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Fidelity Charitable is governed by a Board of Trustees which is composed of a group of working and retired professionals who are responsible for overseeing all aspects of the operations of Fidelity Charitable, including:
Lenny Mendonca
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022.
He was the chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. He is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, the Educational Results Partnership, the College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as chair of New America and Children Now, co-chair of California Forward, co-founder and chair of Fusecorps, and vice chair of Common Cause. He is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and was vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America and the advisory boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital.
He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent.
Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her B.S. from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since September 2017. She is the president and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank.
Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, the Forsyth Institute, and Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and the co-chair of the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
Catherine received her B.A. from the University of San Francisco, certificate of management from Smith College, and certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians.
Previously, he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity until his role as vice president, when he left in 2001. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
He received his B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, LLC, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the president of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems.
Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and approximately $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a co-head of fixed income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a JD from Columbia Law School
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd treasurer of the United States and is a visiting scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
While a visiting scholar, Rios launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focused on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on U.S. currency and as statues of women in public places.
Upon her resignation as treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the
U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as treasurer, Rios was managing director of investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. As a philanthropist, Rios is particularly interested in community and human services.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions.
Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited- income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation, the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance, and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding.
Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Williams served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm.
Todd earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He was an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for- profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., and is a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. He is also the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Damian is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
Nancy Altobello
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022.
He was the chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. He is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, the Educational Results Partnership, the College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as chair of New America and Children Now, co-chair of California Forward, co-founder and chair of Fusecorps, and vice chair of Common Cause. He is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and was vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America and the advisory boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital.
He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent.
Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her B.S. from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since September 2017. She is the president and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank.
Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, the Forsyth Institute, and Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and the co-chair of the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
Catherine received her B.A. from the University of San Francisco, certificate of management from Smith College, and certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians.
Previously, he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity until his role as vice president, when he left in 2001. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
He received his B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, LLC, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the president of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems.
Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and approximately $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a co-head of fixed income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a JD from Columbia Law School
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd treasurer of the United States and is a visiting scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
While a visiting scholar, Rios launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focused on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on U.S. currency and as statues of women in public places.
Upon her resignation as treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the
U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as treasurer, Rios was managing director of investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. As a philanthropist, Rios is particularly interested in community and human services.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions.
Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited- income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation, the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance, and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding.
Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Williams served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm.
Todd earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He was an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for- profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., and is a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. He is also the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Damian is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
Catherine D'Amato
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022.
He was the chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. He is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, the Educational Results Partnership, the College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as chair of New America and Children Now, co-chair of California Forward, co-founder and chair of Fusecorps, and vice chair of Common Cause. He is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and was vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America and the advisory boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital.
He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent.
Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her B.S. from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since September 2017. She is the president and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank.
Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, the Forsyth Institute, and Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and the co-chair of the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
Catherine received her B.A. from the University of San Francisco, certificate of management from Smith College, and certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians.
Previously, he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity until his role as vice president, when he left in 2001. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
He received his B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, LLC, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the president of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems.
Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and approximately $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a co-head of fixed income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a JD from Columbia Law School
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd treasurer of the United States and is a visiting scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
While a visiting scholar, Rios launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focused on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on U.S. currency and as statues of women in public places.
Upon her resignation as treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the
U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as treasurer, Rios was managing director of investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. As a philanthropist, Rios is particularly interested in community and human services.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions.
Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited- income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation, the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance, and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding.
Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Williams served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm.
Todd earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He was an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for- profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., and is a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. He is also the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Damian is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
John Halaby
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022.
He was the chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. He is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, the Educational Results Partnership, the College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as chair of New America and Children Now, co-chair of California Forward, co-founder and chair of Fusecorps, and vice chair of Common Cause. He is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and was vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America and the advisory boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital.
He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent.
Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her B.S. from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since September 2017. She is the president and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank.
Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, the Forsyth Institute, and Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and the co-chair of the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
Catherine received her B.A. from the University of San Francisco, certificate of management from Smith College, and certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians.
Previously, he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity until his role as vice president, when he left in 2001. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
He received his B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, LLC, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the president of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems.
Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and approximately $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a co-head of fixed income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a JD from Columbia Law School
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd treasurer of the United States and is a visiting scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
While a visiting scholar, Rios launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focused on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on U.S. currency and as statues of women in public places.
Upon her resignation as treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the
U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as treasurer, Rios was managing director of investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. As a philanthropist, Rios is particularly interested in community and human services.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions.
Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited- income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation, the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance, and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding.
Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Williams served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm.
Todd earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He was an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for- profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., and is a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. He is also the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Damian is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
Tyra A. Mariani
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022.
He was the chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. He is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, the Educational Results Partnership, the College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as chair of New America and Children Now, co-chair of California Forward, co-founder and chair of Fusecorps, and vice chair of Common Cause. He is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and was vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America and the advisory boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital.
He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent.
Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her B.S. from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since September 2017. She is the president and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank.
Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, the Forsyth Institute, and Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and the co-chair of the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
Catherine received her B.A. from the University of San Francisco, certificate of management from Smith College, and certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians.
Previously, he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity until his role as vice president, when he left in 2001. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
He received his B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, LLC, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the president of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems.
Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and approximately $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a co-head of fixed income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a JD from Columbia Law School
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd treasurer of the United States and is a visiting scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
While a visiting scholar, Rios launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focused on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on U.S. currency and as statues of women in public places.
Upon her resignation as treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the
U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as treasurer, Rios was managing director of investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. As a philanthropist, Rios is particularly interested in community and human services.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions.
Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited- income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation, the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance, and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding.
Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Williams served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm.
Todd earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He was an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for- profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., and is a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. He is also the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Damian is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
Jennifer Toolin McAuliffe
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022.
He was the chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. He is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, the Educational Results Partnership, the College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as chair of New America and Children Now, co-chair of California Forward, co-founder and chair of Fusecorps, and vice chair of Common Cause. He is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and was vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America and the advisory boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital.
He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent.
Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her B.S. from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since September 2017. She is the president and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank.
Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, the Forsyth Institute, and Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and the co-chair of the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
Catherine received her B.A. from the University of San Francisco, certificate of management from Smith College, and certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians.
Previously, he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity until his role as vice president, when he left in 2001. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
He received his B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, LLC, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the president of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems.
Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and approximately $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a co-head of fixed income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a JD from Columbia Law School
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd treasurer of the United States and is a visiting scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
While a visiting scholar, Rios launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focused on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on U.S. currency and as statues of women in public places.
Upon her resignation as treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the
U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as treasurer, Rios was managing director of investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. As a philanthropist, Rios is particularly interested in community and human services.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions.
Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited- income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation, the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance, and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding.
Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Williams served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm.
Todd earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He was an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for- profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., and is a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. He is also the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Damian is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
Rosie Rios
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022.
He was the chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. He is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, the Educational Results Partnership, the College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as chair of New America and Children Now, co-chair of California Forward, co-founder and chair of Fusecorps, and vice chair of Common Cause. He is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and was vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America and the advisory boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital.
He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent.
Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her B.S. from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since September 2017. She is the president and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank.
Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, the Forsyth Institute, and Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and the co-chair of the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
Catherine received her B.A. from the University of San Francisco, certificate of management from Smith College, and certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians.
Previously, he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity until his role as vice president, when he left in 2001. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
He received his B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, LLC, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the president of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems.
Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and approximately $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a co-head of fixed income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a JD from Columbia Law School
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd treasurer of the United States and is a visiting scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
While a visiting scholar, Rios launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focused on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on U.S. currency and as statues of women in public places.
Upon her resignation as treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the
U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as treasurer, Rios was managing director of investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. As a philanthropist, Rios is particularly interested in community and human services.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions.
Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited- income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation, the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance, and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding.
Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Williams served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm.
Todd earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He was an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for- profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., and is a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. He is also the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Damian is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
Todd Williams
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022.
He was the chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. He is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, the Educational Results Partnership, the College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as chair of New America and Children Now, co-chair of California Forward, co-founder and chair of Fusecorps, and vice chair of Common Cause. He is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and was vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America and the advisory boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital.
He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent.
Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her B.S. from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since September 2017. She is the president and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank.
Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, the Forsyth Institute, and Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and the co-chair of the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
Catherine received her B.A. from the University of San Francisco, certificate of management from Smith College, and certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians.
Previously, he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity until his role as vice president, when he left in 2001. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
He received his B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, LLC, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the president of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems.
Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and approximately $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a co-head of fixed income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a JD from Columbia Law School
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd treasurer of the United States and is a visiting scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
While a visiting scholar, Rios launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focused on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on U.S. currency and as statues of women in public places.
Upon her resignation as treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the
U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as treasurer, Rios was managing director of investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. As a philanthropist, Rios is particularly interested in community and human services.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions.
Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited- income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation, the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance, and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding.
Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Williams served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm.
Todd earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He was an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for- profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., and is a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. He is also the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Damian is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
Damian Wilmot
Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees
Lenny Mendonca has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2015 and Chairman since March 2022.
He was the chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. He is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw its knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and leading the firm's communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014.
Mendonca serves on a number of boards, including Western Governors University, the Educational Results Partnership, the College Futures Foundation, Commonwealth Club, California Emerging Technology Fund, and California Competes. In addition, his board service includes time as chair of New America and Children Now, co-chair of California Forward, co-founder and chair of Fusecorps, and vice chair of Common Cause. He is the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and its Economic Institute and was vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Mendonca is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America and the advisory boards of many organizations, including Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, and Third Sector Capital.
He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford University. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard University.
Nancy Altobello has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess and MTS Systems and is a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm.
Altobello recently retired from Ernst & Young, where she held several leadership roles over her 38-year career, including serving as Global Vice Chair of Talent.
Her philanthropic interests in education and community and human services led her to serve as a Trustee at Fairfield University, where she also serves as chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and as the board chair for MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Altobello is a former board member for the Business Council for International Understanding. She received her B.S. from Fairfield University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Catherine D'Amato has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since September 2017. She is the president and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank.
Her philanthropic interests in community and human services, as well as health, led her to serve as a board member at the Massachusetts Food Association, the Forsyth Institute, and Newmarket Community Partners. D'Amato is a board member of Eastern Bank and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, and the co-chair of the Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation.
She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and an emeritus board member of The Boston Foundation and Feeding America.
Catherine received her B.A. from the University of San Francisco, certificate of management from Smith College, and certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard University.
John Halaby has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. He is executive vice president and head of distribution for Harbor Capital. Halaby is accountable for developing and implementing overall business strategy for distribution and leads the key account, sales, and marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Harbor, Halaby was employed as the head of the Financial Institutions Group – U.S. Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in Baltimore. Halaby was an integral part of the overall business leadership and distribution of T. Rowe Price products through banks, registered investment advisors, retail platforms, turnkey asset management platforms, and custodians.
Previously, he held positions leading national accounts and defined contribution for T. Rowe Price’s intermediary-focused business unit. Halaby began his career at Scudder Kemper Investments, where he held individual sales roles of increasing complexity until his role as vice president, when he left in 2001. Halaby is also a board member of Catholic Charities—Maryland, Loyola Blakefield, and Maryvale Preparatory School.
He received his B.A. from Cornell University and is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.
Tyra Mariani has been a Fidelity Charitable Trustee since October 2021. She is the Founder & Principal of UP Advisors, LLC, where she assists leaders and organizations in realizing their unlimited potential and goals.
Recently, Mariani was the president of the Schultz Family Foundation, where she accelerated the foundation’s work to address inequality by unlocking greater opportunities for individuals and communities facing obstacles to economic and social mobility. Prior to this, Mariani was president and COO at New America, where she partnered with the board and CEO to transform the organization into a different kind of think tank committed to exploring new and effective ways of solving public problems.
Before that, she was the chief of staff to the U.S. deputy secretary of education and deputy chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of education during the Obama administration. In these roles, she helped shape policies and programs impacting education and led interagency and cross-departmental teams that carried out several administration priorities. Earlier in her career, Mariani launched an entrepreneurial effort to develop leaders in the education sector as founder of the Greater New Orleans Region of New Leaders. Before New Leaders, she served as budget director for Chicago Public Schools. Mariani began her career in the private sector, with roles at organizations such as McKinsey & Company and Kraft Foods.
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since July 2020. She currently serves as a Management Trustee on the Board of Fidelity’s Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds, which oversees approximately 300 funds and approximately $2 trillion in assets.
She retired from Fidelity Investments® after 14-plus years with the company, last serving as a co-head of fixed income for Fidelity Investments International, overseeing Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Fidelity, McAuliffe was a lawyer at Ropes and Gray in Boston.
McAuliffe sits on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofit entities, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Women’s Health Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and holds an AB from Dartmouth College, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a JD from Columbia Law School
Rosie Rios has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since October 2018. She was the 43rd treasurer of the United States and is a visiting scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
While a visiting scholar, Rios launched Empowerment 2020, an initiative at Harvard University focused on the physical recognition of historical American women, including on U.S. currency and as statues of women in public places.
Upon her resignation as treasurer, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the
U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to her appointment as treasurer, Rios was managing director of investments for MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. As a philanthropist, Rios is particularly interested in community and human services.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University.
Todd Williams has been a Fidelity Charitable® Trustee since March 2023. Highly committed to public education, Williams is the founding chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions.
Together, the Partnership and its backbone staff are focused on improving post- secondary education completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region, as well as the state of Texas. Williams also served for eight years as the education policy advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Williams is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife, Abby, Williams was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Fort Worth, and in 2007, they helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 public charter school that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children from limited- income homes in northwest Dallas.
Williams was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the 2020 Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation, the 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance, and the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding.
Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Williams served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm.
Todd earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from Austin College.
Damian Wilmot is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a global biotechnology company committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of various medicines for genetic diseases. At BridgeBio, Wilmot is responsible for the company’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial and governance functions, ethics and compliance, and risk management.
Immediately prior, Wilmot was the senior vice president, chief risk and compliance officer, of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. His professional experience also includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. He was an assistant United States attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
For over 20 years, Wilmot has served as a director, trustee, or advisor of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for- profit organizations. Currently, he is a director and member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of PBF Energy, Inc., and is a director and member of the Executive and Audit committees of HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. He is also the chair of the board of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund and a trustee and chair of the Audit Committee of his alma mater, Trinity College.
In 2022, the Boston Bar Foundation honored Wilmot with its annual Public Service Award. In 2021 and 2022, Boston Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Bostonians. In 2020, the Boston Business Journal listed him on its annual Power 50 list. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of health care and life sciences.
Damian is a graduate of Trinity College and Suffolk University Law School.
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