Nate Wildes ’12 of West Bath, ME, has been elected chair of the Board of Directors of the University of Maine Alumni Association. The board held its election of officers and directors at the Association’s annual meeting on June 13 in Portland. Wildes is managing partner of Flight Deck Brewing in Brunswick and also serves as executive director of the nonprofit Live + Work in Maine. As chair, Wildes will represent the Alumni Association on the University of Maine Board of Visitors.
Theresa Joyce Lee ’87 of Northborough, MA (L), was honored at the meeting for serving as board chair for the past two years and will remain on the board as immediate past chair. Lee is the chief development officer at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill. Other officers elected at the meeting were Mark Bolduc ’84 of Dixfield, ME (M), as vice chair, and Jeff Rogers ’16 of Westbrook, ME (R), as treasurer. Bolduc is the owner and president of The Fitch Company, and Rogers is vice president of operations and finance at ProInfoNet. Alumni Association president and CEO Tom Peaco ’88 will continue to serve as corporate secretary, as outlined in the organization’s bylaws.
The board also elected two new members during the meeting. James Kachmar ’94 of Buxton, ME (L), is a partner with Doctors Disability Specialists, and Elizabeth Tull Johnston ’13 of South Portland, ME (R), is an associate attorney at Verrill. Kachmar and Johnston were each elected to three-year terms on the board.
Six current board members reached the end of their first three-year term and were elected to a second term, including board chair Nate Wildes and treasurer Jeff Rogers, as well as Christopher Farmer ’93 of Rangeley, ME, vice president with Skowhegan Savings Bank; Kathryn Knight-Wise ’80 of Yarmouth, ME, president of KKW Consulting; Ivi Nwosu ’05 of Norwood, MA, team leader with Fidelity Investments; and Ethan Tremblay ’15, ’17G, of Winterport, ME, policy and markets program manager in the Maine Governor’s Energy Office.