Our Advisory Board
Andrew R. Gold
Andrew Gold formerly the Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Pitney Bowes Inc. Andrew has been involved in work across the business that has been recognized by various groups and has been a champion on HR transformation, talent development, diversity, and employee health.
Formerly VP, Global Talent Management and HR Technology, Andrew led a variety of areas across the talent, rewards and HR technology. Andrew spearheaded the launch of the global Workday HR system in 2021 while leading our Talent, HR analytics and technology teams. In prior roles, he oversaw the company’s executive compensation, long‐term incentive programs, compensation governance and benefit offerings, including medical, dental, prescription drug coverage, 401k, pension plan, and various voluntary benefits. He served as the HR business partner for various functions and groups over his tenure at PB.
Andrew joined Pitney Bowes in 1994 as the Director, Human Resources Counsel for Pitney Bowes and provided legal advice and oversaw litigation on all aspects of labor and employee relations in the United States and Canada.
Prior to joining Pitney Bowes, Andrew worked in the employment law departments of Whitman Breed Abbott and Proskauer Rose in New York City. He received a J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law and a B.S degree in economics from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. He is a board member at Metropool, Inc., Junior Achievement of Greater Fairfield County and an HR advisor for the Children’s Learning Centers of Fairfield County (CLC).
Carolyn Barth Renzin
Carolyn is the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer of FanDuel Group. In that role, Carolyn oversees legal, risk, regulatory engagement, compliance and responsible gaming for the company. Her team ensures that FanDuel Group is the industry leader for customer safety, security and compliance. Prior to taking on the Chief Legal Officer role, Carolyn served as FanDuel’s Chief Risk and Compliance Officer.
Before joining FanDuel, Carolyn was an Assistant General Counsel at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., where she worked as a regulatory litigator after the financial crisis and in the Office of the General Counsel building out the bank’s legal function. Carolyn joined JPMC from compliance consulting and investigations firm Guidepost Solutions, where she worked with companies under regulatory scrutiny to enhance their compliance functions. Before Guidepost, Carolyn was a partner at the boutique law firm Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman, where her practice focused on litigation and regulatory enforcement. She began her career as a law clerk to the Hon. Ronald M. Gould on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then as a litigation associate at Simpson Thacher and Bartlett.
Carolyn holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a J.D. magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from the University of Michigan Law School, where she served as an editor of the Michigan Law Review.
Originally from New England but married to a New Yorker, Carolyn jokes that she cannot share her sports team affiliations at the dinner table!
Matthew J. Barrett
Matthew J. Barrett, retired in 2022 after thirty-two years on the faculty at Notre Dame Law School, where he taught business-related courses including Accounting for Lawyers, Business Associations, Business Basics for Attorneys, Business Planning, Federal Income Taxation, and Not-for-Profit Organizations. In 2001, the graduating class selected Matt as the Law School’s Distinguished Teacher.
To join the legal academy, Matt successfully transitioned from a position as an associate in the tax group at Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease. Previously, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Cornelia G. Kennedy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Matt earned a B.B.A. in accountancy from the University of Notre Dame in 1982 and a J.D. from Notre Dame Law School in 1985, both summa cum laude. He remains a member of the Ohio Bar and an Ohio CPA (inactive).
In 1997, Matt became a co-author of the law school texts, Accounting for Lawyers, whose roots trace back to the first casebook on accounting for law students. Four editions later, his texts have been adopted for classroom use at more than 120 different law schools.
Matt met his wife on a blind date. They have three sons, one daughter, and one daughter-in-law.
Betsey Corey
Betsey Corey is the University Relations, Talent Engagement Manager at ASML.
Prior to joining ASML, Betsey served as Director, Strategic Talent Programs & Partnerships for WeightWatchers.
She is responsible for building and managing internal technology-based curriculums that provide engineers and technology leaders with technical and professional learning opportunities to advance their skills. This includes internal mobility, cross-collaboration, and streamlining the onboarding process within the technology organization.
Betsey is also responsible for managing strategic external partnerships focusing on pipeline development for top engineering talent across unrepresented groups. Betsey brings over 8 years of experience in building and implementing strategic talent acquisition strategies.
Prior to joining WeightWatchers in 2018, Betsey was Assurance Campus Business Recruiting Manager at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) where she led recruitment and staffing forecast within the New York Metro market for the firm.
The catalyst to Betsey’s role as a leader, was during her time at HARMAN, A Samsung Company, planning and executing domestic campus hiring across engineering in conjunction with global full-time rotational development programs. During Betsey’s time at HARMAN, she was recognized for driving data analytics, establishing a tiered matrix assessment, and delivering overall effectiveness.
Ms. Corey originally launched her career in the talent acquisition space when she worked in internal recruitment at Louis Dreyfus Commodities and agency recruitment across the NYC market.
Betsey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications with a double concentration in Public Relations and Advertising from Liberty University.
When Betsy is not working, she is an avid traveler, and most enjoys summer jeep rides along the Connecticut coastline.
Katie Creedon
Katie Creedon is a results-driven leader with nearly two decades of legal industry experience. As Chief Strategic Projects Officer, Katie works closely with the firm’s Executive Committee, Board Members, Practice Group Leaders, Committee Chairs, and other Chief Officers to create, enhance, and execute strategic initiatives throughout the firm. Katie’s experience extends from being a practicing attorney, to leading all aspects of human resources and legal talent management.
Previously as Chief Talent & Inclusion Officer at both Wolf Greenfield and Fish & Richardson, Katie led a team of dedicated professionals to drive employee engagement and shape the direction of the firm’s people strategy. She oversaw all aspects of human resources, performance management, diversity and inclusion (D&I), recruiting, and training in order to help the firm attract, develop, and retain top talent at all levels.
Katie has served on the firm’s Strategic Planning Committee and worked to develop and implement its D&I and leadership development efforts. She is also a past member of the firm’s hiring and training committees. She created the firm’s legal professional development function, centralizing resources in the areas of training, performance management, and workload allocation.
Katie began her career in London as an attorney in the US Corporate Group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, an Am Law Global 20 law firm, where she worked on a wide variety of international capital markets transactions. Later, as a member of the Private Investment Funds Group at Proskauer, an Am Law 50 law firm, she represented investment managers and institutional investors in connection with the formation, administration, and purchase of interests in private equity, buyout, and hedge funds.
Daniel Bond
Daniel is a Managing Director at Litica.
Prior to joining Litica, Daniel was at DUAL as well as the Managing Director and Global Head of Underwriting for a litigation finance firm.
Before leaving private practice, Daniel was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP focusing on commercial and intellectual property litigation.
Michael Genovese, M.D., J.D.
Dr. Michael Genovese is the former Chief Medical Officer of Acadia Healthcare and has leadership responsibilities for all aspects of clinical operations. He oversaw the enterprise-wide medical affairs providing leadership, management and strategic vision for these efforts across all clinical service lines. The core objective is to improve the health outcomes and wellbeing of Acadia’s patients while also developing and strengthening the company’s care delivery capabilities.
Prior to his role of Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Genovese joined Acadia in 2014 as the Medical Director at the Sierra Tucson facility. In this role he was responsible for managing the medical department including psychiatrists, physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners as well as overseeing the integrative care team. In addition, Dr. Genovese was responsible for ensuring consistent, high-quality patient care through the optimization of internal processes to help increase provider face-time with patients.
Before joining Acadia, Dr. Genovese co-founded the multidisciplinary medical practice Long Island Mind and Body while practicing as an attending physician at NYU/Winthrop University Hospital. He was previously a fellow at the NYU/North Shore University Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program and conducted his psychiatry residency training at the University of Connecticut.
Dr. Genovese is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona and currently serves on the CMO Corporate Council of the Joint Commission and as an advisor to the FBI National Academy Associates.
Before beginning his medical studies, Dr. Genovese earned a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is a member of the New York Bar and the American Bar Association and is an advocate for attorneys and first responders seeking treatment for addiction and co-occurring disorders. Dr. Genovese is also affiliated with several boards and is a fellow of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a member of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Michael P. Votto
Michael Votto is an attorney, angel investor and entrepreneur from New Haven County, Connecticut. Mike is currently the CEO of Votto Vines Importing, the first wine importing company ever to be named by Forbes as one of America’s Most Promising Companies and to earn a place on the Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing companies in America.
As Chief Executive Officer of Votto Vines, Mike is responsible for the strategic direction of the family business that he co-founded in 2009. In fifteen years of leading Votto Vines, Mike has grown the business to annual sales of greater than $50M and built a team of 30 employees in five states. Votto Vines has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine as One of the Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America and nominated by leading wine and spirits industry publication, Wine Enthusiast, as “Importer of the Year”. Additionally, Mike has overseen three rounds of equity fundraising and closed two strategic acquisitions.
Prior to transitioning to a full-time role at Votto Vines, Mike spent more than ten years practicing commercial real estate and corporate law at two American Lawyer Top 100 law firms, Goodwin Procter in Boston and Schulte Roth & Zabel in New York City, and later served as Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of an asset management firm with greater than $30B in assets under management.
Mike earned a bachelor’s degree cum laude in European History at Union College where he was a member of the varsity basketball team. Mike also studied abroad in Florence, Italy during his undergraduate studies. He earned a law degree magna cum laude from Syracuse University, which he attended on a full scholarship as a graduate assistant for the Syracuse football program. Mike also previously enrolled at Columbia Business School in its Venture Capital and Private Equity Program.
Mike is admitted to the bar of the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is an Authorized House Counsel in the State of Connecticut. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Italy and is a published author in the fields of Italian citizenship and genealogy and commercial real estate finance. He is a frequent lecturer and panelist at both investment and wine industry conferences.
Mike also works with several technology companies as an advisor and angel investor, including TruePic, a San Diego-based digital image and video authentication company that closed a Series B venture capital round led by Microsoft and Adobe. Mike’s advisory and board experience includes Dash Software (Fintech/NYC/sold to Reserve), Better Rhodes (E-commerce/CT), Centro Sportivo Cavalieri (Sports & Recreation/Rome) and KofC Polska (Non-profit/Poland).
In 2013, Mike was selected as one of Connecticut Magazine’s prestigious 40 under 40 business leaders and in 2014 was nominated for the Wine Enthusiast Wine Star Awards as “Innovator/Executive of the Year”. Mike has been featured as part of Forbes coverage of America’s Most Promising Companies and was profiled in Michael Caldwell’s book “The Corporate Wizards”. In 2015, he was selected by Lawyers Weekly as one of the leading in-house attorneys in New England and in 2016 he was named one of the top middle-market CEOs in America by Axial. In 2019, Mike was a semi-finalist for the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Mike currently resides in Connecticut with his wife, Amanda, and children, Michael Jr. and Olivia. He is an active parish member of St. Bridget Church and a youth football, basketball and softball coach. Please visit www.michaelvotto.com to learn more.
