Board Leadership

Kathy Williams Kane

Chair of the Board of Trustees

All Committees, Ex Officio

Kathy Williams Kane is the founder and manager of The Maestro Fund, a private equity real estate investment fund dedicated to long-term investment in New England real estate. She also founded Maestro Consulting, which advises companies and institutions on strategic methodologies and investment analysis for existing portfolios or development projects in the commercial real estate sector. Maestro Consulting formerly ran the State of New Hampshire’s New Market Tax Credit program and acted as Director of Real Estate for Resolute Capital, a national private equity company.

Kane has attained both the CCIM, Certified Commercial Investment Member, and SIOR, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, designations—distinctions held by only a small percentage of commercial real estate professionals nationwide.

In addition to her role at Strawbery Banke, Kane currently serves as Treasurer of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors of New England and as Secretary of the Portsmouth Housing Authority Development Board. She has served on numerous other boards, including as Treasurer of the State of New Hampshire Business Finance Authority, Chair of Development for Leadership New Hampshire, and a member of the Board of Overseers at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. She has also previously served as Chair of the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce and as a board member of the Foundation for Seacoast Health and the Exeter Hospital Children’s Committee.

Museum Governance

Board of Trustees

Strawbery Banke’s Board of Trustees provides governance, strategic guidance, and stewardship in support of the Museum’s mission.

Board Officers

Claudia Wu

Vice Chair

  • Executive Committee
  • Finance Committee
  • Governance Committee

David McGrath

Secretary

  • Executive Committee
  • Finance Committee
  • Governance Committee
  • Rink Committee

Christopher W. Erikson

Treasurer

  • Executive Committee
  • Buildings & Grounds Committee
  • Finance Committee, Chair
  • Investment Committee

Trustees

Joanna Brode

  • Development Committee
  • Collections Committee, Co-Chair

Martha Fuller Clark

  • Governance Committee
  • Development Committee

Patrick Collins

  • Governance Committee
  • Rink Committee, Chair

Marcia Cronin

  • Collections Committee, Co-Chair
  • Development Committee
  • Governance Committee

Tim Dempsey

  • Investment Committee, Chair

Cynthia Fenneman

  • Buildings & Grounds Committee
  • Development Committee
  • Finance Committee
  • Governance Committee

Jeffrey Gilbert

  • Governance Committee, Chair

Tamara Henderson

  • Buildings & Grounds Committee
  • Finance Committee
  • Investment Committee

Mark Hubbert

  • Buildings & Grounds Committee
  • Development Committee

Lorne Jones

  • Buildings & Grounds Committee
  • Development Committee, Ex Officio
  • Technology Committee

David Kanner

  • Buildings & Grounds Committee
  • Development Committee
  • Investment Committee
  • Vintage & Vine Committee

Joanna Kelley

  • Vintage & Vine Committee, Co-Chair

Jill McFarland

  • Rink Committee
  • Technology Committee, Chair

Denise Menelly

  • Finance Committee
  • Technology Committee

Reagan Ruedig

  • Buildings & Grounds Committee, Chair

David White

  • Development Committee, Chair
  • Finance & Audit Committee
  • Governance Committee
  • Technology Committee