Chamber
Announces Three New Executive Committee Members
The Greater Boston Chamber of
Commerce is proud to announce
the addition of three exemplary business leaders to the Executive Committee
of the Chamber’s Board of
Directors. The new committee members, Dr.
Kevin B. Churchwell, President and CEO of Boston Children’s Hospital, David
Foss, Northeast Market Managing Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP, and Yvonne Garcia, Chief of Staff to Chairman and CEO & Global
Head of Communications at State Street
Corporation, bring an intense commitment to the Chamber’s mission to
advance equity and create an inclusive economy, making Boston the best place
for all people and all businesses to thrive.
Dr. Kevin B. Churchwell,
President & CEO, Boston Children’s Hospital
Kevin B.
Churchwell, M.D., is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Boston
Children’s Hospital, providing leadership, vision, and oversight for a team
that’s dedicated to improving and advancing child health through their
life-changing work in clinical care, research and innovation, medical
education, and community engagement.
Prior to joining Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr. Churchwell was Chief
Executive Officer for Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington,
DE. Dr. Churchwell also served as the CEO and Executive Director for the Monroe
Carell Jr. Children's Hospital, part of the Vanderbilt University Medical
Center in Nashville, TN. A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Vanderbilt Medical School in Nashville, Dr. Churchwell completed his
pediatric residency and a clinical fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at
Boston Children's Hospital. He is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatric
Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Dr. Churchwell is the Robert and Dana
Smith Associate Professor of Anesthesia at the Harvard Medical School.
David Foss, Northeast
Market Managing Partner, PwC
David Foss
serves as the PwC’s Managing Partner for the Northeast Region, responsible for
directing the strategy and operations of PwC’s Boston, Hartford, and Albany
offices. As a member of the PwC leadership team, Dave leads a diverse portfolio
of clients including large asset managers, hedge, private equity and venture
capital funds, asset servicers, broker-dealers and banks. He has significant experience in managing complex issues
and risk through a balanced approach with multiple stakeholder groups including
management, boards and regulators.
Dave joined PwC
in 1997 and was admitted to the partnership in 2006, and he also served as
co-leader of the Asset and Wealth Management, Northeast US. Dave is a member of
the Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Texas Societies of Certified
Public Accountants.
Yvonne Garcia, Chief of Staff Chairman
and CEO, and Global Head of Communications, State Street Corporation
Yvonne Garcia
serves as Chief of Staff to State Street’s Chairman and CEO, Ron O’Hanley, and
as Global Head of Communications. Prior to State Street, Yvonne served as
Director in Marketing and Distribution Strategy for Liberty Mutual and as Vice
President for Bank of America’s China Construction Bank Strategic Assistance
Program. In that role, Yvonne and her team created and implemented over five
new Wealth Management Centers throughout China which resulted in over 80
centers currently throughout the country. Yvonne is a fully certified Six Sigma
Black Belt, and applies that discipline, rigor, and process to every project on
which she deploys.
As an active leader of local and national
communities, Yvonne served as the Chairwoman for the largest Latino
Professional Organization in the country, ALPFA. Yvonne is also the
co-founding Chair of Milagros para Niños, a board at Children’s Hospital in
Boston, which has raised more than $14 million in funds for Hispanic children
who can’t afford medical care. In addition, Yvonne was appointed by
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker to serve on the state’s Latino Advisory
Commission Board and was also appointed as the Chairwoman for the Greater
Boston Chamber’s Women’s Network.
Yvonne has been featured in Fortune
magazine in partnership with ALPFA as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Latinas
in the United States four years in a row and just last year was named Boston
Business Journal’s Power 50. This year, Yvonne was recognized by the Boston
Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business and by Yahoo Finance on their top 10
HERoes list nationally showcasing leaders who are championing women in business
and driving change for gender diversity in the workplace.
Yvonne holds an MBA from
Boston University in Finance and Marketing and a BA from SUNY Albany and is a
Six Sigma Black Belt. Last year Yvonne was awarded an honorary degree in Doctor
of Humane Letters from Cambridge College in Boston, Massachusetts and most
recently an honorary degree in Doctor of Commerce from New England School of
Business.
