United Method of Western Connecticut introduced the addition of 4 new members to their Board of Administrators.
Elected on the June 10, 2022 Board of Administrators assembly, Doreen Bentson, Luis Diez, Dr. Michael Stern, and Katherine Webster-O’Keefe will assume their roles by way of 2025. The Board of Administrators is comprised of area people leaders who work collectively to assist the group whereas offering experience and perspective on a regional degree.
“The announcement of our new Board Members comes with nice pleasure as they be part of us in our mission to assist ALICE households, present high quality providers all through our footprint, and raise up the Western Connecticut neighborhood,” mentioned Isabel Almeida, President of United Method of Western Connecticut. “Every of the 4 members brings a unique space of experience to the desk that may tremendously profit our group and the communities we serve.”
Doreen Bentson is the Managing Director of Strategic Expertise and Operations at Genworth, situated in Stamford, Connecticut, the place she manages the Investments Expertise staff. Bentson has a Grasp of Science and a Bachelor of Enterprise Administration from Tempo College. Her historical past with United Method of Western Connecticut spans over 20 years as a volunteer, having served as a company chairperson for the United Method Company Giving Marketing campaign and the Northern Fairfield County Neighborhood Council. Along with serving on the United Method of Western Connecticut Board of Administrators, Bentson additionally serves as an Innovation and Expertise Advisor for Prosperity Digital Market.
Luis Diez is presently the Director of Mounted Earnings at Northern Belief, situated in Stamford, Connecticut, the place he’s answerable for supervisor identification, analysis and due diligence, and funding monitoring for fastened earnings methods. He’s additionally the staff chief for WMBE (Girls, Minority Enterprise Enterprise) supervisor analysis. He acquired his Grasp of Enterprise Administration from Fordham’s Graduate Faculty of Enterprise together with a Bachelor of Enterprise Administration in Finance with a minor in Accounting from Western Connecticut State College. Diez has served on United Method of Western Connecticut’s Stamford Neighborhood Council for a few years and has assumed the function of Chair of the Council.
Michael L. Stern, PhD. is a medical psychologist within the better Danbury space specializing in particular person and {couples} remedy with over 30 years’ expertise as a therapist, researcher, and program administrator. Dr. Stern presently serves as a non-public practitioner working with purchasers dedicated to enhancing their lives. He acquired his undergraduate schooling at Cal State College, Lengthy Seaside and his PhD in psychology from the College of Washington. He was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship within the Division of Psychiatry on the College of Tennessee. Dr. Stern may also assume the function of Chair of United Method of Western Connecticut’s Northern Fairfield County Neighborhood Council, which he has served on for greater than a decade.
Katherine Webster-O’Keefe is an lawyer presently practising within the areas of actual property and divorce mediation and has practiced regulation in New Milford since 1983. She has an undergraduate diploma in Psychology and acquired a Grasp’s in social work and a Juris Physician from West Virginia College. She is a complicated practitioner with the Affiliation of Battle Decision and the Affiliation of Skilled Household Mediators. O’Keefe has served on United Method of Western Connecticut’s Southern Litchfield Neighborhood Council for a number of years and can now turn into Chair of the Council together with becoming a member of the Board of Administrators.
As well as, the present Board of Administrators contains Cheryl Bakewell (Chair), Ken Weinstein (Vice-Chair), Mark Ouellette (Secretary), Eric Duenwald (Treasurer), Tracey Alston, Paul H. Bruce, George Garrett, Carmen Hughes, Aaron Meyer, Chloé Tashjian Soares, Antonio Santiago, Kevin Walston, and Lisa Zana.