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
Nancy Altobello
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
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 HR Acuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as the 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, her alma mater, 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 Bachelor of Science 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 bachelor of arts degree 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.
Vilas Dhar has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since February 2026. He is the president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, where he leads efforts to demonstrate how data and AI can be harnessed to advance equity and human dignity and bring about collective progress.
Under Dhar’s leadership, the foundation, a $1.5 billion global philanthropy, has become one of the largest global funders of AI for the public purpose, directing more than $500 million to organizations advancing climate action, public health, education, and democratic governance.
Dhar is recognized globally as a leading expert on the future of artificial intelligence and its role in shaping society. He has served as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence; is the U.S. government’s nominated expert to the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence; and contributes to advisory councils at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, OECD.AI, and MIT Solve. In 2022, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, honoring his contributions to the global dialogue on responsible innovation.
Dhar’s essays and commentary have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Nature, The Indian Express, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, has been translated into six languages and has reached over 500,000 learners worldwide.
He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a JD in business law, international development, human rights from the New York University School of Law and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Dhar serves on the audit and investment committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is the 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 Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder 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 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 Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Howard University and an MBA 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 $3 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 of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, an MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and the chairman since March 2022.
Mendonca is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice and oversaw the firm’s knowledge development, serving as chair of the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm’s communications, including McKinsey Quarterly. He also served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (the firm’s board of directors) before retiring from McKinsey in 2014. He was the chief economic and business advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom and served as chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
Mendonca is co-chair of California Forward and vice-chair of Western Governors University. He previously served as chair of New America and Children Now and as co-founder and chair of FUSE Corps. He chairs the Policy Committee of Common Cause and is chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute. He also served as vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council.
He was a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and has served on the boards of University of California Merced, Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, California Competes, Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club of California, California Emerging Technology Fund, National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, Measures for Justice, Rebuild Local News, Beam Circular, and TheGuardian.org.
He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Junior Statesmen of America and on the advisory boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
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 nation’s 250th anniversary 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 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 the 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. A graduate of Harvard University, she 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 has received the History, Heroes & Hope Award at America’s Ball for the Mall on behalf of the Trust for the National Mall and has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts 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.
The Commit Partnership and its 75-member staff are focused on improving post-secondary education completion rates 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 co-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 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 Bachelor of Arts from Austin College and an MBA 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 a seasoned public company executive and board director with more than two decades of leadership experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. He most recently served as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., where he oversaw the company’s legal, corporate governance, ethics and compliance, and enterprise risk management functions.
Prior to BridgeBio, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Earlier in his career, he served as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company, a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts, and a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
Wilmot brings extensive governance, risk, and fiduciary oversight experience through his board service. 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. In addition, he serves as a founding director (and was the inaugural board chair) 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. His prior public company board service includes HarborOne Bancorp, Inc., where he was a member of the Executive and Audit committees.
Wilmot has been recognized for his leadership and commitment to community impact, including receiving the Boston Bar Foundation’s Public Service Award in 2022. He has also been named among Boston’s most influential business and community leaders by Boston Magazine and the Boston Business Journal.
Wilmot holds a Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Trinity College and a JD from 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
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 HR Acuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as the 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, her alma mater, 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 Bachelor of Science 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 bachelor of arts degree 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.
Vilas Dhar has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since February 2026. He is the president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, where he leads efforts to demonstrate how data and AI can be harnessed to advance equity and human dignity and bring about collective progress.
Under Dhar’s leadership, the foundation, a $1.5 billion global philanthropy, has become one of the largest global funders of AI for the public purpose, directing more than $500 million to organizations advancing climate action, public health, education, and democratic governance.
Dhar is recognized globally as a leading expert on the future of artificial intelligence and its role in shaping society. He has served as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence; is the U.S. government’s nominated expert to the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence; and contributes to advisory councils at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, OECD.AI, and MIT Solve. In 2022, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, honoring his contributions to the global dialogue on responsible innovation.
Dhar’s essays and commentary have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Nature, The Indian Express, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, has been translated into six languages and has reached over 500,000 learners worldwide.
He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a JD in business law, international development, human rights from the New York University School of Law and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Dhar serves on the audit and investment committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is the 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 Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder 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 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 Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Howard University and an MBA 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 $3 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 of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, an MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and the chairman since March 2022.
Mendonca is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice and oversaw the firm’s knowledge development, serving as chair of the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm’s communications, including McKinsey Quarterly. He also served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (the firm’s board of directors) before retiring from McKinsey in 2014. He was the chief economic and business advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom and served as chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
Mendonca is co-chair of California Forward and vice-chair of Western Governors University. He previously served as chair of New America and Children Now and as co-founder and chair of FUSE Corps. He chairs the Policy Committee of Common Cause and is chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute. He also served as vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council.
He was a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and has served on the boards of University of California Merced, Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, California Competes, Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club of California, California Emerging Technology Fund, National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, Measures for Justice, Rebuild Local News, Beam Circular, and TheGuardian.org.
He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Junior Statesmen of America and on the advisory boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
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 nation’s 250th anniversary 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 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 the 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. A graduate of Harvard University, she 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 has received the History, Heroes & Hope Award at America’s Ball for the Mall on behalf of the Trust for the National Mall and has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts 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.
The Commit Partnership and its 75-member staff are focused on improving post-secondary education completion rates 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 co-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 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 Bachelor of Arts from Austin College and an MBA 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 a seasoned public company executive and board director with more than two decades of leadership experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. He most recently served as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., where he oversaw the company’s legal, corporate governance, ethics and compliance, and enterprise risk management functions.
Prior to BridgeBio, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Earlier in his career, he served as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company, a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts, and a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
Wilmot brings extensive governance, risk, and fiduciary oversight experience through his board service. 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. In addition, he serves as a founding director (and was the inaugural board chair) 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. His prior public company board service includes HarborOne Bancorp, Inc., where he was a member of the Executive and Audit committees.
Wilmot has been recognized for his leadership and commitment to community impact, including receiving the Boston Bar Foundation’s Public Service Award in 2022. He has also been named among Boston’s most influential business and community leaders by Boston Magazine and the Boston Business Journal.
Wilmot holds a Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Trinity College and a JD from Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
Vilas Dhar
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
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 HR Acuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as the 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, her alma mater, 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 Bachelor of Science 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 bachelor of arts degree 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.
Vilas Dhar has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since February 2026. He is the president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, where he leads efforts to demonstrate how data and AI can be harnessed to advance equity and human dignity and bring about collective progress.
Under Dhar’s leadership, the foundation, a $1.5 billion global philanthropy, has become one of the largest global funders of AI for the public purpose, directing more than $500 million to organizations advancing climate action, public health, education, and democratic governance.
Dhar is recognized globally as a leading expert on the future of artificial intelligence and its role in shaping society. He has served as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence; is the U.S. government’s nominated expert to the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence; and contributes to advisory councils at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, OECD.AI, and MIT Solve. In 2022, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, honoring his contributions to the global dialogue on responsible innovation.
Dhar’s essays and commentary have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Nature, The Indian Express, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, has been translated into six languages and has reached over 500,000 learners worldwide.
He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a JD in business law, international development, human rights from the New York University School of Law and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Dhar serves on the audit and investment committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is the 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 Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder 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 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 Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Howard University and an MBA 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 $3 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 of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, an MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and the chairman since March 2022.
Mendonca is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice and oversaw the firm’s knowledge development, serving as chair of the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm’s communications, including McKinsey Quarterly. He also served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (the firm’s board of directors) before retiring from McKinsey in 2014. He was the chief economic and business advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom and served as chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
Mendonca is co-chair of California Forward and vice-chair of Western Governors University. He previously served as chair of New America and Children Now and as co-founder and chair of FUSE Corps. He chairs the Policy Committee of Common Cause and is chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute. He also served as vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council.
He was a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and has served on the boards of University of California Merced, Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, California Competes, Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club of California, California Emerging Technology Fund, National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, Measures for Justice, Rebuild Local News, Beam Circular, and TheGuardian.org.
He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Junior Statesmen of America and on the advisory boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
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 nation’s 250th anniversary 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 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 the 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. A graduate of Harvard University, she 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 has received the History, Heroes & Hope Award at America’s Ball for the Mall on behalf of the Trust for the National Mall and has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts 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.
The Commit Partnership and its 75-member staff are focused on improving post-secondary education completion rates 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 co-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 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 Bachelor of Arts from Austin College and an MBA 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 a seasoned public company executive and board director with more than two decades of leadership experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. He most recently served as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., where he oversaw the company’s legal, corporate governance, ethics and compliance, and enterprise risk management functions.
Prior to BridgeBio, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Earlier in his career, he served as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company, a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts, and a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
Wilmot brings extensive governance, risk, and fiduciary oversight experience through his board service. 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. In addition, he serves as a founding director (and was the inaugural board chair) 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. His prior public company board service includes HarborOne Bancorp, Inc., where he was a member of the Executive and Audit committees.
Wilmot has been recognized for his leadership and commitment to community impact, including receiving the Boston Bar Foundation’s Public Service Award in 2022. He has also been named among Boston’s most influential business and community leaders by Boston Magazine and the Boston Business Journal.
Wilmot holds a Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Trinity College and a JD from Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
John Halaby
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
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 HR Acuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as the 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, her alma mater, 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 Bachelor of Science 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 bachelor of arts degree 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.
Vilas Dhar has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since February 2026. He is the president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, where he leads efforts to demonstrate how data and AI can be harnessed to advance equity and human dignity and bring about collective progress.
Under Dhar’s leadership, the foundation, a $1.5 billion global philanthropy, has become one of the largest global funders of AI for the public purpose, directing more than $500 million to organizations advancing climate action, public health, education, and democratic governance.
Dhar is recognized globally as a leading expert on the future of artificial intelligence and its role in shaping society. He has served as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence; is the U.S. government’s nominated expert to the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence; and contributes to advisory councils at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, OECD.AI, and MIT Solve. In 2022, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, honoring his contributions to the global dialogue on responsible innovation.
Dhar’s essays and commentary have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Nature, The Indian Express, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, has been translated into six languages and has reached over 500,000 learners worldwide.
He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a JD in business law, international development, human rights from the New York University School of Law and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Dhar serves on the audit and investment committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is the 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 Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder 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 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 Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Howard University and an MBA 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 $3 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 of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, an MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and the chairman since March 2022.
Mendonca is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice and oversaw the firm’s knowledge development, serving as chair of the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm’s communications, including McKinsey Quarterly. He also served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (the firm’s board of directors) before retiring from McKinsey in 2014. He was the chief economic and business advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom and served as chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
Mendonca is co-chair of California Forward and vice-chair of Western Governors University. He previously served as chair of New America and Children Now and as co-founder and chair of FUSE Corps. He chairs the Policy Committee of Common Cause and is chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute. He also served as vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council.
He was a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and has served on the boards of University of California Merced, Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, California Competes, Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club of California, California Emerging Technology Fund, National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, Measures for Justice, Rebuild Local News, Beam Circular, and TheGuardian.org.
He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Junior Statesmen of America and on the advisory boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
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 nation’s 250th anniversary 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 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 the 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. A graduate of Harvard University, she 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 has received the History, Heroes & Hope Award at America’s Ball for the Mall on behalf of the Trust for the National Mall and has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts 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.
The Commit Partnership and its 75-member staff are focused on improving post-secondary education completion rates 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 co-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 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 Bachelor of Arts from Austin College and an MBA 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 a seasoned public company executive and board director with more than two decades of leadership experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. He most recently served as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., where he oversaw the company’s legal, corporate governance, ethics and compliance, and enterprise risk management functions.
Prior to BridgeBio, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Earlier in his career, he served as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company, a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts, and a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
Wilmot brings extensive governance, risk, and fiduciary oversight experience through his board service. 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. In addition, he serves as a founding director (and was the inaugural board chair) 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. His prior public company board service includes HarborOne Bancorp, Inc., where he was a member of the Executive and Audit committees.
Wilmot has been recognized for his leadership and commitment to community impact, including receiving the Boston Bar Foundation’s Public Service Award in 2022. He has also been named among Boston’s most influential business and community leaders by Boston Magazine and the Boston Business Journal.
Wilmot holds a Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Trinity College and a JD from 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
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 HR Acuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as the 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, her alma mater, 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 Bachelor of Science 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 bachelor of arts degree 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.
Vilas Dhar has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since February 2026. He is the president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, where he leads efforts to demonstrate how data and AI can be harnessed to advance equity and human dignity and bring about collective progress.
Under Dhar’s leadership, the foundation, a $1.5 billion global philanthropy, has become one of the largest global funders of AI for the public purpose, directing more than $500 million to organizations advancing climate action, public health, education, and democratic governance.
Dhar is recognized globally as a leading expert on the future of artificial intelligence and its role in shaping society. He has served as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence; is the U.S. government’s nominated expert to the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence; and contributes to advisory councils at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, OECD.AI, and MIT Solve. In 2022, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, honoring his contributions to the global dialogue on responsible innovation.
Dhar’s essays and commentary have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Nature, The Indian Express, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, has been translated into six languages and has reached over 500,000 learners worldwide.
He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a JD in business law, international development, human rights from the New York University School of Law and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Dhar serves on the audit and investment committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is the 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 Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder 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 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 Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Howard University and an MBA 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 $3 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 of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, an MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and the chairman since March 2022.
Mendonca is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice and oversaw the firm’s knowledge development, serving as chair of the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm’s communications, including McKinsey Quarterly. He also served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (the firm’s board of directors) before retiring from McKinsey in 2014. He was the chief economic and business advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom and served as chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
Mendonca is co-chair of California Forward and vice-chair of Western Governors University. He previously served as chair of New America and Children Now and as co-founder and chair of FUSE Corps. He chairs the Policy Committee of Common Cause and is chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute. He also served as vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council.
He was a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and has served on the boards of University of California Merced, Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, California Competes, Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club of California, California Emerging Technology Fund, National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, Measures for Justice, Rebuild Local News, Beam Circular, and TheGuardian.org.
He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Junior Statesmen of America and on the advisory boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
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 nation’s 250th anniversary 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 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 the 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. A graduate of Harvard University, she 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 has received the History, Heroes & Hope Award at America’s Ball for the Mall on behalf of the Trust for the National Mall and has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts 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.
The Commit Partnership and its 75-member staff are focused on improving post-secondary education completion rates 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 co-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 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 Bachelor of Arts from Austin College and an MBA 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 a seasoned public company executive and board director with more than two decades of leadership experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. He most recently served as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., where he oversaw the company’s legal, corporate governance, ethics and compliance, and enterprise risk management functions.
Prior to BridgeBio, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Earlier in his career, he served as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company, a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts, and a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
Wilmot brings extensive governance, risk, and fiduciary oversight experience through his board service. 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. In addition, he serves as a founding director (and was the inaugural board chair) 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. His prior public company board service includes HarborOne Bancorp, Inc., where he was a member of the Executive and Audit committees.
Wilmot has been recognized for his leadership and commitment to community impact, including receiving the Boston Bar Foundation’s Public Service Award in 2022. He has also been named among Boston’s most influential business and community leaders by Boston Magazine and the Boston Business Journal.
Wilmot holds a Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Trinity College and a JD from 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
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 HR Acuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as the 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, her alma mater, 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 Bachelor of Science 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 bachelor of arts degree 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.
Vilas Dhar has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since February 2026. He is the president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, where he leads efforts to demonstrate how data and AI can be harnessed to advance equity and human dignity and bring about collective progress.
Under Dhar’s leadership, the foundation, a $1.5 billion global philanthropy, has become one of the largest global funders of AI for the public purpose, directing more than $500 million to organizations advancing climate action, public health, education, and democratic governance.
Dhar is recognized globally as a leading expert on the future of artificial intelligence and its role in shaping society. He has served as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence; is the U.S. government’s nominated expert to the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence; and contributes to advisory councils at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, OECD.AI, and MIT Solve. In 2022, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, honoring his contributions to the global dialogue on responsible innovation.
Dhar’s essays and commentary have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Nature, The Indian Express, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, has been translated into six languages and has reached over 500,000 learners worldwide.
He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a JD in business law, international development, human rights from the New York University School of Law and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Dhar serves on the audit and investment committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is the 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 Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder 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 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 Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Howard University and an MBA 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 $3 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 of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, an MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and the chairman since March 2022.
Mendonca is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice and oversaw the firm’s knowledge development, serving as chair of the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm’s communications, including McKinsey Quarterly. He also served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (the firm’s board of directors) before retiring from McKinsey in 2014. He was the chief economic and business advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom and served as chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
Mendonca is co-chair of California Forward and vice-chair of Western Governors University. He previously served as chair of New America and Children Now and as co-founder and chair of FUSE Corps. He chairs the Policy Committee of Common Cause and is chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute. He also served as vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council.
He was a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and has served on the boards of University of California Merced, Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, California Competes, Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club of California, California Emerging Technology Fund, National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, Measures for Justice, Rebuild Local News, Beam Circular, and TheGuardian.org.
He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Junior Statesmen of America and on the advisory boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
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 nation’s 250th anniversary 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 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 the 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. A graduate of Harvard University, she 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 has received the History, Heroes & Hope Award at America’s Ball for the Mall on behalf of the Trust for the National Mall and has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts 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.
The Commit Partnership and its 75-member staff are focused on improving post-secondary education completion rates 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 co-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 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 Bachelor of Arts from Austin College and an MBA 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 a seasoned public company executive and board director with more than two decades of leadership experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. He most recently served as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., where he oversaw the company’s legal, corporate governance, ethics and compliance, and enterprise risk management functions.
Prior to BridgeBio, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Earlier in his career, he served as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company, a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts, and a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
Wilmot brings extensive governance, risk, and fiduciary oversight experience through his board service. 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. In addition, he serves as a founding director (and was the inaugural board chair) 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. His prior public company board service includes HarborOne Bancorp, Inc., where he was a member of the Executive and Audit committees.
Wilmot has been recognized for his leadership and commitment to community impact, including receiving the Boston Bar Foundation’s Public Service Award in 2022. He has also been named among Boston’s most influential business and community leaders by Boston Magazine and the Boston Business Journal.
Wilmot holds a Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Trinity College and a JD from Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
Lenny Mendonca
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
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 HR Acuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as the 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, her alma mater, 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 Bachelor of Science 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 bachelor of arts degree 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.
Vilas Dhar has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since February 2026. He is the president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, where he leads efforts to demonstrate how data and AI can be harnessed to advance equity and human dignity and bring about collective progress.
Under Dhar’s leadership, the foundation, a $1.5 billion global philanthropy, has become one of the largest global funders of AI for the public purpose, directing more than $500 million to organizations advancing climate action, public health, education, and democratic governance.
Dhar is recognized globally as a leading expert on the future of artificial intelligence and its role in shaping society. He has served as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence; is the U.S. government’s nominated expert to the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence; and contributes to advisory councils at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, OECD.AI, and MIT Solve. In 2022, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, honoring his contributions to the global dialogue on responsible innovation.
Dhar’s essays and commentary have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Nature, The Indian Express, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, has been translated into six languages and has reached over 500,000 learners worldwide.
He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a JD in business law, international development, human rights from the New York University School of Law and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Dhar serves on the audit and investment committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is the 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 Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder 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 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 Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Howard University and an MBA 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 $3 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 of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, an MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and the chairman since March 2022.
Mendonca is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice and oversaw the firm’s knowledge development, serving as chair of the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm’s communications, including McKinsey Quarterly. He also served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (the firm’s board of directors) before retiring from McKinsey in 2014. He was the chief economic and business advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom and served as chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
Mendonca is co-chair of California Forward and vice-chair of Western Governors University. He previously served as chair of New America and Children Now and as co-founder and chair of FUSE Corps. He chairs the Policy Committee of Common Cause and is chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute. He also served as vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council.
He was a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and has served on the boards of University of California Merced, Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, California Competes, Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club of California, California Emerging Technology Fund, National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, Measures for Justice, Rebuild Local News, Beam Circular, and TheGuardian.org.
He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Junior Statesmen of America and on the advisory boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
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 nation’s 250th anniversary 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 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 the 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. A graduate of Harvard University, she 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 has received the History, Heroes & Hope Award at America’s Ball for the Mall on behalf of the Trust for the National Mall and has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts 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.
The Commit Partnership and its 75-member staff are focused on improving post-secondary education completion rates 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 co-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 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 Bachelor of Arts from Austin College and an MBA 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 a seasoned public company executive and board director with more than two decades of leadership experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. He most recently served as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., where he oversaw the company’s legal, corporate governance, ethics and compliance, and enterprise risk management functions.
Prior to BridgeBio, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Earlier in his career, he served as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company, a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts, and a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
Wilmot brings extensive governance, risk, and fiduciary oversight experience through his board service. 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. In addition, he serves as a founding director (and was the inaugural board chair) 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. His prior public company board service includes HarborOne Bancorp, Inc., where he was a member of the Executive and Audit committees.
Wilmot has been recognized for his leadership and commitment to community impact, including receiving the Boston Bar Foundation’s Public Service Award in 2022. He has also been named among Boston’s most influential business and community leaders by Boston Magazine and the Boston Business Journal.
Wilmot holds a Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Trinity College and a JD from Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
Rosie Rios
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
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 HR Acuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as the 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, her alma mater, 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 Bachelor of Science 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 bachelor of arts degree 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.
Vilas Dhar has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since February 2026. He is the president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, where he leads efforts to demonstrate how data and AI can be harnessed to advance equity and human dignity and bring about collective progress.
Under Dhar’s leadership, the foundation, a $1.5 billion global philanthropy, has become one of the largest global funders of AI for the public purpose, directing more than $500 million to organizations advancing climate action, public health, education, and democratic governance.
Dhar is recognized globally as a leading expert on the future of artificial intelligence and its role in shaping society. He has served as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence; is the U.S. government’s nominated expert to the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence; and contributes to advisory councils at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, OECD.AI, and MIT Solve. In 2022, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, honoring his contributions to the global dialogue on responsible innovation.
Dhar’s essays and commentary have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Nature, The Indian Express, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, has been translated into six languages and has reached over 500,000 learners worldwide.
He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a JD in business law, international development, human rights from the New York University School of Law and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Dhar serves on the audit and investment committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is the 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 Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder 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 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 Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Howard University and an MBA 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 $3 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 of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, an MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and the chairman since March 2022.
Mendonca is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice and oversaw the firm’s knowledge development, serving as chair of the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm’s communications, including McKinsey Quarterly. He also served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (the firm’s board of directors) before retiring from McKinsey in 2014. He was the chief economic and business advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom and served as chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
Mendonca is co-chair of California Forward and vice-chair of Western Governors University. He previously served as chair of New America and Children Now and as co-founder and chair of FUSE Corps. He chairs the Policy Committee of Common Cause and is chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute. He also served as vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council.
He was a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and has served on the boards of University of California Merced, Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, California Competes, Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club of California, California Emerging Technology Fund, National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, Measures for Justice, Rebuild Local News, Beam Circular, and TheGuardian.org.
He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Junior Statesmen of America and on the advisory boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
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 nation’s 250th anniversary 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 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 the 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. A graduate of Harvard University, she 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 has received the History, Heroes & Hope Award at America’s Ball for the Mall on behalf of the Trust for the National Mall and has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts 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.
The Commit Partnership and its 75-member staff are focused on improving post-secondary education completion rates 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 co-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 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 Bachelor of Arts from Austin College and an MBA 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 a seasoned public company executive and board director with more than two decades of leadership experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. He most recently served as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., where he oversaw the company’s legal, corporate governance, ethics and compliance, and enterprise risk management functions.
Prior to BridgeBio, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Earlier in his career, he served as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company, a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts, and a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
Wilmot brings extensive governance, risk, and fiduciary oversight experience through his board service. 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. In addition, he serves as a founding director (and was the inaugural board chair) 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. His prior public company board service includes HarborOne Bancorp, Inc., where he was a member of the Executive and Audit committees.
Wilmot has been recognized for his leadership and commitment to community impact, including receiving the Boston Bar Foundation’s Public Service Award in 2022. He has also been named among Boston’s most influential business and community leaders by Boston Magazine and the Boston Business Journal.
Wilmot holds a Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Trinity College and a JD from Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
Todd Williams
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
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 HR Acuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as the 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, her alma mater, 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 Bachelor of Science 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 bachelor of arts degree 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.
Vilas Dhar has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since February 2026. He is the president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, where he leads efforts to demonstrate how data and AI can be harnessed to advance equity and human dignity and bring about collective progress.
Under Dhar’s leadership, the foundation, a $1.5 billion global philanthropy, has become one of the largest global funders of AI for the public purpose, directing more than $500 million to organizations advancing climate action, public health, education, and democratic governance.
Dhar is recognized globally as a leading expert on the future of artificial intelligence and its role in shaping society. He has served as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence; is the U.S. government’s nominated expert to the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence; and contributes to advisory councils at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, OECD.AI, and MIT Solve. In 2022, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, honoring his contributions to the global dialogue on responsible innovation.
Dhar’s essays and commentary have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Nature, The Indian Express, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, has been translated into six languages and has reached over 500,000 learners worldwide.
He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a JD in business law, international development, human rights from the New York University School of Law and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Dhar serves on the audit and investment committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is the 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 Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder 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 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 Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Howard University and an MBA 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 $3 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 of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, an MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and the chairman since March 2022.
Mendonca is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice and oversaw the firm’s knowledge development, serving as chair of the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm’s communications, including McKinsey Quarterly. He also served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (the firm’s board of directors) before retiring from McKinsey in 2014. He was the chief economic and business advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom and served as chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
Mendonca is co-chair of California Forward and vice-chair of Western Governors University. He previously served as chair of New America and Children Now and as co-founder and chair of FUSE Corps. He chairs the Policy Committee of Common Cause and is chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute. He also served as vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council.
He was a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and has served on the boards of University of California Merced, Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, California Competes, Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club of California, California Emerging Technology Fund, National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, Measures for Justice, Rebuild Local News, Beam Circular, and TheGuardian.org.
He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Junior Statesmen of America and on the advisory boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
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 nation’s 250th anniversary 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 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 the 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. A graduate of Harvard University, she 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 has received the History, Heroes & Hope Award at America’s Ball for the Mall on behalf of the Trust for the National Mall and has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts 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.
The Commit Partnership and its 75-member staff are focused on improving post-secondary education completion rates 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 co-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 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 Bachelor of Arts from Austin College and an MBA 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 a seasoned public company executive and board director with more than two decades of leadership experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. He most recently served as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., where he oversaw the company’s legal, corporate governance, ethics and compliance, and enterprise risk management functions.
Prior to BridgeBio, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Earlier in his career, he served as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company, a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts, and a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
Wilmot brings extensive governance, risk, and fiduciary oversight experience through his board service. 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. In addition, he serves as a founding director (and was the inaugural board chair) 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. His prior public company board service includes HarborOne Bancorp, Inc., where he was a member of the Executive and Audit committees.
Wilmot has been recognized for his leadership and commitment to community impact, including receiving the Boston Bar Foundation’s Public Service Award in 2022. He has also been named among Boston’s most influential business and community leaders by Boston Magazine and the Boston Business Journal.
Wilmot holds a Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Trinity College and a JD from Suffolk University Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Wilmot serves on the audit and investment committees.
Damian Wilmot
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
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 HR Acuity. She also serves as a special advisor to Duration Capital Partners, Brighton Park Capital, Censia, and Athlete Career Transition.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as the 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, her alma mater, 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 Bachelor of Science 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 bachelor of arts degree 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.
Vilas Dhar has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since February 2026. He is the president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, where he leads efforts to demonstrate how data and AI can be harnessed to advance equity and human dignity and bring about collective progress.
Under Dhar’s leadership, the foundation, a $1.5 billion global philanthropy, has become one of the largest global funders of AI for the public purpose, directing more than $500 million to organizations advancing climate action, public health, education, and democratic governance.
Dhar is recognized globally as a leading expert on the future of artificial intelligence and its role in shaping society. He has served as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence; is the U.S. government’s nominated expert to the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence; and contributes to advisory councils at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, OECD.AI, and MIT Solve. In 2022, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, honoring his contributions to the global dialogue on responsible innovation.
Dhar’s essays and commentary have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Nature, The Indian Express, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, has been translated into six languages and has reached over 500,000 learners worldwide.
He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a JD in business law, international development, human rights from the New York University School of Law and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, Dhar serves on the audit and investment committees.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is the 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 Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder 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 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 Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Howard University and an MBA 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 $3 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 of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, an MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
As a Fidelity Charitable Trustee, McAuliffe serves on the Catalyst Fund and governance committees.
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and the chairman since March 2022.
Mendonca is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice and oversaw the firm’s knowledge development, serving as chair of the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm’s communications, including McKinsey Quarterly. He also served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (the firm’s board of directors) before retiring from McKinsey in 2014. He was the chief economic and business advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom and served as chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
Mendonca is co-chair of California Forward and vice-chair of Western Governors University. He previously served as chair of New America and Children Now and as co-founder and chair of FUSE Corps. He chairs the Policy Committee of Common Cause and is chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute. He also served as vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council.
He was a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and has served on the boards of University of California Merced, Educational Results Partnership, College Futures Foundation, California Competes, Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club of California, California Emerging Technology Fund, National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, Measures for Justice, Rebuild Local News, Beam Circular, and TheGuardian.org.
He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Junior Statesmen of America and on the advisory boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University.
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 nation’s 250th anniversary 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 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 the 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. A graduate of Harvard University, she 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 has received the History, Heroes & Hope Award at America’s Ball for the Mall on behalf of the Trust for the National Mall and has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts 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.
The Commit Partnership and its 75-member staff are focused on improving post-secondary education completion rates 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 co-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 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 Bachelor of Arts from Austin College and an MBA 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 a seasoned public company executive and board director with more than two decades of leadership experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. He most recently served as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., where he oversaw the company’s legal, corporate governance, ethics and compliance, and enterprise risk management functions.
Prior to BridgeBio, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Earlier in his career, he served as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company, a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts, and a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
Wilmot brings extensive governance, risk, and fiduciary oversight experience through his board service. 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. In addition, he serves as a founding director (and was the inaugural board chair) 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. His prior public company board service includes HarborOne Bancorp, Inc., where he was a member of the Executive and Audit committees.
Wilmot has been recognized for his leadership and commitment to community impact, including receiving the Boston Bar Foundation’s Public Service Award in 2022. He has also been named among Boston’s most influential business and community leaders by Boston Magazine and the Boston Business Journal.
Wilmot holds a Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Trinity College and a JD from 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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