Email: elliott_p@fcgreaterboston.com

Biography

Elliott Pratt, CEO of the FC Bolts Celtic, has been a resident of Wellesley, MA since 1993.  He has been employed by Mortgage Network, Inc. since 1991, and currently manages the Wellesley, MA office.

He received his BA from Colby College in 1980, and is a 1976 graduate of the Noble and Greenough School.

Soccer has been a lifetime passion for Elliott.  He was a college soccer player at Colby College; has held coaching positions at both the high school level and as an assistant coach with the Bolts; was president of the Wellesley United Soccer Club, and for the last four years has served as president and now CEO of FC Bolts Celtic.

He and his wife Tricia have three children, recent college graduate, Katie (22) and twin boys Michael and Christopher (20).

W. Scott Burke - Club President

Email: scottburke@fcgreaterboston.com

Biography

Mr. Burke is President and a member of the Board of Directors for the FC Bolts Celtic.  Founded in 1986, FC Greater Boston (now FC Bolts Celtic) is the oldest elite youth soccer club in Massachusetts. Scott serves as Chair of the Communications Committee and he provides direction on long-term strategic initiatives along with management support for day-to-day activities.  Mr. Burke also serves on the Board of Directors for the Wellesley United Soccer Club, the second largest town program in the state of Massachusetts.

Dr. Scott Burke is also a Professor in the School of Business at Mount Ida College, located in Newton, MA.  Mr. Burke teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.  His areas of expertise and curricula experience include Business Policy, Principles of Marketing, Sports Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management in the undergraduate program and Management Theory and Organizations, Strategic Planning and Policy Development, and Project Management in the graduate program.

Brian Ainscough - Director of Coaching

Email: b.ainscough@neu.edu

Biography

Brian Ainscough is currently the Head men’s soccer Coach at Northeastern University. With back-to-back appearances in the CAA Championship final under his belt, Ainscough has the Huskies knocking on the door of an NCAA Tournament berth.

Ainscough continued the Huskies’ upward trend in 2009 with a 10-8-1 overall record and a 8-2-1, CAA record, which represents the program’s best-ever conference mark. Northeastern was seeded No. 3 in the CAA Championship, and Ainscough guided the team to a semifinal win over William & Mary to advance to the championship game for the second straight season. Ainscough coached five All-CAA selections, including first-team All-CAA and CAA Rookie of the Year Don Anding. The team ended the regular season ranked No. 9 in the NSCAA South Atlantic region poll, its highest ranking of the season.
In 2008, Ainscough’s Huskies showed a marked improvement, putting together an overall record of 7-5-9 and making it to the CAA Championship final, where they lost to George Mason. Ainscough led a young squad to the best defensive season in program history as the team recorded 10 shutouts and gave up a scant 17 goals, both Husky records. The team battled through tough injuries to several key players throughout the season, but Ainscough was able to keep the team on track to finish the program’s best season in the CAA to date. Four Huskies were named All-CAA, including standout defenders Lars Okland and Petur Vidarsson, who were both selected to the first team.

In 2007, Ainscough led the Huskies to their second CAA playoff appearance with a 6-4-1 CAA mark and an 8-10-1 overall record in 2007. Ainscough’s club battled late to make postseason, as Northeastern went 6-2-1 in its final nine regular season games to earn a playoff berth. The late heroics proved to be nearly a mirror image of the previous season. In 2006, the Huskies ran off six straight victories in October to get into the playoffs, finishing with a 6-4-1 CAA mark and a 8-10-2 overall record. The team’s five-win improvement from 2005 to 2006 was its biggest single-season improvement since 1990.

Ainscough has had a lot of success at Northeastern developing the talent on his squad. Northeastern has had 14 players selected All-Conference  during Ainscough’s tenure, including six to the first team. Okland, who now serves as Ainscough’s undergraduate assistant coach, was a two-time first-team All-CAA performer. In addition, seven of Ainscough’s first-year players have received CAA All-Rookie honors.  Ainscough himself has been previously recognized as College Coach of the Year by the Eastern Massachusetts High School Soccer Coaches Association.

Before arriving on Huntington Avenue, Ainscough spent five years at Div. III powerhouse Bowdoin College and five at Providence College. At Bowdoin, Ainscough took the Polar Bears to the NESCAC Tournament each season and advanced to the semifinals each season. In 2002, Ainscough’s team ranked No. 1 in New England and captured the NESCAC regular season crown and a playoff bid in 2002. In 2003, he led the Polar Bears to a top-10 national ranking, a second-place finish in the NESCAC Tournament and a bid to the NCAA Div. III Tournament.

Ainscough also coached for the U.S. Soccer Olympic Development Program for teams in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine. He has held Brian Ainscough Soccer Academy camps in New England since 1993.

Prior to Bowdoin, Ainscough was head coach at Providence and turned a losing program into a .500 team (9-9-1) in four seasons. In 1998, Providence had a winning record (6-4-1) in conference play for the first time since 1984 and earned a Big East Tournament bid for the first time since 1987. Ainscough started his coaching career at Villanova as an assistant in 1991. In 1992, he joined his former coach, Ed Kelly, as an assistant at Boston College for three seasons.

A native of Dublin, Ireland, Ainscough played for the 1983 Irish Youth National team before coming to the U.S. to attend Fairleigh Dickinson University. He earned All-Mid Atlantic Conference honors all four years and graduated in 1987. After college, Ainscough was a first round pick in the Major Indoor Soccer League’s annual draft. He played five years in the American Professional Soccer League for the New Jersey Eagles, Penn-Jersey Spirits and Boston Bolts, earning APSL All-State honors in 1988-90.

Ainscough currently resides in Canton, MA, with his wife, Victoria, and sons, Alexander and Nicholas.

Mark Thomas

Biography

Mark Thomas is a founder and Managing Partner of Monitor Clipper Partners (MCP). He is a member of the Investment Committee and he serves on, or chairs, the Board of Directors of several portfolio companies, where he assists leaders of those companies execute value-enhancing company development and growth programs.

He was also one of six original founders of Monitor Company. At Monitor Group, Mark led some of the firm’s most important consulting relationships in the fast-moving consumer goods, beverage, primarily metals and on-line gaming industries. He currently is a member of Monitor’s Board of Directors, serves as Chair to its Audit Committee and sits on the Finance and Investment Committee. Prior to Monitor, Mark was a senior consultant at Bain & Company.

Mark received a B.Sc. with First Class Honors in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University. He worked as Process Engineer with CIL, ICI’s Canadian affiliate where he became a Certified Professional Engineer. He then attended Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration where he earned a M.B.A. with High Distinction.

Mark also serves as chairman of the board of Monitor Capital, an affiliate of Monitor Group responsible for the evaluation of a small number of Monitor-initiated merchant banking activities. He has been involved with the FC Bolts Celtic for several years.

He also serves as a board member of Vistaprint, NV, as well as a trustee of the Fenn School located in Concord, MA.

Jonathan Price

Biography

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John Willett

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Steve H Gans

Biography

Steve Gans is a Principal as well as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of New England Mobile Book Fair, Inc., one of the nation’s largest independent book businesses (The Company consists of Jessica’s Biscuit®/ecookbooks.com™ and New England Mobile Book Fair®, the nation’s leading internet commerce cookbook business and one of the largest and most venerable independent bookstores in the country, respectively).  Steve is also President and General Counsel of Biscuit Books, Inc., a publishing company related to New England Mobile Book Fair, Inc.  Having formerly practiced law at Goulston & Storrs, P.C., Steve currently serves in an Of Counsel position with the Boston law firm of Broude & Hochberg, L.L.P.

Steve attended Cornell University and Brandeis University (B.A., 1982), as well as Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., 1989). Steve is rated “AV Preeminent” by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, the highest possible ranking both for an individual lawyer’s legal ability and adherence to professional standards of ethics.

Steve has been involved with soccer in the United States at various levels for twenty-five years in playing, legal, management and consulting capacities.  Steve worked on the successful Boston World Cup ’94 bid effort as legal counsel to Foxboro Stadium and as a member of the Boston Venue Bid Committee.  At the time Steve was retained for the Boston World Cup effort, Boston’s bid preparations were ranked 29^th and last of 29 American cities competing to become a World Cup ’94 host city. Steve was instrumental in turning around the bid effort, and Boston ultimately was chosen as one of the 9 American host cities in which World Cup ’94 games were played. Steve has represented professional soccer players, advised Major League Soccer teams, and consulted for certain national soccer media properties.  Steve has also acted as a television analyst for New England Cable News, a regional 24-hour news network, during both the 1998 and 2002 World Cups.   Prior to becoming a lawyer, Steve served one of the most successful teams in the history of United States professional soccer, the Baltimore Blast (not to be confused with the team currently known as the Baltimore Blast), as a front office executive, and for a brief time as a player.  The Baltimore Blast won the 1983-84 Major Indoor Soccer League Championship, and set United States professional soccer attendance records which stand to this day.