Bentley Names Commencement Speakers For 2025 Ceremonies

WALTHAM, MA — A prominent state official and a businessman affiliated in a major way with the Boston Bruins will give commencement addresses at Bentley University this spring.

Jeremy “Jerry” M. Jacobs Jr., chief executive officer of Delaware North and an alternate governor for the Boston Bruins, will deliver the keynote address at Bentley University’s 106th undergraduate commencement ceremony in May.

Yvonne Hao, secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will deliver the keynote address at the 50th commencement ceremony for Bentley’s McCallum Graduate School of Business.

Bentley University’s graduate and PhD commencement ceremony will be held on May 16, while the undergraduate ceremony will take place on May 17.

Close to 1,500 students will graduate this spring, university officials said. Jacobs and Hao will receive honorary Doctor of Commercial Science degrees at the ceremonies.