David Treadway, Ph.D. (Vice President, Founding Member), nationally known family and couples therapist, is the author of Intimacy, Change, and other Therapeutic Mysteries and Dead Reckoning: A Therapist Confronts his own Grief. David has been an avid sailor his whole life and in the past 30 years has sailed his Luders 33 as far north as Newfoundland and Scotland, and as far south as Spain and the Caribbean. Read More >>
Rick Burnes (Founding Member) has been "messing around with boats" most of his life having learned to sail on Cape Cod as a child in catboats, and later moved on to extensive ocean cruising and racing. He has been an active participant in the Wianno Senior one design class on Cape Cod, and has cruised and raced actively. Read More >>
Edmund B. Cabot (Treasurer) practiced clinical surgery for nearly thirty years in an academic setting, which included teaching and administrative duties, as well as medical and scientific research. He was a member of the Department of Surgery at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he also served on the Admissions Committee of Harvard Medical School. Read More >>
Henry Becton is the former President of WGBH in Boston. In addition, In addition, Henry is a Trustee of the Boston Museum of Science; and an Overseer of the New England Aquarium. Read More >>
Betsy Nicholson, NOAA's Northeast Lead for the Coastal Services Center, learned to love the sea as a young sailor on Narragansett Bay out of Bristol, RI. This exposure drew her to the Williams-Mystic program while at Williams College, where she studied not only marine sciences, but literature of the sea, maritime history, and tried her hand as crew of the Corwith Crmmer, a 134-foot brigantine. Read More >>
Robert L. Johnstone lll, a founder of both MJM Yachts, LLC, and of J Boats, Inc., the leading fuel-efficient powerboat brand and leading performance sailboat brand respectively, is an entrepreneur whose marketing skills were honed as CEO of Quaker Oats subsidiaries in Colombia and Venezuela, and then in Chicago, where he was named Marketing Man of the Year and ultimately Director of Market Strategy & Analysis Read More >>
David ("Max") Williamson, David ("Max") Williamson is an environmental attorney in Washington, D.C. and New York City, where he specializes in climate change and emerging "green" businesses. Max is past chair of the D.C. Bar Environment Section and is active with a number of charitable causes, including serving as pro bono counsel to Haitian Education and Leadership Program, a scholarship program focused on civil society building in the Caribbean region. Read More >>
Regan Gammon, a community volunteer and nonprofit fundraiser for the past 30 years, is a founder and past Chair of the Texas Book Festival. In addition to serving on the Book Festival Board, she is a member of the National Park Foundation Board and served as its Citizen Chair for two years. Read More >>