13 Facts About Elyse Cherry

Elyse Cherry was born on 1954 and is the chief executive of BlueHub Capital, a community development financial institution.

Elyse Cherry is known for her work in community development, affordable housing, and LGBTQ activism.

Elyse Cherry spent the next several years as a field examiner in the New England region of the National Labor Relations Board.

In 1992, Elyse Cherry joined the Plymouth Rock family of insurance companies, where she served as a vice president and counsel of SRB, an investment-management subsidiary of Plymouth Rock Assurance.

Elyse Cherry is a member of the Wellesley College Board of Trustees, the Board of Advisors of Eastern Bank, Chair of the Board of the Forsyth Institute, and the Board of Directors of The Boston Foundation.

Elyse Cherry is a former or present member of several privately held company boards, including include Zipcar, Pilgrim Insurance, Acelero Learning, Selectech, and WegoWise,.

For government agencies, Elyse Cherry was the Chair of the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Foreclosure Impacts Task Force, to which she was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.

Elyse Cherry previously served on the boards of the nonprofits Opportunity Finance Network, the Center for New Words, and the Alliance for Business Leadership.

Elyse Cherry co-chaired GLAD's capital campaign, One Justice Fund, which raised $1.7 million.

Elyse Cherry is a 1975 graduate of Wellesley College, where she studied political science and from which she received the 2017 Alumnae Achievement Award.

Elyse Cherry is a 1983 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, where she delivered the student commencement address.

In 2021, BlueHub Capital, under Elyse Cherry's leadership, was named one of the Top 100 Women Led Businesses in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe and The Commonwealth Institute for the eighth consecutive year.

Elyse Cherry has appeared on TV and radio shows such as the PBS NewsHour and Making Money with Charles Payne.