Biographies
Barry Morris is a Software Executive with over 20 years of experience in the USA and Europe. As CEO of IONA Technologies Barry led Ireland's most successful software company through it's strongest period of growth. As CEO of StreamBase Systems he created the leader of the complex event processing market. He is currently the CEO of cloud database company NimbusDB. Barry is South African born and holds a primary degree from Oxford University, with an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from the IMCA. Barry lives in Boston Massachusetts with his wife Emer, and three children.
Dr. John Alam is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Biomedical Innovation. From 1997 to 2008 he was at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where most recently at he was Executive Vice-President, Medicines Development and Chief Medical Officer.
From 1991 to 1997, Dr. Alam held a variety of positions with Biogen, Inc., including Director of Medical Research, and Program Executive for Avonex® (interferon beta-1a for multiple sclerosis).
Prior to joining the industry, Dr. Alam completed an internal medicine residency at The Brigham and Women's Hospital and a research fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He holds an M.D. from Northwestern University Medical School and an S.B. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nathalie Beauvais is the Director of Sustainable Planning at Sasaki Associates, a company in Watertown specialized in architecture, planning, and urban design. Prior to joining Sasaki, Ms. Beauvais was Principal Architect for the Allston Development Group that is responsible for Harvard University's development in Allston. In addition, Ms. Beauvais participated in a two year research program at the Institut d'Aménagement Urban de la Région Il-de-France in Paris. Ms. Beauvais also worked at the Boston Redevelopment Authority where she managed the design of reconstruction projects for major arterial roads in Boston and their integration into the urban fabric of the city. Ms. Beauvais is from Canada. She is a post graduate from Harvard University and a graduate in architecture from Laval University, Québec.
Christophe Berthoux is Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at Charles River based in Wilmington, MA. Charles River is a global provider of research models and preclinical, clinical and support services. Christophe has been with Charles River for over 18 years where he has held a variety of managerial positions including Head of European Research Models and Services and Senior Vice President of US Research Models and Services. In October of 2008, Christophe was promoted to his current position where he is a member of the internal Executive Committee. Prior to working at Charles River, Christophe spent 18 months working at the French Embassy in Washington DC. In 1987, Christophe received a DVM degree from Lyon University and in 1999 received an Executive MBA from Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management. He is a member of the French American Chamber of Commerce. Christophe and his wife Claude are French citizens and have three children, two of whom are attending the International School of Boston.
Alexia Duc has extensive expertise in both the French and U.S. education systems. From 2000 to 2008, she was Assistant Professor of 17th century French literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Prior to this, Alexia was educated and taught at the University of Lyon III, France, as well as the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She has published her research and received various fellowships and teaching awards. At Harvard, Alexia taught, supervised theses and advised undergraduate and graduate students and served for a term on the Harvard Faculty Council, which makes recommendations to the President regarding matters of policy and governance. She holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and received her undergraduate, Masters and subsequent advanced degree at the Université Jean-Moulin, France. Alexia and her husband, Stephen Ganis, have three children, two of whom attend the International School of Boston.
Leslie Dunton-Downer is an American writer who has lived in France, Germany, and Colombia. Her scholarship appears in professional publications, and her plays, operas, and documentaries have been performed and broadcast in the USA, Russia, and Europe. With Alan Riding, Cultural Correspondent for The New York Times based in Paris, she is co-author of Opera and Essential Shakespeare Handbook. Also with Mr. Riding, she co-hosts "Oasis Shakespeare," a literary salon in Marrakech sponsored by the Global Diversity Foundation to benefit the Dar Taliba School for Berber girls from the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Collaborating with artists of Central Asia and Iran, Leslie has produced concerts and theatricals, as well as acclaimed CDs of music from Tajikistan for the French label Buda Musique. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College, and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, where she remained on the faculty until 1996. She has also served as Visiting Lecturer at Tufts University. Leslie is the recipient of prestigious distinctions and major grants in the fields of teaching, scholarship, and the arts. Her son is an alumnus of International School of Boston. She joined the Board in November, 2004 and has been a member of the Education Committee and the Marketing Committee.
Alexandra Epee-Bounya is Clinical Director of Pediatrics at Martha Eliot Health Center, Children's Hospital, Boston. Prior to returning to primary care, she was an attending physician in the Emergency Department at Children's Hospital, Boston, for 5 years. Alexandra received her MD degree from the George Washington University Medical School in Washington, DC. She grew up in the Ivory Coast where she attended the Lycee International Jean Mermoz. Alexandra and her husband, Sam, have 3 children, and have been associated with ISB since 2003.
Christophe Guilhou is from Lille (France). He obtained his degree in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris. He also has a degree in Classic Arabic from the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales . He is married and has three children. From 1992 to 1993, he served as the correspondent for Nigeria, Cameroun and Benin at the Department of African Affairs. In 1993, he worked at the United Nations where he was in charge of health and drug-related issues.
Two years later, in 1995, he started a four year mission as a First Secretary at the French Embassy of the United Arabic Emirates. He then served as a political consultant at the French Embassy in Syria in 1999. In 2002, he returned to Paris where he became a diplomatic consultant for Professeur Jean-François Mattéi, the French Minister of Health.
Then, he went back to the United Nations as a co-director for Economic Affairs. In 2005, he was named as a diplomatic consultant for North Africa, the Middle East, and the United Nations under the administration of M. Michel Barnier, Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 2006, he was confirmed for this post by M. Philippe Douste-Blazy, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 2006 to 2009, he worked at the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva as a permanent representative. He has been the General Consul of France in Boston since August 24th 2009.
Patrick Hamilton is a partner in the law firm Day Pitney LLP, where he specializes in representing corporations and individuals in federal and state white-collar criminal investigations, prosecutions, and regulatory probes, and in civil matters related to such inquiries, as well as in complex commercial litigation. Before joining Day Pitney, Patrick served almost 13 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting federal crimes in the District of Massachusetts. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Patrick had extensive experience in the law and in law enforcement. He had served as executive director of the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Council and, before that, executive director of the Massachusetts Committee on Criminal Justice and the Governor's Statewide Anti-Crime Council. Patrick also had been a litigator in major law firms in both New York and Boston. Patrick has a BA from Yale University and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. Patrick is first-generation American and attended the Lycee Francais de New York for six years while growing up in New York City. Patrick and his wife, Gretchen, have two children attending the International School of Boston.
Sean Dorrance Kelly is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also Co-Chair of Harvard's interdisciplinary committee for the study of Mind, Brain, and Behavior. Before arriving at Harvard he taught at Stanford and Princeton, and he was Professeur Invité at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Kelly, an American, is an expert on 20th century French and German philosophy. Despite this, his French speaking skills are far exceeded by his five-year-old son. It turns out that such crucial phrases as "You want wine with that?" occur only very rarely in Sartre or Merleau-Ponty.
Richard Labaudinière is President and CEO of FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company specialized in discovering, developing and commercializing therapies for the treatment of protein misfolding diseases. Prior to FoldRx, Richard was Senior Vice-President of Research and Development at Genome Therapeutics. Richard has 25 years of international experience in drug discovery and development, including 16 years in multinational pharmaceutical companies, such as Glaxo, RPR and Aventis. Richard received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier after graduating from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie in Montpellier, France.
Marty Lillis is Founder and CEO of the Franklin Resource Group, which specializes in building relationships and brand strategies in the Sporting goods, Outdoor and Golf marketplaces. Sales and branding are passions for Marty. In the late 1970s Marty was part of a very small team that introduced Reebok to the USA. Over the years, his companies' clientele reads like a who's who in the industry. Nike, Coleman, Head, TaylorMade and Wilson, to name just a handful. Marty grew up in Boston and spends time in Boston, Martha's Vineyard and company headquarters, Boulder, CO. He has been at ISB for 4 years and has one daughter who attends Grade 3.
Louis Plamondon is Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc., focused on the discovery of new generations of antibiotics to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections. Prior to joining Tetraphase, he was heading the Developmental Chemistry effort at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge, MA. During his 6 1/2 year tenure at Millennium, he managed development activities for small molecule drugs, from Phase I to commercialization. Louis also held senior positions at BASF Bioresearch Corporation and at Boehringer Ingelheim. He conducted his post-doctoral research in Immuno-organic Chemistry and Organic Synthesis at Harvard University and received his graduate degree from the University of Montreal in Canada. He grew up in Montreal where he met his wife Julie. Louis and Julie have two children, and have been associated with ISB since 2001.
Marie Saint-Hilaire is Associate Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. She was born in Quebec and spent most of her childhood in Montreal, where she did her schooling in the French system, including passing the French baccalauréat. Marie did medical school at the Université de Montréal and neurology residency at McGill University. She spent a year in Paris and in New York for her fellowship, coming to Boston in 1987 with her American husband. They have 2 children at the International School of Boston. Her son Marc has been at the school since "petite maternelle" and is now in 12th grade in the French baccalauréat program, and her daughter Julia is in 7th grade. Marie is a member of the Buildings & Grounds committee of the school.
Nathalie Wallace is a managing member for Delta GEMS, LLC at Delta Partner, a hedge fund based in Boston, managing assets for high net worth individuals invested in Emerging Markets. Nathalie has been managing Emerging Markets assets for the past 15 years, both as a private investor and as an employee of firms such as Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc., Wellington Management Company, LLP and Baring Asset Management. Nathalie is a French citizen, and is a graduate of ISG, France. With her husband, Alexis, they have 2 children attending the ISB. Nathalie has experience with leadership in education, as she served on the board of John Winthrop School in Boston, and of Worldfund, a non-for-profit organization geared towards supporting high-quality and results-driven education in Latin America.
Dr David Watson was appointed to the position of Interim Head of School of The International School of Boston in July 2009.
A UK national, he holds degrees from universities in three different European countries and has been a teacher or school administrator for 27 years in the United Kingdom, France, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Malaysia and the United States.
He is a current Board Member of the Council of International Schools, a former Chairman of the Council of International Schools in the Americas and was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Mission Laique Francaise in 2009 for his services to French education in America.
Dr Watson has written a number of articles on international education and school leadership and is proud to be a parent in the ISB community.
