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| Edmund (Ted) F. Kelly |
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced the election of Edmund (Ted) F. Kelly as the new chairman of the BSO Board of Trustees, a three-year term to take effect as of September 1, 2011. In addition, the BSO Board of Trustees has elected Stephen B. Kay and Robert P. O'Block to serve as co-chairmen, effective immediately, with terms running through August 31, 2011. Mr. Kay and Mr. O'Block will fulfill the duties of the role left vacant by the recent passing of Edward H. Linde, who was chairman of the BSO Board of Trustees from September 2005 through January 2010, and whose term as chairman was to have ended in August 2011.
The Chairman of the BSO Board of Trustees works closely with fellow board members and BSO Managing Director Mark Volpe and his senior management team to meet the organization's fiscal goals and to serve the mission of the BSO to create performances and provide educational and training programs at the highest level of excellence, and to bring the music of the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops to audiences here in Boston, across the country, and around the world through live performances, recordings, and the many opportunities on the worldwide web. The BSO Board Chairman serves as the organization's leading ambassador for increasing awareness and understanding of the role that the BSO plays in the musical world and its importance as a cultural resource in Boston, the Berkshires, and beyond.
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| Edmund F. Kelly, who will take on the the role of Chairman of the BSO's Board of Trustees on September 1, 2011, and BSO Managing Director Mark Volpe at Symphony Hall. |
Edmund (Ted) F. Kelly, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Liberty Mutual Group, was elected a vice-chairman of the BSO Board of Trustees in 2006, after previously serving as an Overseer in 2003 and a Trustee in 2004. Mr. Kelly has served on every corporate event committee since the start of his involvement with the BSO, highlighted by his position as co-chair of the 2008 25th-Anniversary “Company Christmas at Pops” and, formerly, as president of the Business Leadership Association. Liberty Mutual has been sponsoring the July 4th Boston Pops concert on the Esplanade since 2005, and the company and its foundation are BSO Great Benefactors. Mr. Kelly and his wife, Deborah, who reside in Weston, MA, are members of the BSO's Higginson Society.
Mr. Kelly first joined Liberty Mutual Group in 1992 as president and chief operating officer, assumed the role of chief executive officer in 1998, and was elected chairman of Liberty Mutual in April 2000. Beginning in 1974, Mr. Kelly served in a variety of positions with Aetna Life and Casualty Company, concluding his work there in March 1992 as group executive. In 2007, Mr. Kelly was named to the board of directors of the Bank of New York Mellon Corp., following its acquisition of Mellon Financial Corp., where he was a member of the board since 2004. Mr. Kelly currently holds board positions with EMC Corp., where he was appointed to the board of directors in 2007; the Governors of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America; Insurance Information Institute; The Financial Services Roundtable; and Boston College. In addition, Mr. Kelly serves on various other community and education boards.
Mr. Kelly, a native of Ireland who came to the U.S. in 1965 to continue his studies, began his career in academia. After receiving a bachelor of science degree from Queen's University in Belfast, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a doctorate degree in mathematics. Mr. Kelly then held assistant professorships in the mathematics departments at the University of New Brunswick and the University of Missouri at St. Louis.
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| Robert O'Block, Stephen Kay, Edmund F. Kelly, and Mark Volpe. |
Stephen B. Kay is a senior director of Goldman, Sachs & Co., and has been associated with the firm since 1965. Since retiring as a general partner, he has devoted himself largely to a variety of investment and not-for-profit activities. Mr. Kay was elected a BSO Overseer in 2002 and a Trustee and vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees in 2006. Mr. Kay has served on numerous BSO board committees, including the Principal Gifts Committee, where he currently serves as co-chair. Mr. Kay is a Great Benefactor of the Symphony as well as a member of the BSO's Higginson, Koussevitzky, and Walter Piston societies. He and his wife, Lisbeth L. Tarlow, chaired the 2007 Opening Night at Symphony committee. They reside in Chestnut Hill and Richmond, MA.
Mr. Kay is the founding chairman and a former member of the board of CareGroup, a consortium of hospitals that includes Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he serves as chairman. Mr. Kay, a Trustee of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 1981, is currently chairman of the hospital's Investment Committee and serves as a member of the Executive Finance Committee, having previously served as board treasurer.
From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Kay served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Brandeis University, where he is currently a Trustee for Life and a member of the Executive Committee. At Harvard, Mr. Kay served on the Board of Overseers from 1994 to 1999, and is currently a member of the Dean's Advisory Council. He has previously served as chairman of the Visiting Committee at the Harvard School of Public Health, director of the Harvard Alumni Association, president of the Harvard Business School Association of Boston, and director of the Controlled Risk Insurance Company, Harvard's captive insurance company, as well as the TH Lee Putnam Investment Trust. He is also the founding director of Tenacity, a tennis/academic program for inner-city youth. Mr. Kay received a bachelor of arts degree with honors from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He was also a Fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard.
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| Robert O'Block, Stephen Kay, Edmund F. Kelly, and Mark Volpe. |
Robert P. O'Block, a partner with McKinsey & Company for over 30 years, became a vice-chairman of the BSO Board of Trustees in 2006. He was elected a BSO Overseer in 1988, and served as chairman of the Board of Overseers from 1995 to 2000, when he was elected a Trustee. Mr. O'Block is currently the chair of the BSO's Overseers Nominating Committee and co-chair of the Principal Gifts Committee, having served on many BSO committees over his 22-year affiliation with the orchestra. Mr. O'Block and his wife, Megan, are Great Benefactors as well as members of the Higginson and Fiedler Societies. They chaired the 2002 Opening Night at Symphony committee, and the committees of Opening Night at Pops in 1997, 1998, and 2007. In his position with McKinsey & Company, Mr. O'Block has served as a consultant to a wide variety of business, non-profit, and public sector organizations in the United States, Europe, and the Far East. As a director, Mr. O'Block headed the firm's Boston office, leading studies in financial restructuring; corporate, business unit, and product strategy; manufacturing operations; and organization. Mr. O'Block, who received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, started his career as a faculty member of Harvard University, where he held a joint appointment at the Business School and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Mr. O'Block is the co-author of the books Urban Analysis and An Economic Analysis of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968. He is a general partner of Freeport Center, a real estate and distribution complex in Utah, and a trustee emeritus of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation. Mr. O'Block has also served on the boards of Intelligent Life and Bankrate, Inc., Snowbird Arts Institute, the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and the Park School in Brookline, MA. An avid golfer, he serves on the Master's Tournament Improvements Committee at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, GA. Mr. and Mrs. O'Block are currently members of the Parents' Committee at New York University.
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