Meet Our Team

MARK VERDI, CO-FOUNDER

• BS, University of Vermont
• MBA, Harvard Business School
• Founding Partner, Avalt
• Chairman, HBS Reflective Leader Program Alumni Committee 
• Managing Director & Global Co-Lead, Portfolio Group, Bain Capital
• Board of Directors: Genpact, Dig, &pizza, Ned Stevens, Performance Filtration Group; previous Board Member of Outback Steakhouse, Burlington Stores, Trinseo
• Lives in Wayland, MA with his wife, Gina, and their four children
  

GINA VERDI, CO-FOUNDER

• BA, University of Vermont
• JD, Boston College
• Fmr. Partner, Taylor Duane Barton & Gilman, LLP 
• Litigation and trial attorney in medical malpractice defense 
• Insurance coverage analysis and litigation 
• Lives in Wayland, MA with her husband, Mark, and their four children
  

ROB SWARTZ, CO-FOUNDER

• AB, Brown University
• MBA, Harvard Business School
• Senior Vice President of Development and Production, REELZChannel
• Previous Positions at Cartoon Network, Syfy, The Walt Disney Company, and NBC
• Fmr. Governor & Secretary, Television Academy
• Lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife, Jan, and their two daughters
  

NANCY CARUSO, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

• AB, Smith College
• MA, Boston College
• PhD, Boston College
• Associate Head of School, Beaver Country Day School
• Director of Admission and Financial Aid, Beaver Country Day School
• Assistant Head of School, Boston University Academy
• Various education administration positions, A Better Chance, Inc. & Boston College
• Lives in Newton, MA, with her husband, Pete, and their two sons
  

JESSIE SHAW, Senior Associate for Research & Operations

• BA, Boston College; magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
• University Orientation Leader, Boston College Office of First Year Experience
• Student Panelist & Tour Guide, Boston College of Undergraduate Admission
• Trip Leader, Boston College “Appa” service program
• Research Volunteer, Department of Biomechanics, Hospital for Special Surgery
• Lives in Boston, MA
  

KARL RATHJEN, MD, BOARD MEMBER

• BS, University of Texas at Austin
• MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
• Assistant Chief of Staff, Scottish Rite for Children
• Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
• President, Bette Rathjen Foundation for Emotional Health
• Board Member, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
• Lives in Dallas, TX with his wife, Carolyn
  

GARY REEDY, BOARD MEMBER

• Undergraduate degree, Emory & Henry College
• Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Arcadia University
• CEO, American Cancer Society (ret.)
• Worldwide VP, Johnson & Johnson (ret.)
• Board Member: Center for Global Health Innovation
• Advisory Board: Georgia Tech, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory Center for Ethics, Karkinos Healthcare, Member For A Day
• Lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife, Cindy
  

LES WILLIAMS, BOARD MEMBER

• BS, University of Virginia
• MBA, Harvard Business School
• Co-founder, Risk Cooperative Risk Management
• Professor of Practice, UVA School of Engineering
• Board of Directors: Monoc Securities, UVA Alumni Association, UVA Engineering Trustee Board
• Lives in Arlington, VA with his wife, B.J.
  

GWILL YORK, BOARD MEMBER

• AB, Harvard College
• MBA, Harvard Business School
• Co-founder and Managing Director, Lighthouse Capital Partners
• Board of directors: Sofina, One Mind
• Board of trustees/other boards: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Museum of Science, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
  

Steve Loose, BOARD MEMBER

• BA, Colgate University
• MBA, Harvard Business School
• Managing Director, H.I.G. Capital
• Previous positions at Audax Private Equity and Bain & Company
• Lives in Boston, MA with his wife, Michele and their three children
  

JANE SACCARO, BOARD MEMBER

• BA, Economics and Psychology, Stanford University
• MS, Engineering-Economic, Systems, Stanford University
• Executive Coach, Facilitator and Consultant
• Previously held leadership roles at Kesem.org, Princess Cruises, eToys.com and Bain & Company
• Lives outside of Chicago, IL with her husband, Jay, three children, and devoted dog
  

Stuart Ablon

Dr. Stuart Ablon is Founder and Director of Think:Kids in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. An award-winning psychologist, Dr. Ablon is Associate Professor and the Thomas G. Stemberg Endowed Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of three books, Changeable, hand-picked by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Dan Pink, and Susan Cain for their Next Big Idea Club, The School Discipline Fix, and Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach.

Dr. Ablon received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and completed his training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. One of the world’s top-rated thought-leaders and keynote speakers, Dr. Ablon teaches educators, parents, clinicians, managers, and leaders a very different approach to understanding and addressing challenging behavior of all types and in all people. Dr. Ablon has helped hundreds of organizations throughout the world implement the Collaborative Problem Solving approach.

Amy Beyer

Amy C Beyer is a proud wife, grateful mother of daughter and son, and advocate for the voiceless. Her background is Interior Design, and her passion remains in helping individuals see their value and live a life of hope.

Amy is active within the foster community, and the city of Atlanta as they fight human trafficking.

Amy is excited to help shift the narrative around mental health, as she has seen first hand what happens when a village comes alongside an individual. She honors the courage it takes for someone to seek support, as seeking support is the first step in trading a life of survival to a life of thriving. Amy believes TGW is a beacon of hope as everyone deserves a story of value.

CORRIE DRETLER

Corrie Dretler is an investor, donor activist, board member and network connector. Her main focus is on facilitating relationships and collaborations to support organizations that create equity and provide economic empowerment of marginalized communities.

She is the Co-founder of Cambridge Equity. Cambridge Equity supports leaders, both through private investment and philanthropy, who advance equity and access within three main areas: education, mental health, and gender equality. She holds many leadership roles as a board member and advisor in non-profit and social enterprises: Chair /Impact Networks for the global CEO organization, Young Presidents Organization; Board of Directors / Network of Engaged International Donors; Global Advisor / Knowledge Impact Network, and advisor to many organizations domestically and globally working to end human trafficking.

Corrie is deeply engaged in the conversation around the need for investing in mental health. Through both personal and professional roles, she convenes leaders to create opportunities to educate and activate their networks and resources to address the challenges facing our mental health systems. She is honored to join The Goodness Web’s Advisory Board.

Rochel Leah Bernstein

Co-founder and CEO, Spark Family Offices & strategist, investor, advisor, and advocate for child protection and mental health.

Tom Insel

Tom lnsel, M.D., a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, has been a national leader in mental health research, policy, and technology.  From 2002-2015, Dr. Insel served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). More recently, he led the Mental Health Team at Verily (2015-2017); co-founded Mindstrong Health (2017-2019), a start-up building tools for people with serious mental illness; and served as a special advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom (2019), helping on behavioral health issues. In 2020, he co-founded Humanest Care, a therapeutic online community for recovery. In 2022, he joined Vanna Health as a co-founder and executive chair. Vanna Health is a start-up helping people with serious mental illness engage in psychosocial supportive care.  He currently serves on the boards of Foundation for NIH, Fountain House, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy, and the Steinberg Institute (Chair, 2019-2022) as well as being an advisor to several mental health start-ups (including Alto Neuroscience, Cerebral, Compass Pathways, Owl Insights, Koa Health, Valera Health).   He is the author of Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health (Penguin Random House, 2022).  With journalist co-founders, he launched MindSite News (www.mindsitenews.org), a non-profit digital publication focused on mental health issues.  Dr. Insel is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received numerous national and international awards including honorary degrees in the U.S. and Europe. 

Andy Keller

Andy Keller, PhD, is President, Chief Executive Officer, and Linda Perryman Evans Presidential Chair of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, a Texas-based nonprofit that provides nonpartisan policy and program research, development, and advice to local, state, and national leaders towards a single goal: improving mental health care delivery in Texas and across the country. Andy is a licensed psychologist with more than 20 years of experience in behavioral health policy, financing, and best practices. His work has centered on helping state and local health systems implement evidence-based and innovative care, as well as helping local and state governments develop the regulatory and financial frameworks to support them. Prior to moving full time into policy work, Andy was a managing partner for 15 years at a national behavioral health management consulting firm where he focused on health financing and system improvement. Before that, he worked in Colorado with a leading Medicaid HMO and the local community mental health system, where he directed and led a range of community-based and care management programs.

Nathan Romano

Nathan Romano is the President of Atalaya where he leads strategy, responsible growth and capital markets. Prior to Atalaya, he was the President and Chief Operating Officer at York Capital Management and held senior roles at Goldman, Sachs & Co, Credit Suisse, and Bear Stearns. He also worked at Bain & Company in the firm’s private equity practice. He received an MBA with honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California, where he majored in Finance and Entrepreneurship. Nathan is very active in the Mental Health community having joined the board of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in NYC in 2006 and is now, among other mental health-related initiatives, its President Emeritus. Nathan also serves on the boards of the Museum of the City of New York, the Investment Management division of UJA, and the Compassionate Leadership in Finance program at the Garrison Institute. He also served on the board of the Managed Funds Association from 2018 to 2021.

Betsy Schwartz

Betsy Schwartz drives the advancement of mental health by working with organizations and philanthropists to build or expand their capacity to grow evidence-based mental health services.  As a leader in mental health public policy, she has a track record of designing and implementing legislative action at the local, state, and national levels. Schwartz has demonstrated the power of community engagement to solve complex problems. Noteworthy examples of this work resulted in the creation of the first ever mental health unit in the Houston Police Department and a multi-year stakeholder consensus building strategy that transformed the Houston juvenile justice system. Schwartz has a hands-on understanding of how to respond to mental health issues including crisis care, maternal mental health, public awareness initiatives. Previous positions include Vice President of Public Education National Council for Wellbeing and CEO of Mental Health America of Greater Houston.



She is a Senior Fellow with the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Institute and the American Leadership Forum and WK Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Alliance. She has a Masters in Social Work Administration from the University of Houston and a Bachelors of Science from University of Denver.

David H. Rosmarin

David H. Rosmarin PhD is the author of Thriving with Anxiety: 9 Tools to Make Your Anxiety Work for You (HarperCollins). He is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, a program director at McLean Hospital, and founder of Center for Anxiety, which provides services to over 1,000 patients/year in multiple states. Dr. Rosmarin is an international expert on spirituality and mental health, whose work has been featured in Scientific American, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Good Morning America. He can be reached via his website www.dhrosmarin.com.

COOPER ROMAN, FINANCE & BUDGET

• BS, Duke University
• Vice President, Avalt
• Corporate Development Extern, AbleTo Inc.
• Senior Associate Consultant, Bain & Company
• Lives in Boston, MA