“CM was an important part of my growing up, and a big contributor to who I am now,” says Frank Doyle ’66. “My mother, who’s British, credited the Christian Brothers for turning around my grandfather from a mischievous young man. She and my father were key to the decision for me to go to CM over BC High, because of the lifelong values and training they gave you.” Those lifelong values are alive and well in you.
You received a bachelor’s degree from Boston College before pursuing an MBA there as well. And in the twenty-nine years that followed, you pursued excellence in the workplace, rising in the ranks of PriceWaterhouseCoopers over the course of three decades to become its Global Technology Leader and a member of the firm's fourteen person Global Leadership Team.
In 2001, one client solicited your services more than any other—Connell Limited Partnership, which named you President. A company that sits comfortably on the Forbes 500 list of largest private companies, with revenues exceeding one billion dollars, Connell operates in five divisions and has approximately 20 manufacturing locations in ten countries and over 3,000 employees. In a typical week, you find yourself somewhere between Boston, Oklahoma, Ontario or worldwide, conducting business and moving your firm ahead.
A recognized business leader in Boston, you have been a board member for the Massachusetts High Technology Council, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Massachusetts Business Roundtable and Jobs for MA. You have served on the Governor’s Council on Economic Growth and Technology, an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a past Director of Citizens Bank and Trustee of Joslin Diabetes Center.
Responding to the call of a client in need, however, is your greatest aspiration as a business leader, and currently your docket is a full one. Aside from your work at Connell, you are a Director at Liberty Mutual, Tempur-Pedic International, Inc., and Boston College where you were awarded the Carroll Graduate School of Management’s Distinguished Achievement Award in 2000.
After thirty-eight years, you remain happily married to the Dorchester girl you met at Howdie’s and who attended CM dances in her high school years. You and Donna have two daughters, Shannon and Alexandra, and six grandchildren, and can be found in Palm Beach or at your home in Harwich when on vacation.
For a lifelong devotion to the values his parents held in such esteem, a steadfast work ethic to clients in need, and a career that has earned him the continued respect and admiration of his peers, his family and his hometown, Catholic Memorial School proudly bestows upon Frank Doyle the Vince in Bono Malum Award for Professional Achievement.
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