organizations and government agencies on real estate matters.  Tim received his undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and graduate degrees in urban planning and real estate from MIT.

He coached youth soccer in Newton for seventeen years and was on the Board of Directors for Newton Youth Soccer from 1991 through 2003.  He currently serves on the board of the Boston Preservation Alliance.

Tim’s association with CRI began in 2005 when his daughter, Rachel, started there as a coxswain. He credits CRI and specifically her coach, Ethan Curren, for teaching his daughter about commitment, perseverance and teamwork and wants to repay CRI by dedicating some of his own time and energy as a Board Member.  Tim is particularly interested in seeing CRI extend the opportunity to row to as many young people as possible.

Loryn Sheffner

Board Member

Loryn is a Vice President/ Development Manager with the Banc of America Community Development Corporation (BACDC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of America and one of the largest producers of high-impact community redevelopment projects in the United States.  Prior to joining BACDC in 2007, Ms Sheffner worked for GLC Development Resources LLC, a full-service real estate development consulting firm.  At GLC she provided development project management services for a diverse group of public, private and not-for-profit clients, on real estate projects throughout greater Boston.  Ms Sheffner received a Masters in Public Affairs and Urban and Regional Planning from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

She first participated in sweep programs and rowed with CRI’s competitive women’s team for a few years before turning her focus to sculling.  She joined the Board of Directors of Community Rowing in 2002 and in 2003 became head of the Boathouse Committee charged with Board oversight of the new boathouse project, a position that she carried through to the building’s opening in the fall of 2008.  During her time on the CRI Board she has also been engaged in maintaining CRI’s overall organizational health, including a term as Vice President of the Board of Directors; participation in the search committee find a replacement for Alyson Magian; and participation in the small planning group that organized the day-long visioning retreat in spring 2009.  Her areas of interest for the next term include organizational issues such as Board leadership development, and asset management topics, especially facilities management.