Thom Greenlaw has served as Chief Operations Officer of Ethel Walker since transitioning in the summer of 2013. In this new role, Thom is responsible for finance, advancement and operations at this 102 yr old boarding and day school, which serves girls in grades 6-12. Prior to his service at EWS Thom served for thirteen years as Assistant Head for Operations/ CFO at the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, MA. Thom oversaw all non-academic operations of the school and served as Assistant Treasurer. Prior to his employment at BB&N, Thom served as Business Manager at the Dana Hall School for 6 years and was a hospital administrator for twenty years. He also has served as an adjunct professor at Western New England College. He served for four years as Chair of the Board of Trustees at Summit Montessori School in Framingham, MA and as a Board member of the National Business Officers Association (NBOA) from 2007-11, and earned the Will Hancock Unsung Hero Award in 2008. He recently joined the Board of the Association of Independent School Admission Officers (AISAP) and serves as a content expert in the area of financial sustainability.
He also serves as President of Independent School Compensation Corporation (ISCC) a self-insured group serving 170 non-for profit independent schools, colleges and cultural institutions.
Thom is the author numerous journal articles as well as the Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) Sustainability Model, which is in use at over 300 Boarding Schools in the US and abroad. He recently authored companion Day School Sustainability Model for the National Business Officers Association, which serves 1000 member schools.
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