At its 27th Annual Membership Meeting held at The Essex Resort and Spa, the Vermont Business Roundtable elected five new directors to their first three-year term, including: Jill Berry Bowen, CEO of Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans; Geoff Glaspie, Plant Manager of Husky Injection Molding in Milton; Brian Murphy, Managing Partner of Dinse Knapp McAndrew in Burlington; Bill Shouldice IV, CEO of Vermont Teddy Bear of Shelburne; and, John Wilking, CEO of Neville Companies of South Burlington.
Elected to their second three-year term were the following directors: Tim Donovan, Chancellor of Vermont State Colleges and Don George, CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont.
Continuing members of the Roundtable board are: Ted Adler, President & Founder, Union Street Media; Leon Berthiaume, General Manager, St. Albans Cooperative Creamery; Greg Bourgea, Co-Managing Partner, Gallagher Flynn & Company; Renee Bourget-Place, Managing Partner, KPMG; Jo Bradley, CEO, Vermont Economic Development Authority; Chris Dutton, CEO of Vermont Electric Power Company; Dave Finney, President, Champlain College; Don Gilbert, President and CEO, Vermont Gas Systems; Tommy Harmon, CEO of Sonnax Industries; Pierre LeBlanc, President, Engelberth Construction, Inc.; Ken Perine, President of National Bank of Middlebury; Board Chair Mary Powell, CEO of Green Mountain Power, Colchester; Nicole Ravlin, CEO of People Making Good; Michael Seaver, President of Peoples United Bank; Rob Simpson, CEO of Brattleboro Retreat; and, Win Smith, President of Sugarbush Resort.
Also announced were the organization’s newest members: Daniel Bridge, Senior Vice President of Vermont Mutual Insurance Company; Matthew Byrne, Shareholder of Gravel & Shea; Tom Dunn, President and CEO of Vermont Electric Power Company; Walter Frame III, Executive Vice President of Trapp Family Lodge; Kevin McCarthy, President and CEO of PC Construction; Jane Swift, CEO of Middlebury Interactive Languages; and, T.J. Whalen, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.
The Vermont Business Roundtable (Roundtable) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of chief executive officers of Vermont's leading private and nonprofit employers, representing geographic diversity and all major sectors of the Vermont economy. The Roundtable is committed to sustaining a sound economy and preserving Vermont’s unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
