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.

2020-2021 MDF Board of Directors

Alistair Raymond, Chair
Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer
Avangrid, Inc.

Thomas Francoeur, Treasurer
Senior Managing Scientist
VHB, Inc.

Joy Barresi Saucier, Executive Committee
Executive Director
Aroostook Agency on Aging

Dan Bookham
Director of Business Development
Allen Insurance and Financial

Hannah Carter
Dean, UMaine Cooperative Extension
University of Maine

Catherine Wygant Fossett
Executive Director
Institute for Family Owned Businesses

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

Carlos Mello
Acting CEO
Finance Authority of Maine

Madeleine Braun, Vice Chair
Chief, Presidential Initiatives
The Jackson Laboratory

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

*Yellow Light Breen
President & CEO
Maine Development Foundation

Meredith Strang Burgess
President & CEO
Burgess Advertising & Marketing

Lori Dwyer
President & CEO
Penobscot Community Health Care

*Deborah Johnson
Director, Office of Community Development
Maine Dept. of Economic & Community Development

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

*Ex-officio directors