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Bill Turenne - ITNAmerica Chair
Bill Turenne
Chair

In 2005, President Bush appointed Bill to serve on the Advisory Committee for the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. Throughout his career Bill has served on many non-profit boards, including The Public Affairs Council, The Multiple Sclerosis Association, and the Tomas Rivera Center, an institute of policy studies affecting Hispanic Americans.

Bill retired from Eli Lilly and Company in 1995 after 31 years with the company. He then formed a public affairs and business consulting firm that specializes in organizational development, particularly in the integration of strategic business planning with public affairs programs for healthcare client organizations, and state and federal government. Since 2001, he has served as a consultant to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

A native of Danvers, Massachusetts, Bill received a BS degree from the University of Connecticut in 1962, and attended Boston College Graduate School of Management (1967 - 1970).

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Katherine Freund - Founder and President
Katherine Freund
Founder and President

Founder of the Independent Transportation Network®, and President and Executive Director of ITNAmerica. Katherine has a Master of Arts degree in Public Policy from the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

She served on the Advisory Committee for the 2005 White House Conference on Aging, as a National Transit Institute Fellow and for nine years on the Transportation Research Board's Committee on the Safe Mobility of Seniors. Currently, she chairs TRB's Joint Subcommittee on Transportation Options for Seniors.

In 2009, Katherine was named an AARP Inspire Award Honoree, and in February 2008, she was featured in the Wall Street Journal as one of "12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement." Katherine received the 2006 Maxwell Pollack Award from the Gerontological Society of America, a 2006 award for Leadership in Innovative Enterprise Ideas from the Social Enterprise Alliance, the 2004 Archstone Award for Excellence in Program Innovation from the American Public Health Association, and the Giraffe Award for sticking her neck out for the common good.

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John Alexander - ITNAmerica Secretary
John Alexander
Secretary

John is the founding chairman of the ITN board. He has maintained an active and supportive interest in the project for over ten years.

For 25 years, John served as the most senior information systems executive with Unum Corporation, MCI, Citibank, New York Stock Exchange, Reynolds Metals and the Midwest Stock Exchange.

John provides advisory services to startup and evolving technology companies with Business Technology Consulting. With CEO Counselors, he offers advice to chief executives about managing information technology so that the company gains competitive advantage from its investments, and provides venture capital and transition assistance.

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Mark Filler - ITNAmerica Treasurer
Mark Filler
Treasurer

Mark Filler, CPA/ABV, CBA, CVA, leads the litigation and claims support practice at Filler & Associates in Portland, Maine. He has been in public accounting since 1968, helping small business entrepreneurs solve their tax and business problems.

From 1986 to 1994, Mark taught the Dale Carnegie Management Seminar to over 250 local business owners and managers. This experience gave him a deeper awareness of how small businesses function and the "people problems" they face. The AICPA has awarded him two certificates in educational achievement, one in Tax Planning and Advising, and the other in Business Valuation.

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Clayton Fong - ITNAmerica Board Member
Clayton Fong
Board Member

Clayton Fong has been active in the Asian Pacific American community throughout the nation for the past 15 years, and was formerly the President/Chief Executive Officer of the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging, a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of elder Asian American and Pacific Islanders at the national and local levels.

Previously he served in numerous senior management positions at the White House and with the Governor of California, including White House Presidential Personnel, and Deputy Assistant to the President for Public Liaison, where he managed staff responsible for outreach to women, ethnic groups and numerous business and professional groups. Clayton also served as Deputy Director of the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs, as well as the Governor of California's liaison to the Asian Pacific American communities.

He has significant experience in the area of health policy as a fellow with the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California San Francisco, and the Children's Research Institute of California. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Health, Arts and Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a former member of the President's Commission on White House Fellows, Chairman of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, Alzheimer's Association of Western Washington, and the Advisory Board for the University of Washington School of Nursing.

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Larry Israelite - ITNAmerica Board Member
Larry Israelite, PhD
Board Member

Larry Israelite is the vice president and manager of human resource development at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Prior to Liberty Mutual Insurance, Larry held learning management positions in a variety of industries. He has worked for Pitney Bowes, the Forum Corporation, John Hancock Financial Services, Oxford Health Plans, and the Digital Equipment Corporation.

Larry is the editor of "Lies About Learning," a 2006 publication of ASTD Press, and he contributed chapters to "Elliot Masie's Learning Rants, Raves, and Reflections: A Collection of Passionate and Professional Perspectives" (Pfeiffer, 2005), and "The AMA Handbook of E-Learning Effective Design, Implementation, and Technology Solutions" (AMACOM, 2003).

A graduate of Washington College, Larry received an MA in Instructional Media and a PhD in Educational Technology, both from the Arizona State University.

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Pat Ward - ITNAmerica Pat Ward
Pat Ward
Board Member

Pat Ward is the Executive Director of the Deaconess Associations Foundation, sponsor of ITNGreaterCincinnati. Prior to joining Deaconess, he was Vice President of Fifth Third Bank's Charitable Management Services Group. Pat has over 26 years of nonprofit healthcare experience including operation experience in hospitals, end-stage renal disease management, and long-term care management. Pat is excited to be part of the talented team bringing this dignified transportation alternative for seniors and visually impaired adults to Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

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David Warren, JD - ITNAmerica Board Member
David Warren, JD
Board Member

David E. Warren is the President of Tranzon, LLC and Tranzon International, LLC. He also maintains a relationship as Counsel to the law firm of Verrill Dana, LLP, one of northern New England's largest law firms, with offices in Portland, Augusta, Boston, Hartford, and Washington, D.C. David is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the fields of corporate law and mergers & acquisitions.

Active in community affairs, David is currently Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Maine Medical Center and serves as a Trustee of MaineHealth (Maine Medical Center's parent organization). He is also currently a Director of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, the Portland Chamber, and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine, and is a Trustee of North Yarmouth Academy. David also serves as a member of the Finance Council of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland.

In the recent past, David has served as Campaign Chair of the United Way of Greater Portland, Campaign Chair for the statewide Campaign for Justice, Chairman of the Portland Regional Chamber, and Board Chair of the Gulf of Maine Aquarium Development Corporation (now the Gulf of Maine Research Institute), and as a Trustee and Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Bowdoin College.

David was a 2004 inductee into the Maine Business Hall of Fame, and also received the Alton E. Cianchette Business Hall of Fame Award from the Maine State Chamber of Commerce in 2004.

A graduate of Bowdoin College and the Columbia University Law School, David and his wife Diana and their three children live in Portland.

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Andrew J. Bernstein
Board Member

Andy is a graduate of Bowdoin College and the University of Maine School of Law. During his 31 years as an attorney, he has worked for Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, at UNUM where he held numerous positions, including Chief Litigation Counsel, General Counsel to the Disability Benefits Organization, head of the anti-fraud department, and Vice President and head of the Disability Claim Appeals, Litigation Support, Training, and Audit Department. Following his departure from UNUM, he also was the General Counsel of Disability Reinsurance Management Services, Inc, a reinsurance intermediary. Andy's primary areas of expertise are litigation and trial practice, legal advisor to claims, appeals, underwriting, and management operations of insurance reinsurance companies, and social security disability claims. He has spoken at numerous insurance industry forums on a wide range of topics, including insurance litigation, fraud detection and prosecution, effective and fair claims practices, and social security disability claims. He currently represents claimants in Social Security disability cases.

In addition to his involvement with ITNPortland, Andy is a member of the Alumni Board at the University of Maine School of Law, and the Class Agent for his law school class of 1980. He is also a past president of the Board of Directors of Congregation Bet Ha'am.

Andy lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with his wife Karla.

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Lori Parham - ITNAmerica Board Member
Lori Parham
Board Member

Lori K. Parham, Ph.D., is AARP Maine’s State Director, based in Portland, Maine. Prior to joining AARP Maine she worked as senior advisor to AARP's Executive Vice President for the State and National Group in Washington, DC, overseeing the reorganization of the Association's Government Affairs unit and the creation of a new Office of Volunteerism & Service. She began her career at AARP in Florida. Before becoming State Director in early 2007, she served as Advocacy Manager for State Affairs and was responsible for policy and legislative advocacy on topics including health and long-term care, transportation, and utilities. Her service includes terms on the boards of the Florida Patient Safety Corporation, the Florida Council on Aging and the American Hiking Society. 

Before joining AARP, Parham served as a legislative analyst for the Florida Senate, providing technical expertise to the Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care. Her duties included oversight of the Florida Department of Elder Affairs and the Florida Medicaid program. She also served as staff for the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), focusing on long-term care issues in the Medicaid Research Bureau. Prior to her work at AHCA, Parham worked at the Florida State University Claude Pepper Institute on Aging, where she was involved in multiple research projects on long-term care quality, work and the lifecourse, and inequality. She has a B.A. in Sociology from Belmont Abbey College, as well as a M.S. and Ph.D. with a specialization in Political Economy and Aging from the Florida State University. She is currently a member of the National Academy for Social Insurance, the Gerontological Society of America, and the Maine Gerontological Society.

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