Board of Directors

Penobscot East Resource Center’s Board of Directors
L to R (first row): Paul Venno, Jennifer Larrabee, Walter Reed, Paul Lewis, Ted Hoskins, Dwight Carver, Ted Ames
(back row): Lael Stegall (retired), Charles Osborn, Anne Hayden, Tom Colwell, David Heanssler, Chandler Barbour

Officers

Walter Reed, Chair, came to Deer Isle about 10 years ago after an extensive career in national and international leadership in the agricultural chemical and biopesticide industries. He has managed research, development, regulatory affairs, quality control and quality assurance functions. He has been employed by Shell, the DuPont Corporation, EcoScience Corporation and Interbox Co., Ltd., and established his own international company Walter Reed Associates, and agricultural and environmental consulting company. In the season, he has a charter boat business and serves with the Memorial Ambulance squad year-round. He earned his A.B. in biology (minor in biochemistry) at Franklin & Marshall College (PA), and his Ph.D. in entomology and economic zoology from Rutgers University (NJ).

Jennifer Larrabee, Vice-Chair, has extensive knowledge of the lobster industry through experience in marketing, planning and industry organizations. From 1998 until 2006, she was employed by Sunshine Seafood, Inc. - Barry Group - Nova Lobster, heading up the Logistics and Distribution division, and created a statewide production plan to implement supply. From 1998-2000, she served as Assistant to the Captain on the F/V Armageddon. She has been Vice President of the Maine Pound Association and a member of the Lobster Institute Board. She is a lifelong resident of Maine.

Tom Colwell, Treasurer, is the fourth generation in his family to be in the lobster industry. He has lived on Deer Isle since he was “knee high to a grasshopper!” Educated in Deer Isle schools, he attended the University of Maine and taught in the public schools for nine years. Tom then returned to Deer Isle to work with Colwell Brothers, Inc in Stonington. Since 1985, he has been the president and owner of the company. Tom is currently a director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine and a director of the Maine Lobster Pound Association. He has been a director of the Bar Harbor Bank since 1991 and has served as chair of the board since 2004. Tom has served on the Deer Isle school board and has been on the board of the Island Medical Center. He and his wife Paula are avid bridge players and are active with the Island Country Club.

Charlie Osborn, Secretary, retired in 2006, after 25 years on Wall Street as the marketing director for Sullivan & Cromwell law firm. Before starting the marketing dept at S & C, he developed advanced litigation and practice management databases for the firm. Prior to joining S & C, Charlie was attached to an economic consulting firm advising USDOJ on anti-trust issues. Charlie obtained his BA in economics from Vanderbilt, his MA in political philosophy from Columbia, and his MBA from Cornell. Charlie and his wife, Kathleen, moved and became residents of Deer Isle in 2006 after 30 years in the New York City area. Since relocating to Deer Isle Charlie has become very active in community organizations and issues. He has served as a member of the board of trustees for the Island Medical Center in assisting on their capital campaign. He is a member of the Friends of the Reach steering committee for the Reach Performing Arts Center. He helped with a letter writing campaign in support of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association position on the sinking rope rule. He has served as a technical assistant for the Healthy Island Project.

Board Members

Ted Ames, a founding board member, is a member of Stonington Fisheries Alliance (SFA), and captain/owner of the F/V Mary Elizabeth in the Zone C lobster fishery. He fished for groundfish and scallops for 24 years, lobsters for 27 years, and has extensive additional fisheries experience. He has authored several peer-reviewed articles on fisheries. He has an M.S. in Biochemistry with a specialty in tissue culture and has six years research experience. He also developed and was director of an environmental and water quality laboratory, Alden-Ames Laboratory in Stonington for three years. Ames spent ten years as an instructor/ teacher of chemistry, biochemistry, and environmental science. He was Vice-Chair Maine Department of Marine Resources Hatchery Technology Association for five years, Chair of the Stonington Harbor Committee for 10 years, Vice Chair of Deer Isle-Stonington School Board for 4 years, and Executive Director of Maine Gillnetters Association for four years.

Chandler Barbour is an 8th generation Deer Islander whose legacy includes sailors, ship captains, and farmers. He was educated at Island schools, the University of Maine, Boston University, and Wayne State University. A life long educator, he taught and administered elementary schools in Maine before moving into college teaching in Michigan and Maryland. He and his wife, Nita, retired from their professorships at Maryland universities in 1993 and returned to Deer Isle as full time residents. Chandler has served on the boards of Blue Hill Memorial Hospital, Downeast Colloquy, Deer Isle Congregational Church, Deer Isle Planning Board, plus various CSD committees. For the last Year, he has been involved in the Hancock County Jail Volunteer program on counseling inmates.

Dwight Carver is a long time fisherman in Washington County. For the last 10 years it has been exclusively lobster fishing, but he has been involved in all types of fishing for fin fish and shellfish over the years including: gill netting, scalloping, crabs, and quahogs. Dwight is a believer in area management for fisheries. He is concerned about the disappearing working waterfront, as well as being concerned about the future of fishing as an occupation. He has been very active in giving support for initiative on preserving fishing. He is a member of the Maine Lobster Association, the Downeast Lobster Association, and the Lobster Council(LCNT). Dwight is a life long resident of Beals, Maine where he and his wife, Patti have raised 3 daughters. He is active in the Beals Community of Christ Church where he is a lay preacher. He has been an active basketball coach in area schools.

Anne Hayden is an independent consultant in Brunswick, Maine, specializing in analysis of natural resource and environmental issues. Recent projects include assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on Maine’s lobster fishery and analysis of the mismatch between ecological and management boundaries in the groundfisheries of the Gulf of Maine. Anne co-authors a monthly column in National Fishermen magazine on fisheries management issues in New England. Anne is an adjunct lecturer in Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College and was appointed Coastal Studies Scholar at the college in 2004. She has a BA in American History and Literature from Harvard and an MS in Environmental Studies from Duke.

David Heanssler, a third generation fisherman, has worked in every aspect of the fishing industry. Born and raised in Sunshine, he began in the fishing business at age nine when he worked in his grandfather’s lobster business. Educated in island schools, he studied chemistry at Aurora University in Illinois. David served in the Air National Guard. On a boat since he was nine, David has worked as a gill-netter, scalloper, shrimper, fished for crabs and urchins, and has built his own boats. David currently fishes for lobsters out of Jericho Bay in the JuBeLi. He has been active with the Scallopers Association and is currently a member of the Downeast Lobstermen’s Association. David and his wife Betty, who are avid ballroom dancers, live in Sunshine and are the parents of three grown children.

Ted Hoskins, a founding board member, is Minister for Fisheries and Coastal Communities for the Maine Sea Coast Mission. He retired in 2003 from being the Mission’s “boat minister” aboard the Sunbeam, serving the outer islands of Maine. Prior to that he was a pastor in Westport, CT for 40 years and has been the summer minister for Isle au Haut for years, ever since his father retired from the post. Hoskins is founding board member of Stonington Fisheries Alliance, Saltwater Network and active in numerous community efforts including serving on the Maine Lobster Advisory Council.

Paul R. Lewis, a founding board member, is an independent management consultant with over 25 years of global business experience. He was most recently the acting GM and SVP of sales, services and support of Misys Healthcare Systems and President of Misys Physician Systems in Raleigh, NC. Previously he was president and Chief Executive Officer of Revivio, Inc., a venture backed developer of next generation data protection solutions. Prior to that, Mr. Lewis was Managing Director of the World Economic Forum. Located in Geneva, Switzerland and well known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is an international non-profit foundation that brings together business, political, academic and other leaders of society committed to improving the state of the world. Mr. Lewis was previously Chairman, President and CEO of Essential.com, a Web-based energy and communications marketplace. Prior to June 2000, Paul Lewis was the Worldwide General Manager of the IBM Global Services Consulting Group where he led a global team of 8,000 management and technology consultants deployed throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Mr. Lewis was also a member of IBM's Senior Management Group, the chairman's leadership team, whose members represent the top 300 executives in the company. Mr. Lewis has a MBA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA in economics from Penn State University. Lewis is a member of the Board of Visitors at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business Administration and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees and president of the Isle au Haut, Maine Electric Power Company. Mr. Lewis is a past member of the board of directors of Enerwise Global Technologies. He lives with his wife and two children in Concord, Massachusetts and Isle au Haut, Maine.

Charles M. Lucas was, until the end of 2005, Corporate Vice President and Director, Market Risk Management at American International Group (AIG). Prior to joining AIG in May, 1996, Mr. Lucas was Senior Vice President and Director of Risk Assessment and Control at Republic National Bank of New York. For the 25 years prior to joining Republic in late 1993, Mr. Lucas was with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in various research, domestic monetary policy, and international policy areas. From mid-1978 to mid-1979, Mr. Lucas was a technical assistance mission to the Central Bank of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Mr. Lucas has also consulted in monetary policy planning and implementation with Bank Indonesia, Bangledesh Bank, the National Bank of Georgia, and the Bank of Morocco. Mr. Lucas is a member of the Advisory Group on the Financial Engineering Program at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, is a Member of the Corporation, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and is a member of the Board on Mathematical Sciences and the Applications of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2000 to 2004 he was a Director of Algorithmics, Incorporated. He earned a B.A. in economics in 1961 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1968, both from the University of California at Berkeley.

Paul Venno, a fisherman, was born on Cape Rosier in the midst of family history that stretches back to pre-revolutionary days…. 1750 to be exact. In the early days all the men went to sea, though his great grandfather was the last to be a commercial fisherman. Then Paul, when he was 6 or 7, went clamming down at the cove , discovered how much he liked to catch stuff, and in one way or another has been fishing ever since. After graduating from the University of Maine with a major in wildlife management and a minor in forestry, Paul worked at the federal level with the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and then for 9 years with Maine’s Sea and Shore Fisheries Department (now the DMR) where he was Regional Biologist and then Director of Marine Extension. All the time, as part of his work and now as his primary work, he’s been fishing: clamming, scalloping, shrimping, fish traps, seining, ground fishing, and oh yes, lobstering.