Management Committee
Nancy Snyder: President / CEO
Susan Lange, Vice President, Youth Pathways
Rebekah Lashman, Senior Vice-President
Navjeet
Singh: Vice President, Research
and Evaluation
Hans
van der Lee: Vice President, Finance
and Administration
Nancy Snyder is the President / CEO of Commonwealth Corporation. Before joining CommCorp this past June, Nancy had worked at the Boston Private Industry Council for 12 years as Deputy Director for Workforce Development. Nancy also designed and implemented a numer of innovative programs while directing Jobs and Community Services for the City of Boston, Workforce Development for the Boston Department of Health and Hospitals, and 9 to 5, Boston's Organization for Working Women.
She has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Boston University and is a graduate of the Advanced Management program at the Harvard Business School.
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Susan Lange is the Vice President of the Youth Pathways division at Commonwealth Corporation. For the last ten years, Susan was the Deputy Director of Youth Opportunity (YO) Boston, a workforce development program for adjudicated youth. While there, she developed YO’s Transitional Employment Program which was recognized as a Best Practices model by the US Department of Labor.
Susan has more than 20 years experience as a teacher, curriculum developer, and program administrator in programs that provide services to disconnected youth. Susan is a member of the National Transitional Jobs Network, the Communities Connecting Resources for Youth (CCRY) Network under the Center for Law and Social Policy and was a member of Boston Mayor Menino’s Strategic Crime Council.
She holds a Master’s degree in Education from UMass at Boston.
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Navjeet
Singh joined
Commonwealth Corporation in 2003 and is Vice President
for Research and Evaluation. He leads a team
that determines the effectiveness of education and
workforce development programs and conducts research
on labor market information trends in Massachusetts.
Navjeet enjoys exploring the crossroads of labor market
research and strategy development, and has been the
force behind the Skills Gap research project on the
availability of skills commensurate with the needs
of employers and the implications of the baby boom
generation retiring. Navjeet manages the various
evaluation projects associated with the Extended Care
Career Ladder Initiative (ECCLI), a sectoral project
for direct-care workers at nursing homes and home
care agencies.
Experienced
in economic and business research, Navjeet worked
in operations and strategy development at Bell Labs
and Lucent Technologies before coming to Commonwealth
Corporation. Navjeet has an MS in Science and Technology
Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic, an MBA from the
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a BS
from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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Hans
van der Lee joined Commonwealth Corporation
in 1995 and, as Vice President for Finance and Administration,
is responsible for all aspects of the financial and
information technology infrastructure and management
at Commonwealth Corporation. Critical functions
include maintaining the financial integrity of the
corporation, financial support of all programs, and
ensuring the effectiveness and integrity of the IT
network.
Originally
a native of the Netherlands but residing in the United
States since 1971, Hans developed extensive experience
as a cost accountant in financial and logistical
management of manufacturing in Massachusetts and Asia.
Some of the basic principles utilized in this process,
such as budgeting, cost management, and variance accounting,
have been successfully applied to Commonwealth Corporation
to facilitate fiscal management and reporting.
Hans
has lived and worked in several countries
and has worked in United States, European, Japanese,
and Thai corporations. He was educated in the
arts and business and as such brings a diverse cultural
background, which helps to address corporate challenges.
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