Lorne Adrain is a co-founder of SVPRI and served as chair for several years. He is highly engaged in philanthropy - author of a book series raising money to support community needs (www.adrain.com), founder of National Neighborhood Day, RI Foundation's "Inspiring Partner of 2005" and winner of Northwestern Mutual Life's community service award "Most Exceptional Volunteer" in the nation. Lorne serves on multiple boards including Harvard Business School, Big Picture Schools and the Business Innovation Factory. He earned his BS at University of Rhode Island and his MBA at Harvard.

Mike Chase has been an SVPRI partner since 2004, and is an advisory team member for Amos House. He also volunteers with several area nonprofits. Mike is a Stanford Busines School graduate and a founder of Health Business Partners, a merger and acquisition firm serving the healthy living space. Mike also co-founded Ethnic Business Partners to provide advisory services for businesses approaching the Hispanic market. Mike is currently the COO of Rex Capital Advisors, a financial advisory firm located in Providence.

Bill Daugherty is CEO of Daugherty Management & Investment (DMI). He currently serves on the boards of Connect EDU, TracRac, Creative Circle Media and Mission Critical Wireless.

Stanley DeAngelis, AIA, is a new partner working to increase membership and funding for SVPRI. Stan is President of DeAngelis Business Development, LLC, a company dedicated to "Growing Businesses Inside and Out". He creates business opportunities for his clients, primarily in the service industry with a concentration in the construction field, and helps them engage and focus their employees.

Ellen Donahue-Dalton is a 20-year marketing executive with experience in global and start-up organizations. Currently the head of Dalton Marketing Group, which helps high-growth organizations define and meet their marketing objectives, Ellen provides executive-level market planning and programming services to non-profit organizations, as well as to clients nationally in healthcare, entertainment, and technology/services industries. Prior to DMG, she was VP, Worldwide Marketing and divisional President of GTECH Corporation, a global services provider.

Sandra Enos, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bryant University where she coordinates the service learning program. Dr. Enos is the author of several articles on community-university partnerships and the pedagogy of service-learning. Dr. Enos has taught courses in philanthropy and serves on several boards in Rhode Island. She is currently researching the history of child welfare in the state and working with several agencies to bring that history to the public.

Sara Enright is a new Partner with SVPRI and a member of the Amos House Engagement Team. Sara serves as the Providence Executive Director of Year Up, a one-year intensive training program designed to help urban young adults reach their potential and succeed in professional careers. Sara received her MBA from Harvard Business School and, prior to business school, held a number of different roles in for-profit and non-profit organizations.

Amy Gallo is a writer, editor and business consultant. Her writing on management issues appears on HarvardBusiness.org. For eight years, she was a consultant at Katzenbach Partners, a strategy and organization consulting firm based in New York. She was deeply involved in the firm’s research and thinking on the “informal organization” and authored a high profile report on the topic, which was featured in Fortune Magazine.

Alan Harlam is the Director of Social Entrepreneurship at Brown University which provides resources, networking and funding to support student initiatives on and off campus. Recently, he has helped launch a catering business that rebuilds lives through training and employment experience and provides income to support much needed services to the poor and homeless in South Providence. Prior to his career as a social entrepreneur, he provided capital and turnaround management to financially distressed companies.

Bari A. Harlam is Vice President, Pharmacy Marketing and Customer Experience at CVS Caremark. Bari has also served on the faculty at the University of Rhode Island and Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. She has published in a variety of journals including Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, and the Journal of Business Research. She holds undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School. Bari lives in Providence, RI with her husband, Alan and 3 children.

Ann-Marie Harrington founded Embolden in 1998, drawing on her background in business, technology and in the community foundation world.

Chuck Holland is the board chair of Social Venture Partners Rhode Island; the advisory board chair of The Hanson Initiative for Language and Literacy, a Trustee of the International Yacht Restoration School, and a volunteer boat keeper at the Museum of Yachting in Newport. He is currently the project champion for the Rhode Island Literacy Project which will demonstrate the ability to teach all of our children to read by 3rd grade.

Sally Johnson works as a project manager for the state of Rhode Island and is currently engaged in a nonprofit funded effort to help doctors, help patients, help themselves. Prior to joining state government as a policy advisor to Governor Almond, Sally ran a community planning and mediation consulting company and a statewide nonprofit, Scenic Rhode Island, dedicated to improving the visual landscape. She holds a master's degree in policy from the University of Rhode Island and BA from Dartmouth College.

Susan A. Keller is Secretary of the SVPRI Board, chairs the SVPRI Investment Committee, works on multiple SVPRI Engagement Teams, and serves on several advisory boards. She is a partner at Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge LLP, specializing in corporate and private venture capital. She is a co-founder of the Women's Association of Venture & Equity, frequently counsels women entrepreneurs, and received the 2002 Women in Business Advocate of the Year award.

Toby Lederberg is a member of the Board of Directors. He is a partner at the law firm of Hinckley Allen Snyder, focusing his practice in the area of corporate law, with extensive experience representing investors and companies in a variety of U.S. and international business transactions, both public and private, including leveraged buyout financings and venture capital investments. Toby also has substantial experience with mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, securities offerings, workouts, corporate governance matters and reorganization of business enterprises.

Elizabeth Stubblefield Loucks (“Betsy”) is a public health and environmental professional seeking to address social inequalities and promote environmental sustainability by facilitating the collaboration of public and private organizations. She has worked on a wide array of projects in community development and public health, include HIV/AIDS education for prison-based healthcare providers, urban environmental renewal, and elementary school education in ecology.

Diane joined SVPRI in June 2009 and has been lending her business consulting services to Amos House's "More than a Meal" catering business. Diane bring with her a career of business experience in the food & retail industries. She holds a BA from Brandeis University and an BMA from Boston University. Her public service experience includes education, municipal planning and trnasportation alternatives. Diane, her husband Jim and their three children reside in East Greenwich

Matthew McGowan is a principal at Salter McGowan Sylvia & Leonard, Inc., a Providence law firm whose attorneys practice in corporate, commercial, tax and insolvency law and litigation, and estate planning. Matt is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and the Catholic University of America School of Law and has taught bankruptcy law at Roger Williams University School of Law. Prior to joining his firm, Matt was an attorney in the U.S. Trustee's Office in Boston.

David Mixer is an SVPRI co-founder active with investee engagement. He is also the inspiration behind the Social Enterprise Fund, and created the challenge grant to launch it. Dave is a Harvard MBA who helped create Columbia Capital, Point Judith, and Hidden Jade China Merchants Venture Fund. He has been responsible for numerous merger and acquisition transactions and has assumed a lead role in the creation, funding, and management of several companies.

James O'Halloran is a new Partner to SVPRI. An MBA in finance, James is a wealth manager and strategist at Smith Barney. He works with individuals and families with a focus on charitable planning, foundations, and endowment management.

Jerry O'Halloran has been an SVPRI Partner since the summer of 2007. He is a board member and is currently leading SVP's engagement with RICJ and the People's School. Jerry runs O'Halloran Family Investments, a family limited partnership here in RI, and is a trustee of the O'Halloran Family Foundation. Jerry is also a board member with the Grantmaker's Council of Rhode Island as well as the Washington County Community Development Consortium, the group responsible for furthering the creation of additional affordable housing in South County.

Bruce Ruttenberg is a board member and treasurer of SVPRI active on numerous SVPRI committees and the lead partner for the RI Family Life Center Engagement. Mr. Ruttenberg has also served on many other public nonprofits boards. He was a founding member of Trinity Rep; Chairman of the Gordon School Board; Vice President of the Miriam Hospital; Trustee of Lifespan and the Miriam Hospital; a Chairman of the Quality Oversight Committee of Lifespan and a member of numerous hospital committees.

Phoebe Salten is President/CEO of High Street Properties, llc, a small enterprise that owns and manages rental real estate, primarily in the City of Providence. Phoebe is Chair of the School Board Nominating Commission for the City of Providence and a member of the Gift Planning and Stewardship Committee of the RI Foundation.
Phoebe holds an M. Ed from Harvard School of Education and a JD from Harvard Law School. A resident of Providence, Phoebe’s social interests include education, the welfare of children in general, and support for the arts

Jen Hetzel Silbert serves as a Principal of Innovation Partners International. She is a consultant, trainer, facilitator, and author supporting public, private, and social profit organizations in the US and around the world. Jen specializes in teaching and applying Appreciative Inquiry and other strength-based, participative approaches to change, with particular focus on strategic planning, alliance building, stakeholder engagement, process innovation, workforce development, leadership, and community and family development.

Tony Silbert, a Principal and co-founder of Innovation Partners International, has nearly 20 years of experience in organization development, change leadership consulting, and training. His primary areas of emphasis include strengths-based and participatory approaches to large-scale change, strategic planning, organization design, innovation, and teaming/collaboration. He works with social profit, private and public sector organizations in a variety of industries, including: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the RI Dept of Education, Sprint-Nextel, Points of Light Foundation, and the U.S.