Open Museum BlogMeet Our People
- Maureen Ward Doyle (President & Executive Director)
- Lauri Berkenkamp
- Jean Bermon
- Heli Tuomi Carlile
- Jeff Doyle
- Suzanne (Dudley) Schon
- Michael Yacavone
Board of Directors:
Maureen Ward Doyle
PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CO-FOUNDER OPEN MUSEUM
Prior to founding Heritance in 2006, Maureen worked with various non-profit organizations, including the United Nations Development Program in Dakar, Senegal. Her interest in international development and culture studies began at Dartmouth College, where Maureen was a French literature major, learned Spanish and became a certified public school teacher. After graduation, Maureen set off on a two-year, round-the-world bike trip that took her through remote regions of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central and South East Asia. Maureen, who holds certification as a public school administrator, as well as French and Spanish teacher, spent 10 years in the US public school system teaching languages, history and culture. She also worked with the National School Reform Project on curriculum assessment and peer review. Following her interests in international development and culture studies, Maureen earned Masters degrees in Business (Arizona State University, 1993) and Philosophy (l'Université Marc Bloc in Strasbourg France, 2006). From 2001 to 2006, Maureen lived on a barge in Europe with her husband and three daughters, home schooling the children and piloting the barge for the first three years and traveling, studying and writing for the final three. In February 2007, Maureen incorporated Heritance in the state of Vermont and has been working full-time in the museum world ever since.
Lauri Berkenkamp
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CO-FOUNDER OPEN MUSEUM
Lauri Berkenkamp, a graduate of Boston College and the University of Vermont, has been a professional writer and editor for more than 25 years. She has written 14 books on a wide range of subjects, including several award-winning books for children that focus on history, science, and the environment. Lauri worked in the publishing industry for many years as the marketing director for a small education publisher based in Norwich, Vermont. She is also a moderator for Absolute Write, one of the longest-running and largest online communities of writers. Lauri is a co-founder of Open Museum.
Jean Bermon
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jean's work is featured in the Projects & Partners Gallery:
please visit both the "Current Heritance Projects" list, as well as the "Related Projects" section
Having completed his studies in architecture in Strasbourg, France, Jean worked with a team at the CNRS (Centre National
de Recherche Scientique) in Burgundy on the restitution of a medieval archeological site. His role was to create
hypothetical computerized models of the original buildings. He was then invited to work with the Mécénat Science and Arts
Foundation to design and implement traveling museum exhibits to be shown in numerous European capitals. He went on to found
a consulting company of museum specialists with whom he elaborated many projects including: the renovations of the
Ethnography Museum in Berlin; the Rheinnicher Landes Museum in Bonn; special exhibits such as "
Retrospective of the Works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh" (Scottish Architect and Designer) in Glasgow, New York,
Chicago and Los Angeles; "The Birth of Impressionism" in both Glasgow and Tokyo; and the Inception/Creation of the
Neanderthal Museum in Dusseldorf. Jean continues to work as a consultant to Museums and Archeology sites all over the world,
as well as teaching Design and Perspective at a Graphic Arts School in Strasbourg, France.
Heli Tuomi Carlile
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SECRETARY, WEBSITE MANAGER
Heli is a media producer with 20+ years' experience in a wide range of cross-platform media, including film/tv, print and interactive. Based in the US and Canada, she has worked globally also in Russia, Ireland, Finland and Japan. Her corporate clients have included FedEx, Sony and Fidelity Investments, and in the non-profit sector she has developed projects for science education centers and museums in North America and Europe, and the Government of Canada (Canadian Heritage). Heli holds a degree in Film Studies from Queen's University at Kingston and an MA in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario (Canada); she has also studied at the Cyber-Architecture Unit of the McLuhan Program at University of Toronto, and at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. As VP Production for interactive design firm I-MMERSION, Heli oversaw the development of a global exhibit for the Canada Pavilion at Expo2005 (Japan), bringing together nine major Canadian museums and cultural institutions to share history and heritage with the world through online virtual museums. She is currently a digital media consultant specializing in the non-profit cultural sector, with most recent clients including the International Olympic Committee and a new museum in Norway.
Jeff Doyle
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CO-FOUNDER OPEN MUSEUM
Jeff, a graduate of Yale University (Class of 1979), is the founder and manager of Toliwaga, LLC. He has worked as a software engineer, manager and entrepreneur for over twenty years. His experience in software development includes implementing the search engine for the Yahoo! Yellow Pages and the STELLA systems dynamics modeling language. Jeff has served as Vice President of Engineering at Vicinity Corporation, Vice President of Research and Development at Intermap, Inc, and Software Development Manager at PC Globe.
Suzanne (Dudley) Schon
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, TREASURER
Suzanne (Dudley) Schon is a graduate of Duke University. She serves on the board of Child and Family Services in New Hampshire and is the co-founder of the Kevin and Suzanne Schon Foundation, which offers financial assistance to organizations supporting children, health, equal rights, and education. Suzanne's mother, born and raised in Dominican Republic, was a passionate volunteer for The Smithsonian and The Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.. In addition to the benefit of growing up bilingual in Spanish, Suzanne feels that she inherited her mother's commitment and interest in museums and their effort to preserve and present art and culture.
Michael Yacavone
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, VICE PRESIDENT
Michael is a consultant, coach, designer, and developer. His work spans education, high-tech, government, non-profit, and industry, often at the intersection of technology and organizational development. He has started three companies and played key roles in two VC-funded high-tech startups, working with both senior engineers and executives to deliver over a dozen software products. Yacavone is skilled at implementing the Carver Policy Governance model of Board leadership and has applied aspects of this model to teamwork in higher-education. Yacavone serves as a past president and Board member of the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, Inc., a member-owned cooperative grocery business founded in 1936, now with five locations, 350 employees and annual revenue of $66 million. He is active in the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), and served as Recording Secretary for the SoL Council of Trustees.