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 Next meeting:TBD 9 Lexington Street, Belmont The membership of the Belmont Media Center will elect a board member at the annual meeting in November. If you are interested in being nominated for the member seat or being considered for a board appointed seat, please submit a nomination form (SEE BELOW) Download 2009 Board Nomination Packet HERE You must be a current member of BMC to run or vote. BMC is also looking for members & residents to participate on an informal Advisory Group to develop & recommend goals & objectives for BMC in the years ahead. Current Board Members
SC - appointed by School Committee Board - appointed by BMC Board of Directors Member - elected by BMC membership Past Board Members Board Documents Most of the downloads are in Adobe PDF format. To download Adobe Acrobat Reader click logo   Jonathan B. GreenJonathan Green is co-founder and a Managing Director of Arcadia Funds, LLC, an investment firm focused on insurance-linked securities. Jonathan also serves on the Board of Directors of CommonAngels, Inc., a Boston-based investment group focused on early stage technology companies. Also, as an active member of CommonAngels’ screening committee, he helps assess the business and technology risks of promising new start-ups. Jonathan is also Chairman of inStream Media, Inc., a rapidly growing technology and services company providing an advertising network for cross-channel, in-store promotions delivered at the point-of-sale. As an advisor and strategy consultant to emerging technology companies and their CEOs, Jonathan is also an active mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs with MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service. Jonathan also serves on the North American Executive Board, an advisory body to the Dean at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Previously, Jonathan was CEO and Chairman of HighPoint Systems, Inc., a market leading, venture-backed, e-commerce infrastructure software company that he founded in 1993. HighPoint was internationally known for its innovations in consumer appliances for e-commerce, as well as its web-based enterprise software. Prior to HighPoint, Jonathan spent ten years developing technologies for advanced electronics at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Lexington, MA). He has been recognized internationally for his research utilizing new technologies to address specific needs of advanced radar and communications systems. Jonathan holds six patents; his more than forty publications include two book chapters and various meeting speeches, covering the diverse areas of solid-state electronics, signal processing, and enterprise software and computer systems for e-commerce. Jonathan has been awarded both the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Applied Physics from Stanford University, as well as the S.B. degree in Physics from MIT. Rounding out Jonathan’s real-world business experiences, he also holds an M.S. degree from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Active in civic affairs, Jonathan is a past Chair and current member of the Town of Belmont’s (MA) Information Technology Advisory Committee and its Cable Television Advisory Committee. He is also co-founder and current Chairman of the Belmont Community Media Center, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring public access to electronic media. Other current projects include leading a feasibility study for a wind turbine farm in southeastern Massachusetts, and overseeing the development of the meeting scheduler at www.setmeeting.com. Jonathan’s leisure time interests involve his family (with dog), travel, golf, high end audio and video systems, home automation, and a 1929 Model A Ford.  Myron KassarabaChair  Eric SteinertTreasurer Eric first joined the Belmont Community Media Center Board in 2007. He is the Director of Annual Giving at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. His professional background has involved both non-profit fundraising and corporate software sales. Eric has a Masters degree in Management from the Heller School at Brandeis, and a BA from Kenyon College. Eric and his wife, Heidi, moved to Belmont in 1999 and have two children, Emma and Andrew. Both attend the Wellington School. Eric is a St. Louis native and enjoys working with home video production. OPEN SEAT  Lucia Arno-Bernsen Lucia Arno-Bernsen is from Belmont and returned to live in the community in 1985. A graduate of Boston University’s College of Communications, she received a Bachelor of Science in Journalism. Lucia began her career writing News and Feature stories for the Cape Cod Times and other community newspapers. Her articles have also appeared in cable industry trade publications and UPI. Lucia worked at Time Warner in their cable television division where she spent 15 years in sales, marketing and communications management. She started a sales department that grew from six representatives to a staff of 35. She collaborated on two marketing awards from the Cable Television Marketing Association. Lucia served as president of the New England Chapter of Women in Cable & Telecommunications for three years where she earned national recognition coordinating industry panels that introduced awareness on work/life balance and workplace diversity. Since 2000, Lucia chose positions that provided the opportunity to support work-life integration and give back to the community. She worked as an Administrative Assistant at the Belmont Hill Club for two and a half years, and her prior role included selective project work involving marketing and market research. Lucia continues to be an Independent Representative for Silpada Designs Jewelry. She recently completed writing a children’s book that she hopes to publish. Lucia’s volunteer activities focused on Belmont education including Vice-President, Ways & Means at Winn Brook School, Co-President (2 yrs) Chenery Middle School, Belmont High School Hospitality Chair and Publicity Chair for Parents of Music Students (POMS). She also served on the Advisory Councils at Winn Brook and Belmont High School. She has volunteered on other committees including the Belmont Soccer Association, and served as a Town Meeting Member for three years. Lucia is the parent of a son, Eric, who graduated Belmont High school in June and is a freshman at Fairfield University. She is thrilled to be on the Board of The Belmont Media Center, an organization she believes is one of the most valuable town resources serving all generations.  Chet Messer Vice-Chair Chester R. Messer retired as President of KeySpan Energy Delivery, New England (formerly Boston Gas and its subsidiaries) in 2002. During his business career, he served as a director of many industry associations including the Southern Gas Association/Cable Television Network. He has serviced the wider community as General Chairman of the 2001 United Way of Mass. Bay Fund Raising Campaign. Current activities include, the Salvation Army State Board of Advisors, an Overseer of WGBH; and president of the New Seabury Men’s Golf Association on Cape Cod. In 1999, The Salvation Army bestowed the prestigious "Others" award on Mr. Messer for his foresight in the establishment of "Good Neighbor Energy Fund” in early 1980’s. Locally, he is a past president of the Belmont Boosters and a founder of the Belmont Basketball Association. Mr. Messer and his wife live in Belmont and they have two married children and six grandchildren. He is a member of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Belmont and serves as its moderator. He has served as a volunteer videographer for the Belmont Media Center.  David T. NelsonDr. David T. Nelson is a professor and former chair in the Department of Finance at Bentley College since 1983. He has been a consultant to or board member of a number of financial and non-financial corporations. For ten years prior to that, he directed the Colloquium on the Future, the largest future studies course in the United States, at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. His publications include Approaching the Future – Forwards Not Backwards, Where He Liked To Be, and Managing Financial Institutions. He is a past chairman of the Greater Boston Chapter of the World Future Society. He is also a professional hypnotist and holds two USCG Captain’s Licenses. He has resided in Belmont, Massachusetts since 1983. Edward Yee Past BMC Board Members
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