Investment Committee

Katherine Errecart
Katherine is a Partner with Brightspot Consultants, providing strategic planning and development support to organizations in the nonprofit sector. She has 20 years of experience working with organizations that advance social change, including leading Errecart Social Impact Consulting, and serving as Interim Executive Director for the Hire Opportunity Coalition, a national coalition of employers committed to hiring opportunity youth. Earlier in her career, Katherine served as a Director at FSG, a global strategy consulting firm that supports foundations, nonprofits, corporations and multisector groups in creating large-scale, lasting social change.

Within the community, Katherine currently serves on the Rye School Board, and as Program Committee Chair for Seacoast Outright, an organization that supports LGBTQ+ youth. She holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a BA from Brown University and lives in Rye with her husband and two children.

Antonia Esposito
Antonia Esposito is a Vice President at Social Finance, a national impact investing and advisory nonprofit organization. She serves as the Head of HR, leading her team in running all facets of HR across the employee lifecycle, and working closely with the executive team in setting the organization’s strategy. Antonia has been at Social Finance since 2016, and over her time there has led a diverse portfolio of education, healthcare and criminal justice-focused engagements, assessing outcomes and designing new funding models with nonprofit, investor and government clients. Her work has included projects to scale high-quality preschool and early literacy services, to improve birth outcomes and access to prenatal care for Medicaid-eligible mothers, to advance degree completion and reduce juvenile justice interactions for at-risk youth, and to scale best-in-class reentry interventions for ex-offenders.

Prior to Social Finance, Antonia was an Associate Director at Cambridge Associates, providing investment consulting services to a variety of non-profit, private wealth and pension clients with assets ranging from $50 million to over $90 billion (including her favorite client, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation). While at Cambridge, Antonia also served for two years as a manager for the Boston investment associates, overseeing hiring, staffing, performance evaluations and setting internal strategic direction for the 80- to 90-person group. Antonia previously served as a corps member with Teach for America, where she taught sixth grade special education math in Kansas City, and served as the Special Education Content Leader for the Kansas City corps. Antonia is a cum laude graduate of Harvard College.

Laurie Gabriel
Retired Managing Partner, Wellington Management Company; Former President, Quantitative Discussion Group; Former President, Boston Security Analysts Society; Former Executive Committee and Investment Committee, Tufts University Board of Trustees; Former Board Chair and Campaign Co-Chair, The Nature Conservancy – New Hampshire; Board and Investment Committee member, Appalachian Mountain Club; Board member, New Hampshire Public Radio; Member emeritus, Tufts University Board of Trustees and Alumni Council

Kristin Girald
Kristin is an experienced institutional investor and corporate leader, working closely with endowments, foundations and families on advising investment portfolios and leading teams of senior research professionals.  Most recently, Kristin was with Prime Buchholz LLC, an investment consulting firm, where she was an active member of the Board, Executive Committee, Investment and Mission-Aligned Committees, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council, and investment research team.  Her professional experience also includes corporate strategy, advisory, and equity research.

Within the community, Kristin is actively engaged with Rye Education Foundation (REF), which seeks to fund unique educational opportunities for students in Rye’s public schools.  She is currently the President of REF, and has also held the role of Treasurer.  Kristin lives in Rye, NH with her husband, John-Michael, and her three children.

Kathleen McQuiggan
Kathleen is a partner and portfolio manager in the Boston office of Brown Advisory where she manages portfolios for private clients. She has worked with investors for over 30 years in range of roles including at Artemis Financial Advisors, Pax World Management, Goldman Sachs, and Alex. Brown & Sons. She has a focus on engaging women investors and incorporating sustainable/impact investing into client’s portfolios.

Erika Pagel, Chair
Erika is a partner and member of the executive team of Brown Advisory. She serves as a portfolio manager and as the co-chief investment officer of private client, endowments and foundations. Erika has worked in the investment management industry since 1996. Prior to Brown Advisory, she was an investment advisor at Silver Bridge Advisors. Erika started her career at MFS Investment Management before working in sell-side Equity Research for eight years following large cap pharmaceuticals, household products, consumer and retail sectors at Schroder & Co and then UBS Investment Bank. More recently, she was an analyst following consumer and retail companies at a hedge fund, Balyasny Asset Management. For more than 12 years, Erika’s has been researching investment options for sustainable investment managers and helping clients build portfolios that are aligned with their goals.

Michael Wagner
In September 2021, Michael became the Vice President for Finance & Operations and Treasurer of Williams College in Williamstown, MA. Previously Mike was CFO for Dartmouth College in Hanover. He joined Dartmouth in 2001 and has held positions as vice president for finance, chief financial officer of the Geisel School of Medicine and as Dartmouth’s controller. Prior to joining Dartmouth, he was a Senior Manager in the Boston office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He graduated from Amherst College with a BA in economics and a masters from Northeastern University in accounting. Michael and his wife Laura Rice have three children and reside in Hanover.

Rick Williams
Rick is a co-founder and Managing Partner of WestView Capital Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on growth-oriented companies in the middle market. WestView currently manages $2.7 billion of capital. Prior to co-founding WestView, Rick was a Partner in the private equity group of Tudor Investment Corporation, a global asset manager with more than $10 billion in capital. Prior to Tudor, he was a Managing Director of Triumph Capital Group, a Boston-based private equity firm. Rick began his career as an Associate in the Investment Banking group of Drexel Burnham Lambert. Rick graduated with a BS degree in Computer Science from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.