Staff & Trustees

President

Kevin has been an OCT member and active supporter and volunteer for nearly 30 years. He currently serves as a member of the Town of Orleans Select Board and has served as a public member of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board, member of the Orleans Conservation Commission, a Water Commissioner, chair of the Renewable Energy Committee, and member of the Orleans Personnel Advisory Board. Kevin has a BS in accounting from the University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth, a BS in mechanical engineering technology from Northeastern University, and an MBA from University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth. With Vince Ollivier he owns and operates a small farm that follows organic growing practices. He taught environmental science—specifically energy efficiency and conservation—at Cape Cod Community College and continues to provide energy consulting services.

Vice President

Mary Griffin has served as a Commissioner of the MA Department of Fish and Game, as Southeast Regional Director of Mass Audubon, as Executive Director of the Mass Land Trust Coalition, as General Counsel of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, and as Chief of Legal Services and Land Protection at the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation.  Currently, she is a part-time hearing officer for the MA Department of Fish and Game and a part-time Ranger for the Trustees of Reservations.  She is a graduate of Davidson College and Cornell Law School.  She lives in Orleans, MA and enjoys hiking and exploring nature with her husband Andy and dog Finley.

Treasurer

Deb began her career in nonprofit management and finance over 40 years ago. She earned her MBA from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill, NC and passed the Uniform CPA examination. Deb recently retired as Chief Financial Officer from Justice Resource Institute. She has overseen budget and contract development, capital management, debt and cash structuring, investments, and financial reporting in the nonprofit field. Deb participates in designing business and leadership development strategies. Deb is most interested in developing financial models that assist creation of innovative programming responses in the often challenging nonprofit fiscal environment. Deb and her husband moved to Orleans from Barnstable in 2020 and have enjoyed exploring some of the lesser known conservation areas in the area.

Clerk

Charlie chairs OCT’s Land Acquisition Committee and leads fundraising for these acquisitions. Outside of OCT, he is a member of the Nauset Heights Association, a neighborhood group, and he serves the Town as Chairman of the Nauset Estuary Stakeholder Group, which is a discussion forum for issues relating to the dredging of Nauset Estuary. As a lawyer and business executive, Charlie was the founder and president of Family Office Management Services Inc., a company that assists wealthy families with their personal and financial affairs, which he sold in 2017. He now provides consulting to high-net-worth families through Carlson Advisory Services LLC. Previously he served as COO and general counsel for Cabot, Cabot & Forbes and Corporate Realty Investment Company and as an associate at the law firm of Sherburne, Powers & Needham (now Holland & Knight) in Boston. Charlie received his BA from Harvard College and his JD from George Washington University.

Jeanne has spent her career in nonprofit leadership, coalition building, development of public private partnerships for workforce development and education reform, program planning and management, and volunteer recruitment, training and coordination. Jeanne has served as national president ARCS Foundation, Inc., (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) and founded the Pittsburgh Chapter. Mrs. Berdik also serves as a member of the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden Board of Directors and is a director and incoming President of the Nauset Garden Club in Orleans, where she also chairs the Steering Committee for a regional initiative - Pollinator Pathway Cape Cod. She was the founder and past national president of the Association of School/Business Partnership Directors. Jeanne is married with three grown children and six grandchildren. She lives in South Orleans.

Gary Bowden has been an active volunteer and supporter of the OCT since he and his husband Mark Ziomek made Orleans their permanent home in 2019.  Gary retired after a 34-year career with the Federal Courts in Washington DC and has found his new passion in the support of the environment and advocating for restoring native plants, removing invasive species, and educating the public about the value in protecting our native pollinators.

Gary has been active in the community since retiring.  He serves on the Board of the Nauset Newcomers, having recently ended his term as President.  He is on the Board and a member of the Speakers Bureau of the Master Gardeners Association of Cape Cod.  In 2020 he worked with a group of 13 individuals from nine regional non-profits, including OCT, to form the Pollinator Pathway Cape Cod.  Recently, Gary was also appointed to the Land Management Committee of the Sipson Island Trust and is working with others to restore the landscape of the island and make it accessible for visitors to hike and enjoy.

Gary and Mark have a vegetable garden plot at Sea Call Farm and their home perennial garden has been on the Orleans Improvement Association and Hydrangea Festival tours in recent years.

Bob has a BA in economics from Claremont Men’s (now McKenna) College and a doctorate in education from UMass Amherst. Before retiring in 2014, he held positions including executive vice president of Bank Street College of Education, senior vice president of MDRC (a policy research firm created by the Ford Foundation; Bob led its work on the effects of  education and antipoverty programs on children and youth), and president of the William T. Grant Foundation. Since moving to Orleans, he has served on the board of the Friends of Pleasant Bay, where he is active in the effort to conserve Sipson Island and as a member of FoPB’s education grants committee.

Drusy graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in English and Geology and continued her studies in geology at Harvard University.

Her family came to Orleans over 100 years ago, and she has been a part or full-time resident for over 60 years (her first job was at Fancy’s Farm Stand - now Nauset Farms).

Drusy spent her entire career in the tech industry, holding positions such as Director of Business Analysis at Deltek Inc, Senior Manager of User Experience and Documentation at Iron Mountain Digital, and Senior Principal User Researcher at Oracle Corp.

She serves as Vice Chair of the Orleans Conservation Commission, and as the Commission’s liaison to the Putnam Farm property. She lives in East Orleans with her wife and two beloved rescue dogs.

Sue sits on OCT’s Governance and Communications Committees. She retired as President and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and has been a consultant and writer on human resource management issues. Prior to joining SHRM, Sue served as Deputy Under Secretary in the U.S. Department of Labor. Her non-profit board experience includes having served on the advisory board for the College of Business of the University of Mary Washington, the boards of the National Academy of Human Resources (of which she is a Fellow), the World Federation of People Management Associations, SHRM, the HR Certification Institute, and the Certified Financial Planners Board of Standards. She currently sits on the boards of the Lower Cape Outreach Council and the Nauset Garden Club.

Meff currently serves on the Town of Orleans Select Board and formerly chaired the Orleans Open Space Committee. He spent summers in Orleans beginning in 1952 and has lived in town full-time since 1974. He received his BA from Colgate University in 1974 and began working at the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank in 1975. He retired in 2011. Over the years, Meff has served on various town committees, including the town’s Comprehensive Planning Committee.

Judy's family purchased their Orleans home in 1960, and moved here permanently in 1970. She received an A.A. Degree at Cape Cod Community College, and a Bachelor's in Marine Biology from Roger Williams University. Her professional career included employment at WHOI and NOAA/NMFS in Woods Hole, and Battelle Ocean Sciences in Duxbury. She also worked at Suffolk University managing their occupational safety and health, and environmental compliance programs. Judy returned to Orleans in 1997 and started a farm/greenhouse business and re-opened the historical farm stand next to her family home, which she and her husband continue to operate. Judy is an active community volunteer and serves on several town appointed committees. She has been involved with the town’s environmental resource management efforts and marine and freshwater pond water quality monitoring programs for the past 21 years. Judy has also been an active member of the OCT Board of Trustees.

Pete is the cofounder and principal of a strategic consulting firm that focuses on leadership and board governance, and maintains a law practice in governance and conservation law. Pete previously served as a director and as corporate, strategic, and governance counsel at Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC in Vermont and New Hampshire for three decades before retiring in 2018. Pete has taught environmental law, lectured on governance and leadership, and co-created successful nonprofit leadership summits. In additional to his professional work, Pete has served on numerous for-profit and nonprofit boards and commissions; in 2011 he was named Volunteer of the Year in the eleven Northeast states by the Northeast Vermont Development Association.  He and his wife, Alie, live in Orleans just off Namskaket Marsh and Creek, an OCT conserved property.

Jim is a retired Senior Executive at CHUBB Limited, where he worked for over 20 years and served in several leadership roles before retiring as Executive Vice President. In that role he managed business operations of the Commercial Insurance Division, including underwriting, marketing, product development, business analytics, and actuarial. Since retiring in 2019, he splits his time between Florida and Orleans. He has been an active volunteer with the Homeless Prevention Council in Orleans and with the Orleans Conservation Trust, predominantly in helping with invasive species control and property boundary delineation. Jim received his B.S. from University of Massachusetts Amherst and his MBA from Columbia Graduate School of Business
New York. He’s married and has three adult children.

Deirdre grew up among the apple orchards and dairy farms of the Hudson Valley in Dutchess County, N.Y. and vacationed in Wellfleet for many years. In her teens, she learned firsthand about environmental protection with the near death of the Hudson River and subsequent, ongoing, cleanup.

Deirdre left the Hudson Valley to complete her B.A. at Smith College and an M.B.A. at the Simmons Graduate School of Management. She worked in banking and real estate development in New York City from 1981 until 1999, when she left to attend Princeton Theological Seminary and graduated with an MDiv in 2002.

She has served on several non-profit boards including Family Promise North Shore/Boston and the Cape Ann YMCA, and is a Trustee of the Snow Library. Deirdre is a Master Gardener, an OCT Trail Steward, with her husband, for the Mill Pond Valley Trail, and a “growing” member of Pollinator Pathways Cape Cod and the Sea Call Farm community.

A landscape photographer, she enjoys wandering on the beach, in the woods, and on the waters of the Cape, which she is delighted to call home.