Meet the Staff
Cornelius K. Hurley, Esq., Director
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Cornelius K. Hurley, Esq.,
Director of the Morin Center and the Graduate Program,
Professor of the Practice of Banking Law
Con Hurley became the director of the Morin Center in December 2005 after having been an adjunct professor at the law school and in the Center’s Program for Banking and Financial Law for several years. Since his arrival on a full-time basis, the Center and its Graduate Program have been transformed. An array of high impact initiatives such as internships, fellowships, prominent speakers, e.g. Congressman Barney Frank, and major research projects have raised the visibility of the Center.
Con’s career in financial services includes executive level positions in government (Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC) and industry (Shawmut Bank, Boston, MA). He serves as a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston, Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (a major transfer agent), and the YMCA of Greater Boston. He is a graduate of Georgetown Law, Holy Cross College and Harvard Business School (PMD). A persistent if erratic golfer, Con is known to his friends as “the ATM.”
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Martin Antonio Lacdao, Esq.,
Associate Director for Program Development
Prior to coming to Boston, Martin Lacdao practiced banking and securities as a senior associate at a law firm in the Philippines. He specialized in bank mergers & acquisitions, corporate rehabilitation, loan syndication, project finance and public offerings. He earned a management degree from the Ateneo de Manila University and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines. In 2004, he obtained a Master of Laws in Banking and Financial Law from Boston University School of Law where he was a member of the Annual Review for Banking and Financial Law and received the A. John Serino Outstanding Graduate Banking Law Student Prize. He is currently the associate director of the Morin Center and co-teaches the Thesis Seminar.
A sportsman at heart, winters find him skiing in the mountains of northern New England. When the snow melts, he spends his spare time sailing the Charles River, surfing off Cape Cod and playing softball on old Braves Field (BU’s Nickerson Field). His real passion, however, is the Boston Red Sox. A fan since Carlton Fisk was the Sox’s catcher, Martin is convinced that he is the team’s good-luck charm and that the team will continue winning the World Series for as long as he is in Boston. This is why he has no plans of moving away anytime soon.
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Lorraine E. Kaplan,
Assistant Director of the Morin Center,
Graduate Program Administrator
With the Morin Center since 1986, Lorraine is the staff member in charge of administrative matters. Since she joined the Morin Center shortly after the Graduate Program was launched she also serves as the “institutional memory.” Lorraine grew up in Boston and New York and received her B.S. from the State University of New York at Brockport.
When she is not in the office Lorraine spends her time outside watching birds and trying to master her digital camera. Whenever she can she travels to Maine and to the Rocky Mountains to photograph big mammals – and any other critter that will pose for her.
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Shannon Greenwell,
Program Coordinator
Shannon grew up in Rhode Island, the biggest little state in the union. She came to Boston to attend Boston University and graduated in January of 2007 with a B.A. in History and a minor in Statistics. When she wasn’t in the classroom, Shannon could be found in the studio as a DJ for her radio show on WTBU (the student-run radio station). Shannon plans to continue her education at Boston University on the graduate level while working at the Morin Center.
In her spare time, Shannon is an Irish Dance teacher in the greater Boston area. Along with dancing, her interests include running, leisurely bike rides, going to local music shows and reading.