THE TEAM
Jean Russell
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Jean Russell founded BenefitsMart in 1993. With two decades of experience in the insurance industry, she has a proactive, educational approach to working with her clients. Jean is valued by her clients for her expertise in group insurance and administration, and they rely on her as a valued member of their team. After 13 years she still stands on the original foundation of her business – the industry’s highest ethical standards and the highest quality service. Just ask her clients. In 2006, BenefitsMart became affiliated with United Benefit Services to provide added services to clients with new technology and resources to help clients manage their employee benefits program. She has actively served with various committees and organizations including the New England Woman Business Owners Association, The Boston Club, New England Human Resource Association, National Association of Health Underwriters, and is especially proud of her work with the “seeds of hope” scholarship program underwritten by ATASK. She is also actively involved with Massachusetts Health Care Reform. She is the current president of the Massachusetts Association of Health Insurance Underwriters. Jean is a graduate of Rutgers College of Rutgers University. Jean emigrated from Korea when she was 10 years old with her family. She currently lives in a suburb of Boston with her husband and two children. She loves to cook and she regularly beats her husband in tennis.
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Audrey Paek |
 Audrey Paek has 14 years of experience in fundraising, managing effective teams in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, leveraging strategic business relationships, and delivering large-scale programs and initiatives. She is a Search Director at Lois Lindauer Searches, an executive search firm specializing in nonprofit development opportunities. Previously she served as Manager of Trustee and Overseer Relations at WGBH, and was later promoted to the newly created position of Diversity Initiatives Manager. Prior to WGBH, she worked as Lead Producer at Cooper Productions, a Boston-based special events production company, and in marketing/group sales at Boston Ballet. Ms. Paek led the Boston Chapter of the National Association of Asian American Professionals as a three-term President. She is currently a board member of the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence and a member of the Advisory Board for the Boston Chinese Neighborhood Center and ASPIRE (Asian Sisters Participating in Reaching Excellence). She also had served on committees of several organizations including Monster.com, Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, Joslin Diabetes, and AileyCamp Boston. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Sisters in Development. A graduate of Smith College, Ms. Paek serves as the Vice President of the Smith College Alumnae Board. She currently resides in the South End with her husband and labrador retriever, and has her parents as neighbors. |
Shirley Fan-Chan |
 Shirley Fan-Chan is the Chief of External Programs at Horizons for Homeless Children. She oversees the Training and Technical Assistance Program and the Policy and Advocacy Program. Shirley brought to HHC a wealth of knowledge related to serving the homeless population, specifically in domestic violence services. Her experience includes leading a domestic violence victim service program including its emergency crisis shelter for over 6 years in Boston and working at another domestic violence programs to create community based services partnering with local police departments, public schools, and hospitals. She has led many initiatives on community organization, coalition building and accessibility to services. Her active participation on immigrant communities issues, women’s issues and underserved children led her to be one of the appointed Commissioners for the former Governor’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, a committee member of the Immigrants and Refugees Committee, an Advisory Council Member of Today’s Girls Tomorrow’s Leaders of United Way of Mass. Bay, etc. |
Fehmida Chipty |
 Fehmida Chipty is a board certified Gastroenterologist practicing with Digestive Health Associates since 1999; she is affiliated with Winchester Hospital. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She completed her subspecialty training in Gastroenterology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ Montefiore Medical Center. Her practice of general gastroenterology is comprehensive; she cares for patients with a variety of disorders including reflux, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome and liver disease. She performs colonoscopy and upper endoscopy for the evaluation and diagnosis of gastroenterologic conditions. An important aspect of her practice is colorectal cancer screening for the prevention and early diagnosis of this common type of cancer. Fehmida was born in Bombay, India; she immigrated to Massachusetts at age 8. She lives in the Boston suburbs with her husband and 3 children. Her home life with is busy a variety of activities involving her children. She also enjoys going to the gym and reading a good book. |
Sau-King Chan
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Sau-King Chan is a vice president at Citizens Financial Group, where she manages campaign and product reporting in corporate marketing. She oversees the creation of pro-forma for marketing promotions, new products, buzz marketing and reporting on campaign results. Sau-King graduated from Boston College with a Bachelor degree, majoring in Accounting and minoring in Management Information Systems. She is a founding member of Asian Women Lion and Dragon Dance Troupe, a unique troupe that empowers Asian women to break through the stereotypes against Asian women, thereby surmounting traditional limitations against women. She had been an active member of steering committee of Silk Road Gala, the most prominent event of Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence. She is also a founding member of Chinatown Resident Association, an organization whose goal is to provide a voice to Chinatown residents.
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Janet Chien |
 Janet Chien is a Principal at Dyad Systems, a company that provides clinical trial services to life science companies. Ms. Chien co-founded Dyad Systems in 2003 in order to assist companies conducting clinical research with time-to-market challenges and meeting difficult trial objectives. Prior to Dyad Systems, Ms. Chien held key management positions and client service roles within the high-tech industry. Ms. Chien was Vice President of Client Services and CIO for Guardent, Inc, a digital security company formed in 2000 and acquired by Verisign, Inc. in 2003. Prior to 2000, Ms. Chien was a member of the original team at I-Cube and served in multiple operational and customer facing capacities as Director of Best Practices, Director of Project Management, and Client Partner. In 1998, I-Cube went public and was selected by The Boston Globe as the #1 Massachusetts IPO. Ms. Chien holds an MBA from Babson College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University. She lives in the South End with her husband, Paul, two cats, and their burgeoning family of fish. |
Vivian Hsu
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Vivian Hsu specializes in employment law counseling, training and mediation services. Vivian provides advice on workplace issues and the employment relationship, with an emphasis on preventative practices and dispute resolution. She develops and conducts training programs for managers, supervisors, human resource professionals and employees, conducts workplace investigations as an independent fact finder, provides mediation services for employment disputes and serves as a facilitator for business and community groups. Vivian is a faculty member for the Certified Discrimination Prevention Training Program of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and has served on the American Arbitration Association panel of mediators for MCAD complaints. Prior to private practice, she was with Motorola Inc. and the WGBH Educational Foundation.
Vivian is active in professional and community organizations. She is Co-Chair of the Leadership Advisory Council of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and a board member and past president of the NAPABA Law Foundation. She is a board member of the Asian Women’s Connection, Inc. and is a facilitator in the Boston City-Wide Dialogues Project on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, having also served on the Board of Directors of the Community Dispute Settlement Center. A member of the Town of Needham Personnel Board and the Women’s Business Network, Vivian is a graduate of Smith College and Suffolk University School of Law. |
Renee Inomata
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Renee Inomata is Partner at the law firm of Burns & Levinson LLP. She received her J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law and her Sc. B. in neural science from Brown University. Ms. Inomata is also a Co-President of the Board of Directors of the Brown University Club of Boston. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Square Business Association and the Board of Editors of the Boston Bar Journal. She is active in the efforts of the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, and in the Asian-American community in the Greater Boston area. In her legal practice, Ms. Inomata is the Chair of the Labor, Employment & Employee Benefits Group at Burns & Levinson, focusing on employment law and workplace solutions. She is also a member of the Business Litigation and Intellectual Property Groups, advising clients in all aspects of securing, obtaining, enforcing and maintaining trademark, service mark, trade dress and trade secret rights and copyrights. Ms. Inomata speaks frequently on employment and intellectual property law matters, including chairing the trademark panel for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education’s Annual Intellectual Property Conference the New England Chinese Information and Network Association (NECINA) Information Security Conference. She has also developed and conducted educational workshops and training for harassment and discrimination awareness for managers and non-managers. She is a member of the American, Massachusetts, Boston and Women’s Bar Associations and the International Trademark Association. She was also voted a Massachusetts SuperLawyer® by her peers. Ms. Inomata also speaks on career development for women attorneys and Asian-American women, most recently at the Women’s Bar Association Law Student Committee’s annual conference entitled Women in Law: Options and Opportunities and at the 2006 Asian-American Women in Leadership Conference, hosted by ASPIRE. She is also a founding member of the Saffron Circle and Asian Women's Connection.
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Naomi Aoki
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Naomi Aoki is a vice president at global public-relations firm Weber Shandwick, where she runs the healthcare practice in the Cambridge office and heads up healthcare media relations for the firm nationwide. Prior to joining Weber Shandwick in June 2005, Naomi worked as a business reporter for The Boston Globe for five years. During her first three years there, she covered the biotech industry, helping to launch a weekly biotechnology page as part of the Globe’s expanding coverage of the life-sciences sector. She reported and wrote stories front-page and business-front stories covering science, business, regulatory and legal issues facing the industry, distinguishing herself as one of the nation’s top biotech writers. Her profile of MIT professor and biomedical engineer Robert Langer, titled “The Smartest Man in Boston,” was the May 25, 2003 cover story for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. In her last two years at The Boston Globe, Naomi covered the retail and consumer-products industries, writing about companies such as Gillette, Reebok and Staples. In a decade as a reporter, Naomi covered a wide range of topics, including healthcare, consumer products, retail, advertising, crime and criminal justice and city government. She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize at The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, VA, for her work in uncovering a state delegate’s abuse of legislative privilege to continuously delay trials of criminal cases in which he served as the defense attorney. Naomi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. She attended the master’s program in journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. She was born in Japan. She moved to Massachusetts with her family when she was 7, and with the exception of college and a 6-year-stint at out-of-state newspapers has lived in the state ever since. She now lives with her dalmatian Pebbles in Jamaica Plain.
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