Meet Our Advisors

Directors

The advisory board for ICE is composed of entrepreneurs, business men and women, and community development specialists drawn from different racial and ethnic backgrounds in the Boston area.

The board has met on numerous occasions and is now divided among five committees.

The Steering Committee is chaired by Peter Russo, the Director of the Entrepreneurial Management Institute at Boston University and also includes chairs of the four other subcommittees:
Program: Keith Castle of Global One Resources and the Black-Jewish Economic Roundtable
Marketing: Darryl Settles owner of Bob The Chef's restaurant
Research: Alvaro Lima of Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Development and John Feloni of Feloni and Company, Inc.

In addition, advisory board members working on different sub committees include:
Douglas Ling (Director of Economic Development at the Asian Community Development Corporation)
Gerardo Villacres (Director of the Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce)
Tony Robinson (Wainwright Bank)
Rick Mann (North Star Health Advisors, LLC)
Stephen Comeau (Platinum Investments)
Derek Davis and Ken Elmore (Peabody and Arnold)
Kevin Dwyer (Dwyer Research)
Kija Kim (Harvard Design and Mapping)
Chris Maxwell (Ojala, Inc.)
Cheryl Straughter (Keith's Place)
Jesse Jeter (Jet-A-Way)
Kristen McCormack (Boston University Public and Nonprofit Management Program)
Judy Obermayer (Obermayer Associates)
Verna Myers (Verna Myers & Associates)
Marjorie Cahn and Dr. Dean Saluti (Saluti Cahn and Company)
Larry Mintzer (Mintzer & Associates)
Joanne McKenna (Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation)
Richard Sparacio (MaidPro)
Peter Koch, Director of the Small Business Development Institute at Roxbury Community College
Susie Lee (Boston University Community Technology Fund)
John Francis (Boston Community Development Corporation).