Meet the Directors

Board member since 2017. Former partner, currently of counsel with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP of New York, Director and President of Coltsfoot Valley Association, Inc., and Director and President of The Cornwall Foundation.

Board Member since 2023. Oscar has worked for over 30 years in finance, most recently as a Managing Director at Mudrick Capital, a credit focused asset manager. Currently serves on the Cornwall Economic Development Commission and as an Advisory Board Member of the NY Landmarks Conservancy.

Board Member since 2022. Martin serves as International Director in JLL New York. President of COOP board in NY for 10 years. Current Chair of Jounce Partners in Philadelphia, a teacher and leader coaching not for profit that focuses on underserved schools in Philadelphia, Memphis and New Orleans. Martin is a graduate from the University of Vermont and New York Law School and is also on the advisory board for the Honors College at the University of Vermont.

Board member since 2019. Co-founder of a retail horticultural firm specializing in landscape design for 45 years. Has lived in Cornwall for 34 years. A member of the Cornwall Energy Task Force, the Cornwall Conservation Commission and Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission. Avid gardener (focusing on organic vegetable gardening), birder, mycophile ,hiker, kayaker, traveler. Loves being in the woods and hiking Cornwall’s trails.

Board member since 1998. Cornwall native, served as CCT’s treasurer for 12 years. Currently, a self-employed furniture maker, and Cornwall’s Tax Collector. Holds degrees in Outdoor Education and Biology. Formerly employed as a software engineer. Recently certified as a CT Master Wildlife Conservationist, also an avid birder, naturalist, fly fisher, hunter, gardener, hiker, x-country skier, snowshoer, and participant in dog-powered sports.

Board member since 2017, Cornwall resident since 2012. Retired United Nations international staff member. Member of the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area Bicycle Committee, passionate cyclist and keen hiker, kayaker/canoeist, x-country skier/snowshoer and gardener.

Board member since 2024. Martin is a passionate traveler and professional photographer who has been fortunate enough to spend time in over 100 countries. Martin enjoys trail clearing and spending time with his wife and two sons.

Ecologist, educator and artist. Professionally she studied architecture and graphic design to become an exhibition designer for Natural History, Children’s and Science Museums. Since 2005 she has been involved with developing community resources for ecology education, energy conservation and environmental stewardship. Katherine serves on the Leadership Team of the CT Sustainable Communities Network. For Cornwall, Katherine won a CT Governor’s Award for residential participation in the Clean Energy Option Program in 2009, CT Climate Change Leadership Award in 2009, and a Clean Communities Award from the EPA in 2010, giving Cornwall the now arguable yet motivational title of the Greenest Town in Connecticut.

Board member since 2023. Andrea has over 30 years of investing experience and was a senior partner with some of North America’s largest private equity firms and currently serves as a mentor to the India investment team. Andrea holds a PMD from Harvard University and a Bachelors in Economics from Bocconi University (Milano).
Andrea is on the board of Winston School a school that is for children with learning difficulties (audit and compensation CC) and on the Cornwall Foundation. For many years he was also on the board of the Maria New Children Hormone Foundation that helped research for children with CHA (congenital adrenal Hiperplasia).

Board member since July 2012 and recently served as Treasurer from November 2013 to November 2016. Senior Counsel at the New York law firm of Cleary Gottlieb, Senior Lecturer of Law at Columbia Law School, Served on the board of the Cornwall Association, member of the book selection committee for the Cornwall Library an also President, and resident of Cornwall since 1978.

Board member since 2025. K. Beth O’Donnell, from Cornwall, is a community development professional now living in Boston. In her work life she has been focused on building and financing affordable housing and other community-focused real estate projects. Beth is the first woman in the O’Donnell family to own the North Cornwall property purchased by her great-grandparents in 1906. Here she is waging war on invasives in overgrown pastures and engaged in forest management with her wife and son. Together they are slowly reclaiming an orchard of “spitters” they call Fly the Coupe Orchard in reference to Agnes and Joe O’Donnell’s 1963 Ford Galaxie chicken coop. Beth knows first-hand that people struggle to stay in Cornwall and is passionate about the town being a place for everyone.

Board Member since 2025. Kate has worked in textile and interior design for over 20 years and has founded two interior design showrooms, most recently Temple Studio in New York City. Raised in South Carolina, she has always felt most at ease outdoors, inspired by the natural world. After moving to New York in 2004, she met her husband and raised their two sons in Brooklyn before relocating their family to West Cornwall full time in 2024.

Board Member since 2024. Mare Rubin spent over 20 years in marketing and brand management roles at large companies including Benjamin Moore and Reckitt. She now enjoys consulting for emerging brands and small businesses, helping founders and business owners with brand strategy and messaging. Mare is a yoga and meditation teacher; having earned her yoga certification during the pandemic she quickly realized how much she loved sharing the benefits of yoga with others and now teaches several times a week. She is the co-founder, along with her husband John, of Replay Rock School, a small music school in New York City. Mare is a New Jersey native whose parents exposed her to the natural side of the Garden State – her dad was an avid hiker and her mom a bird-watching enthusiast, she credits them both for her love of a good walk in the woods. Mare serves on the Cornwall Economic Development Commission and is a contributor and editor for the Cornwall Chronicle.