David Buxbaum

Founded in 1993 by Thomas Trkla, Brookwood Financial Partners LP is a private equity firm located in Beverly, Massachusetts with an additional office in Temecula, California. The firm specializes in acquiring and managing real estate and corporate securities for private individual and institutional investors.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

CREW Boston promotes advancement of women within the commercial real estate industry. It offers social and community service activities throughout and has established the CREW Boston Educational Foundation, which supports a scholarship for any female undergraduate and/or graduate student interested in pursuing a career in commercial real estate upon graduation. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

NEPC LLC is an independent investment consultant, private wealth advisor, and OCIO provider that serves over 400 retainer clients and manages $1.60 trillion in total assets. NEPC is based in Boston, MA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The private company has a proprietary research team that focuses on long-term challenges facing investors and uses a client-centric model to build forward-looking investment portfolios for institutional investors and ultra-high-net-worth individuals.

Smith College opened in 1875 with 14 students. Today, Smith is among the largest women’s colleges in Northampton, MA, with students from 48 states and 72 countries. The college remains strongly committed to the education of women at the undergraduate level, but Smith admits both men and women as graduate students.

NYSE Euronext operates financial markets and provides trading solutions. It offers an array of products and services in cash equities, futures, options, swaps, exchange-traded products, bonds, clearing operations, market data, commercial technology solutions and carbon trading, all designed to meet the evolving needs of investors, issuers, financial institutions and market participants. The company was founded by Jean-François Théodore in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Berkshire Bank (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) operates as state commercial bank. It offers banking, insurance, and wealth management. The company is headquartered in Pittsfield, MA.