Baseball Hall of Fame member, Three-time World Series Champion and former World Series MVP David Ortiz, affectionately known as “Big Papi,” is an MLB studio analyst for FOX Sports. Inspired by a trip to the Dominican Republic’s CEDIMAT Hospital, Ortiz founded the David Ortiz Children’s Fund in 2007 to provide support for children who can’t afford the critical cardiac services that they need. He frequently cites saving lives as better than hitting home runs and winning World Series Championships.

Throughout his career, Ortiz earned 10 All-Star Game selections and seven Silver Slugger Awards, amassing 541 home runs, 2,472 hits and 1,768 RBIs. Ortiz retired in 2016 and as a tribute to his success in Boston, the Red Sox retired his jersey (No. 34) in 2017.

John Clark brings more than a 20 year track record of success to his role as EVP and Chief Business Development Officer for FSM. Clark oversees the sales team focused on selling integrated sponsorship and marketing partnerships across Fenway Sports Group’s prestigious portfolio of properties which include the Boston Red Sox, Liverpool Football Club, Roush Fenway Racing and the New England Sports Network.  Additionally, the group works with a variety of closely related partners such as LeBron James and Uninterrupted, the PGA Tour and the Northern Trust Golf tournament among others. Clark is also focused more broadly on developing and executing an integrated growth strategy across all lines of the FSM Business including the Consulting, Events and Experiences division as well as the Special Events Unit.   Clark leverages his experience driving high-impact sales opportunities for elite sports properties throughout his career, Clark has had the privilege to represent a variety of properties including MSG Sports, the New York Knicks (NBA), the New York Rangers (NHL),the New York Liberty (WNBA), the Miami Dolphins (NFL),  and the Houston Rockets (NBA). Clark began his career in Minor League Baseball helping to start the Lakewood BlueClaws and spending time with the Norwich Navigators and Kinston Indians early in his career. 

Personally, John has been involved with the Big Brother/Big Sisters Organization over the past 15 years in some capacity in most of the markets he has lived in.  He currently sits on the Board of Advisors for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Mass Bay.  Additionally – John has raised more than $100,000 for the Golf Fights Cancer Foundation having completed 5 Boston Marathons in recent years.  

John lives in Natick, MA with his wife Keri and two boys, Jackson and Tyler.  

Bill Stone brings more than a 25 year track record of consistent strategic sales leadership success to his roll, most recently with Google. He has worked as a sales technology leader for large innovative technology companies in various capacities at the Key Account Director, North American, and regional level at Google, Oracle, IBM, Blue Yonder (formerly JDA), and a GE spinoff (also now part of Blue Yonder) in the industries of financial services and insurance, retail, CPG, and wireless telecommunications where he consulted and sold to the C-level of the top companies in those industries.

Stone has been a mentor in those companies and keynote speaker for IBM at regional events as well as a SME at many trade shows and conferences like shop.org and NRF.  Earlier in his career he was nominated as a top percentage future leader and took leadership training sponsored within those companies including at Boston University and Harvard.  Stone also took classes at San Diego State and graduated with a BA from UCONN.

Personally, Bill believes in both paying it forward and giving back and has been involved with the American Red Cross in NYC at Ground Zero after 9/11 in multiple capacities including running part of Respit 3, Enkosini Lion Rescue in South Africa, Habitat For Humanity in the Boston area, Pet Partners, and other various charities he’s volunteered for or raised material funds for like Dana-Farber and Boston Food Bank.

Bill lives in Manchester By The Sea, MA with his wife Jane and two daughters, Lauren and Beth.

Originally, I am an immigrant from the Philippines (came to the US when I was 5 yrs old) and have been fortunate to be “living the American dream”.  For the first 7 years in the US, I grew up in the lower east side of NYC in a 2-bedroom apt with my immediate family (mom, dad, sister, grandma), which turned a bit tight when my aunt, uncle and 2 cousins also came to America and lived with us for 9 months.  After the 1^st year where my family was working odd jobs (i.e., my dad delivered dry cleaning and flowers, my mom worked for a freight forwarder), my parents started a trucking and warehousing business that was able to gain clients & opportunities as a minority and woman-owned business in NYC.  It was the family business that we all worked in from the very beginning (I was in the warehouse at 7/8 and was working the forklift when I was 10) and it enabled our family to provide for a middle class lifestyle in my teenage years.  As a result, my family and early childhood experiences instilled certain values in me from the beginning – hard work, family support, being smart/thoughtful in your work and more importantly appreciating the opportunities afforded to you.  I have been fortunate in life and benefitted from these opportunities, which has led me to be involved with several altruistic/charitable organizations over the years:

• High school — I became an EMT at 16 years old (in NJ) and was a volunteer EMT in my town’s ambulance corps. 
• For 2 summers during high school, I was a volunteer (2x/week) at my local hospital visiting with the elderly and assisting with transport.
• From 2002-2007, I was a volunteer for the Coalition for the Homeless under their Grand Central Food Program where I drove a van filled with food every Friday night (7pm – 9:30pm) that made stops around the city and fed between 350-400 people that night.
• From 2007 – 2015, I was on the Board of Forestdale, Inc., which is the largest Queens based foster care agency in NY with oversight over 500 children. 
  • I originally joined the agency to help turn it around as it was losing ~$1mm/year in 2007, was exhausting its endowment of approx. $10mm at the time and was not well-run with 50% turnover of its social workers each year.
  • I served in various roles of the board including Finance Committee (Treasurer and Chair), Strategic Planning and Executive Committee.  For my last 3 years, I was the Chairman of the Board.
  • Prior to my departure in 2015 (needed to focus on my career and my wife having our first child):
    • Forestdale was regarded/ranked as a top 3 agency in NYC;
    • The endowment grew to $20mm;
    • I lead the succession of both the retiring Executive Director and also of my position as Board Chair with the current ED and Chair in place today. 

My younger daughter Ella is a true miracle in my family. When my wife was 20 weeks pregnant, our daughter in utero was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect (Hypoplastic left heart syndrome) and for many weeks of the pregnancy, her status to survive after birth was questionable.  The doctors at our local hospital NYU helped us to understand that Ella’s condition was manageable and operable after birth, so she had open heart surgery at 6 days old.  There has been a decent amount of time spent at NYU and various doctors officesbut Ella has been growing up in a reasonably normal childhood.  My wife and I understand what it is like to raise a child with this condition and it has not been easy from an emotional and mental aspect, but we also recognize and appreciate that we have the financial resources to support our family and more importantly Ella as she grows up with residual symptoms of her condition…so I want to help and be part of a solution to support other families who have to face a similar dilemma.