Board of Directors
Front Row: Montana Stevenson (intern), Robyn Nietert, Betsy Gordon (insert: Terry Ciccotelli) Robyn G. Nietert - President, a native of Long Island, New York, holds a B.A. from George Washington University and a J.D. from the National Law Center at George Washington University. For over 25 years, she was a member of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Brown, Nietert and Kaufman, which specialized in telecommunications law, with a focus on innovative wireless technologies. She is also a founder and principal of American Capital Partners Company, which specializes in mergers and acquisitions of high speed broadband facilities. During her career, Ms Nietert has represented numerous pioneering telecommunications industries before the U.S. Congress and federal agencies, and has participated in crafting federal legislation and agency rules. She is a member of Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church and serves on the Board of Directors of the Carderock Springs Club. Over the past several years she has organized several non-profit educational foundations and served on their boards of directors, and is currently a Director of the Walt Whitman Educational Foundation. Jane E. Erickson - First Vice President, grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts and holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and a Masters degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. She has been involved in the health care industry for over 25 years. Currently, she is an executive with a Washington, D.C. area global health care consulting firm and specializes in marketing programs for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. She is a member of Saint Bartholomew Church. Teresa Ciccotelli - Second Vice President, originally from rural Pennsylvania, was raised in northern Virginia and holds a B.A. from Rutgers University (Douglass College) and a J.D. from Notre Dame Law School. She is a practicing corporate attorney with over 20 years experience in Fortune 100 companies, currently with Saint-Gobain's US offices in Valley Forge, PA. She is a founding member of Saint-Gobain's Women's Network, serves on the Board of the Delaware Valley Corporate Counsel Association and is the former President of Buck + Doe Trust, a land conservation trust with over 10,000 acres of open land under conservation easement in Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Gordon - Treasurer, was born and raised in Bethesda, Maryland and holds a B.A. from Tulane University and an MBA in finance from George Washington University. She has been involved in the real estate finance/development business (predominantly multifamily, seniors, low and moderate income housing) since 1985 and is currently a consultant to Fannie Mae in Washington, D.C. She is the President of the Herb Gordon Foundation for Gastrointestinal Cancers, serves on the Board of the Washington Hospital Center Foundation and is a former treasurer of the Pyle Education Foundation. Ms. Gordon is a member of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation. Deborah W. Smith - Secretary, is a native of Pelham, NY and holds a B.A. and an MBA in Finance and Investments from George Washington University. She has over 30 years of experience in corporate and personal finance and is currently an investment advisor with an independent financial planning firm in northern Virginia. She is a founding board member of Fairfax Citizens for Responsible Growth, a northern Virginia citizens association working for managed growth and development. She is also the Treasurer of Country Creek Homeowner's Association. Beatrix van der Vossen - Recording Secretary, is a native of the Netherlands and is a graduate of the European Secretary Academy (Dutch, French, German, English and Spanish) in the Hague and studied at both Avond College and Open Universiteit in the Netherlands. She has extensive experience in project management, office administration, and Dutch translation and teaching, having previously held related positions at the Netherlands Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Nederlandse Instelling voor Psychologisch, Universiteit van Amsterdam and, the International Centre for Language Studies in Washington, D.C. She received extensive training in psychodrama from the Children's Hospital, Psychodrama Training Institute in Washington, D.C. Currently, Ms. Van der Vossen is Administrative Assistant to the Office of the Executive Director of the Netherlands Constituency to the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. For many years she served as the Chair of the Intercultural Committee at Walt Whitman High School. She is a current member, and former director and recording secretary, of the Dutch Society and has been newsletter editor for both the Dutch Society and the Carderock Springs Club. June Kyakobye - Special Advisor for the Buyobo Project, is from Uganda. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree, majoring in Accounting, from Makerere University Business School in Kampala, Uganda and a Uganda Diploma of Business Studies from the National College of Business Studies Nakawa, Kampala Uganda. She was a Uganda National Table Tennis Player from 1983 - 2001, representing Uganda at various events, including the Olympics in 1996 and served as a treasurer for the Uganda Table Tennis Association. She worked at SGS (Societe Generale de Surveillance) Uganda Limited in Kampala, Uganda as a Chief Accountant for 9 years before she joined the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in Washington, D.C in 2001. She is also a member of Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church. |
