Six New Leaders Join Suffolk University Board

Danny Best

Danny Best is vice president, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he leads the development of the office’s strategic plans and inclusion programs.

Best oversees the Boston Fed’s supplier diversity program and supports the organization’s employee resource and diversity and inclusion-focused working groups. He works closely with Bank leadership and human resources to develop policies that support the Boston Fed’s workforce and culture. He also serves as the Bank’s Equal Employment Opportunity officer, Office of Minority and Women Inclusion director, and oversees all matters related to its annual report to Congress.

Prior to joining the Boston Fed in 2021, Best was the lead director for global diversity and inclusion at Dell Technologies, where he served as an advisor and business partner to global business leaders, helping them shape DEI strategies and drive execution of objectives. He led a team charged with finding ways to better attract, hire, develop, retain, promote, and engage historically under-represented talent.

Earlier in his career, Best spent more than two decades working in human resources, diversity and inclusion in the financial services, global pharmaceutical, and technology industries. He led and managed critical HR functions as senior director of human resources at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and as director of human resources at EMD Serono/Merck Serono. Best previously served in human resources roles at Tufts Health Plan and Fleet Financial Group/Bank of America.

Best holds an MBA from Northeastern University, where he also attended as an undergraduate, and holds certificates in social value creation and strategic human resources from Harvard Business School.

Best is involved in several community and public service initiatives, which include sitting on the boards of the Boston Private Industry Council and the Brimmer School of Chestnut Hill.

Patrick Coelho

Patrick Coelho, BSBA ’11, is a senior executive with a proven track record of leading high-performance teams at iconic restaurant companies. As head of international at Scooter’s Coffee, he is leading internationalization efforts for one of the fastest-growing specialty coffee chains. Coelho previously served as Scooter’s chief development officer, where he cultivated the chain’s rapid expansion, leading the US strategic growth plan and real estate efforts, including opening 158 new stores in 2022.

With more than a decade of experience in the business sector, Coelho specializes in providing strategic finance, growth leadership, and high-value solutions to maximize business results in organizations. Prior to joining Scooter’s Coffee, he served in leadership positions with Restaurant Brands International, one of the world’s largest quick-service restaurant companies, including as head of development for Burger King Americas and, prior to that, head of finance for Burger King US & Canada. He previously managed business functions for eight Latin American countries as director, Burger King, South & Central America.

Coelho is also a managing partner at Oliver’s & Planck’s Tavern in Yarmouth Port, Mass. He and his brother, Wanderson Coelho, who has been a chef there for 18 years, purchased the restaurant together in 2022.

Coelho received a Bachelor of Science in business administration, finance, and global business from Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School in 2011 and was president of the Collegiate Investors Association and a senator with the Student Government Association. In 2020, he completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. He has been a member of the Sawyer Business School Alumni Board since 2021, and served as chair of that board’s Advancement Committee. Coelho has served as a past mentor for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

Joseph Delisi

Joseph Delisi, BA ’04, JD ’10, a partner with the law firm Dunn and Dunn, concentrates his legal practice in the defense of healthcare professionals and facilities throughout the Northeast, representing hospitals, physicians, nurses, skilled nursing facilities, and other care providers.

Delisi was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in November 2010, and has successfully handled cases throughout Massachusetts District, Superior, Appellate, and Supreme Judicial courts and at the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Delisi is also admitted to practice in the State of Rhode Island, the US District Court of Rhode Island, and the US District Court of Massachusetts.

Delisi has been recognized in Boston Magazine as a Super Lawyers Rising Star for each year from 2015-2020. He has lectured medical students and practitioners at Harvard University Medical School, Brown University Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation and is also a member of both the Rhode Island and the Massachusetts Bar Associations.

A first-generation college graduate and double Ram, Delisi holds a BA from Suffolk University’s College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) and a JD from Suffolk University Law School. He is also a graduate of the Long-Term-Care Power Lawyer program. He was an academic all-conference varsity basketball player at Suffolk, a Law School Alumni Scholarship recipient, marshal for the 2016-2017 CAS commencement ceremonies, and a recipient of the Undergraduate Law Major Mary O’Keefe Outstanding Alumni Award. He served as president of the CAS Alumni Board from 2016-2018, and as an alumni trustee from 2019-2022. He is a member of the Summa Leadership Volunteer Committee, and has served on the Undergraduate Law Major Advisory Board since 2015.

Manny Lopes

Manny Lopes, HDHL ’22, is a transformational leader in healthcare and business who has devoted his career to developing innovative programs that improve healthcare quality, access, and equity.

Since 2021, Lopes has served as executive vice president of public markets and government relations for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the largest private health plan in Massachusetts and one of the largest independent, not-for-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in the country.

Previously, Lopes served as president and chief executive officer of East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, the largest community health center in Massachusetts and one of the largest in the US. Under his leadership, the health center increased its number of patients served by nearly 40 percent and added two new state-of-the-art facilities.

He is the co-founder of the Community Care Collaborative, the largest Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO) in Massachusetts governed exclusively by health centers, and co-founder of Advocates for Community Health, a national advocacy organization for innovative health centers focused on equity and impact.

Lopes has served on many healthcare and government boards and committees. He served on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts board of directors from 2017 until joining the company in his current role. He is the former chair of the Boston Public Health Commission where he helped lead Boston’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, through the pandemic he successfully led the No. 1 testing site in the state at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center.

For his efforts, Lopes was recognized at Governor Baker’s final State of the Commonwealth address and was Senator Warren’s special guest for President Biden’s first joint Address to Congress. Currently, he serves on the board for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Health Equity Compact, New Commonwealth Foundation, and the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Lopes has been featured in Boston Magazine’s List of 100 Most Influential Bostonians, Boston Business Journal’s Power 50: Boston’s 50 Most Influential People, and “Get Konnected,” Boston’s 50 Most Influential People in Healthcare. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Suffolk University in 2022. He received his MBA from Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.

Jane Mancini

Jane Mancini, BSJ ’81, is BNY Mellon’s global head of business development, Securities Services and Digital, leading business development globally for BNY Mellon’s largest segment, comprising its asset servicing, corporate trust, and depositary receipts businesses.

Under Mancini’s leadership, the business development team has evolved into a high-performing consultative team working with current and prospective clients—including many of the world’s largest asset managers, asset owners, insurers, banks, alternatives, and broker-dealers. She advises them on a range of solutions, from traditional custody to digital and data strategies to transform their operating models and improve their prospects for growth.

In a career spanning over 30 years, Mancini has held senior positions at large asset management firms and insurance companies, leading distribution and product development as well as running retail distribution channels such as broker-dealers and registered investment advisors. Just prior to joining BNY Mellon, she led the Global Client Solutions team for State Street Bank. She founded and led the bank’s CEO Leadership Series, working with C-suite executives to build lasting partnerships for the bank.

Mancini serves as the global co-chair for WIN, BNY Mellon’s global women’s employee resource group. She also serves on the boards of several organizations including Vestwell, a workplace retirement and savings platform company serving millions of American savers; Innocap, a proprietary technology company serving the complex and specialized managed accounts business, located in Montreal, Canada; Expect Miracles Organization, dedicated to providing life-saving cancer research while advancing the financial and emotional health of people impacted by cancer.

Mancini is a former trustee at Trinity Catholic Academy, Bishop Feehan High School, and former vice-chair and member of the Catholic Foundation Board.

In 2013, she was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the Insured Retirement Industry, for her dedication to improving the products and services focused on retirement savers.