Board of Directors - Bios
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.
Brighton, MA
Jay is a Legislative Aide working in the Massachusetts State Senate. He works primarily on energy policy with a focus on natural gas systems and electric vehicles. He lives in Brighton, Massachusetts. While not singing, he is an avid bicyclist and runner.
Orford, NH
Mark J. Tecca is Chief Financial Officer at Becket Academy, Inc., a not-for- profit organization serving at-risk youth and developmentally challenged adults. He also serves as Moderator of the Lyme Congregational Church. He and Martha Boyd Tecca (Harvard '82, member of the Collegium Musicum and Radcliffe Pitches) have raised three children in the bucolic Upper Valley of New Hampshire, now aged 27, 25 and 21. They continue to sing together in a community choir and church choir.
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.
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. For the past 10 years he has been an active member of the Syracuse Opera Chorus; and the past two years a member of the Board of the Society for New Music, most recently serving as Secretary.
Arlington, MA
L. Christian Collins is the Sr. Financial Analyst/Staffing Manager at Trinity Partners (a Boston-based life sciences consulting firm). After graduating from Harvard, he lived and worked in the P.R.C. for International Management Group, marketing the Chinese professional national basketball league (CBA). After receiving his M.B.A. from Columbia University, he has worked in financial analysis roles in the green energy sector and consulting. Since 2005, he has lived in Arlington, MA with his family, including his two children, aged nine, and twelve. He also serves as Treasurer for the PTO at the M. Norcross Stratton Elementary School.
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 31 years – five years as a classroom teacher, eight years as a high school principal, and 18 years as Assistant Superintendent of 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, every Sunday, in his father’s church choir. In addition, Peter 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 Takamatsu. 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 in 2020! 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.”
Seattle, Washington
William Gardner is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and a Master of Public Health candidate at the University of Washington, where his research focuses on neonatal infectious diseases and maternal and child health interventions. He sang for four years in the Glee Club where he served in a number of leadership positions, including as HGC Secretary and Manager. He continues to sing professionally as a soloist and chorister, performing with organizations such as Seattle Opera, Choral Arts Northwest, Chorosynthesis Singers, and a variety of orchestras and ensembles throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Shelburne, VT
Ted Grozier is the Founder of Pine Table Partners, a strategy consulting firm that helps small and medium-size organizations face the challenge of climate change. Previously, Ted served Europe's largest public-private partnership on climate during his eight years in Berlin, Germany, and was an engagement manager at GreenOrder, a strategy and management consulting group helping global companies such as General Motors and General Electric gain competitive advantage through environmental innovation. Ted also has extensive experience in the automotive sector. He was News/Technical Editor for AMI Auto World Weekly, a U.S. auto magazine, has written extensively as a freelance journalist, and has held both public relations and engineering roles at Ford Motor Company. He has an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and lives in Shelburne, Vermont with his wife, two daughters, and five bicycles
Nick has been a physician since 2006, now at Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago as a child psychiatrist since 2011. Prior to that, he had worked in the insurance and private security industries after his service as an armor officer in the United States Army. Nick joined the Glee Club in 1984, serving as sales manager, president of vice and then president over his four years with the Glee Club. He was also one of the founding members of Harvard Glee Club Lite. “The Glee Club fulfilled many roles during my college years: a family, a fraternity, as well as a performing chorus. These middle years for Jim Marvin included both small private moments, the first Lite Christmas gigs; and larger ones, such as the 1987 European tour and the ACDA convention performance in San Antonio. Other generations of the Glee Club have their own moments; we all share a mission, especially as alumni, to perpetuate those moments, big and small. The Foundation’s hard work and dedication has been so important over the years to making this happen. I hope I can be of service supporting this effort for my generation and others.”
Stillwater, MN
Dr. Ryan Karlstad is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand, wrist, and upper extremity disorders who practices in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. After receiving his MD degree from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. Karlstad completed an orthopedic surgery residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He completed a fellowship in hand and microvascular surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is one of 36 board certified orthopedic surgeons in the United States who holds a Subspecialty Certificate in both Hand Surgery and Orthopedic Sports Medicine. Dr. Karlstad sang with the Harvard Glee Club from 1989 through 1993. He was Spring Tour Manager for the HGC tour to New Mexico, Arizona, and California in 1992. He was Co-President of the Harvard Glee Club his senior year during the HGC 1993 East Asian Tour. He currently lives in Stillwater, MN with his wife and twin daughters.
Detroit, MI
Adam decided to come to Harvard after seeing the Glee Club perform during pre-frosh weekend and never really 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 wife (Cory Kind '12) is an RCS alumna and former HGC Sweetheart. Adam has spent his career in public education, including teaching stints in South Korea and D.C. He currently runs the Office of Partnerships for Detroit Public Schools Community District. In addition to singing, he loves cooking, hiking, and playing bridge.
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Ben is a programmer and game designer who has worked at several education-technology and entertainment companies including PBS Kids, Rockstar Games, and most recently at a startup aiming to disrupt standardized testing called Imbellus. 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 studied architecture and film at Harvard and is now pursuing a Masters in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. In his free time Ben plays the piano, the ukulele, and lots of board games.
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.
Niko Paladino is a current law student at Harvard Law School, attending his first-year classes virtually from his hometown in Paramus, New Jersey. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2020, concentrating in economics and pursing a secondary in English, specializing in public economics and Shakespearean literature, respectively. He served as Vice President as a junior and President as a senior, and has continued to participate in the Glee Club as a graduate member. As a college student and a graduate, Paladino worked as a student advocate at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, codeveloping the CORI Sealing Initiative to expand access to criminal record sealing for Massachusetts residents. He also worked as a research assistant for Professor Benjamin M. Friedman and as a Peer Advising Fellow serving first-year students. In his free time, Paladino is an avid reader and hiker.
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.
Washington D.C.
Rowen VonPlagenhoef is an Energy Analyst at Charles River Associates where he helps clients find sustainable energy solutions. He was HGC's Manager and Tour Manager for the 2020 season where he oversaw the complete transformation of the group's rehearsals and performances to a virtual environment. He continues to sing with the National Cathedral Choral Society in Washington D.C.
Weston, MA
Jim Rabb is a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard hospital in Boston. He sings in the Harvard Radcliffe Chorus, the Harvard community chorus, along with several aother HGC/RCS alumni/ae and participates in several boards of advisors including the the Boson Symphony and the Museum of Fine Arts.
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.
Boston, MA
Ian Tzeng was a 4-year member of the HGC and previously served on the HGC Foundation Board from 2000-2014 before being re-elected to the Board in 2018. He served as Manager, President, and Financial Manager for the 1998 Australia tour. Professionally, Ian is a Managing Director in the Boston office of L.E.K. consulting and a senior leader in the healthcare practice. Specifically, he leads L.E.K.’s global efforts in pharmaceutical operations and contract services. Additionally, Ian has extensive consulting and board experience with non-profit organizations in education, arts, LGBT advocacy, and public service. Other Board service includes ReachingOut MBA; non-profit consultancy, Inspire; and the Equality Federation. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in Chemistry from Harvard College and is a George F. Baker Scholar, Master of Business Administration with high distinction from Harvard Business School.
San Francisco, CA
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.”
Frank’s career experience includes management consulting and various positions in marketing, finance and product development in the banking and insurance industries. After a two-year retirement, he is returning to work as Vice President and Chief Product Officer of Plymouth Rock Assurance in New Jersey.
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.