Board of Trustees

  • Rhonda Craft
    President, Board of Trustees

    As founder and managing director of The Aspen Group (London, UK), a financial advisory firm providing capital markets training and portfolio management and derivative advisor, Rhonda skillfully...

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  • Tom Rechen
    Vice President, Board of Trustees

    Tom is an accomplished trial lawyer and business litigator with over two decades of experience handling commercial disputes on behalf of public and private companies in Connecticut and across the...

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  • Frank Hursey
    Treasurer, Board of Trustees
    Francis X. Hursey, President and Founder of On Site Gas Systems Inc. is a pioneer of PSA Oxygen technology. His vision was a...
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  • Don Wilson
    Secretary, Board of Trustees

    Don graduated from Hampton University, with further Civil Engineering studies at the University of Hartford and the University of Connecticut.

    The bulk of his career was in the insurance...

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  • Donald La Salle
    Founder, Talcott Mountain Science Center

    Dr. Donald P. La Salle is a founder and the former President and CEO of Talcott Mountain Science Center for Student Involvement, Inc. in Avon, CT. In 1983, he founded The Talcott Mountain Academy...

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  • Vern Chanski

    Vénard (Vern) Chanski is a Senior Partner and the Director of Business Operations for Hobson Associates of Cheshire, CT, a search firm specializing in the High Technology, Engineering and Life...

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  • Arnold Chase

    Member of the Board of Directors and President, Gemini Networks, Inc. and Executive Vice President, Chase Enterprises, Hartford, Connecticut.  Gemini Networks, Inc. and Chase Enterprises are...

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  • Carmen Cid
    Carmen Cid

    Dr. Carmen R. Cid is the dean of Arts and Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University and has 31 years of experience in higher education. As a forest and wetland ecologist, she is best known...

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  • Eric Fossum

    Eric R. Fossum is best known for the invention of the CMOS image sensor “camera-on-a-chip” used in billions of cameras. He is a solid-state image sensor device physicist and engineer, and his...

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  • Carolyn Hoffman
    Carolyn is a non-profit consultant, former historian and the proud mother of one Talcott Mountain Academy alum and one current TMA student. Prior to becoming involved in the TMSCA family, Carolyn... read more
  • Kate Adams (Honorary Trustee)

    Kate is a healthcare strategist with leadership experience in marketing products and services. Her current endeavor is bringing diagnostics commercialization experience to The Jackson Laboratory...

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