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Peter S. Paine Jr., served as Champlain National Bank Chairman for 40 years, following his father and grandfather. He had a distinguished law career, practicing in New York, London, and Paris and earned degrees from Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard Law School. He is a committed conservationist, notably from his involvement in creating the Adirondack Park Agency. He has served on the Boards of the Adirondack Land Trust, Fort Ticonderoga, Adirondack Nature Conservancy, and the Adirondack Foundation. He is an Honorary Fellow of Christ Church, his Oxford College, and was awarded a Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite from France.
Roderic Giltz is the Chairman of Northern Insuring Agency and is based in Plattsburgh. He received a B.S. from St. Lawrence University. Active in his community, Mr. Giltz serves on the Board of Directors for The Development Corporation, is active with the CVPH Medical Center Finance Committee, is a Trustee of the William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute, and is the Chairman of the NCPR Executive Council.
Vincent McClelland represents LandVest in the Adirondacks in their Timberland, Consulting, and Real Estate Marketing divisions. He received a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Vermont. Mr. McClelland has served on various non-profit boards, and currently serves on the boards of the Adirondack Land Trust and the Adirondack Landowners Association. A lifelong resident of Keene Valley, he and his wife Barbara raised their three children in the Adirondacks, and now enjoy playing pond hockey, hiking, and back country and ski mountaineering with them.
Matthew Boire is the owner of CDC Real Estate Inc., a commercial and industrial real estate firm based in Rouses Point and has worked in real estate and economic development since 1992. His specialty is assisting Canadian companies with their US expansion plans as well as assisting local clients with their economic development and marketing needs. Mr. Boire is a graduate of St. Michael’s College in Colchester, VT, where he obtained two Bachelor degrees in Economics and Business Administration. He and his wife, Niki, have been married more than 25 years and have two adult children who also live locally.
Kevin Brady is a partner and co-founder of Long Run Wealth Advisors, LLC, a Lake Placid based financial advisory firm. He has been involved in asset management, securities trading and research for more than twenty years at a variety of global institutions. He serves on the boards of the Adirondack Health Foundation, St. Joseph’s Treatment and Recovery Center, ANCA, and the Lake Placid Land Conservancy. Mr. Brady grew up in Saranac Lake and lived for more than two decades in Boston and New York City before returning to the Tri-Lakes. He enjoys raising his three children in the Adirondacks.
Steven Cacchio has a broad-based banking career focusing on community banking in upstate New York. He also worked for six years as a Bank Examiner for the OCC in Syracuse. Thereafter, he held increasingly responsible positions with Alliance Bank in the Syracuse area, ending as Senior Vice President in charge of all retail operations. In 2013, Mr. Cacchio became the Chief Operating Officer of the $800 million Savings Bank of Danbury, Connecticut. He is a graduate of the University of Hartford, and he obtained his M.S. in Accounting from Syracuse University. He and his wife, Carol, have two sons.
Haydn Cole is the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at Element8 Technology Investment Group, based in Fort Worth, TX. Prior to Element8, he worked as an Investment Analyst. Mr. Cole completed his MBA from Baruch College in 2023 and his B.A. in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music in 2009. He also earned the CFA designation in 2018. He volunteers extensively at various non-profit organizations in Florida and New York City.
William Kissel owns and operates the law office of William H. Kissel in Lake Placid, New York, which he opened in 1982. From 1978 – 1982, Mr. Kissel was the General Counsel for the Lake Placid 1980 Olympic Winter Games. He received his J.D., Cum Laude, from Syracuse University. Mr. Kissel enjoys skiing, hiking and fishing, and lives in Lake Placid with his wife, Gail.
Deena Giltz McCullough is a third generation and first female president and CEO of Northern Insuring Agency. Under Ms. McCullough's leadership, Northern has won numerous awards including being recognized as a Best Company to Work in NYS by NYS-SHRM. She holds several professional designations and is most proud of completing the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Coach Certification Program. Ms. McCullough is also an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach. A generally curious person, personal passions include spending time with Zoom, her pandemic pup and certified therapy dog.
Peter S. Paine III is trained as a lawyer, but has spent most of his career as a management consultant to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. He is a graduate of Princeton University, Oxford University and Vanderbilt University School of Law. He splits his time between his home in Princeton, NJ and his family’s camp in Willsboro, NY. An avid outdoorsman, Mr. Paine can be found, in what spare time he has, hiking in the High Peaks, boating on Lake Champlain or casting a line to tempt a bass or trout. He and his wife, Els, have three children.
Jay Winthrop is a managing partner of Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC, a New York-based registered investment advisory firm. Before cofounding the firm in 2000, he worked at JP Morgan Chase and predecessor firms. Mr. Winthrop currently serves as chairman of the Conservation Fund and was previously chairman of American Farmland Trust, both in Washington, DC. From 2014 through 2016 he served on the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Mr. Winthrop received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1986 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1992.