Senior Management

Eric L. Masi, Ed.D. – President and Chief Executive Officer

Eric has served as the President & CEO of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network for over 30 years. Eric serves on various statewide committees and boards and is the Chair of the Children’s League of Massachusetts, and the Children’s Policy Committee Chairperson for the Association for Behavioral Health. Eric also serves as a Peer Reviewer for the Council on Accreditation of Services to Children and Families. He received his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and his master’s and doctorate degrees from Harvard University.

 

 

Elizabeth Reid, LICSW – Vice President

Ms. Reid has nearly 35 years of experience in the field.  She has been at Wayside Youth & Family Support Network for 24 years, in many roles including clinical services, oversight of outpatient and family based services, quality management and compliance, and in the last eight years she has overseen Wayside’s residential & day services component.  Ms. Reid has a long list of local and national speaking engagements, including Harvard Medical School, Boston University, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, and the National Managed Health Care Congress. She also has trained clinicians in Massachusetts and across the country in clinical interventions, substance use, clinical evaluation, assessment of suicide risk in adolescents, quality management systems, outcomes management and career ladders for direct care staff in residential settings.

 

Ms. Reid’s served for six years as chair of Association for Behavioral Healthcare of Massachusetts’ Compliance Committee and served for six years on the Board of the Samaritans with two years as chair.  She has also served as a member of the ABH Quality Management and Outcomes committee, and served on the Governor’s Task Force on Risk Management and the prevention of suicide in group care settings.

 

She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wells College, an MSW from Simmons College School of Social Work and is independently licensed (LICSW) in Massachusetts.

 

 Bonny Saulnier, MA – Vice President

During her 20 years at Wayside, Ms. Saulnier has been instrumental in developing programs that enhance family strengths and promote resiliency, community tenure, and permanency for children. She has worked to connect families and youth not only to top quality clinican services but also to a wide range of community supports such as peer, parent and sibling support groups, advocacy organizations and substance abuse prevention.

 

In 2007, Ms. Saulnier played a lead role in Wayside’s award of a substantial grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Initiatives Funding Partners program in a highly competitive selection of promising programs. The grant, matched by local funding partners, established the first young adult resource center in the MetroWest region dedicated to accessible, age-appropriate resources for young adults who are challenged by behavioral health issues.

 

Ms. Saulnier has also participated at the most senior levels with DSS on many of their groundbreaking family centered initiatives, from the development and implementation of Family Based Services system in 2000, Family Networks in 2005, and the Working with Families Right from the Start project.

 

Ms. Saulnier oversees Wayside’s Community Services, including our range of in-home, family-based services, the new CBHI services, Family Networks, Metrowest Counseling, Tempo Young Adult Resource Center, and our diverse community outreach programs. Ms. Saulnier has presented at several national conferences on family based treatment and parent empowerment models.

 

She received her undergraduate degree at Brandeis University and her master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts.  Ms. Saulnier and her family cared for over 20 foster children in the early decades of her career.

 

 

David Simmons, CPA – Chief Financial Officer

David joined Wayside as CFO in July 2009.  David has 25 years of professional experience serving as Professional Consultant, Controller, Director and Chief Financial Officer of several Public Accounting and Healthcare systems.  David earned his Bachelor’s degree from Bentley College in 1984.  David obtained his Certified Public Accountant’s license in 1988 and his Nursing Home Administrators license in 1996.

 

David adds extensive experience with budgeting, decision support, project management, system conversion, asset divestiture, product line acquisitions and all avenues of financing to Wayside’s senior management team.

 

 

Diane Ramirez-Riley, MBA – Director of Human Resources

Ms. Ramirez-Riley previously spent eight years at U.S. Environmental Rental Corporation, as a member of the senior team, overseeing business operations and human resources.

 

Ms. Ramirez-Riley completed her Masters in Human Resource Management in 2006 at the University of Phoenix, and holds an undergraduate degree in Business Management from Lesley University.

 

 

Marisa Rowe – Director of Development

A native of MetroWest, Ms. Rowe has been at Wayside for 3 years. She has a wide range of development and marketing experience honed after more than 15 years in the industry. Her development expertise includes fundraising campaigns, grant-writing and special events implementation.  Ms. Rowe also oversees Wayside’s marketing operations, including website and social media management. She began her career at arts organizations in New York and in Massachusetts, and more recently has turned her focus to social services.  Ms. Rowe received her B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University.