Vermont Business Roundtable chair, Bill Stritzler, Managing Director of Smugglers’ Notch Resort, has announced the election of three Vermont CEOs to three-year terms on the Board of Directors. The new directors assumed their roles during the Roundtable’s Annual Membership meeting on January 14, 2010.

The new directors include: Leon Berthiaume, General Manager, St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, Inc. (St. Albans); Dave Finney, President, Champlain College (Burlington); and Rob Simpson, President and CEO, Brattleboro Retreat (Brattleboro).

Continuing members of the Roundtable Board are: Ted Adler, Founder and President, Union Street Media (Burlington); Pennie Beach, President, Basin Harbor Club (Vergennes); Gregory Bourgea, co-Managing Partner, Gallagher Flynn & Company (Burlington); Ellen Mercer Fallon, Partner, Langrock Sperry & Wool (Middlebury); Tommy Harmon, President and CEO, Sonnax Industries (Bellows Falls); Mark Neagley, President, Neagley & Chase Construction (South Burlington); G. Kenneth Perine, President, National Bank of Middlebury (Middlebury); Howard Pierce, CEO, PKC Corporation (Burlington); Mary Powell, President and CEO, Green Mountain Power (Colchester); Brad Robertson, Publisher, Burlington Free Press (Burlington); Geoffrey B. Shields, President, Dean and Professor of Law, Vermont Law School (South Royalton); Steve Voigt, President and CEO, King Arthur Flour (Norwich); and, Bob Young, President and CEO, Central Vermont Public Service (Rutland).

Also at the Annual Meeting, outgoing directors John Marshall, former Managing Partner, Downs Rachlin Martin (St. Johnsbury) and Tim Volk, President, Kelliher Samets Volk (Burlington) were recognized for their long-standing and significant service to the Roundtable.

Mary Powell, President and CEO of Green Mountain Power, and Tommy Harmon, President and CEO of Sonnax Industries, were elected to the Board of Directors by the members at the Roundtable’s summer meeting on June 18th.

Powell brings over 20 years of comprehensive experience in all aspects of business management, extensive experience in executive level leadership, business ownership, operations and human services. She joined Green Mountain Power in 1998. (Green Mountain Power’s website)

Harmon joined Sonnax in 1996 as the Chief Financial Officer and for the last five years has served as the Chief Operating Officer where has has been an integral part of the company’s strategy and growth. (Sonnax’s website)

Other newly elected officers include Steven P. Voigt, president and chief executive officer of King Arthur Flour Company, Inc., of Norwich as vice chair, Douglas H. Griswold, president of S.T. Griswold & Co., Inc. of Williston as secretary, and Mark R. Neagley, president of Neagley & Chase Construction Co. of So. Burlington, as treasurer.

The five new members of the board are Edward F. “Ted” Adler, founder & president, Union Street Media (Burlington); Gregory G. Bourgea, CPA, co-managing partner, Gallagher, Flynn & Company, LLP (Burlington); Peter A. Hofstetter, chief executive officer, Northwestern Medical Center, Inc. (St. Albans); G. Kenneth Perine, president, National Bank of Middlebury (Middlebury); and Brad Robertson, president and publisher, The Burlington Free Press (Burlington).

Continuing members of the Roundtable Board are: Pennie Beach, president, Basin Harbor Club (Vergennes); Ellen Mercer Fallon, partner, Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP (Middlebury); John H. Marshall, director, Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC (St. Johnsbury/Burlington); Howard E. Pierce, chief executive officer, PKC Corporation (Burlington); Geoffrey B. Shields, president, Dean, and Professor of Law, Vermont Law School (South Royalton); Timothy R. Volk (immediate past chair); and Robert H. Young, president and chief executive officer, Central Vermont Public Service Corporation (CVPS) (Rutland).

The Roundtable was created in 1987 as a nonprofit, public interest organization, comprised of 100 CEOs of Vermont’s top private and non-profit sector employers dedicated to making Vermont the best place in America to do business, be educated, and live life, through collaboration, research and analysis, and communication and advocacy.