LEADERSHIP TEAM | FOX HILL VILLAGE IN NORFOLK COUNTY, MA

Ms. Clark, President of the Corporation and Chair of the Fox Hill Board of Directors, hails from Scotia, New York.  She received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Rochester in 1968.  Barbara had a lengthy career at Bank of Boston.  She managed several corporate banking groups and risk management departments before becoming Executive Vice President in charge of Global Financial Services.

Barbara moved to Fox Hill in 2014 and she has served on the Board since 2018.  She previously chaired the Finance Committee and served as Treasurer of the Corporation.  In addition to her other responsibilities, she currently serves on the Sales Committee and the Compensation Committee.

William “Bill” grew up in Rye, NY as second of four boys who all went to Dartmouth College.  Began career at IBM in sales, focused on the major banks in Boston.  Assumed management positions in two different computer start-up companies, before moving to State Street Bank, first as Division Head of Master Trust, servicing large pension plans, then as EVP, member of the Chairman’s Office, and Area Head of the Mutual Fund Services business. He later joined PwC as a Managing Director in the Investment Management Practice.

Bill has served as a trustee of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and in leadership positions in condo associations and charitable organizations in Vero Beach, Florida and New London, New Hampshire. Bill and his wife, Malora, moved to Fox Hill in 2020.  They have 5 children, 14 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. In addition to serving on the Fox Hill Finance Committee, Bill sings in the Fox Hill chorus and with the Boston Saengerfest Men’s Chorus. He enjoys golf, tennis, pool and skiing.

Bob who moved to Fox Hill in 2017, was the founder of two and the CEO of three corporations in the electronics industry.  A long-time resident of Westwood, Mr. Forsberg and his family have been  very involved in Lifeworks, Inc., an organization supporting children and adults with developmental disabilities.

Bob graduated from Bowdoin College, received an MBA from Northeastern University.  He subsequently completed the Owner President Manager Program at the Harvard Business School.  He served for many years on the boards of Old Colony YMCA and Beckett-Chimney Corners YMCA camp.

Heather serves as General Counsel and Secretary of the Corporation.  She joined the firm of Bingham, Dana & Gould following graduation from law school, and subsequently became Associate General Counsel at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Heather has been very active in community affairs, serving as the Chair of the Wellesley Advisory (Finance) Committee and as Wellesley Town Moderator for 7 years.  She has served on the Boards of the Wellesley Free Library Foundation, The Wellesley Club and the Community Fund for Wellesley, Inc.  Governor Baker has appointed Heather to the Commonwealth’s Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Treatment, and she also serves on the Advisory Board of the Hastings Center, with a focus on ethical issues associated with aging.  She is a graduate of Smith College, Northeastern University School of Law and TH Chan Harvard School of Public Health, where she earned her Master’s in Health Policy.

Bob Bettacchi became a resident of Fox Hill Village in 2022, moving from Nantucket Island, after living in Lexington, MA.   Growing up in the Philadelphia area, Bob received his degree in chemical engineering from Villanova University, he moved to Maryland to work for W.R. Grace.   W.R. Grace transferred Bob to Lexington, MA where he met his wife, Karen, and spent the rest of career.  During his almost 40 years at Grace, Bob held many roles including sales, marketing and research and development.  He led the growth of different divisions through strategic planning and restructuring, elimination of outmoded products, and new product development and growth, retiring in 2006 as a Senior Vice President.  Following his retirement, Bob consulted with private equity and corporate clients, providing pre­acquisition strategy and post-acquisition management coaching.  After his wife Karen died in 2017, he moved from Lexington to his summer home in Nantucket.

Bob has served on the Boards of St. Francis House in Boston, the Cambridge Trust Company, the Alzheimer’s Association and the Associated Industries of MA.  He moved to Fox Hill in 2022 and has served on the Fox Hill Village Finance Committee since 2023.

Roberta graduated from the University of Illinois and earned her M.D. from Western Reserve University (WRU). She became an Instructor in Pediatrics at WRU while being Physician in Charge of the Pediatric Clinics and Emergency Services.  She and her late husband Laurence and their three children moved to Vermont.  She directed the Vermont Department of Health’s Maternal and Child Health Services prior to her appointment as Vermont’s Commissioner of Health.  She then became the administrator of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology at UVM’s Medical Center Hospital.

Roberta and her husband retired in 1993 to sail their ocean-going boat from Lake Champlain to Venezuela and back to the Virgin Island over a 10-year period.   Following her husband’s death, and to be nearer to her children, Dr. Coffin moved to Fox Hill in 2020. In addition to serving on the Fox Hill Board, Dr. Coffin is a member of the Better Hearing Committee and on the editorial team of The Fox.

Dr. Martin was born in Bassano, Alberta, Canada, and earned an M.D. at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He completed a residency in neurology and neuro-pathology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and obtained a Ph.D. in Anatomy at the University of Rochester.  His first academic appointment was at McGill University, Montreal, CA, where he was appointed Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute. He subsequently joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and chaired the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He founded the department’s Center Without Walls for Huntington’s Disease. Dr. Martin joined the University of California, San Francisco as Dean of the School of Medicine, where after four years he was appointed Chancellor of the UCSF Campus. Joe continues to serve Harvard Medical School as Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology. He has served on the board of Sherrill House, in Jamaica Plain, and is a long-serving member of the board of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  Joe and his wife Rachael moved from Brookline to Fox Hill in May 2022 where he has served as served as part Healthcare Task Force.

Ellen earned a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Yale.  She moved to Cincinnati, with her husband Tom, where she became the head of the graduate program in toxicology at the University of Cincinnati.  She has published a single-author textbook, and over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her math-based models for regulatory standard setting of bone-seeking toxicants, like lead and calcium, were adopted worldwide.  Ellen served as the second woman president of the Yale Club and was on the Vestry of her church.  Upon her retirement, Ellen and Tom moved to Lyon, France. They returned to the US in 2004 and moved to Fox Hill in 2016.  

 At Fox Hill, Ellen serves on the Library Committee and Speakers’ Selection Committee.  Ellen writes regularly for The Fox.  She spearheaded both the Legacy Letter writing group and the Genealogy Committee.  She is a member of the Building and Grounds Committee and serves on its Art and Design Ad Hoc Committee.

Harry “Skip” lived in Westwood for over 50 Years, serving as the Chair of the Town’s Finance Committee, and a senior Warden at St. John’s Episcopal Church.  For the last fifteen years, he has been the head of the Dedham Retired Executive Group, aka “The DREGs”.  Skip spent most of his professional career at Adams, Harkness and Hill, an institutional research firm, where he was a Wall Street Analyst, Director of Research, and Hedge Fund Manager.  He served on the Board and was a Managing Partner. His main charitable involvement has been with The Home for Little Wanderers, where he served as Chairman of the Board.  During his tenure, The Home doubled its endowment and quadrupled in size.  Skip started a charity golf tournament for The Home, which has netted almost $5 M over the past 25 years. He moved to Fox Hill Village in 2020 and joined the Board in May of 2021.

Al hails from New Haven, Connecticut.  He received a BS and Master of Engineering degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1965 and 1966, respectively. Following a two-year stint as a US Army Lieutenant, Al started a marketing and marketing support management career at IBM working with IBM customers, the media, and leading colleges and universities.  Al retired from IBM in 1992 but went on to spearhead corporate relations at The Hastings Center and multimedia market development at Addison Wesley. He retired in 2000 to Cape Cod with his wife, Donna, after serving as vice president of information systems at Queens College, in New York.  Al has also served as vice president and president of his condominium association in Connecticut, trustee and treasurer of the Marstons Mills Public Library on the Cape,  and council member of the Resident Advisory Council for The Pinehills in Plymouth. Al and his wife Donna moved to Fox Hill in January 2020, and he has been on Fox Hill’s Finance Committee since 2021.  In his free time, Al enjoys traveling the world with Donna, listening to classical music, and following current affairs.