Trustees Biographies

Maura Webster is the Founder, CEO, & Chief Strategist at LillaBlu Strategies, a boutique marketing company focused on real meaningful marketing. Her background includes account management for a private PR firm, non-profit communications, government, and managing the marketing team of a growing software company through rebranding and new product launches to acquisition. This path led Maura to launch LillaBlu in an effort to bring authenticity back to marketing, and empower entrepreneurs and small business owners to engage with their audiences by being “real."

Because of these experiences and more, Maura brings an authentic, creative, strategic, and people-centered approach to marketing for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and growing companies who want to make a difference. Her approach is one that combines consulting and implementation with coaching and mentorship so that all entrepreneurs have the knowledge, skills, and ability to grow their business and manage the marketing team and assets that will enable them to succeed.

When not engaging in fun brainstorming sessions with her clients or being all "social", Maura can be found teaching Public Relations with a marketing spin at Framingham State University, marketing courses at Clark University, traveling (not often enough), running, cooking, or sitting by the ocean. That is when she's not keeping up with her two daughters, and Larry the black lab!

Darren Rose is an entrepreneur, strategic leader, and passionate advocate for and lifelong supporter of
education. In 1998, Darren founded Rose & Tuck, a higher education consultancy providing strategy,
governance, operations, and technical consulting services to colleges and universities. Today, Darren
continues this work as a Senior Director for CampusWorks.
In addition to his volunteer work for AMSA, Darren served from 2000-2025 as a member of the Board of
Trustees of his alma mater, the University of Redlands, where his leadership included chairing the
Finance Committee, the Investment Committee, a Board Efficacy Task Force, the Executive Evaluation
and Compensation Committee; and culminated as Vice Chair of the Board.
Aside from his professional and volunteer pursuits, Darren is a sailor, plays tennis and golf, and is a
(reasonably) accomplished chef.
Of all his roles, Darren is most proud of being a dad to Amy and Jack, both of whom attended AMSA,
and a husband to Bridget, whom he met later (but not too late!), in life.

Jim Carter is a retired vice president and valuation actuary of Tufts Health Plan following a career in the health actuarial field.  During his career he held various actuarial and financial roles at regional and national health plans and at a large multi-specialty physician practice.  He has extensive experience in liability valuation, risk analysis to support strategic decisions, and financial planning and reporting.  Jim holds a BS in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Jim enjoys sports, traveling, historical novels and spending time with his wife and their two daughters, both of whom are AMSA graduates.

Bela Gorman has over 30 years of experience as a health care actuary. Bela founded Gorman Actuarial in 2006, a boutique actuarial consulting firm that provides strategic solutions to their clients supported by analytics and mathematical modeling. Over the years, Bela's focus has been assisting state governments on health care policy solutions.  In 2023, Gorman Actuarial was acquired by a larger consulting firm.  Bela is now semi-retired.  Bela holds a BA in Economics and Math from Boston University and is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries.  She and her family have lived in Marlborough for over 20 Years.

Evan Przyborowski currently works as an Application Security Engineer at Unity Technologies. His work includes improving both application and infrastructure security to protect against modern cyber threats. He has experience in vulnerability analysis, systems hardening, and cyber risk management. Evan also works as a cybersecurity contractor for an enterprise risk management organization that focuses on working with companies to help bolster their cybersecurity maturity in an ever-changing world of technology.

In 2020, Evan graduated with honors from Roger Williams University with a BS in Cybersecurity & Networking. He also holds multiple security certifications including the Comptia Security+ and Palo Alto Networks Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE). Evan is also an AMSA alumni, having attended the school for years before graduating in 2016. His experience with being a former AMSA student provides a unique perspective as he will look to better the environment that allowed him to jumpstart a successful early career in security and technology.

Evan's interests include various camping and hiking trips across New England year-round, as well as off-road excursions to explore and maintain OHRV trails in New Hampshire. When relaxing from the great outdoors, Evan enjoys spending time with friends and family playing various tabletop games and venturing out to try new foods, and recreating them in the kitchen.

Stephan Richter is an experienced innovation and technology leader with nearly 30 years of
commercial experience. Currently, Stephan is an SVP of Technology at Fidelity after he sold his
company, Shoobx, to the firm in 2023. Prior to Shoobx, he developed sophisticated applications
in multiple startups spanning 4 industries, creating 10 patents in the process. Stephan started
his career consulting internationally for a decade paying his way through college. For many
years, Stephan was heavily involved in Open Source software by developing the application
server Zope. He is still the maintainer of over 300 Python packages with some being deployed
in nearly all servers and end user computers on the planet. This work also resulted in multiple
magazine articles and the publishing of 3 books. Stephan also has a strong passion for
education, serving on the Board of Trustees of the Advanced Math and Science Academy
(Marlborough, MA) and the school committee of the German Saturday School Boston (Lexington, MA).

Dwayne Stanley is a Program Leadership professional who partners with cross-functional teams to design, develop and deliver products within the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. After spending almost two decades in the medical device industry, Dwayne transitioned to the biotech/pharmaceutical industry in 2019 and is now a Senior Director of Program Management.  In this role, Dwayne is expanding his breadth of knowledge in all areas of drug product development aimed at improving the quality of life for patients within cancer, neurology, and other serious diseases through novel medicines. Most recently, Dwayne has been the program management lead supporting drugs that will look to give patients with Alzheimer’s disease treatment options.

Dwayne is always looking for ways to expand his leadership, has a commitment for continuous learning, and enjoys spreading his collaborative spirit and a passion for helping others succeed in their roles within an organization. He continues to use the process skills he developed as a Mechanical Engineer to help improve the cross-functional execution of an organization’s corporate goals. 

Dwayne holds an MBA with concentration in Project Management from Keller Graduate School of Management and an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology. He was also an Adjunct Professor teaching Machine Design and Computer Aided Design in the Mechanical Engineering department at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology. 

As a husband and a father of three (two human babies and one fur baby), Dwayne enjoys vacationing, working on their produce farm, and spending quality time with his family.

Andrea Grych is a seasoned healthcare professional with over 20 years of experience in commercial health insurance. She currently serves as a Senior Strategic Account Executive at Point32Health, the parent company of Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan, where she partners with clients to deliver strategic solutions that improve health outcomes and drive value. Andrea has recently begun pursuing a Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration at Framingham State University, deepening her commitment to advancing healthcare systems and policy.

Calling Marlborough home for nearly 13 years, Andrea enjoys life with her golf-obsessed husband Christian, and their energetic dog Maggie. Her two grown children, Julia and Alex, live out of state—making her a proud (and slightly sentimental) empty nester. Outside of work and studies, Andrea finds joy in traveling to destinations near and far, cooking, reading, and practicing yoga.

Mary Swartz is a Biotechnology Quality professional who partners with cross-functional
teams to develop, produce, test, and deliver investigational medicinal products to
patients with unmet medical needs. Mary has worked in many types of pharmaceutical
product globally; from small molecules, dermatology products, biologics, antibody drug
conjugates, genetically modified cells, and viral vectors, in companies big and small,
developing and well established. Most recently, Mary has been the Senior Quality
Director supporting drugs that will provide a groundbreaking upgrade to Acute Myeloid
Lymphoma treatment options.

Mary is always looking for ways to expand her & her team’s knowledge, has a
commitment to continuous learning, and is delighted to join the team at AMSA to help
shape the future of the school and its students, to ensure they are ready for the
advanced technology challenges of the future!

Mary holds a graduate certificate in Bioprocess Engineering from Syracuse University
and a Bachelor of Science from Union College.

As a wife and mother of two, Mary enjoys vacationing, swimming, skiing, solving
problems big and small, and spending quality time with her family.

Jessica Bowen has been a teacher at AMSA since 2008 where she is a member of the History Department. She has taught a wide variety of classes at AMSA including four different AP classes; middle school history, including eighth grade Civics; and she started the Chorus class at AMSA and continues to direct that. She is a College Board grader for the AP Macroeconomics exam. Before coming to AMSA, she taught at both parochial and traditional district schools in Massachusetts. She has been elected by the AMSA faculty to serve as their representative to the Board of Trustees five times. She earned a Bachelor's degree in History from Regis College, a graduate certificate in education from the University of Vermont, and a Masters in Educational Leadership from Worcester State University. She has lived in Marlborough with her husband Chris since 1996 and their two grown children are AMSA alumni.