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.

Tom is an independent consultant, advising a variety of businesses and non-profits.  Previously, he spent most of his career at The New York Times, where he was a Masthead executive overseeing strategic planning during The Times’s transition to a digital and consumer focused media company. He also oversaw multiple NYT ventures ranging from books to magazines, on-line commerce, television and radio, licensing and syndication, and global thought-leadership conferences.  Tom received his MBA from Columbia University, and his BA from Wesleyan University.  He has served on a variety of non-profit boards, and lives in New York City and Norfolk, CT, with his wife and two college-aged sons.

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.

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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Jamie most recently worked as Development Director at the Off-Broadway theater company The New Group for 10 years. Before that, she held the same position at the Lyric Hammersmith in London. After attending Vassar College, her working life began in publishing as an editor and writer in Lausanne and London. Her children’s book, “The Magic Costumes,” was published in the U.K., U.S. and Australia, and translated into Spanish and Portuguese. She has lived in Switzerland and Singapore, but mostly in the U.K., where she and her husband, John O’Brien, raised three children. Jamie now lives in North Canaan where she has had a home for over 20 years. She is a member of the board of the Salisbury Forum.

William attended Princeton University, graduating in 1963. After graduation, Will enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and attended Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. He served four years of active duty at U.S. Naval bases in Argentina, Newfoundland, and Yokosuka, Japan. Upon returning to civilian life in the spring of 1968, Will joined his family business, George Little Management, Inc., a producer and manager of trade shows, featuring consumer products at the wholesale level. Will and his partners sold the business in 2007, at which time he retired. He was chair of The Lakeville Journal LLC board for 20 years. Will married Helen Y. Chiu in 1974, and they have maintained their primary residence in New York City ever since, but have enjoyed and been involved in the life of the Lakeville area, where they have owned two homes since 1983.