Board of Trustees
Matthew R. Carson, CFA, Acadian Asset Management
Matt is a Vice President with Acadian Asset Management in Boston. His responsibilities include marketing and business development. Matt has previously held positions at Merganser Capital Management, SSgA, and General Electric. Matt holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and the Boston Security Analysts Society.
Matt has done volunteer consulting through Community Action Partners (CAP) for ACCION International and The Esplanade Association. He is also affiliated with the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance (MAHA). He has also taught financial education workshops for Compass Working Capital since 2005.
Matt received B.S. degrees in Psychology and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He spent a year abroad at University College London.
Martha Stella Marquez-Murray, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America
Stella has worked in personnel management and corporate administration for over 20 years. She currently serves as the Publications Editor and Administrative Director for the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA). NACA is a non-profit, community advocacy and homeownership organization. NACA’s primary goal is to build strong, healthy neighborhoods in urban and rural areas nationwide through affordable homeownership. Over the last ten years, Stella has helped NACA develop and strengthen its finance and human resources departments. Stella also specializes in interpreting and translating materials for corporate settings and previously taught courses in a paraprofessional program in Bogota, Colombia.
Stella completed the Compass IDA program in 2006. She utilized her savings and match funds to invest in a home repair project and in a 529 college savings plan for her daughter. In addition to now serving on Compass Working Capital's Board of Directors, Stella enjoys participating in community service activities organized by Bowdoin College, where her daughter Maria is in college.
A native of Colombia, Stella received a two-year professional degree and a certificate in translation studies from Politecnico Colombo Andino in Bogotá, Colombia.
Gonzalo Puigbo, Eastern Bank
Gonzalo J. Puigbo is the Vice President and Regional Sales Manager for the North Shore and Metrowest area at Eastern Bank. Prior to joining Eastern, he served as Producing Sales Manager for Citizens Bank where he earned the distinction of being the #1 Mortgage Originator Nationwide in Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) business for 2004 and 2005. Since 1999, when he began his mortgage career, Gonzalo Puigbo has focused primarily on helping low- and moderate-income individuals achieve their dream of becoming homeowners.
In addition to being a trustee of Compass Working Capital, Gonzalo is on the Board of Directors of the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, an organization that serves at-risk children. He also serves in the Mortgage Lending Committee for the Massachusetts Community and Banking Council and on the Massachusetts Homeownership Collaborative.
A native of Venezuela, Gonzalo brings a deep personal commitment to his work on behalf of low-income families, especially in Latino communities. On a volunteer basis, Gonzalo teaches first-time homebuyer classes and provides workshops on community lending at local nonprofit organizations, including Compass, and at North Shore Community College. He also teaches English as a Second Language classes at the Framingham Adult ESL program.
Gonzalo has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Framingham State College and is currently pursuing an MBA at the same institution.
Sherry Riva, Compass Working Capital
Sherry has been a nonprofit manager and entrepreneur for more than ten years, working primarily with nonprofit organizations and public agencies serving low-income women and families. Before founding Compass, she planned, launched, and managed the Princeton Project 55 Social Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy fund that identifies and invests in emerging social entrepreneurs. From 2000 to 2002, Sherry was the Executive Director at Jubilee Women's Center (JWC), a multi-site transitional housing program for homeless women in Seattle, Washington. Sherry currently serves as a trustee of Roxbury Preparatory Charter School, one of the nation’s premier charter schools.
Sherry received an A.B. from Princeton University, an MPP from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Master’s in Philosophy (Ecumenics) from Trinity College Dublin.
Aatish Salvi, Smarter Travel Media
Aatish is a software engineer at Smarter Travel Media. A veteran entrepreneur with more than ten years of leading product development and operations at web-based companies, Aatish has a proven history of building teams and web-based products from the ground zero to successful launch. He has a passion for online technologies that provide socially meaningful and game changing functionality and that bring new dynamics to play in established industries.
Prior to joining Smarter Travel Media, Aatish was the Vice President of Product Development at Quick Hit, a privately held company in the computer games industry, from 2008-2010. From 2005 to 2008, he was the Vice President of Operations for the NanoBusiness Alliance, the U.S. trade organization for the nanotechnology industry. In this capacity, he developed a public policy tour that annually engaged over 20% of the U.S. Senate and 10% of the U.S. House of Representatives in meetings with nanotech industry executives.
Aatish has volunteered with several community-based organizations including, most recently, Pine Street Inn in Boston where he helped to develop a catering-based social enterprise to employ homeless adults while developing a revenue stream for the shelter.
Aatish received a Sc.B. in Computer Science from Brown University..
Greg Shell, GMO
Greg Shell is a member of the International Active team at GMO, working on the U.S. sleeve of the Global Active Portfolio. Before coming to GMO, Greg was a Senior Equity Analyst at Columbia Management where he covered Industrial stocks. Previously, he was a Consultant at Bain & Co. in both the Strategy and Private Equity practice. Greg currently serves as the Chair of the Roxbury Prep Charter School, and is on the Board of Directors of the Partnership, the Museum of African-American History and the Chestnut Hill School.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where he was a Bert King and Robert Toigo Foundation Fellow.
Bob Tashjian, Fidelity Investments
Bob's experience with Fidelity ranges from serving as a corporate account consultant to operations management of Fidelity's highest volume branch office. He currently leads a team managing 500 high net worth clients with accounts valued at $1.5 billion. He is a top producer of Fidelity Portfolio Advisor Services with $15.9 million.
Bob is a Certified Financial Planner, as well as a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor and Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist. He is a member of the Financial Planning Association, Boston and North Shore Chamber of Commerce, and the Northeast Human Resources Association.
Bob received a B.S. in Economics from Bentley College and has received certifications from Merrimack College and the College of Financial Planning in Denver, Colorado.