Board of Directors

Ronald Weiner

Chairman

Mr. Weiner is president of Perelson Weiner LLP, Certified Public Accountants. He also was international president (2008-2009) of the Chief Executives Organization, a small, select global community of 2,000 business leaders who were members of the Young Presidents Organization. He is a member of the board of Babson Global, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and the Arts, the Chief Executives Organization, the Cancer Research Institute, the Jewish Communal Fund of New York, and the Citizens Budget Commission, among others. He also is a member of The Economic Club of New York. In addition, he is a nationally recognized speaker and author on professional service firm management issues, and is listed in Who’s Who in America. He is the treasurer of the Babson Corporation and chair of the audit committee, a member of the executive committee, and was formerly a member of the undergraduate and finance committees at Babson. Mr. Weiner earned his BS from Babson in 1966 and subsequently attended New York University Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School.Read More

Ronald Weiner

Chairman

Mr. Weiner earned his BS from Babson in 1966 and subsequently attended New York University Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School.

Joseph L. Winn

Mr. Winn, previous Chair of the Babson College Board of Trustees from 2011 to 2017, is a consultant for emerging businesses in the areas of strategy and financial planning. He is a Trustee Emeritus, and member of the Investment Committee and Academic Excellence Committee at the College. He formerly served as vice chairman of American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) from 2001 to 2004, and was chief financial officer of AMT from the company’s inception in 1995 until 2001. Prior to AMT, he was a co-founder, chief financial officer, and director of American Radio Systems Corporation (NYSE:AFM). He also was president of Atlantic Radio Corporation and senior vice president of American Cablesystems Corporation (AMEX: ACN). He is a director of One Pin Inc. He served on Babson’s Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2010, and from 2011-2017, he also served as Chairman of the Investment and Finance Committees. He was a Member of the Presidential Search Committee 2008, Vice Chair of the MBA 50th Campaign, Alumni Career Volunteer, Fast Track MBA Volunteer, Business Plan Evaluator, and is a Member of President’s Society, Roger Babson Circle, Entrepreneurs Circle Gift Club and the College’s Circle of Distinction. He earned his BS from Boston College in 1973 and his MBA from Babson in 1974.Read More

Joseph L. Winn

Mr. Winn, previous Chair of the Babson College Board of Trustees, is a consultant for emerging businesses in the areas of strategy and financial planning. He is a Trustee Emeritus, and member of the Investment Committee and Academic Excellence Committee at the College. He formerly served as vice chairman of American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) from 2001 to 2004, and was chief financial officer of AMT from the company’s inception in 1995 until 2001. Prior to AMT, he was a co-founder, chief financial officer, and director of American Radio Systems Corporation (NYSE:AFM). He also was president of Atlantic Radio Corporation and senior vice president of American Cablesystems Corporation (AMEX: ACN). He is a director of One Pin Inc. He served on Babson’s Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2010, and from 2011-2017, he also served as Chairman of the Investment and Finance Committees.

He was a Member of the Presidential Search Committee 2008, Vice Chair of the MBA 50th Campaign, Alumni Career Volunteer, Fast Track MBA Volunteer, Business Plan Evaluator, and is a Member of President’s Society, Roger Babson Circle, Entrepreneurs Circle Gift Club and the College’s Circle of Distinction.

He earned his BS from Boston College in 1973 and his MBA from Babson in 1974.

James A. Rullo

Mr. Rullo has spent more than thirty years in the investment business. He was at the forefront of Wellington Management Company’s investment capability and client globalization effort. As head of the Quantitative Investment Group he brought a nascent unit to over $30 billion in assets under management. While running this group, Jim oversaw the development of leading edge investment tools and strategies. He was responsible for client assets and relationships in over 25 countries, spanning a full range of equity mandates. Most recently Jim served as Global Strategist, utilizing his broad investment knowledge to counsel clients around the world in all asset classes and strategies.

Jim earned an MBA in the evenings from Babson in 1985 with a specialty in management information systems and holds a BS in finance, magna cum laude, from Boston University, 1981. Jim has served many organizations including Babson Graduate School Advisory, Greater Boston Catholic Charities and Greater Lawrence Boys and Girls Club. Currently Jim also serves as Trustee for the Essex County Community Foundation.

Brigitte Muehlmann

Dr. Muehlmann, Professor and Babson Research Scholar, teaches financial and sustainability reporting and analysis and co-teaches Doing Business Globally: Highways and Landmines. An accountant by profession, she is an entrepreneurial leader at heart. Her extensive research has been published in Scientometrics, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Issues in Accounting Education, and various Tax and Audit journals. She also writes the column “Email from Boston” for the German-language CFO aktuell magazine.Read More

Brigitte Muehlmann

Brigitte has been recognized with many teaching awards, including the Mark Chain/Federation of Schools of Accountancy Graduate Teaching Innovation Award, the American Taxation Association/Deloitte Teaching Innovation Award, as well as the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Educator Award and the Competitive Manuscript Award in forensic accounting, as well as others. Dr. Muehlmann serves as the Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section representative on the Council of the American Accounting Association, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Fiscal Association, USA Branch. Prior to her work in academia, she worked with Babson alumni when she transferred from Ernst & Young’s Vienna office to the entrepreneurial services team in Boston. She was a member of the global tax team at PwC in Boston and the strategy practice at A.T. Kearney in New York.

A dual Austrian-American citizen, she holds Ph.D. and MSBA degrees from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), a Master of Science in Taxation, as well as the CPA, CMA, CFM, CVA, and Transformational Neurocoaching credentials.

Gaurab Bhardwaj

For the last few years, Gaurab has been researching, teaching, and writing about the solving of big problems confronting societies. At Babson, he teaches an elective called ‘Mysteries, Puzzles, and Imagination.’ For this work, the Aspen Institute gave him their Faculty Pioneer Award in 2016.Read More

Gaurab Bhardwaj

Gaurab also teaches strategy to undergraduates, MBAs, and executives. He has taught in and led several executive programs for US and international companies. He received the Deans’ Award for Excellence in Teaching across all programs.

Gaurab uses field research and the methods of historians to develop rich narratives of decision making and create decision making frameworks to help people make better decisions. He has published journal articles, book chapters, reports, and cases.

Gaurab has a PhD in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and an MBA from Northeastern University, USA.