Tim Nulty
Consultant
Tim Nulty was most recently, Executive Director/General Manager of
Burlington Telecom, supervising financing, build-out and service to
the City of Burlington, its businesses, residences and community
organizations.
Prior to this, Mr. Nulty was CEO of Central European Telecom Investments (a
$50 million venture capital acquisition and operating fund); Chief
Telecom Project officer for the International Finance Corporation and
World Bank; Chief Economist [telecoms] for the U.S. Senate and U.S.
House of Representatives Committees on Commerce .
Leslie Nulty
Consultant
Leslie Nulty owns and manages Focal Point Advisory Services, a
consulting business providing strategic, M&A and fiscal management
services to small businesses throughout Vermont. From 1999-2004 she
served as General Manager of Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, a $10
million upscale natural and gourmet foods market with 100 employees.
From1994 to 1998 she held the position of Controller, Central European Telecom Investments a $50
million venture capital acquisition and operating fund based in
Budapest, Hungary, overseeing 21 operating telecom companies. Overall,
Mrs. Nulty has 30 years experience as a business economist,
financial analyst, manager and negotiator.
Robert Bruce
Mr. Bruce is a retired partner of the New York-headquartered
international law firm, Debevoise & Plimpton where he headed its
international telecommunications practice. Resident in the London
office of Debevoise & Plimpton between 1993 and 2003, he was involved as
a corporate and securities lawyer in numerous international public
offerings by European telecommunications companies. He served as
General Counsel to the Federal Communications Commission for three years
during the Carter Administration and was appointed as Director of
Communications Planning of the Public Broadcasting Service at the time
of its founding in 1970. Robert Bruce is a Senior Research Fellow at
the Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire. He is a resident of Hanover, New Hampshire and
currently serves as a member of Hanover School Board and as Chair of the
Dresden School Board. He is also a member of the boards of the Hanover
Conservation Council and CATV8, the cable access channel. He holds
degrees from Harvard College (BA, 1966), the John F Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University (MPA, 1970) and the Harvard Law School
(JD, 1970).
Stephen Campbell
Board Secretary
Mr. Campbell has an undergraduate degree in engineering from Yale University and an MS in Computer Science from Purdue. He worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1970's on projects with parallel processors. In 1983 he joined Dartmouth's Computing Services organization - Kiewit - as a Unix system manager. During the 1980's and 1990's he worked with others at Kiewit to develop the college's campus network and its participation in the Internet. He retired from Dartmouth in 2003. Mr. Campbell lives in Lyme, New Hampshire.
Don Derrick
Mr. Derrick grew up in the Upper Valley, and has lived here most of his
life. After graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Don served in the US
Air Force as a navigator. Following graduation from Dartmouth's Tuck School as a Tuck Scholar, he worked at Luminescent Systems for 20+ years, including a three-year stint in Belgium where he started their European branch. Upon early retirement he earned a degree with honors in Information Systems, and is now the Executive Director of Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity. Don is happily married to Betsy Derrick. Together they are parents of two sons, and grandparents once, with a second on the way.
Marlene McGonigle
Board Vice-Chair
Ms. McGonigle served as the Director of Howe Library from 1994 to 2007, when she retired from that position. Prior to this, she was employed at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in the library. In 1992 Marlene relocated from New Jersey where she raised a family and held library director's positions in two high schools, a law library and a public library. In 1995 Marlene was involved with early planning, serving as the Chair of the Ethics Committee, for the fledgling ValleyNet. Howe Library housed many of Valley Net's modems in exchange for which the Library received high-speed modems to provide service for users. The Library is wireless and fully automated with an integrated system, the same as that used by Dartmouth. Marlene's education includes superintendent of schools certification and a Master of Library Science from Rutgers University in New Jersey. She has served on the ValleyNet Board since 2002.
Rita Murdoch
Ms. Murdoch currently serves as the Director of Support and Fiscal Services in the Computing Services Department at Dartmouth College. Prior to this she has held various financial roles including Associate Executive Officer for the Arts and Sciences, Dartmouth College, Director of Budget at Mount Holyoke College, Assistant Treasurer at Hampshire College and Budget Manager for the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company. A native of northern Vermont Rita now resides in Lyme, New Hampshire with her two children.
Chuck Sherman
Board Treasurer
A graduate of Dartmouth in the early years of computer resource sharing, Dr. Sherman spent his 40-year research career utilizing ever-newer platforms of computing and networking. Retired from the National Institutes of Health in 2005, he returned to the Upper Valley and has been instrumental in bringing fixed-wireless internet to his own home and to a growing number of other homes in Strafford, Vermont and surrounding towns. He was the first chair of the Strafford Broadband Committee that solicited and received a State grant for the Town's project. Chuck serves on the boards of the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley, the Twin State Radio Club, and the International Student House in Washington DC. He continues to design and conduct program evaluation studies on a consulting basis, principally for the NIH. He is an associate editor of The Oncologist with a special interest in on-line continuing medical education.
William (Punch)Taylor
Mr. Taylor is semi-retired from Dartmouth College working part time
in Dartmouth's Computer Science department on grant-funded projects related to
computer and communications security. Before retiring from fulltime work in
2001 he headed Dartmouth's Technical Services group where he was responsible
for the College's computer, telephone and TV networks. He wrote the grant
application that funded Dartmouth's first connection to the Internet in 1983,
supervised the original wiring of Dartmouth's computer network in 1984-85, the
rewiring of that network in 1996 with fiber-optic cabling between buildings,
the upgrading of the campus telephone infrastructure to fiber-optic cabling in
1998 and the installation of one of the first collegiate wireless networks in
2001. Before coming to Dartmouth he worked for Computer Sciences Corporation in
the Washington, DC, area for 10 years on contracts with NASA and the Defense
Department and at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft on the jet engines for the SR-71 spy
plane. He is a resident of Norwich and currently serves on the Ford Sayre Ski
Council where he heads the adult Nordic ski program. He holds degrees from
Duke University (BS Engineering, 1962), University of Florida (MS Engineering)
and Johns Hopkins University (MS Applied Mathematics).
Stan Williams
Board Chair
Mr. Williams has 20 years of international telecommunications experience,
beginning with Cellular Communications, Inc. (one of the original applicants
for US cellular licenses in 1983), and continuing with various spinoffs,
Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico (CCPR), Cellular Communications
International (CCIL), and NTL. Stan was Chief Financial Officer of both
CCPR and CCIL when they were sold to SBC/Cingular and Mannesmann/Vodafone,
respectively, in 1999. CCPR was a cellular operator in Puerto Rico, and CCIL
was instrumental in helping the Omnitel consortium secure the second Italian
cellular license in 1994. NTL is the largest cable company in the United
Kingdom. Although officially, retired, Stan has remained active in the
communications field through his work with both ValleyNet and Dartmouth's
Information Technology Advisory Board. He lives in Norwich, Vermont with his wife,
Jenny, and three young children, and is a member of the Norwich and Dresden
school boards, and is as well an ex-officio treasurer of the Child Care Center
in Norwich.
