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2008 Speakers

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  • Melissa Abbott

    Senior Trendspotter and Analyst

    The Hartman Group, Inc.

  • Alexis Abramson

    Vice President of Research, “Lifestyle Gerontologist”

    Retirement Living TV

  • Gretchen Addi

    Location Lead

    IDEO

  • Jess Aguirre

    Senior Vice President, Research

    Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel

  • Majd Alwan

    Director

    Center for Aging Services Technologies

  • June Amori

    Vice President, Strategy and Marketing Communications

    Prudential Annuities

  • Corinne Asturias

    Boomers Consumer Strategist

    Iconoculture

  • Bill Bass

    Co-Founder and CEO

    Fair Indigo

  • Graceann Bennett

    Managing Partner, Director of Strategic Planning

    Ogilvy Chicago

  • Andrew Bienkowski

    Vice-President of Global Brands

    Kimberly-Clark

  • Lori Bitter

    President

    JWT Boom

  • Jonathan Boehman

    Creative Director & Partner

    Immersion Active

  • Jim Bremer

    Vice President, Futures Team

    Hasbro Games

  • Geoff Brooks

    National Director of Premier & Retirement Strategy, Senior Vice President

    HSBC Bank USA

  • Linda Caliri

    Vice President, Marketing

    AARP Financial

  • Mike Caprio

    VP of Sales, New Business Development

    Visible World

  • Chiqui Cartagena

    Managing Director, Integrated Marketing

    Meredith Hispanic Ventures

  • Terry Clark

    Chief Marketing Officer – Enterprise Services for Ovations

    UnitedHealth Group

  • Kit Cody

    General Manager Web Strategy

    AARP Services Inc.

  • Andy Cohen

    Co-Founder and CEO

    Caring.com

  • Arthur Cresce

    Housing and Household Economic and Statistics Division

    Census Bureau

  • Kierstin DeWest

    CEO, Co-Founder

    Ci

  • Mark Dolliver

    Editor at Large

    Ad Week

  • Matthew J. Doyle

    Director and Senior Researcher, Research & Development, Health Care Products – Worldwide

    The Procter & Gamble Company

  • Peter Drake

    Vice-President, Retirement & Economic Research

    Fidelity Investments Canada

  • Richard Dugas

    CEO

    Pulte Homes, Inc.

  • John Forsyth

    Partner

    McKinsey & Company

  • Nan-Kirsten Forte

    Executive Vice President, Consumer Services

    Web MD

  • Jeffrey Glueck

    Chief Marketing Officer

    Travelocity

  • Kelly Greene

    Staff Reporter

    The Wall Street Journal

  • Arlene Harris

    Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Strategy Officer

    GreatCall

  • Michael J. Hewitt

    Exercise Physiologist

    Canyon Ranch

  • Nigel Hollis

    Chief Global Analyst

    Millward Brown

Stephen Roop photo

Stephen Roop

President

Beacon Hill Village

Stephen Roop is the fourth president of Beacon Hill Village.  He joined its program committee in 2001, and its board in 2003, became vice president and a member of the management committee in 2004, and Beacon Hill Village’s fourth president in October, 2006.  He was elected to a second term as president in October, 2007.

Mr. Roop worked in the second administration (1983-1990) of Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis, holding several senior positions in the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Economic Affairs and then its Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, ultimately as Assistant Secretary of Environmental Affairs for Waste Management Policy, 1985-1990.  In 1990 he became vice president of a newly-created environmental strategy and management firm, Rackemann Environmental Services (RES), now Rackemann Strategic Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Boston-based law firm Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster.

Roop retired from full-time employment in 1996 and began to devote more of his time to various local and national not-for-profit organizations.  He served until 2002 as president of the Massachusetts chapter of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) and on that organization’s national board and national executive committee.  He was until 2002 a trustee as well of ADA’s John Kenneth Galbraith Education Fund.  Locally, he has been a trustee and executive committee member of The Public Theater, a summer theater and theater education initiative; Music at Eden’s Edge, a chamber music group serving Boston’s North Shore; and the Boston Chamber Music Society.  He is currently on the board of directors and the executive committee of The Huntington Theatre and on the New England Advisory Committee of Parks for People, an initiative of The Trust for Public Lands.

Roop was educated at Boston College (A.B. magna cum laude, 1971), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  He holds an A.M. in Government from Harvard.