The West End Museum
Jim Briand is a Senior Research Advisor at NexTier Partners, where Jim develops solutions for clients' market information needs. With a background in marketing, Jim has served as the SVP, Marketing Director at Middlesex Savings Bank and Citizens Bank. Jim has also been a lecturer at The West End Museum, teaching about the history of the lost neighborhood of Boston. Additionally, Jim has served as a board member and marketing consultant for non-profit organizations such as Metro West ESL Fund and Indian Hill Music and Symphony Orchestra. Jim holds a BS in Marketing from the University of Vermont, a Masters Degree in Liberal Studies in Contining Education from Harvard University, and is pursuing an MBA with a Marketing Concentration at Boston College Carroll School of Management.
The West End Museum
The West End Museum, Inc. is a neighborhood museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and interpretation of the history and culture of the West End of Boston. The Museum acknowledges its role as an educational institution and a trustee of significant material culture. The West End Museum fulfills its mission by providing exhibits to the public on a regular basis, by providing access to its collections for research, by providing a resource to the West End Neighborhood for historical and cultural interests. It involves the public in its mission through outreach programming, neighborhood events, and educational programming in the school systems, thereby increasing and sustaining the public's appreciation of an important American urban neighborhood from the seventeenth century to the present time.