Fred Green

A true leader is someone who, with a quiet determination, sets out to make a difference. Fred Green, Chairman of the CEO Club of Boston, has spent over three decades doing just that.

Fred is the author of the article "Why CEOs Need a Watering Hole: Benefits Abound When Top Executives Get Together" and the subject of an article called "'Presidential Advisory Councils' Offer CEOs Support, Counsel and and New Ideas," both published by CEO Refresher. His past reads like an interesting adventure novel. A graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in the mid-sixties, he spent his early days traversing the globe from the Far East to the Middle East to Africa, to Europe and to South America, as an Engineering Officer in the United States Merchant Marine.

Following his three-year commitment to the Merchant Marines, Fred enrolled in graduate school, earning a MBA from Northeastern University. From there it was on to the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand, until one of his clients there, the Abington Mutual Fire Insurance Company lured him away to a position in their property and causality insurance accounting department. At Abington Mutual, Fred fine-tuned his business skills, and eventually moved from accounting to become the firm’s VP of Finance.

It was during this time in the early seventies that Fred became actively involved in volunteer organizations. He had an idea, for example, about helping children with developmental disabilities, and soon created a seven-week overnight camp in Foxborough, Massachusetts called the Lincoln Hill Camp, focusing on children with severe behavior problems. From 1974 until 1982, he worked as the volunteer chairman of the camp, then in 1979 created the Lincoln Hill School for those children with severe behavioral problems who needed additional assistance throughout the traditional school year. This school stayed active for four years until the public school districts were able to accommodate these students.

In 1984, Fred was elected to succeed Abington Mutual Fire Insurance’s retiring president, making him the youngest president, at the age of 38, in the company’s 125-year history. As leader of the company, he added an entirely new insurance company as well as assumed management of a third company, taking Abington from $9 million in annual sales to $30 million in just a few years. By 1995, following such accomplishments, Fred felt it was time to begin his own venture, so he founded a management consulting firm, F. W. Green Associates, offering advice and counsel to CEOs in the Northeast.

Over the last 32 years, Fred has been elected to the board of directors of over 30 organizations, serving in leadership roles in 17 of them, including New England Association of Mutual Insurance Accountants (President), the Stonehill College Executive Committee for Development, the Foxborough Lions Club (President), the Old Colony YMCA, St. Mark’s Church of Foxborough Altar Server’s Guild and the Foxborough Committee for the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO,) to name just a few. He has been married to his wife Carol for the past 38 years, and has two children, daughter Jessica and son Joshua, a US Air Force major who recently served in Iraq.

In the year 2000, Fred suggested to a client company that it help him sponsor the re-establishment of the Boston Chapter of a national association called the Chief Executive Officers’ Club. As a result, the CEO Club of Boston was officially reborn. Today the CEO Club provides business, educational and networking opportunities to its CEO members, who qualify if their firms atain annual revenues of $2 million or more. The CEO Club of Boston also offers small group support in the form of Presidential Advisory Councils (PACS), which Fred facilitates. Each PAC consists of 10 or so CEO Club members who meet regularly and function as an unofficial board of advisors for each other.

To read Fred’s article "Why CEOs Need a Watering Hole: Benefits Abound When Top Executives Get Together,” click here.

To read an article about the PACs entitled "'Presidential Advisory Councils' Offer CEOs Support, Counsel and New Ideas,” click here.

To learn more about the CEO Club of Boston, click here.

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