Current and former Dean’s Advisory Board members, from left: Howard Williams (MET’86, Wheelock’89); Cynthia Cohen (MET); Assistant Dean Kimberly Kuborn (MET’08, Wheelock’15); Richard DeWolfe (MET’71); BU Provost Jean Morrison; Dean’s Advisory Board Chair Ralph H. Groce, III (CGS, Questrom, MET); Dean Tanya Zlateva; Dean’s Advisory Board Chair Emeritus Michael J. McCabe (MET’87,’87); Linda McCutcheon (CGS’75, MET’77); Steve Akers (MET’94); Patricia Chadwick (MET’75); Thomas Wesley Weeks (MET’69,’74); Irene Gavras, MD; Associate Dean Carl Sessa (CAS’83, Wheelock’84,’90); Haralambos Gavras, MD; former Assistant Dean Donna Shea (GRS’73,’83); and Senior Associate Dean Lou Chitkushev (ENG’96).
A dedicated group of community and business leaders—all with strong ties to Metropolitan College—the BU MET Dean’s Advisory Board brings together expertise from across industry to identify talent gaps and emerging areas of growth, and to help guide the College in implementing curricular updates and developing new programs to meet these needs.
Chair: Ralph H. Groce, III (CGS, Questrom, MET)
Master of Urban Affairs (MET), BS in Business Administration (Questrom)
President and COO, Scroobious
- Named the Groce Pépin Culinary Innovation Laboratory at Metropolitan College (2019)
- MET Commencement Speaker (2017)
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award, Service to Alma Mater (2017)
- Endowed the Ralph H. Groce, III Scholarship (2017)
Chair Emeritus: Michael J. McCabe (MET’87,’87)
MS, BS in Computer Science
Former Managing Director at Deloitte
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award, Service to Alma Mater (2009)
Steve Akers (MET’94)
MS in Computer Science
Founder and President of MaxCogito, Inc.; Founder of Digital Reef, Inc., and Spring Tide Networks; Entrepreneur in Residence at MET
- Named the Izabella Temkina Computer Science Chair’s Office at Metropolitan College (2020)
- Named the Annie Wilcox (MET’06,’09) Applied Social Sciences Chair’s Office at Metropolitan College (2020)
- MET Commencement Speaker (2011)
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award for Computer Science (2009)
Patricia Chadwick (MET’75)
BASc in Economics
Founder and President of Ravengate Partners, LLC; Founder and CEO of Anchor Health Initiative; Author of
Little Sister: A Memoir (Post Hill Press, 2019)
Cynthia Cohen (MET)
BASc in Business Administration
Founder and Chief Strategist of IMPACT 2040; Founder and Former Managing Partner of Strategic Mindshare
- Trustee of Boston University
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award, Service to Alma Mater (2020)
Ira D. Cohen (MET’07)
MS in Banking & Financial Services Management
Founder and Operating Partner of Updata Partners
- Named the Ira & Julie Cohen Conference Room at Metropolitan College (2020)
- MET Commencement Speaker (2016)
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award, Service to Profession (2016)
Richard DeWolfe (MET’71)
BASc in Business Marketing & Finance
Managing Partner at DeWolfe and Company; Chair of the Board of Manulife Financial/John Hancock Financial; Founder and Former Chair and CEO of DeWolfe Companies
- Trustee Emeritus of Boston University
- BU Distinguished Alumni Award (2004)
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award, Service to Profession (1991)
Hadley Douglas
BA in African American Studies/Sociology, Wesleyan University
Cofounder, owner, and president of Massachusetts-based wine store The Urban Grape
TJ Douglas
Cofounder and CEO of Massachusetts-based wine store The Urban Grape
Melissa Druley (MET’20)
MLA in Gastronomy
Private chef for JLB Gourmet
- Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts Teaching Assistant (2017, 2018)
Christine Ferer (MET’74)
Master of Urban Affairs
Founder and CEO of Citybuzz, LLC; Founder and Chair, Vidicom; Emmy Award-Winning News Reporter; Former Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award, Service to Community (2009)
Haralambos Gavras, MD
MD, BS, University of Athens, Greece
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Boston University; Former President of the American Society of Hypertension and Inter-American Society of Hypertension; Former Chair of the Hypertension Council of the American Heart Association; Pioneer in Hypertension Research
Irene Gavras, MD
MD, University of Athens, Greece
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Boston University; Internal Medicine Specialist
Robert Glovsky (LAW’76,’79)
JD, Master of Laws
Vice Chair and a Principal of The Colony Group; Chair of the CFP Board Center for Financial Planning; Founder and Former President of Mintz Levin Financial Advisors; Director Emeritus of BU’s Financial Planning Program; Executive in Residence at MET
Gary Grossman (MET’75)
Master of Urban Affairs
Best-Selling Author; Emmy Award-Winning Television Producer, Director, and Writer
Lawrence Hsu (MET’05)
BS in Management Studies
CFO of Hsu International, Inc; Cofounder and Managing Partner of Misfit Venture Partners; Executive Vice President of Sun Laboratories, Inc.
Brian Inselberg (CGS’83, MET’85)
BS in Professional Studies
Senior Vice President of Starr Companies
Alison Poorvu Jaffe
MBA, Harvard University; BA in American Studies from Yale University
Daniel Jaffe
MS in Geology, Baylor University; BS in Geology, Syracuse University
Andrew Morgenstern, OD (MET’94)
BS in Psychology
Director of the Clinical Resources Group for American Optometric Association; Optometrist; Director of Clinical Services and Education at TLC Laser Eye Centers; Founder of OcuSolve, LLC; First Ambassador to the State of Maryland for the American Board of Optometry
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award, Service to Profession (2012)
Carl A. Nelson, III (MET'96)
MS in Administration
President, ASC English
Irwin Price (GRS’74)
PhD in Economics
Principal of Irwin Price Associates; Former Dean of Metropolitan College
Peter Raimondi (MET’80, LAW’83)
JD (LAW), BLS in Interdisciplinary Studies (MET)
Founder and CEO of Dakota Wealth Management, LLC; Founder and Former CEO of The Colony Group and Banyan Partners
S. D. Shibulal (MET’88)
MS in Computer Science
Founder and Former CEO of Infosys; Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals; Cochair of the Confederation of Indian Industries National Committee on IT, ITES, and e-Commerce
- Trustee of Boston University
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award, Service to Profession (2008)
Former Members of the Board
Marsha Cohen (MET’76)
Master of Urban Affairs
Senior Vice President of the Reinsurance Association of America
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award, Service to Profession (2007)
Michael Kiklis (MET’88)
MS in Computer Science
Partner at Bass, Berry & Sims
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award (2009)
Thomas Wesley Weeks, Sr. (MET’69,’74)
Master of Urban Affairs, BASc in Business Administration
Presiding Prelate of New Destiny Fellowship International and Pastor of New Destiny Fellowship; Host of the Praise Power Celebration Conference; Author; Former Director of the Delaware Office of Minority Enterprise and Chair of the Wilmington Housing Authority Board of Commissioners in Wilmington, Delaware
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award, Service to Community (2003)
Howard Williams (MET’86, Wheelock’89)
Master of Education in Continuing Education (Wheelock), BS in Professional Studies (MET)
- Roger Deveau Part-Time Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (2015)
- MET Distinguished Alumni Award, Service to Alma Mater (2008)
Leon Wilson (MET’75)
Bachelor of Liberal Studies
CEO and President of the Museum of African American History; Former Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Bank of America
- BU Distinguished Alumni Award