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Board Governance Commitee; ACT Oversight Committee

Board Member since 2012
Greg Gallopoulos is Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of General Dynamics Corporation, a diversified defense and aerospace company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. Before joining General Dynamics in 2008, Mr. Gallopoulos served as national managing partner of Jenner & Block LLP, an AmLaw 100 law firm. He is a member of the American Bar Association, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the International Bar Association. He is a trustee of WETA, Inc., a director of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, a trustee of The Supreme Court Historical Society, a trustee of the Foundation for International Law, and board member of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. Mr. Gallopoulos holds a JD, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School (1984) and an AB with highest honors from the University of Michigan (1981).

Executive Committee – Vice Chair; International School Oversight Committee – Chair; High School Oversight Committee; Elementary School Oversight Committee; Finance Committee; Institutional Advancement Committee

Board Member since 2006
Jack Florentin (‘66) is the founder, President and CEO of Sarah Lawrence S.A., a women’s apparel manufacturer and retailer, that today distributes Sarah Lawrence Jeans and the Danish brand Fransa. Previously, Mr. Florentin was Sales Director for northern Greece at Aigaion Textiles S.A. (1979-1982) and civil engineer at Treadwell Corporation in New York (1971-1973). He served on the Board of Directors of the Columbia University Alumni Club of Greece (2003-2006), was President of Stavronikita, a resort housing complex with 500 units in Sani, Chalkidiki (2003-2007) and President of the Anatolia College Alumni Association (1996-2000). Mr. Florentin has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Fulbright Foundation since 2003 and an interviewer for Columbia University candidates since 1998, and has also served as Chairman of the interview committee. He has also been a member of the Executive Committee of the Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece since 2013. Mr. Florentin received a BS (1970) and MS (1971) in Civil Engineering from the School of Engineering, Columbia University, and an MBA from Columbia Business School (1975).

Elementary School Oversight Committee; High School Oversight Committee; Facilities Committee

Board Member since 2005
Leonidas Evangelidis (‘53) entered the Greek diplomatic service in 1961. He served among other, as Ambassador of Greece to Iraq, Poland and Germany, as well as Permanent Representative of Greece to the European Union. After leaving the Foreign Service in 1996, he became Director General for Foreign and Security Policy at the Council Secretariat of the European Union, from which he retired in 2000. In view of the 2004 Athens Olympics, he was appointed Secretary General at the Ministry of Public Order, a posting he kept until 2006 to become Chairman and CEO of the Center for Security Studies (2006-2007) and later member of the Board of Directors of the Telecommunications Organization of Greece (2008-2010). Leonidas Evangelidis studied Law and Economics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1959).

Chairman of the Board; Member of all Committees Ex-Officio

Board Member since 1986
Albert H. (Chip) Elfner, III, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and CFA, is a former CEO of Keystone Investments and has more than thirty years’ experience in investment management. He currently serves as lead Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee for Unitil Corp. in Hampton, New Hampshire. Mr. Elfner is also the Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Main Street America Insurance Co. in Jacksonville, Florida, and a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society. Mr. Elfner is a former President of Mountain Lake Corporation. In addition to his involvement in the investment management field, Mr. Elfner has served as a Trustee for several educational institutions, including the New England Colleges Fund (former President), Middlesex School, and Middlebury College, his alma mater, where he served as Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee. Mr. Elfner is currently a Trustee of the Trustees of the Donations of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. Mr. Elfner received his Bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College and completed the AMP program at Harvard Business School.

Executive Committee – Treasurer of the Board; Finance Committee – Chair; Audit Committee

Board Member since 1992
Robert L. DeNormandie is an independent director of various fund and non-fund entities and lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Mr. DeNormandie founded the Directors Office in Luxembourg in 2004 until his retirement in 2016. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer at Pioneer Global Asset Management, Unicredit Bank Group (2001-2003). Mr. DeNormandie worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (previously Coopers & Lybrand) (1977-2001), where he was admitted to the partnership in 1992. He and Eliana spent three years in Algeria with a “Peace Corps-esque” mainstream religious development organization, where his responsibilities included obtaining support from organizations in Europe and the US for development projects, recruitment of teachers, doctors and engineers and support for recruits working in Algeria. Mr. DeNormandie received a BA cum laude in Economics from Harvard College (1966), and a Fulbright from the Swiss government to study in Geneva, where he obtained a license in International Studies from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva (1968). He passed the CPA examination after receiving an MS in Accounting from the Northeastern University Graduate School of Professional Accounting (1978).

Long Range Planning Committee

Board Member since 2013
Madeline Demoulas works at Demoulas & Market Basket Supermarkets based in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. She is on the Store Operations Team and oversees 77 checkouts. She also manages the customer service program throughout the chain. Prior to joining her family business, she worked in the Human Resources Department at Admirals Bank. Ms. Demoulas enjoys being involved in the Boston community, and she currently volunteers as the Auction Chair for a local non-profit organization, known as Runway for Recovery. During her spring semester of 2011, she studied abroad at The American College of Thessaloniki. Throughout her four years at Boston College, she was a member of the board and staff of the student newspaper, “The Heights”. Ms. Demoulas served as the Local Sales Advertising Manager and wrote a weekly column. She is an avid sailor, and spent several summers teaching sailing on Cape Cod during high school and college. Ms. Demoulas attended high school at the Middlesex School in Concord, MA and graduated from Boston College with a BA in English (2012).

Executive Committee; Board Governance Committee; High School Oversight Committee – Chair; CTY & Ancillary Activities Committee

Board Member since 2010
Constantinos S. Constantinidis (‘81) is Managing Director and Vice-President of PELOPAC S.A. in Thessaloniki, Greece, a company manufacturing Greek and Mediterranean specialty foods for export markets, especially the US and UK. Mr. Constantinidis has participated in the summerhouse residences development “Ktima Constantinidis” in Halkidiki, Greece, and in other real estate projects. He is the Vice President of the Federation of Industries of Northern Greece (FING) and a member of the board of various NGOs. Mr. Constantinidis received a BSC in Mechanical Engineering from Queen Mary College, University of London (1984), and an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business (1986).

Executive Committee; Investment Committee; Long-Range Planning Committee

Board Member since 1981
John H. (Jack) Clymer has practiced with the Boston law firm of Nixon Peabody LLP and previously with Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar since 1965. Mr. Clymer is a member of the Massachusetts, Boston and American Bar Associations, and has been active on committees focused on estate planning, probate and non-profit organization matters. He is named in Best Lawyers in America, Trusts and Estates field, and is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a member of its Practice and Charitable Planning Committees. Mr. Clymer is a contributor to The Handbook of Estate Planning (Crumbley, ed., Dow Jones-Irwin, 1988), Massachusetts Probate Manual (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2003-2011), Massachusetts Non-profit Organizations (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2007-2011), and with two of his partners has written Massachusetts Estate Planning and Administration, a two-volume practice guide for professionals, published and supplemented annually by Lexis Publishing. Mr. Clymer is a director of Boston Private Bank and Trust Company. He serves as a trustee of Sofia American Schools, Inc. (Sofia, Bulgaria), and is the President of the Boston Bar Foundation. Mr. Clymer lives in Concord, Massachusetts, and currently serves on the town’s Historic Districts Commission. Mr. Clymer received a BA degree in American Civilization from Princeton University (1962) and a JD from Harvard Law School (1965).

Facilities Committee

Board Member since 2010
Panayotis M. (Notis) Bernitsas has been the Managing Partner of M&P Bernitsas Law Offices since 1984 and continues to have an active, broad-based commercial practice. He is particularly well known for his EU and Competition practice and has represented clients in many high profile cartel cases before the Greek Competition Commission. Mr. Bernitsas leads the Project Finance & Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) team and has been heavily involved in the majority of the concession projects undertaken in Greece since the opening of the market, including all six motorway projects, advising concessionaires, lending banks and contracting authorities. He also led the firm’s teams which contributed to the development of the first legislative structure governing Project Finance by preparing a draft of the law on the granting and operation of concession projects for works and services on behalf of the Ministry of National Economy and the new law on PPPs. His vast experience in privatizations includes an impressive track record of involvement in many of the major and groundbreaking transactions which have taken place in Greece. Mr. Bernitsas’ dispute resolution expertise comprises representing his clients before the High Courts and in numerous arbitrations. He also acts as an arbitrator at the International Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Bernitsas was Assistant Professor and subsequently Associate Professor of International Economic Law, the Law of International Business Transactions and European Community Law at the University of Thrace (1983-2007). He has also served as Counsel to the Prime Minister on EU matters (1989-1990).

CTY & Ancillary Activities Committee; Wellbeing Committee

Board Member since 2012
Maria Behrakis is a community activist focused on education and Greek American philanthropy. A mother of three children, she has served as PTO President of the General John Nixon School, and also as a member of the School Advisory Council. In addition, Mrs. Behrakis is a member of the Hellenic Women’s Club, an association founded in 1936, which supports Boston area charities, and along with her husband she is active in Leadership 100, a Greek American service organization committed to preserving Hellenism and Orthodoxy in America. She also does volunteer work in support of the Behrakis Family Endowment at Boston College which was founded in 2001 for the advancement of Hellenic Studies and the promotion of travel abroad to Greece. In her previous professional career, she was with Putnam Investments and Fidelity Investments (1990-1997). Mrs. Behrakis received a BA in Economics with a minor in Computer Science from Brandeis University (1990).