Board of Directors

John joined UBS in 2016 after a career in campaign finance, strategy, and budget operations. John brings a unique dynamic to the team, supporting clients with a wide variety of advisory needs. He is focused on assisting clients with long term planning, M&A liquidity solutions, and navigating the vast resources of the firm, including the UBS Family Office Solutions Group.

Previously, John was appointed by the White House office of Presidential Personnel to serve at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Pentagon (DOD), ending his Federal service as a Senior Advisor and Director at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). John’s government portfolio included work on the National Defense Authorization Act, as well as domestic and international programs dedicated to the remediation of Nuclear Weapons testing and clean-up sites. John received the DOE’s distinguished career service award for his work with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a former U.S. territory and testing site.

Before and after his time in the Federal Government, John served as chief financial strategist and budget manager for major campaigns. He is honored to have had a U.S. President, a U.S. Senator, and the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as former employers. Just prior to joining UBS, he served as Senior Advisor and Finance Chairman to Governor Charlie Baker, and was President of the Baker-Polito Transition Committee.

John has also worked in a family business affiliated with Cedar Works Playsets. He supports a number of non-profit fundraising events, primarily focused on urban youth academic and sports programs, as well as addiction services organizations. He serves on the Boards of Directors for THE BASE in Roxbury, MA and Gosnold Behavioral Health on Cape Cod.

John graduated from the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University and resides in Wayland, MA with his wife and three sons.

Michael Curry is chief executive officer of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, representing 52 health centers serving over one million patients. Prior to joining the League, Mr. Curry worked at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, primarily as senior policy advisor in the corporate affairs division.
Mr. Curry is the past president of the Boston Branch of the NAACP (2011-2016) and has been a member of the national NAACP board of directors since 2014. He has served on the transition teams for former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and was involved in the passage of Massachusetts Health Reform and the Affordable Care Act.

In addition to NAACP and RIZE, Mr. Curry serves on the boards of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and Massachusetts Nonprofit Network.

Chris Hager was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the regional director of region I of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she oversaw the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in New England from 2010-2014. Prior to her service in the Obama Administration, she was chief health counsel to the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives during the development and implementation of the Massachusetts health reform law enacted in 2006.

Ms. Hager has also served in senior executive roles at Beacon Health Options, a national behavioral health organization. From 2019-2021 she led a full-time consulting engagement at MassHealth as director of behavioral health, focusing on the COVID-19 public health emergency response and community-based system reform.

Doris is a registered nurse who is certified in community health and holds certificates in bioethics and gerontology.  Specializing in long term care during her professional career and as a business owner, Doris is always advocating for families, helping them navigate the healthcare systems, obtaining insurance benefits, providing assessments, developing quality ratings for providers and licensing providers.  Doris continues to support the MetroEast Reserve Corps under FEMA with providing vaccinations and emergency preparedness for her local community.

While her son has been in long term recovery, Doris remains active and committed to helping family members learn about the disease of addiction and recovery.  As a former member of Learn to Cope, Doris facilitated meetings in Cambridge for more than ten years.  In addition to providing peer support and training family members on naloxone, Doris was appointed to Governor Baker’s 2016 Commission on Licensed Addiction Treatment Centers, demonstrated at the Dept of Justice in Washington in December 2021, and accepted an appointment to the Falmouth Commission on Substance Use in 2022.

Doris joined the staff of Learn to Cope in June of 2022 with the goal of establishing a Cape Cod family resource center to provide services for families impacted by substance use disorder (SUD). Her efforts focused on reducing stigma, saving lives, and providing education by bringing Naloxboxes to municipalities and schools in Barnstable County, assisting in post overdose resources and addressing SUD in seniors, an often overlooked and underserved population.

Patty Ma is executive vice president & chief legal officer at CareQuest Institute for Oral Health. Ms. Ma has more than 25 years of experience in navigating health care legal, regulatory and compliance matters. She has served in executive leadership roles and as general counsel for both private and publicly traded health care companies.
Before joining CareQuest Institute, Ms. Ma was general counsel and chief compliance officer for Active Day, the country’s largest operator of adult day health centers. Prior to that, Ms. Ma held leadership roles at Zelis Healthcare, DentaQuest, an affiliate of CareQuest Institute, and Gentiva Health Services.

As the former president of DentaQuest, part of Sun Life, Steve Pollock led the nation’s largest provider of Medicaid dental benefits and spearheaded the team’s mission to improve the oral health of all. Mr. Pollock successfully built an organization that drives market growth and opportunity for clients while also advancing the oral health industry to achieve better outcomes and equitable access for every American. Under Mr. Pollock’s stewardship, DentaQuest developed Preventistry®, an inclusive approach to quality care and expanded access that prioritizes prevention-focused oral health.

During his 20-year tenure at DentaQuest, he held several other senior leadership positions, including chief executive officer, chief operating officer, executive vice president, and general counsel.

Mr. Pollock is a member of CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion, the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, and the state bar of Wisconsin.

Frank Robinson, Ph.D., is the former vice president of public health at Baystate Health responsible for integrating clinical and community care to better serve vulnerable populations. Dr. Robinson joined Baystate in 1995 and for 20 years served as the executive director of Partners for a Healthier Community and the director of community health planning.

Dr. Robinson has won several awards including: 2008 Luminary Award from the City of Springfield; 2009 Rebecca Lee Award from Harvard School of Public Health; and the 2010 Lemuel Shattuck Award from the Massachusetts Public Health Association.

He earned his Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst); Master of Arts in Community Psychology from Mansfield University; and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from State University of New York (Oswego).

Joy Rosen serves as the vice president for behavioral health at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). In this capacity, she oversees program development, business planning, administrative and clinical operations, research management, and finance for four departments/institutes at MGH — the Department of Psychiatry, the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, the Home Base Program, and provides executive oversight for the Center for Community Health Improvement. She also serves as a liaison for the MGH and Mass General Brigham on various government relations matters. Previously, Ms. Rosen served as the director of government relations for Partners HealthCare, overseeing advocacy efforts with the state and federal governments on healthcare reform legislation and the Massachusetts Stem Cell Bill. She served for 12 years as the Department of Public Health’s assistant commissioner for management, seven years overseeing residential programs at the Department of Mental Health, and worked as a senior policy analyst on health care issues for the Senate Committee on Ways and Means. Ms. Rosen has a BA from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a MS from Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management.