At Northeastern University, Mary leads recruitment, admissions, and enrollment efforts for a portfolio of graduate business programs. She fulfills her passion for serving entrepreneurs as a co-chair of Northeastern's Venture Mentoring Network. 

Concurrently, Mary serves as managing director at Angel Healthcare Investors. Previously, she was the COO of an early-stage digital health company and a marketing executive with Fidelity Investments. She earned degrees at Bowdoin College, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and Northeastern University, where her research focused on mentoring entrepreneurs' well-being.

Mary hopes to bring greater visibility to the spiritual and intellectual growth an authentic Catholic education offers. She and her husband, Bill, are members of The Catholic University of America's Parents Council. Their son, Patrick '24, majors in Theology and English. Their daughter, Catherine, is a graduate student. The McNamara family resides west of Boston.