Wendy Gettleman is currently employed at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts as Vice President of Facilities Management and Real Estate. In this role, Wendy has oversight of Facilities Operations; Planning, Design and Construction; Real Estate & Energy Management; General Services including Parking & Transportation; Telecom, Conference Services and Food Services. Wendy guides the Facilities agenda including major capital construction and renovations (FY19: $450M in active projects), continuity of plant operations for all DFCI sites (2.7M square feet) and master facility space planning efforts.

In her prior position as Senior Director of Planning, Design & Construction, Wendy directed design and construction of 25-35 annual capital projects with combined capital budgets of over $130 Million with a team focused on lean design principles, safe construction and fiscal responsibility.

Wendy joined Dana-Farber in 2005 as Senior Project Manager then as Director of Project Management for the Yawkey Center for Cancer Care. In those roles, Wendy led the project team from design through construction and occupancy in January 2011, bringing in the $330Million project under budget and ahead of schedule. In this position, she has become a leading expert in facilitating patient and family input into design, presenting this topic at the 3rd International Conference on Patient- and Family-Centered Care. In addition, the Yawkey Center Project earned gold LEED status and has received numerous project management awards.

Wendy began her major construction project management career at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2001 as Senior Project Manager with a $136 Million hospital expansion project, again achieving project completion on schedule and on budget. Prior to that, Wendy was employed for 10 years with Sodexo’s Healthcare Division in operations management and division leadership positions.

With over 35 years of experience in construction management, architecture and real estate

development, Shawn Seaman brings an impressive scale of knowledge for the healthcare

construction market in the Greater Boston area. As Wise’s Chief Operating Officer, he is in

charge of developing project teams and enhancing operational processes through his hands-on

management style, demonstrated leadership abilities, and advocacy of strong team collaboration.

Before joining the Wise team, Shawn served as the Chief Operating Officer at The Fallon

Company, LLC, where he was responsible for daily operations and management of over $1.5

billion of development projects. In addition to leading teams of senior construction executives

across the east coast, he focused on corporate growth strategy and led initiatives to enhance

operational processes and infrastructure. Prior to Fallon, Shawn served as Vice President and

Chief Operating Officer for Suffolk Construction’s Healthcare and Science & Technology

Divisions. The construction firm’s Healthcare and Science & Technology sectors expanded

greatly during his 18-year tenure. Over the course of his career, Shawn has overseen more than

seven million square feet of construction for top industry clients such as Brigham and Women’s

Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute, UMass Medical School, Boston Medical Center, Tufts Medical Center, BioMed

Realty and Broad Institute. Shawn received his Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering

from Wentworth Institute of Technology, and is a licensed architect.

As the leader of HGA’s Healthcare Practice, Kurt has been instrumental in reinventing the design process to transform traditional healthcare delivery using a LEAN philosophy to build in agility and efficiency. He has helped clients around the United States arrive at better outcomes by using a design thinking approach that applies universal concepts to complex situations. The resulting facilities are operationally and cost efficient, aesthetically pleasing, and designed for the future.

Charlie Zanazzi joined HarborOne in 2016 and currently is RVP responsible for Boston Commercial lending and Specialty Lending in New England. The team is now comprised of 10 professionals coordinating all bank and commercial needs of the client through one channel.

Charlie joined BayBank (a predecessor bank to Bank of America) in 1986 after initially working for Deloitte, where he became a Team Leader for Healthcare, Education and Non-for-profit lending. He later worked at Sovereign Bank as an SVP in the Professionals Lending and 7 years as Professionals Services Lender at TD Wealth Management in Boston.

A Babson MBA and graduate of College of the Holy Cross. Charlie currently resides in Andover with his wife, they have three children who all reside in the New England area. Charlie currently serves as Board Chair of the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center and in addition to being an active member at the Mass Society as a long standing vendor is also active in MAHFMA, MGMA, Lazarus House the Exchange Club of Greater Lawrence and Andover Little League Baseball.

Martina Sze has over 15 years of healthcare experience. Most recently, as a Vice President at Ascend Health, Ms. Sze assisted in the acquisition and development of psychiatric hospitals. Prior to Ascend Health, Ms. Sze worked as a healthcare services analyst at Cooper Hill Partners, a healthcare investment fund, and at Universal American Corp., a managed care company. Ms. Sze received her BBA from the College of William and Mary and her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kristi has over 20 years of experience in the commercial real estate and construction industry. She has diverse project experience in the master planning and project management of mixed-use and residential developments, retail and entertainment facilities, academic buildings, and healthcare facilities for private and public sector clients. These diverse projects have included new construction, renovation, and historic rehabilitation. In addition, Kristi practices collaborative methodologies and principles of Integrated Project Design and Lean Construction and has managed multi-layered cross functional stakeholders leveraging her facilitative skills to drive critical decision making. In Kristi’s role as Institutional Services Lead, she guides large institutional clients through complex master plans, feasibility analyses, and capital project implementation including Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Boston Medical Center, and the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM).

Ron Goodin, ASHE, LEED AP BD+C, is a recognized leader in the industry with over 35 years of experience in healthcare design. Before joining Colliers Engineering & Design as the National Healthcare Market Leader, Ron held an owner's role at a multihospital network, where he was responsible for design, construction, strategic planning, and overseeing the network's engineering department. This experience and his time in construction management give him a well-rounded understanding of healthcare organizations' strategic and operational needs, resulting in successful projects in hospital networks nationwide. His collaborative approach and problem-solving mindset make him a trusted partner in healthcare development, ensuring that every project enhances patient care and supports the industry's evolving needs. Ron is also an active member of ASHE and NEHES.

Recently, Ron has managed and designed multiple ground-up medical office building projects, focusing on creating spaces that meet the operational needs of healthcare providers while enhancing patient care. He has also moderated four panels in the past year on medical office buildings, sharing insights on current trends and best practices in healthcare architecture. Throughout his career, Ron has received multiple CBC Design Awards and an ENR Regional Design Award for his exceptional work.

Josh is a project executive and Northeast leader for the Healthcare Core Market at DPR Construction, one of the top technical builders and the #2 ranked healthcare builder in the U.S. (Modern Healthcare 2021). With 22 years of industry experience, Josh has built ground-up healthcare facilities and complex occupied hospital renovations for industry leaders such as Baystate Medical Center, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Elliot Hospital, and Newport Hospital. Currently, he serves as project executive on DPR’s largest healthcare project in the Boston area. Josh’s leadership improves efficiency, quality, and safety on every project through methods such as integrated project delivery (IPD), prefabrication, pull planning, virtual design and construction (VDC), and target value design (TVD). This forward-thinking has led to the successful execution of over $800M and $1.7 Million SF of healthcare projects on occupied medical campuses throughout New England. Josh is a member of NEHES and has collaborated with the Lean Construction Institute (LCI) for over 10 years in addition to helping form the Southern New England LCI Community of Practice. He volunteers at Northeastern University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and UMass giving lectures to students in the construction, architecture, and civil engineering programs. He holds a Masters in Finance and Real Estate Investment from Bentley University and a Bachelors degree in Construction Management from Wentworth Institute of Technology and is a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional.