 Charlottesville Tomorrow's Board of Directors
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Background Information on the Board of Directors
Michael D. Bills, Chairman [Return to Top]
Michael Bills is the founder and President of Bluestem Asset Management, LLC which is the general partner to Bluestem Partners, LP, a fund of hedge funds. Before founding Bluestem, Michael served as Chief Investment Officer for the University of Virginia from June 2001 until January 2003. He formerly served as the Senior Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Tiger Management, LLC. Previously, he was a Vice President of Equity Trading and Arbitrage Division at Goldman, Sachs & Company. Michael also serves on the board of The Nature Conservancy and the advisory board of Lone Pine Capital.
Mr. Bills received his B.A. at the University of Virginia in 1978 where he was an Echols Scholar, graduating with distinction in three years. In 1981, Mr. Bills received his M.B.A. at Columbia University Graduate School of Business with a concentration in Finance. Mr. Bills is an instrument, multi-engine, commercially rated pilot and resides in Albemarle County.
Stephen McLean [Return to Top]
Stephen McLean is the co-founder and President of McLean Faulconer Inc. Realtors, a full service real estate firm in Charlottesville, Virginia. For the past 33 years, Mr. McLean has been active in the real estate profession, serving as President of the local board in 1988 after having served on the Board of Directors from 1986 – 1988. Additionally, he was a gubernatorial appointment to the Virginia Real Estate Board from 1994 – 1998.
Mr. McLean is a Charlottesville native, graduating from Lane High School and earning his undergraduate degree from Princeton University. Mr. McLean resides in Ivy in Albemarle County.
Frederick S. Middleton III [Return to Top]
Rick Middleton is the founder and Executive Director of the Southern Environmental Law Center. SELC is the South’s largest environmental advocacy organization, with headquarters in Charlottesville. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Mr. Middleton received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and law degree from Yale Law School. He is a nationally recognized environmental leader and has been in the vanguard of the environmental movement in the United States for 30 years. Mr. Middleton resides in Ivy, VA in Albemarle County.
Paula Newcomb, Vice Chairman [Return to Top]
Paula Newcomb joined Virginia National Bank in February 2006 to do marketing and business development for the Trust Division. She was director of development and public affairs at Monticello from 1993 until the fall of 2004. Ms. Newcomb was Vice President for University Relations at the University of Redlands in Southern California from 1986 to 1991, and held several fund raising positions during nine years of work at St. Lawrence University in Northern New York State.
Mrs. Newcomb is a 1977 graduate of Franklin and Marshall College. She serves on the Board of Directors of Piedmont CASA. A native of Denver, Colorado, she and her husband reside in Albemarle County.
Terence Sieg [Return to Top]
Terence Sieg is Chairman and President of J W Sieg and Company, Anheuser- Busch distributor for Central Virginia. Mr. Sieg graduated from the University of Virginia in 1964. He then went to the Thunderbird School for International Business in Phoenix Arizona. Mr. Sieg went into magazine publishing after graduate school. Between 1978 and 1982 he was editor and publisher of Rocky Mountain Magazine which won the Columbia University National Magazine Award for general editorial excellence. He has been on the board of Southern Environmental Law Center since 1992, served on the Virginia Athletic Association Board, and was on the University of Virginia Board of Managers for six years.
W. McIlwaine Thompson, Jr. [Return to Top]
W. McIlwaine Thompson, Jr. is Of Counsel to Woods Rogers, PLC, and practices corporate law representing companies in diverse fields including biotechnology, high-tech, publishing, and oil and gas exploration.
Mr. Thompson is Secretary of Insmed Incorporated (Nasdaq: INMS) and an officer or board member of a number of privately-held companies. He is a member of the Investment Committee of Tall Oaks Capital, L. P., a venture capital partnership based in Charlottesville. He is also a member and former Chairman of the Board of UVA’s Curry School of Education Foundation and a member of the advisory board of the Heart Center at the UVA’s School of Medicine. He has been an elder at First Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville and Moderator of the Presbytery of the James. He is a director and past Chairman of the Boards of the Charlottesville Committee on Foreign Relations and the Ash Lawn-Highland Opera Festival.
Mr. Thompson is a graduate of Yale College, B.A., 1969, and UVA’s School of Law, J.D., 1972.
Cathy Train [Return to Top]
Cathy Train is the President of the United Way-Thomas Jefferson Area providing resources for community organizations and direct community services to the residents of Charlottesville, Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, and Nelson. She is a graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. Ms. Train serves as Past Chair of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce (2006), Past President of the Albemarle Rotary, Governor Appointed Trustee of the Miller School, and Joint City/County Appointee to the Commission on Children and Families. Ms. Train and her husband, Kirk, are residents of Albemarle County and have a daughter in the music industry in NYC and a son who is an officer in the United States Navy.
Tony Vanderwarker, Treasurer [Return to Top]
Tony Vanderwarker was a founder and the senior creative officer at one of Chicago's largest independent ad agencies, Bayer Bess Vanderwarker. Prior to forming his own agency, he was Chief Creative Director and on the board of Needham Harper Worldwide in New York and Chicago. Moving to Charlottesville in the early 90's, he now serves on the board of the Piedmont Environmental Council as Vice Chairman, co-chairs the Albemarle PEC board, and is on the board of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters.
Mr. Vanderwarker went to Andover and Yale and graduated from New York University. He served in the Peace Corps in the Republic of Guinea. Mr. Vanderwarker and his wife Anne live in Keswick.
Brian Wheeler, Secretary & Executive Director [Return to Top]
Brian Wheeler initiated the formation of Charlottesville Tomorrow in February 2005 and he was hired as its first Executive Director in July of that year. Mr. Wheeler has lived in the Charlottesville-Albemarle region since 1984 and currently represents the community as an elected member of the Albemarle County School Board. During 1998-2005, Mr. Wheeler served as Chief Information Officer at SNL Financial, a leading provider of data to Wall Street. Prior to that, Mr. Wheeler was employed at the W. Alton Jones Foundation, a private family foundation that focused on grantmaking supporting environmental and international security projects.
Mr. Wheeler received a B.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in May 1990. Mr. Wheeler and his wife Jean have two children and currently live in Ivy, Virginia.
Past Members of Charlottesville Tomorrow's Board of Directors
- Renee Grisham (2005-2008), Founding Board Member
- A.D. Hart (2005), Founding Board Member
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