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Board of Directors
Stanley J. Lukowski, Chairman
Stanley J. Lukowski was elected Chairman of MHP's board of directors in December 2003 and had previously served as Vice Chairman since 2000.
He is Chairman Emeritus at Eastern Bank Corporation where he had been CEO from 1976 until his retirement in 2006. From 1968 to 1976 he was a vice president in corporate finance at Kidder, Peabody & Co.
Mr. Lukowski has been active in many public and private organizations. He is chairman of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation and a longtime trustee of Partners HealthCare Systems Partners Community HealthCare and North Shore Medical Center. He is also on the executive committee of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
His previous affiliations include the Massachusetts Bankers Association, the Salem YMCA and the Lynn Business Partnership.
Mr. Lukowski received a bachelor of science degree in economics from Villanova and his masters in business administration from Columbia.
Mr. Lukowski has been active in many public and private organizations. He has been a trustee for Partners HealthCare Systems since 1996, a trustee for Partners Community HealthCare since 1997, a trustee at North Shore Medical Center since 1977 and has been the director of the Boston Chamber of Commerce since 2001, and is the chair of its affordable housing task force.
His previous affiliations include the Massachusetts Bankers Association, the North Shore Medical Center, the Salem YMCA and the Lynn Business Partnership.
Mr. Lukowski received a bachelor of science degree in economics from Villanova and received his masters in business administration from Columbia.
Vincent C. Manzi, Vice Chairman
Vin Manzi was originally appointed to the MHP Advisory Board in 1985 and has been a board member since 1990. He was named vice chair in December, 2003.
Mr. Manzi joined his father in the practice of law in 1974 and formed the firm of Manzi and McCann in 1980. His area of practice is primarily in the area of real estate development and corporate representation.
He is presently serving on numerous community organizations including the Merrimack Valley Economic Development Council as treasurer and director, the Greater Lawrence Community Boating Program and director of the SRO Board of the Merrimack Valley YMCA.
His former affiliations include director of Central Catholic High School, Trustee of the Lawrence General Hospital and director of the Lawyers Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing.
Mr. Manzi graduated from Villanova in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts and Political Science and received his Juris Doctor from Suffolk University in 1974.
Richard C. Lawton, Secretary/Treasurer
Richard Lawton has been an MHP board member since 2000. He was the President and CEO of the Webster Five Cents Savings Bank from 1995 until his retirement in 2006. He was at the Webster Five since 1980. Prior to that, he worked at Peoples Bank in Worcester for nine years. He is a graduate of Central New England College and the graduate schools of banking at both Brown University and Fairfield University. He is a Vietnam veteran.
Tina Brooks, Board Member
Tina Brooks serves in the Patrick administration as the Commonwealth's undersecretary for housing and community development within the Office of Housing and Economic Development.
Ms. Brooks has 15 years experience in affordable housing finance and development. Her career began as a landscape architect with the Pittsburgh firm Environmental Planning and Design where she developed site and land plans for various community planning projects. She earned her MS in Real Estate Development in 1989 at MIT's Center for Real Estate.
Following graduate school, Ms. Brooks was a development consultant with Greater Boston Community Development, now known as The Community Builders. She moved with TCB to Philadelphia and assisted community based non profit developers in financing and completing affordable housing developments. She subsequently joined one of them as Director of Real Estate Development.
In 1994, Ms. Brooks became the Program Director for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation's Philadelphia program. For more than six years she successfully introduced a series of housing and other neighborhood revitalization initiatives in Philadelphia which relied on effective collaboration with local government and the corporate and foundation community on behalf of neighborhood interests.
Ms. Brooks joined GMAC Mortgage in 2001 as Vice President for Emerging Markets where she developed Employer Assisted Housing programs and affinity marketing relationships. Following GMAC's acquisition of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit syndicator Paramount Financial Group, she moved to Paramount as Vice President of Development Facilitation. She assisted developer-clients in the financial structuring of affordable multifamily projects in Texas, Virginia and New York.
Glen M. Shor, Board Member
Glen Shor is the Director of Policy and Planning in the state’s Executive Office for Administration and Finance (A&F). He serves on the MHP board as the designee for A&F Secretary Leslie A. Kirwan.
Prior to serving in the Executive Office for A&F, Mr. Shor was Senior Policy Counsel for the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts. He also has served as Associate Counsel for the Campaign Legal Center and as the Legislative Director for U.S. Representative Marty Meehan.
Mr. Shor graduated from Harvard Law School and also has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University.
Nicolas P. Retsinas, Board Member
Nicolas P. Retsinas was named to the MHP board of directors in 2004. Since 1998, he has been director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. The center conducts research to examine the most critical housing community issues in America. He is also a lecturer at the Harvard Design School and at the Kennedy School of Government.
Prior to Harvard, he was Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. President Clinton also appointed him Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision. He has also served on the boards of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing Finance Board and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation.
Christopher Oddleifson, Board Member
Christopher Oddleifson is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Rockland Trust Company and its parent, Independent Bank Corp. Rockland Trust has $3 billion in assets, $715 million in assets under management and 66 retail branches and offices located throughout Southeastern Massachusetts.
Mr. Oddleifson serves on the Board of Directors of both the Massachusetts Bankers Association and the Consumer Bankers Association, and he is a Trustee of the South Shore Hospital Health and Education Foundation, a Trustee of the Cape Cod Community College, a member of the Executive Committee of the Old Colony Council's Boy Scouts of America and Honorary Campaign Chairman of the United Way of Greater Plymouth County's Leadership Giving Campaign.
He is the former President of First Union Home Equity Bank, a national bank subsidiary of First Union Corporation (now Wachovia). Until its acquisition by First Union, Mr. Oddleifson was the Executive Vice President, responsible for Consumer Banking, for Signet Bank in Richmond, VA.
He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
