Vincent M. O'Reilly, age 81, a longtime resident of Winchester, passed away after a long illness at the Newbridge on the Charles Health Care Facility on February 27, 2019. He was the beloved husband for 56 years of Annette M. O’Reilly.
Born in Boston, he was the son of the late Vincent and Margaret O’Reilly. Vincent was a graduate of Boston College and received and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. O’Reilly was the Distinguished Senior Lecturer at the Carroll Graduate School of Management of Boston College and taught several courses covering accounting, finance, leadership and business ethics topics. He also founded the school’s consulting course and the Diane Weiss Consulting Competition, which has become a distinctive and unique feature of the Boston College MBA program. He was Chairman of the Board of ISO New England, which is responsible for coordinating the New England electric power grid and administrating the N.E. region’s wholesale electric markets. He chaired the Audit Committee and was a member of the Executive Committee of Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company and was previously a Director of Connell Limited Partnership, Eaton Vance Corp., Teradyne, Inc. and Neiman Marcus Group.
Mr. O’Reilly was also active in numerous community and not-for-profit organizations. He served as Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and was a founding Trustee of Dana Farber/Partners Cancer Care, which is a joint venture between Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. He was a Trustee and Treasurer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and was awarded the Trustee Leadership Award by New England Health Care Assembly in 2004.
A Partner at Coopers & Lybrand LLP from 1969 until his retirement in 1997, Mr. O’Reilly held a number of management positions there including Deputy Chairman, Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of its International Accounting and Auditing Policy and Strategy Committee. He also chaired its Ethical Practices Committee and served on the firm’s Executive Committee from 1985 to 1997.
Mr. O’Reilly was a member of the SEC Practice Section Executive Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and a founding member of the Accounting Educational Change Commission. He was the editor of Montgomery’s Auditing and the author of Internal Control-Integrated Framework. He was a recipient of the McCloy award from the Public Oversight Board of the AICPA for contributions to the auditing profession.
In addition to his wife, Annette, Mr. O’Reilly is survived by his children: Dr. Michael O’Reilly and his wife Dr. Valerae Lewis, of Houston, TX, Elizabeth O’Reilly of Duxbury, David O’Reilly and his wife Gwen Fischer of Palo Alto, CA and Kathryn O’Reilly of Boston. He is further lovingly survived by 8 grandchildren: Sarah Austin, Maia Austin, Margot Austin, Isabella O’Reilly, Olivia O’Reilly, Matt O’Reilly, Ethan O’Reilly, and Jordan O’Reilly.
Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend a Funeral Mass on Tuesday, April 9th at 11:00 AM at St. Ignatius of Loyola Church, 28 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill. Burial is private.
Donations in Mr. O’Reilly’s memory may be made to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Division of Development and the Jimmy Fund, 10 Brookline Place West – 6th Floor, Brookline, MA 02445.