seARTS 2012 Board of Directors

My career has been focused on working with large financial institutions and their clients. I started my career following graduate school as an attorney representing regional Boston-based banks, back when they still existed. After eight years of that I spent the next twelve years in investment marketing and portfolio management starting with the small then-partnership Kidder Peabody and then moved onto larger global institutions including Societe Generale, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America. I am now working as a Private Banker in the Boston office of Pittsburgh-based PNC bank.

The fun part of the job is working with the clients to manage their assets to the best possible use over the course of several generations, whether in the now highly visible area of charitable gifting or for the more personal legacy purposes of maintaining the wealth of the estate over time. Family offices tend to house both attributes under one roof, the philanthropic organization that promotes a family’s values and the asset management business that maintains the wealth so that descendants and future beneficiaries. Whether you are Warren Buffet making a 39 billion dollar donation or the people who sold their “labor of life” business, you want to have an endowment-like perspective on how that wealth will work its hardest and do its best.

Several years ago, with the encouragement of a senior New England based editor and publisher, I began a project which involved researching, writing and presenting about how the communities of Salem, Beverly and Gloucester evolved with the help from the original participants in the Dorchester Corporation which started in Gloucester and was recreated in Beverly under the management of Roger Conant. The research goes all the way through the incredible series of events that led to laying the foundation of the United States Shoe Machinery Company in 1906.

The project has led me into various historical societies, hundreds of conversations with local residents who have a connection to the recent history of the Shoe and the surrounding communities and presentations on the community. With the daily commute to Boston every day, two young boys seeking recreation every week; there has not been a great deal of opportunity to complete the work. I look forward to its completion at some point during my lifetime!

A nearly lifelong resident of Essex County, I have an all-New England education from kindergarten on up, having grown up in Wenham, then spending four years in high school in Concord, New Hampshire then attending Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine, and graduated from Suffolk University School of Law in 1983 and shortly thereafter and passing the Massachusetts Bar of which I have been a member since 1984.

Jacqueline Michelle Ganim-DeFalco, Chair
Marketing Recon and Cape Ann Designs

Jacqueline is a business growth specialist who built her professional foundation for seventeen years with NYNEX and GTE. Since 1998, Jacqueline has provided marketing and business development services to executive teams in the service and technology fields. As a Business Advisor, Jacqueline works with executive teams on identifying and executing new market development opportunities. She is a strong proponent of partnerships as a means to growth and works with her clients to develop and leverage partner relationships. Jacqueline is also on the Advisory Board of Gloucester based PowerSkills Solutions.

Jacqueline has a BA from Emory University, an MBA in International Business/Marketing from Stern (NYU) and also completed the International Management Program at the University of International Business and Economics in Bejing, China (1987). She also served as NYNEX’s Managing Director in Asia from 1988-90. Jacqueline was brought up alongside a family consulting and software business that served the Public Sector. She enjoys writing and public speaking. Her writing has been published on the topics of market development, customer advisory boards, and recently on non-profit board development and she is often found on speaking agendas at local business schools and leadership forums.

Jacqueline has taken over the seARTS Board alongside her ten year service to the Cape Ann YMCA where she leads the Board Development Committee. Her introduction to seARTS was through involvement with the Sea Glass Festival when she launched her new business in sea glass accessories – Cape Ann Designs. Her interest in seARTS is to help bring together the best mix of an artistic infrastructure as well as a true cultural economic climate on Cape Ann. Jacqueline is married to master painter, Michael DeFalco – DeFalco Painting & Decorating – together they are supporters of the Cape Ann Historical Museum. Jacqueline is also an avid golfer and a member of Bass Rocks.

Anne's career with public television and independent media focused on bringing new and little-known work to new audiences. While in the Programming Department at the PBS National Office (1986-2001) she worked with independent producers, local public television stations, and international producers and distributors to develop and acquire programming for PBS's national schedule. The programming she oversaw included signature series, cultural documentaries, biographies and travel, history, and how-to programming.

Prior to PBS Anne was a fellow in the Media Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts where she worked with applicants for institutional media arts funding and gained insight into the funding process in several disciplines. Earlier, at the Boston Film/Video Foundation, she directed the Boston Film/Video Regional Fellowship Program which awarded NEA/AFI production funds to independent film and video makers in New England. She secured matching funds from the six New England Arts Councils as well as funding from NEFA to tour completed Fellowship films and videos throughout New England. The highly acclaimed independent film "Sherman's March" received first funding from this Fellowship. While at BF/VF Anne also co-directed the New England Film Festival.

Anne has served on numerous awards and funding panels including the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Fulbright Media Fellowship, CableACE Awards, International Emmy Awards, and CINE Awards; and as a programming consultant for FILMFESTDC. She received a BA, Legal Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Originally from the Boston suburbs, Anne moved to Rockport in 2007 from Washington, D.C. with her husband, Bill Palmer, a writer. She has known and loved the Cape Ann area since childhood.

Organizational Advisors:

Mary Beth Bainbridge, former seARTS Board member is Assistant to the Chief Curator at the Peabody Essex Museum. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of Michigan. Today she is actively working with the Salem Arts Association and other groups in Salem to build and support arts community.

Steve Brettler: co-owner of Small Fish Web Design spent much of his adult life as the owner-manager of the E.P Levine Company. It was there, as a result of his fortuitous purchase of the domain name cameras.com way back in the infancy of the WWW, that he became interested in the potential of the web as a sales tool. Today he develops small business web sites and dispenses odd bits of small business acumen along the way. Brettler studied photography and music at Bennington College, and is currently learning how to play the Uilleann Pipes.

Tom Kiely, former Vice-President of the seARTS Board is a marketing professional with expertise in content-based marketing, communications strategy, and branding in professional service organizations. He is the Director of Sustainability at McKinsey & Company. Writing and editing are at the heart of what Tom does. He began his career as a business journalist, publishing extensively in local and national magazines such as Boston, Fast Company, Business Week, New England Monthly, and Venture. During the 1990s, Tom was an editor at the Harvard Business Review. He has a BA in English Literature from the University of Rochester.

Beth Scanzani: A multi-faceted Life and Leadership Coach, Beth Scanzani helps her clients live a more authentic, meaningful, and joyful life through her broad knowledge of coaching practices, psychology, organizational leadership, neuroscience, quantum physics, life purpose, and dream work. An artist at heart, it gives Beth great pleasure to work with seARTS to encourage and support the arts community. Visit Beth at: http://222artsandwellness.com/?page_id=7

Past Presidents:

David Benjamin 2003
Cape Ann Symphony

Joan Fowler Smith 2004
Montserratt College of Art, retired

Jo-Ann Castano 2005-Oct. 2006
ArtsGloucester

Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco
Marketing Recon & Cape Ann Designs

seARTS Volunteers

Dianne Anderson,
Program Publicity Volunteer

Kathleen Valentine,
Communications and Digital Media
Valentine-Design & Parlez-Moi Press