Board of Directors
VE Global has a Board of Directors in the United States and is in the process of forming one in Chile. The board serves a governing role in the organization to ensure the realization of our mission. VE Global recently formed a Board of Advisors to aid in strategic planning, development of resources and augmentation of the current Board of Directors.
Board of Directors USA:
President - Jonah Berman
Assistant Director, Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics
Jonah served as a VE volunteer from December 2005 through April 2006 in the Casa de Guaguas. He joined the board of directors upon returning back to the U.S. in May of 2006, and was appointed board president in March of 2008. Jonah has extensive non-profit experience in both development and program management, having worked for a variety of agencies including Action for Children in Chicago, IL, United Way of Massachusetts Bay in Boston, MA, and SFJAZZ in San Francisco, CA. Currently, he works as the Assistant Director of the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA. Jonah holds a bachelor of arts in sociology and a bachelor of music in jazz performance, saxophone, from the Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio. He is currently pursuing his Masters in Business Administration at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College on a part-time basis.
Vice President - Jen Hendlisz
Human Resources Advisor - Bombardier Aerospace
Jen served as a VE Global volunteer from March to August of 2004 at Hogar Esperanza and was involved in establishing the foundation for the creation of VE Global. Since then she has remained very involved with Chile in a variety of capacities. She has served as both Treasurer of the Board of Directors and Vice-President, the title she currently holds. She advises and supports the board and organization on HR related matters including recruitment and performance management. Jen also returned to Chile in 2006 to collect data on her Masters thesis, which was based on VE Global. Jen holds of Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and an MSc in Human Resources from HEC Montreal. She currently works in Human Resources at Bombardier Aerospace.
Secretary - Ilana Osten, DPT
Pediatric Physical Therapist, Duke University Hospital
Ilana volunteered at Hogar Esperanza in 2004 and was so marked by her experience that she helped in laying the foundations for the creation of VEGlobal. She has been a member of the US Board of Directors since its inception and is currently serving her second term as Secretary. She also remains involved in the creation and implementation of the volunteer application and selection process. In her spare time, Ilana is a pediatric physical therapist. She earned her BSc in Physical Therapy at McGill University in 2003 and her doctorate of Physical Therapy at New York University in 2006 and is currently working in acute care pediatrics at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina.
Treasurer – Lauren Andrews
Lauren served as a volunteer with VE from 2006 - 2007, and was the organization's first Director of Development. She also worked part-time with children in Colegio Anakena, a school for children with special needs. She recently completed a Master's in Public Policy and Management from the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University, and currently works in non-profit development in New York.
Board Member - Stratton Lloyd
Vice President, Medical Market Development, EBSCO Publishing
Stratton spent several years in Chile during the 90’s, where he and a friend founded a non-profit organization in the north. They eventually transferred the organization, now First Look Inc., to Birmingham, Alabama. First Look promotes volunteering and organizes youth involvement in the community. Stratton attended Yale University as an undergraduate and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has advised VE Global strategic planning as a member of the advisory board since October 2007 and later joined the Board of Directors in June 2008.
Board Member - Luke Winston
Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government, Joint MBA/MPP Candidate, 2011
Luke was a co-founder and the first Executive Director of VE Global. After winning Harvard University’s Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship in 2003, Luke came to Santiago to work in the children’s home Hogar Esperanza. Witnessing the need for volunteer support in many of Santiago’s children’s shelters, Luke teamed up with six Chileans to create VE to provide opportunities for both the volunteers and the children. Luke is a joint degree candidate for a Masters in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He will graduate in May 2011.
Board Member - Brooke Lloyd
Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, MBA Program Candidate, 2012
Brooke recently transitioned into an MBA program at the Darden School of Business after working as the second Executive Director of VE Global from 2008-2010. In addition to his duties as Executive Director, Brooke volunteered a half-day a week at the children’s home Hogar Pleyades. Before his time as Executive Director, Brooke worked in Santiago as a Product Manager at Business News Americas' (BNA) and acted as President of BNA’s Community Outreach committee- it was through this role that Brooke began collaborating extensively with Luke Winston and the VE Global team. He has long had ties to Chile, having led volunteer trips to northern Chile since high school and studying abroad in Concepción as part of his B.A. degree program in Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University.
Board of Advisors:
Tom Gavin
CEO, Eze Castle Software
Tom has been with Eze Castle Software (ECS) since 1998, having joined from Treacy & Company, a boutique management consulting and principal investment firm in Boston. Tom was named Chief Executive Officer of ECS in 2005. Prior to being named CEO, Tom served as Chief Operating Officer of ECS, managing nearly all aspects of the company’s day-to-day operations and strategic planning. Tom holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Harvard University and was recently named one of the Top 40 Under 40 in Boston.
Steve Reifenberg
Executive Director, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Notre Dame University
As the Regional Office Program Director of the Chile Office, Steve managed all activities and operations of the DRCLAS Office in Santiago, Chile. Prior to moving to Chile, he was DRCLAS’s Executive Director in Cambridge, MA from 1996 - 2002. Steve is the former Program Director for Latin America of the Conflict Management Group (CMG), an international non-profit organization created from the Harvard Negotiation Project at the Harvard Law School. He served as the Director of the Edward S. Mason Program in Public Policy and Management, jointly administered by the Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Institute for International Development from 1990 to 1993. Steve is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government where he earned a Master in Public Policy. He also holds a Master in Print Journalism from Boston University and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. Steve lived in a Chilean children’s shelter, from 1982-1984, called Hogar Domingo Savio. The shelter recently changed strategies to become a community center, which is currently served by VEGlobal volunteers. Steve recently published a book of his experience in Chile, Santiago’s Children, which was released in April 2008. Steve returned to the US after many years in 2010 to begin his current position as Executive Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame University.
Jane Winslow
Director, Latin America Equity Sales, Merrill Lynch
Jane is a Director on the Latin American Institutional Equity Sales Desk at Merrill Lynch. She joined Merrill Lynch in 1998, initially based in Chile, where she resided for thirteen years, and was Institutional Investor’s #1 - ranked equity research analyst for Chile. She held similar positions at Bankers Trust and HSBC, based in New York and Santiago, Chile. Prior to her career in the Latin American markets, she did research at the World Bank and at the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization, in Rome. Jane holds a BA in Economics from Denison University; an MS in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Ohio State University; and an MBA from Stanford University.