Steering Committee
Ernest
E. (Lee) Keet:
Lee is a 7th generation Adirondacker who lives on Lake Colby (in
Harrietstown) and runs a private equity fund from there. His prior
career included stints with IBM and running one of the very early
software companies, which became part of Dun & Bradstreet. He has
served as CEO and director of several public companies. He and his
wife Nancy are active in many community organizations and Lee is
past-President and current Treasurer of the Lake Colby Association.
He is a former board member of the Trudeau Institute and a current board
member of the Adirondack Council. He holds advanced degrees in
engineering from both Cornell and NYU.
Richard F. Kibben:
Dick is a native of Saranac Lake who graduated from SLHS and then went
to Boston University. He began in the construction industry
building refineries and petro-chemical plants, and capped it off with a
20-year stint as Executive Director Construction at The Business
Roundtable. He always maintained a vacation home in Saranac Lake
and since his retirement has lived there year round while serving on
several not-for-profit boards, performing many volunteer jobs, and
taking advantage of the area’s outdoor activities.
James A. Schoff:
A native of Lowville, Jim graduated from Hamilton College and Cornell
University Law School and then spent nine years specializing in
partnership, tax and securities law. In 1981, Jim became a general
partner, then an executive and director of Developers Diversified Realty
Corporation (DDR) a real estate investment trust traded on the New York
Stock Exchange. Jim and his wife Anne currently live in Aurora, OH, but
they spend much of each year at their home on Upper Saranac Lake.
They have been involved in fundraising for the Natural History
Museum of the Adirondacks and the milfoil control project of the Upper
Saranac Lake Foundation. Jim is an avid outdoorsman and hunter.
Marsha Stanley:
Marsha is graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism
and a former newspaper reporter who covered suburban, city and county
government for the Rochester (NY) Times-Union, produced investigative
series and later turned to freelance feature writing. She and her
family vacationed in the Adirondacks for more than 30 years before
buying a home on Upper Saranac Lake five years ago. She lives
almost half the year on the Upper Lake where she is chair of the
government affairs committee and a member of the board of the Upper
Saranac Lake Association and of her lake neighborhood homeowners’
association.
David Wolff: Dave is a
Saranac Lake native who spends half his year at the family homestead on
Lake Kiwassa. Dave retired from IBM in 2006 after 31 years in sales and
consulting. He and his wife and two sons are "provisional 46ers"
and assist as divers in the annual Kiwassa Homeowners Association
clearing of invasive species. They live in Ridgefield, Ct., where
Dave was treasurer at the church nursery school and active with his
family in school, soccer, and skiing. He has been active in
promoting equity in the local assessment process.