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Brian H. Noyes is Vice President of
R. M. Davis, Inc. in Portland and currently serves
as Board Chair. R. M. Davis, Inc., is an employee
owned investment manager providing financial
advisory services as well as counseling, personal
affairs management, and trustee services. Before
joining R. M. Davis, Inc., Brian was Vice President
and Consulting Group Associate for Shearson Lehman
Hutton from 1984-1989. Brian graduated from the
University of New Hampshire in 1980, is a member of
the CFA Institute and Boston Security Analysts
Society, Inc., and Maine Analyst Society. He is a
Charted Investment Counselor and a Charted Financial
Analyst. Brian has served on many community boards
and advisory committees, including The Governor’s
Academy, Baxter State Park, Megantic Fish and Game
Corporation, Forest Society of Maine, Maine Medical
Center and Maine Health's Investment Committee. |
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Benedetto "Ben" Viola,
in the capacity of Board Vice Chair, was named as a
Trustee of MainePERS by Governor Baldacci effective
in April, 2004. Mr. Viola serves in the position
reserved by statute for "a state employee…who is
duly elected by the Maine State Employees'
Association." He is a Registered Professional
Engineer and works as an Environmental Engineer in
the Southern Maine Regional Office of the Maine
Department of Environmental Protection in Portland.
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Shirrin L. Blaisdell was appointed by
Governor LePage to the MainePERS Board of Trustees
in June, 2013. Ms. Blaisdell joins the Board as a
MainePERS member with over 30 years of progressively
responsible experience in finance and
administration. She served the State of Maine in
positions with Maine Revenue Services, Office of
Fiscal & Program Review and most recently as Acting
State Budget Officer for the Bureau of Budget until
her retirement in January 2013. Educated at the
University of Maine-Augusta and the University of
Maine-Orono (UMO), she earned her BA in Sociology
from UMO in 1974. Ms. Blaisdell has two grown
children and resides in Manchester with her husband,
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Phil Brookhouse is a retired middle
school teacher from Auburn. He worked with Maine
Learning Technology Initiative for nine years and is
currently consulting for the Auburn School
Department for gifted and talented high school
students. Phil had terms as Vice President and
President of the Lewiston Education Association, and
also served on the Special Services and Strategic
Budget Committees of the Maine Education
Association. He has been on the Board of Advisors
for the Maine Math and Science Alliance as well as
local municipal committees. Mr. Brookhouse has also
served as vice chair and chair of the MEA Benefits
Trust. He holds a Certificate of Achievement in
Public Plan Policy, a Certificate in Health Care
Plans, as well as the Trustee Masters Program from
the International Foundation for Employee Benefits.
He attended Michigan State University, has a BS Ed
from UMF, and a MS Ed from USM. He served in the US
Army and is a Vietnam Veteran. Phil enjoys being a
grandfather to twins. |
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Michael R. Currie is President and a
Managing Director of H. M. Payson & Co., a Maine
Trust Company and Registered Investment Advisor with
the offices in
Portland.
Prior to joining H. M. Payson & Co., Mr.
Currie was a partner in the law firm of Pierce
Atwood.
He received his undergraduate degree from Colby
College, his law degree
from The University of Maine School of Law, and an
L.L.M. (Taxation) from Boston University School of
Law. Mr.
Currie is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a
member of the American Bar Association and Maine
State Bar Association.
Mr. Currie currently serves on the Boards of the
University of Maine School of Law Foundation and the
Davis Family Foundation.
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Terry Hayes was elected by the
Joint Convention of the 127th Maine Legislature to
the office of State Treasurer for 2015-2016. She
served from 2006-2014 as a member of the Maine House
of Representatives, serving as Assistant Minority
Leader in the 125th Legislature,
Legislative Council member from 2010-2012, and
member of the Joint Standing Committee on State and
Local Government in the 123rd, 124th
and 126th Legislatures.
From 1991-2004, Terry served on the MSAD #39
school board representing Buckfield.
In addition to being a teacher, an adult
education administrator, a real estate educator and
a guardian ad litem, Terry continues to volunteer in
her local community as a moderator for town meetings
and connecting school children with their state
government.
Terry is a Maine native with a B.A. in Government
from Bowdoin College (1980) and an M.B.A. from
Thomas College (2014).
Terry and her husband Steve Hayes live in
Buckfield.
They have three adult children who all live and work
in Maine.
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Richard T. Metivier
was appointed in 2007 by the governing body
of the Maine Municipal Association. Mr. Metivier had
over three decades of experience in Lewiston city
government, and had served as the City's Director of
Finance for 30 years before retiring in 2010. A
graduate of Husson College in Bangor, he is an
active member of the Government Finance Officers
Association (GFOA) and its regional and State
affiliates, and has held a number of leadership
positions with the Androscoggin Valley Council of
Governments, Maine Municipal Health Trust, Lewiston
Municipal Federal Credit Union, and other
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Kenneth L. Williams was elected by
the Maine Education Association Representative
Assembly and was seated by Governor Baldacci
effective in May, 2005. Ken is a 31-year veteran of
middle school education, all at Nobleboro Central
School on the mid-coast. He taught environmental
education before public school work. Along
with teaching multiple subjects, he leads wilderness
backpacking trips for eighth graders as part of the
Nobleboro Central School Outing Club. Ken is a
Director for the Maine Education Association and is
also on the Board of Maine Music Outreach, an
organization that sends high school youth to Haiti
on a music, cultural and educational exchange. He
earned a BS in 1984 from the University of Delaware
and an MA from SUNY Stony Brook. Ken and his wife,
Barbara, live in Damariscotta and spend their free
time traveling and following their three adult
children around the planet.
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