Board of Trustees

 

 

 

MARGARET ATKINSON, Brattleboro, Vermont. Margaret is the  Marketing Director and a Worker-owner at the  Green Mountain Spinnery. She brings over 15 years of marketing and development experience to the board. She has worked for the Institute for Community Economics and several conservation land trusts. She brings additional stakeholder hands-on owner cooperative experience which assists with providing development services to our borrowers. Ms. Atkinson has a BA and an MA  from Rutgers College in Ethnography and serves on the CFNE governance and development committees.                                                 

ERBIN CROWELL, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. Erbin Crowell works as Executive Director for the Neighboring Food Cooperatives Association. He has worked for CFNE as marketing manager and previously was a member of Equal Exchange, a worker co-operative and pioneering fair trade organization.  He developed and directed the co-op’s “Interfaith Program”, and launched Equal Exchange’s Domestic Fair Trade Program, overseeing the development of a new product line sourced from small farmers and their co-ops in the U.S. Erbin worked for a year as a cooperative development specialist with the Cooperative Development Institute and currently serves on the boards of the National Co-operative Business Association and the Domestic Fair Trade Association. He has delivered workshops on fair trade and co-operation at many conferences and gatherings. He holds a B.A. in anthropology and the visual arts from Brown University, and a Masters in Management (Co-operatives and Credit Unions) from St. Mary’s University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

ANDREW DANFORTH, Attleborough, Massachsuetts. Andy is the housing program manager for the Cooperative Development Institute. He has over 25 years of executive, accounting, technology, and operational experience in banking and finance. Prior to joining CDI to run theer manufactured housing program, he was a self-employed consultant specializing in enterprise solutions for mortgage companies, commercial banks, software providers, governmental agencies, and whole loan traders. He was founded a number of businesses and has  held executive finance positions for two public companies.  Andy is a CPA, and has been a board member since 2003. He serves as President of CCF and is on the CFNE Loan Committee. 

SUSAN ELLIS, Spruce Head, Maine. Susy served on the CFNE board from 1982 to 1996 and served for many years as the Board President. She provides accounting and management services to small businesses across Maine. Management services include personnel, business planning and financial analysis. She also provides Coast Guard documentation for commercial fishermen and yachtsmen throughout New England. Susy was formerly President of the Federation of Co-ops and was co-author of "A Comparative Financial Analysis of Maine Co-op Stores".Susy serves on the CFNE loan committee.
  

CORY GREENBERG, Shutesbury, Massachusetts. Cory is also a founding board member of the Cooperative Capital Fund. He is a financial and management consultant to small businesses. He is Treasurer of a movie theater management and investment company in the New York metropolitan area, and is active in various socially responsible and other investments. Cory is Treasurer and board member of Ten Directions, Inc. and is on the advisory board of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society. He has been CFO at a publicly traded company as well as a financial manager of a worker cooperative, and is a graduate of Hampshire College. Cory is the chairperson of CFNE’s Loan Committee. 

DON KREIS, Board Vice President, Norwich, Vermont. Don has served on the board of the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society in Hanover, New Hampshire since 2003, including three years as president. He is associate director, and assistant professor of law, at the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School, where he is writing about democratically run electric cooperatives. Don is Justice of the Peace in Norwich, Vermont, He is an active participant in the Neighboring Food Cooperative Association and has a special interest in governance and fiduciary responsibility of boards. He has served as general counsel of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, third mate on the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, and reporter for the Associated Press and the Maine Times. Don enthusiastic about the cooperative model and its need for capital. Don has a BA from Middlebury College, a MS in Journalism from Columbia University and a JD from the University of Maine. 

CLAIRE MORDUCH, Claire is the Director of Finance and Administration for Connecticut Voices for Children. Prior to CT Voices, she was a management consultant with Brody Weiser Burns for 16 years.  She worked with nonprofits, specializing in financial analysis of CDFIs, organizational development and planning. Before moving to New Haven, she worked as assistant manager in a worker-owned print shop in Philadelphia and as a collective member in a cooperatively owned and operated restaurant in Takoma Park, MD.  Claire has been a member of a consumer co-op in almost every place she has lived since 1980 including the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, TPSS Food Co-op, Weaver's Way Co-op, Whitfield Pantry and currently Food & Friends Buying Club.  Claire received a Masters degree in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management in 1992. Claire, her spouse and two teenagers live in Guilford, CT.

 

PHEBE QUATTRUCCI, Board Clerk,South Freeport, Maine. Phebe began her career in banking and has sixteen yearsʼ experience working with and for Community Development Financial Institutions and mission-based organizations throughout the country (CDFIs). She is the principal of Quattrucci & Company, a consulting practice that specializes in developing and implementing comprehensive, multi-faceted capitalization strategies for CDFIs and other mission-based organizations. Quattrucci & Company also provides strategic and operational planning, Board development, and marketing services to its clients. Phebe is a successful grantwriter and is nationally recognized for her work with Native American CDFIs. She worked as an Outreach Coordinator for CFNE for four years. She earned her B.A. from Middlebury College. 

JON RESKE, West Springfield. MAssachusetts. Jon is a senior manager and Vice President of Marketing at the UMassFive College Credit Union which has 24,670 co-op memebrs and assets of $296 million. He has skills in marketing and strategic planning. Jon has a BS in Business Adminstration from American International College and an MBA from Wake Forest University, Babcock School of Business, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 

L.J. TAYLOR, Board President, Somerville, Massachusetts. L.J. is a worker-owner and senior sales representative at Equal Exchange, in West Bridgewater, MA a worker-owned co-operative marketing fairly traded coffee, tea and chocolate from small farmer co-ops. He has worked in Bulk Foods at Weaver Street Co-op in Chapel Hill, NC. He has volunteered for the post of Mentor/Buddy coordinator at Equal Exchange to help push the continuing education needed to help cooperatives survive. L.J. helped in the formation of the Independents Coffee Cooperative in Philadelphia, which consists of café owners who support Fair Trade. He has a BA in mathematics from the University of Virginia where he specialized in business development and raised funds through the UVA Development Office. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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