investment committee

Amy Kingman Consulting

Amy has over 15 years of experience in the philanthropy and nonprofit sector, specifically in grantmaking, fundraising, marketing, nonprofit management, and strategic planning. As a consultant and advisor, Amy works with family foundations, corporate foundations, and individual philanthropists on their giving strategies. She has extensive experience supporting foundations with their NextGen engagement strategy, launching new corporate foundations, and refining and evaluating grantmaking for individual and family foundations.

Before launching her own consulting firm in 2020, Amy spent four years as the chief executive for two private family foundations started by Doris Buffett: The Learning by Giving Foundation and the Letters Foundation. At Learning by Giving, Amy oversaw a coalition of 40 colleges and universities teaching accredited courses in experiential philanthropy and effective volunteerism to 1,000 students annually. At Letters Foundation, she managed over $10 million in grants to individuals and families experiencing financial crisis and helped launch the country’s first private funding resource for homeless residents in need of qualified sober living. In 2018, Amy was honored as one of Boston’s ‘40 under 40’ for expanding Doris’ philanthropy.

Prior to her philanthropic work, Amy held several positions in various small nonprofit organizations focused on youth development and mentorship, including Breakthrough Greater Boston, Strong Women, Strong Girls and Mass Mentoring Partnership. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Wellspring House and, before being elected to the ECCF Board in 2021, was a member of the foundation’s County Leadership Council.

Amy holds a Master’s in Social Work with a concentration in nonprofit management from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor’s degree in social work from Skidmore College. She lives in Manchester-by-the-Sea with her husband and daughter.

David Henry, CFA®, is a 40-year investment professional experienced in all facets of the investment business; he advises Individuals, Foundations & Endowments, and Institutional Pension Plans.  For the past 25 years, David has worked elusively with Private Clients.  Before his current role as a Financial Advisor with Baystate Financial, he served as the CIO for the Family Office of the late Richard Egan; he led the Private Wealth Practice for the Wellesley Group; and he was a Sales and Relationship Manager for P/E Investments.  David chairs the Investment Committee for Northeast ARC.  He also serves on both Essex County Community Foundation and Montserrat College of Art Investment Committees.  David was formerly the Treasurer of Historic Salem, Inc.   David holds an MBA from the University of Houston, a BBA from the University of Cincinnati.  He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and maintains Series 7 & 66 licenses.

Wellington Management Company, LLP (retired)

Jon graduated from Yale University in 1979 with a BA in Economics and Political Science. After eight years at a private investment firm in New York City, Jon joined Wellington Management Company, LLP in Boston in 1987, becoming a Senior Vice President and Partner in 1995. Jon served in a variety of management roles there, retiring as President and Chair of the Board of the firm’s national trust bank subsidiary. A former Marine Corps Reserve officer and Gulf War veteran, Jon serves on the non-profit boards of Root in Salem and Endicott College in Beverly and is a former chair and member of ECCF’s Board of Trustees.

Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager

Aimee B. Forsythe is senior vice president and senior portfolio manager at Cambridge Trust.

A Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder since 2000, Aimee joined Cambridge Trust in 2004. She worked previously at Hancock Bank in both Louisiana and Mississippi, and prior to that served in the Peace Corps in the Republic of Mali.

Aimee is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society Boston, Inc., where she serves on the Sustainability Committee. She is also chair of the Cambridge Trust Sustainability Committee and a member of the finance committee for the Town of Wakefield.

Aimee graduated with a B.A. from Hanover College in 1992.

Senior Investment Risk Manager

Luis Roman is an accomplished senior investment Risk Manager, skilled in quantitative investment risk, regulatory risk oversight, stress testing, and monitoring of global portfolios across multiple strategies. He specializes in leading firm-wide initiatives to implement risk management frameworks, including quantitative tools for measuring,
analyzing, monitoring, and reporting of Equity, Fixed Income, Multi-Asset, and Alternative portfolios. With a focus on quantitative risk (VaR, volatility, marginal contribution to risk) and using multi-factor and statistical risk models, Luis has spearheaded the development of investment risk processes, stress test platforms and enabled monitoring and proactive risk identification.

CEO of Renders, McVeigh Capital Management

Chat Reynders is a strategic business leader with more than 30 years of experience in investment management and social venture investment work.

Chat is the chairman and CEO of Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, an industry-recognized, full-service sustainable investing and wealth management firm focused on creating tailored portfolios with a core of socially progressive investments.

In addition to his leadership in the traditional investment management world, Chat has structured and funded public-private partnerships that have directed more than $150 million in revenue to leading cultural institutions around the world. As founder and president of Highwood Productions, he has, for decades, teamed up to produce conservation-based IMAX films, including the Academy Award-nominated film, Dolphins. Early in his career, Chat served as executive director of The Whale Conservation Institute, one of the nation’s leading independent cetacean research centers.

Chat’s focus on the environment and climate change led him to his current volunteer role as a director on the board of the MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation, an organization committed to leveraging the power of film, television and grassroots education to increase awareness of the delicate state of our oceans and environment. Chat, a board leader with extensive fundraising experience, previously served as the president of the board of governors for Westminster Kennel Club and, from 2012-2019, he served on the board of trustees at Brookwood School in Manchester, where he was the chair from 2016-2019.

A longtime partner of ECCF, Chat was a member of the foundation’s County Leadership Council for three years and serves on ECCF’s impact investing working group and is an ad hoc member of ECCF’s investment committee. Chat graduated from Princeton University with a degree in history and lives in Hamilton with his wife and young adult children. He joined the ECCF board in 2024.