Dr. Larry Boone of Westbury, was recently appointed to the board of the Developmental Disabilities Institute (DDI), the leading service provider for children and adults with autism on Long Island. The agency helps support nearly 5,000 children and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities. 
Boone has been associated with St. John’s University for the past 28 years, most recently as Associate Professor of Management at the Tobin College of Business its Executive-in-Residence Program, which joins businesses with students for their development. While at St. John’s he has held various positions including assistant provost, acting dean of the Tobin College, editor of the Review of Business publication, faculty athletics representative to the NCAA and senior fellow of the Vincentian Center for Church and Society.
Boone has a BS in industrial engineering from Lehigh University, a MS in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. He is very active in the Brooklyn and Rockville Center Dioceses of the Catholic Church serving on advisory committees and instructing and consulting on Parish strategic and financial planning, management skills, Parish demographics, and decision making among other management topics.
