"Learnings and Insights"
A PANEL ON BOARD LEADERSHIP WITH ISLAND BOARD CHAIRS
Featuring Board Chairs Pamela Craven, Bob Egerton, and Ewell Hopkins
Monday, June 16th
11:30am-1:30pm at Stillpoint MV
Join us for this special opportunity to hear from three esteemed and experienced nonprofit board chairs in our community: Pamela Craven, Board Chair at Island Housing Trust; Bob Egerton, Board Chair at Misty Meadows; and Ewell Hopkins, Board Chair at Vineyard Conservation Society.
MVNC Board Chair Gerald Jones will lead the panelists in a discussion about their experiences on and leading boards on Martha's Vineyard. We will hear their learnings and insights about joining a board, agility and resilience during today’s challenges, how to create a positive/productive partnership with ED, improving Board structures, priorities, meetings, and transitions, and much more!
Join us for some light snacks, beverages and networking after the event and get to know other board leaders on the Island.
Meet our Panelists:
Pamela Craven
Pamela Craven is a retired corporate attorney who was most recently the general counsel and chief administrative officer of Avaya, Inc., a global communications network and services company. She serves as Chair of the board of the Island Housing Trust, is a member of the Community Advisory Committee of Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and is an Advisory Director on the board of the Metropolitan Opera. She has served in the past on the boards of the University of Pennsylvania Law School Board of Overseers, New Jersey chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors, the New Jersey Networks Foundation, and the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Pamela earned her bachelor’s degree and JD from the University of Pennsylvania and an LLM from New York University.
Robert Egerton
Bob spent his career in agricultural finance with the Farm Credit System. He retired in 2012 from CoBank where he served as President of the Eastern Division of the Agribusiness Banking Group. Bob served on the Board of MV Community Services from 2012-2020 including President for 4 years. From 2013-2022 he served on the Board of Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation. In 2017 he joined the Boards of the MV Agricultural Society and the Board of the American Farmland Trust where. In March 2022 he joined the Board of the Island Housing Trust where he chairs the Governance Committee.
Ewell Hopkins
Oak Bluffs resident Ewell Hopkins is known around town for his commitment to the community. He served on the Oak Bluffs planning board from 2014 - 2024. Hopkins recently stepped down from elected public office to focus his attention on another one of his lifelong passions: environmental activism. He’s the board president of the Vineyard Conservation Society as well as board member of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) group, an organization that supports public employees who want to advocate for environmental accountability in their agencies.
