Fidelity Charitable Governance and Board
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:
- Overall stewardship of the organization's charitable mission
- Responsibility for the prudent investment of assets
- Due diligence on all donations to and all grants from Fidelity Charitable
- Review and approval of all contractual arrangements
- Making policies and procedures designed to ensure that Fidelity Charitable is in compliance with rules and regulations affecting tax-exempt charitable organizations and donor-advised funds
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
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. Mendonca 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 its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading 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.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including the Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, California Competes, Rebuild Local News, and Measures for Justice. In addition, he is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and is the vice chair of Western Governors University. He has served 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 was also the vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, as well as a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca 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 holds a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an M.B.A. and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Amphenol, Wex, MarketAxess, Ports America, and HRAcuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition (ACT).
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young (EY), 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 and as the former board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is also a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding.
Altobello holds a B.S. from Fairfield University and a Certificate in Board Excellence from Harvard Business School. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Altobello chairs the audit committee and serves on the governance committee.
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 Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and she is an Advisor to the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
D’Amato holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco, a certificate of management from Smith College, and a certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, D’Amato chairs the Catalyst Fund committee and serves on the audit and governance committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby 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 plans for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby 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. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Halaby holds a B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Halaby is a member of the audit and investment committees.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the President of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was President and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different 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 during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort 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. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
She holds a B.B.A. in marketing from Howard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Mariani chairs the governance committee and serves on the Catalyst Fund committee.
Jennifer “Jenny” Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Trustee on and chair of the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and over $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes & Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. Currently she is the Chair of America 250, the bipartisan Congressional Commission planning the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
Rios served as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and was the CEO of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at the U.S. Mint. As Treasurer, she initiated and led the efforts to place a portrait of a woman on U.S. currency for the first time in over a century. Following her eight-year tenure, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and resumed her role as CEO of Red River Associates, an investment management consulting firm.
Rios served twice on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Teams at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and again during the pandemic economy of 2020. Prior to her presidential appointment in the Treasury, she was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, a $22 billion real estate investment management firm based in San Francisco.
Her personal passions include serving as Founder and CEO of Empowerment 2026, an initiative that facilitates the physical recognition of historical American women in classrooms and public spaces across the country. She is a graduate of Harvard University and was selected as the first Latina in Harvard's 389-year history to have a portrait commissioned in her honor. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was recognized as one of USA Today's Women of the Century.
She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Rios is chair of the investment committee and serves on the audit committee.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutional partners.
Together, the Commit Partnership and its staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited-income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 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, Williams 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.
He holds a B.A. in economics from Austin College and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Williams serves on the Catalyst Fund and investment committees.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2021. He is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior to this position, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He 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.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for-profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., as well as a member of its Compensation Committee. Wilmot is also a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. In addition, he serves as the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
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. Mendonca 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 its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading 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.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including the Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, California Competes, Rebuild Local News, and Measures for Justice. In addition, he is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and is the vice chair of Western Governors University. He has served 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 was also the vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, as well as a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca 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 holds a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an M.B.A. and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Amphenol, Wex, MarketAxess, Ports America, and HRAcuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition (ACT).
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young (EY), 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 and as the former board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is also a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding.
Altobello holds a B.S. from Fairfield University and a Certificate in Board Excellence from Harvard Business School. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Altobello chairs the audit committee and serves on the governance committee.
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 Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and she is an Advisor to the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
D’Amato holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco, a certificate of management from Smith College, and a certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, D’Amato chairs the Catalyst Fund committee and serves on the audit and governance committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby 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 plans for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby 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. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Halaby holds a B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Halaby is a member of the audit and investment committees.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the President of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was President and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different 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 during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort 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. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
She holds a B.B.A. in marketing from Howard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Mariani chairs the governance committee and serves on the Catalyst Fund committee.
Jennifer “Jenny” Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Trustee on and chair of the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and over $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes & Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. Currently she is the Chair of America 250, the bipartisan Congressional Commission planning the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
Rios served as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and was the CEO of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at the U.S. Mint. As Treasurer, she initiated and led the efforts to place a portrait of a woman on U.S. currency for the first time in over a century. Following her eight-year tenure, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and resumed her role as CEO of Red River Associates, an investment management consulting firm.
Rios served twice on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Teams at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and again during the pandemic economy of 2020. Prior to her presidential appointment in the Treasury, she was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, a $22 billion real estate investment management firm based in San Francisco.
Her personal passions include serving as Founder and CEO of Empowerment 2026, an initiative that facilitates the physical recognition of historical American women in classrooms and public spaces across the country. She is a graduate of Harvard University and was selected as the first Latina in Harvard's 389-year history to have a portrait commissioned in her honor. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was recognized as one of USA Today's Women of the Century.
She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Rios is chair of the investment committee and serves on the audit committee.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutional partners.
Together, the Commit Partnership and its staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited-income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 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, Williams 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.
He holds a B.A. in economics from Austin College and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Williams serves on the Catalyst Fund and investment committees.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2021. He is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior to this position, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He 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.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for-profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., as well as a member of its Compensation Committee. Wilmot is also a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. In addition, he serves as the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
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. Mendonca 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 its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading 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.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including the Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, California Competes, Rebuild Local News, and Measures for Justice. In addition, he is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and is the vice chair of Western Governors University. He has served 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 was also the vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, as well as a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca 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 holds a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an M.B.A. and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Amphenol, Wex, MarketAxess, Ports America, and HRAcuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition (ACT).
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young (EY), 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 and as the former board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is also a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding.
Altobello holds a B.S. from Fairfield University and a Certificate in Board Excellence from Harvard Business School. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Altobello chairs the audit committee and serves on the governance committee.
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 Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and she is an Advisor to the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
D’Amato holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco, a certificate of management from Smith College, and a certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, D’Amato chairs the Catalyst Fund committee and serves on the audit and governance committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby 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 plans for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby 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. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Halaby holds a B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Halaby is a member of the audit and investment committees.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the President of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was President and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different 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 during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort 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. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
She holds a B.B.A. in marketing from Howard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Mariani chairs the governance committee and serves on the Catalyst Fund committee.
Jennifer “Jenny” Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Trustee on and chair of the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and over $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes & Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. Currently she is the Chair of America 250, the bipartisan Congressional Commission planning the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
Rios served as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and was the CEO of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at the U.S. Mint. As Treasurer, she initiated and led the efforts to place a portrait of a woman on U.S. currency for the first time in over a century. Following her eight-year tenure, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and resumed her role as CEO of Red River Associates, an investment management consulting firm.
Rios served twice on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Teams at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and again during the pandemic economy of 2020. Prior to her presidential appointment in the Treasury, she was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, a $22 billion real estate investment management firm based in San Francisco.
Her personal passions include serving as Founder and CEO of Empowerment 2026, an initiative that facilitates the physical recognition of historical American women in classrooms and public spaces across the country. She is a graduate of Harvard University and was selected as the first Latina in Harvard's 389-year history to have a portrait commissioned in her honor. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was recognized as one of USA Today's Women of the Century.
She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Rios is chair of the investment committee and serves on the audit committee.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutional partners.
Together, the Commit Partnership and its staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited-income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 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, Williams 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.
He holds a B.A. in economics from Austin College and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Williams serves on the Catalyst Fund and investment committees.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2021. He is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior to this position, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He 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.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for-profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., as well as a member of its Compensation Committee. Wilmot is also a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. In addition, he serves as the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
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. Mendonca 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 its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading 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.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including the Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, California Competes, Rebuild Local News, and Measures for Justice. In addition, he is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and is the vice chair of Western Governors University. He has served 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 was also the vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, as well as a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca 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 holds a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an M.B.A. and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Amphenol, Wex, MarketAxess, Ports America, and HRAcuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition (ACT).
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young (EY), 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 and as the former board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is also a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding.
Altobello holds a B.S. from Fairfield University and a Certificate in Board Excellence from Harvard Business School. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Altobello chairs the audit committee and serves on the governance committee.
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 Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and she is an Advisor to the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
D’Amato holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco, a certificate of management from Smith College, and a certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, D’Amato chairs the Catalyst Fund committee and serves on the audit and governance committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby 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 plans for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby 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. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Halaby holds a B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Halaby is a member of the audit and investment committees.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the President of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was President and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different 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 during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort 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. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
She holds a B.B.A. in marketing from Howard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Mariani chairs the governance committee and serves on the Catalyst Fund committee.
Jennifer “Jenny” Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Trustee on and chair of the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and over $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes & Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. Currently she is the Chair of America 250, the bipartisan Congressional Commission planning the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
Rios served as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and was the CEO of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at the U.S. Mint. As Treasurer, she initiated and led the efforts to place a portrait of a woman on U.S. currency for the first time in over a century. Following her eight-year tenure, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and resumed her role as CEO of Red River Associates, an investment management consulting firm.
Rios served twice on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Teams at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and again during the pandemic economy of 2020. Prior to her presidential appointment in the Treasury, she was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, a $22 billion real estate investment management firm based in San Francisco.
Her personal passions include serving as Founder and CEO of Empowerment 2026, an initiative that facilitates the physical recognition of historical American women in classrooms and public spaces across the country. She is a graduate of Harvard University and was selected as the first Latina in Harvard's 389-year history to have a portrait commissioned in her honor. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was recognized as one of USA Today's Women of the Century.
She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Rios is chair of the investment committee and serves on the audit committee.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutional partners.
Together, the Commit Partnership and its staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited-income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 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, Williams 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.
He holds a B.A. in economics from Austin College and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Williams serves on the Catalyst Fund and investment committees.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2021. He is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior to this position, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He 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.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for-profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., as well as a member of its Compensation Committee. Wilmot is also a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. In addition, he serves as the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
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. Mendonca 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 its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading 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.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including the Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, California Competes, Rebuild Local News, and Measures for Justice. In addition, he is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and is the vice chair of Western Governors University. He has served 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 was also the vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, as well as a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca 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 holds a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an M.B.A. and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Amphenol, Wex, MarketAxess, Ports America, and HRAcuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition (ACT).
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young (EY), 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 and as the former board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is also a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding.
Altobello holds a B.S. from Fairfield University and a Certificate in Board Excellence from Harvard Business School. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Altobello chairs the audit committee and serves on the governance committee.
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 Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and she is an Advisor to the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
D’Amato holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco, a certificate of management from Smith College, and a certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, D’Amato chairs the Catalyst Fund committee and serves on the audit and governance committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby 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 plans for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby 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. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Halaby holds a B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Halaby is a member of the audit and investment committees.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the President of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was President and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different 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 during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort 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. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
She holds a B.B.A. in marketing from Howard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Mariani chairs the governance committee and serves on the Catalyst Fund committee.
Jennifer “Jenny” Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Trustee on and chair of the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and over $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes & Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. Currently she is the Chair of America 250, the bipartisan Congressional Commission planning the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
Rios served as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and was the CEO of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at the U.S. Mint. As Treasurer, she initiated and led the efforts to place a portrait of a woman on U.S. currency for the first time in over a century. Following her eight-year tenure, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and resumed her role as CEO of Red River Associates, an investment management consulting firm.
Rios served twice on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Teams at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and again during the pandemic economy of 2020. Prior to her presidential appointment in the Treasury, she was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, a $22 billion real estate investment management firm based in San Francisco.
Her personal passions include serving as Founder and CEO of Empowerment 2026, an initiative that facilitates the physical recognition of historical American women in classrooms and public spaces across the country. She is a graduate of Harvard University and was selected as the first Latina in Harvard's 389-year history to have a portrait commissioned in her honor. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was recognized as one of USA Today's Women of the Century.
She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Rios is chair of the investment committee and serves on the audit committee.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutional partners.
Together, the Commit Partnership and its staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited-income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 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, Williams 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.
He holds a B.A. in economics from Austin College and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Williams serves on the Catalyst Fund and investment committees.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2021. He is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior to this position, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He 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.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for-profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., as well as a member of its Compensation Committee. Wilmot is also a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. In addition, he serves as the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
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. Mendonca 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 its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading 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.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including the Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, California Competes, Rebuild Local News, and Measures for Justice. In addition, he is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and is the vice chair of Western Governors University. He has served 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 was also the vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, as well as a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca 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 holds a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an M.B.A. and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Amphenol, Wex, MarketAxess, Ports America, and HRAcuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition (ACT).
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young (EY), 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 and as the former board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is also a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding.
Altobello holds a B.S. from Fairfield University and a Certificate in Board Excellence from Harvard Business School. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Altobello chairs the audit committee and serves on the governance committee.
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 Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and she is an Advisor to the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
D’Amato holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco, a certificate of management from Smith College, and a certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, D’Amato chairs the Catalyst Fund committee and serves on the audit and governance committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby 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 plans for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby 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. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Halaby holds a B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Halaby is a member of the audit and investment committees.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the President of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was President and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different 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 during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort 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. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
She holds a B.B.A. in marketing from Howard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Mariani chairs the governance committee and serves on the Catalyst Fund committee.
Jennifer “Jenny” Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Trustee on and chair of the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and over $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes & Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. Currently she is the Chair of America 250, the bipartisan Congressional Commission planning the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
Rios served as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and was the CEO of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at the U.S. Mint. As Treasurer, she initiated and led the efforts to place a portrait of a woman on U.S. currency for the first time in over a century. Following her eight-year tenure, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and resumed her role as CEO of Red River Associates, an investment management consulting firm.
Rios served twice on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Teams at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and again during the pandemic economy of 2020. Prior to her presidential appointment in the Treasury, she was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, a $22 billion real estate investment management firm based in San Francisco.
Her personal passions include serving as Founder and CEO of Empowerment 2026, an initiative that facilitates the physical recognition of historical American women in classrooms and public spaces across the country. She is a graduate of Harvard University and was selected as the first Latina in Harvard's 389-year history to have a portrait commissioned in her honor. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was recognized as one of USA Today's Women of the Century.
She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Rios is chair of the investment committee and serves on the audit committee.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutional partners.
Together, the Commit Partnership and its staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited-income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 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, Williams 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.
He holds a B.A. in economics from Austin College and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Williams serves on the Catalyst Fund and investment committees.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2021. He is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior to this position, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He 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.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for-profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., as well as a member of its Compensation Committee. Wilmot is also a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. In addition, he serves as the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
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. Mendonca 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 its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading 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.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including the Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, California Competes, Rebuild Local News, and Measures for Justice. In addition, he is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and is the vice chair of Western Governors University. He has served 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 was also the vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, as well as a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca 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 holds a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an M.B.A. and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Amphenol, Wex, MarketAxess, Ports America, and HRAcuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition (ACT).
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young (EY), 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 and as the former board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is also a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding.
Altobello holds a B.S. from Fairfield University and a Certificate in Board Excellence from Harvard Business School. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Altobello chairs the audit committee and serves on the governance committee.
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 Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and she is an Advisor to the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
D’Amato holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco, a certificate of management from Smith College, and a certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, D’Amato chairs the Catalyst Fund committee and serves on the audit and governance committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby 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 plans for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby 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. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Halaby holds a B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Halaby is a member of the audit and investment committees.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the President of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was President and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different 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 during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort 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. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
She holds a B.B.A. in marketing from Howard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Mariani chairs the governance committee and serves on the Catalyst Fund committee.
Jennifer “Jenny” Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Trustee on and chair of the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and over $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes & Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. Currently she is the Chair of America 250, the bipartisan Congressional Commission planning the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
Rios served as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and was the CEO of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at the U.S. Mint. As Treasurer, she initiated and led the efforts to place a portrait of a woman on U.S. currency for the first time in over a century. Following her eight-year tenure, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and resumed her role as CEO of Red River Associates, an investment management consulting firm.
Rios served twice on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Teams at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and again during the pandemic economy of 2020. Prior to her presidential appointment in the Treasury, she was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, a $22 billion real estate investment management firm based in San Francisco.
Her personal passions include serving as Founder and CEO of Empowerment 2026, an initiative that facilitates the physical recognition of historical American women in classrooms and public spaces across the country. She is a graduate of Harvard University and was selected as the first Latina in Harvard's 389-year history to have a portrait commissioned in her honor. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was recognized as one of USA Today's Women of the Century.
She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Rios is chair of the investment committee and serves on the audit committee.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutional partners.
Together, the Commit Partnership and its staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited-income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 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, Williams 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.
He holds a B.A. in economics from Austin College and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Williams serves on the Catalyst Fund and investment committees.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2021. He is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior to this position, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He 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.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for-profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., as well as a member of its Compensation Committee. Wilmot is also a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. In addition, he serves as the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
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. Mendonca 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 its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading 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.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including the Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, California Competes, Rebuild Local News, and Measures for Justice. In addition, he is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and is the vice chair of Western Governors University. He has served 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 was also the vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, as well as a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca 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 holds a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an M.B.A. and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Amphenol, Wex, MarketAxess, Ports America, and HRAcuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition (ACT).
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young (EY), 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 and as the former board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is also a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding.
Altobello holds a B.S. from Fairfield University and a Certificate in Board Excellence from Harvard Business School. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Altobello chairs the audit committee and serves on the governance committee.
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 Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and she is an Advisor to the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
D’Amato holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco, a certificate of management from Smith College, and a certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, D’Amato chairs the Catalyst Fund committee and serves on the audit and governance committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby 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 plans for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby 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. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Halaby holds a B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Halaby is a member of the audit and investment committees.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the President of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was President and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different 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 during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort 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. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
She holds a B.B.A. in marketing from Howard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Mariani chairs the governance committee and serves on the Catalyst Fund committee.
Jennifer “Jenny” Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Trustee on and chair of the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and over $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes & Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. Currently she is the Chair of America 250, the bipartisan Congressional Commission planning the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
Rios served as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and was the CEO of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at the U.S. Mint. As Treasurer, she initiated and led the efforts to place a portrait of a woman on U.S. currency for the first time in over a century. Following her eight-year tenure, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and resumed her role as CEO of Red River Associates, an investment management consulting firm.
Rios served twice on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Teams at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and again during the pandemic economy of 2020. Prior to her presidential appointment in the Treasury, she was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, a $22 billion real estate investment management firm based in San Francisco.
Her personal passions include serving as Founder and CEO of Empowerment 2026, an initiative that facilitates the physical recognition of historical American women in classrooms and public spaces across the country. She is a graduate of Harvard University and was selected as the first Latina in Harvard's 389-year history to have a portrait commissioned in her honor. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was recognized as one of USA Today's Women of the Century.
She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Rios is chair of the investment committee and serves on the audit committee.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutional partners.
Together, the Commit Partnership and its staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited-income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 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, Williams 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.
He holds a B.A. in economics from Austin College and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Williams serves on the Catalyst Fund and investment committees.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2021. He is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior to this position, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He 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.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for-profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., as well as a member of its Compensation Committee. Wilmot is also a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. In addition, he serves as the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
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. Mendonca 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 its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading 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.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including the Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, California Competes, Rebuild Local News, and Measures for Justice. In addition, he is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and is the vice chair of Western Governors University. He has served 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 was also the vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, as well as a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca 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 holds a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an M.B.A. and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Amphenol, Wex, MarketAxess, Ports America, and HRAcuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition (ACT).
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young (EY), 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 and as the former board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is also a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding.
Altobello holds a B.S. from Fairfield University and a Certificate in Board Excellence from Harvard Business School. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Altobello chairs the audit committee and serves on the governance committee.
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 Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and she is an Advisor to the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
D’Amato holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco, a certificate of management from Smith College, and a certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, D’Amato chairs the Catalyst Fund committee and serves on the audit and governance committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby 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 plans for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby 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. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
Halaby holds a B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Halaby is a member of the audit and investment committees.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the President of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was President and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different 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 during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort 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. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
She holds a B.B.A. in marketing from Howard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Mariani chairs the governance committee and serves on the Catalyst Fund committee.
Jennifer “Jenny” Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Trustee on and chair of the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and over $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a Co-Head of Fixed Income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes & Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. Currently she is the Chair of America 250, the bipartisan Congressional Commission planning the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
Rios served as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and was the CEO of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at the U.S. Mint. As Treasurer, she initiated and led the efforts to place a portrait of a woman on U.S. currency for the first time in over a century. Following her eight-year tenure, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and resumed her role as CEO of Red River Associates, an investment management consulting firm.
Rios served twice on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Teams at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and again during the pandemic economy of 2020. Prior to her presidential appointment in the Treasury, she was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, a $22 billion real estate investment management firm based in San Francisco.
Her personal passions include serving as Founder and CEO of Empowerment 2026, an initiative that facilitates the physical recognition of historical American women in classrooms and public spaces across the country. She is a graduate of Harvard University and was selected as the first Latina in Harvard's 389-year history to have a portrait commissioned in her honor. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was recognized as one of USA Today's Women of the Century.
She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Rios is chair of the investment committee and serves on the audit committee.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutional partners.
Together, the Commit Partnership and its staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited-income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 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, Williams 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.
He holds a B.A. in economics from Austin College and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Williams serves on the Catalyst Fund and investment committees.
Damian Wilmot has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2021. He is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior to this position, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He 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.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for-profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., as well as a member of its Compensation Committee. Wilmot is also a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. In addition, he serves as the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Wilmot is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
Board Committees
Each Trustee serves on one or more committees, sharing his or her management and subject matter expertise through active involvement and accountability:
Audit Committee
Members provide fiduciary oversight of audits, reviewing all financial results of Fidelity Charitable and ensuring compliance with both internal and external legal and regulatory requirements, including public disclosure and IRS reporting requirement deadlines.
Investment Committee
Members formulate the overall investment policies of Fidelity Charitable, establish investment guidelines, and monitor the management of Fidelity Charitable’s entire investment portfolio for compliance with investment policies and guidelines and for meeting objectives over time.
Governance Committee
Members are responsible for the board nomination process, identifying potential trustees with diverse backgrounds in the areas of management and philanthropy.
Catalyst Fund Committee
Members have oversight for a separate grantmaking program known as the Fidelity Charitable Catalyst Fund, and for approving grants to nonprofits that meet its grantmaking criteria.
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