Richard P. de Filippi, Chairman, American Hospital Association

Trustee
Cambridge Health Alliance
Cambridge, MA

Richard de Filippi is immediate-past chairman of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees.

Mr. de Filippi is currently a trustee and former chairman of the Board of the Cambridge Health Alliance, a major safety-net health care system and one of the largest health systems in Massachusetts. He is on several other boards within the Alliance system including the philanthropic Alliance Foundation for Community Health, which he chairs.

He has served on the American Hospital Association’s Committee on Governance and Regional Policy Board (RPB 1). He is a current member and former chair of the Trustee Advisory Council of the Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) and a former member of the MHA Board of Trustees.

He is managing partner of the Ariano Partnership, a consulting group working largely with emerging technology-based companies. He was CEO of CF Systems Corporation, a chemical technology firm in the environmental field, ultimately purchased by Washington Engineering of Boise, Idaho (then Morrison Knudsen Corporation). Prior to that he was a founder and technical VP of a bioengineering and separations technology company, Abcor, Inc., which was merged into Koch Industries. He is also on the Board of Directors of CeraMem Corporation, Waltham, MA.

Rick earned his bachelors degree from Amherst College and masters and doctorate in engineering from MIT. He and his wife, Lucy Arrington, are usually in Cambridge or the Berkshires in western Massachusetts, except when visiting their four children and nine grandchildren.