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Fidelity Charitable is governed by a Board of Trustees which is composed of a group of working and retired professionals who are responsible for overseeing all aspects of the operations of Fidelity Charitable, including:
Lenny Mendonca
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022. He was the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014. He serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps, and Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm. Nancy recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent. Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the Board Chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Nancy is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her BS from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since September 2017. She is the President and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank. Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, The Forsyth Institute and New Market Community Partners. Catherine is board member of Eastern Bank and a former board member of The Boston Foundation, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Basic Health International and Feeding America. Catherine received her BA from the University of San Francisco, Certificate of Management from Smith College and Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution of Harbor Capital. John is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations. Prior to joining Harbor, John was employed as the Head of Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore, MD. John was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians. Previously he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary focused business unit. John began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity, until his role as Vice President when he left in 2001. John received his B.A. from Cornell University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. John is also a board member of Catholic Charities – Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. As president of the Schultz Family Foundation and head of philanthropy at the Emes Project LLC, she partners with the Schultz family to accelerate the family’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility in America. Before her current role, Tyra was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a new kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems. Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education in the Obama administration, helping to shape policies and programs impacting education and leading interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Tyra launched entrepreneurial efforts to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Tyra began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds which oversees approximately 290 funds and approximately $1.3 trillion in assets. She retired from Fidelity Investments after 14+ years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International (FIL) overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, Jenny was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston. Jenny sits on the Boards or Advisory Boards of several not-for-profit entities including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a JD from Columbia Law School.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and is a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. While a Visiting Scholar, Rosie launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focusing on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on American currency and in statues of women in public places. Upon her resignation as Treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as Treasurer, Rosie was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. She received her BA from Harvard University. As a philanthropist, Rosie is particularly interested in community and human services.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Todd is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions. Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post-secondary completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region as well as the state of Texas. Todd also served for eight years as the Education Policy Advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Todd is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife Abby, Todd was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and in 2007 they also helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 free tuition public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children living in limited income homes in northwest Dallas. Todd was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in 2020 to serve on the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation; the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance; and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding. Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Todd served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm. Todd earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2021. He is the Senior Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. He is responsible for leading the company’s global compliance (the Office of Business Integrity & Ethics), global litigation, global employment law, enterprise risk management and business continuity organizations. Before taking on his current role in 2017, he was the chief litigation counsel and also served as the company’s interim head of compliance and interim head of human resources. His previous professional experience includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. Mr. Wilmot previously was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court. He has served on the boards and advisory committees of numerous nonprofit, civic and for-profit organizations, including the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission (by gubernatorial appointment), the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, HarborOne Bank and the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. In 2010, the Boston Business Journal recognized him as one of Boston’s outstanding business leaders under the age of 40. He has also been honored as one of Boston’s most influential people of color in healthcare and life sciences. Mr. Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
Nancy Altobello
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022. He was the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014. He serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps, and Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm. Nancy recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent. Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the Board Chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Nancy is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her BS from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since September 2017. She is the President and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank. Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, The Forsyth Institute and New Market Community Partners. Catherine is board member of Eastern Bank and a former board member of The Boston Foundation, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Basic Health International and Feeding America. Catherine received her BA from the University of San Francisco, Certificate of Management from Smith College and Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution of Harbor Capital. John is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations. Prior to joining Harbor, John was employed as the Head of Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore, MD. John was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians. Previously he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary focused business unit. John began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity, until his role as Vice President when he left in 2001. John received his B.A. from Cornell University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. John is also a board member of Catholic Charities – Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. As president of the Schultz Family Foundation and head of philanthropy at the Emes Project LLC, she partners with the Schultz family to accelerate the family’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility in America. Before her current role, Tyra was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a new kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems. Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education in the Obama administration, helping to shape policies and programs impacting education and leading interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Tyra launched entrepreneurial efforts to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Tyra began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds which oversees approximately 290 funds and approximately $1.3 trillion in assets. She retired from Fidelity Investments after 14+ years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International (FIL) overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, Jenny was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston. Jenny sits on the Boards or Advisory Boards of several not-for-profit entities including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a JD from Columbia Law School.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and is a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. While a Visiting Scholar, Rosie launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focusing on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on American currency and in statues of women in public places. Upon her resignation as Treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as Treasurer, Rosie was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. She received her BA from Harvard University. As a philanthropist, Rosie is particularly interested in community and human services.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Todd is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions. Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post-secondary completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region as well as the state of Texas. Todd also served for eight years as the Education Policy Advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Todd is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife Abby, Todd was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and in 2007 they also helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 free tuition public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children living in limited income homes in northwest Dallas. Todd was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in 2020 to serve on the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation; the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance; and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding. Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Todd served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm. Todd earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2021. He is the Senior Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. He is responsible for leading the company’s global compliance (the Office of Business Integrity & Ethics), global litigation, global employment law, enterprise risk management and business continuity organizations. Before taking on his current role in 2017, he was the chief litigation counsel and also served as the company’s interim head of compliance and interim head of human resources. His previous professional experience includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. Mr. Wilmot previously was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court. He has served on the boards and advisory committees of numerous nonprofit, civic and for-profit organizations, including the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission (by gubernatorial appointment), the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, HarborOne Bank and the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. In 2010, the Boston Business Journal recognized him as one of Boston’s outstanding business leaders under the age of 40. He has also been honored as one of Boston’s most influential people of color in healthcare and life sciences. Mr. Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
Catherine D'Amato
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022. He was the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014. He serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps, and Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm. Nancy recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent. Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the Board Chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Nancy is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her BS from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since September 2017. She is the President and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank. Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, The Forsyth Institute and New Market Community Partners. Catherine is board member of Eastern Bank and a former board member of The Boston Foundation, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Basic Health International and Feeding America. Catherine received her BA from the University of San Francisco, Certificate of Management from Smith College and Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution of Harbor Capital. John is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations. Prior to joining Harbor, John was employed as the Head of Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore, MD. John was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians. Previously he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary focused business unit. John began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity, until his role as Vice President when he left in 2001. John received his B.A. from Cornell University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. John is also a board member of Catholic Charities – Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. As president of the Schultz Family Foundation and head of philanthropy at the Emes Project LLC, she partners with the Schultz family to accelerate the family’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility in America. Before her current role, Tyra was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a new kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems. Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education in the Obama administration, helping to shape policies and programs impacting education and leading interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Tyra launched entrepreneurial efforts to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Tyra began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds which oversees approximately 290 funds and approximately $1.3 trillion in assets. She retired from Fidelity Investments after 14+ years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International (FIL) overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, Jenny was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston. Jenny sits on the Boards or Advisory Boards of several not-for-profit entities including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a JD from Columbia Law School.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and is a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. While a Visiting Scholar, Rosie launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focusing on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on American currency and in statues of women in public places. Upon her resignation as Treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as Treasurer, Rosie was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. She received her BA from Harvard University. As a philanthropist, Rosie is particularly interested in community and human services.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Todd is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions. Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post-secondary completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region as well as the state of Texas. Todd also served for eight years as the Education Policy Advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Todd is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife Abby, Todd was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and in 2007 they also helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 free tuition public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children living in limited income homes in northwest Dallas. Todd was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in 2020 to serve on the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation; the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance; and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding. Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Todd served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm. Todd earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2021. He is the Senior Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. He is responsible for leading the company’s global compliance (the Office of Business Integrity & Ethics), global litigation, global employment law, enterprise risk management and business continuity organizations. Before taking on his current role in 2017, he was the chief litigation counsel and also served as the company’s interim head of compliance and interim head of human resources. His previous professional experience includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. Mr. Wilmot previously was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court. He has served on the boards and advisory committees of numerous nonprofit, civic and for-profit organizations, including the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission (by gubernatorial appointment), the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, HarborOne Bank and the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. In 2010, the Boston Business Journal recognized him as one of Boston’s outstanding business leaders under the age of 40. He has also been honored as one of Boston’s most influential people of color in healthcare and life sciences. Mr. Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
John Halaby
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022. He was the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014. He serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps, and Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm. Nancy recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent. Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the Board Chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Nancy is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her BS from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since September 2017. She is the President and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank. Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, The Forsyth Institute and New Market Community Partners. Catherine is board member of Eastern Bank and a former board member of The Boston Foundation, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Basic Health International and Feeding America. Catherine received her BA from the University of San Francisco, Certificate of Management from Smith College and Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution of Harbor Capital. John is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations. Prior to joining Harbor, John was employed as the Head of Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore, MD. John was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians. Previously he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary focused business unit. John began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity, until his role as Vice President when he left in 2001. John received his B.A. from Cornell University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. John is also a board member of Catholic Charities – Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. As president of the Schultz Family Foundation and head of philanthropy at the Emes Project LLC, she partners with the Schultz family to accelerate the family’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility in America. Before her current role, Tyra was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a new kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems. Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education in the Obama administration, helping to shape policies and programs impacting education and leading interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Tyra launched entrepreneurial efforts to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Tyra began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds which oversees approximately 290 funds and approximately $1.3 trillion in assets. She retired from Fidelity Investments after 14+ years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International (FIL) overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, Jenny was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston. Jenny sits on the Boards or Advisory Boards of several not-for-profit entities including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a JD from Columbia Law School.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and is a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. While a Visiting Scholar, Rosie launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focusing on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on American currency and in statues of women in public places. Upon her resignation as Treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as Treasurer, Rosie was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. She received her BA from Harvard University. As a philanthropist, Rosie is particularly interested in community and human services.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Todd is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions. Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post-secondary completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region as well as the state of Texas. Todd also served for eight years as the Education Policy Advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Todd is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife Abby, Todd was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and in 2007 they also helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 free tuition public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children living in limited income homes in northwest Dallas. Todd was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in 2020 to serve on the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation; the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance; and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding. Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Todd served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm. Todd earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2021. He is the Senior Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. He is responsible for leading the company’s global compliance (the Office of Business Integrity & Ethics), global litigation, global employment law, enterprise risk management and business continuity organizations. Before taking on his current role in 2017, he was the chief litigation counsel and also served as the company’s interim head of compliance and interim head of human resources. His previous professional experience includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. Mr. Wilmot previously was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court. He has served on the boards and advisory committees of numerous nonprofit, civic and for-profit organizations, including the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission (by gubernatorial appointment), the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, HarborOne Bank and the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. In 2010, the Boston Business Journal recognized him as one of Boston’s outstanding business leaders under the age of 40. He has also been honored as one of Boston’s most influential people of color in healthcare and life sciences. Mr. Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
Tyra A. Mariani
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022. He was the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014. He serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps, and Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm. Nancy recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent. Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the Board Chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Nancy is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her BS from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since September 2017. She is the President and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank. Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, The Forsyth Institute and New Market Community Partners. Catherine is board member of Eastern Bank and a former board member of The Boston Foundation, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Basic Health International and Feeding America. Catherine received her BA from the University of San Francisco, Certificate of Management from Smith College and Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution of Harbor Capital. John is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations. Prior to joining Harbor, John was employed as the Head of Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore, MD. John was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians. Previously he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary focused business unit. John began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity, until his role as Vice President when he left in 2001. John received his B.A. from Cornell University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. John is also a board member of Catholic Charities – Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. As president of the Schultz Family Foundation and head of philanthropy at the Emes Project LLC, she partners with the Schultz family to accelerate the family’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility in America. Before her current role, Tyra was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a new kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems. Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education in the Obama administration, helping to shape policies and programs impacting education and leading interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Tyra launched entrepreneurial efforts to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Tyra began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds which oversees approximately 290 funds and approximately $1.3 trillion in assets. She retired from Fidelity Investments after 14+ years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International (FIL) overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, Jenny was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston. Jenny sits on the Boards or Advisory Boards of several not-for-profit entities including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a JD from Columbia Law School.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and is a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. While a Visiting Scholar, Rosie launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focusing on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on American currency and in statues of women in public places. Upon her resignation as Treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as Treasurer, Rosie was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. She received her BA from Harvard University. As a philanthropist, Rosie is particularly interested in community and human services.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Todd is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions. Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post-secondary completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region as well as the state of Texas. Todd also served for eight years as the Education Policy Advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Todd is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife Abby, Todd was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and in 2007 they also helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 free tuition public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children living in limited income homes in northwest Dallas. Todd was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in 2020 to serve on the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation; the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance; and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding. Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Todd served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm. Todd earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2021. He is the Senior Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. He is responsible for leading the company’s global compliance (the Office of Business Integrity & Ethics), global litigation, global employment law, enterprise risk management and business continuity organizations. Before taking on his current role in 2017, he was the chief litigation counsel and also served as the company’s interim head of compliance and interim head of human resources. His previous professional experience includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. Mr. Wilmot previously was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court. He has served on the boards and advisory committees of numerous nonprofit, civic and for-profit organizations, including the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission (by gubernatorial appointment), the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, HarborOne Bank and the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. In 2010, the Boston Business Journal recognized him as one of Boston’s outstanding business leaders under the age of 40. He has also been honored as one of Boston’s most influential people of color in healthcare and life sciences. Mr. Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
Jennifer Toolin McAuliffe
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022. He was the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014. He serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps, and Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm. Nancy recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent. Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the Board Chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Nancy is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her BS from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since September 2017. She is the President and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank. Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, The Forsyth Institute and New Market Community Partners. Catherine is board member of Eastern Bank and a former board member of The Boston Foundation, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Basic Health International and Feeding America. Catherine received her BA from the University of San Francisco, Certificate of Management from Smith College and Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution of Harbor Capital. John is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations. Prior to joining Harbor, John was employed as the Head of Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore, MD. John was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians. Previously he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary focused business unit. John began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity, until his role as Vice President when he left in 2001. John received his B.A. from Cornell University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. John is also a board member of Catholic Charities – Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. As president of the Schultz Family Foundation and head of philanthropy at the Emes Project LLC, she partners with the Schultz family to accelerate the family’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility in America. Before her current role, Tyra was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a new kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems. Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education in the Obama administration, helping to shape policies and programs impacting education and leading interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Tyra launched entrepreneurial efforts to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Tyra began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds which oversees approximately 290 funds and approximately $1.3 trillion in assets. She retired from Fidelity Investments after 14+ years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International (FIL) overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, Jenny was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston. Jenny sits on the Boards or Advisory Boards of several not-for-profit entities including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a JD from Columbia Law School.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and is a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. While a Visiting Scholar, Rosie launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focusing on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on American currency and in statues of women in public places. Upon her resignation as Treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as Treasurer, Rosie was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. She received her BA from Harvard University. As a philanthropist, Rosie is particularly interested in community and human services.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Todd is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions. Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post-secondary completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region as well as the state of Texas. Todd also served for eight years as the Education Policy Advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Todd is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife Abby, Todd was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and in 2007 they also helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 free tuition public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children living in limited income homes in northwest Dallas. Todd was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in 2020 to serve on the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation; the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance; and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding. Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Todd served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm. Todd earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2021. He is the Senior Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. He is responsible for leading the company’s global compliance (the Office of Business Integrity & Ethics), global litigation, global employment law, enterprise risk management and business continuity organizations. Before taking on his current role in 2017, he was the chief litigation counsel and also served as the company’s interim head of compliance and interim head of human resources. His previous professional experience includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. Mr. Wilmot previously was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court. He has served on the boards and advisory committees of numerous nonprofit, civic and for-profit organizations, including the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission (by gubernatorial appointment), the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, HarborOne Bank and the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. In 2010, the Boston Business Journal recognized him as one of Boston’s outstanding business leaders under the age of 40. He has also been honored as one of Boston’s most influential people of color in healthcare and life sciences. Mr. Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
Rosie Rios
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022. He was the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014. He serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps, and Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm. Nancy recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent. Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the Board Chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Nancy is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her BS from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since September 2017. She is the President and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank. Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, The Forsyth Institute and New Market Community Partners. Catherine is board member of Eastern Bank and a former board member of The Boston Foundation, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Basic Health International and Feeding America. Catherine received her BA from the University of San Francisco, Certificate of Management from Smith College and Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution of Harbor Capital. John is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations. Prior to joining Harbor, John was employed as the Head of Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore, MD. John was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians. Previously he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary focused business unit. John began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity, until his role as Vice President when he left in 2001. John received his B.A. from Cornell University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. John is also a board member of Catholic Charities – Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. As president of the Schultz Family Foundation and head of philanthropy at the Emes Project LLC, she partners with the Schultz family to accelerate the family’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility in America. Before her current role, Tyra was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a new kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems. Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education in the Obama administration, helping to shape policies and programs impacting education and leading interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Tyra launched entrepreneurial efforts to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Tyra began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds which oversees approximately 290 funds and approximately $1.3 trillion in assets. She retired from Fidelity Investments after 14+ years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International (FIL) overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, Jenny was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston. Jenny sits on the Boards or Advisory Boards of several not-for-profit entities including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a JD from Columbia Law School.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and is a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. While a Visiting Scholar, Rosie launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focusing on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on American currency and in statues of women in public places. Upon her resignation as Treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as Treasurer, Rosie was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. She received her BA from Harvard University. As a philanthropist, Rosie is particularly interested in community and human services.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Todd is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions. Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post-secondary completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region as well as the state of Texas. Todd also served for eight years as the Education Policy Advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Todd is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife Abby, Todd was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and in 2007 they also helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 free tuition public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children living in limited income homes in northwest Dallas. Todd was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in 2020 to serve on the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation; the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance; and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding. Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Todd served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm. Todd earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2021. He is the Senior Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. He is responsible for leading the company’s global compliance (the Office of Business Integrity & Ethics), global litigation, global employment law, enterprise risk management and business continuity organizations. Before taking on his current role in 2017, he was the chief litigation counsel and also served as the company’s interim head of compliance and interim head of human resources. His previous professional experience includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. Mr. Wilmot previously was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court. He has served on the boards and advisory committees of numerous nonprofit, civic and for-profit organizations, including the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission (by gubernatorial appointment), the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, HarborOne Bank and the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. In 2010, the Boston Business Journal recognized him as one of Boston’s outstanding business leaders under the age of 40. He has also been honored as one of Boston’s most influential people of color in healthcare and life sciences. Mr. Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
Todd Williams
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022. He was the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014. He serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps, and Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm. Nancy recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent. Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the Board Chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Nancy is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her BS from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since September 2017. She is the President and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank. Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, The Forsyth Institute and New Market Community Partners. Catherine is board member of Eastern Bank and a former board member of The Boston Foundation, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Basic Health International and Feeding America. Catherine received her BA from the University of San Francisco, Certificate of Management from Smith College and Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution of Harbor Capital. John is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations. Prior to joining Harbor, John was employed as the Head of Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore, MD. John was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians. Previously he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary focused business unit. John began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity, until his role as Vice President when he left in 2001. John received his B.A. from Cornell University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. John is also a board member of Catholic Charities – Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. As president of the Schultz Family Foundation and head of philanthropy at the Emes Project LLC, she partners with the Schultz family to accelerate the family’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility in America. Before her current role, Tyra was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a new kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems. Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education in the Obama administration, helping to shape policies and programs impacting education and leading interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Tyra launched entrepreneurial efforts to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Tyra began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds which oversees approximately 290 funds and approximately $1.3 trillion in assets. She retired from Fidelity Investments after 14+ years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International (FIL) overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, Jenny was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston. Jenny sits on the Boards or Advisory Boards of several not-for-profit entities including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a JD from Columbia Law School.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and is a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. While a Visiting Scholar, Rosie launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focusing on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on American currency and in statues of women in public places. Upon her resignation as Treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as Treasurer, Rosie was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. She received her BA from Harvard University. As a philanthropist, Rosie is particularly interested in community and human services.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Todd is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions. Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post-secondary completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region as well as the state of Texas. Todd also served for eight years as the Education Policy Advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Todd is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife Abby, Todd was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and in 2007 they also helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 free tuition public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children living in limited income homes in northwest Dallas. Todd was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in 2020 to serve on the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation; the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance; and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding. Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Todd served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm. Todd earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2021. He is the Senior Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. He is responsible for leading the company’s global compliance (the Office of Business Integrity & Ethics), global litigation, global employment law, enterprise risk management and business continuity organizations. Before taking on his current role in 2017, he was the chief litigation counsel and also served as the company’s interim head of compliance and interim head of human resources. His previous professional experience includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. Mr. Wilmot previously was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court. He has served on the boards and advisory committees of numerous nonprofit, civic and for-profit organizations, including the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission (by gubernatorial appointment), the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, HarborOne Bank and the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. In 2010, the Boston Business Journal recognized him as one of Boston’s outstanding business leaders under the age of 40. He has also been honored as one of Boston’s most influential people of color in healthcare and life sciences. Mr. Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
Damian Wilmot
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022. He was the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014. He serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps, and Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm. Nancy recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent. Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the Board Chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Nancy is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her BS from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since September 2017. She is the President and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank. Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, The Forsyth Institute and New Market Community Partners. Catherine is board member of Eastern Bank and a former board member of The Boston Foundation, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Basic Health International and Feeding America. Catherine received her BA from the University of San Francisco, Certificate of Management from Smith College and Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution of Harbor Capital. John is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations. Prior to joining Harbor, John was employed as the Head of Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore, MD. John was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians. Previously he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary focused business unit. John began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity, until his role as Vice President when he left in 2001. John received his B.A. from Cornell University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. John is also a board member of Catholic Charities – Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. As president of the Schultz Family Foundation and head of philanthropy at the Emes Project LLC, she partners with the Schultz family to accelerate the family’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility in America. Before her current role, Tyra was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a new kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems. Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education in the Obama administration, helping to shape policies and programs impacting education and leading interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Tyra launched entrepreneurial efforts to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Tyra began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds which oversees approximately 290 funds and approximately $1.3 trillion in assets. She retired from Fidelity Investments after 14+ years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International (FIL) overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, Jenny was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston. Jenny sits on the Boards or Advisory Boards of several not-for-profit entities including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a JD from Columbia Law School.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and is a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. While a Visiting Scholar, Rosie launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focusing on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on American currency and in statues of women in public places. Upon her resignation as Treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as Treasurer, Rosie was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. She received her BA from Harvard University. As a philanthropist, Rosie is particularly interested in community and human services.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Todd is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions. Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post-secondary completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region as well as the state of Texas. Todd also served for eight years as the Education Policy Advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Todd is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife Abby, Todd was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and in 2007 they also helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 free tuition public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children living in limited income homes in northwest Dallas. Todd was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in 2020 to serve on the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation; the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance; and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding. Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Todd served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm. Todd earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since July 2021. He is the Senior Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. He is responsible for leading the company’s global compliance (the Office of Business Integrity & Ethics), global litigation, global employment law, enterprise risk management and business continuity organizations. Before taking on his current role in 2017, he was the chief litigation counsel and also served as the company’s interim head of compliance and interim head of human resources. His previous professional experience includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. Mr. Wilmot previously was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court. He has served on the boards and advisory committees of numerous nonprofit, civic and for-profit organizations, including the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission (by gubernatorial appointment), the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, HarborOne Bank and the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. In 2010, the Boston Business Journal recognized him as one of Boston’s outstanding business leaders under the age of 40. He has also been honored as one of Boston’s most influential people of color in healthcare and life sciences. Mr. Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
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