CAP Governance

Sonny Ali is a seasoned executive, entrepreneur, and investor with over two decades of global experience in corporate strategy, digital transformation, and operational leadership. He is the President and CEO of Glial Group Corporation, a veteran-owned investment and operating platform focused on building a national footprint in logistics and transportation. Since pivoting into the sector in 2020, Sonny has led Glial through multiple acquisitions—including FedEx linehaul and Amazon DSP operations—executing a disciplined private equity playbook to drive value creation and sustainable growth.

Previously, Sonny held senior leadership roles at Microsoft and IBM, where he led global initiatives in enterprise technology strategy, platform ecosystems, and go-to-market acceleration. As a Principal at The Boston Consulting Group, he advised multinational corporations across North America, Europe, and Asia on digital transformation, SaaS strategy, M&A, and growth planning—particularly within the technology, media, and telecom sectors.

In addition to his operating leadership, Sonny serves as a member of the Turbo advisory board under Vanliner Insurance Company, where he helps guide the strategic direction and performance of the Turbo insurance program in alignment with Vanliner’s broader organizational goals.

Sonny has been a dedicated CAP volunteer since 2013 and currently serves on the CAP Board of Directors. He began his career as a founder of two successful startups in the energy and digital media sectors and is also a U.S. Army veteran with 13 years of service. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Suffolk University and is a graduate of the AMP (2011) at Harvard Business School.

Ruby Ajanee is a retired professional with over three decades of executive leadership, senior management, and consulting experience in public and private sectors.

As a consultant, Ruby advised senior executives at corporations, foundations, and nonprofit organizations on matters relating to private-sector development, financial services, and international development. She has advised clients throughout North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean. Her areas of expertise include enterprise and business development, social impact investing, enterprise and investment risk management, strategy, governance, and civil society capacity building.

Ruby has also held executive and senior management positions with Oxfam and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), including service as Country Director and Chief Executive Officer. Her private-sector career spans over twenty years at organizations such as CIGNA, American General Corporation, now AIG, and Street Corporation, culminating in her role as Vice President and Product Strategist at State Street.

Ruby holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration at the University of Karachi. She is also a registered member of the CFA Institute.

Ruby currently serves on the Boards of Harvard Business School’s Community Action Partners (CAP) and PARSA, a U.S. nonprofit organization working in Afghanistan.

Olivier Aries is the co-founder of the Thrive Collective, a firm that acts as growth accelerator for talent optimization consultants; the firm also serves select organizations directly to help their leaders achieve more with their organization talent. Most recently, he was VP of Professional Services at the Predictive Index.

Prior to PI, he was a principal in the Leadership and Transformation practice of Kearney, a global management consulting firm, where he guided Fortune 500 companies to transform their business model to reduce costs and improve performance. He also stood up Kearney’s knowledge management operations and restructured the firm’s Board governance; in addition, he built and led Kearney’s global risk, security and crisis management program.

Olivier is also co-founder of a Pentagon-funded deep tech venture developing autonomous solutions for emergency casualty management on the battlefield.

Olivier holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and lives in Arlington, MA.

Kevin Breunig is an experienced marketing and communications leader in both the enterprise technology and nonprofit sectors. 

After 15 years in enterprise software marketing he followed his passion for the outdoors to work with environmental organizations.  Kevin was VP of Communications and Marketing at the nonprofit Appalachian Mountain Club, where he led efforts on brand strategy, digital marketing, and content creation and worked closely with policy staff on regional conservation issues. 

Before AMC, Kevin authored an updated version of Mass Audubon’s Losing Ground study on land use and its impact on habitat, and currently advises with the Conservation Law Foundation as a Senior Fellow. 

Kevin has been a consultant or co-lead on several CAP engagements, including projects with YW Boston, Epilepsy Foundation of New England, and MassHire Metro North Workforce Board. 

Kevin has a BA in political science and computer studies from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kris is a seasoned consultant specializing in innovative solutions for mission-driven organizations. As Managing Partner at Volta Learning Group, she collaborates with foundations, educational providers, and employers to create scalable, sustainable learning programs, emphasizing competency-based education and workforce partnerships.

With decades of executive leadership at leading institutions in the higher education sector, Kris drives organizational growth through market innovation and enterprise design. A trained mediator and skilled facilitator in human-centered design, she currently advises non-profit organizations on strategy and business planning, empowering teams, and delivering transformative outcomes.

Kris’s prior roles include Senior VP and Executive Director of College for America at Southern New Hampshire University; General Manager of Wolters Kluwer Legal Education, and President of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Higher Division. She serves on the Board of the Education Design Lab.

Kris earned a BA from the University of Wisconsin and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Olive is an independent director at Columbia Threadneedle Investments.

Since 2010, Olive has led strategy and talent management consulting firm, Darragh Inc. where she works with CEOs on their most critical strategy and talent issues.

Olive was also the founder and CEO of Zolio Inc., an investment management talent identification platform aimed at introducing young investors, especially women and people of color, to the investment industry.

Prior to launching her own companies, Olive spent 2004 to 2010, as a partner at Tudor Investments, a leading global hedge fund where she led Strategy and Talent Management. She focused extensively on organizational strategy and senior recruiting, especially on positioning the firm for growth.

From 1990 to 2004 Olive was at the global management consulting firm McKinsey. She was elected Director/Senior partner in 2001 and co-founded and led the firm’s global Investment Management practice there for many years.

Olive attended Harvard Business School for her MBA and graduated with Honors.  Her undergraduate work was completed at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland where she earned a Bachelor of Commerce with First Class Honors. Olive spent her junior year at the University of Pennsylvania.

Olive is a member of the US Trust Board of the University of Edinburgh and is on the Board of CAP, the Harvard Business School non-profit consulting organization.

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Bob has worked with several non-profit organizations, both as a Board member and strategy consultant. Bob is a past director of Family Access, which provides quality childcare, early literacy, child assault prevention and family counseling. As part of CAP teams, Bob has helped develop strategic plans for the Boys and Girls Club of MetroWest, the Waltham Boys and Girls Club, and Crispus Attucks Children’s Center.

Bob led business units of two of the most recognized names in consulting. At Oliver Wyman, Bob was a Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, responsible for a $1+B business across 11 countries. Bob was then recruited to lead IBM’s global consulting business in telecom and media & entertainment – combined IBM’s 2nd largest commercial sector with $1.5+B in annual revenue.

Bob is a director of several private companies, including AARP Services, the wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary of the 38-million-member AARP organization; Element 8 Technologies, which is using a new technology to bring low-cost wireless broadband to unserved and underserved areas of rural America; and Actifai, broadband’s original AI-powered sales platform.

Bob received a B.A. (magna cum laude) in economics and biology from Williams College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He holds an M.B.A. (with distinction) from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Bob lives with his wife in Newton, MA and three grown children. He is an avid bicyclist and golfer.

Aaron Jette is Division Chief of the U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe Center’s Program Development and Capacity Building Division where he manages approximately 40 transportation researchers.

Araon has worked at Volpe for nearly two decades, in which time he has led a number of strategic planning and policy initiatives, including the U.S. DOT Strategic Plan. He specializes in strategic management and program evaluation.

Aaron served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay and is a graduate of McGill University and the Harvard Kennedy School. He lives in Belmont and has three school-age children.

Dara has an extensive history helping transform promising ideas into high-impact programs and practice. She has a wide range of experiences working in foundations, nonprofit, for-profit, political and public institutions.  Over her many years of field experience, she has evaluated, designed and run programs covering many subjects including child welfare, juvenile justice, domestic and international economic development and education.  In each of these areas, Dara has focused on effective implementation as the key to getting positive outcomes.

Dara has worked for and with Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) on various initiatives over the last 18 years, with a particular focus on start-ups:

• Currently Dara is the Managing Director for Child Welfare at Case Commons – a non-profit consulting firm funded by AECF to manage the consultant who support the Foundation’s mission across the country.
• With the support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and The Duke Endowment, Dara co-founded and ran Kids Insight – a nonprofit dedicated to improving outcomes for kids in child welfare by measuring their social and emotional well-being.
  Dara served as lead policy advisor and integration specialist to the Director of the Casey Child Welfare Strategy Group during the consolidation of three divisions into one.
• Dara was an original member of the Casey Strategic Consulting Group and was a key developer of the Casey consulting practice model, creating tools and training teams in effective consulting techniques designed for embedding new ideas into public systems.  Her work was highlighted in the monograph Fixing a Broken System: Transforming Maine’s Child Welfare System.
• Dara has contributed to Casey’s thought leadership through innovative work on how to help government organizations adopt new ideas as lead author on Casey’s monograph Right Sizing Congregate Care: A Powerful First Step in Transforming Child Welfare Systems and the article Helping Government Agencies become More Effective and Efficient: Discovering “Catalytic Combinations” in Public Child Welfare Reform, published in the Foundation Review.  Her leadership was also recognized by the Huffington Post 2016 article, “Harvard PhD Dara Menashi Uses Technology to Improve Child Well-Being.”

Prior to joining Casey Dara worked for McKinsey & Company as an organization specialist for private sector clients, introducing and refining the use of Relationship Network Analysis (RNA) as a consulting tool for mapping and leveraging the informal structure of organizations.

Dara holds a PhD and MPP from Harvard University, where she was awarded best master’s thesis and mentor of the year, and a BA from Boston University in Economics, where she was selected as a Truman Scholar for her leadership and commitment to the public sector.

Duncan is an experienced CEO and investor with 25 years of success launching and leading new ventures. As an entrepreneur and CEO, Duncan co-founded, built and sold two companies (Cilk Arts, VeloBit). 

Previously, Duncan served as a venture capitalist at Bessemer Venture Partners and Flagship Ventures, leading investments in 16 companies that produced 12 acquisitions and an aggregate market capitalization in excess of $1.5 billion. Early in his career, Duncan led control system research teams at Draper Laboratory.

Dunacn holds two degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School. His primary volunteer and philanthropic interests are education, job training and opportunity equality.  He served one year as Executive Director of YearUp – Boston.

Joel is a former CEO and senior operating executive with experience scaling technology companies through rapid growth, strategic repositioning, acquisitions, and public offerings. He was a member of the executive team at four companies that completed initial public offerings, each of which subsequently achieved valuations of more than $1 billion. He currently serves as an independent director for two private software companies and has previously served on the boards of eight growth companies and three nonprofits.

Earlier in his career, Joel worked on a wide range of strategy and operational improvement engagements as a management consultant at Bain & Company, and spent four years as a venture capitalist at CRV, investing in and helping develop very young companies.

In the nonprofit sector, Joel has helped an organization focused on promoting racial equity rebrand and sharpen its messaging and served on the Finance Committee of a small, independent professional graduate school. As part of CAP teams, he has worked with Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Boston on its growth strategy and with Challenge Unlimited at Ironstone Farm on its revenue model.

Joel holds an AB from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Pam has over three decades of experience engaging with non-profit institutions in an executive management or volunteer leadership capacity.  Her work has primarily been focused in the areas of human services (especially children and youth) and education.

Pam is currently a consultant with the Challenge Success Initiative at Stanford University. She consults with partner schools in New England and mid-Atlantic regions to broaden the definition of student success, address root causes of student stress, and develop strategies to improve overall student well-being and engagement with learning.

Pam recently served as co-lead on a CAP project for the Steppingstone Foundation in Boston. In this role, she helped to develop a set of holistic outcome measures to better assess and capture the full impact of Steppingstone in the community.

Her past experience includes serving as Vice President of Community Investments for the United Way of Massachusetts Bay (Greater Boston). She has also worked with a number of local non-profit organizations including the March of Dimes Foundation, the Alliance for Young Families, Citizen’s Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA), Boston Children’s Services, and MSPCC. In the private sector, Pam was a management consultant in the health care practice at Booz, Allen & Hamilton.

Pam earned a Bachelor of Science in both Mathematics and Economics and a Certificate of Women’s Studies from Duke University. She also holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with a concentration in Child/Family Policy and Education. Pam lives with her husband in Sherborn, MA and has two grown sons plus a Bernese Mountain Dog, Magnolia.