Board of Trustees

Pam has 25 years of demonstrated leadership in schools, nonprofits and business enterprises. After beginning her career in business and venture capital, she shifted to mission-driven work while raising her four children. Most recently, she was Director of External Relations at Shady Hill with responsibility for the Advancement, Admission, Communications, and Marketing departments. Having recently relocated to Vermont, she continues to consult on strategic matters for multiple schools and nonprofits. She has held numerous leadership positions on school and non-profit boards including Shady Hill, Beacon Academy, Prospect Hill Academy, and The Foundation to Be Named Later. She also continues to invest in early stage companies, particularly those backed by female entrepreneurs.

Pam is a graduate of Williams College and has four grown daughters, all graduates of Shady Hill and Noble & Greenough.

Jennifer S. Gala
Senior Portfolio Director, Harvard Business School
Member since 2019

Jennifer is a lifelong learner with over 20 years of progressive management experience in higher education. She is passionate about transformational education experiences and access to education, at all levels and stages. Her expertise is in the areas of executive education and student programming; research grant administration, strategic relationship management; operations management and financial management; and delivery of high‐profile engagements. She has an aptitude for strategic thinking, prides herself on a global perspective and is most comfortable in a multicultural environment.

As Senior Portfolio Director at Harvard Business School (HBS), she currently oversees the Healthcare and Strategy executive education program portfolios. Prior to joining HBS, Jennifer was the Associate Director for Executive Education and International Programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Jennifer has also served as the Program Director for the Center for International Development at Harvard, and before that, as Program Director for Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy School.

In addition to her professional work and her PHA Board of Trustees role, Jennifer is the founding treasurer for the Savoyards of Boston, the scholarship chair for the Purdue Alumni Club of Greater Boston, and an ESL tutor with Project Literacy. Jennifer attended Purdue University (BA) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (M.Ed). She is the recipient of Harvard Kennedy School Dean’s Award for Excellence.

Susie works in the Retirement Services business of Voya Financial partnering with large corporate customers to drive improved retirement outcomes. She is a Communications Strategist that reviews benefit plan structures, participant behaviors, product adoption, demographic drivers, media influence and more, to develop and measure communication and education programs. Susie has worked in the financial services industry for over twenty years at State Street Corporation, ING U.S. and most recently, Voya.

Susie has been affiliated with PHA for more than a decade working to provide students a wide array of out-of-school time opportunities to help prepare them for college and beyond. She participates on the Development Committee and Foundation. Susie holds a B.A. from Purdue University and a M.A. from Boston University. She resides in Ashmont (Dorchester) and is involved with other local non-profit organizations.

Giovany Morales-Ramos
IT Manager, Consultant, Insource Services, Inc
Member since 2020
Clerk

The son of parents who immigrated to the United States from Guatemala, Giovany Morales-Ramos was born and raised in Boston. He was a member of the first graduating class of one of Boston’s first charter schools, Roxbury Prep, a place where he learned what it meant to be academically challenged and supported. He continued on to a private high school called The Governor’s Academy and then to Wentworth Institute of Technology for college to study Mechanical Engineering.

Months before graduating from Wentworth, the company with which Giovany was interning went on a hiring freeze. To gain financial stability, Giovany took on a job as an IT support specialist at Boston Prep while resolving to find employment in the engineering field. After only a brief time working at Boston Prep, Giovany realized that his true passion lies in mentoring and educating minority students. For seven years, Giovany worked at Boston Prep as the Director of Technology, an advisor, a varsity soccer and baseball coach, and as a mentor for many students. He also taught 8th grade computer literacy for 3 years and 7th and 8th grade engineering for 1 year.

Giovany then decided to pursue a graduate degree in education and was accepted to Harvard Graduate School of Education and received a Masters in School Leadership. After receiving his masters degree, he became the Director of Technology for a national non-profit organization called Citizen Schools where he was responsible for managing the technology department for the organization. As of March 2021, he became the Director of Instructional Technology at Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols School where he supports instructional technology for students, teachers, and families, and supports B-12 STEM programming.

Ginessa Rodríguez-Reyes
Quality Manager, PPG Aerospace
Member since 2021

Ginessa was born and raised in Puerto Rico. After graduating high school she moved to Indiana to pursue a degree in Engineering.

She has over 20 years of experience in the Quality field across multiple industries; automotive, medical device, defense, industrial NDT (non-destructive test instruments) & aerospace. She has worked in quality through all stages of the product development process as well as after sales service where she was responsible for auditing global repair and calibration laboratories. Ginessa has been involved both in maintaining international certifications as well as attaining international accreditation for multiple calibration and repair laboratories in the US and Canada.

Ginessa attended Purdue University (BS MET), is a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), as well as a member of the Purdue Alumni Club of Greater Boston and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). She also acts as a Condo Association Trustee.

On her spare time she likes to connect with family and friends, loves music, books, travel and is an amateur photographer.

After 25 years as Founder, Director and CTO of CambridgeSoft Corporation (CS), followed by a successful sale of CS to a Fortune 500 company, Michael now directs his efforts toward social entrepreneurship in the Greater Boston area. In 2014, He was a fellow in Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative.

Currently, in addition to developing a new platform for young people to identify and pursue opportunity, Michael serves on the boards of Beacon Academy and Prospect Hill Academy. Beacon Academy provides a transformational year between 8th and 9th grades to promising, motivated and hard-working students from Boston and surrounding urban areas. Michael is also a mentor at Year Up, which provides professional training and internships for high school graduates.

Sue Thomson
Chief Growth Officer, bswift
Member since 2023

Sue Thomson is the Chief Growth Officer of bswift, a leading benefits administration provider. Sue has 30 years of experience in the human resources, benefits and health care space where she led the sales and marketing functions for several organizations. Sue is passionate about mentoring others, building relationships with clients and helping them solve their HR and benefits problems. Sue also sits on the Board of 2-4-1 Cares, an organization dedicated to sports sampling and social emotional learning. Sue earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Bucknell University and has three grown children.