Volunteer Consulting Group/boardnetUSA
vcg
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VCG BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CHAIR
Jean-Marc Cuvilly
Partner, Triago LLC
Daniel M. Flax
Chief Information Officer
Cowen & Company
Marc G. Goldberg
Partner, Anchin, Block & Anchin, LLP
Lukas Haynes
Vice President, Mertz Gilmore Foundation
Barratt H. Jaruzelski
Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer
Booz Allen Hamilton
Lee Kempler
Partner, McKinsey & Co., Inc.
Jeffrey S. Klein
Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP
J. Robert Lieber
CEO, OriginalThought, LLC
Margaretta R. Noonan
Chief Administrative Officer
Hudson Highland Group
Susan O’Neill
Principal, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
Francis Carling, Esq.
Collazo Carling & Mish LLP
T.J. Dermot Dunphy*
Kildare Enterprises, LLC
Thomas P. Ference
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
David Furer
McKinsey & Co.
James G. Greilsheimer, Esq.
Blank Rome LLP
Daniel Kurtz, Esq.
Holland & Knight LLP
Lois Leatherman
Formerly of JPMorganChase
Marcel Legrand
Formerly of Monster.com
Gregory K. Marks
Katsky Korins LLP
William T. Merritt
National Black United Fund
Frederick B. Putney
The Riverside Group
Nicholas Rudd
The Anderson Rudd Company
Peter G. Scotese
Springs Industries
Kim St. Bernard
Girl Scouts of the USA
Harold Tanner*
Tanner & Co.
Mary Ann Van Osdol
Arthur H. White
Yankelovich Partners
John C. Whitehead*
AEA Investors, Inc.
Byron R. Wien*
Pequot Capital Management, Inc.
*Founding Trustees
STAFF
David M. LaGreca
Brenda Baker
Rhoda Barr
Christina Bostic
Evy A. Gonzalez
Angie L. Harris
Tanya Lewis-Kelly
Lynda A. Zakrzewski
DAVID M. LAGRECA
Mr. LaGreca has recently been appointed VCG's Transitional Executive Director. Prior to this position Mr. LaGreca founded The LaGreca Company. He has extensive experience in working with corporate and nonprofit executives in areas as diverse as performance coaching, to refining and redefining business operations. Over the past 4 years, he has served three of his clients as Interim Executive Director. He recently completed a $30M merger of two social service agencies in Manhattan and on the dissolution of a long established workforce program. In 2006 he completed a business plan to create a young adult workforce development intermediary focused on the challenge of out of school, out of work young adults. Since then, he served first as Interim Administrative Director and now as a Board member of the organization, JOBSFIRSTNYC. Prior to establishing The LaGreca Company (TLC) in 1999, David spent eight years as a consultant at the Volunteer Consulting Group (VCG). A graduate of the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Belgium, & a former priest, Mr. LaGreca received his MBA in Management & Marketing from the Columbia University School of Business.
Before joining VCG in 1991, Mr. LaGreca was the Administrator for the Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, managing a department with a budget of over $27M and a staff of 130 employees. He also taught at Boston and Providence Colleges, wrote a newspaper column in Rhode Island and spent over fifteen years working with community-based health care organizations caring for terminal patients. He currently serves as the Board Chair of JOBSFIRSTNYC and on the Board of Governance Matters and the Advisory Board for the MBA-Nonprofit Connection.
Mr. LaGreca served on the Boards of Hospice Care of Rhode Island and McAuley House (Providence, RI). He served as Chair of the board of Body Positive of New York-a position he held for five years. A native of Rhode Island, Mr. LaGreca has lived, worked and studied in Belgium, England, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Massachusetts and Tanzania.
Mr. LaGreca contributed a chapter on chairing a board to SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL BOARDS: The Best from the Non-Profit Pros (compiled and edited by Carol Weisman, 1998), a chapter on fundraising in the corporate community in SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL FUND RAISING, and a chapter on implementation issues surrounding strategic planning in a new book, SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL RETREATS.