The Team

Board and Advisors

Ladd Lavallee

Chairman of the Board

Ladd Lavallee is an executive coach and advisor to businesses and nonprofits. He helps CEOs create successful teams, operations, and stories. Previously, he was president and owner of Laddawn, Inc., a manufacturing and technology company sold to Berry Global in 2018. His approach is interdisciplinary, growth-oriented, and systematic. Lavallee is a husband, a father of two, a fitness enthusiast, and a philanthropist. His volunteerism in youth development and on behalf of people with disabilities has been uninterrupted for more than 35 years. He is an executive producer of the 2024 film My Own Normal.

Dr. Chris Joyce

Director of Research

Christopher Joyce is a clinical and implementation scientist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. He serves as Director of Research for the Rick Hoyt Research Lab, conducting projects that will increase opportunity for exercise and wellness for people with disability.

Karen Regan

Director of Marketing

Karen Regan is the owner and founder of Kaleidoscope, an integrated marketing and communications consultancy. For more than 25 years, Karen has worked with emerging companies and entrepreneurs to raise awareness, maximize share of voice, and drive sales. Through her efforts, she has successfully launched 100+ novel technologies, driven the acquisition of five startups, and secured strategic coverage with tier-one media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CBS News, and CNN. Karen’s career spans a range of industries, including technology, biotech, health care, green energy, insurance, hospitality and human resources. Her ability to translate complex topics into simplified communications and visualizations accelerates comprehension by key audiences and helps her clients establish leadership positions within their industry.

Owen Anketell

Treasurer

Owen is an all-season adaptive athlete. Since the age of 3 he has been skiing adaptively through New England Disabled Sports at Loon Mountain in New Hampshire, where he is an adaptive ski coach now. During high school, Owen founded a non-profit to help raise awareness for adaptive sports and hand cycled from Calais, ME to Key West, FL to support his organization’s mission. They covered a total of 2,365 miles and educated many people along the ride. At the age of 16, Owen obtained his Eagle Scout, earning 36 merit badges. He has been invited back to local scout meetings to discuss and show examples of all the adaptive sports he has been involved with and what opportunities are available for athletes and volunteers. Owen graduated from the University of Arizona in 2022 with a business management degree. He went to the University of Arizona to play on their wheelchair tennis team. While playing four years of collegiate wheelchair tennis, Owen traveled throughout the United States and became a national champion. Owen is currently a Loan and Collateral Analyst at Cambridge Savings Bank.

Bridget Bailey

Secretary

Bridget Bailey is a digital innovator and product analyst who focuses her work around designing, implementing, and improving digital accessibility and intuitive systems. She holds a degree in Information Science from the University of Michigan, with a track in User Experience Design. As the former Creative Director at AdaptX, she helped to design and develop the organization's digital presence across its podcast, newsletters, social media, and website. At NBCUniversal's Universal Kids, she produced multimodal content for a young audience where clarity and ease of use were essential. Currently, serves as an Innovation Development Analyst at JPMorganChase, where she supports product strategy and design for financial products and digital experiences for one one of the largest, most complex enterprises in the world. Across her work, Bridget prioritizes accessible, intuitive design as a foundational principle rather than a final consideration.

David Lambert

Finance Chair

David takes a comprehensive approach to wealth management and delivers dedicated services to high-net-worth clients. He blends a boutique experience and high-touch service model with RBC Wealth Management’s strong balance sheet and intellectual strength. David identifies his clients’ needs and helps them engage with specialists who can address their specific requirements. David’s depth of exposure to each business component makes him well-versed in the breadth of resources that RBC Wealth Management offers—trust and estate planning services, insurance services, investing and more. He takes particular care to match his clients with the most appropriate team or approach that can address the challenges they face. Before joining RBC Wealth Management in 2025, David’s decades of financial services experience included many years as a wealth advisor at J.P. Morgan and First Republic and similar roles serving high-net-worth clients at Alliance Capital, Comerica Bank and Santander Wealth Management. His investment background spans the private equity field, where he served as director of U.S. distribution for BDC Financial Group, a Boston-based firm that customized private equity and hedge fund-of-funds for accredited, institutional and qualified purchasers.

Nate Nester

Board Member

Nate Nester is the Director of the Falcon Fitness Center at Messiah University and a Licensed Athletic Trainer, American College of Sports Medicine Exercise Physiologist, and Adaptive Fitness Coach. He has spent his career working with individuals across a variety of settings, supporting them from immediately after surgery through their return to sport, work, and daily activities. Since transitioning full time into the health and wellness space, Nate has developed a growing passion for adaptive fitness and creating opportunities for individuals with disabilities to participate in exercise. Through his work at the Falcon Fitness Center, he has helped develop accessible fitness programming and organize events such as the Unified 5K and 1-Mile Inclusive Road Race and the inaugural AdaptX Next Stride Amputee Running and Mobility Clinic. Nate is committed to breaking down barriers to fitness by creating welcoming environments where individuals can build strength, confidence, and meaningful connections through exercise. He also values the opportunity to educate the next generation of fitness professionals and believes that everyone should have the opportunity to find a place in the fitness community.