Kenneth R. Feinberg is one of the nation's leading experts in mediation and alternative dispute resolution. He served as special master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 and has played a major role in mediating other compensation disputes. Feinberg founded the Washington, D.C., law firm of The Feinberg Group, LLP.  He created the Feinberg Professorship in History at UMass, the first endowed professorship in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts as well as the Feinberg Fund for Excellence in History, which supports faculty salaries, lectures, and research. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from UMass Amherst in 1967 and a law degree from New York University.  He was awarded an honorary degree from UMass Amherst in 2002.  Feinberg lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Grace K. Fey is an executive vice president and director of Frontier Capital
Management Company, a Boston-based investment management firm. She is a former chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Massachusetts and former member of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.  Fey serves on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations in the New England area. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland and a holds the CFA designation. Fey lives in Boston.

Maureen Flanagan is founder of Express Design and Renovation LLC, a company she created after holding several executive positions at American high tech companies. She created an endowment at UMass Amherst that supports students with financial need.  In 2005 she was the Eleanor Bateman Alumni Scholar in Residence at UMass Amherst. Flanagan received a bachelor's degree in English from UMass Amherst in 1966 and master's and doctorate degrees in English from the University of Wisconsin. She also received a master’s degree in public administration and management from The George Washington University. Flanagan lives in Washington, D.C.

David Fubini is a partner and managing director in the Boston office of McKinsey & Company, a global business consulting firm.  He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst. Fubini received a bachelor’s degree in marketing from UMass Amherst in 1976 and a master’s in business administration from Harvard. He lives in Brookline, Mass.

Beth C. Gamel is co-founder and executive vice president of Pillar Financial Advisors, a Waltham, Massachusetts wealth management firm. She coordinates her clients’ sophisticated investment, estate, income tax, and charitable giving plans and has been named by Worth Magazine as one of the nation’s top financial advisers for seven consecutive years and twice recognized as a “Name to Know in Financial Planning” by Accounting Today.  Gamel received her bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina and her M.B.A. from the Isenberg School of Management. She is a member of The Boston Foundation’s Professional Advisors Committee, the AICPA National CPA Financial Literacy Commission, and the Isenberg School’s Business Advisory Council.