Family First solves the impossible. Caregiving often feels that way — our mission is to find the core problems facing a family caring for their loved one and help solve them. Family First is an employee and insurance benefit.

At a time when the rule of law is under assault, Lawyers Defending American Democracy is dedicated to adherence by public officials to the rule of law by encouraging fellow lawyers, the leaders of national, state and local bar associations, and the legal academy to join in speaking out against threats to the rule of law.

Chair of the ballot initiative campaign to bring ranked choice voting to Massachusetts. We didn’t win, but thanks to an incredible team and thousands of volunteers and allies, we earned nearly 1.5 million votes - the most ever earned for an RCV ballot initiative.

Voter Choice Massachusetts is leading the fight to bring Ranked Choice Voting to Massachusetts.

Mightier produces a video game application to help kids build emotional strength. It assembled a team of experts in psychiatry, neurology, and child development to create a new, scientifically validated tool designed specifically to help kids and their families.

I met the founders of IntelyCare when they were two guys working out of the Quincy Innovation Center. It was a tremendous privilege to offer advice and guidance based on my experiences and I am incredibly impressed with what they’ve built. All of IntelyCare’s success is their doing, I’m grateful to have had the chance to help in my own small way!

Our culture tends to think of leadership in narrow, heroic terms. In reality everyone can be empowered to exercise leadership, and I teach undergraduate students how to do it. By challenging students to be self-aware and authentic, they can find in themselves their innate bravery, and their in-born capacity to see the gaps between what is and what can be. The hard part is finding ways to bridge those gaps, and self-aware, authentic leaders are great at building teams of people who can solve these gaps, and have the ability to communicate what must be done in order to enlist people to help make it happen.

In 2012, I conceived of building a new political party in Massachusetts designed to challenge the status quo. In the private sector, an industry that worked like politics would be disrupted by new innovation and that's what the UIP is about. We are devoted to empowerment and civic engagement; to authenticity, civil rights and wise spending of taxpayer money. I determined that the legal process for building an official political party involved forming a core group of supporters, and having a Statewide candidate win at least 3% of the vote in the 2014 election.I ran for Governor to win - and to build a platform for the UIP to become the new, independent voice. It is the structure that can create competitive elections at a time when nearly two-thirds of state elected officials run unopposed. • As a first-time candidate with no name recognition, I built a strong, entrepreneurial team that worked against difficult odds to earn press coverage, a field organization and support for key policy positions at a time when nearly all attention was focused on the Democratic and Republican primaries.• I earned over 71,000 votes, exceeding polling predictions by as much as 50% and earning more than 10% of the vote in parts of Massachusetts, and 3.3% overall, establishing the UIP as an officially recognized party. • Post-election, I re-purposed team, including downsizing staff and office, with focus on efforts to organize voters and enroll 40,000 members in the UIP by November 2016. By the end of 2016, UIP reached over 30,000 members - a significant accomplishment but not enough to maintain party status.

I ran for Governor to build a platform for a new, independent voice that could create competitive elections at a time when nearly two-thirds of state elected officials run unopposed. As a first-time candidate with no name recognition, I built a strong, entrepreneurial team that worked against difficult odds to earn press coverage, a field organization and support for key policy positions at a time when nearly all attention was focused on the Democratic and Republican primary races.I earned over 71,000 votes in the election, exceeding polling predictions by as much as 50% and earning more than 10% of the vote in parts of Massachusetts, and 3.3% overall, establishing the United Independent Party as an officially recognized State party.

From the time an Olympic bid was submitted to the USOC, I questioned the transparency of and process for bringing the 2024 Olympics to Massachusetts. It was clear to me that the proposal would divert billions of dollars in taxpayer money from other priorities, all without a meaningful public process. Political leaders were not asking tough questions or were actively involved in supporting the bid. I decided a citizen-led referendum was needed and that this was a meaningful issue for the UIP to lead.• I conceived of and created the structure for a citizen-led, binding referendum on the Olympics. This included drafting and filing language with the Attorney General for the referendum, and building a grassroots campaign in support of the effort.• I led the public effort questioning the Olympics process and successfully positioned the referendum not as anti-Olympics, but on whether taxpayers would pay for them.• I built a coalition with leaders across the political spectrum. We created an organization that was prepared to collect the needed 100,000 signatures for the referendum. I worked with legislatures on getting legislation introduced in the Massachusetts House and Senate based on the referendum language.

From 2000-2013, I co-led the extraordinary growth of world’s pioneer in medical second opinion benefits, from 9 employees to more than 600 employees and from $5M revenue to approximately $200M in revenue. As Vice-Chairman, I led Best Doctors' thought leadership on the rapidly changing health care landscape and the business opportunities presented by it, raising the Company’s profile and identifying and driving growth of key business areas in the U.S. and internationally.I successfully worked to enact legislation in Massachusetts that created a Task Force on Diagnostic Accuracy, the central purpose of Best Doctors activities. We also earned recognition as one of Inc. Magazine’s “Fastest-Growing Private Companies” list for three consecutive years (2011-2013), as well as numerous national and international business and product awards.

Best Doctors has an inspiring vision, and driving corporate goals and objectives in ways that continually reinforced that vision was central to my work. I led the Company’s first strategic planning processes and the implementation and achievement of corporate goals and objectives tied to strategic goals. I successfully co-led two rounds of equity investment from a strategic partner and a high-profile private equity group, totaling more than $50 million.I successfully worked to enact legislation in Florida that changed a provision of Florida law that was unnecessarily interfering with business activities of Best Doctors, leading to the creation of more than a hundred jobs in the United States.

A great business was headed down a not-great path in the late 1990s, trying to chase after the hot fashion of dot-com money. In mid-2000, another executive and I assumed control of the business at a time when it faced serious challenges, not the least of which was a massive cash crunch. We stabilized the business and turned it around, and a short time later, acquired our largest competitor. That company had significant financial, operational and business challenges, and I co-led the turn-around and integration of that business as well, while driving growth across all business lines and developing and launching new products and services. I established Company’s insurance subsidiaries, including structures for direct writing of policies and underwriting agencies, and helped develop key intermediary relationships and insurance products, leading to the growth of a $100 million business line. I successfully co-led six rounds of equity investment, totaling more than $25 million. I led the Company's public relations and public affairs efforts, including successfully raising the profile of Best Doctors across all media in the United States and around the world.

Developed contracts with hundreds of hospitals and thousands of other providers across the United States and abroad for preferential pricing for health care services. Built agreements for "beta" clients on Company's planned web-based contracting tool for complex and catastrophic care global rates.

I worked on crisis-driven investigations where major federal and state government enforcement actions were taken against clients. Early in my career I was made a key member of core team for head of SEC enforcement practice. Among other areas, I did research, written advocacy, witness preparation and witness interviews, participated in government meetings, preparation of testimony, strategic planning sessions internally and with clients, and led teams of associates and other staff on particular matters.I was also elected to the firm’s “Associates’ Committee,” and then elected by committee members as the chair of that Committee.