Board Member Detail

Frank Hutchins

Founding President

In Memorium

Frank was the founding President of API. He was a marketing executive from Rochester and brought his considerable talent to establishing the API. Frank had a summer home in Paul Smiths and was very involved with the Paul Smith’s College Board.

Frank Pine

President

Frank is a retired ecologist from a Maryland consulting firm. Frank is involved in several Adirondack organizations and is an avid photographer. Frank and his wife Lorraine have a summer home in Long Lake and live in Baltimore. He has been on the API Board for over 15 years.

Bill Farber

Vice President

Robert Cummings

Treasurer

Robert Cummings (Treasurer) is a former international banker and retired educational consultant. He and his wife Poppy are fourth generation and life-long members of the Tahawus Club in Newcomb where they have lived since 2019 when he joined the API board.

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Col. Robert "Bob"
C. Lilly

Secretary

Colonel Robert C Lilly, USAF (retired) is a graduate of St Michael's College, Air Force Squadron Officers School, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Following 27 years of active service in the USAF, he retired as the Deputy Director, Communications Computer Systems, Command and Control and Air Traffic Control Systems for the Strategic Air Command (SAC), Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE. He then became Director of Data Processing/Information Systems for the County of Essex in Elizabethtown, NY. In the API he has served as Executive Director, Treasurer, vice President, and President. In the Town of Newcomb, he has served as Chairman of the Planning Board and was chairman of the Committee to rewrite the Town'sComprehensive Plan and has been the Chairman of the School Board for three years.

Stuart Angert

Trustee

Mr. Angert is the founder, and served as Chief Executive Officer of Remarketing Services of America, Inc.. He serves on several boards of trustee and director, focused primarily on healthcare and academia, and as Chairman of the Independent Health Foundation. He was appointed as a Commissioner for the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Niagara District. Angert earned his BA from Colgate University and MBA from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

Robert Calihan

Trustee

Rob owns Callihan Law in Rochester, a specialized firm.

Catherine Ericson

Trustee

Catherine is a hospitality entrepreneur and the Lake Placid Community Liaison for the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST). Since moving to Lake Placid in 1998, she and her husband, Chris, have built an Adirondack craft beer legacy as owners of The Lake Placid Pub & Brewery, Big Slide Brewery & Public House, and Saranac Lake’s RiverTrail Beer Works. Catherine is honored to call the Adirondacks her home and remains committed to keeping the region a vibrant place to live and visit. She is the proud mother of Grace, 20, a student at Fairfield University, and CJ, 16, a student-athlete playing hockey at Northwood School.

Mike German

Trustee

Mike has served on the API Board for over 20 years. He loves the Adirondacks and hiking. Mike is retired from NYSEG and in retirement started his own energy business, Corning Gas. Mike is a past president of the Board. He and his wife Susan live in Connecticut.

Paul Hai

Trustee

In his role as Associate Director of the Adirondack Ecological Center at ESF's Newcomb Campus, Paul leads ESF's Timbuctoo Institute, focused on environmental and social justice, and the Northern Forest Institute, the education and outreach program at the AEC.

Mark Leta

Trustee

Mark is a retiree from NYSEG and is now working for Northline Utilities, an energy utility related business successful in the Adirondacks. He and his wife Debbie live in Peru. Mark is also a Trustee for Clinton CC, and is a Clinton County IDA Board Member

Chuck Monzeglio

Trustee

Chuck owns a construction business in Connecticut. He was a longtime friend of our founding President Frank Hutchins.

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Melany Putman

Trustee

Melany lives in Clifton Park and has worked for NYSEG for the past 31 years. She has been a board member at API for 8 years.

She also serves on a board of the Mechanicville-Stillwater Chamber for 10 years and is currently a board member of the Saratoga, Columbia, Washington, and Rensselaer Counties LEPCs (Local Emergency Planning Committee) representing NYSEG.

Melany truly enjoys the outdoors. She loves long walks, traveling, camping, hiking, outdoorsy activities, beach vacations, and reading books!

Elizabeth "Liz" Thorndike

Trustee

Liz has a strong legacy of supporting the Adirondacks as an Educator, trustee of Paul Smith’s College, Adirondack Research Consortium, Adirondack Park Institute, and former member of the Adirondack Park Agency and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.

Troy Trombley

Trustee

A North Country native who graduated from Beekmantown High School and received Bachelors Degree in Business Management from SUNY Plattsburgh, Troy has been working at NYSEG for 5 years. Originally hired as a Natural Gas Marketing professional, he now works with the Government and Community Relations group. Troy covers the North Country Territory. Troy and his wife Taylor have a 4 year old daughter Charlotte, and another new family member on the way! In his free time he loves to golf, going on long trail walks, and enjoying activities on beautiful Lake Champlain.