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Member Biographies

Nav Chander is a high technology business executive with over 20 years of engineering, product management, marketing, sales and business development experience. Nav has lead product and business teams to develop successful products in the fields of telecommunications, data networking and enterprise networking with leading global computer systems and data networking products.

Nav works for IBM as an OEM Account Executive in IBM’s Software Group focusing on strategic business for IBM middleware with Fortune 1000 Telecommunication companies.

Nav has been actively involved in marketing capacities with industry organizations such as the Metro Ethernet Forum from 2001-2004, a leading telecommunication industry non-profit forum.

Nav is married to Claudette and has 2 children with the younger daughter currently attending BFCCPS for the past 6 years. A resident of Franklin, MA for the past 14 years, Nav is also actively involved with Franklin community activities including youth basketball and soccer as a coach.  He is originally from Canada and is fluent in French and has an undergraduate engineering degree and an MBA from the University Of Ottawa, Canada.

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The Clements family is originally from Connecticut and has lived in Franklin for 12 years.  Lori and her husband Bryan joined the BFCCPS community in 2001 when their son Bradley entered kindergarten. Lori has been an active volunteer in the school, the community, and at church. She has enjoyed serving the school in a variety of capacities, and is in her fifth year as a trustee.

Lori practiced law in a general practice firm in CT, handling primarily the buying and selling of residential real estate. She is a member of the CT Bar Association and maintains her law license in CT. Lori also worked for many years in banking prior to becoming an attorney.  

Lori holds a J.D. from Quinnipiac University School of Law in Hamden, Connecticut, as well as a B.S. in Business Administration and an A.S. from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Jerry and his wife Mindy live in Wrentham and have two children attending the school.  Jeffrey (8^th grade) and Delaina (5^th grade) have both been students at BFCCPS since kindergarten.  Jerry is a graduate of Boston College and is currently CFO for Mentor Meetings & Events, a corporate meeting and event planning company based in Franklin.  Prior to joining Mentor, he was Vice President & Treasurer for Arch Wireless, Inc. from 1989 through 2004 and held a variety of positions for the public accounting firm Deloitte Haskins & Sells in Boston from 1982 through 1989.

Anna dos Santos and her husband, Bob Pritchard, joined the BFCCPS community when their son, Andy, started kindergarten in the fall of 2003. She has found that volunteering at BFCCPS as a room parent; at lunch and recess; as Destination Imagination Team Leader; and as a character education mentor for the 6th grade; and outside of BFCCPS as a Cub Scout Den Leader to be extremely rewarding.

Anna retired in June of 2005, after 20 years of service to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in various information technology management roles. This experience provided Anna with the opportunity to gain in depth knowledge of public sector financial and HR business processes; manage innumerable projects; direct an organization of 100+ people; and to develop many skills that can be directed to helping BFCCPS become the best school it can be.

She started her professional career as an instrumental music teacher in Rhode Island and Massachusetts after receiving her B.S. in Music Education from Rhode Island College.

Beginning in the fall of 2006, Rich and spouse Sandy will see all of their four children off to school at BFCCPS. The Frongillo family has been a part of the BFCCPS community since their oldest transferred in as a first grader in 2002. Since then, the family has made many friends and tried to do its part to help this tremendous school!

Lakshmanan Iyer (a.k. a.  Lax), his wife Vidya and his kids, Shraddha and Surabhi, have settled in Franklin since 2004.  They are a first generation Indian American family happy to be actively integrating with the Franklin community.  Lax is a computational biologist researching on the molecular basis of physiology and diseases at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and Tufts Medical Center (TMC) at Boston.

Vidya is a medical doctor who has taken a career break to raise their kids. She volunteers regularly at the Milford Regional Hospital and

BFCCPS. Lax volunteers at BFCCPS too. He is on the board of the Friends of the Franklin Library, and is a team lead of the “Science Bee” team of the Northsouth Foundation, a charitable organization raising scholarships for economically disadvantaged but brilliant kids in India.

Lax holds a Ph. D. in Computational Biophysics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and has been a “Fogarty Visiting Fellow” at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Neuroscience Department (TUSM) and Assistant Professor at the Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (TMC).  He also consults for local biotechnology companies.

Lax enjoys science, humor and sharing his enthusiasm for both with others, especially young minds!

Don resides in Franklin with his wife, Laura and their two sons Donny and Robby both of whom are students at BFCCPS. 
They have been members of the BFCCPS community since 2006. In addition to serving as a member of the BFCCPS Board

of Trustees, Don is also actively involved in Franklin Cub Scouts.

For the past decade Don's professional focus has been on business development initiatives for web-based data and workflow

applications geared towards the financial and legal market segments.  Don holds both a Bachelor of Arts in Medieval Studies

from Plymouth State College and a Higher Diploma of Education in Irish History from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Thomas and his wonderful wife Cheryl first moved to Franklin in 1998 and left for a brief stint in 2001 to work in the Washington, D.C. area. He moved back with his family in 2004 to celebrate the birth of his third daughter, Victoria. His other two daughters, Beth and Grace, are both students at BFCCPS and they just love their teachers. Since being involved with the school, we have been most impressed with the strong parent-teacher relationships that are allowed to develop under BFCCPS’ education model.

Thomas' career has been characterized by a mix of technical and management positions in the electronics industry. He has been in the electronics business since 1990 with companies such as Raytheon, Nortel Networks, and Lockheed Martin.

Thom is currently employed at Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) facility in Sudbury, Massachusetts as a Section Manager. Here he is responsible for managing the technical, financial, and strategic aspects of the projects on which he works while managing a group of 21 electrical engineers.

Thom holds a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Maryland College Park, and an MBA from Babson College.

Poh-Lin and her husband, Hakan, joined the BFCCPS community in 2004 when their first son Kerim entered kindergarten. In 2005, their second son, Metin, joined the school. Originally from Malaysia, Poh-Lin and her family have lived in Franklin for 11 years. Poh-Lin has been an active volunteer in the school, serving in a variety of capacities including lunch/recess volunteer, classroom volunteer, member of the banking program committee, field trip chaperone, and photocopying, auction volunteer.

Poh-Lin currently teaches at Bentley College.  Her primary teaching interests are international marketing strategy and marketing management.  She currently consults with many
small- and medium-sized companies, helping them with their marketing strategies and business plans.  Some of their clients included the “Tour of Greater Boston” (a golf company), “The Belted Cow” (a casual belt company) and “Go Ask Anyone” (a card conversion company).  Before joining Bentley College, Poh-Lin also taught at University of South Carolina, National University of Singapore and Michigan State University.

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