The Assumption Board of Trustees elected three new members to serve on the Board at their May 12 meeting. The new members include accomplished individuals in the field of finance as well as a dental surgeon, all of whom graduated from the institution.
Carl Cafaro ’98 is a managing director with The Cafaro Group at Merrill Lynch, a financial services firm with offices in Newton, Chicago, and New York City that manages more than $2.3 billion in assets. In 2009 and in each year from 2013–15, Cafaro was named to On Wall Street’s “Top 40 Under 40” list. Merrill Lynch recognized Cafaro’s success with the prestigious “Circle of Champions” designation, the highest honor awarded to Merrill Lynch advisors. In 2010, Cafaro was appointed by Merrill Lynch’s executive team to the esteemed Advisory Council to Management Board. Prior to establishing The Cafaro Group, he was a vice president for investments and a financial advisor for Bank of America where he managed $460 million in assets. Cafaro graduated magna cum laude from Assumption with a bachelor’s degree in political science and earned a master’s in education from Boston College. Cafaro and his wife, Jacqueline, reside in Wellesley with his five children.
Richard J. Catrambone, D.M.D., M.D. ’81 is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery as well as an assistant clinical professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is also the chairman of the Department of Oral Health at the Steward Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton, where he has maintained a private practice since 1993. Catrambone is a past president of the Alumni Association at Boston University School of Medicine where he is currently a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board. After graduating with honors from Assumption and Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Catrambone completed a four-year residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Tufts. He then completed a one-year fellowship in anesthesiology at Boston City Hospital. Furthering his studies in medicine, Catrambone graduated with honors from Boston University School of Medicine, after which he completed a PGY-2 year of general surgery training at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He was born in Brockton and raised in West Bridgewater. He has been married to his wife, Sophia, for more than 32 years, and they have two children: Christopher, an estate planning attorney in Wellesley, and Karina, a third-year dental student at Tufts University.
Andrew Viens ’94 serves as executive vice president and global head of capital markets operations at Bain Capital, a private multi-asset alternative investment firm located in Boston. In this position, Viens oversees all portfolio and investor relations operations functions supporting the Fixed Income and Public Equity businesses, with teams in Boston, London, and Hong Kong. He leads the firm’s Risk and Oversight Committee and is a member of the Valuation Committee and Technology Steering Committee. Prior to his position at Bain Capital, Viens was a director leading the Treasury Operations group at Investors Bank & Trust. He serves as the board chair of City Year Providence and is a member of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center’s Patient and Family Advisory Council. Viens graduated from Assumption with a bachelor’s in economics. He and his wife, Suzanne (Klinger) ’94, and their three children reside in Dover.
Bro. Didier Remiot, A.A., and Rev. Roland O. Guilmain, A.A., ’50, each completed their term of service at the conclusion of the May meeting. Michael Sullivan ’83 also completed his term of service but will remain a co-chair of the Light the Way Capital Campaign for Assumption.
“On behalf of the institution, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Brother Didier, A.A., Father Guilmain, A.A., and Michael for their selfless service to Assumption and its students as we welcome new members to the Board of Trustees,” said President Francesco C. Cesareo, Ph.D.
