Our Board
Doug Rauch
FOUNDER AND BOARD CHAIR, DAILY TABLE AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF TRADER JOE’S COMPANY
Doug spent 31 years with Trader Joe's Company, the last 13 years as a President, helping grow the business from a small chain in Southern California, to a nationally acclaimed retail success story. He was instrumental in developing their prized buying philosophy, their unique private label food program, and wrote and executed the Business Plan for expanding Trader Joe’s nationally. He “graduated’ from Trader Joe’s in 2008.
Doug was a Fellow at Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative where he researched hunger/food insecurity, and where the idea for Daily Table was hatched.
He was a co-founding board member, and CEO for 6 years, of Conscious Capitalism Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to elevating humanity through business; he is also a board member of Sprouts Farmers Markets, Imperfect Foods, and several other for profit and nonprofit boards.
Doug received his Executive M.B.A. from the Drucker School of Management, Claremont University. In 2015 he was inducted into Babson College’s Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs, and in 2018 was awarded the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Leadership Award.
José Alvarez
CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, TUCK BUSINESS SCHOOL AT DARTMOUTH
José Alvarez is clinical professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He is also a visiting senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, where he has served on the faculty since 2009. He has co-authored over 30 cases and the book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick and Mortar Store Survive.
Prior to his academic career, he spent nearly 20 years in the supermarket industry, culminating in his tenure as president and chief executive officer of Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover. He also served as the Senior Vice President Logistics and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.
Mr. Alvarez currently serves on the board of directors/trustees for United Rentals, Princeton University, The Joyce Foundation, The Good Jobs Institute, Daily Table, TJX Companies, and Munoz Group (now known as AMFresh). Mr. Alvarez holds an AB degree from Princeton University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. José is married with three children.
Scott Finlow
CMO, PEPSICO FOODSERVICE
Scott Finlow is the Chief Marketing Officer for the PepsiCo Foodservice Division. Scott and his team are responsible for translating deep consumer and customer insights into innovation and experiences that accelerate growth, build brands with purpose and transform the business for the future. He and his team are constantly in search of bold ideas and striving to build a culture that’s the place everyone wants to come and work.
Scott has been with PepsiCo for 28 years in a variety of Marketing roles in the US and Asia. Among his favorite PepsiCo experiences were launching a ground-up Salty Snacks business in Vietnam – but he thinks he has the best job at PepsiCo right now!
Scott is a graduate of Tufts University and lives in New York City with his wife Pam, son Tai and daughter Rei.
Katrina Bergmann Foster
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Katrina Foster is a nonprofit leader with a passion for building relationships that fuel mission and impact, and make lives more meaningful. Currently Katrina is Director of Development for the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, one of Boston’s premier cultural institutions sharing inspiration, provocation, and imagination through public access to art. She is responsible for leading the museum’s fundraising strategy and business planning. Prior to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Katrina directed fundraising programs at Boston Ballet and the Unitarian Universalist Association. She began her career in politics and government in New Hampshire.
Katrina has served as Vice President of Women in Development of Greater Boston, one of the largest organizations of advancement professionals in Massachusetts, and on the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Hospitality & Tourism Leadership Council, which promotes policies that will strengthen the region's hospitality and tourism, and arts and culture industries. Katrina received her B.A. in Political Science from McGill University in Montreal.
Sandra T. King
FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL STKING ASSOCIATES AND MARKETING FACULTY AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Sandra heads a boutique marketing, communications, and public affairs consulting practice and teaches at Boston University. Since 2013, she has co-managed The CREST summer internship program that places minority college students and women in the commercial real estate industry. As a marketing faculty at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University she directs the MBA Executive Mentor Program in Health Sciences. She was Vice President of Marketing at Babson College, Vice President of University Relations at Northeastern University, the Vice President for Marketing, Communication, and Public Affairs at Bentley University as well as interim Vice President of Marketing at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Sandra serves on the national board of Project Ventures. She is a frequent speaker on brand positioning, direct marketing, and women in management issues. She has taught marketing in the MBA programs at Boston University, Babson College and Northeastern University, and is an expert witness in the area of direct marketing. Sandra earned a B.A. from Elmira College and an MBA from Northeastern University. She served on the national board of the YWCA of the USA and REACH against domestic violence and is an overseer ‘GBH Boston. She is an avid tennis player and golfer. She and her husband Bob Tunis are proud parents of 3 adult children and 5 grandchildren.
Jay Martin
CORPORATE LAWYER (RETIRED)
Jay spent his professional career as an attorney and partner at several large law firms. He specialized in the area of insurance and throughout his career he advised a diverse group of clients on a wide variety of issues relating to the business of insurance including corporate and regulatory compliance, business and strategic planning, product development, mergers and acquisitions and governmental affairs.
During his over forty years of actively practicing law, Jay participated in numerous professional associations and governmental committees. He also has been an active board member, advisor and volunteer with a number of not-for-profit groups including Reserve, Inc., Boys Hope Girls Hope New York, Girls, Inc., and the Robert C. Parker School. Jay is a founding board member of Daily Table and currently serves as the Chair of the Daily Table Governance and Nominations Committee. Jay received his law degree from the Boston University School of Law and his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He was also an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University.
David Mersky
FOUNDING PARTNER, MERSKY, JAFFE & ASSOCIATES
David A. Mersky, Founding Partner of Mersky, Jaffe & Associates, leads the firm, founded in 1992, which specializes in fundraising and executive search solutions for nonprofits worldwide. He has devoted his career to helping leaders of nonprofits raise more money by creating a culture of asking and stewardship.
He was the chief development officer for the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston responsible for planning and implementing all the fundraising and marketing of the nation’s sixth largest Jewish community. Previously, he was the President of Ampal Securities Corporation, an investment-banking firm that raised capital for private enterprise in Israel. Until 2018, David was a faculty member in the Graduate School at Brandeis University for 26 years. He is the lead author of two books, Successful Synagogue Fundraising Today: Overcoming the Fear of Asking for Money, and How You can Engage New Board Members: Strengthening Your Nonprofit Organization.
He has trained thousands of professionals and volunteers who have raised hundreds of millions of dollars. In private business, he has counseled management on issues ranging from strategic marketing planning to sales force training and development. He advises families on the creative use of philanthropy for business and estate planning as well as transmitting enduring values from one generation to the next.
Kristen Miale
MANAGING DIRECTOR, CASWELL ADVISORY GROUP
Kristen Miale is a managing director at Caswell Advisory Group, a sell-side mergers and acquisitions firm specializing in representing business owners throughout New England and facilitating the sale of businesses valued between $3 million and $15 million.
Prior to her role at CAG, Kristen served as president of Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine for eleven years. As president, she led the state-wide organization through several transformational growth periods to become an innovative, equity-focused organization that distributed over 30M meals annually through a network of over 600 community-based organizations. While at the food bank, she co- founded Harvesting Good, a mid-scale, vegetable processing company whose mission is to strengthen small farms, improve access to local, nutritious food for all, and support ending hunger programs in the northeast. Before her work in food security, she worked for more than a decade in finance (both public and private equity) and business consulting.
Kristen is a board member of Harvesting Good and has also recently served on the boards of the Maine Philanthropy Council and Crown of Maine Distributors and served on the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Community Development Advisory Council. She received her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Boston College and a masters in business administration from Boston University.
Tameka B. Moss
EXPERT, ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Tameka, the founder of TBM Consulting, LLC has over twenty years’ experience in organizational and leadership development; she applies her talent management experience to advise clients on the best approach to attract, retain, and develop their talent. Her experience spans from managing diverse work teams and overseeing organizational assessments, to solution design, facilitation, and execution for industries as diverse as financial services, manufacturing, retail, professional services, not-for-profit, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. She also specializes in equity/access, economic and leadership development.
For eight years, Tameka, as a Partner and Founder of a Practice, led Next Street’s talent management practice which focused on the diverse human capital needs of both small-business/nonprofit and large-enterprise organizations. Prior to Next Street, she was a member of the organizational and leadership development practices at Capital H Group and Right Management Consultants. Tameka holds a dual B.A. in Sociology and African-American Studies with a concentration in history from Yale University where she received a Master’s Cup and the Elm and Ivy Award for her dedication to community service and strengthening the relationship between Yale and the surrounding New Haven neighborhoods. She has been a repeat lecturer at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City’s ICCC executive education series, a speaker at the Linkage Organizational Development Summit and for the New England Human Resources Association South Shore Workshop series, as well as an author for Workforce Magazine.
Mehrdad Noorani
FOUNDING PARTNER, GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS
Mehrdad Noorani was a Founding Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a leading infrastructure private equity investment firm. Prior to the formation of GIP in 2006, Mehrdad served as Managing Director and Head of Airport Finance at General Electric Commercial Aviation Services. Prior to joining GE, he was a Managing Director of the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse and a senior member of the Transportation and Logistics Group in London.
Mehrdad is a 2019 Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow. His area of interest following his ALI Fellowship is improving health care outcomes and reducing health care costs by supporting businesses and organizations that are working on improving diets and eating habits of the population.
Mehrdad is a member of the International Board of Right to Play and a Board Member of Boston-based, The Basics. He is also a Friedman School Entrepreneurship Advisor at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition
Karen Sammon
CEO, CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM
Karen Sammon is a CEO, President, and public company Board Member with a successful record of leading turnarounds, and digital and culture transformations. She is recognized for strategically cultivating and empowering high performing teams, through conscious leadership and authenticity. Karen is currently CEO at Conscious Capitalism, Inc, a global network of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs dedicated to elevating humanity through business. She is currently leveraging her experience stewarding business model transitions and accelerating growth through her company, Next7Gens with investments in tech and acquisitions of mid-market manufacturers.
Karen has more than 25 years of experience in restaurant, hospitality and retail technology and is the former CEO, President of PAR Technology Corporation where she led the strategic turnaround of the company’s commoditized POS hardware business transforming it to a software restaurant management solutions powerhouse. Prior to that she was the Sr. VP of Operations for CBORD within Roper Technologies. Karen actively volunteers her time and also serves on the Board of Advisors for Penn State University’s Nextovation Initiative, and is an advisor and mentor to several tech start-ups.
Karen’s is a published thought leader and regularly speaks on topics related to corporate transformation, leadership and Conscious Capitalism. She is a passionate supporter of women in business including the Colgate Program on Women in Business. Karen holds a B.A. from Colgate University, a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
Maureen Timmons
FORMER DIRECTOR, DINING SERVICES AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Maureen Timmons served as the Director of Dining Services at Northeastern University for 28 years. As director, she oversaw 30 campus dining locations serving 20,000 guests daily with a team of 600. Passionate about combining learning and connection through food, Maureen is an alumna of the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative, which is co-led by The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and Stanford University. There, she chaired the Education Working Group from 2015-2021 and now serves on the Advisory Board.
Maureen has earned an associate degree from The Culinary Institute of America (AOS), bachelor and master’s degrees from Johnson & Wales University (BS in Hotel Restaurant Institutional Management and MS in Managerial Technology), and a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in higher education from Northeastern. She is also a TEDx speaker. If you’re curious, check out her talk to discover “The Hidden Superpower of Food.”
Maureen was honored with the 2020 “Women Who Give Award” that recognizes and honors a woman who embraces the mission of The Women’s Lunch Place (WLP) and supports the advancement of women through leadership and philanthropy (and food). She has also been a regular kitchen volunteer at WLP since 2019. Maureen has been a Daily Table board member since 2020 and now serves on the WOP advisory board.
Bill Walczak
FORMER CEO, CODMAN SQUARE HEALTH CENTER, SOUTH END COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, CARNEY HOSPITAL (RETIRED)
Bill is most associated with the re-development of the Codman Square area of Boston, a multi-cultural community which foundered in the 1970s and became an area known for racial unrest and economic disintegration. Bill was founder and CEO of the Codman Square Health Center, a major factor in the regeneration of the community, is founding president of Codman Academy Charter School, and most recently was CEO of the South End Community Health Center in Boston. He has been President or CEO of health care organizations for 42 years.
Bill is chair of the Board of Trustees of Bunker Hill Community College, and chair of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education. He was founding president of the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, a founder of the Edward Kennedy Health Careers Academy and founding president of Boston HealthNet. He is a past President of the UMass/Boston Alumni Association. He serves on the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, and on the boards of the Rappaport Center at Boston College Law School, Daily Table, HealthWorks at Codman, and The American City Coalition. Bill served on both Governors Deval Patrick’s and Charlie Baker’s Health Care Transition Committees. Bill has worked on community regeneration efforts in a number of countries around the world. He has received numerous awards for his work and ideas.