Who we are: Leadership



		The Business Collaborative is a private sector initiative that has drawn its inspiration and leadership from the business community. Like any endeavor such as this, The Business Collaborative required the firm commitment and hard work of the dedicated few to move it to where it is today. Fortunately, from the beginning, TBC attracted a leadership group that represented an impressive cross-section of the business community and brought great insight and enthusiasm to the process of building this new business model.

Co-Chairs

William Van Faasen
Chairman, President & CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Bill has more than 30 years of health care experience, working primarily with Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. He started his career at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and joined Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in June 1990 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He became President and CEO in 1992.

Bill is the former chair of the United Way and Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of both organizations. He is a member of the Board of Directors, Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, Minuteman Council Boy Scouts of America, Private Industry Council, and The Business Collaborative. Bill also serves on the Boards of IMS Health (NYSE), Tier Technologies (NASDAQ), Citizens Bank of Massachusetts, NSTAR and Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Bill is a recipient of the Maimonides Award from the Anti-Defamation League, the Excalibur Award from the American Cancer Society, the Black & White Business Profile Award from Black & White Boston Coming Together and the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. In September 2000, Bill was named New Englander of the Year by The New England Council, a regional business organization.

In August 2002, Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall asked Bill to serve as a vice chair of the Visiting Committee on Management in the Courts, a special eight-member committee to examine management practices in the Commonwealth’s court system and make recommendations on how to improve administration.

Bill holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Hope College and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Michigan State University. He resides on the North Shore with his wife Jane and their three children.

Edward Dugger III
CEO, UNC Partners, Inc.

For 28 years, Ed Dugger has been a national leader in managing private equity capital on behalf of institu-tional investors that have a commitment to profitable, yet socially responsible investments. The venture funds managed by Ed have had as their investment focus emerging and acquired companies operating in such growth-oriented industries as communications and environmental services. They have also been managed to consciously expand business opportunities for entrepreneurs of color and to promote polices that support the development of inclusive work forces. As a result, Ed has contributed to the creation of some of the nation’s largest and most successful African American businesses. Furthermore, his perspective on business and its role in society has made him a prominent business and civic leader in his community of Boston and a recognized pioneer in his field across the nation. Complementing his business insights is a broad knowledge of U.S. economic policy stemming from his professional training in public and international affairs and his tenure as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Born in Dayton, Ohio, Ed was educated in the city's public school system where he excelled as both a scholar and an athlete. Having been awarded a full athletic scholarship in football to attend Ohio State University, he decided instead to utilize a National Achievement Scholarship awarded through the National Merit Scholarship program to attend Harvard College. While attending Harvard, he prepared for a career as an urban planner and pursued the sport of track and field in which his father, Edward Dugger, Jr. of Tufts University, had set an American record (120 yd. high hurdles). As one of the Ivy League's top 440-yard hurdlers, Ed was selected as a member of the Harvard-Yale team to participate in the bi-annual meet against Oxford-Cambridge in London, England. His academic performance culminated with a magna cum laude on his honors thesis.

While pursuing his graduate studies in public and international affairs at Princeton, Ed attended a United Nation's sponsored study program on new town development at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England and toured many of Europe's existing new towns. After receiving a joint Masters in Public Administration and Urban Planning degree with from Princeton, he began a brief career in urban planning with a private investment management company before beginning his 28-year career in venture capital and private equity investing.

Married with three children, Ed devotes much of his civic and volunteer efforts to improving opportunities for children of color.

Leadership Council

Basil Anderson, Vice Chair, Staples, Inc.
Marshall Carter, Senior Fellow, Harvard University
Retired CEO, State Street Corporation
Elyse Cherry, President, Boston Community Capital
Edward Dugger, CEO, UNC Partners, Inc.
Donna Gittens, CEO, causemedia, inc.
Paul Guzzi, President, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Elizabeth Harris, Vice President, UNC Partners, Inc.
Glynn Lloyd, President, City Fresh Foods, Inc.
Alan Macdonald, President, Massachusetts Business Roundtable
Mac McCabe, Director, Enterprise Development, Civil Society Institute
Clayton Turnbull, CEO, Waldwin Group
William Van Faasen, Chairman, President & CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Staffing

Staffing is provided by the service company of TBC and consultants.

Service Company
UNC Partners, Inc.
www.uncpartners.com

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