Vicary M. Graham is chair of BNY Mellon New England and regional president for BNY Mellon Wealth Management in New England. In this role, she manages the investment management, wealth planning and private banking services for individuals, entrepreneurs, family business owners, endowments and foundations for offices in the region.

As chair, Vicary is focused on strengthening client relationships and the firm’s presence, given the size and complexity of businesses throughout the region.

As a Chair for Vistage International, Inc., Bev Halperin leads four peer groups of C-level executives.

Previously, Bev spent much of her career as a serial entrepreneur in a wide variety of industries. Bev has a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an MBA, both from Cornell University.

Lea Macchiaroli is a Vistage Chair and founder and president of trans-forme, LLC, a boutique advisory firm focused on performance improvement, strategy, executive coaching, organizational design and development, and change management.

Lea coaches individuals and works with companies on strategy, change leadership and operational alignment in retail, consumer goods distribution and manufacturing.

Smaiyra Million is director of strategic initiatives in the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Entrepreneurship at Babson College. Previously, Smaiyra spent 30 years as a successful operator of luxury hotels, spas and health clubs. As CEO of Millennium Partners Sports Club Management (Sports Club/LA and Reebok Sports Clubs), Smaiyra was named to the “Top 100 Women Led Businesses in Massachusetts” from 2011 to 2013. In 2014, she was inducted into the YW Academy of Women Achievers.

Earlier in her career, Smaiyra spent nearly a decade with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. She currently serves as an advisor to Highcourt, Brio Systems, as well as on the five-member personnel board for her hometown of Hingham, MA.

Michelle C. Haynes-Baratz, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and a faculty associate at the Center for Women and Work. For almost two decades, her research has focused on workplace diversity issues — with a particular interest in the obstacles women and people of color (POC) experience in the work domain — and strategies for overcoming them.

Cheryl Barbato co-founded Talent Retriever in 2004, on a mission to disrupt recruiting. Since then, hundreds of companies have benefited from Talent Retriever’s non-traditional approach to hiring and building amazing teams. On a day-to-day basis, Cheryl focuses on client service and delivery, ensuring the Talent Retriever team is running like a machine and clients are happy. Cheryl also works on expansion of Talent Retriever across the U.S.