MASSACHUSETTS TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATIVE - Key Persons


Ariana Sarmiento Fielding

Job Titles:
  • Digital Equity Planner

Carolyn Kirk - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer

Cherylene Coss

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Digital Equity, Outreach & Engagement

Cornell Robinson - CTO

Job Titles:
  • Technical Director

Cynthia Gaines

Job Titles:
  • GIS Manager

Danielle Eaton

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager, MBI Communications

Donald R. Dubendorf

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Governing Board of the Innovation Institute at MassTech / Attorney - at - Law, Dubendorf Law / Chairman, Governing Board of the Innovation Institute at MassTech

Dr. David D. Clark

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist

Frederick Keator

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner and COO / Keator Group, LLC / Managing Partner and COO

Jody Jones

Job Titles:
  • Senior Program Director

Joshua Eichen

Job Titles:
  • Director of Program Development

Karen Charles

Job Titles:
  • Commissioner
Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable

Karen Jenkins

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, Broadband Grants

Kathryn Downes

Job Titles:
  • Ecosystem Manager

Linda Dunlavy

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director / Franklin Regional Council of Governments / Executive Director

Madison Trepanier

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager, Operations

Matthew Gorzkowicz

Job Titles:
  • Secretary
Executive Office for Administration and Finance, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Designee: Sean Cronin, Senior Deputy Commissioner, Division of Local Services, Department of Revenue, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Michael Baldino

Job Titles:
  • Director & MBI General Counsel
Michael Baldino was named Director and General Counsel of the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) at the Mass Tech Collaborative in January 2019. Michael comes to MBI with a wealth of public sector policy experience. He served in Mass Tech's Legal Department for over 23 years, providing legal advice and counsel to MassTech's divisions. During his tenure, Michael was actively involved in supporting MBI's mission since the division's inception in 2008. During his tenure at MassTech, Michael also managed complex grant programs, including the Waste-To-Energy Grant Program which disbursed over $55 million to 138 cities and towns in the Commonwealth, and the Southeastern Massachusetts Defense Manufacturing Grant Program. Prior to joining MassTech, Michael held staff positions in the New York State Assembly and the Massachusetts State Senate. Michael holds a B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law.

Paul Peter Nicolai

Job Titles:
  • President / Nicolai Law Group, P.C. President

Steeve Auguste

Job Titles:
  • Lead for America ( LFA ) Fellow

Yvonne Hao

Job Titles:
  • Secretary