Board of Directors

  • Emme Handy

    Board Chair

    Emme is currently a Senior Advisor to the COO at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She previously served as Chief of Administration and Finance for the City of Boston under Former Mayor Walsh.

  • Carlos Aramayo

    Board Member

    Carlos Aramayo is the President of UNITE HERE Local 26, the Union for hospitality workers in the greater Boston area and Rhode Island. He is also a Vice President of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, an International Vice President of UNITE HERE and a trustee of UNITE HERE Health and the Greater Boston Hospitality Employers Trust.

  • Cindy Brown

    Board Member

    Cindy Brown is the Chief Executive Officer for Boston Duck Tours, responsible for managing a staff of over 140 employees and all aspects of the company. In 1994, she was hired as Marketing and Sales Director, later being promoted to General Manager in 1997, then assuming the role of President of SEAWEED INCORPORATED, General Partner for Boston Duck Tours before becoming CEO of the company.

  • Meg Mainzer-Cohen

    Board Member

    Meg Mainzer-Cohen has served as President and Executive Director of the Back Bay Association since 2000. She collaborates with a board of 40 business leaders, provides strategic advice to companies managing business development, and works with them to gain city approvals and build support during the public permitting process.

  • Sheena Collier

    Board Member

    Sheena Collier is the Founder & CEO of The Collier Connection (TCC) and Boston While Black (BWB). She has 20 years of experience in business development, growth strategy, brokering partnerships, and event design.

  • Michael Donovan

    Board Member

    Mike was appointed to the MCCA Board by Mayor Michelle Wu. He is the South Boston Community Representative. Mike formerly served in County Government for 40 years as the (elected) Clerk Magistrate of the Superior Court Department of the Trial Court for Suffolk County.

  • Michael F. Flaherty, Esq.

    Board Member

    Michael F. Flaherty is a twenty-year At-Large member of the Boston City Council, where he recently chose to not seek re-election. A lifelong resident of South Boston, he is a graduate of Boston College High School, Boston College and Boston University School of Law.

  • Matthew Gorzkowicz

    Treasurer

    Matthew Gorzkowicz has more than 25 years' experience in state finance and budgeting in the Commonwealth. Prior to being appointed as Administration and Finance Secretary in the Healey-Driscoll Administration, he served as the Associate Vice President for Administration and Finance at the University of Massachusetts President's Office for more than a decade. In this position, he had a direct role in setting the University’s long-range administrative and financial goals and managed the development of an annual operating budget of $3.8 billion

  • Ashley Groffenberger

    Board Member

    Ashley Groffenberger was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Collector-Treasurer for the City of Boston in August 2022. Previously, Groffenberger served as the Budget Director for the City and County of San Francisco.

  • Dr. Aisha Miller

    Board Member

    Dr. Aisha Miller is the Vice President of Permitting, Community, and Corporate Engagement for Related Beal. Previously, former U.S. Labor Secretary and former Mayor of Boston, Martin J. Walsh, appointed Dr. Miller to Chief of the Civic Engagement Cabinet for the City of Boston.

  • Christina Pappas

    Board Member

    Christina Pappas is President of Open the Door, a marketing & association management firm. She also serves as President & CEO of the Massachusetts Lodging Association, a state-wide trade association responsible for promoting the Massachusetts lodging industry.

  • Gwill York

    Board Member

    Gwill is co-founder and managing director of Lighthouse Capital Partners. Since its founding in 1994, Lighthouse has committed over $2 billion in capital to over 500 companies in six limited partnerships.