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2007 -2008 Council Membership
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Melinda Ailes Senior Management Counselor Mass Small Business Dev. Center Paul Allen President New Bedford Internet Carl Alves Grant Administrator City of New Bedford David Alves Councillor-at-Large City of New Bedford Lasse Antonsen Director, University Art Gallery University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Maureen Armstrong President, CEO Sylvia & Co. Insurance Agency, Inc. Ann Auger Vice President, Commercial Lending Citizens-Union Savings Bank Blair Bailey Tax Title Attorney City of New Bedford Anthony Baird Asst. Director Career Resource Center University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Nia Barros Chairperson Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Massachusetts, Inc. Clyde Barrow Executive Director Center for Policy Analysis University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Wendy Bauer Director of Marketing & Planning St. Anne’s Hospital Gail Berman-Martin Director Career Services University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Celeste Bernardo Superintendent New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park Roz Bernheimer Board Member Buttonwood Park Zoological Society Warren Berube Executive Director Global Learning Charter Public School Lee Blake Director SouthCoast Education Compact University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Linda Bodenmann Chief Operating Officer Southcoast Hospitals Group David Borges Assistant Director of Center for Policy Analysis University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Eric Britto President True Bounce Gary Brown Superintendent - Director Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School Adam Buck Managing Partner Rope Works Irene Buck Executive Director Artworks! Jim Butler Publisher Weekly Compass Richard Canastra President Whaling City Auction Richard Cardoza Owner Cardoza’s Liquors Michael Carreiro President Southeast Massachusetts Building Trades Council George Charbonneau Artistic Director Festival Theatre Mary Lou Clarke Assistant Superintendent Dartmouth Public Schools Lynn Coish Chair Operation Clean Sweep City of New Bedford Len Coriaty Executive Director Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board, Inc. Paul Correia Senior Vice President Employment and Training Division Dan Costa Treasurer Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Massachusetts, Inc. Scott Costa Treasurer Bufftree Building Company Keri Cox Owner mediumstudio Chuck Dade Developer Pat Daughton Partner Liaison AHA! Tom Davis Executive Director Greater New Bedford Industrial Foundation William Davis * President & CEO Ze-gen, Inc. Kristin Decas Executive Director New Bedford Harbor Development Commission Ed Dennehy President & CEO New Directions Southcoast Inc. Yolanda Dennis Diversity Analyst Equal Opportunity, Diversity & Outreach Peter DeWalt President Reynolds DeWalt Robert Dubiel Katherine Duff Owner Studio of Architecture and Art Craig Dutra President Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts Ana C. Dyer Senior Vice President & Regional Manager Webster Bank Timothy H. Dyer President Dyer Capital Management, Inc. Julie Early Executive Director Island Foundation Mark Eisenberg CEO NATCO Todd Eisenberg Partner Tofias, P.C. Gary Fealy Vice President BankFive Megan Feldt Director of Permitting Ze-gen, Inc. John Fernandes Director, Science & Engineering Center University of Massachusetts Dartmouth David J. Ferreira Executive Director MAVA Field Office Jenny Fialho Vice President / Sales Manager Millennium bcpbank Robert Fiengold President Oceanarium Tom Flannagan Director SouthCoast Community Collaborative Design Studio Byron Ford, Jr. Realtor Weichert Realtors Brenda Francis Career Center Director New Bedford & Wareham Career Centers Nicholas Francis Owner Francis Photography Nancy Freeman Assistant to the Dean SMAST University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Alan C. Freitas President Priority Management Boston Training, Inc. Freddie Fuentes Assistant Superintendent for Equity and Diversity New Bedford Public Schools Stephen Fulchino Library Director New Bedford Free Public Library Richard Gamache COO/CFO Julius Koch USA, Inc. Avijit Gangopadhyay Associate Dean SMAST University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Nilsa Garcia-Rey Executive Director Gallery X, Inc.

John Garfield, Jr. Acting Executive Director New Bedford Whaling Museum Jeff Glassman President Darn It! Sarah Gonet Vice President of Resource Development United Way of Greater New Bedford Jane Gonsalves President, City Council City of New Bedford Barbara Grunkemeyer Financial Consultant Angappa Gunasekaran Assistant Professor Dept of Decision and Information Sciences Charlton School of Business University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Hannah Haines Creative Director, Principal mediumstudio William Hall Chef Mar-Lees Seafood, LLC Sister Kathleen Harrington Executive Director John Boyd Child Care Center Jennifer Hausladen Board Member Buttonwood Park Zoological Society Peter Hawes President Waterfront Historic Area LeaguE (WHALE) Diann Haynes Administrative Services Manager New Directions Lee Heald Program Director AHA! Nelson Hockert-Lotz Owner Domino’s Pizza Pamela Holmes Board Member Buttonwood Park Zoological Society Deborah Hynes Photographer City of New Bedford Elizabeth Isherwood President Moore and Isherwood Communications Inc. Harry Jacobvitz Owner Bush Quality Cleaners Jeanine James Owner New England Demolition & Salvage Linda Johannsen Consultant Emily Johns Artist Dream Braids Eddie Johnson ABC Disposal Peter Kavanaugh * President La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries Katherine Knowles * Executive Director The Zeiterion Performing Arts Center Tony Kopaczewski President South End Business Association Richard Lafrance President Lafrance Hospitality Co. Edward Lambert, Jr. Director, Center for Policy Analysis University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Jay Lanagan Vice President Atlantis Mortgage Corporation Scott W. Lang * Mayor City of New Bedford William Langbauer Executive Director Buttonwood Park Zoological Society Laurence Langlois MIS Deparment City of New Bedford Kim Lannigan CFO Mar-Lees Seafood, LLC Lisa Lemieux Organizer 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East Ray Letourneau Counsel New Bedford Redevelopment Authority Craig Lindell President Aquapoint Industries Ann Marie Lopes Director, Office of Tourism and Marketing City of New Bedford James Lopes Attorney Law Office of James J. Lopes Anne Louro Preservation Planner City of New Bedford Thomas F. Lyons President & CEO BankFive Dr. Jean F. MacCormack Chancellor University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Jill MacLean Assistant City Planner City of New Bedford Anne Marchall Communication and Marketing Specialist mediumstudio Armand Marchand Executive Director and Founder Festival Theatre Jennifer Marshall SEEAL Coordinator Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance Hank Mastey Chair New Bedford Cultural Council James H. Mathes * President SMILES Mentoring Program Peggi Medeiros Research Historian The Wamsutta Club Roseanne Medeiros Board Chairman North End Business Association Jennifer Menard Executive Director SouthCoast Development Partnership University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Joseph Michaud Attorney Henry & Michaud, Attorneys at Law John Miller Director and Entrepreneur in Resident Advanced Technology and Mnfg. Center University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Linda Morad City Councilor, City of New Bedford Director North End Business Association Arthur Motta Executive Director Southeastern Massachusetts Convention and Visitors Bureau Donna Motta Executive Director Downtown New Bedford, Inc. Peter Muise Executive Vice President & COO First Citizen’s Federal Credit Union Dr. Frank Muller-Karger Dean, School for Marine Science and Technology University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Carol Murchie Finance Manager Inter-Church Council of Greater New Bedford Jim Muse Developer New Bedford Realty Roy Nascimento President New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce Joseph Nauman * Executive V.P. Corporate & Legal Acushnet Company Joan Ann Niles CEO Bristol County Blueprint Company Mary Louise Nunes President Mary Louise Nunes, CPA Donna O’Connor Business Development Specialist Small Business Association Gregory O’Donnell Vice President Citizens-Union Savings Bank David Oliveira President, Federal Relations Group The Liberty Square Group Beatriz Oliveira NB360.com Laura Orleans Director Working Waterfront Festival Elissa Paquette Owner Calico Dr. Eileen Peacock Dean, Charlton College of Business University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Kevin T. Pelland Chairman Downtown New Bedford, Inc. Edward Perreira Account Representative WNBH Susan Peterson Teal Partners Carol Pimentel * Director of Internal Audit & Admin. Services University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Penny Pimentel Board Member Mass Cultural Council Jeff Pontiff Owner Pontiff Realty David Prentiss Executive Director Buttonwood Park Zoological Society Peter Quigley CEO Fiberspar Corp. Roger Race General Manager Brooke Ocean Technology (USA) Inc. Mark Rasmussen Executive Director The Coalition for Buzzards Bay Ronald F. Rheaume New England Regional Council of Carpenters Local Union 1305 Carl Ribeiro Chairman Greater New Bedford Industrial Foundation Cynthia Rodrigues The Greater Southeastern Massachusetts Labor Council Catherine Rollins Policy Aide Office of the Mayor City of New Bedford Terri Romanovitch Dean of the New Bedford Campus Bristol Community College Dan Romanowicz, Jr. Senior Project Manager New Bedford Housing Authority Bernard Roth Management Consultant Dr. Brian Rothschild Montgomery Charter Professor of Marine Science, SMAST University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Peter Russell Owner M&R Screen Printing, Inc. Jay Ryan Senior Vice President/Manager Webster Bank Ricardo Santos Owner Romao Santos Architects Anthony Sapienza * President and COO Joseph Abboud Manufacturing Corp. Sally Sapienza Independent Curator John Sbrega President Bristol Community College Lisa Schmid Alvord Executive Director Our Sisters’ School Peter Selley Vice President Bristol County Savings Bank Steve Shareck Coordinator - Arts, Communication and Consumer Services Greater NB Regional Vocational Technical High School Michael Shea Superintendent Greater NB Regional Vocational Technical High School Dave Sheehan Executive Director Quest Center / University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Richard Shepard Architect S/Q Design Associates Debra Shrader Director Shore Support, Inc. Steve Shuster President Shuster Corp. Calvin Siegal Senior Board Advisor New Bedford Whaling Museum Andrew Simpson Sales Director Riversand Technologies, Inc. Charles Simpson President and CEO First Citizen’s Federal Credit Union Charles N. Sisson Executive Director Coastline Elderly Services Mark Smith Executive Director Ocean Explorium Steve Smith Executive Director Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District (SRPEDD) James F. Snow Director of Organizing Painters & Allied Trades District Council No. 35 Carol Steinfeld Ecovita Lisa Sughrue Executive Director Waterfront Historic Area LeaguE (WHALE) Raymond Suprenant President Davico Mfg. James Sweeney President CCI Energy, LLC Ronald Teachman Chief of Police City of New Bedford Adrian R. Tio Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Ercan Tirtiroglu Prof. of Decision Sciences and Operations Management University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Richard Toomey General Counsel and Executive Vice President Sovereign Bank Elizabeth Treadup Press Secretary Office of the Mayor City of New Bedford Desa VanLaarhoven Executive Director Marion Institute John Vasconcellos Director of Development The Coalition for Buzzards Bay Anthony Vieira Executive Director Professional and Continuing Education University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Paul L. Vigeant * Assistant Chancellor Economic Development University of Massachusetts Dartmouth William J. Villineau Director of Housing and Conference Services Marine Biological Laboratory Karie Vincent Executive Director New Bedford Art Museum Stewart P. Washburn Business Management Consultant Consultant Commerical Lending Robert L. Weeks President North East Refrigerated Terminals, Inc. Randall Weeks, Jr. Partner Partridge, Snow & Hahn, LLP David F. Westgate Quequechan Management Corporation Marilyn Whalley Director Wareham Community & Economic Development Authority Robert Wheeler CEO & President American Insulated Wire Company Steve White Professor, Charlton School of Business University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Corinn Williams Executive Director Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Mass., Inc. Gloria Williams Director PACE Youthbuild Charles Winterhalter Owner & Operator 3W Inc., McDonald’s of New Bedford Anne Wolfe New Bedford Cultural Council Gordon Wolfe Consulting Services William Wurm Systems Analyst People’s Credit Union Lisa Yates Executive Director Our Sisters’ School Matt Zenni Director of Business Development Tibbetts Engineering Corp.