Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation

Board of Directors

Virginia Stanton Smith, Chair, Pittsfield, MA
Virginia Smith is a partner with the law firm Grinnell Smith, LLP based in Pittsfield and Williamstown, MA. She has been practicing law in the Berkshires since 1984, specializing in estate planning, estate administration, and real estate law. She is a member of the steering committee of the Berkshire County Estate Planning Council and is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, as well as the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts. She has lectured and written about various aspects of estate planning and has served on the boards of Hancock Shaker Village and the Berkshire Fund and on an advisory council for Elder Services of Berkshire County. She is married to Craig Smith and they live with their three daughters in Pittsfield.

John Hoyt Stookey, Vice Chair, Sheffield, MA
Mr. Stookey was chairman of Quantum Chemical Corp. and Suburban Propane Partners, Ltd. He is the founder and president of Landmark Volunteers, a nonprofit summer service organization that provides high school students with opportunities to improve themselves and expand their world through community service. Mr. Stookey also founded and is chairman of Per Scholas, a nonprofit organization in the South Bronx, which brings computers to low-income children and families at the lowest possible cost, trains community residents as computer technicians and provides environmentally responsible recycling of end-of-life computer equipment. Mr. Stookey founded the Berkshire Choral Festival and has leadership positions with a number of music organizations, as well as serving as board member and trustee to other nonprofit groups. He has a B.A. from Amherst College and a B.S. from Columbia University Engineering School. Mr. Stookey and wife Katherine live in Sheffield, MA, and Maine.

J. Williar "Bill" Dunlaevy, Treasurer, Lenox, MA
Mr. Dunlaevy is chairman and CEO of Legacy Bancorp and Legacy Banks; formerly he was executive vice president, chief financial officer, treasurer, and controller. His civic leadership includes involvement with Berkshire Community College, Berkshire Business Roundtable, Berkshire Health Systems, Berkshire Regional Competitiveness Council, The Colonial Theatre Restoration Campaign, Pittsfield Boys’ & Girls’ Club, Pittsfield Municipal Airport Expansion Task Force and Berkshire Economic Development Corporation. His business leadership includes Depositors Insurance Fund, Massachusetts Bankers Association, and Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts (SBLI). Mr. Dunlaevy is a graduate of Bowdoin College (B.A.), the University of Massachusetts (M.B.A.), Brown University's Graduate School of Banking, and the College for Financial Planning. He and his wife Susan live in Lenox, MA.

Edward Hoe, Secretary, Richmond, MA
Mr. Hoe is president of Hoe Associates, a real estate investment and property management firm based in East Chatham, NY. After moving to the Pittsfield area in 1988, Mr. Hoe became actively involved in local nonprofit organizations. He was a a co-founder president of the Rotary Club of Pittsfield Foundation, and served on the boards of the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce and Downtown, Inc. He was a founder, board member and president of the St. Regis Foundation in Paul Smiths, NY. More recently, as a member of the advisory board to the Aquatic Watershed Institute at Paul Smith's College, he co-founded the Watershed Stewardship Program. Mr. Hoe lives in Richmond, MA.

Sia Arnason, Millerton, NY
Ms. Arnason is co-director of the Institute on Law and Rights of Older Adults at the Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College. She has dedicated her entire professional career to working in the field of gerontology, first at Community Service Society, later at the New York City Department for the Aging, and since 1980 at the Law Institute. She has twice been an adjunct member of the Special Committee on Aging of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is a member of the board of directors of Choice in Dying, Inc. Ms. Arnason has written extensively on law and aging, the role social workers can play in planning for incapacity and on caregiving. Her special areas of interest are guardianship and ethical issues in aging. She is the co-author of "The Legal Rights of the Elderly," published by the Practicing Law Institute, and an entry in the Encyclopedia of Financial Gerontology entitled "Financial Elder Abuse." Ms. Arnason and her husband Jon live in Millerton, NY.

Sally W. Berg, Ancram, NY
Ms. Berg founded the Friends of New York-Cornell Hospital in Westchester County. She received a Courage Award from President Reagan for an Outward Bound course she planned for women with breast cancer while she was the associate director of service and rehabilitation for the Westchester Division of the American Cancer Society. While a member of SHARE, an organization offering emotional and educational support for women with breast and ovarian cancer, she created a walkathon to raise funds and to increase public awareness of breast cancer, increasing the money raised by 280 percent over a 3-year period. In 1993, Ms. Berg co-founded "The Catalog For Giving," which raised over $5 million for community-based organizations working with at-risk youth of New York City, and is now taking this project to other major cities in the U.S. In 2000, she was appointed to serve on the Legal Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Judicial District. Ms. Berg, a graduate of Wheaton College, lives with her husband Laurence in Ancram, NY.

Gloria Gaines Callen, Millbrook, NY
Ms. Callen’s career has included: public relations; curating a private collection of old master and contemporary drawings; and strategic planning and business development for the Office of the Chairman and the President of Chase Manhattan Bank. She has also worked in the Thoroughbred Industry and was a founding partner of a Thoroughbred breeding operation in Lexington, Kentucky. She has served on The Contemporary Arts Council of the Museum of Modern Art, the Associates Committee of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the boards of The Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation and the Gaines Center for the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. Callen received her B.A. from Georgetown University and her M.B.A. from Columbia University. She resides in Millbrook, NY, with her husband, Craig.

Ann Goodbody, Sharon, CT
Ann Goodbody retired from Citibank, N.A. in 2002, after spending 32 years there in various positions in the insurance and real estate divisions of corporate banking. In 1995, she became head of Capital Management for the holding company, Citicorp and its subsidiaries, and in that capacity had oversight for its capital adequacy, its debt and equity issues and its acquisitions and divestitures. She also became a member of the Market Risk Policy Committee, providing oversight for liquidity and market risk positions in North America. She was appointed an Executive Vice President in 1997 and became the Chairman of Credit Policy, responsible for the policies and procedures governing global corporate and consumer credit activities. Subsequent to the merger which created Citigroup, she became the head of credit risk management for Citibank in the 80 countries in the Emerging Markets where the bank had a presence. Since her retirement, Ms. Goodbody has been active furthering educational opportunities for underserved children in New York City and Sharon, CT where she has homes.

Christopher Kennan, Pine Plains, NY
Mr. Kennan is a private investor based in Pine Plains, New York. From 1998 until 2001, he was a registered representative at Melhado, Flynn & Associates, an investment management firm in New York. Prior to joining Melhado, Flynn, he founded East River Holdings, Inc., which developed and marketed Latin American investment opportunities to individual and institutional clients. In addition to serving on the Wilson Council, Mr. Kennan is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (NYC) and an Officier Commandeur in the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, a French oenological organization. He lives with his wife and children in Pine Plains, New York.

David McCarthy, Stockbridge, MA
David F. McCarthy has been a resident of Stockbridge for 29 years. He is currently Chief Investment Officer, Absolute Return Strategies, of Sciens Capital Management, a $6.0B alternative asset management firm based in New York City. He previously managed Martello Investment Management, LP, a specialist fund and advisory firm, and has served in various investment and management roles with Global Asset Management, the Atlantic Philanthropies, Rayner and Stonington, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and McKinsey & Co. Mr. McCarthy taught finance and investments at Skidmore College and the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in the U.S., and University College Dublin in Ireland. He is a contributor to the Greenwich Roundtable “Best Practices in Hedge Fund Investing” series, and is the author of a number of academic articles on managed futures. He currently serves on the Advisory Boards of New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House and the Berkshire Fringe Festival, and he is on the Board of Directors of the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Alternative Investments. Mr. McCarthy holds a Ph.D. from University College Dublin, an MBA from Stanford University, and a BA from the University of New Hampshire.

Neil M. McCarthy, Sharon, CT
Mr. McCarthy is the chairman and chief executive officer of Windham Capital Management, an independent, privately owned financial services firm. He is also the founder and managing partner of Windham Capital Management, a New York-based SEC- registered investment advisor. Mr. McCarthy is responsible for the long-term strategic, financial and operating plans of both organizations. Prior to his current positions, he was a vice president in the Investment Management Group of Bankers Trust Company, New York, where he served as a senior portfolio manager as well as a member of the firm's Investment Policy and Strategy Committee. Mr. McCarthy is a member of the Association for Investment Management and Research as well as the New York Society of Security Analysts. He has spoken extensively at industry events both in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. McCarthy lives in Sharon, CT, and New York City with his wife Libby.

Holly J. Nelson, Millerton, NY
Ms. Nelson is co-founder and sales manager of Iceland Adventure and Horses North, LLC, the USA’s oldest specialty tour for Iceland and Greenland. She previously co-founded and managed Oblong Books in Millerton, NY, now Dutchess County’s largest independent book store. Ms. Nelson is an active member of the community, participating on a number of boards, including Salisbury Bank and Trust, and as an advisor to two Berkshire Taconic Funds: the Violet H. Summons Scholarship Fund and the Boschen Fund for Artists. She was previously on the Town of North East Planning Board and the Hudson Valley Grass Roots Energy and Environmental Network. Ms. Nelson is a 1979 graduate of Cornell University’s School of Human Ecology, with a BA which focused on Rural Economic Development. When she's not traveling through Iceland and Greenland, she is busy sending people on tours to those spots. She lives with her husband, Brad Vogel, in Millerton, NY.

Charles P. O'Brien, Williamstown, MA
Mr. O’Brien is president and CEO of South Adams Savings Bank. Previously, he was with New Bedford Institution for Savings and the Bank of Fall River. He began his career in public accounting, working for Peat Marwick until 1985. Mr. O’Brien has been active on a number of boards, including the Northern Berkshire United Way, the Adams Lions Club, Berkshire Housing Development Corporation and the Berkshire Visitors Bureau. He is past president of both the United Way and the Lions Club, and was recently elected vice chair of the Berkshire Housing Development Corporation. Mr. O’Brien also serves on the boards of the Depositors Insurance Fund and the Legislative Affairs Committee for the Massachusetts Bankers Association. A 1980 graduate of Pace University with a degree in accounting, he lives in Williamstown with his wife, Lisa.

Carmi Rapport, Claverack, NY
Mr. Rapport is a partner in the Hudson, NY, law office Rapport, Meyers, Whitbeck, Shaw & Rodenhausen. He received his B.A. from Yale University and his law degree from Columbia. Mr. Rapport has been an active member of the Hudson community for over forty years, serving as chair of the board of trustees of the Columbia Memorial Hospital and a board member of Columbia-Greene Community College. He has been general counsel to the Hudson School District, the Hudson Housing Authority and the Town of Greenport. Mr. Rapport lives in Claverack, NY, with his wife Marylyn.

David Barrett Rich, Lakeville, CT
Mr. Rich is the Executive Director of Fairfield 08, an alliance of eight leading permanent supportive housing providers whose mission is to eliminate chronic homelessness in Connecticut. He has also worked to provide affordable housing as the Executive Director for the Mutual Housing Association in New Haven, CT, as well as on the board of Tri-Corner Alliance—Berkshire Taconic’s regional affordable housing initiative. His professional career has focused on the creation of social enterprises and sustainable business initiatives in India, Belize, and the US, advising and developing worker-owned companies, cooperatives, and community-based organizations. He also worked for a number of years on a sustainable agriculture program for New England farmers. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in Political Science in 1984, and later received a Masters in Urban Studies from Southern Connecticut State University and a Masters in Management from the J.L Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He lives with his wife Cristin and twin daughters in Lakeville, CT.

J. Anthony (Tony) Sheldon, Sheffield, MA
Tony Sheldon is executive director of the Program on Social Enterprise, and Lecturer in Economic Development, at the Yale School of Management. Mr. Sheldon is founder and principal of Bering Consulting, a financial and management consulting firm working with nonprofits and small businesses in the fields of strategic and operational planning, securing of operating and capital funds, financial systems and corporate reorganizations, with a special focus on international microfinance. Current clients include the Ford Foundation, the Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network and ShoreBank International. Prior to this, Mr. Sheldon was vice president, finance and administration for LaSalle Industries, Inc. He has served as project manager for Financial Services Corporation, a nonprofit corporation on contract to the mayor’s office in New York. Mr. Sheldon is a graduate of Princeton University with an A.B. He received his master’s degree from Yale School of Organization and Management. He lives in Sheffield with his family.

Nancy I. Stahl, Wassaic, NY
Ms. Stahl has been very active in volunteer projects and community affairs for most of her life. From 1977-1988, she worked at Sotheby's in client services and business development. She is currently the board chair of the Purnell School and is a trustee of The Boys' Club of New York. She is an honorary trustee of the Dutchess Day School, and serves on the board of Freedom Institute in New York. A long-time resident of Millbrook, she is a joint master of the Millbrook Hunt.

Catherine Tatge Cornwall Bridge, CT
Ms. Tatge is a producer and director of film and television and a partner in Tatge/Lasseur Productions and the not–for–profit, Global Village Media. For over 25 years, her work has encompassed many genres, from public affairs, performance and dance, to biographies and the world of ideas. Ms. Tatge was director and producer of Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers, for which she received an Emmy Award. She has directed and produced for PBS’ American Masters series. Her most recent work includes a features length documentary, Dancing Across Borders, to be released in March 2010. Her not–for–profit Global Village Media initiated the Civic Life Project, which uses documentary filmmaking to challenge high school and college students to report on the process of their government and rights of all human beings.

Andrew C. Vickery, Lenox, MA
Mr. Vickery has over 10 years of investment experience and is presently the Managing Partner of Berkshire Capital Partners, a firm which makes principal private equity investments and provides merchant banking and advisory services. Prior to this he had an extensive career in investment banking and debt capital markets at J.P. Morgan in Europe and Asia.

Vera V.J. Weintraub, Germantown, NY
From 1997 to 2007 Ms. Weintraub served as the Executive Director of Literacy, Inc., a nonprofit focused on organizing neighborhoods to read with their children. She currently serves on the board of Henry Hudson 400 in New York City and The Edgewood Club of Tivoli, as well as on the Advisory Committee of Berkshire Taconic’s Fund for Columbia County. She also participates in the strategic planning efforts of the prominent NYC chorale group, The Collegiate Chorale. She has been a consultant for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) and was Vice-President of the Financial Institutions Group within the Chemical Banking Corporation of NYC where she worked from 1982 to 1995. Ms. Weintraub received a B.A. from Smith College in 1965, and an M.B.A. in Public and Private Management from Yale School of Management in 1982. She resides with her husband Myles in Germantown, NY and in New York City.