LEADERSHIP TEAM | FOX HILL VILLAGE IN NORFOLK COUNTY, MA

Ms. Clark, President of the Corporation and Chair of the Fox Hill Board of Directors, hails from Scotia, New York.  She received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Rochester in 1968.  Barbara had a lengthy career at Bank of Boston.  She managed several corporate banking groups and risk management departments before becoming Executive Vice President in charge of Global Financial Services.

Barbara moved to Fox Hill in 2014 and she has served on the Board since 2018.  She previously chaired the Finance Committee and served as Treasurer of the Corporation.  In addition to her other responsibilities, she currently serves on the Sales Committee and the Compensation Committee.

Daniel “Dan” is the Vice President of the Corporation.  He earned his BA from Williams College and his MBA from New York University; he is also a graduate of The Stonier School of Banking.  Dan served in the Navy for two years as an officer on a destroyer escort before he joined the training program at The Grace National Bank in New York City.  He worked for Marine Midland Bank in New York, becoming an Executive Vice President and Chair of the Credit Committee. 

Dan served on the Scarsdale, NY Board of Education and as a Vestry member of and Finance Committee Chair for St. James the Less in Scarsdale.  He and his wife Carol moved to Fox Hill in 2013.  Dan has served on the Welcome and the 401(k) Committees.  He currently chairs the Governance Committee and serves on the Finance, Buildings & Grounds and Nominating Committees.

Ernie has been very active in Westwood.  He has served on the town Finance Committee, the Personnel Board, and one of six members who established the Dedham Westwood Water District.  He served St. Paul’s Church in Dedham as a church warden and as Treasurer.   He and his wife are members of the Dedham Club, where he is a member of the Finance and the Admissions Committee.

Heather serves as General Counsel and Secretary of the Corporation.  She joined the firm of Bingham, Dana & Gould following graduation from law school, and subsequently became Associate General Counsel at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Heather has been very active in community affairs, serving as the Chair of the Wellesley Advisory (Finance) Committee and as Wellesley Town Moderator for 7 years.  She has served on the Boards of the Wellesley Free Library Foundation, The Wellesley Club and the Community Fund for Wellesley, Inc.  Governor Baker has appointed Heather to the Commonwealth’s Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Treatment, and she also serves on the Advisory Board of the Hastings Center, with a focus on ethical issues associated with aging.  She is a graduate of Smith College, Northeastern University School of Law and TH Chan Harvard School of Public Health, where she earned her Master’s in Health Policy.

Roberta graduated from the University of Illinois and earned her M.D. from Western Reserve University (WRU). She became an Instructor in Pediatrics at WRU while being Physician in Charge of the Pediatric Clinics and Emergency Services.  She and her late husband Laurence and their three children moved to Vermont.  She directed the Vermont Department of Health’s Maternal and Child Health Services prior to her appointment as Vermont’s Commissioner of Health.  She then became the administrator of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology at UVM’s Medical Center Hospital.

Roberta and her husband retired in 1993 to sail their ocean-going boat from Lake Champlain to Venezuela and back to the Virgin Island over a 10-year period.   Following her husband’s death, and to be nearer to her children, Dr. Coffin moved to Fox Hill in 2020. In addition to serving on the Fox Hill Board, Dr. Coffin is a member of the Better Hearing Committee and on the editorial team of The Fox.

William “Bill” grew up in Rye, NY as second of four boys who all went to Dartmouth College.  Began career at IBM in sales, focused on the major banks in Boston.  Assumed management positions in two different computer start-up companies, before moving to State Street Bank, first as Division Head of Master Trust, servicing large pension plans, then as EVP, member of the Chairman’s Office, and Area Head of the Mutual Fund Services business. He later joined PwC as a Managing Director in the Investment Management Practice.

Bill has served as a trustee of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and in leadership positions in condo associations and charitable organizations in Vero Beach, Florida and New London, New Hampshire. Bill and his wife, Malora, moved to Fox Hill in 2020.  They have 5 children, 14 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. In addition to serving on the Fox Hill Finance Committee, Bill sings in the Fox Hill chorus and with the Boston Saengerfest Men’s Chorus. He enjoys golf, tennis, pool and skiing.

Bob who moved to Fox Hill in 2017, was the founder of two and the CEO of three corporations in the electronics industry.  A long-time resident of Westwood, Mr. Forsberg and his family have been  very involved in Lifeworks, Inc., an organization supporting children and adults with developmental disabilities. 

Bob graduated from Bowdoin College, received an MBA from Northeastern University.  He subsequently completed the Owner President Manager Program at the Harvard Business School.  He served for many years on the boards of Old Colony YMCA and Beckett-Chimney Corners YMCA camp.

Nancy earned her BS from Syracuse University and her MS in Educational Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania.  While raising her children, she taught at the Agnes Irwin School in Rosemont, PA and volunteered through the Junior League of Philadelphia, serving as its President in 1986-7.  She subsequently was elected Regional Nominating Chairman for the Association of Jr. Leagues International and Chairman of Volunteers for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross, overseeing 28,000 volunteers. 

Returning to education, she became the Director of Admissions and then Head of the Lower School at Sanford School in Hockessin, Delaware, a position that she held until her retirement in 2010.  At Fox Hill, Nancy has served as Chair of the Sales Committee and as a member of the Finance Committee. She is currently Chair of the Building and Grounds Committee and a member of the Governance and Nominating Committees.

Karen grew up in Reading, Massachusetts.  She received a BA from Vassar College in 1958 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1968.  She moved to New York City where she spent over 12 years as a portfolio manager with Scudder Stevens & Clark.  She then became the Vice president, Finance Administration, at the New Community Trust, the community foundation of New York handling employee benefits and monitoring investments.

Karen was a very active member of Saint Thomas Church in New York. She served on the Vestry and was Chair of its Investment Committee.  Karen remains a member of the Cosmopolitan Club, where she visits to New York to attend the Metropolitan Opera.  Moving to Fox Hill in 2014, Karen joined the Board in 2017, and has served on the Finance, 401(k), Funds Management and the Master Plan Committees.

Harry “Skip” lived in Westwood for over 50 Years, serving as the Chair of the Town’s Finance Committee, and a senior Warden at St. John’s Episcopal Church.  For the last fifteen years, he has been the head of the Dedham Retired Executive Group, aka “The DREGs”.  Skip spent most of his professional career at Adams, Harkness and Hill, an institutional research firm, where he was a Wall Street Analyst, Director of Research, and Hedge Fund Manager.  He served on the Board and was a Managing Partner. His main charitable involvement has been with The Home for Little Wanderers, where he served as Chairman of the Board.  During his tenure, The Home doubled its endowment and quadrupled in size.  Skip started a charity golf tournament for The Home, which has netted almost $5 M over the past 25 years. He moved to Fox Hill Village in 2020 and joined the Board in May of 2021.