Membership

CJ Charlebois-Melendy

CJ Charlebois-Melendy is the owner of Ameriprise Financial Services – Guided Wealth Advisors. Her firm has offices in Williston and Middlebury and specializes in long-term financial planning and asset management. CJ started her career in 1996 after graduating from the University of Vermont with a bachelor’s degree. CJ has been recognized by Forbes, Barron’s, AdvisorHub, and Working Mother Magazine. She is a lifelong Vermont resident and lives in Ferrisburgh with her husband, Chris, and sons Logan and Evan. When not working, CJ enjoys travel, biking, hiking, reading, good food and wine, and spending time with family and friends.

Angie Holbrook

Angie brings over 26 years of experience to her role in client service and consultant relations at Champlain Investment Partners and is a member of the firm’s Operating Committee. She was previously Senior Vice President, Consultant Relations with Fidelity Investments. She also worked as a Product Manager at Fidelity, responsible for marketing, competitive analysis and product management for institutional fixed income products, as well as an Implementation Project Manager and an Account Associate at Fidelity Management Trust Company.

Angie earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Vermont and her Master of Business Administration degree from Boston College. She earned her Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) designation in 2006, is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society Vermont, and is a Registered Representative with Foreside Fund Services, LLC. Angie also currently serves on the Board of Directors’ Investment Committee for the United Way of Northwest Vermont.

Jill Kaplan

Jill Kaplan enjoyed a corporate career focused on technology sales and marketing. She began her career as an engineer for IBM in Essex Junction, but moved to the business side of the organization, where she developed strategy and scalable processes for generating revenue. She held several executive positions at Cisco Systems before retiring in 2017.

Jill now focuses her efforts on developing and investing in the next generation of entrepreneurs. She is on the executive committee of xElle Ventures, an early stage fund for women founders. On behalf of xElle Ventures, she is a member of Triangle Angel Syndicate, which includes fund and network leaders shaping early stage investing in the Carolinas.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Tufts University and a master’s in material science from The University of Vermont. She divides her time between Burlington, Vermont and Pittsboro, North Carolina.

Annette Macias-Hoag, DNP, MHA, BSN, RN

Dr. Macias-Hoag is executive vice president, chief nursing and patient care officer for Rochester Regional Health. Prior to joining Rochester Regional Health, she was the senior vice president and chief nursing officer for the UVM Health Network. Dr. Macias-Hoag assisted in the development, implementation and oversight of centers dedicated to providing medical services to the unaccompanied minors crossing the border in Texas. She also served as the vice president, health system and service line operations at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). Before joining UTMB, Dr. Macias-Hoag was the director of patient care at the Heart Vascular Institute at Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center. There, she was responsible for the direction and leadership of operational and clinical activities for the cardiothoracic surgery units, nursing services as well as neuroscience clinical areas and house-wide telemetry.

In 2008, Dr. Macias-Hoag was invited to join a team to build a new hospital for the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. During this time, she served as director of clinical services where she oversaw operational, financial, programmatic and personnel activities for the Baylor clinics and Hospital pulmonary care services, emergency care programs, endoscopy services and nursing services.

Dr. Macias-Hoag began her nursing career as a staff nurse at Meriter Hospital, a community hospital serving the Madison, Wisconsin area. She also served as a nurse leader at the University of Wisconsin, an academic medical center located in Madison, where she developed and implemented a 27-bed acuity adaptable unit for the cardiothoracic surgery and transplant program.

She grew up in Puerto Rico and came to the United States to pursue her education. She is one of three children and proud of being a first generation high school and college graduate. Dr. Macias-Hoag received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree in healthcare administration from the University of Phoenix. In 2018, she graduated from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing with a doctorate of nursing practice, executive leadership in nursing specialization. She is certified as a Nurse Executive Advanced – Board Certified (NEA-BC) by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and she is certified in executive nursing practice (CENP) by the American Organization of Nurse Executives.

Pam Mackenzie
Chair

Pam Mackenzie is the vice president of strategic planning and implementation for C2 Competitive Computing. She has enjoyed a lengthy career in communications and chose to remain in Vermont after being recruited to build 300 miles of fiber in 2008. She has served as interim chief executive officer at the Greater Burlington YMCA, chair of the South Burlington City Council, and on the boards of Vermont PBS and the Vermont Telecommunications Authority.

Born in Grand Junction, Colorado, Ms. Mackenzie was raised in an Air Force family, which offered multiple travel opportunities. She has enjoyed traveling, exploring, and living in northern California, Arizona, Connecticut, Ohio, Virginia and Washington, D.C., until finding her forever home in Vermont. She regularly welcomes family to her South Burlington home.

Charlotte McCorkel, LICSW

Charlotte is the senior director of client services at the Howard Center. She brings over a decade of leadership experience, specializing in crisis programs, client access and suicide prevention. With a diverse background spanning children and families, adults with HIV/AIDS and those undergoing Opioid Use Disorder treatment, she has consistently demonstrated her commitment to comprehensive care.

Charlotte is also an adjunct professor at the University of Vermont’s Social Work Department. She holds a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Geneseo and a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University.

Laura McCray, MD, MSCE

Dr. McCray is a family medicine physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center’s South Burlington clinic and a professor in the Clinical Scholar Pathway at the Larner College of Medicine. She is the interim chair for the UVM Health Network Department of Family Medicine. Previously, she was the program director for family medicine residency (2013-2021) and vice chair for academics in the Department of Family Medicine (2021-2023) at UVM Medical Center.

With medical training from Jefferson Medical College and a family medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Dr. McCray furthered her expertise with a research and faculty development fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a Master of Science in clinical epidemiology. Her background also includes fellowships at the National Institute for Program Director Development (NIPPD) and the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) Leadership Education for Academic Development (LEADS).

Dr. McCray’s research focuses on burnout and wellness in medicine, mental health in primary care, and home visit education for medical learners. Clinically, she specializes in family medicine with a clinical focus on geriatric care and home visit care.

Elizabeth (Lisa) McGee, MD

Dr. McGee grew up in Asheville, North Carolina and in middle Tennessee in a large rural county with five doctors and no specialists serving a population of 35,000. Access to care generally meant long drives to cities or emergency visits to the county hospital, where Lisa later worked while on vacations from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She attended medical school in Memphis on a scholarship and later completed her residency and fellowship training at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas. After her clinical training, Lisa had a research fellowship a Stanford University in women’s health and ovarian physiology. She went on to faculty appointments in Pittsburgh, Richmond Virginia, and finally at UVM in 2013. She is currently vice chair of gynecology and director of reproductive endocrinology and infertility.

She received her master’s in business administration in health care policy and management in 2021 from Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She lives in Hinesburg with her husband on a small farm. They are both active supporters of the Hinesburg Resource Center and Food Shelf. Her hobbies are vegetable gardening, dabbling in blacksmithing and reading.

Rene Sanchez

Rene Sanchez is a Vermont school superintendent. Originally from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, he earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame, his juris doctor from the Ohio State University, and his Master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

His thirty years of experience in education includes serving as a high school principal for 12 years in Texas and as an assistant superintendent in South Bend, Indiana, where he oversaw Human Resources, Transportation and COVID response. He is currently the interim superintendent of the Rutland Northeast Supervisory District.

Rene and his partner, Jean, a native Vermonter, have three children and three dogs. The family resides in Williston.

Alexander A. Watson
Vice Chair

Alex Watson is a financial advisor and partner at Hanson + Doremus, an investment management and financial planning firm. Alex has been involved in the financial markets for over 14 years, serving both individuals and institutions.

Alex holds a BSBA in Finance from the University of Vermont and an MBA from Saint Louis University. He is a CFA® Charterholder and a CFP® Certificant.

Alex enjoys exercising, skiing, watching movies, and spending time with friends and family.

Charles Wiebe

Mr. Wiebe is a managing director at Moorgate Partners and brings over 25 years of investment banking expertise to digital infrastructure companies. Previously, he served as managing director at Houlihan Lokey, where he was a member of the Broadband Team within the Technology practice.

Houlihan Lokey acquired his former firm, MVP Capital, in 2020, where he provided M&A and capital markets advisory services in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. Before MVP Capital, he co-founded BIA Capital Strategies and BIA Digital Partners, focusing on communications investments.

Mr. Wiebe is the immediate past chair of the Suburban Hospital Board of Trustees in Bethesda, Maryland, and was a trustee at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He holds a B.A. with distinction from Cornell University where he was a member of its back-to-back NCAA champion Men’s Lacrosse teams.

He lives in Shelburne with his wife Anne. One of their daughters lives in Washington, DC, and the other with her husband in North Ferrisburgh