Board of Directors - Bios
Sandy, UT
Jay is a clean energy and policy professional with experience in the government and non-profit sectors. Jay currently works for RMI focused on corporate climate action and sub-national policy. Jay lives in Sandy, Utah with his wife Mai and cat Jack. In addition to making music, Jay enjoys hiking, biking, running, and skiing (anything that gets him outside)!
Detroit, MI
Adam decided to come to Harvard after seeing the Glee Club perform during admitted student weekend and never looked back. He sang with the group for four years and became its president as a senior. He still counts many gleeks among his closest friends, and his partner (Cory Kind '12) is an RCS alumna and former HGC Sweetheart. Adam has spent his career in public service, chiefly as a classroom teacher and education administrator. He is currently the Senior Director of Youth Opportunity at United Way for Southeastern Michigan, where he works to expand educational equity and programming for students in and around Detroit. In addition to singing, he loves cooking, playing bridge, and hiking with his two daughters and two hounds.
Arlington, MA
Logan sang with HGC from 1992–99: four years as an undergraduate and three years in grad school. He went on two international tours (East Asia ‘93 and Australia ‘98), served as Conductor of Glee Club Lite, Assistant Conductor of the Glee Club, and was President during his senior year. He currently sings with the Jameson Singers conducted by HGC alumnus Kevin Leong. This is his second stint as President of the Harvard Glee Club Alumni. In his spare time he is Assistant Dean for Science Undergraduate Education at Harvard, where he teaches chemistry, physics, and applied math.
New York, NY
Will Gardner is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and a medical student at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. His research is primarily in the areas of global maternal and child health, respiratory epidemiology, and health systems evaluation. He sang with the Harvard Glee Club between 2013 and 2017, serving as Secretary and Manager during that time. He continues to sing professionally as a soloist and chorister. He graduated from Harvard University in 2017 with an AB magna cum laude with highest honors in Sociology and from the University of Washington in 2020 with an MPH in Global Health. He currently lives in New York City.
Orford, NH
Mark J. Tecca is VP of Finance at Moosilauke Visions, Inc., a not-for-profit organization serving at-risk youth and developmentally challenged adults. He also serves as Music Coordinator of First Congregational Church of Thetford, Vermont. He and Martha Boyd Tecca (Harvard '82, member of the Collegium Musicum and Radcliffe Pitches) have raised three children in the bucolic Upper Valley. They continue to sing together in a community choir and church choir.
Washington, D.C.
Adrián serves the nation through his work at your Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino. He co-creates programs with communities across the United States to share the museum’s work where they live and thrive. Adrián sang with the Harvard Glee Club throughout his four years at Harvard, making lifelong friends along the way. He served as Lite Manager his freshman year and continued fostering unity and joy as Vice President his senior year. He graduated from the college cum laude in Romance Languages and Literatures.
Cazenovia, NY
Braiman was in the Glee Club from 1974-77, after having played violin in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in 1973-74. He was both an accompanist and the Publicity Manager for the Glee Club during the busy year of 1975-76, which included the Sweden Tour, the Fidelio production with Opera Company of Boston, and the Beethoven 9th Symphony performance with the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa. Braiman also sang in and managed an a capella group at the University of California Berkeley during his first 3 years of graduate school. These worlds collided in summer 1978, when the University of California Men's Octet hosted a banquet on the Berkeley campus for the Harvard Glee Club during its 1978 Summer Tour. Prof. Braiman taught biochemistry from 1978-88 at the University of Virginia Medical School in Charlottesville, where he was also a supporter of the Virginia Glee Club. Since 1998 he has been Professor of Chemistry at Syracuse University (emeritus since 2020). From 2008-2021 he was an active member of the Syracuse Opera Chorus. He has also served the past 7 years as a member of the Board of the Society for New Music, serving as Secretary and, most recently, as Vice-President; and also starting in 2024 as co-chair of the committee organizing the annual Cazenovia Counterpoint Festival for the Arts.
South Salem, NY
Tom was a 4-year member of HGC and a 3-year member of Lite, happily singing bass and baritone. He was Lite conductor and President of HGC during his true senior year of 1996-97, and was the third consecutive HGC President from the class of 1996. Since leaving HGC, Tom has spent his career in independent school education, working in boarding and day schools in New England or very close to it. Having done everything from being choral director to ultimate frisbee coach to briefly running a school, Tom is now settled at Trinity-Pawling School, an all-male boarding school north of New York City, where he is the Dean of Teaching and Learning. One of his long-term goals is to bring the tradition of all-male singing to the school, as vigorous engagement with the arts is necessary. Now that his oldest son is attending Hobart and William Smith College, Tom lives at home with his wife, two more sons, and three dogs. In his spare time, he's an avid trail runner and gardener, and he sings while playing guitar badly.
Sea Cliff, NY
Peter sang for four years in the Glee Club, from 1981-1985, and was Assistant Conductor his Junior and Senior years. He went on the East Asian Tour in 1982. He has over 30 years of experience in advertising, developing and leading award-winning multi-channel marketing campaigns for well-known brands across a broad range of categories. For the past 15 years he has focused his attention on numerous therapeutic areas in the healthcare space. He continues to be involved in music, conducting the choir at the Russian Cathedral in New York City. He's married and has three grown children.
Yakima, WA
Peter has served in public education for 37 years. For the past 24 years, he has served as assistant superintendent and, now, superintendent for the West Valley School District in Yakima, Washington. In 2014, he was recognized by the Washington Music Educators Association as the “Administrator of the Year” for Washington State. Peter received his A.B. in Sociology in 1987, his Masters of Education from Central Washington University in 1992, and his Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from the Washington State University in 2009. Peter has continued to sing in the Yakima Symphony Chorus and his extended family’s annual benefit concerts for Habitat for Humanity which have been performed during the holiday season since 1981. In addition, Peter has joined the Harvard Glee Club alumni choir for joint concerts with the Kyoto University “Old Boys” alumni choir in Nagasaki, Honolulu, San Francisco, Kobe, and Hiroshima. His interest in serving on the Foundation was sparked by fellowship at the HGC/Kyoto joint concerts. “It has been a fantastic experience to sing with the alumni choirs. I’m looking forward to the next collaboration! It would be great to see an increase in participation from all generations. In addition, I would like to organize other informal and fun activities that bring us together for ‘glee and good humor!’ Finally, I want to see the continued support for current HGC members and the Glee Club’s educational outreach to the community.”
Shelburne, VT
Ted Grozier sang with the Glee Club from 1995-2000 and toured Australia, Florida, the Pacific Northwest, and Texas. He is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Good.Lab, a sustainability software and ESG consulting company. He was an Engagement Manager at GreenOrder, the pioneering consulting firm that Fortune called the “go-to guys for green business.” He also served as Flagship Manager for EIT Climate-KIC, the European Union’s largest climate innovation initiative, in Berlin, Germany, where he lived for eight years. Ted has an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and lives in Shelburne, Vermont with his wife and two daughters.
New York, NY
Michael is a software engineer at Blink. During his time in the Glee Club from 2016 to 2020, he sang in Lite and served as Financial Manager (twice) and Manager. Highlights of his time in the group include a joint tour with RCS to Texas, a tour to East Asia, and managing a performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony. He lives in NYC with his fiancée (Amy Gu ’20, an RCS alumna) and continues singing in a community chorus.
Huntington, NY
On June 23, 1979, two things of note happened in Anchorage, Alaska: the earth shook a little, and Karl Huth was born. Coincidence?
Tired of looking at Russia out his bedroom window, Karl joined the Harvard Glee Club in 1997 and, for four years, did his level best to shake the earth as a Bass II. Tragically, after Commencement, Karl developed a need to earn a living, a condition that has since developed into a full-blown case of law firm ownership. Karl's law firm, Huth Reynolds LLP, which hired its first HGC alum (other than Karl) in 2023, is about 3% of the way on its journey to re-constituting a full performing ensemble. Tenors are encouraged to apply.
While in law school at Columbia, Karl met the love of his life, Leah. They have moved several times since then--each time, a little closer to Leah's mom's house on Long Island. Karl now lives with Leah and their 4 (!) daughters (!!) in Huntington, New York. All are musicians, but Karl (fortunately) remains the only bass in the family.
In an effort to replicate his collegiate level of musical overcommitment, Karl currently sings with the Huntington Chamber Choir and Evoco Voice Collective, and plays trombone with the North Shore Symphony Orchestra, the Band of Long Island, the One More Once jazz ensemble, the Huntington Community Band, the Port Washington Community Band, and various other ensembles. Karl also serves as a director of the Friends of the North Shore Symphony Orchestra.
Greenwich, CT
Rob is a financial economist who had the good fortune to sing with the Glee Club from 1981-1984, including on the 1982 East Asian Tour. He has spent his career applying scientific methods in capital management; and especially enjoys helping institutions design and implement appropriate investment policies. Rob serves as a trustee (and investment committee member) for the National Museum of Mathematics, Carnegie Hall, Marlboro Music, Playwrights Horizons, and Harvard Glee Club Alumni.
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Ben is a software engineer who has worked at several creative tech companies including Disney, PBS Kids, and most recently, Meta Reality Labs. Ben joined the Glee Club his freshman year and held the much coveted position of Sales Manager and eventually the perilous position of General Manager. His favorite memories with the Glee Club are singing Beati Mortui on a bioluminescent lake in Puerto Rico and filming the Glee Club’s 2017 East Asian Tour. Ben has a BA in architecture and film from Harvard University and a Masters in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Warren, MA
Terence McGinty is an international development professional who was Country Director in Tajikistan for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs from 2003-2005. In subsequent years McGinty has consulted, conducting trainings of political parties in countries such as Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. McGinty is a public defender in Massachusetts, and was a semi-professional counter-tenor at the Scola Cantorum of S. Stephen's Episcopal Church at Brown University from 2012-2017. At Harvard, McGinty was the Alumni Public Service Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. As a member of the Glee Club, McGinty participated in HGC's five-week tour of Scandinavia and Russia, and also each of the treasured musical encounters between the Glee Club Alumni Chorus and the Kyoto Old Boys Chorus of recent years. McGinty was the volunteer Finance Director of the congressional campaign of a former Naval Intelligence Division Chief who would be the first transgender Member of Congress. In his free time, McGinty is currently restoring and installing the small 1958 Lindsay Chapel organ of the First Church in Cambridge—which was described by legendary pipe organ expert Barbara Owen as baroque organ builder Charles B. Fisk's “first baby”—in his barn in central Massachusetts.
Dedham, MA
Rob is the Director of Music at the Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury. Under his direction, the Roxbury Latin Glee Club and Latonics have performed in concert tours throughout the US and in Bermuda, England, Central Europe, Italy, Iceland, and Puerto Rico. He also sings in the professional vocal band, Similar Jones. At Harvard, Rob sang in HGC from 1996-1999, HGC Lite from 1997-1999, HRCM from 1995-1997, and in the Veritones from 1995-1999.
Hoboken, NJ
Niko Paladino is currently a federal judicial law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 2023 and Harvard College in 2020, singing with the Harvard Glee Club both as an undergraduate and a graduate student. He served as Vice President as a junior and President as a senior. In his free time, he is an avid reader and plays the guitar.
Stanford, CA
Keon Pearson is a resident physician at Stanford. He sang in the Glee Club all four years of college and served as the bowtie-slinging wardrobe manager, secretary, tour manager for the first J-Term tour to the American West Coast in 2014, and as President in his senior year. He graduated magna cum laude in Human Evolutionary Biology in 2015. His West Coast forays during the HGC tour sparked a lasting obsession with California, and he entered the medical and business schools at Stanford University. He has published studies on topics including health economics, telemedicine, and cardiovascular health disparities among ethnic and racial minorities. In addition to his interest in direct patient care, he works in venture capital as an investor in the health tech and digital health spaces.
Hingham, MA
Bill was President of the Foundation from 2005 to 2009, Immediate Past President from 2009 to 2011, Vice President from 1999 to 2005, and Graduate Advisor from 1985 to 2005. Professionally, Bill was a CPA and an audit Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP where he led the Biotechnology and Medical Device practice until his retirement in 2002. He continues to serve on several public biotechnology company boards. In civic life he served on his town of Hingham’s Finance Committee, Community Preservation Committee, and currently serves as chair of the Harbor Development Committee. Musically Bill sings with his wife Kathy (Radcliffe ’67) in the Unicorn Singers. For more than 35 years he served on the Board of Directors of the South Shore Conservatory of Music, as its president for 2 years and its treasurer for 18 years.
Salt Lake City, UT
Philip Sheldon is the President of HE Travel, an international tour operator which runs small group tours to all seven continents. While HE Travel's primary market is the LGBT community, HE Travel has also been the travel partner for Harvard Glee Club students and for the HGC Alumni Chorus on several occasions. Phil sang in the Glee Club all four years at Harvard, and was President of HGC for the first round of the search for F. John Adams' successor. As an HGC alumnus he has enjoyed singing in ten concerts with our friends from Kyoto University, both in Japan and in the US.
Provincetown, MA
Bruce Williams was a three-year member of the Harvard Glee Club (freshmen to junior) and participated in the East Asian Tour of 1982. During his senior year he sang with the Harvard Krokodiloes. Bruce currently is the Funding Program Manager for the City of Oakland Department of Transportation. In Oakland, Bruce has raised tens of millions of grant funds for innovative bicycle and pedestrian improvements for the most diverse major city in America. As for music, Bruce continued to sing after Harvard; most recently he sang with the Golden Gate Men’s Chorus under Joseph Jennings (Chanticleer) from the mid-1990’s to 2010. While with the GGMC, Bruce served on the board as Finance Director and President. In 2004, as President of GGMC he welcomed the HGC to San Francisco with a joint concert at Mission Dolores Basilica during their annual spring tour. “Among my warmest memories of my Harvard undergraduate life are of standing with my HGC brothers on the stage of Sanders Theater, producing music that was absolutely transcendent in its beauty. At reunions I’m struck by how many of us seek out that same musical connection throughout our lives, despite busy careers in other disciplines. It’s always a joy to see and sing with old Glee Club friends, and I hope to foster these connections as a board member.”
Hingham, MA
Frank’s career experience includes management consulting and various positions in marketing, finance and product development in the banking and insurance industries. Frank was in the Glee Club from 1973 to 1976 and sang under the direction of F. John Adamas. In his senior year he served as Vice President in the Lou Staudt administration. Highlights of those years were performances with the Boston Symphony, Fidelio with the Boston Opera Company and the winter tour of Sweden. Frank has served two stints as Treasurer of the Harvard Glee Club and lead the efforts to improve budgeting, financial control and reporting. In this capacity he also served on the Investment Committee.