Foundation Board

Noreen retired to her home in Salisbury in 2019, having lived and worked in London from 1990 to 2019, and prior to that in NYC and Houston TX. In her executive career, Noreen was First Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 2001 to 2005. Prior to that, she was firm wide head of Risk Management. Before joining EBRD in 1992, Noreen held a number of position at Bankers Trust Company (now Deutsche Bank) specializing in natural resources and leveraged finance. Noreen is currently on the board of Freedom Acquisition I Corp, a Trustee of Dominican Academy, NYC and on the board of the Berkshire Opera Festival, Great Barrington, Mass. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Noreen has a BA from the College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, N.Y., and an MBA from Tuck School at Dartmouth

Dan has owned and operated Johnnycake Books, seller of rare and collectible books, in Salisbury, since 2000, all the while active in public and civic affairs. After graduating from Georgetown University in 1974, Dan served on the first Intelligence Committee of the U.S. Senate, and joined the Carter presidential campaign in 1976, after which he worked for the press advance office at the White House. He worked at CBS in Washington and New York before permanently moving to Salisbury in 1986. Dan was a candidate for the Connecticut state Senate in 1992 and 1994 and has served on a number of local and regional boards including Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation. His avocation is theater and he is the U.S. reviewer for the German magazine Blickpunkt Musical.

Devereux is an experienced media and intellectual property attorney who specializes in the area of journalism and intellectual property rights counseling. Dev has worked at: Scholastic, Inc. as General Counsel; Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP (now Dentons) as a partner; Callaway Digital Arts, Inc., an Apple app developer; The New Yorker; and ABC. Educated at New York University (JD, Law), and Harvard University (AB, American History), Dev lives in New York City and practices in New York State. Dev is member of the Board of Trustees of the Practicing Law Institute, where she serves as Chair of the Board. For over 10 years, she was an Adjunct Instructor in the Masters Program in Publishing at the NYU School of Professional Studies. She has a home in Sharon.

Karen retired in 2019 from her position as managing director and chief financial officer of the Markle Foundation, based in New York City. For 27 years, she managed the investment, financial, legal, corporate, accounting, budgeting, human resources, real estate and administrative affairs of this nonprofit organization. Earlier in her career, she worked for a variety of companies and organizations and was a management consultant specializing in nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions. Raised in Europe and the U.S. as part of a Foreign Service family, she holds two degrees in philosophy and an MBA. Karen lives in North Canaan, on the last remnant of family land in Canaan Valley settled by her grandparents in the 1930s. She is a regular sorter of books for the annual Norfolk Library book sale and a member of the vestry council of Christ Trinity Church in Sheffield, MA.

Henry Blodget is co-founder, Executive Chair of the Board and occasional columnist of Business Insider Inc., a global journalism organization with more than 700 staff members and offices and affiliates in more than 17 countries. Insider’s publications and programming reach more than 300 million people worldwide each month.

A former top-ranked Wall Street analyst, Henry is often a guest on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and other networks. He has contributed to The Atlantic, Slate, The New York Times, Fortune, New York, the Financial Times, and other publications. He has written extensively about technology and investing and is the author of “The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer’s Guide to Investing.”

Henry received a B.A. from Yale University. He was born in New York.

Dave has lived in the Northwest Corner since 2010 and is a tech/marketing consultant and website designer with his own company founded in 2001. Previously he worked in film, living in Los Angeles and Europe. Dave is a graduate of Amherst College and Stanford University.

Meg Downey spent most of her career as a journalist. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Downey was executive editor of the Poughkeepsie Journal and managing editor of the Tennessean in Nashville. Downey has won more than 40 national journalism awards, including the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. She has been an editor and contributing writer for 10 books, among them “The Hudson Valley, Our Heritage, Our Future” and “West Point, Legend on the Hudson.” In her career she has also been a magazine editor and a television news cohost and additionally served as chief marketing officer for the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. She taught a journalism writing and ethics seminar at Vassar College for nine years. She is active as an environmentalist and serves as chair of the Hudson River Valley Greenway Communities Council and co-chair of the Maurice D. Hinchey Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area. She is also a member of the board of the Hudson River Foundation for scientific and environmental research and the Leadership Council for the Botanic Garden of Smith College, among other organizations. A graduate of Smith, Downey lives in Millerton, New York, with her husband, Edward, an attorney. They have two sons.

A Connecticut native, Robert Fish, attended Avon Old Farm School where he was editor of the yearbook and captain of the varsity swimming team. After graduating from Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, he founded, in 1991, the design firm Robert V. Fish & Associates, which specialized in residential architecture in Harcord, Fairfield and Litchfield Counties and won dozens of design awards. In recent years, Rob’s practice has focused on Litchfield County. He has served multiple terms on the boards of Sharon Land Trust and Sharon Playhouse. A resident of Sharon for 23 years, he now makes his home in Salisbury.

Jonathan is a retired editor and news executive, most recently at Bloomberg and previously at The New York Times and other newspapers. He edited opinion columns at Bloomberg on politics, economics, law, public policy and finance and created an explanatory journalism product for the news department. At the Times he served as culture editor, metro editor and, for five years, manager of the newsroom’s transformation from print to web. Jonathan is a graduate of Amherst College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and was an Amherst trustee from 2003 to 2009. He is now a member of the board of the Cornwall Chronicle. He lives in West Cornwall with his wife, Bonnie Vangilder, a retired TV news producer.
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