Gene Lee

Background

About Gene Lee

Gene Lee recently joined BDO FMA as a Senior Manager. In this role, he consults, coaches and trains nonprofits on a variety of organizational needs including budgeting, planning, federal grant compliance, and grants management. Immediately before joining BDO he was the Director of Project Finance and Grants at WGBH Educational Foundation, the largest producer of content for PBS. At GBH, he was responsible for the overall direction and management of pre- and post-award activity for restricted projects for WGBH that are funded through the federal government, private foundations, major donors, PBS and CPB. Previous positions include Assistant Director of the Federal Grants Management Office within the Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance where he worked to coordinate and maximize billions of Federal grant dollars received by the state. Other organizations he has worked for include the Homeland Security Division of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, Management Consulting Services, Building Excellent Schools; Citizen Schools, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Cambridge Community Services and Kansas City Summerbridge. He has also taught seventh grade English and Asian-American and Ethnic Literature in Kansas City, MO. In 2016, he was elected to serve as a School Committee member of the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District. He completed his term in 2020. He holds a Masters of Public Administration degree from the Evans School of Public Policy of the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley.