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Board of Directors
The Board of Directors meets monthly to review program progress and to develop or approve strategic plans to meet program and organization goals. The Board is comprised of residents representing the towns of our service area, individuals of low-income or individuals representing our low-income clients and constituents, a mix of those with interest and expertise in affordable housing and economic development, as well as representatives from key partner organizations, including the Lower/Outer Cape Community Coalition, the Cape Cod Commission, and an established environmental organization.
 Ernie Rogers, President, Board of Directors
Ernie has worked for the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank for the last 10 years. His current position is Vice President, Director of Credit Services. He is active in his community and is presently involved with the Highlands Center, Housing Assistance Corporation, The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Snow Library in Orleans and the CDC. Before moving to the Cape in 1989, Ernie lived in and around the Boston area and then progressed through two other distinct careers, one in the book industry and the other in the catalog mail order business. He is married to Anita, a Human Resources Director, and has 2 adult daughters and 7 grandchildren.
 Beth Wade, Vice President, Board of Directors
Beth Wade is Vice President and General Manager, John C. Ricotta & Associates, Inc. A passionate supporter of the twinned needs of Affordable Housing and Economic Development, Beth takes an active role in several area non-profit agencies. She is a former Board member of Champ House, Friends of Chatham Affordable Housing (www.focah.org) and the Chatham Chamber of Commerce. Beth is also an active member of the First Congregational Church and Compassionate Friends.
 Martha Hevenor, Clerk
Martha Hevenor is a planner at the Cape Cod Commission. Her work involves a range of regional land use planning and regulatory issues, including growth management, community character, natural resource and open space protection. She is the Commission staff liaison to the Towns of Provincetown and Harwich.
 Wayne LoPresto, Treasurer
Wayne LoPresto moved to the Cape in 2003 from Williamstown, MA with his wife, Peg and three children. Wayne is an Investment Executive with Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank. He has been in the business for 18 years. Peg is a real estate broker with American Heritage Realty of Orleans and has been in real estate for 20 years. Their youngest child, Natalie, is in her junior year at the University of New Hampshire. Wayne also serves as Director of the Orleans Chamber of Commerce.
 Norman Edinberg
Norm Edinberg represents the CDC on the Cape and Islands License Plate Steering Committee. He is the retired founder and president of several auto industry manufacturing companies in Venezuela where he lived for 27 years. He also designed and directed an Entrepreneurship program for the United Nations, implementing it in several countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Norm is a resident of Truro where he served on the Truro Partnership, the ZBA, the Selectmen’s Advisory Committee, the Charter Re-Write Committee, the Open Space Committee and Truro Concert Committee. He is Vice Chairman of the Highlands Center, Inc.
 Mary Lou Petitt
Mary Lou Pettit has been active in housing issues since participating in the 1963 March in Washington. She worked on housing issues for the NJ League of Women Voters for Bergen County, New Jersey and for the state of New Jersey. She served five years on the Board of the National Low Income Housing Coalition in Washington DC. Mary Lou was the first coordinator of the Lower/Outer Cape Community Coalition. She is a founding member of the Interfaith Council for the Homeless of Lower Cape Cod, the Lower Cape Cod CDC and the Children’s Place, and served for 12 years as Eastham’s member of the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates. She also serves as a member of the Transportation Task Force of Barnstable County. A member of the Federated Church of Orleans, she serves on its Board of Trustees.
 Florence Seldin
Prior to moving to Cape Cod fulltime in 1994, Florence served for 3 years as Superintendent of Schools in Harvard, MA. She continues to work as a search consultant to school districts seeking school superintendents. Florence has been involved with the Chatham Affordable Housing Committee, the Chatham Community Preservation Committee and the Friends of Chatham Affordable Housing (FoCAH). She is Chatham’s representative to the Cape Cod Commission and serves as a court advocate for Independence House. Florence is also a member of the League of Women Voters of Cape Cod, and Am Ha Yam, a Jewish Fellowship on the Cape.
 Joe Bayne
For the past forty years, Joe Bayne has started, managed, acquired, integrated and sold businesses focused on financial transaction and information processing services and software. His career included working with Automatic Data Processing, Inc, (ADP) and Bell Telephone Laboratories. Joe currently serves on the Eastham Finance Committee.
 Judy Beardsley
Judith Shaw Beardsley’s professional communications career included positions as Public Relations Director of the American Hospital Association in Chicago, as well as PR and Development Director for Goodwill of Colorado Springs, the country’s fifth largest Goodwill. Currently a freelance writer and consultant, she and her husband have lived in Orleans for eight years.
 Eileen Brady
As a chemist, Eileen worked for the Consumer Products Division of Quaker Oats and the Wrigley Chewing Gum Company. Working with the Haircare Products Team of the Toni Company (a Division of Gillette) Eileen was one of the developers of the popular “Dippity Do” product. Eileen moved to Cape Cod in 1988, retiring in 1994. She has volunteered for the Harwich Housing Committee, the Family Pantry and the Cape Cod Literacy Council. She has also served as President of the Cape Cod Chapter of Habitat for Humanity. In addition to serving on the CDC Board of Directors, Eileen volunteers on the Heritage Museum Horticulture Committee, the Housing with Love Walk Committee, and the Friends of the Council on Aging in Harwich.
 Ken Brock
Ken Brock spent much of his career in fundraising, including educational fundraising at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Institute for International Education, the New York-Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Polytechnic University. He was awarded the MIT Bronze Beaver as “Distinguished Alumnus” – its highest alumni award. Since retiring to Truro in 1987, Ken has served on numerous town and regional committees and boards, as well as nonprofits including the Housing Assistance Corporation (HAC), the WHAT Theatre and the Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod (APCC).
 Rick Fleury
Fleury is a 1982 graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, School of Journalism and Mass Communications. A self-taught artist, Rick has been painting coastal landscapes of New England for more than ten years. His work has appeared in many Provincetown and Cape Cod shows and galleries, as well as in juried shows in Cambridge, Boston and Florida. He was recently accepted for membership by the prestigious Copley Society of Art, Co/So, the oldest non-profit art association in the United States, founded in Boston in 1879. He has been a year-round resident of Cape Cod since February of 1997. Rick teaches oil & landscape painting at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. He lives in Wellfleet with his collie, Graham.
 Scott Kerry
Scott Kerry joined the family’s insurance business in 1994, and became the current President in 2003. He is a 1989 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and received his MBA from Suffolk University in 2000. Scott also volunteers his time with Nauset Cares and served on the Finance Committee for the Town of Eastham. Scott is currently the Marketing Committee Chair for the Lower Cape Cod Community Development Corporation (CDC) and also serves on the CDC’s Economic Development and Loan Review Committees.
 Christopher McPherson
Chris McPherson is currently employed by Bank of America, managing the Orleans Banking Center. He has been in the financial industry for five years. Chris resides in North Eastham with his wife Hannah and son Eli. Outside of work Chris enjoys fishing, gardening, and spending time with his family.
 Jari Rapaport
Jari Rapaport retired to Cape Cod in 1993 from Hastings-on-Hudson, NY where she was employed for 19 years by Family Service of Westchester, Inc. as a Family Advocate. She also worked for the New York City Youth Board and later as an Associate with the Citizen’s Committee for Children, Inc. in New York City. Jari’s current membership and activities include: Interfaith Council for the Homeless; Health Access Committee; The Community Coalition of Cape Cod; the League of Women Voters Education Committee and the Community Foundation of Cape Cod. Jari served for many years on the Town of Eastham Human Services Advisory Committee. She holds a Master of Science (Sociology) from Columbia University and a Master of Social Work from Adelphi University.
 Peter Rice
Peter Rice is currently a Senior Vice President with TD Banknorth, N.A. in their Orleans office. Peter’s background includes working for Coastal Enterprises, Inc., a Portland, Maine community development corporation. As a Loan and Investment Officer, Peter managed and grew a portfolio of small business loans and equity investments throughout Maine and provided technical assistance to start-up and expanding companies. Peter also serves on the Finance Committee of Coastal Community Capital.
 Leslie Richardson
Leslie Richardson is the Economic Development Officer for the Cape Cod Commission, the region’s planning and regulatory authority. As such, she leads the regional economic development planning effort; provides technical assistance to municipalities in economic development planning and implementation; analyzes the economic impact of commercial projects of regional impact; supports value added tourism initiatives; and evaluates local economic development plans. Prior to joining the Cape Cod Commission, Ms. Richardson served as the Research and Policy Director for the Indiana Department of Commerce and as an independent consultant for government and non-profit development organizations. She has a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of Washington.
Steve Roderick
Steve Roderick is a native of Provincetown and graduated from Provincetown High School. After a career in restaurant management which included the Lobster Pot in Provincetown and the Excalibur Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Steve returned to the Cape and now owns and operates Roderick’s Payroll and Bookkeeping Service. His business employs four people year-round and serves clients from Provincetown to Brewster. Steve is also a member of the Seamen’s Bank Board of Trustees, Treasurer of the Lower Cape Ambulance Association and Chair of the Provincetown Schools Strategic Planning Committee.
 Dan Sullivan
Dan Sullivan earned a music degree in Jazz Studies at Westfield State College. He relocated to the Cape after 30 years of playing R&B throughout New England. He has returned to his jazz roots with his band “The Dan Sullivan Trio”, which plays throughout Cape Cod. Dan also has his own painting business, “After Five Painting”, and is a member of Business Network International (BNI).
 Gerard J. (Rod) Vyskocil, Jr.
Rod is President of Nauset Consulting, LLC, a firm which specializes in the design, sale and communication of worksite benefit programs. Rod’s core specialty is voluntary dental insurance. Together with his clients, Rod has helped to design, sell and enroll the voluntary dental plans which collectively cover more than 1.5 million people. Prior to founding Nauset Consulting, Rod was President of Better Benefits, Inc., a national broker of voluntary benefit programs. He was also a Principal in American Dental Consulting Company, a leading dental benefit design firm, and LeafRe Reinsurance Company, a facilitator of turnkey voluntary dental insurance programs. Rod lives in East Orleans, MA with Joanne, his wife of 27 years and their Golden Retriever, Jake.
Page last updated: March 28, 2008
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