LEADERSHIP TEAM | FOX HILL VILLAGE IN NORFOLK COUNTY, MA

Bob moved to  Fox Hill Village in 2022, having previously lived on Nantucket Island and in Lexington, MA. Originally from the Philadelphia area, Bob received his degree in chemical engineering from Villanova University. He then moved to Maryland to work for W.R. Grace, a chemicals business. He spent the rest of his career in Lexington, MA where he met his wife, Karen.

During almost 40 years at W.R. Grace, Bob held many roles including sales, marketing and research and development. He led the growth of different divisions through strategic planning, restructuring, eliminating outmoded products, and developing new products. Following his retirement in 2006 as Senior Vice President, Bob consulted with private equity and corporate clients, providing pre­acquisition strategy and post-acquisition management coaching. After his wife Karen died in 2017, he moved from Lexington to his summer home in Nantucket. Bob has served on the Boards of St. Francis House in Boston, the Cambridge Trust Company, the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Associated Industries of MA. He has served on the Fox Hill Village Finance Committee and Strategic Planning Committee.

William “Bill” grew up in Rye, New York as the second of four boys who all went to Dartmouth College. He began his career at IBM in sales, focusing on the major banks in Boston. He 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 and Strategic Planning Committee, Bill sings in the Fox Hill chorus and with the Boston Saengerfest Men’s Chorus. He enjoys golf, tennis, pool and skiing.

Al is a New Haven native with degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell. After serving as a U.S. Army Lieutenant, he began a long career at IBM in marketing and communications, followed by leadership roles at The Hastings Center, Addison Wesley, and Queens College, where he was VP of Information Systems.

In retirement, Al served in leadership roles with his Connecticut condo association, the Marstons Mills Public Library on Cape Cod, and the Resident Advisory Council at The Pinehills in Plymouth. He and his wife, Donna, moved to Fox Hill in 2020, and he has served on the Finance Committee since 2021 and serves on the Strategic Planning Committee.  In his free time, Al enjoys traveling the world with Donna, listening to classical music, and following current affairs.

Heather joined the firm of Bingham, Dana & Gould following graduation from law school, and subsequently became Associate General Counsel at Mass. 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 many years.  She has served on the Boards of the Wellesley Free Library Foundation, The Wellesley Club, and the Community Fund for Wellesley, Inc.  Gov. Baker appointed Heather to the MA Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Disease and All Other Dementias. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Hastings Center, focusing on ethical issues  in healthcare.  She is a graduate of Smith College, Northeastern University School of Law, and the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health where she earned her MA in Health Policy

Martin was born in Brooklyn and raised in Detroit. He earned his M.D. from Case Western Reserve after graduating from Wayne State, and completed residencies and fellowships in Chicago, Cleveland, London, and Washington, D.C. A cardiologist, he spent most of his career in academic hospitals, caring for patients and training medical students, and served as Department Chair.

An amateur singer, Martin has performed with major orchestras and enjoys reading poetry and prose in Yiddish and 19th-century English. He serves on the Board of the Yiddish Book Center and was Board Chair of Jewish Family Service of Western Massachusetts. Martin moved to Fox Hill in 2021 with his wife Marian, who passed away in 2023. He serves on the Health and Wellness and Speakers Series Committees.

Ellen earned a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Yale.  She moved to Cincinnati with her husband Tom, where she became the head of the graduate program in toxicology at the University of Cincinnati.  She has published a single-author textbook, and over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her math-based models for regulatory standard setting of bone-seeking toxicants, like lead and calcium, were adopted worldwide.  Ellen served as the second woman president of the Yale Club and was on the Vestry of her church.  Upon her retirement, Ellen and Tom moved to Lyon, France. They returned to the US in 2004 and moved to Fox Hill in 2016.

At Fox Hill, Ellen serves on the Library Committee and Speakers’ Selection Committee.  Ellen writes regularly for Fox Hill’s magazine, “The Fox.”  She spearheaded the Legacy Letter writing group and the Genealogy Committee and is a member of the Building and Grounds and Health and Wellness Committees.

Bob who moved to Fox Hill in 2017. He 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 Management Program at the Harvard Business School.  He served for many years on the boards of Old Colony YMCA and Beckett-Chimney Corners YMCA camp. Bob has served on the Finance Committee and as Treasurer of the  Cooperative.

Nancy was a  lifelong Hartford, CT resident. She is a Vassar graduate, she began her career teaching Art History at the University of Hartford. She later held leadership roles at Miss Hall’s School and the Mark Twain House, serving as Director of Development, trustee, and Acting Director.  With a focus on governance and strategic planning, Nancy has chaired the boards of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and Trinity College’s Watkinson Library.

She also served on national museum boards, including the AAM Trustee Ethics Committee and the Museum Trustee Association. Before moving to Fox Hill, she chaired the Health Services Committee at Seabury, a CCRC in CT. Nancy and her late husband, Rob, were avid travelers, chamber music supporters, and collectors of contemporary photography—now housed at the Yale University Art Gallery, with which she remains actively involved. At Fox Hill, she volunteers at Birch Grove Assisted Living, leads the World of Art group, and serves on the Speakers and New Yorker committees as well as the Strategic Planning Committee.

Dr. Martin was born in Bassano, Alberta, Canada, and earned an M.D. at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He completed a residency in neurology and neuro-pathology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and obtained a Ph.D. in Anatomy at the University of Rochester.  His first academic appointment was at McGill University, Montreal, CA, where he was appointed Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute. He subsequently joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and chaired the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He founded the department’s Center Without Walls for Huntington’s Disease.

Dr. Martin joined the University of California, San Francisco as Dean of the School of Medicine, where after four years he was appointed Chancellor of the UCSF Campus. Joe continues to serve Harvard Medical School as Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology. He has served on the board of Sherrill House, in Jamaica Plain, and is a long-serving member of the board of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  Joe and his wife Rachael moved from Brookline to Fox Hill in May 2022 where he has served as served as part Healthcare Task Force, the Health and Wellness and the Compensation Committes.

Fred Filoon was born in Boston and raised in Brockton, MA. A graduate of Milton Academy and Bowdoin College, he served in the U.S. Army Reserves while beginning his career in finance. After completing Citibank’s training program, Fred spent nearly 20 years at Alliance Capital Management, becoming Vice President, and later served as Partner and Executive Vice President at Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn until retiring in 2008.

He held leadership roles in Greenwich, CT, including Chair of the City’s Public Pension Board, President of the Round Hill Club, and Trustee of Round Hill Community Church. In Ketchum, ID, he was Treasurer of the YMCA, where he remains a Board member. Fred and his wife, Randi, moved to Fox Hill in 2022, where he serves on the Reserve Funds Management and Finance Committees.