SouthCoast Development Partnership steering committee
The SouthCoast Development Partnership was created in 1999 as a regional, business-led collaborative to promote the SouthCoast region of Massachusetts as the next wave in economic opportunity. With headquarters on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, the Partnership is affirmation that regionalism works both as a marketing approach and as a strategy for sustainable economic development.
SouthCoast Development Partnership Membership
Thomas F. Lyons, Co-Chair
President, BankFive
Peter Kavanaugh, Co-Chair
President, Kavanaugh Development
Dr. Jean MacCormack
Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Mayor Scott W. Lang
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Mayor William Flanagan
Fall River, Massachusetts
Attorney Kenneth Fiola, Jr.
Executive Vice President, Fall River Office of Economic Development
Matthew Morrissey
Executive Director, New Bedford Economic Development Council
State Representative Michael Rodrigues
State Senator Mark C. W. Montigny
Thomas Davis
Executive Director, Greater New Bedford Industrial Foundation
Paul Burke
Insurit Agency Inc
Nicholas M. Christ
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Citizens~Union Savings Bank.
Scott Costa
Co-owner/Treasurer, Bufftree Building Company
Mary Harrington
Publisher, SouthCoast Media Group
Lisa A. Hermenau
National Grid
Stephen Karam
Greater Fall River Development Corporation
Lisa Lundy Kusinitz
Dominion Energy, Brayton Point
Mary O'Keeffe
Comcast
State Representative Kevin Aguiar
State Representative Antonio F. D. Cabral
State Representative Stephen Canessa
State Representative Steven D'Amico
State Representative Patricia A. Haddad
State Representative Robert Koczera
State Senator Joan M. Menard
State Senator Mark C. W. Montigny
State Representative John F. Quinn
State Representative Michael J. Rodrigues
State Representative William Straus
State Representative David B. Sullivan
State Senator James Timilty
Ex Officio
Greg Bialecki
Secretary of Housing and Development
Anne Struthers
Executive Director
Mass Office of Business Development
Buddy Rocha
Regional Director, Mass Office of Business Development
Paul Vigeant
Assistant Chancellor for Economic Development
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
James Mathes
SMILES SouthCoast Mentoring Initiative for Learning, Education & Service
Affiliated Organizations
Fall River Area Chamber of Commerce
MSBDC Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network
New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce
NSTAR
Southeastern Massachusetts Convention & Visitors Bureau
SRPEDD Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District
Staff
Jennifer J. Menard
Executive Director, SouthCoast Development Partnership
508-999-8412
jmenard@umassd.edu
