Charles Ellis named Chair of Whitehead
Board of Directors
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Dec. 12, 2006) — Charles D.
Ellis has been elected Chair of the Board of Directors
for Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Ellis,
founder of Greenwich Associates, succeeds Alex V. d’Arbeloff,
who stepped down as Chair after two years and continues
on the Board.
“I’m very excited by the challenges at Whitehead,”
says Ellis, who originally became involved with the
Institute through his friendship with founder Edwin
C. “Jack” Whitehead. “The scientists
here are enormously gifted individuals who can and do
change the basic paradigms in biological research.”
“Anyone who has the opportunity to appreciate
what great work Whitehead scientists are doing, and
especially those who have the chance to become acquainted
with individual scientists, will feel the thrill of
their research,” he adds. “We all feel the
responsibility to make it as easy as possible for them
to do their remarkable work.”
Ellis started Greenwich Associates, an international
strategy consulting firm for companies in professional
financial markets, in 1972. Among other services to
the investment community, he has been governor of the
CFA Institute, and is one of nine individuals honored
for lifetime contributions.
His current activities include serving as managing partner
of The Partners of ’63, a pro bono partnership
of Harvard Business School classmates and friends, which
commits time and treasure in support of entrepreneurial,
change-oriented ventures in education.
Ellis has held appointments to the faculties of the
Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management.
He is a successor trustee of Yale University, a trustee
of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and an overseer
of the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Additionally, he is the author of 12 books, most recently
Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox, which shows how
an innovative leader transformed a family firm into
a global powerhouse. Ellis also has written almost 100
articles for business and professional journals.
The Whitehead Board also welcomed as new members Landon
T. Clay, managing member of East Hill Management; Barbara
Imperiali, Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biology
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Ellen
S. Polaner, president of the Whitehead Board of Associates.
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