Team
Gillian Miller
Program Manager
Gillian N. Miller is the Founder and Principal Consultant of A Gill of all Trades, consulting small businesses, entrepreneurs, non-profit and community organizations, on business branding and system development. She’s worked with Boston Public Schools, managing a $1.8 million-dollar educational grant for 42+ trade programs, as well as a Grants Manager for Boston Renaissance Charter School. Gillian earned her MS from Simmons University and her BA from Emerson College. She gave her Congressional Testimony regarding discriminatory practices used against minority homebuyers during the predatory lending crisis. She is the author of How to be a Goal Achiever, a goal setting system designed to strategize your goals.
Kathleen Hevert
Co-Founder and Faculty Director
Kathleen Hevert is an Associate Professor of Finance at Babson College. Dr. Hevert teaches finance courses at the graduate, undergraduate, and executive levels, and was twice selected by the Babson College F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business graduating classes to receive the Thomas Kennedy Award for Teaching Excellence. Her research has been published in finance journals and she advises a variety of companies in a consulting capacity. She received her BSBA from the University of Delaware and her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jennifer Bethel
Co-Founder
Jennifer Bethel is a Professor Emerita of Finance at Babson College in Wellesley, MA and a Co-Founder of the BFLP. Dr. Bethel has presented her research at numerous professional conferences and published her work in both academic and practitioner journals. She served as the Chief Economist for the Division of Corporation Finance at the SEC and later consulted to its Division of Economics and Risk Analysis. Dr. Bethel received her BBA from the University of Texas and a MA in Economics and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Stephen Martiros
Co-Founder and Entrepreneur in Residence
Stephen Martiros is the founder of Financial Building Blocks, an unbiased, financial education software platform. Previously, he served as the managing partner of CCC Alliance, America’s largest private network of single-family offices. He founded Summitas, a cloud-based software company to provide family offices and investment advisors with a secure portal for client engagement. He earned his BS and MBA from Babson College, where he serves on the College Adviosry Board and is an Entrepreneur in Residence helping to advance Babson’s Bertarelli Institute for Family Entrepreneurship and the BFLP.
Trainers
Jessica Chung
Trainer
Jessica Chung is an educator with the Babson Financial Literacy Project who lives and works from West Hartford, Connecticut. Jessica is an education market consultant, teacher, and mom of three. In addition to her work with the BFLP, she works as the Market Strategy Lead for RYE Consulting and is the Program Director at FitMoney, a K-12 financial literacy nonprofit. Jessica graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English and American Studies and a Masters of Teaching.
Arthur Johnson
Trainer
Arthur is the Chief Strategy Officer at Pure Storage. In this role, he is chartered with driving the company’s overall corporate strategy, M&A and strategic planning activities to accelerate the company’s growth. Prior to joining Pure Storage, Arthur was the Founding Vice President of Strategy, Corporate Development and Global Partnerships at Twilio. Before joining Twilio, Arthur was a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he worked with over 40 high-growth portfolio companies. Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, Arthur was the Chief Operating Officer for Cisco WebEx, a $1B revenue division with over 3,000 employees. Arthur holds a Bachelor of Science from California State University, Los Angeles (where he was a scholarship athlete in baseball) and a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Pamela McKenna
Trainer
Pam McKenna brings 20+ years of experience as a successful business owner to her role as Workshop Trainer at Babson College. She was the Founder and President of McKenna Management, Inc., an association management company for nonprofit membership societies, prior to selling the firm in 2022. Ms. McKenna has extensive experience managing financials and employment related benefits. She received her BA in Psychology/Education from Westfield State University and her MEd in Counseling Psychology from Northeastern University where she previously worked as a Cooperative Education Counselor assisting finance and other business students. Pam also has served as Treasurer for several condominium associations and worked for H&R Block preparing individual tax returns.
Janet Roberts
Trainer
Janet Roberts is one of the trainers for our BFLP workshops. With over 20 years of experience at Fidelity Investments, Janet has held various roles in learning, development, program management, and marketing. Her career includes experience in various industries, including manufacturing, retail, and higher education, where she has specialized in diagnosing organizational needs and delivering tailored development solutions to equip businesses with the skills and capabilities it needs in order to thrive. Janet holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Babson College and completed the one-year MBA program at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.