Janet Baker

Is a trusted business advisor to iconic branded businesses and has served as an operations focused C-suite executive reporting to the Board of Directors. She is Assistant General Counsel with S&P Global, Inc. Janet is an experienced corporate and commercial attorney with expertise in information privacy and cybersecurity. She was a 2022 Fellow of the [...]

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Jesse Huntley Ausubel

Director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University, began his career as a resident fellow of the Climate Research Board of the US National Academy of Sciences, for whom he helped organize the first UN World Climate Conference in 1979. Since 1989 Mr. Ausubel has served on the faculty of Rockefeller, [...]

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Chris Alley

Born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard and has lived on the Vineyard most of his adult life. He is a civil and environmental engineer at Schoefield Barbini and Hoehn. Chris served on the SMF board from 2008-2018, as President of the Board for three of those years. He returned to the board in 2020.

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Alec Walsh

Alec and his wife Sally moved full time to the Vineyard in 2019, coincidental with his retirement from Harding Loevner, an asset management firm in New Jersey where he was a portfolio manager and a partner. The restorative power of the outdoors and hiking have been a constant in their lives and those of their [...]

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Adam R. Moore, President

Has served as the President of Sheriff's Meadow Foundation since 2022 and was Executive Director from 2008 to 2022. Prior to his service with Sheriff's Meadow Foundation, Adam was the Executive Director of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association, Land Superintendent for the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank Commission, and a forester for Connwood Foresters. He [...]

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Peter Getsinger

Is the third of five generations to summer or live year-round on Chappaquiddick. His grandparents (the Bunker family) purchased land on what is now called Snow's Point (correctly renamed by the Town of Edgartown), and fostered a love for Chappy that continues. Over time, and as the family expanded over the years, they eventually looked [...]

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Peter Brooks, Assistant Treasurer

Was Co-Founder and Managing Director of CornerStone Partners LLC, an asset management firm for endowment and foundation clients, from which he retired in 2018. Mr. Brooks is a member of the boards of: Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, Virginia; and Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, Tisbury, Massachusetts. Prior to establishing CornerStone in 1997, he managed his own private equity [...]

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Larry Band, Treasurer

Is an independent consultant to foundations and family offices implementing impact investing strategies. His areas of work have included sustainable forestry and agriculture, blue economy, energy transition, carbon and other mitigation markets, and the circular economy. Previously, Larry worked as an investment banker advising corporations and investors on a wide variety of strategic and financing [...]

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Susannah Bristol, Chair

A resident of Tisbury. She served as a director of Sheriff's Meadow from 2010 until 2020 and, after a brief hiatus, rejoined the Board of Directors in 2021. A graduate of Williams College and Columbia University Graduate School of Business, Susannah is president of a family-owned land company. Her primary interests focus on conservation, historic [...]

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Amy Weinberg

Amy and her family (husband John and 3 adult children) have called the Island "home" for thirty summers, returning as often as possible throughout the year. Passionate hikers, Amy and her family have always enjoyed the extensive trail systems and diverse topography that the Vineyard offers. As part of the Farm Group, Amy has recently [...]

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