Anne Szostak is a business and community leader with significant management and board experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
As Founder and President of Szostak Partners, Anne provides strategic advice and counsel to senior leaders on complex business problems. Her expertise in governance, talent, and succession issues helps executives improve their performance and enhance their effectiveness with their boards, leadership teams, and other key constituencies. Anne’s clients represent a diverse range of industries and positions.
Prior to founding her company, Anne built a successful career over 31 years at FleetBoston Financial Group (now Bank of America) in both line and staff roles. She served as a member of the Executive Committee and Corporate Executive Vice President of this diversified financial firm with assets of $200 billion and 55,000 employees. She also served as Chairman and CEO of Fleet Bank Rhode Island and Chairman, President, and CEO of Fleet Bank of Maine. In addition to assisting the bank with over 100 acquisitions, she led the company’s efforts to become an employer of choice.
Along with her background in financial services and human resources, Anne has corporate governance expertise from serving on boards for twenty years. She currently sits on the boards of Tupperware Brands Corporation, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, and IDEXX Laboratories. She formerly sat on six public companies boards which were sold at significant premiums.
Anne has also applied her governance expertise to several non-profit boards. She was the first woman named Chairman of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and is active in her community through service on the boards of The Rhode Island Foundation and Providence’s Women & Infants Hospital, where she spearheaded a $22 million capital campaign. She was recently elected to the Board of Bryant University.
She is a fellow at the BU School of Management’s Human Resources Policy Institute, and is a member of both the International Women’s Forum and the Women Corporate Directors Group. Anne graduated from Colby College, where she is a Trustee Emeritus, and holds five honorary degrees. She and her husband, Michael, live in Providence and have two grown daughters.
As Founder and President of Szostak Partners, Anne provides strategic advice and counsel to senior leaders on complex business problems. Her expertise in governance, talent, and succession issues helps executives improve their performance and enhance their effectiveness with their boards, leadership teams, and other key constituencies. Anne’s clients represent a diverse range of industries and positions.
Prior to founding her company, Anne built a successful career over 31 years at FleetBoston Financial Group (now Bank of America) in both line and staff roles. She served as a member of the Executive Committee and Corporate Executive Vice President of this diversified financial firm with assets of $200 billion and 55,000 employees. She also served as Chairman and CEO of Fleet Bank Rhode Island and Chairman, President, and CEO of Fleet Bank of Maine. In addition to assisting the bank with over 100 acquisitions, she led the company’s efforts to become an employer of choice.
Along with her background in financial services and human resources, Anne has corporate governance expertise from serving on boards for twenty years. She currently sits on the boards of Tupperware Brands Corporation, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, and IDEXX Laboratories. She formerly sat on six public companies boards which were sold at significant premiums.
Anne has also applied her governance expertise to several non-profit boards. She was the first woman named Chairman of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and is active in her community through service on the boards of The Rhode Island Foundation and Providence’s Women & Infants Hospital, where she spearheaded a $22 million capital campaign. She was recently elected to the Board of Bryant University.
She is a fellow at the BU School of Management’s Human Resources Policy Institute, and is a member of both the International Women’s Forum and the Women Corporate Directors Group. Anne graduated from Colby College, where she is a Trustee Emeritus, and holds five honorary degrees. She and her husband, Michael, live in Providence and have two grown daughters.
