Our Board

Bruce Henderson

Chair

Bruce Henderson is President of Matrix USA, Inc., an international consulting firm of 30+ years building bridges between information-technology markets in the U.S. and Japan. He is chair and co-founder of NewtonSTEM and previously has served as chair of the Newton Community Education Commission, trustee of the First Unitarian Society in Newton, and president of two parent-teacher organizations. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB in Economics from Princeton University.

David Rosenblatt

Vice Chair

David is a recently retired attorney and law firm partner who practiced at the Boston-based firm, Burns & Levinson LLP for over four decades. He also served as Managing Partner of the firm for 24 years, stepping down in April 2023. David’s area of practice is environmental law where he specialized in assisting clients in cleaning up contaminated property and complying with environmental laws, regulations and permitting requirements. Outside the office, David has focused on lawyer mental health issues.  In 2018-2019, he served on the Supreme Judicial Court’s Steering Committee on Lawyer Well-Being, which was formed to explore and make recommendations regarding the state of well-being in the legal profession.  He currently serves as a Board member and Treasurer of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, a nonprofit that promotes well-being, resilience and mental health for lawyers in Massachusetts. 

Tamirirashe Gambiza

Treasurer

Tamirirashe (Tami) Gambiza, CPA, CGMA, is a Senior Audit Manager at CohnReznick, a national accounting, tax and advisory firm, with over 12 years in the public accounting industry. His work spans financial services of not-for-profits, state colleges, universities, and state agencies and authorities. His focus is on the real estate industry, including affordable housing, commercial, developers, management agents, low-income housing and historic tax credits, asset management, and due diligence. His work also includes operational and integrated audits and internal controls over financial reporting. He has a BS in Accounting from Bellevue University in Nebraska. He is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA), where he is an active member of the MSCPA Accounting and Audit Committee.

David Hale

Clerk

​David Hale has been a partner at Omni Properties, LLC since 2002 and focuses solely on Omni development projects. David has developed expertise permitting projects using Chapter 40B and has been responsible for the acquisition, development strategy, permitting, and financing of Omni’s multifamily and retail projects. Over the years, Omni has assembled land and entitled 660 residential units mostly using Chapter 40B, the state’s affordable housing law. Of the 660 units, 124 have affordability restrictions. David is a current board member of Partakers, an organization that provides mentors to incarcerated people as they try to achieve a college education. David was also a past board member (2008-2014) and chair of the Concord Housing Development Corporation (CHDC), the town of Concord’s affordable housing development entity. Before joining Omni, David was President and CEO of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTM) Capital Corporation, which specialized in investment banking and large-ticket secured lending/leasing. David received a master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a BS/BA from Babson College.

Iva Comey

President & CEO

Iva came to Commonwealth Land Trust in 2019 as President & CEO, succeeding Ellen Tan’s 25 years in that role. Iva was previously the Assistant Director of the Office of Children, Youth and Families within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, where she managed programs involving state agencies, local communities, human services providers, and private vendors. Before that, she was Deputy Commissioner for Operations Management at the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance and Senior Finance Manager at Justice Resource Institute.
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Iva holds an MBA/Master of Science in Finance from Northeastern University, a Master of Arts in Political Science from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/International Relations from American University in Bulgaria.

The President & CEO of CLT serves in an ex officio capacity on the CLT Board.

​Alberto Chang

Alberto Chang, LICSW (MA), CSW (NH), is a psychotherapist with his own private practice, Aspire Mental Wellbeing. He formally was a bilingual outpatient clinician at Lahey Health Behavioral Services in Lawrence, MA for five years. Prior to psychotherapy, Alberto spent 20 years in the business world, including 15 years as a CPA at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he provided management consulting and litigation support services. He has a MSW from Simmons College, an MBA from Columbia University, and a BSE in Accounting and Decision Sciences from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lou Odette

Lou Odette is a past board member (2019-2025) and board chair of Wellesley Central Residences, Inc. (WCRI), a social housing organization in Toronto, and is the President of a private foundation focusing on homelessness, food insecurity, and affordable housing. He also serves on the steering committee of the Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Lou had a senior role in Deloitte’s Strategic Analytics and Modeling practice in Toronto and, prior to Deloitte, was Vice President of Quantitative Modeling & Research at AIG in Boston. Before joining AIG, he founded five companies and two charitable organizations. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT, an MSc in Mathematics from Oxford University, and was an ASP Fellow in Mathematics at MIT through 2014.

Marva Serotkin

Marva Serotkin spent 35 years as a healthcare executive leading organizations that serve under-resourced populations across the continuum of care. Marva has applied this experience and passion to serve and lead the boards of directors of several not-for-profit organizations. Currently she is the co-chair of the board of directors of Social Venture Partners Boston, where she consults with emerging not-for-profits in Boston and chairs the board of directors of Harmon Apartments LLC, an affordable supportive housing development for people with disabilities, that was planned and constructed by The Boston Home while she was President for 20 years. Marva is also Chair of the Newton Housing Partnership and the former President and Treasurer of the board of directors at Codman Square Health Center. She is a former President of the Mass Public Health Association and Mass Senior Care Association and Director of the Shattuck Hospital. She has been honored by the Mass Health Council for outstanding contribution in promoting and protecting the health of residents of Massachusetts. Marva has a Master in Public Health from Yale University and a BA from Boston University.

Darrell Byers

Darrell C. Byers is a nonprofit executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience in organizational strategy, fundraising, governance, and financial management. He most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Interise, where he led the organization’s post-pandemic turnaround, transformed its business model, and strengthened relationships with major philanthropic partners, including MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Throughout his career, Darrell has helped mission-driven organizations navigate periods of growth and change while securing transformational philanthropic investments for institutions including the University of Massachusetts Boston, GBH, Georgetown University Medical Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Earthjustice.

In addition to his executive leadership, Darrell brings extensive governance and financial oversight experience. He was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to the board of the Massachusetts Health & Educational Facilities Authority (now MassDevelopment) and has served in leadership roles with the Urban College of Boston Foundation, the Partnership for Financial Equity, the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, and the Holy Cross Alumni Association. A frequent speaker on nonprofit leadership and governance, he received the Eleanor Collier Award from CASE District I for distinguished service to the educational advancement profession. Darrell holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the College of the Holy Cross. His experience scaling mission-driven organizations and building philanthropic partnerships will support CLT as it continues expanding affordable housing and supportive services.

Ithzel Polanco-Cabadas

Ithzel is a Senior Real Estate Project Manager at Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC), where she leads the development of affordable, equity-centered housing. She brings twelve years of experience in affordable housing development and administration in the Greater Boston area. Prior to joining JPNDC, Ithzel spent five years as a Real Estate Project Manager at 2Life Communities, where she led the $43 million expansion of Golda Meir House in Newton, the $37 million development of Leland House in Waltham, and the start of construction on an $83 million, 150-unit affordable senior housing development in Lynn. Earlier in her career, she managed the City of Somerville’s Inclusionary Housing Program and began her affordable housing career at MetroHousing Boston administering Section 8 vouchers and the Family Economic Stability Program. Ithzel holds a BA in International Studies from Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania and an MPA in International Development from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.