Romney Resney is a Senior Partner and Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group, where she has held multiple leadership roles, including leader of BCG’s Bay Area offices, as well as leader of the firm’s Health Care practice in the West, and global lead on launch, customer centricity and commercial excellence.
With more than 25 years of consulting experience, she has advised clients across the healthcare ecosystem—helping organizations effectively deliver optimal treatment and care to patients as well as shape commercial strategies, drive growth, and support sustainable performance. Her work spans more than 20 major product launches, as well as complex market entry efforts and post-merger integration programs.
In addition to her focus on strategy, Romney is deeply engaged in organizational capability building, having designed and led multiple global initiatives to enhance marketing effectiveness and scale technologies. Romney graduated with honors from Harvard University, and also holds a Master’s In Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Romney is known for working closely with client teams to build leadership capacity and embed long-term commercial excellence. Romney’s approach reflects a strong belief in inclusive growth and empowerment—principles that align with GLIDE’s mission of supporting transformation and equity through partnership and compassion.
Lesly Simmons is a technology executive and longtime advocate for maternal, child, and family health. In 2022, she was appointed as a Commissioner for San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families, and has held board positions with several nonprofits in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Lesly is also the founder of The Dollhouse Project, which produces inclusive, play-based experiences for children and families across the country.
Professionally, Lesly is the Head of Community Innovation at Amazon, where she handles strategic partnerships for generative AI and machine learning initiatives for public good. She lives in San Francisco with her family.
Lynn Brinton is a senior communications executive with more than 25 years’ experience conceiving and managing broad communications programs with measurable impact for Fortune 500 companies. She held leadership positions at three of the top global agencies: Hill and Knowlton, Fleishman Hillard and Ogilvy where she worked on clients ranging from Visa and AT&T to McDonalds and Nissan. She led in-house corporate communications for Pacific Bell, Netflix and Shopping.com. In May 2022, Lynn received a Master’s in Public Affairs from the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley.
Lynn has a lifelong interest in creating greater equity in education, aging, and economic opportunity. She is currently on the Institute on Aging’s Board of Directors and has served in board and leadership roles at 10,000 Degrees, Osher Marin JCC, and Mill Valley Library Foundation.
She is a 25-year member of Glide Memorial Church. She and her husband were married by Glide’s Reverend Douglass Fitch, her now teenage daughter learned to walk among the pews in the Sanctuary and they all enjoy volunteering when not spending time with family and friends in the Bay Area.