PBLN Board of Directors

PBLN Honorary Co-Chairs

James Roosevelt, Jr.
President & CEO
Tufts Health Plan


Steve Grossman
Chairman
Grossman Marketing Group

PBLN Co-Chairs

Dr. Joshua Boger
Founder & CEO (retired)
Vertex Pharmaceuticals


Jeffrey J. Bussgang
General Partner
Flybridge Capital Partners


Chris Gabrieli
Chairman, 
Massachusetts 2020






Board of Directors


David Belluck

Managing Partner 
Riverside Partners LLC

James F. Boyle

President & CEO

Sustainability Roundtable, Inc.

Cheryl Cronin, Esq. 
Partner 
Cronin & Leonard LLP

Robert Crowe

Co-Managing Partner
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Thomas D. Dretler

President & CEO 
Eduventures, Inc.

Philip J. Edmundson

Chairman & CEO
William Gallagher Associates, Inc.

Mark Shirman

President & CEO
Glasshouse Technologies

Paul Egerman

Co-founder and former CEO
eScription, Inc.

Norman W. Gorin

Former Managing Principal & CFO 
Analysis Group, Inc.

Diane Hessan

President & CEO 
Communispace Corporation

Janet Kraus

Entrepreneur in Residence
Harvard Business School

Gloria Cordes Larson
President 
Bentley University


Sandy Lish

Founder & Principal
The Castle Group, Inc.

Jack Manning

President & CEO
Boston Capital Corporation

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor 
Harvard Business School

Paul Sagan

President & CEO
Akamai Technologies

Andrea C. Silbert

President
Eos Foundation

Kirk A. Sykes

Senior Vice President, New Boston Fund, Inc., & President, Urban Strategy America Fund, L.P.

Mitchell G. Tyson

CEO & Director 
Advanced Electron Beams

Member Spotlight

Diane Hessan, President & CEO - Communispace
According to Advertising Age Communispace is one of the fastest growing marketing and technology companies in the country, with a Blue Chip client list that would make a Madison Avenue giant jealous. A pioneer in creating online communities to help marketers deeply engage customers, Diane helped found Communispace in 1999 and hasn't looked back.