Constance N. Hubbell

Constance Navin “Connie” Hubbell (born 1962) is a public relations and crisis communications professional and chief executive officer of The Hubbell Group, Inc., a communications firm founded in 1995. The Hubbell Group provides communications counsel and services to companies around the globe in a variety of industries including financial services, healthcare, education, aviation and real estate. The firm has frequently hired senior professionals from a variety of fields.
Professional Background
Prior to founding The Hubbell Group, Hubbell was director of media relations and chief spokesperson at Fidelity Investments, then the world’s largest mutual fund company and the nation’s second-largest discount brokerage firm.
Previously, Hubbell was the chief spokesperson and vice president of media relations at Bank of Boston Corporation, and now part of Bank of America.
Before joining Bank of Boston, Hubbell was an account supervisor at Boston-based Cabot Public Relations, where she oversaw consumer and financial accounts including Bank of Boston. Earlier, she was director of media relations at Hill & Knowlton. She started her PR career at Regan Communications, a Boston-based firm founded by a former press secretary of Boston Mayor Kevin White. She began her career in the Elections Division in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where she coordinated voter outreach campaigns.
Personal Background
Hubbell attended Emerson College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Massachusetts.
Hubbell is a member of several civic and philanthropic organizations, serving as a longtime member of the American Ireland Funds Boston Gala Dinner Committee. She also is active in the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, which seeks to protect the Emerald Necklace, an interconnected chain of parks linked by parkways and waterways in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts, the Boston Public Library, The Home for Little Wanderers Voices for Children Committee and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. She also has been active in other community activities, including fundraising for the Women’s Cancers Program at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Lincoln Rowing Center,
and coaching community cheerleaders.
In addition to her community activities in the Boston area, Hubbell is a member of the Department of Communication Advisory Council at the College of Charleston, which promotes the recognition and progress of communication instruction at the college.
In 2000, Hubbell was named as one of the Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” honorees, an annual award which recognizes Boston’s leading business and civic leaders under the age 40.
Hubbell is the mother of a daughter. She previously was married to David Hubbell and to Charles E. Clapp, III.

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