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Board of Directors
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation is ably overseen and served by a Board of Directors. Serving on the Board are:
Emily Bramhall, President
John Schaefer, Vice-President
Terry Guylay, Treasurer
Alley Moore, Secretary and Assistant Treasurer
Chris Alley
Clarissa Allen
Jennifer Blum
Susannah Bristol
Kim Burns
Sarah Brooks Foehl
Andrew Forrester
Terry Guylay
Christian Halby
Kathy Ham
David Malm
Bill Maloney
Jim Miller
Robert McCarron
Lil Province
Leah Smith
Samme Thompson
Sarah Thulin
Emily Bramhall, President, has served on Sheriff's Meadow's Board for many years, and has held the posts of Vice-President and Treasurer. She came to the island as a 4th generation seasonal resident staying at her grandparents' home overlooking Ox Pond Meadow in Edgartown. She has lived here year-round since 1975 and has raised two children on the island. Emily has owned and operated Bramhall and Dunn, a retail store in Vineyard Haven, since 1983 and has served on the boards of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital and Hospice of Martha's Vineyard. She resides in Chilmark.
John Schaefer, Vice-President, resides seasonally in Edgartown near Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation’s Ox Pond Meadow and Little Beach preserves. He retired from Morgan Stanley where he was a member of the Management Committee and was President and Chief Operating Officer of the Global Wealth Management Group. John brings substantial investment experience and financial expertise to Sheriff’s Meadow.
Terry Guylay, Treasurer, has been coming to the island with her family since 1970 and now spends her summers at their home in Chilmark, overlooking Quitsa Pond. In the off-season she and her husband, Wes, live in Sands Point, Long Island and work in New York City. Terry and Wes have an investment partnership and have worked together since 1990. Her previous volunteer work has been largely in the field of education. Terry and Wes have two children, Sandra and Jeff, and four grandchildren – all of whom visit the Vineyard whenever they can.
Alley Moore, Clerk and Assistant Treasurer, is a graphic designer who lives in Oak Bluffs with his wife Michele and daughters Emily and Nina. He is the Art Director for Martha's Vineyard Magazine, and has designed admissions publications for Yale, Dartmouth and Connecticut College, as well as publications for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In his free time, he fishes, hunts and explores the island. He is especially fond of the little bluestem meadow that he and his daughters grew from seed at their family home.
Clarissa Allen owns and runs the 100-acre Allen Farm in Chilmark with her husband, Mitchell Posin. Clarissa grew up in Chilmark and attended the Cambridge School in Weston, Marlboro College and the University of Masschusetts at Boston. Following college, Clarissa taught high school social studies on Martha's Vineyard. In 1975, she began running the Allen Farm, a farm that has been in her family for 12 generations. On the farm, Clarissa and Mitchell raise sheep, cattle, pigs and chickens and tend a garden and run a store. Clarissa and Mitchell have one son, Nathaniel Allen-Posin, age 24. Clarissa serves on the Martha's Vineyard land bank's Chilmark Town Advisory Board and chairs the Chilmark Board of Assessors.
Jennifer Blum of Edgartown and Louisville, Kentucky has been a seasonal resident on the island since 1989. Born and raised in MA, Jennifer has lived and worked in New York, Chicago, Singapore, Hong Kong, and California. Her professional background is in advertising (Young & Rubicam in New York, J. Walter Thompson in Chicago and Singapore), and marketing (Citibank in Singapore). Jennifer has served on other non-profit boards including the Actors Theater of Louisville and the Court Appointed Special Advocates. Jennifer, her husband Jonathan, and twin sons Andrew and Christopher have long enjoyed regular hikes on SMF trails and properties. They donated a conservation restriction to Sheriffs Meadow in 2001.
Sarah Brooks Foehl resides in Edgartown and Needham, MA. She was founder and co-owner of a catalog company, Prize Possessions, for twenty-five years. Since 2006 she has worked with the Executive Service Corporation, a consulting group for non-profits.
Andrew Forrester has been a seasonal resident of the island since 1994. He and his wife Betsy live on the Edgartown Great Pond and in Katonah, NY. He was a partner and Senior Managing Director at Bankers Trust Co. of New York City, retiring in 1996 after a thirty year career. He currently is a partner at Cove Harbor Partners in Stamford, CT which is active in private equity investments. He has been on the board of many companies and non-profit organizations.
Christian Halby has been a seasonal resident of the Island since 1970. He lives in Chilmark on the south shore with his wife Susan Schaefer. He came to the United States from his native Denmark with the Danish Foreign Service and has been the Danish honorary Consul for New England for 20 years. He has served on the board of many non-profit organizations. Christian loves the Vineyard and finds its natural beauty similar to that of northern Denmark.
David Malm has been a seasonal resident of Martha’s Vineyard since 1993 and has a home on Herring Creek Farm in Edgartown on the Edgartown Great Pond which he enjoys from mid-May through mid-November. David placed a conservation restriction on his property with The Nature Conservancy in 2003. His is a native of Boston and grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts. His principal residence off-island is in Dover, Massachusetts. He also has a home in Stowe, Vermont which he uses during the winter months. David is a General Partner of a Boston area private equity firm. He has served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards.
Robert McCarron is a partner at the law firm of McCarron, Murphy & Vukota in Edgartown. Born in 1963 in Winchester, Massachusetts, Rob moved to Martha's Vineyard in 1965. Rob grew up in Edgartown and graduated from the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School in 1981. He attended college at the University of Vermont, receiving a B.S. in Forestry in 1986. Rob then went to law school, graduating cum laude with a J.D. from the Vermont Law School in 1992. Rob practiced as an Associate with Reynolds, Rappaport & Kaplan from 1992 to 1999, and then became a partner at McCarron & McCarron, now McCarron, Murphy & Vukota. Rob and his wife, Petra, reside in Vineyard Haven with their 9-year old daughter.
Lil Province has summered on the island since birth and, except for a brief stint in Baltimore, has lived here year-round since 1979. She attended the graduate program in Landscape Design at Radcliffe Institute and has a landscape design business which focuses on native plants. Her activities with island conservation groups have included membership on the Edgartown Conservation Commission and on the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s board at the Felix Neck Sanctuary.
Leah Smith resides seasonally in West Tisbury where she is a Member of the town’s Planning Board. She also serves as Treasurer for the Friends of the Up-Island Council on Aging. As co-author, with Phil Henderson, of Martha’s Vineyard: Choices for the Future, she brings a wealth of experience to Sheriff's Meadow regarding important conservation policy issues.
Samme Thompson is the founder and President of Telit Associates, Incorporated, a consulting and financial advisory practice that addresses telecommunications and information technology businesses. Samme has a strong background in corporate strategy, investment banking and global business development. He served as Chief Strategy Officer for the Motorola Corporation from 1999 to 2002; as Senior Vice-president of the Investment Banking Group at Kidder, Peabody & Co. from 1987 to 2004; as Chief Strategy Officer for AT&T Information Systems from 1983 to 1987; and as Senior Engagment Manager for McKinsey & Company from 1978 to 1982. He currently serves on the Boards of American Tower, USA Mobility, and the Illinois Institute of Technology's Knapp Entrepreneurial Center. He holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate Business School and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Prairie View A&M University. Samme and his wife, Janet, reside in West Tisbury and Chicago.
Sarah Thulin discovered Martha’s Vineyard in 1989 while vacationing here with her husband Dennis and their two children. In 1992 they became year-round residents of Aquinnah, moving from Green Bay, Wisconsin where Sarah had been on the city council and county board for ten years. Sarah serves as chair of the Aquinnah Conservation Commission and is a member of the Planning Board Plan Review Committee. Since moving into her home on Menemsha Pond Sarah has become an avid sculler enjoying the beauty of the ponds and shorelines.
