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Board of Trustees

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    Clifford C. Abbott, Jr.

    Cliff Abbott, retired, had a long and successful career as a Certified Public Accountant. Prior to his retirement, Cliff was a Principal with BerryDunn and Director of the firm’s Telecommunications […]

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    Conrad L. Ayotte ’77, H’98

    Conrad Ayotte is a shareholder and Treasurer of Larkin Express Logistics in Knoxville, TN.  He is retired as the long-term CFO of J.S. McCarthy Printers in Augusta, one of New […]

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    Brian M. Bernatchez ’88

    Brian Bernatchez is the founder, president, and managing principal of Golden Pond Wealth Management in Waterville. He is vice president of the Alfond Youth Center’s Founders Club and currently serves […]

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    Cary Cartwright

    Cary Olson Cartwright is the Assistant Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at Unum. Prior to joining Unum, she worked at Fleet/Bank of America handling community relations for Maine. Currently, […]

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    Douglas L. Cutchin H’09

    Doug Cutchin, now retired, spent more than 20 years with the Sheridan Corporation, a family construction and engineering company founded by his father. He took the role of President in […]

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    Michael D’Appolonia

    Michael R. D’Appolonia is a retired chief executive officer with more than 40 years of operational, financial and executive management experience encompassing both domestic and international operations. He has wide-ranging […]

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    Jim Doyle

    Jim Doyle is a part of Apple’s Strategic Initiatives team and lives in southern Maine. Prior to Apple, Jim worked for the Office of the Governor as Angus King’s Deputy […]

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    William M. Dubay ’72

    William Dubay is a retired management and operations specialist. Throughout his career he has focused on turnarounds and guiding the development of rapidly growing businesses. His career includes both interim […]

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    Holly Ferguson ’95, M.B.A. ’96

    Holly Ferguson is a Certified Public Accountant and earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Thomas College. She serves as the chair for Manufacturers Association of Maine Executive Circle. […]

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    Robin Goodwin M.B.A ’90

    Robin Goodwin has had a distinguished career in finance, manufacturing and technology – starting his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, then National Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor and he now serves as […]

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    Michelle Hayes

    Michelle Hayes is a former Human Resource and Retail Operations executive with Hannaford Supermarkets and a founding principal of Smith Kjeldgaard & Hayes (www.skhsolutions.com) specializing in executive coaching, leadership development, […]

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    Charles “Wick” Johnson

    Charles (Wick) Johnson is president and owner of Kennebec Technologies in Augusta. Before this position, he founded a construction business, Heritage Builders. Former Chair of the University of Maine System […]

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    Meredith Jones

    Meredith H. Jones is the retired president and CEO of the Maine Community Foundation, a statewide public foundation with over $600 million in assets.  Under her leadership, assets more than […]

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    Laurie G. Lachance, M.B.A. ’92

    In July 2012, Laurie Lachance became Thomas College’s 5th President and the first female and alumna to lead the College in its 128-year history. From 2004-2012, Laurie served as President […]

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    Danielle Marquis ’99

    Danielle Marquis is a 1999 graduate of Thomas College and an account executive at HB Insurance in Oakland, where she and her husband Matt have worked since 1997 and now […]

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    David Pease

    David Pease currently serves as SVP and Director of Talent, Diversity & Inclusion for Bangor Savings Bank. His role is both internally and externally focused working on building Bank talent […]

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    Dorcas B. Riley

    Dorcas Riley is a Certified Public Accountant and is self-employed as a financial consultant. She began her finance career as a certified public accountant in the Portland office of an […]

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    Gregory A. Savard ’89

    Employed at Tyler Technologies since 1995, Greg Savard graduated from Thomas College in 1989 with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems and has risen to his current position of Vice […]

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    Kelley B. Shimansky ’89

    Kelley joined Tyler in 2018 as the chief human resources officer. She has more than 20 years of experience in global HR leadership, with extensive knowledge of IPO, global mergers […]

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    Dick Spellman, M.S. ’80

    Dick Spellman is an Executive Consultant at GDS Associates, Inc., where he has worked since 1993. Dick has more than 45 years of strategic planning, economic analysis, market research, renewable […]

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    Kenneth P. Viens H’17

    Viens is the Vice President and LPL Financial Advisor with Gateway Financial Partners in Oakland. He began his career in financial services with A. G. Edwards and Sons in 1992 […]