New Trustees

Jay Mitchell ’96 Jay Mitchell is a managing director with Audax Private Equity, which is headquartered in Boston. Jay has led control investments in more than 20 platform companies, and focuses on deals in consumer and industrial sectors. Prior to joining Audax in 2003, Jay worked in investment banking groups at JPMorgan, Chase H&Q, and Hambrecht & Quist. A 1996 graduate of RL, he has been a devoted alumnus, serving as a member of the RL Alumni Leadership Giving Committee since 2007, and as a co-chair of that group for the past five years. Jay earned his AB in Classics from Princeton University, where he played varsity baseball. Jay lives in Westwood with his wife, Colleen, and their five children (four daughters, one son). He is actively involved in youth sports, coaching baseball, softball, and hockey in the Westwood Little League, Westwood Softball, and Boston Junior Huskies organizations.

Soren Oberg Soren L. Oberg is a managing director at THL Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston, at which he has worked since 1993. At THL, he has served on the Management, Investment, and Human Capital Committees and as head of the Business and Financial Services investment verticals. In addition to sitting on boards of private companies, Soren has been involved with several educationrelated organizations, including BellXcel and the Canada Wide Virtual Science Fair. He also proudly serves on the Investment Committee of his high school, Luther College, and coaches youth hockey. He graduated from Harvard College in 1992 with a concentration in Applied Mathematics and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1998. Soren and his wife, Caroline, live in Weston with their four boys, Walker (I), Tait (III), Cole (V), and Tanner. Soren has been a member of the Roxbury Latin Investment Committee for the past year, and he and Caroline are currently chairing the RL Parent Fund.

Vanessa Calderón-Rosado Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, PhD, is the CEO of IBA-Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, a leading community development corporation dedicated to empowering families to improve their lives through high-quality and affordable housing, education, and arts programs. Through her leadership, IBA has become the largest Latino-led nonprofit organization in Eastern Massachusetts.

In 2010, Dr. Calderón-Rosado became the first Latina ever to be appointed to the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. In November 2013, Mayor-elect Marty Walsh appointed Dr. Calderón-Rosado to co-lead his housing transition team. She has served as advisor to numerous other task forces, boards, commissions, and high-profile searches, including Boston’s Police Department and Public Health Commission. Among other civic engagements, she is a founding board member of the Margarita Muñiz Academy, the first dual-language innovation high school in Massachusetts, and co-founder of the Greater Boston Latino Network.

Dr. Calderón-Rosado earned her doctorate in public policy from UMass Boston, and an Honoris Causa Doctorate from Cambridge College. //