PAST HONOREES
2002 – 2018
2018
Joshua Bekenstein
Co-Chair, Bain Capital
John B. Cruz III
President & CEO. Cruz Companies
The Honorable Joseph Kennedy III
U.S. Representative, MA 4th Congressional District
Edward A. Palleschi
Deputy Chief Secretary of Boards and Commissions, Office of Governor Charlie Baker
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
recipient of the inaugural Corporate Champion award
2017
The Honorable Martin J. Walsh
Mayor, City of Boston
2016
The Honorable Brian Dempsey
State Representative, Haverhill, and Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee
Steven W. Tompkins
Suffolk County Sheriff
The Honorable Brian Lees
Recipient, Senator Edward Brooke Distinguished Service Award, former State Senator, First Hampden/Hampshire District
Andrew Dreyfus
President and Chief Executive Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield MA
Jim Rooney
President and Chief Executive Officer, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Steven Wright
Executive Partner, Holland & Knight LLP
2015
The Honorable William “Mo” Cowan
former U.S. Senator, Managing Partner, Mintz Levin
The Honorable Ben Downing
State Senator
Robert Lewis
Founder and President, The BASE and Boston Astros
Robert Rivers
President and COO, Eastern Bank
James Norton
Vice President, General Dynamics Mission Systems
Joshua Boger
PhD, Founder Vertex Pharmaceuticals
2014
The Honorable Francis X. Bellotti
Former Lt. Governor and Attorney General, Commonwealth of Mass.
Richard Taylor
Chairman, Taylor-Smith Company and Executive in Residence, Suffolk University
The Honorable Stanley Rosenberg
Majority Leader, Massachusetts State Senate
Richard Kelleher
Principal/Chief Executive Officer, Pyramid Hotel Group
Mark Reilly
Senior Vice President, Comcast, Northeast Division
Leverett Wing
Associate Director, Community Services, Comm. of MA Dept. Housing Community Development and former Executive Director of Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote
2013
The Honorable Deval L. Patrick
Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Honorable Richard Tisei
Minority Leader, Massachusetts State Senate
The Honorable Steven A. Tolman
President, MA AFL-CIO, and former State Senator
John E. Rosenthal
Stop Handgun Violence
Jerry Sargent
President, Citizens Bank Massachusetts
Peter H. Smyth
Chaiman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Greater Media
2012
The Honorable Thomas M. Menino
Mayor, City of Boston
The Honorable Byron Rushing
State Representative and Majority Whip, MA House of Representatives
John Hailer
President and Chief Executive Officer, Natixis Global Asset Management
John Heerwagen
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Middlesex Savings Bank
James Stergios
Executive Director, Pioneer Institute
Phillip W. Johnston
Former Chairman, MA Democratic Party and President Phillip W. Johnston Associates
2011
The Honorable Edward W. Brooke
Lifetime Achievement Award, former U.S. Senator
The Honorable Frederick E. Berry
Majority Leader, MA State Senate
Chancellor J. Keith Motley
University of Massachusetts-Boston
Paul Grogan
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Boston Foundation
Stephen M. Weiner
Attorney, Mintz Levin
2010
The Honorable John F. Kerry
U.S. Senator, Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award
The Honorable Robert DeLeo
Speaker, MA House of Representatives
The Honorable Frank Cousins, Jr.
Essex County Sheriff
Gregory Torres
President, MassINC
Rick Rendon
Founder and President, Empower Peace
2009
The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy
U.S. Senator, Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award
The Honorable Barney Frank
U.S. Representative
The Honorable William F. Weld
Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
2008
The Honorable Argeo Paul Cellucci
Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Louis Ciavarra
Managing Partner, Bowditch and Dewey LLP
Robert Coard
President and CEO, Action for Boston Community Development, Inc.
Peter Meade
Executive Vice President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
2007
Joseph P. Campanelli
President and CEO, Sovereign Bank
Fairman Cowan
Partner, Bowditch and Dewey (ret.)
Paul Lee Parter
Goodwin Proctor, LLP
James Roosevelt, Jr.
President and CEO, Tufts Health Plan
2006
Frank Hatch
Chair, John Merck Foundation
Tripp Jones
Senior Vice President and CAO, The MENTOR Network
Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
Executive Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Peace & Justice, Harvard Law School
Thomas P. O’Neill, III
CEO, O’Neill And Associates
2005
Chris Gabrieli
Chairman, Massachusetts 2020
Paul Levy
CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jack Regan
Partner and Public Service Committee Co-Chair
Wilmer Cutler
Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP
2004
Wayne A. Budd
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, John Hancock Financial Services. Inc.
Aaron Feuerstein
CEO, Malden Mills Industries, Inc.
Hubie Jones
Social Justice Entrepreneur for City Year, Dean Emeritus, BU School of Management
Dan Wolf
President and CEO, Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines
2003
Paul Guzzi
President & CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Ralph Harriman
Business Manager/Secretary-Treasurer Painters & Allied Trades District Council 35
George Russell
Executive Vice-President of State Street Corporation
William Saltonstall
former State Senator
2002
Charlie Baker
President & CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Richard Gamble
Leader of Family Planning Initiatives
Ralph Martin
Partner, Bingham McCutcheon LLC & former Suffolk County District Attorney