At its 31st Summer Membership Meeting held at Sugarbush Resort, the Vermont Business Roundtable elected five new members to the organization including: Dan Bennett, CEO of Gifford Health Care; Phelan Fretz, Executive Director of ECHO Leahy Center; Sarah Morris, Fifth Generation Host at Basin Harbor Resort & Boat Club; Premila Peters, President and CEO of Data Innovations; and Dawn Terrill, President of Jani-Tech. Also at the meeting, the members installed Pennie Beach, Founding Director of Vermont Business Roundtable and Fourth Generation Host of Basin Harbor Resort & Boat Club, as Honorary Member.
The Roundtable also welcomes newly installed CEOs of existing member companies including: Joanne M. Conroy, MD, President and CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Jay Fayette, CEO of PC Construction; Scott Finn, President and CEO of Vermont Public Radio; Peter Kunin, Managing Partner of Downs Rachlin Martin; Ralphine O’Rourke, Shareholder of Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer PC, and Associate Members, Jody Cole, Regional Manager of Commercial Banking at People’s United Bank; Sandy Mayotte, COA and Senior Vice President of AN Deringer, Inc; Cassie Polhemus, Chief Operating Officer of the Vermont Economic Development Authority; Gregory Woodworth, SVP and General Counsel of National Life Group.
The Roundtable is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of CEOs from Vermont's top 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.