FOUNDATION BOARD

The success of the SVHC Foundation is made possible only through the efforts and guidance of many dedicated volunteer leaders. They provide ideas to improve our health system, serve as ambassadors in the communities we serve, provide opportunities for others to learn of our health system's exciting work, organize and host events, and drive the success of our fundraising efforts. 

Caren McVicker moved to Southern Vermont full-time in 2014 with her husband and two children. Originally a member of the Northshire RAB, Caren joined the Foundation Board in 2018. Caren spent most of her career as a technical writer and social media consultant. She is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and an active member of The Dorset Players, the Dorset Church, and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. Caren's debut novel Henderson House is due out in early 2023. 

Michael McKenna is a financial advisor at D.B. McKenna & Co., Inc. in Bennington. Michael graduated from Mount Anthony Union High School in 1983, and went on to earn his bachelor's degree in business administration from Bryant College in Smithfield, RI. He spent six years as a district manager and major account district manager for Automatic Data Processing, Inc., before joining D.B. Mckenna & Co. in 1994. He serves his community as a director for the Bennington Chamber of Commerce, and is a director of the Bennington Catamount Rotary Club. Past community positions include president of the local Dollars for Scholars chapter, president of Hospice of Bennington County, Inc., director of Bennington Lions Club, and director of Big Brothers Big Sisters. Michael resides in Bennington, Vermont, with his wife, Susan, and two boys, Michael John and Peter.

 
Thomas A. Dee joined Southwestern Vermont Health Care as its chief executive officer in 2009. Since then, he has led SVHC to several national and regional recognitions, including as a five-time Magnet for Nursing Excellence designee, a Joint Commission Top Performer on Key Quality Measures, one of Vermont Magazine’s Best Places to Work, and one of the “Top 150 Places to Work in Health Care” as noted by Becker’s Hospital Review. Among the notable projects of the past three years, Tom has worked with his team to expand the health system’s partnership with Dartmouth Health, increase access to primary care, improve patient safety and experience, enhance employee engagement, and maintain a strong financial operation. Before SVHC, Tom worked for Health Alliance in Kingston, NY, an integrated health system of three hospitals. Tom was president and chief executive officer of the 222-bed Benedictine Hospital for more than 17 years. He has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a master's in Healthcare Administration, both from Xavier University in Ohio.
Jason Dohaney joined MountainOne Investments in 2007 as an investment advisor. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and his MBA from Quinnipiac University. He holds the FINRA Series 7 and 66 securities registrations as an Investment Advisor Representative of Commonwealth Financial Network® and is a Massachusetts- and New York-licensed insurance agent for life, health, and annuities.
 
An active member of the local community, he is the current vice-chair of the MCLA Foundation, president of the SteepleCats, a member of the Northern Berkshire Regional Advisory Board for Southwestern Vermont Health Care, and former president of the Williamstown Chamber of Commerce, Northern Berkshire United Way, and Fund for Williamstown. He lives in Williamstown with his wife, Danielle, and two daughters, Iris and Sloane. He is an avid golfer and fitness enthusiast and enjoys spending his free time with his family. 
Crista Gannon, a marketing executive with more than 25 years of experience in solutions marketing at Unisys and IBM. Most recently she was responsible for strategy, messaging, and marketing plans in support of the IBM’s Global Government division. Gannon is currently Co-Owner of Happy Dog Farm LLC, in Wilmington, Vermont. She is vice chair of the Wilmington Trails Committee and a member of Deerfield Valley Rotary Club. Gannon also served for six years as Commissioner of Youth Lacrosse in Falls Church, Va. and has volunteered with numerous community organizations. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar.
Thomas H. Green III retired from Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. October 2020 after serving as Managing Director and Head, Infrastructure Finance, in Citi’s Public Finance Department for over a decade. In all, Green worked for 22 years at Citigroup in investment banking roles where he had several notable transactions as the lead banker. Additionally, he was the First Assistant Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1992 to 1998. Earlier in his career, he was a Head Teaching Fellow at Harvard University and a budget analyst for the Massachusetts Senate's Committee on Ways and Means. Green is a board member of MassINC, publisher of Commonwealth magazine; a board member of SOMA Biologics; and a former board member of the Massachusetts Health and Education Tax-Exempt Trust, and of the Crime and Justice Foundation.
Tommy A. Harmon earned a bachelor's of science in business administration with a major in accounting from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1979. Upon graduation he joined Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., an international accounting firm, as a CPA.  After leaving public accounting, Tommy worked for several domestic and international manufacturers as CFO. He acquired Sonnax Industries, Inc., a firm that designs and manufactures automatic transmission components for rebuilders worldwide in 2005 and sold it to it’s employees in 2011. Tommy continued as President and CEO of Sonnax and sold the company to Berkshire Hathaway on behalf of the employee/ owners in 2018. Tommy served on the SVHC Board of Trustees for 13 years, including 5 years as chair. He is an active volunteer in the community and has served on the Vermont Business Roundtable Board of Trustees, the Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center Advisory Board, and the Manchester Vermont School Board.
Roby Harrington, III, earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in 1951 and served as a Marine officer during the Korean War. He began his business career in brand management at Procter & Gamble and joined Young & Rubicam, the international advertising agency, in 1961. After 31 years, he retired as chairman of the United States company and sat on its Board of Directors. He was been married for more than 60 years to Carol Whitney Harrington and has four children and ten grandchildren. Roby serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Southwestern Vermont Health Care Foundation Board of Directors, and supports quality health care, education, and arts organizations region wide. Roby is an avid golfer, voracious reader, a happy traveler, and a proud grandfather. He lives in Manchester Village, VT, and Boca Grande, FL.
Andrew King was born and raised in Manhattan and spent winter weekends at Stratton Mountain. He attended the Buckley School and the Taft School before attending the University of Vermont for resort management. He worked for Vail Associates in Colorado and for The Equinox Hotel in Manchester, VT. In 1999, he started in real estate sales for Stratton Real Estate, where he quickly became the director of sales and marketing. He currently works as the company’s general manager and principal broker.
Charles La Fiura grew up in Ridgewood, NJ, a suburb of New York City, where he met his wife, Judy, while they attended the public high school. Judy and Charles have two sons and three grandchildren and in July of 2016 celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Charles graduated in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College and in 1968 with a juris doctor degree from New York University Law School. Following active duty service with the U.S. Army reserves, he began a 40 year practice of law as a partner with law firms in northern New Jersey. He advised businesses and financial institutions on a broad range of commercial and business law matters involving mergers and acquisitions, day to day business operations, raising capital, securities law compliance, corporate governance, real estate acquisitions, tax exempt bond financing, and commercial lending. In 2005, Charles and Judy retired to East Dover, Vermont where for a few years Charles continued to practice law on a limited basis for his New Jersey law firm. In Vermont, Charles has been active in community affairs, serving on the Board of the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity as the chairman of its real estate acquisition committee, on the Dover and Wilmington Bi-Town Economic Development Committee, and as the President of the Rotary Club of the Deerfield Valley.
John Larkin is an attorney with over 40 years' experience. He was admitted to practice in New York in 1966. Upon completion of active duty in the U.S. Army, he joined an established law firm in New York City, where he specialized in professional liability defense of law and accounting firms. He retired from equity partnership in the firm at the end in 2013. He and his wife Deborah maintain a home in North Pownal. He holds a bachelor's degree from Hamilton College; JD from Albany Law School, Union University; and an MA in English Literature from Hunter College. He was previously a member of the Union League Club in New York and served on the Board of Directors a subsidiary of what today is ING, B.V.
Stephen D. Majetich joined Southwestern Vermont Healthcare in 2010 as its Chief Financial Officer. He has a bachelor's degree from St. John’s University in Jamaica, NY. He is a Certified Public Accountant. Stephen has nearly 40 years’ experience in the Healthcare industry both in public accounting for nearly 10 years and the remaining in senior financial officer positions bothn in small stand-alone hospitals and in regional and multi-state health care systems.
Dr. Keith Michl is an internal medicine physician in private practice in Manchester, VT, and a member of the Department of Medicine at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center.  He is an affiliate of MDVIP, a network of physicians providing personalized primary care medical and wellness services. He attended Middlebury College in Vermont and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Ohio. He completed his residency at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Michl is particularly interested in geriatric medicine and aging management, preventive cardiology, nutrition and weight management issues, and integrative health.   
Scott Seidel divides time between Arlington, VT and Springfield, NJ. He has been a commercial real estate broker and developer with Cardinal Land Properties, his family company, since 1979. He also has been a licensed real estate broker in Vermont since 1993. In addition, he is the emergency management coordinator for the Town of Springfield. In that role, he oversees the town’s emergency operations plan; heads the auxiliary police unit and other volunteers; and coordinates police, fire, department of public works, and administration resources and chairs the Fourth of July committee. He is a founding member of Springfield H.O.P.E., a non-profit that aims to provide financial aid to those in need, and the chairman of the Springfield Mayor’s Day at Baltusrol committee, which provides scholarships to high school seniors in Springfield. He is a trustee of the Arlington Rescue Squad Board.
Themarge Small, MD, FACOG  is an obstetrician and gynecologist at SVMC OB/GYN. She received her medical degree at the University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine. In addition, she earned a bachelor’s in political science from the University of Vermont and a post-baccalaureate certificate in premedical studies from Mills College in California. She completed her residency in OB/GYN at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire. Dr. Small served as the chair of the department of OB/GYN in 2014 and 2015, as the vice president of the medical staff from 2016 to 2018, and the president of the medical staff from 2018 to 2020. In addition to her role at SVMC, she is a clinical assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine. Dr. Small is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FACOG).
William S. Sterns, III, is a retired partner of Alston & Bird, LLP, in New York. He was a member of the firm's Capital Markets group. He received his JD at New York Law School and his bachelor's degree at Colgate University. He lives in Delray Beach, FL, and Dorset, VT, and supports the Dorset Theater Festival, Southern Vermont Art Center, Helgate Hill Homeowners Association, the Manhattan Theater Club, and The River Club in New York. He is a member of the Knickerbocker Club, Gulf Stream Golf Club, Gulf Stream Bath & Tennis Club, Ekwanok Country Club, and the Dorset Field Club.
Peter M. Thompson retired in 2004 after a 35-year career building food and beverage brands around the world. At his retirement, Peter was president and CEO of PepsiCo's international beverage business, responsible for brands such as Pepsi, 7-Up, Tropicana, and Gatorade in 170 countries around the world. He led the successful restructuring and turnaround of this business to make it a major source of revenue and profit growth for PepsiCo. He has extensive experience on corporate and non-profit boards and serves on the boards of the Southern Vermont Arts Center and as a lifetime trustee of the Vero Beach Museum of Art. Now a United States citizen, Peter was born in Australia, grew up in England, and has lived in Switzerland, Brazil, and Paris. He graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Modern Languages and earned an MBA at Columbia University. He and his wife live in Vero Beach, FL, and Dorset, VT.

Marny M. Krause
David J. Newell

Leslie Keefe has more than 25 years of marketing, management and strategic business consulting experience in the corporate and non-profit fundraising sectors. Keefe, who is a Vermont native, ran a successful consulting business focusing on organizational development, including strategic planning, governance, fundraising, training and marketing before joining Southwestern Vermont Health Care as the Vice President of Corporate Development in January, 2014.

Keefe, who lives in Manchester, has a long history of successful marketing and fundraising in Bennington County, raising several million dollars in annual, capital and endowment initiatives for several local organizations. As executive director of the Manchester and the Mountains Chamber of Commerce for seven years, she quadrupled membership and led a variety of successful economic development initiatives.

Keefe launched her career in the retail industry, completing the Bloomingdale’s executive training program in New York City before spending nearly a decade with San Francisco-based clothing chain, Esprit De Corp. Keefe oversaw the entire East Coast and Midwest operations, opening numerous outlet stores and managing over 200 employees and several million dollars in revenue.

Active in the both her local and statewide community, Keefe currently serves on the Board of the Southern Vermont Arts Center and served on the board of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation for several years assisting the organization with its vision of becoming a nationally recognized institution, as well as volunteering with various community organizations. She also serves an alternate commissioner on the District 8 Act 250 Commission, a position she has held since 2007.

SVHC Foundation Mission

The sole purpose of the SVHC Foundation shall be to engage in development and fundraising activities exclusively for the support of the Southwestern Vermont Health Care Corporation.

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