Episode 193: Ralph Boyd, President & CEO of SOME, Inc.

This week we interview Ralph Boyd. Ralph is the President and CEO of SOME, Inc., a large Washington, D.C.-based housing development, health care, and human services organization. Boyd has extensive experience as a senior executive and board leader in both the public company and nonprofit sectors and served as a federal prosecutor and assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice. His executive experience also includes serving as EVP and general counsel of a Fortune 50 financial services company, CEO of a major corporate foundation, CEO of the Americas region of an international real estate development organization, and a regional CEO of The American Red Cross. Boyd also previously practiced law as a partner in the Boston office of Goodwin Procter LLP and the Washington, D.C., office of Alston & Bird. Ralph serves on the board of directors for InfuSystem and currently serves as chair of the Compensation Committee. He also serves as a member of the Corporate Nominating and Governance Committee.He previously served as a board member and Audit Committee chair of the DirecTV Group, Inc. (formerly NASDAQ: DTV) and as a member of the company's Nominating and Governance Committee. He currently serves as chair of Sandy Spring Bancorp's (NASDAQ: SASR) Compensation Committee and as a member of the Executive and Nominating and Governance Committees. Boyd also is the non-executive chairman of the NHP Foundation, a nonprofit developer, owner, and operator of multi-family affordable housing properties nationwide. Boyd is a graduate of Haverford College and Harvard Law School.