Toni Boucher

Toni Boucher has dedicated her life to public service and entrepreneurial innovation. Currently serving as First Selectman (mayor) of Wilton, Connecticut, her remarkable political career includes roles as State Representative Minority Leader, Stat Senate Chief Deputy Minority Leader, and Connecticut State Board of Education Commissioner. She has won fifteen of seventeen political campaigns, becoming one of Connecticut's most respected public servants.

In the private sector, Boucher has been a trailblazing business leader, managing billion-dollar budgets for major corporations and recently retiring as director of a $30 billion asset management company. A serial entrepreneur, she has founded multiple start-ups and held Series 7, 63, and 31 investment licenses.

As a philanthropist and education advocate, Boucher is transforming entrepreneurship programs at the University of Connecticut School of Business and serves on numerous nonprofit boards funding groundbreaking research and initiatives. She is the author of The Husky Effect: How UConn Is Creating the Entrepreneurs of the Future and has been inducted into Marquis Who's Who.

Boucher holds an MBA from the University of Connecticut and has called Wilton home for forty years, where she raised three children and now enjoys six grandchildren. Her life's work continues to focus on creating opportunities for others to achieve their own American Dream.