Trustees

Tom Albert has lived in the Mount Washington Valley since 1976, growing up on a potato and turf farm before founding a tech company in 1997. He still runs that company, serving the IT needs of many local businesses, municipalities, local government offices, and homeowners. He and his wife Karen have two wonderful grown children, one in teaching and the other in conservation and sustainability.

An avid (and always learning) birder, tagging along on a Tin Mountain bird activity led to him joining the board in the spring of 2018. He and his wife hike, paddle, pedal, slide and glide in all seasons in this beautiful place. Other interests include cooking, baking and gardening.

Jason has over 20 years of corporate finance experience working with executive teams and shareholders, and as a business partner to CEOs. He most recently served 7 years as CFO for a leading environmental services provider in North America.

Jason has an undergraduate degree from Tufts University and a Master’s Degree from the London School of Economics.

Jason lives in Belmont, MA. He has a love for the outdoors, community involvement and coaching youth sports.

A true outdoor enthusiast, Elizabeth spends her winters skiing in the Whites and summers on Loon Lake in Freedom.  After high school, she thru-hiked Vermont’s Long Trail and the Appalachian Trail. Later, she spent four summers and one winter working for the Appalachian Mountain Club in the hut system and at Pinkham Notch.  Elizabeth is a six-time participant in the Mt. Washington Century and an Early Bird rider of Mt. Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb (MWARBH).  Originally from Concord, MA, Elizabeth moved to the Mt. Washington Valley in 2019 after retiring from teaching at Bunker Hill Community College.

Tin Mountain has been the perfect organization for Bill and his wife Tim to use as a source for nature programming and environmental activities in the Valley.  They are both retired and work for conservation groups here and in their winter home in Delray Beach, Florida.  Bill’s career was founded on electrical engineering, but shifted to technical sales and marketing, world wide, in the electronics industry.

Bill and Tim have had a home in Center Conway for over 30 years and made many friends as they’ve hiked and skied the mountains, paddled the Saco, biked the trails and hills all over, and boated on Conway Lake for rest and relaxation.  They are both very active with the TM Bird Society and look after the Valley loon population annually.

Kim Bowker has worked in the renewable energy industry for 25 years and currently does Technical Sales for the altE Store, a Massachusetts based distributor of solar and energy storage equipment.  Raised in Philadelphia, Kim began to develop a deep respect for nature and tall mountains after moving to Colorado in the 1980’s. Her interest in a clean environment led to a passion for clean energy and, eventually, a B.S. in Applied Environmental Technology with a focus in Wind Energy. Three states and fifteen years later she moved to Eaton, NH to live with her partner, David, in a timber-frame house that he built on family land. Walking or snowshoeing on this land with the dogs is the highlight of every day. Kim is a member of the Tin Mountain Energy Team (formerly TMREI) and has served on the Tin Mountain Board of Trustees since 2018.

Originally from Massachusetts, but a frequent visitor to the Mt. Washington Valley for dozens of years, Ed and his wife Kathy permanently moved to North Conway in 2021. A twenty-year Air Force veteran and corporate IT professional who has fed his passion for the outdoors and the environment with years of volunteer experience doing research, outreach, and education with the NH Fish and Game Department, UNH Cooperative Extension Program and the New Boston Conservation Commission. He also served on the boards of several conservation organizations. Ed attended Texas Lutheran University, the University of Maryland University College and Oregon State University and earned degrees in Human Resources, Information Technology and Natural Resources.

When not volunteering at Tin Mountain, Ed can be found hiking, biking, kayaking, fly-fishing or taking pictures in the great outdoors, often in the company of his grandson.

Chris served as a wildlife biologist and site manager for the Bartlett Experimental Forest, USFS Northern Research Station for thirty years. During this time she assisted with the maintenance of long-term research sites and the development of new research investigating the effects of forest management on wildlife habitat with an emphasis on songbirds, small mammals, bats, and northern goshawks. Chris holds a MS in Wildlife Ecology from the University of New Hampshire and a BS from University of Connecticut.  In her free time Chris enjoys spending time with friends, nature observation, hiking, skiing, paddling, mushroom foraging and gardening.

Jason moved, with his wife and daughter, to the Mt. Washington Valley in 2019. Originally from Virginia, Jason first moved to Concord, NH after her graduated from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2008. Jason is an attorney with Hastings Malia P.A. in Fryeburg, ME and has practiced law for going on 12 years. He is currently serving as the Out-of-State Governor on the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Board of Governors. Jason loves all the outdoor adventure opportunities that the Mt. Washington Valley offers, and his favorite thing about Tin Mt. is all of its endeavors to teach kids about the natural world. Jason’s other interests include writing, travel, sports, eating good food, and cooking (he was recently a regional finalist in a burger cook-off held at Fenway Park). Jason’s favorite superhero is Batman.

My granddaughter did something brilliant when she was about 2 1/2. I asked her how she got so smart. She assured me that she got smart in the woods.

She is 12 now and a hiker and loves the Mount Washington Valley as does her family. I am on the Tin Mountain board of directors to assure that the beauty of our valley continues for generations to come.

David’s experiences with Tin Mountain Conservation Center stretches back to the early 1980’s while he was teaching sixth grade at Conway Elementary School. He fondly remembers the joy and excitement a simple field trip to the Saco River flowing through the meadow behind the school would evoke in his students. He also recalls hacking out rampant juniper at the nascent Tamworth summer camp site, telling stories at the original Halloween Hoots in Jackson, and dropping his son off for his first Nature Nuts summer session.

Since then, he taught and eventually retired from Kennett High School and now teaches history and humanities courses at White Mountain Community College. He has also traveled extensively, most intensively on a sabbatical that found him circling the globe over the course of 10 months.

He continues to enjoy our wondrous natural world avidly hiking, kayaking, cross country skiing and listening to the crickets at night and loons flying overhead as they head to nearby Silver Lake. He has been on the Tin Mountain Board of Trustees since the fall of 2016.

Dylan is the director of the Outdoor Learning and Research Center at Fryeburg Academy, where he has worked since 2015. In his current role he teaches classes, runs outdoor programming, and collaborates with Tin Mountain on four long term research projects. In addition, Dylan serves as an Education Committee Member for the Mount Washington Observatory and as a climbing guide for Eastern Mountain Sports. He is a wilderness first responder and holds a Master of Education from Antioch University of New England, and a BS from University of Vermont.

Karl grew up in Andover Mass. He is a Vietnam Veteran, USMC. Karl worked as a Shipwright at the Boston Naval Shipyard and then at Raytheon Company in Andover MA for 35 years in the Missile Systems Division as a Financial Analyst/Program Manager. Karl has 2 sons and 3 granddaughters.

He retired 2007 with my wife Susan, but has remained very busy. Karl served as a past Chair of the Board of Trustees at Tin Mountain Conservation Center – (Board member from 2009-2016), and has completed the Naturalist Certification program. He is an active member of TMCC’s Bird Society and is on the board of the North Country Camera Club. He is also an active member of the local Trout Unlimited organization.

Karl is also actively involved veterans’ issues.  He is a past Commander of the American Legion North Conway, officer of VFW post in Bartlett, and a life member of DAV and MOPH.

He enjoys hiking, fishing, birding, snowshoeing and photography.

Sue grew up in Andover, MA and raised two sons in Methuen, MA, with her husband, Karl.  They purchased a second home in the MWV 18 years ago and in 2007 both retired and moved full time to North Conway.  They’ve been members of Tin Mountain since then and love the work it does with the local schools and the community.

Professionally Sue worked for Agri-Mark, Inc., which is New England’s largest dairy cooperative and owns Vermont’s Cabot Cheese and McAdam Cheese in upstate New York.  She served as the Corporate Risk Manager, managing the company’s worker compensation for over 400 employees, liability and 200+ million-dollar property insurance programs.

Since living in MWV full time, Sue has served on the Board of the Friends of Conway Library for many years; the President of their condo association’s Board for 8 years; and currently serve on Memorial Hospital’s Patient Advisory Board.  In 2018 Sue was named Tin Mountain’s Volunteer of the Year for her tireless work on the First Season’s auction.

Sue love hiking, kayaking and snowshoeing in the winter.

Leslie Schomaker grew up in Scarsdale, NY. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1966 and received her MBA from UNH in 1983. In the very early days of personal computers (DOS 1.0) she established a consulting business to help computerize accounting functions for small businesses, often custom programming an application to prepare a client’s data to be imported into traditional accounting software. After living in Kennebunkport, Maine for 25 years, she and her husband Warren moved to Jackson, NH in 1996. In New Hampshire she enjoys skiing (downhill and cross country), biking, kayaking, pickleball and hiking. She has served on many boards, usually as treasurer.

Steve began his NH adventures hiking the Whites with his dad and older brother at the young age of 4 and continues to this day.  He loves the freedom that nature brings and is often found hiking with his lab. Like many in the Valley he spent a couple of his college summers working for the AMC as a Hutcroo member. In 1985 with the help of his wife, friends and a custom kit,  they built a cabin near the Saco and still lives there today, although it has seen many “corrections” and improvements since ’85. His professional training and career were primarily in the field of Education; teaching, coaching and officiating at the high school and college level for over 30 years. Although the journey was initially interrupted for three years while he served in the United States Army. Today he is active as a  member of several boards in the valley, his church and represents Conway in the NH House of Representatives in Concord. For other hobbies Steve especially enjoys long distance motorcycle riding and often rides from the Atlantic to the Pacific raising funds for veteran’s causes.

David Govatski is a retired Silviculturist and Forest Fire Management Officer with the US Forest Service. He is a US Army veteran and retired with the rank of Master Sergeant. David currently works as a naturalist, and he has been an expedition ship naturalist in Alaska for five summers. He is on the board of the NH Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, Loon Preservation Committee, Friends of the Silvio Conte National Wildlife Refuge, Museum of the White Mountains, and is the President of the Ammonoosuc Chapter of NH Audubon, and the Friends of Pondicherry. David is also the Chairman of the Nash Stream Forest Citizens Advisory Committee.

David lives in Jefferson, N. H., and enjoys traveling to natural areas. He has visited all 175 National Forests and Grasslands, 399 of 419 national park units. David is on a quest to see all of the native conifers of the US. He enjoys hiking, canoeing, and Nordic skiing. David is the co-author of Forests for the People – The Story of the Eastern National Forests.