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Steve Greeley, President
Steve Greeley is president of DCA. In addition to managing the firm, he serves as lead consultant on projects that involve strategic planning and the mobilization of partnerships and support to achieve social objectives at the community, national and international levels. His projects have included the development of large-scale initiatives to advance early childhood education and literacy in Charlotte, NC, Miami and Louisville, KY; assisting the growth and sustainability of initiatives launched by major philanthropies; the design and funding of the nation’s largest non-profit dedicated to protecting youth from tobacco addiction; and the design of resource development strategies for the Hilton-Perkins International Program, the Global Fund for Children’s Vaccines, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, and initiatives of Harvard Medical School and its hospital affiliates. Prior to joining the firm in 1995, Mr. Greeley served as director of development programs and public affairs at the Massachusetts General Hospital and director of development at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He also served as director of communications at the Boston University School for the Arts and director of corporate and foundation relations at Bentley College. Mr. Greeley earned a bachelor’s degree in music and theater at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a master's degree at the Boston University School of Public Communication.
Bill Walch, Founder
Bill Walch founded DCA in 1991. As DCA president he led the formulation of the Cause Development® methodology. Mr. Walch has directed projects dedicated to eliminating river blindness and neonatal tetanus, controlling tuberculosis, and expanding what has become the world’s largest program to train clinicians in the treatment of HIV/AIDS patients (based in South Africa). He has also helped design programs to advance the missions of academic medical centers, strengthen community-based coalitions, and help foundations utilize cause development to leverage their philanthropic investments. Prior to establishing DCA, Mr. Walch spent 21 years as an executive of a number of leading non-profit organizations. He was vice president for development and public affairs at the Massachusetts General Hospital and at the University of Chicago Medical Center; associate vice president for communications at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and development and public relations officer of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He began his career as a broadcast journalist in the Midwest. Mr. Walch has a degree in science journalism from Iowa State University and was a fellow of the Washington Journalism Center.
Gary Romano, Senior Consultant and Director of Operations
Gary Romano returned to DCA in 2005 as a senior associate. His work involves strategic counsel, project management and research used for identifying partners and financial supporters for clients across all sectors. Prior to DCA, Mr. Romano was a project manager for Battelle Memorial Institute, a non-profit that is one of the largest scientific research organizations in the world. Mr. Romano supervised a federal facility agreement and consent order between the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Defense and the State of Nevada governing the environmental clean up of the Nevada Test Site. Earlier he was director of development and public affairs for West Care, a social service agency with operations in Arizona, California and Nevada. Mr. Romano also has worked as an independent research and public relations consultant for such clients as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, George Soros’s Open Society Institute, CARE, and Consumers Union. He was on staff at DCA from 1995 to 1997. Mr. Romano earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a master’s in Urban Affairs at Virginia Tech, with a concentration in non-profit and government financial management.
John Williams, Senior Consultant
John Williams joined DCA as a senior consultant in April, 2007. While technically new to the firm, Mr. Williams is well acquainted with DCA’s work, having been a client at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Mr. Williams collaborated with DCA on early care and mobilization efforts in Boulder, CO. At the Knight Foundation Mr. Williams served as a program director administering a regional grant budget of $4 million in California and Colorado. His work focused on school readiness, primarily for low-income and immigrant children and families; as well as arts and culture and youth development. In addition to his philanthropic efforts, Mr. Williams has ample experience in capacity-building. He provided consulting and training in such areas as strategic planning; board and staff development and management; needs assessment; volunteer development; financial management and performance evaluation. Prior to Knight, Mr. Williams was a program officer for the California Community Foundation and earlier served as associate director for the Kellogg Training Center of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles. He began his career in banking with Citicorp and Chase Manhattan. Mr. Williams holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.
Brad Bauler, Senior Consulting Associate
Brad Bauler has been lead consultant on numerous international and domestic assignments related to preventing substance abuse, improving maternal and child health, and enhancing mental health services and access to health care. As an independent consultant to DCA, he assists on projects requiring focused strategic plan development, board development and program development for foundations, non-profits, government agencies and corporations. Mr. Bauler worked on staff at DCA from 1996 to 2002. Prior to that he was director of development and communications for the River Blindness Foundation, which played a lead role in one of the most successful international public health initiatives of the past two decades. He has served as Assistant Dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, vice president of development at The Visiting Nurses Association of Boston, director of development and community relations at the Cooley Dickinson Hospital and executive director of the AtlantiCare Health Foundation. He was also on the staff at Babson College and Bentley College. Mr. Bauler is a former Peace Corps Volunteer and is fluent in Spanish. He earned an undergraduate degree in journalism and philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree in public relations at the Boston University School of Public Communication.
Jonathan Payne, Associate
Jonathan Payne is responsible for project support and coordination, including research, interviewing, presentation development, and client reporting. He helps design and execute research plans to generate information relevant to the context in which client causes operate and to uncover the range of potential organizational and financial resources available to support their work. Previously, he worked with the Foundation for Ecological Security in India to promote environmental conservation, livelihood improvement, and ecosystem management at the community-level. Mr. Payne graduated Virginia Tech in 2005 with a B.A. in International Relations (Environmental Issues focus) and a minor in Political Science.
Mary Waldron, Associate
Mary Waldron works with DCA consultants, providing project support, developing reports and presentations, and managing logistics. She also generates research on prospective partners, funders and other participants who can help make DCA clients’ initiatives succeed. Ms. Waldron’s background includes work with a domestic violence intervention agency that served multiple counties in Virginia. She served as a grant writer and also developed outreach programs, in collaboration with other agencies, to engage the immigrant community in connecting with domestic violence resources. Ms. Waldron was graduated from the University of Mary Washington in June 2007. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration in journalism.
Beth Greeley, Associate
Beth Greeley performs client landscape assessments, research, project coordination and provides editorial services for case statements and other publications. Prior to DCA, she wrote case statements, articles, and program and donor publications for such institutions as Mass. General Hospital, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, McLean Hospital, New England Deaconess Hospital, New England Medical Center, Peabody Essex Museum, the Perkins School and Bentley College. Earlier in her career, Ms. Greeley was vice president of public relations at the advertising firm of Welch, Currier and was a senior account executive at Hill, Holliday, a national advertising agency. She earned a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.S. at the Boston University School of Public Communication.
Anne Ten Eyck, Finance Director
Anne Ten Eyck serves as finance director for DCA, managing financial planning and reporting, as well as accounts payable and receivable. Ms. Ten Eyck’s career includes serving as manager of capital planning in the Harvard University Planning and Real Estate Office. Prior to that she was a financial analyst for Harvard’s Office of Financial Systems. Ms. Ten Eyck earned a B.A. from Yale College at Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Johnson School at Cornell University.
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