Transition Team
Mayor-Elect
Setti Warren
Born and raised in Newton, Setti Warren lives in the house where he grew up, with his wife Tassy and their daughter Abigail. Setti graduated from Bigelow Junior High and Newton North, Boston College and Suffolk University Law School. Professionally, Setti has worked as Special Assistant in the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs for President Bill Clinton, New England Director of FEMA and Deputy State Director for Senator John Kerry. He served as a founding member of Newton’s Community Preservation Committee, and Vice-Chair of Newton’s Foundation for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Harmony. On November 3, 2009, he was elected Mayor of Newton.
Honorary Chairs
Hubie Jones
Hubie Jones is Dean Emeritus of the Boston University School of Social work, where he served as Professor and Dean from 1977 to 1993. He was Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Urban Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston from 1995 to 2003. For eight months in 1992, he was acting President of Roxbury Community College.
Professor Jones has played a key role in the formation, rebuilding and leadership of at least thirty community organizations within the black community and across the city. In twenty of these organizations, he served as chairman of the board or executive director. He has served as a trustee at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute for 10 years and a trustee of the Foley Hoag Foundation for 25 years.
He earned his B.A. degree from the City College of New York and master’s degree in social work from Boston University School of Social Work. During the 1971-72 academic year, he was a Community Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Northeastern University, University of Maryland, Lesley University and the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.
Florence Mann
Ms. Mann is the wife of the late Mayor Teddy Mann. She has lived in Newton since 1950. She raised her five children and supported Mayor Mann in several ways during his time of service. She has contributed in many ways to our community, but most specifically she dontated 13 years of volunteer time to the Arthritis Foundation
Joe DeNucci Jr.
Joseph A. DeNucci is a graduate of Newton North High and Boston College. Upon graduating college Joe started his career as an executive in the Healthcare industry. He then started his real estate career in the mid 90's as a licensed real estate professional. He is now the owner/broker of DeNucci Realty Group, Inc. based in Newton. As well as running his real estate office Joe also is a real estate developer concentrating on building residential new construction homes. Joe and his wife Melissa live in Newton with their three children.
Senior Advisors
Phil Herr
Philip Herr, a Newton Corner resident for nearly 50 years, has degrees in architecture and city planning, and taught city planning at MIT for more than 30 years. He chaired the committee that prepared the 2007 Newton Comprehensive Plan and currently chairs the Newton Housing Partnership and Newton’s Housing Action Plan Initiative (HAPI). During the Korean Conflict he served a two-year term of duty in the Far East as an Army Intelligence Specialist.
Paul Levy
Paul Levy is President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has been a resident of Newton for over 30 years. He chaired the Blue Ribbon Commission on city finances.
Mal Salter
Mal Salter is a former Senior Associate Dean and a chaired Professor at the Harvard Business School. For over two decades, Mr. Salter was also president of Mars & Co, a strategy consulting company serving Fortune 100 clients in the United States, Europe and Asia. His academic and advisory work has focused on the economics of business strategy and organizations, and the governance of public enterprises. A longtime resident of Newton, he served on the City of Newton's Blue Ribbon Commission on the Municipal Budget from September 2006-February 2007.
Human Resources
Marcy Johnson
As a 26-year resident of Newton, Marcia is a five-term, soon to be six-term, member of the Board of Aldermen. She is currently Chair of the Programs & Services Committee and member of the Finance and Real Property Reuse committees. As a professional she is a Director, Human Resources for a Contract Research Organization with demonstrated organizational development & training, employee relations skills in a dynamic business environment. She brings a unique expertise in the areas of organizational architecture and tools which include such things as organizational structure, talent management, change management, succession planning, executive development and coaching, competency models and competency-based selection.
Neil Silverston
Neil Silverston is President and co-founder of WorkSource Partners, a workforce development firm that designs, implements and manages comprehensive employee education and development programs. Dedicated to social entrepreneurship, in 1987, he was a co-founder of City Year, a national program that offers young people an opportunity for full-time community service. He also has a strong background in strategic management consulting, having worked at Lochridge & Company and Bain & Company, in Boston. Mr. Silverston earned his M.B.A from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University.
Community Involvement
Sarah Ecker
Sarah Ecker is an attorney with a background in municipal government, having served as a budget and policy advisor to the mayors of San Francisco and New York City. She was appointed to Newton’s Blue Ribbon Commission, served as a citizen member of the Newton North High School Citizens’ Task Force, and recently chaired Move Newton Forward, the override ballot question committee. She has children at North and Cabot and has lived in Newton since 1997.
Susan Albright
Susan Albright , BA, Tufts University, studied for MUP in Urban Planning at NYU, and has lived in Newton most of her life raising her familiy of two sons.. She is the Director for Educational Technology at Tufts University School of Medicine leading a group in writing health sciences schools educational software used in the US, Africa ,and India. She served on the School Committee as both Vice Chair and Chair and now serves on the Board of Alderman on the Land Use and Public Facilities Committes and as chair of Post Audit and Oversight.
Finance
Ted Hess-Mahan
Ted Hess-Mahan lives in Newton with his wife Anne and their children Bridget, Corey and Maura. He graduated from Tufts University and Suffolk Law. Ted is a lawyer and mediator at Hutchings Barsamian LLP in Wellesley. Previously, he clerked for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and was an attorney at Ropes & Gray and Shapiro Haber & Urmy in Boston. He joined the Board of Aldermen in 2003, and has chaired the Long Range Planning Committee and the Zoning Task Force.
Scott Oran
Scott Oran is a private real estate investor and formerly an Executive Director of Morgan Stanley, responsible for its real estate investing activities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts chapter of NAIOP, the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Oran served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Newton Schools Foundation. Previously, he was a Regional Director and Limited Partner of TA Associates Realty. He received a BSE in Civil Engineering and Urban Affairs from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Oran has lived in Newton with his wife and two daughters since 1995.
David Humphrey
David Humphrey is a Principal at Bain Capital, a private investment firm. David served on the Citizens Advisory Group, participating on the capital infrastructure and municipal cost committees. He sits on the boards of directors of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, a provider of on-site childcare to working parents, and of Burlington Coat Factory, an apparel retailer. He graduated from Harvard College and earned an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School. David and his wife Markella live in Newton Centre with their children Andrew and Clara.
Summits
Dori Zaleznik
Dori Zaleznik has served four terms on the Newton School Committee beginning in 2001. She was elected vice-chair for two years and chair for three. A graduate of Lexington High School, Yale College and Harvard Medical School, Dori is an Infectious Diseases specialist and an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She has also worked for 12 years on web-based medical information for physicians and consumers.
Laura Thompson
Laura Thompson is a tax attorney and a CPA. She currently works as the director of International Tax at a financial services company based in Boston. Prior to this position, Ms. Thompson worked in the tax departments of Sullivan & Worcester, LLP and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP. Ms. Thompson holds both a J.D. and an L.L.M in Taxation from the Boston University School of Law. In addition she holds an M.A. in International Relations form Boston University and a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature from Oberlin College. A Newton resident for 13 years, Ms. Thompson has two school aged children, is active in the Franklin School PTO and is a Team Leader for Stand for Children's Newton West team.
