Board of Directors

The MDF Board of Directors is comprised of no less than twelve business people, educators, government officials, and community leaders who are elected each year from among MDF’s members, and three ex-officio members which include the MDF CEO and two directors appointed by the sitting Governor.

2021-2022 MDF Board of Directors

Madeleine Braun, Chair
Chief, Presidential Initiatives
The Jackson Laboratory

Thomas Francoeur, Treasurer
Senior Managing Scientist
VHB, Inc.

Linda Ball
Vice President, Customer Service
Central Maine Power

*Yellow Light Breen
President & CEO
Maine Development Foundation

Hannah Carter
Dean
UMaine Cooperative Extension

Catherine Wygant Fossett
Executive Director
Institute for Family Owned Businesses

Amy Landry, Executive Committee
Executive Director
Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments (AVCOG)

Lisa Sockabasin
Director
Wabanaki Public Health

Joy Barresi Saucier, Vice Chair
Executive Director
Aroostook Agency on Aging

Scott Blake, Executive Committee
SVP, Chief Information Officer
Bangor Savings Bank

Dan Bookham
Director of Business Development
Allen Insurance and Financial

Meredith Strang Burgess
President & CEO
Burgess Advertising & Marketing

Lori Dwyer
President & CEO
Penobscot Community Health Care

*Deborah Johnson
Director
Office of Community Development Maine DECD

*Carlos Mello
Acting CEO
Finance Authority of Maine

Eric Soelberg
Vice President, Customer Insights & Planning
L.L. Bean, Inc.

*Ex-officio directors