The Leadership of the American Association

The 24 members of the Board of Councillors are elected by the membership in a general election. They serve a 3-year term, after which, they can choose to run for a second term. The officers are board members who are elected by the board to serve for three years or until their term expires if not reelected to the Board by the general membership. The exception is the President who is elected directly by the general membership for three years as the 25th member of the board and is eligible for a second term.

President

Dr. Peter J. Kelly, MD, GCM
Boston Area, Member since 1998

Dr. Peter Kelly is a semi-retired ophthalmologist who owns and operates two offices and a Surgical Center in western Massachusetts. Peter is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and received his medical degree from Georgetown University. He completed his residency at Tufts New England Medical Center, where he became chief resident. Peter has held several leadership positions in his field, including President of the Medical Staff.

A member of the Order of Malta for almost 20 years, Peter was elected to the Board of Councillors in 2009. During two terms, he became Vice Hospitaller from 2012 to 2014, and then Hospitaller from 2014 to 2015, where he and Tom Reedy re-launched the Association Retreats. Peter has participated in 10 Lourdes Pilgrimages as a member of the medical committee. He has also served on the Spirituality, Grants, Membership and Nominating committees of the Board of Councillors.

Peter devotes a significant amount of time to International Medical Mission work. Since 1993, he has been traveling to Haiti, bringing an entire eye surgical team where he performs free care and surgery at Hôpital Sacré Coeur, a Catholic hospital operated by CRUDEM. Through this work, he was elected to be Vice President and President of the Board for a span of 9 years from 2003 to 2012. During that time, Peter demonstrated extraordinary leadership during the Haiti post-earthquake relief efforts of 2010. He worked with a Board of 20, comprised of members of the American, Federal and Western Associations to facilitate the many decisions required to deal with the challenges of patient care in a hospital that expanded from 64 to over 400 beds.

Peter is happily married to his wife, Linda, also a member of the Order and a hospice chaplain for 43 years. They have three grown children—two sons who are both physicians and a daughter who is a special-ed teacher. They are also the proud grandparents of 2 grandsons.

Chancellor

Thomas J. Reedy, KMOb
Florida – Naples Area, Member since 2002

Tom Reedy was elected Vice Hospitaller of the American Association in 2010.  He was elected Hospitaller in 2012. Tom is currently a member of the Board of Councillors.  He has been Chair of Communications, Chair of Admissions and Formation, and of the Nominating Committee.  He serves on the Executive Committee.

Additionally, Tom served as the Illinois Area Chair from 2007 to 2013. Tom has participated in 8 Lourdes Pilgrimages and served as Team Captain on 5 of the Pilgrimages.  He became a Knight in Obedience in 2012 and is a member of the Sub Priory of Our Lady of Lourdes.

Tom has served on the Catholic Charity Board of Advisors.  He was President of the Chicago Chapter of Legatus from 2005-2008. He is recently retired and was the Managing Director of Reedy Industries.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Tom and his wife, Missy, a member of the Order, have two grown children and live in Naples, Florida.

Secretary

Rory Kelleher, KMOb
New York City Area, Member since 2004

Rory Kelleher was elected as Secretary in 2023. He has served on the Board of Councillors since 2020, chairs the By-Law/Legal Committee, serves on the Executive Committee and has previously served on the Finance and Area Support and Development Committees. He joined the Order in 2004 and became a Knight in Obedience in 2016.

Since 2004, Rory has served as a volunteer with other Order of Malta members at the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center in New York. He also volunteers at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick. He served as Area Co-Chair for New York City from 2008-2014 and currently serves as Co-Chair for the Area for Membership and Grants. He has participated with the Order in 9 Lourdes pilgrimages and a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Currently, he serves on the Board of Trustees of ArchCare, the continuing care community of the Archdiocese of New York. He was a Director of Catholic Guardian Services, a social service agency sponsored by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York from 2003-2018, including 10 years as Board Chair. He has served his Parish of St. Thomas More as Parish Council President, Chair of the Finance Council, Lector and Eucharistic Minister.

A graduate of Fordham College (BA) and Columbia University School of Law (JD), Rory has practiced law at major law firms in New York and London, and currently in individual practice, with a focus on corporate and equipment finance, leasing and securitization.

Rory and his wife Camille, a member of the Order, have three grown children and three grandchildren, and live in New York City.

Treasurer

Laure C. Aubuchon, DM
New York City Area, Member since 1997 

Laure was elected to the Board of Councillors in 2019 where she currently chairs the Finance Committee and is on the Grants Committee. She has participated in 15 Lourdes pilgrimages. For the last seventeen years, Laure has served on the Lourdes Pilgrimage Medical Committee and is currently on the Strategic Planning Pilgrimage Committee.

Laure is a founding board member of Malta House in Norwalk, CT, a home for pregnant, homeless women and is on the leadership team for the current capital campaign to relocate and expand the capacity of Malta House.

Currently, she serves on the board of Catholic Charities of Fairfield County where she is on the Executive Committee, and in 2016, was the co- chair of the Capital Campaign for the New Covenant House in Stamford, CT, a program of Catholic Charities, where she is also on the Advisory Board. She was a trustee of Assumption College for 21 years. She is on the board of the W.E. Aubuchon Co., Inc, a family owned business started by her grandfather in 1908. For 8 years, Laure was a Eucharist Minister at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital.

A graduate of Smith College (BA), Boston College (MA) and Harvard University (MBA), Laure spent 19 years at W. R. Grace. Following 9/11, she joined the Bloomberg administration as head of International Business Development for New York City at the NYC Economic Development Corporation. She currently works in commercial real estate.

Hospitaller

Kenneth R. Craig, KM
New York City Area, Member since 2004

Ken joined the Order as an Auxiliary in 2001 and became a Knight in 2004. He has been an annual Lourdes pilgrim since 2003 and Pilgrimage Co-President since 2014. Ken was a member of the Board of Councillors from 2009 – 2014 and again beginning in 2017. Ken was Secretary of the Malta Human Services Foundation Board from 2015 – 2018 and serves as Master of Ceremonies for the annual Investiture weekend.

Ken is Co-Chair of the Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Wisconsin. He has been actively involved with the global Order, championing the Association’s participation in the International Camp for Young Disabled and the Blessed Gerard Retreat in Rome for young members of the Order. In 2014, Ken was appointed by the Grand Chancellor as Observer to the Australian Association and Subpriory of the Immaculate Conception. He has served as NY Area Treasurer, Auxiliary Coordinator, and for many years, raised funds for the Lourdes Pilgrimage and Terence Cardinal Cooke Hospital by designing and selling Order of Malta-branded merchandise.

Ken holds a Bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Management and International Business from New York University. He has worked as a technology and operations executive in the investment banking industry for almost thirty years. Ken serves on the Staten Island Catholic Schools board. Ken and his wife, Suzanne, reside in Manhattan and are parishioners at Holy Trinity Parish where they are Extraordinary Ministers.