Tamara P. Davis

Tamara Davis is the Managing Director of Davis Board Services, LLC in Boston, where she consults with CEOs and Boards of entrepreneurial life science companies relating to Board composition, governance best practices, Board performance and effectiveness, and building Boards as strategic assets. Previously, Ms. Davis served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of UST Leasing Corporation, an investment banking/financial services company in Boston. She was also formerly an Assistant Dean of Humanities at Santa Ana College in California and an educator within the Los Angeles City Schools System. Ms. Davis is a former Board Director of UNO Restaurant Corporation (NYSE), a past Chairman of the Massachusetts State College Building Authority, a former Vice Chairman of the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, and a former Board Director of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education. She is currently a Commissioner on the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission, an Honorary Advisor at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and an Advisor Emerita at the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  Tamara Davis earned an M.A., summa cum laude, in Higher Education Administration, from California State University, and a B.A., in English, Russian and Speech, from University of California, Los Angeles.