Among his charitable endeavors, he is a Director of the Irish American Partnership (IAP,) and chairs several IAP golf tournaments; a benefactor and active supporter of the Thomas S. Durant MD Fellowship in Refugee Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital; and a supporter and advocate of programs for premature infants (preemies) at the Children’s Hospital Boston. Mr. Reilly is married to Kathleen (Buckley) Reilly, and he is the father of three children, William, Colleen and Michael, and one grandson, Will. He is a retired investment banker, and served as vice president and Managing Director of the Boston office of the Jefferies Company, and he serves as a director of the Stephen Jefferies Scholarship Fund. In the words of IAP President Joseph Leary, “Billy Reilly is one of the most generous and loyal Bostonians that I know- indeed, that I have ever met. He is well deserving of this recognition.”