Board of Directors

Chris Dutton, Board Chair (Jointly Appointed)
Christopher L. Dutton, 59, retired from Green Mountain Power Corporation in 2008, where he had served as its President and Chief Executive Officer since 1997. Mr. Dutton remains a member of the Company's Board of Directors. He had been Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of GMP since 1995 and was the Company's General Counsel and Vice President for the previous ten years.

Chris practiced law as a partner in a Canton, Ohio law firm before coming to Green Mountain Power in 1984. He earned his law degree from Vanderbilt University and his undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan University. He has practiced law in Tennessee, Ohio and Vermont, and served as a captain in the Judge Advocate General Corps, United States Air Force.

Chris has served on a number of boards in his community. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Vermont Electric Power Company, and serves as chair of Fletcher Allen Health Care board. He serves as a member of the Vermont Law School Board of Trustees and has served as Chair of the Chittenden South Supervisory School District, as a member of the Champlain Valley Union High School Board of Directors and the Regional Technical Academy Committee.

Peter Meyer, Vice Chair (Jointly Appointed)
Prior to his retirement from state government, Meyer was the Executive Director and Environmental Analyst for the Vermont Public Service Board, where he served for 17 years. Before joining the PSB staff, he was the Chief Coordinator for the Vermont Environmental Board for 10 years. From 1995 to 2003, Meyer served as the Treasurer for the Central Vermont Memorial Civic Center where he helped raise funds for, build and operate a recreational facility for the Central Vermont community. He is currently on the Board of ECHO, Lake Aquarium and Science Center at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain.

Jeb Spaulding, Treasurer, State of Vermont (Ex-Officio)
Spaulding is serving his third term as Vermont State Treasurer. During his tenure, he has emphasized continuous improvement in treasury fundamentals such as timely and accurate bank reconciliations, enhanced customer service, expanded outreach and compliance in the unclaimed property division, and proactive investment management and oversight. In addition, he has initiated a new focus in the Treasurer's Office to leverage State assets to encourage responsible corporate citizenship and to support community and economic development within Vermont. Treasurer Spaulding served eight terms in the Vermont State Senate from 1985-2000.

Tom Evslin, CTO State of Vermont (Governor Appointee)
Tom Evslin was appointed Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the State of Vermont by Governor Jim Douglas effective October 31, 2009. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Vermont Telecommunications Authority and the Clean Energy Development Fund. Immediately prior to becoming CTO, Evslin was Chief Recovery Officer for the State of Vermont responsible for the startup phase of the Office of Economic Stimulus and Recovery. In 1981 and 1982, he was Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Transportation under Governor Richard Snelling. His civic career began as Town Moderator in Worcester, Vermont in the 1970s. Evslin ran a software business in Vermont for many years before going to work for Microsoft, where he was responsible for communication products. He went on to work at AT&T where he founded AT&T's first Internet business, WorldNet. In 1997 Tom and his wife, Mary Evslin, founded ITXC, which was a pioneer in the use of the Internet for phone calls. The company grew to be one of the world's largest wholesale carriers of international calls, went public in 1999, and is now part of Indian telecommunications giant Tata Communications. The Evslins live in Stowe, Vermont.

Dawn Terrill (Governor Appointee)
Terrill is the owner and operator of Janitech Inc. in Burlington Vermont. Previously she served as Secretary of Transportation and Deputy Secretary of the Agency of Commerce and Community Development. Terrill has also participated in a wide range of state initiatives and organizations, including the Vermont Economic Development Authority, the Vermont Broadband Council and the Vermont Council on Technology. Prior to these roles, Terrill served as President and CEO of Hill Associates in Colchester, Vermont.
dterrill@telecomVT.org

Jo Bradley, Vermont Economic Development Authority (Ex-Officio)
Bradley has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Vermont Economic Development Authority since February, 1997. Her previous professional experience includes the positions of Deputy Secretary at the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development, Commercial Loan Officer at the Vermont Economic Development Authority, and Vice President at Solomon Brothers, Inc. in Boston. She has also served as the State Government representative on the national Advisory Committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), and serves on numerous state and local Boards.

Al Brisard (Pro-Tem Appointee)
Brisard is currently VP of Marketing and Business Development for Vertek Corporation in Burlington, VT. He has over 20 years of experience in the voice and data communications industries with a strong emphasis in bringing new technologies, product offerings, and business models to market. With a unique combination of technical and business experience, Brisard has served in executive/ senior roles at industry transforming technology companies including Pingtel, MCK Communications, 3Com, Compaq Computer and NYNEX. He has extensive experience in the areas of DSL, Wireless, Voice over IP, and network architectures.

Jerry Johnson (Governor Appointee)
Johnson is a senior executive with a proven record of effectively leading organizations ranging in size from less than five employees to over one thousand. With 25 years experience in telecommunications, Johnson held positions as General Manager of Integrated Planning and Vice President of Network Design at NYNEX. He later served as President and Chief Operating Officer for Hill Associates Inc in Colchester, a leading corporate telecommunications training company. He also created an independent consulting company, Daybreak Intellectual Capital Solutions Inc. in Williston, specializing in telecom and Internet applications, technical training, and executive coaching with a focus on small companies and startup operations. Johnson served as the President of the Vermont Telecommunications Advancement Center (VTAC) established in conjunction with Gov. Dean and served on the Vermont Council on Rural Development's Telecommunication's Infrastructure Committee.

Robin Lane (Pro-Tem Appointee)
Lane is a full-time member of the faculty in the e-business management program at Champlain College. A proven manager with a keen understanding of next generation technologies, she was CEO of the software publishing company Microseeds Publishing and CEO of Together Networks Internet service provider.
rlane@telecomVT.org

Thomas Murray (Secretary of Admin. Appointee)
Murray was appointed state's Chief Information Officer and Commissioner of the Department of Information and Innovation in March 2006. For 16 years, Murray worked in the telecommunications industry with TDS Telecom and RCC/Unicel, serving in a variety of roles from marketing, regulatory compliance, technical support and upper management. In 2003, he joined the state of Vermont, to serve as the Director of Telecommunications Infrastructure, working to improve cellular and broadband services in the state. He also served as Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Economic Development.

David Binch (Speaker Appointee)
Binch was president and CEO of Champlain Cable Corporation for 20 years, where, among his other duties, he was active in licensing Champlain Cable technology worldwide. He worked with Swiss technology company, Huber+Suhner AG, to start up a division in the US, which was subsequently moved to Vermont. He then worked out of Huber+Suhner's Swiss headquarters for two years before returning to Vermont where he served as Chairman of its North American group until his retirement in 1997. He has been the Director of the Vermont Information Technology Center since 2000. He served on the Westford-Underhill-Jericho committee which developed a plan to bring fiber optic broadband connectivity to the three towns. He is a Director of GBIC, Chair of its Technology Committee, on the Chittenden County Workforce Investment Board, and a member of the UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Board of Advisors. Binch is a past Chair of the Vermont Arts Council, the Jericho Economic Development Committee, the Governor's Institutes of Vermont, the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.

David Zahn (Speaker Appointee)
Zahn is the president of Signal Advertising, an electronic advertising agency and web development company in Montpelier. Since 1985, Zahn has worked in the computer graphics field and interactive marketing, beginning with his company, Wordgraphics in Stowe where he ran one of Vermont's first computer graphics studios and helped pioneer the use of computers in advertising and design. In 1991, he and his wife created the electronic advertising agency they run today. Zahn has worked on interactive media and hyper-text based presentation systems since 1988, and was an active developer in the CD-ROM publishing business in the early 1990's. He was a co-founder of the Internet for All, Now Committee.
dzahn@telecomVT.org