Peter Reed
PresidentPeter Reed is the President of RACDC’s board of directors and has been a member since 2015. His primary interests related to RACDC’s mission is economic development and job creation in our service area and building collaboration and cohesion among downtown businesses. Peter, now retired, served as the Senior Community Banking Officer for Northfield Savings Bank at the Bethel and Randolph branches. He earned a BA in Economics at Earlham College in Indiana and an MBA at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Peter currently serves on the Gifford Medical Center Board, and the Randolph Sunrise Rotary Club. Peter and his wife live in Braintree and his hobbies include astronomy, Christmas trees (he owns a Christmas Tree Farm, Braintree Balsams), and gardening.
Daniel Devoe
Vice PresidentDan Devoe joined RACDC's board in 2018. He is the marketing director at Image Relay, a Vermont-based marketing technology company and certified B Corp. He has been active in startups and entrepreneurship for years, including as a co-founder of a legal services marketplace and as an early employee of the alcohol-delivery platform, Drizly. Before finding his way into technology, Dan practiced law in Massachusetts at Ropes & Gray LLP and for the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Dan received a B.A. and B.S. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a law degree from the Boston University School of Law. Dan is also Vice Chair and a founding member of Randolph Area Asylum Seekers Support, serves as Secretary of Randolph's Development Review Board, and has served as Vice Chair of the board of Urbanity Dance, a contemporary dance and education organization in Boston, for the past ten years. Dan moved to the area in 2016 and lives in Randolph with his wife, Abby, and their boxer, Snacks.
Robert Wright
TreasurerRobert (Bob) Wright is the interim Treasurer of the RACDC Board of Directors and has been on the board since 2014. He is the owner of Custom Castings of VT and works as a foundry and casting consultant. He is also a member of the Randolph Rotary Club (Noon club) and the New England Chapter of American Foundry Society. Bob previously worked as the General Manager at Vermont Castings for almost 29 years and served on the Gifford Medical Center Board of Directors for 11 years. Bob lives in Randolph with his wife, Rose. He is interested in science and technology, health, and education, caring for the environment, and disaster and humanitarian relief work.
Tom Ayres
SecretaryTom Ayres is a retired senior administrator in the non-profit sector in Vermont, having served primarily in the healthcare, human services, and arts fields for nearly 30 years. In his retirement, he continues to work as the Senior Staff Writer for the award-winning Vermont Standard newspaper in Woodstock and the Upper Valley, concentrating primarily on housing, healthcare, and education issues in the region. In addition, he is a freelance writer and non-profit communications consultant. Tom also serves on the Randolph Selectboard. He lives on quiet Brook Street in Randolph Village with his wife, Anne Barrett, two dogs, Mabel and Otis, and Bengal/Egyptian Mau-mix kitty Jerry Lee, who is anything but quiet.
Cristine Maloney
Board MemberDr. Cristine Maloney joined the Board of Directors in 2019. She is currently the Hospice Medical Director at Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire. She also works per diem for Gifford Health Care as the medical director of Menig Nursing home as well as performing palliative care consultative services. Cristine previously worked for RACDC from 1996-2002, initially as an AmeriCorps*VISTA member and then as the Housing Director. She earned a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and an MD from the University of Vermont. Cristine lives in Randolph with her husband.
Robert Sparadeo
Board MemberRobert (Bob) Sparadeo joined RACDC’s board of directors in 2016. He works on the sales team at LEDdynamics, a local company that engineers and manufactures LED drivers, modules and light engines for global distribution. They also provide services and education to promote LED technology as a medium of illumination. Bob previously managed retail stores specializing in sound equipment and musical instruments and is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music as well as Vermont Technical College. Bob lives in Randolph Center with his family and continues to perform music professionally.
Dan Bennett
Board MemberDan Bennett has served as president and chief executive officer of Gifford Health Care since September of 2016. He has worked in a variety of healthcare settings in Vermont and Maine for over 30 years, including community and critical access hospitals, a not-for-profit health insurance company, a community mental health provider, and (currently) a federally qualified health center that is the parent organization for a critical access hospital (Gifford Medical Center) and a retirement community (Gifford Retirement Community). Dan began his career in accounting and finance before transitioning to practice management, operations and CEO positions. Since 2002, he has served as the CEO of a community mental health provider, and the COO of a critical access hospital before moving back home to Vermont to serve in his current role with Gifford. Dan has held many board and volunteer positions with not-for-profit, trade, and service organizations in Maine and Vermont. He and his wife, Jane live in Randolph and have an adult son who also lives in Vermont.