Bruce Apotheker

Bruce Apotheker is retired Commander of the Community Services Bureau and Civil Rights Officer for the Newton Police Department. A results driven leader, Bruce has a proven track record of forging partnerships with government, schools, business organizations and citizens of the community. A graduate of Boston College, Bruce brings his expertise in building relationships, communications and problem-solving to the Boston Bulldogs. He is involved with Newton Cares, Newton Partnership, the Newton Mayor’s Crime Commission and the Newton Human Rights Commission.

Julio Cortes del Olmo, JD

Julio is the principal immigration attorney at Del Olmo Law PC in Brookline, MA. Julio has been representing asylum seekers, minors, juveniles, LGBTQ and other vulnerable immigrants since 2013. He serves as liaison with the Boston Immigration Court on the New England chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and volunteers with pro-immigrant nonprofits, including the PAIR Project, KIND, and Immigration Equality.

Jack Fultz

Jack Fultz won the 1976 Boston Marathon with a time of 2:20:19. The temperature was nearly 100 degrees at the noon start time. Fultz qualified for three consecutive United States Olympic Trials marathons in 1972, 1976, and 1980 and set his personal best marathon of 2:11:17 at the 1978 Boston Marathon. Jack recently retired after 27 years as adjunct instructor of Sport Psychology at Tufts University.

​Presently he is a fitness consultant, personal coach, and is Training Advisor and consultant to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Marathon and Running Programs.

Juliette Goldstein

A certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Juliette is a graduate of Miami University with a BS in Finance and Accounting. Juliette has an MBA from the University of Chicago and began her career at Bank of America in the High Yield Origination group. More recently Juliette has devoted herself to her strength and conditioning business working principally with individuals over 40 and individuals with traumatic brain injury, chronic injuries that prevent full range of motion, developmentally delayed adults, and those new to weight training. She has also provided guidance to a number of non profits in the Chicago area including PACTT Learning Center (2015) – as a Pro Bono Board Consultant and Rogers Park Montessori School as Diversity Committee Chair, and Board Member.

Lori Griffiths

A graduate of NYU in 1972 with a BS in Education, Lori taught school in NYC and organized community outreach to strengthen school-child-home partnerships. She later developed an aftercare program for Levine Chapels, a large funeral home in Brookline where she developed an expansive bereavement program to reach to families who have suffered loss, including self help groups for widows , encouraging those who were suffering from the sadness of grief to reach to others for support and friendship.

With her late wife, Lori raised four children in Brookline. The Bulldogs have brought love, support and hope to her family. “My love for the club runs deep.”

Shelley Isaacson

Shelley co-founded the Boston Bulldogs Running Club in 2015 with Coach Mike Ferullo. For the first ten years of its existence as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Shelley organized the administrative, membership, marketing, and branding efforts of the Club. She also led the annual Run for Recovery 5K and Tribute each May at Franklin Park and served on the Board of Directors.

As a marketing professional with experience in both the public and private sectors, Shelley has an MBA from Boston University. She continues to generously share her extensive strategic planning, program management and marketing skills with the Boston Bulldogs.

Anna McKeown

Anna McKeown is the Executive Director of Dreamfar High School Marathon and a small group literacy teacher in Newton, MA. Her graduate studies at Springfield College were inspired by a combination of her life experiences and marathon running. She aims to create opportunities for connectedness by identifying communities of teens with limited access to after school activities and those who may have misperceptions about being an athlete.

Having personally experienced the transformative power of running, Anna continues to train for distance events both individually and as a mentor. Since 2010 she has completed 16 marathons, including three Boston time qualifiers, and has participated in two Boston Marathons with Dreamfar seniors. Actively involved in the running community in her Hyde Park neighborhood, she collaborates with local stakeholders to find ways to enhance access to wellness activities and lifelong sports for youth in local high schools.

Michael Papile

Michael is the Co-Founder of Hesperia Capital, LLC, an investment platform that provides growth equity to mission driven companies. He holds an undergraduate degree from Villanova University and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Michael has previously served on the Board of the Boston Bulldogs and several other non-profit organizations including the Italian Home for Children. He has advised and invested in numerous behavioral health organizations including several specializing in treating substance use disorders. Michael is a casual runner, and although it does not come easy to him, the therapeutic benefits of running have had a profound impact on his well being.

Sarah Perry

Sarah has over 30 years of experience in leading mission-based organizations and consulting to companies and nonprofits in the areas of strategic planning, donor relations and development, organizational growth, capacity building, outcomes measurement, grant writing, and board governance, among others. Sarah chairs the Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Council at Newton Wellesley Hospital, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Boston Athenaeum, the Anti-Defamation League of NE, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), and on numerous Advisory Boards. Sarah has a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. She has been a proud Bulldog member for over 3 years and an avid runner for over 40.

Becca Pizzi

Becca is an American marathon runner from Belmont, Massachusetts. She is the first American woman to complete the World Marathon Challenge, a series of seven marathons on seven continents in seven consecutive days, for which she holds the current record. She finished each race well ahead of all the other four women runners, and ahead of nine of the eleven men competitors.

Becca started running at age six with her father; ran her first race that year and her first Boston Marathon at age seventeen. She had run it fifteen times by 2015, as well as 45 marathons in 27 states. After college, she started the Belmont Track Club.

Bill Rodgers

William Henry Rodgers is an American Olympian and former record holder in the marathon. Rodgers is best known for his four victories in both the Boston Marathon, including three straight (1978-1980) and the New York City Marathon between 1976 and 1980.

John Ratey, MD

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an internationally recognized expert in Neuropsychiatry, Dr. Ratey has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, and 11 books published in 17 languages, including the groundbreaking ADHD “Driven to Distraction” series with Ned Hallowell, MD. With the publication of “Spark:The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain”, Dr. Ratey has established himself as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the brain-fitness connection. His most recent book, “Go Wild”, explores how we can achieve optimal physical and mental health by getting in touch with our caveman roots, and how we can “re-wild” our lives. His non-profit, Sparking Life, promotes exercise in the treatment of mental health problems.

Thomas Heins

Member of the Boston Bulldogs Board of Directors, Thomas has been in the sound control industry since 2001, holding roles ranging from Project Manager to Director. He currently works at QuietStar Industries, the Northeast’s leading provider of turn-key sound-control solutions.

Joe McGonegal

Director of Advancement Marketing at Stanford University, Joe is an award-winning higher-education advancement and communications professional with two decades of experience in college and university roles.

Chrissy Meagher

Fundraiser for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Chrissy is also a collegiate runner who has consistently run the Boston Marathon for charity.

Paul Sheff

Former Vice President of Advancement at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester and the former President of Catholic Memorial School in Boston, Paul served as the National President of CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) from 1988-1999.

Ted Wayman

Member of the Boston Bulldogs Board, Ted is a reporter for WCVB Channel 5’s award winning NewsCenter 5 team. He is an Emmy award-winning journalist who has covered an array of stories in the Boston market for two decades.