Board Of Directors

Board of Directors

Jim Curtis - Chairman

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Jim Curtis graduated from Yale University with a degree in Chemical Engineering, and obtained a Masters in Industrial Management from MIT. He spent 33 years in various management positions within Exxon Corporation, retiring as President of Exxon’s International Shipping Company. Jim is also a Board member of People for Animals, a non-profit animal clinic in New Jersey.

Linda Mitchell - Vice Chair

Linda grew up outside of Philadelphia in Bucks County, PA. She graduated from the University of Delaware with degrees in Education and Psychology. Her professional positions have ranged from elementary school teacher to executive in the corporate buying offices of Macy’s in NYC to Regional Manager for Discovery Toys. Linda and her husband Bill raised three children while living first in Richmond, VA, then Guilford, CT, Pennington, NJ, Greensboro, NC and relocated Longboat Key in 2019.


Throughout her life, Linda has been compelled to serve her community and has volunteered frequently for a wide range of non-profits and causes. Most notably, Linda was elected to two, three-year terms of the Hopewell Valley Regional School District Board of Education in Pennington, NJ, where she served as President of the School Board for five years, with oversight of a $70M budget. She was Chair of the Greensboro Chapter of the American Red Cross Board, Chaired the Greensboro Ballet Board of Directors, and was a Board member for the “Out of the Garden Project” (food insecurity). In these leadership positions, Linda was involved directly with budgeting, marketing, public relations, communications, labor relations, staffing, and fundraising. 


Linda has been appointed to the Advisory Committee of the Sarasota Ballet Board. She joined the SOS Board of Directors in March of 2022 and is excited to support the critical work and growth of this organization. She was the Chair of our annual “Sunset Soiree” fundraising event in 2023.

Ann B. Anderson - Founding Board Member

Ann B. Anderson has been an animal lover all her life.  After the Pelican Man Bird Sanctuary went bankrupt and closed in 2006, Ann was the driving force behind the relocation of Save Our Seabirds to Sarasota in 2008 - and has continued to be its biggest supporter ever since.


Adopted at seven weeks of age, Ann was fortunate to grow up in a happy, stable family in Rochester, Minnesota, After two years at Northwestern University, she graduated from the University of Minnesota, with a major in English Literature and minors in Philosophy and Humanities. She worked as a social worker for several years and later went back to school in Texas and earned an R.N.


She and her husband, Steve, have lived in various parts of the country including Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; St. Petersburg, Florida; Lake Jackson, Texas; and Atlanta, where Steve founded and ran a successful medical technology company called Cryolife, Inc. They are now retired and living on Longboat Key.


Ann and Steve have spent 50 years owning, raising, and showing Boxer dogs under the kennel name, “Rummer Run.” They have owned and/or bred 62 AKC champions and have more to come.


Ann is also on the Board of the American Boxer Charitable Trust. Her interests include politics, environmental causes, Planned Parenthood, reading, and friends.

Nancy Curtis - Secretary

Nancy Curtis has been a member of the Save Our Seabirds Board since 2009. Her specialty is working as a docent, leading tours of the SOS facility. She has participated in taking many campers on tours along the Bird Walk during the summer months as well as leading many other groups throughout the year. She has also enjoyed feeding young birds during baby bird season.


Nancy is a retired speech pathologist and audiologist. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Speech Pathology from Emerson College and her Masters’ degree from Stanford University. Most of her career she worked in special education – at Children’s Hospital in Boston and at various schools in New Jersey. Early in her career when she and her husband lived in Malaysia, she was the only speech pathologist in the country and established the first program for pre-school deaf children at the National Society of the Deaf. 


Nancy has always had a passion for animals. During her New Jersey years she was on the Board of People for Animals, an animal rescue organization and clinic, where she spent time rescuing cats and dogs that needed to be re-homed.


Lisa Hartmann

Lisa Hartmann has been a valued member of the Save Our Seabirds family for several years. She started out volunteering in the Baby Bird Room, then got involved in the planning and execution of our annual Sunset Soirée fundraiser, which she chaired with great success.


Lisa has a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Miami with an emphasis on Marine Biology and a Masters of Professional Accounting from Rutgers University.


She has been a dolphin and sea lion trainer at the Miami Seaquarium and a Zookeeper in the Marine Mammal Division, as well as a member of the Behavioral Enrichment Department, at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. She has worked as an accountant for KPMG in both the United States and England.


Since moving to Sarasota, Lisa has volunteered at Save Our Seabirds, Mote Marine Aquarium, Southeastern Guide Dogs, and SPARCC.

Steve Siegler

Steve Siegler was President and CEO of J.McLaughlin from 1998 to 2016, where he helped transform a chain of five regional stores into a 120-store nationwide chain, as a vertically controlled life style brand.  Since joining the firm in 1998, Siegler assumed full bottom line responsibility as well as specific responsibilities. They included retail operations, merchandise planning and distribution, IT, human resources, finance, legal, new store sourcing and general administration. He led the growth transition stages for J.McLaughlin from a family business culture to a best of class brand and business organization which succeeded in creating a culture built on product integrity, customer loyalty, creativity and control. The company has been profitable since 1998. He led a November 2011 private equity capitalization and a 2016 follow up transaction with another, larger private equity group. In both processes, Siegler was the J.McLaughlin point working with leading investment banks resulting in double digit EBITDA multiple valuations.

Since his retirement in 2016, Steve has split his time between Longboat Key and Nantucket.  He stays busy on a variety of projects including retail real estate and tenant strategies, profit driven growth strategies, organization structure, product development and sourcing, entrepreneurial mentoring and executive coaching.

Jeff Telego

Dean Jeffery Telego has been in the environmental risk management field since 1978. He is President of Risk Management Technologies (RTM) and RTM Communications, Inc., which perform expert environmental risk management consulting, due diligence and remediation oversight in addition to expert witness work for various industry sectors that include industrial/manufacturing, brownfield redevelopment clients and financial services companies.


Jeff was Co-Founder of the Environmental Bankers Association 21 years ago and in 2015 retired as its Executive Co-Director and Board Member.


Jeff was also instrumental in developing international environmental risk management programs for financial institutions in Australia, Taiwan, and Eastern European countries and co-founded the first EBA chapter in Australia, known as the Environmental Bankers Association of AustraliaAsia.


Jeff is on the Board of Advisors of, and a contributing author to, three publications: Bloomberg’s Bureau of National Affairs publications, The Toxics Law Reporter and Environmental Due Diligence Guide, and Risk Management Magazine.


Jeff participated in the Wharton School Center for Risk and Decision Processes on Pollution Insurance and served on the ASTM Committee and subcommittees of E-50 on Environmental Assessment.


Jeff received his formal education and training at Georgetown University and Olivet College.

Ken Goldberg

Ken and his wife Marjie have lived in Sarasota since 1992. Ken is Chief Executive Officer of Real Digital Media, a STRATACACHE company, headquartered in Sarasota, Florida.  RDM (www.realdigitalmedia.com) markets its award-winning NEOCAST® solution to owners and operators of out-of-home networks in retail, hospitality, health care, corporate and other venues. 


Ken has been a frequent speaker at industry events and guest contributor to several industry publications. His no-holds-barred writing has been widely read throughout the digital signage marketplace, and he is considered a go-to source for insight, analysis and forward thinking. Ken has served as Chairman of the Digital Signage Federation, of which he was a founding Board member.


Previous experience includes consulting stints at Deloitte & Touche, CFT Consulting, (which he co-founded) and Answerthink, and an equities analyst role at Standard & Poor’s, where he was part of the team that launched MarketScope, the industry’s first online service for brokers, a precursor to today’s web-based services. 

 

Ken served for 12 years on the Board of Trustees at The Out-Of-Door Academy, at a time of tremendous change and growth, highlighted by the building of the Uihlein Campus at Lakewood Ranch. 


Ken earned BBA and MBA degrees at The College of William & Mary in Virginia.

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