CEO and Co-Owner of Boston Globe Media Linda Henry '00, H'19 will serve as the 2025 undergraduate Commencement speaker. Henry's successful decades-long career across media and sports embodies the power of a Babson education when paired with entrepreneurial drive. At Boston Globe Media, she has stewarded the rebuilding and reimagining of a 153-year-old legacy media company into a thriving, modern multimedia organization with a portfolio of media outlets that include The Boston Globe, Boston.com, STAT, and Boston Magazine.

As an active partner in Fenway Sports Group (FSG), Henry is front row to the strategic operations of one of the largest global sports platforms, with teams across the Premier League, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, TMRW Golf, and more. Her sports influence also supports women's sports, where she has invested at the league level in the WNBA, League One Volleyball, and Unrivaled. Outside of sports, she is a four-time Emmy-award winning television producer, Emmy-award winning documentary producer, and children's book author.

Henry serves as chair of the Boston Globe Foundation and the John W. Henry Family Foundation; director of the Red Sox Foundation and Penguins Hockey Foundation; a trustee of the Liverpool Football Club Foundation; and board member of The Engine at MIT and Shorenstein Center at Harvard-a testament to her commitment to leveraging her business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit for social good. Henry continued her education after Babson by completing master's degrees at both MIT and Harvard.

Delivering the graduate Commencement address will be Karen Clark Cole, co-founder and former CEO of Blink UX, the first user experience company in the United States. Over the course of 24 years, Clark Cole grew Blink into a global leader in user experience research, design, and development with an array of clients including Amazon, Apple, Disney, NASA, Google, Starbucks, and Microsoft.

Clark Cole is a visionary thinker and strategic planner who takes pride in turning ideas into action. As Blink's CEO, she led and negotiated six strategic acquisitions across the country before leading Blink's acquisition by the global public company Mphasis Corporation in 2021.