Louis J. Woolf, President and CEO
Louis J. Woolf is president and CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife. Previously, he was executive vice president and chief operating officer at Partners Healthcare System's North Shore Medical Center, a multi-site, integrated health care delivery system. He also spent eight years in leadership at the CareGroup Healthcare System, where he held key positions, including executive vice president and COO of New England Baptist Hospital and senior vice president of system development and communications for all CareGroup's hospitals. Read Lou's full bio.
Richard J. Henken, Board Chair
Rick Henken has been a volunteer leader at Hebrew SeniorLife for 15 years. He is president of The Schochet Companies, including Schochet Development, Schochet Investments, and Schochet Property Management (Schochet Companies’ wholly owned property management subsidiary). Rick officially joined the Schochet Companies as its Executive Vice President in 1997, after having been affiliated with, and an advisor to, the company for more than a decade. He has been responsible for closing transactions with a total value approaching $1 billion, including the acquisition and preservation as affordable of over 3,500 apartments in 16 developments.
Rick earned Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Economics from Tufts University, and a Master of Science degree in Management, with concentrations in Marketing and Finance, from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Prior to joining The Schochet Companies, Rick was a marketing and strategy consultant to Fortune 500 companies and held senior marketing positions in the financial services and consumer packaged goods industries.
In addition to Hebrew SeniorLife, Rick sits on several Boards of Directors, including the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University, NewLease for the Homeless, and Discovering Justice. Other volunteer leadership includes the Catholic Schools Foundation, the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, the Massachusetts Apartment Association, the National Apartment Association, and Jewish Family Services of MetroWest. He is a member of the Economics Advisory Board of the Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Rick is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award of the Tufts University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Retirement Housing Foundation Friend of the Elderly Award; the B'nai B'rith Housing Distinguished Achievement Award, the RHA’s Industry Excellence Award; the Lawyers Clearinghouse Stephen M. Nolan Leadership Award; and the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Award for his service to the Catholic Schools Foundation.
2024-2025 Board of Directors
Richard J. Henken, Chair
Jay L. Webber, Vice Chair
Marsha R. Cohen, Treasurer and Secretary
Harrison Bane
Howard E. Cohen
Thomas J. DeSimone
Jeffrey D. Drucker
Jane C. Edmonds
Todd B. Finard
Steven Flier, M.D.
Reese Genser
Harold G. Kotler
Hinda L. Marcus
Julie Rosen*
David Rosenthal, M.D.
Susan Florence Smith
Roberta S. Weiner
Ellen Zane
Mark Zeidel, M.D.
* ex officio
