Board of Directors

Norm Veit is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of The McCartney Foundation which proudly helps a variety of organizations that serve the hearing impaired and special needs communities.   Before this, Norm spent 40 years in the retail and manufacturing industries holding senior-level executive roles.  Having recently retired as Chief Operating Officer at Alex and Ani Jewelry, he has also served as the Chief Information Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Century 21 Stores, as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at The Bon Ton Stores, and before that as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at The Jones Group.   Norm has also served on the Board of Tuesday’s Children, a non-profit organization providing services to families impacted by the 9/11 tragedy, members of the military and their families dealing with PTSD, severe injury or loss, and families impacted by other tragedies throughout the United States.

Dr. Todd Hobbs is a physician with both clinical experience as well as a vast array of roles as a leader in the biopharmaceutical space. The bulk of his career was with Novo Nordisk, where he led the US organization as Chief Medical Officer during numerous successful product launches and extensive growth. Since departing Novo, he has led early clinical development for several public and private small biotech organizations in cardiometabolic diseases. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer for BaseCure Therapeutics, a rapidly growing global biotech company uniquely addressing the treatment of multiple chronic diseases. Before joining the industry, Dr. Hobbs began his clinical career in Kentucky, where he focused his practice on the intensive management of diabetes patients of all ages and served as the chairman of a large regional medical center's medicine department. In addition to his medical degree and primary care based residency, he completed an executive training program from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Veit is currently serving in the Office of Philanthropic Partnerships at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology located in Cambridge, MA. Prior to this she worked in the Intellectual Property law firm of Lando and Anastasia LLP in Boston MA. Ms. Veit is a Cumulate graduate of The Suffolk University with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology.