Management Committee
Nancy Snyder: President & CEO
Rebekah Lashman: Senior Vice President
Susan Lange, Vice President, Youth Pathways
Betsy McIntyre, Vice President, Development and Communications
Navjeet
Singh: Vice President, Applied Research
and Evaluation
Hans
van der Lee: Vice President, Finance
and Administration
Nancy Snyder has been President and CEO of Commonwealth Corporation since June of 2007. Prior to that, Nancy served as Deputy Director at the Boston Private Industry Council from 1995-2007. Between 1984 and 1995, she held leadership positions in Boston city government, including Staff Director to former Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, Deputy Assistant Commissioner at the Department of Health & Hospitals, and Director of Jobs and Community Services for the City of Boston. Nancy worked for 9to5 Organization for Working Women from 1979-1984. She earned an MBA from Boston University in 1994 and a Certificate from the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School in 1988.
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Rebekah Lashman is Senior Vice President of the Commonwealth Corporation. She leads the Corporation’s applied research, evaluation and regional and sector strategies teams, building upward mobility pathways in partnership with regional and state partners to prepare Massachusetts residents for the Commonwealth’s critical vacancies. Previously, Rebekah served as Manager of Workforce Partnerships for the Boston Private Industry Council, as a national workforce development consultant at Jobs for the Future and as a program development specialist for Massachusetts’ Department of Employment and Training. Rebekah received her MBA from Simmons College Graduate School of Management.
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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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Betsy McIntyre is the Vice President for Development and Communications. Prior to coming to Commonwealth Corporation in 2007, Betsy wore several hats as Deputy Director of a Regional Employment Board (REB). Her work in the field included implementing a Young Adult Employment Initiative that developed neighborhood-based career centers for teens and specialized training for youth to ensure proper preparation for 21st Century jobs in that region. Betsy was also Chief Financial Officer for the REB and as such ensured compliance with all laws and regulations governing the financial oversight of government and private funds and monitored organizational risks.
Prior to workforce development, Betsy was Director of Corporate Marketing and Communications at a regional hospital, worked as Chief of Staff in a mayor's office, published a magazine and owned a marketing company. Her college career spanned two continents and was focused on studies in writing, editing, publishing and management.
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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