Bruce Percelay rejoins Nantucket hospital board to lead $50 million fundraising campaign
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Percelay and his wife, Elisabeth, helped lead a previous campaign for the hospital, one that raised $120 million to open a new building six years ago. He is rejoining the board, while her term on the board comes to an end.
Percelay said his old friend, retired banker and hospital board member Chad Gifford, nudged him to return. Percelay was named board chairman earlier this month, taking over for Craig Muhlhauser as his five-year term concluded. Percelay has already started meeting with hospital development staffers about who to approach on the island for donations, and how best to go about it.
'I can't say it took a lot of convincing,' Gifford said. 'He's a fantastic fundraiser. ... He has a knack of identifying those who would be most interested in supporting [the hospital].'
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So much for getting some downtime on the island this summer.
'My form of relaxation is to sit in board meetings,' Percelay joked. 'Let's just say it requires me to be relatively efficient and not get an enormous amount of sleep.'
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'It's now incumbent upon the largest institution on the island to provide our own housing, which is essential to attracting and retaining personnel,' said Percelay, who spends his summers on the island. Advertisement Percelay and his wife, Elisabeth, helped lead a previous campaign for the hospital, one that raised $120 million to open a new building six years ago. He is rejoining the board, while her term on the board comes to an end. Percelay said his old friend, retired banker and hospital board member Chad Gifford, nudged him to return. Percelay was named board chairman earlier this month, taking over for Craig Muhlhauser as his five-year term concluded. Percelay has already started meeting with hospital development staffers about who to approach on the island for donations, and how best to go about it. 'I can't say it took a lot of convincing,' Gifford said. 'He's a fantastic fundraiser. ... He has a knack of identifying those who would be most interested in supporting [the hospital].' Advertisement So much for getting some downtime on the island this summer. 'My form of relaxation is to sit in board meetings,' Percelay joked. 'Let's just say it requires me to be relatively efficient and not get an enormous amount of sleep.' This is an installment of our weekly Bold Types column about the movers and shakers on Boston's business scene. Jon Chesto can be reached at
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