The 16th Annual Rosoff Awards

The Finalists

	Commonweath Compact
	CVS Caremark
	EMC Corporation
	Eneida Roman, Roman Law Offices
	Fidelity Investments
	Imari Paris Jeffries, Boston Rising
	Korn Design
	Mass. Department of Public Health with Geovision
	Michelle Figueiredo, State Street Corporation
	Nachelle Gordon, New Mission High School
	Nicola Williams, The Williams Agency
	Sheila Marcelo, Care.com
	State Street Corporation
	Zoo New England

Join The Ad Club for the 16th Annual Rosoff Awards, one of New England’s premier diversity award shows created to recognize companies with meaningful diversity, mentoring and inclusion programs.

Taking place at the State Room, our evening will include cocktails overlooking the city, a seated dinner, a live performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and an address by Keynote Speaker Thomas Wilkins, Conductor for the BSO.

We hope you will join us as we celebrate the power of diversity and inclusion.

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Thomas Wilkins is Music Director of the Omaha Symphony, a position he has held since 2005. Additionally he is Principal Guest Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Past positions have included Resident Conductor of the Detroit Symphony as well as the Florida Orchestra (Tampa Bay) and Associate Conductor of the Richmond Symphony (Virginia). He served on the music faculties of North Park University (Chicago), the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

Committed to promoting a life-long enthusiasm for music, Thomas Wilkins brings energy and commitment to audiences of all ages. For his significant contribution to the children of Tampa Bay, the Pinellas County Music Educators Association named him 1998 Friend of the Arts and the Hillsborough County Elementary Music Educators recognized him as 1998 Music Educator of the Year. In the 2007/2008 season, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra awarded Mr. Wilkins the Classical Roots Musical Achievement Award.

During his conducting career, he has been featured with orchestras throughout the United States, including the Dallas Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony and the National Symphony in Washington D.C. He is also a frequent guest conductor of the New Jersey Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, San Diego Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Recent debuts include appearances with the Rochester (NY) Philharmonic, the Utah Symphony and the Boston Symphony. Future engagements include returns to Boston as well as the symphonies of Atlanta, Indianapolis, Dallas, San Diego and New Jersey.

Thomas Wilkins also serves as a director at large for the Greater Omaha chamber of Commerce, and has served on the board of directors of such organizations as the Center Against Spouse Abuse in Tampa Bay, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Academy Preparatory Center for Education, both in St. Petersburg. Currently, he serves as chairman of the board for the Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.

A native of Norfolk, Va.., Thomas earned his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in 1978. In 1982, he was awarded the Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Thomas and his wife, Sheri-Lee, reside in Omaha with their twin daughters, Erica and Nicole.

Yadires Nova-Salcedo is the Emmy Award nominated host and producer of “Centro,” a special news segment that airs on WBZ-TV Saturdays 7:00-9:00AM. “Centro” examines issues of importance to the Latino community including education, politics, current events and entertainment.

Nova-Salcedo joined WBZ-TV in February 1996. She began her television career at WCVB-TV in Boston while still a student in middle school. Her numerous and varied roles throughout her tenure at WCVB included working as a production assistant on “Good Day” in 1990 and as an on-air spokesperson for Hispanic audiences for the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.

After graduating from Emerson College in Boston, Nova-Salcedo joined WUNI-TV in Needham, Massachusetts, an affiliate of the Spanish language television network Univision, where she was the news director, producer, editor and lead anchor from 1993 to 1995. In addition to her current position at WBZ-TV, Nova-Salcedo performs voice-overs for various companies and does other on and off-air production work. She was on the Board of Governors of the Boston/New England Chapter of the National Television Academy (NATAS) and is a member of the Latino Professional Network as well as the New England Ad Club. Nova-Salcedo plays an active role in the Latino community by speaking at schools and emceeing charitable events throughout New England.

Nova-Salcedo was born in the Dominican Republic and was raised in the Greater Boston area. She graduated from Emerson College in Boston in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in broadcast journalism. She currently lives in Canton with her husband, daughter and son. Boston’s WBZ-TV is owned and operated by CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation.

ADDRESS
State Room
60 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02109

DETAILS
There is a parking garage located at 60 State Street.
PLEASE NOTE: you need to take a right into Merchant Row
(look for Starbucks on your right).

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Vicki Amalfitano VP, Marketing Partners Healthcare	Julie Andrade VP/Human Resources Manager Eaton Vance
William Bacic New England Managing Partner -committee chair Deloitte & Touche LLP	Carla Bettano VP, Business Development NHP
Leah Brunson Marketing Manager Microsoft	Barbara Calautti Director, NE Region Sales, Marketing & Business Development Deloitte & Touche LLP
John Coombe VP Communications Liberty Mutual	Peter Caruso Partner Prince Lobel
Barbara Gibson Director of Local Advertising The Boston Globe	David Ford Senior Education Solutions Specialist EMC
Linda Graves Director of Diversity Gilbane	Mike Gillespie Senior Vice President Telemundo
Tara Knowles Senior Marketing Manager Deloitte & Touche LLP	Rene Jarquin Sr. Portfolio Manager BNY Mellon
Joanna Lane Manager, Diversity and Inclusion Digitas	Daniel Koh Advisor to the Mayor City of Boston
Allison McCann Sales Development Manager The Boston Globe	Dan Lyons SVP, Managing Director, HR Allen & Gerritsen
Martin Mitchell Senior Manager of Staffing & Diversity Ocean Spray	Taidgh McClory SVP Marketing CB Richard Ellis
Gerry Powderly Partner Deloitte & Touche LLP	Trevor Nardini SVP Group Account Director Arnold
Michael Scannell SVP, Head of Global Inclusion State Street	Dana Rashti VP, Strategic Marketing and Communications Harvard Pilgram
Marjorie Shaw Media Director Staples	Asha Shamdasani Senior Marketing Coordinator MetroPCS
Sarah Sykora Chief Marketing Officer Babson	Sandra Sims-Williams SVP, Diversity & Inclusion Vivaki
Seth van der Swaagh Product Solutions Principal Google	Javier Torres Senior Manager Deloitte & Touche LLP
Seth van der Swaagh Product Solutions Principal Google	Natasha Varyani Attorney McCarter English
Natasha Varyani Attorney McCarter English



Bill Bacic Deloitte & Touche LLP	Keith Peden Raytheon
Milton Benjamin Initiative for a New Economy	Joan Reede MD Harvard Medical School
Beverly Edgehill The Partnership, Inc.	Billie Rosoff
Deborah Enos Neighborhood Health Plan	Katherine Sloan Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Carol Fulp John Hancock	Robert Turner Commonwealth Compact
Andrew Graff Allen & Gerritsen
Hannah Grove State Street Corporation
Kathy Kiely The Ad Club



Argus Communications with Neighborhood Health Plan Arnold Worldwide with The American Legacy Foundation BankBoston Bell Atlantic Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Boston Red Sox Boy Scouts of America Boston Minute Man Council Colette Phillips Communications, Inc. Deloitte & Touche LLP Fleet Boston Financial Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc. Holland & Knight LLP Houghton Mifflin Initiative For A New Economy John Hancock Financial Services Massachusetts Convention Center Authority Mellon New England Neighborhood Health Plan Nixon Peabody LLP PARTNERS+simons with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts PARTNERS+simons with the United Way of Massachusetts Bay Progressive in partnership with Arnold Worldwide Orbitz in Partnership with Mullen & Barkbark Pendelton James Raytheon Sovereign Bank State Street Stop & Shop Trinity Communications Whitehead Mann Nachelle Gordon: Founder & Executive Director, Future Leaders by Design Paul Francisco: Vice President, Client Relationship Management, Veritude Michael James: Chief Diversity Officer, Boston Architectural College Hubie Jones: Dean Emeritus, Boston University School of Social Work Karen Kaplan: President, Hill Holliday Gloria Nemerowicz: President, Pine Manor College Daniel E. Rivers: Founder & President, Nexus Alliance Annapoorni Sankaran: Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP Sandra Sims-Williams: SVP, People Insights & Inclusion, Vivaki Gail Snowden: Fleet Boston Financial Seidu Sumani: Senior Manager & New England Diversity Council Leader, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP Deborah Washington: Director of Diversity, Patient Care Services, Massachusetts General Hospital Benaree Wiley: President and CEO, The Partnership Inc.

Interested in sponsoring The Rosoff Awards?
Contact Michael Mish at Michael@adclub.org or call at 617.262.1100x12.


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