Management Team
- Andrew Watt, President
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Andrew (Drew) Watt is the President of Common Good Ventures. His work with the nonprofit sector in Maine focuses on governance issues, information management and improving organizations’ financial and operational efficiency. As President, Drew also works with the Board of Directors to set CGV’s strategy and oversees the operations of the CGV team. He is actively involved in CGV’s Program for Nonprofit Effectiveness and represents CGV in the statewide Nonprofit Sector Viability Collaboration. Drew brings extensive prior experience in management and information systems consulting to his work at CGV, having spent 15 years directing large, complex projects to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of state-level human services systems across the country. He started his career in The Gambia, West Africa in agricultural research and has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA in economics from the University of Michigan.
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- Lynne Boyd, Office Manager
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Lynne Boyd is Office Manager at Common Good Ventures. She oversees the day-to-day operations and provides administrative support for human resources, development and client delivery. Lynne supports the President with the Nonprofit Sector Viability Collaboration, his work with the board of directors and CGV’s earned income business. She shares in the responsibility for knowledge management and marketing. Her work also includes managing vendor relationships, website maintenance, and logistics coordination for Springboard brainstorming sessions, meetings, and events. Lynne came to CGV with over ten years of experience as an administrative support professional with four of those years in the nonprofit sector. Her AS in office administration is from Thomas College in Waterville.
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- Barbara Irish, Managing Director
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Barbara Irish is a Managing Director at Common Good Ventures. Her work with the nonprofit sector in Maine focuses on strategic planning, organizational restructuring, cross organizational collaboration, mergers and acquisitions, staff development, human resources and executive searches. Prior to joining CGV Barbara was a vice president and senior consultant for the North American group of Comparison International, ran her own practice consulting to nonprofits and for profit businesses, and spent 25 years in the retail service industry as a human resource professional and vice president at Hannaford. She has a BS in behavioral communication with an emphasis on intra and interpersonal, small group, team, functional, and organizational communication and dynamics. She is a certified professional for several institutes and techniques including the National Multicultural Institute, Open Space Technology methodology, and National Training Laboratories.
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- Diane Oberbeck, Knowledge Resources Manager
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Diane Oberbeck is Manager of Development and Knowledge Resources at Common Good Ventures. Within CGV she does development research and grant writing, manages CGV’s fundraising database and calendar, and coordinates the fundraising efforts of CGV’s board and program staff. She also develops and writes marketing materials and manages knowledge capture and dissemination within CGV and through the CGV website. Diane’s work with CGV clients includes needs assessment, software evaluation and implementation for fundraising and contact management databases, and planning for development and knowledge management operations. Diane brings 30 years of experience as an operations manager, information specialist and editor, both in the online database publishing industry and for nonprofit organizations, to her work with Common Good Ventures. Her MA in library science is from the University of Wisconsin.
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- Chad Sclove, Managing Director
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Chad Sclove is a Managing Director at Common Good Ventures. His work with CGV nonprofit clients includes developing and evaluating alternative scenarios for organizational growth and restructuring, analyzing program and organizational costs, developing and implementing tracking systems for service delivery and evaluating the efficacy of back-office services. He also works with funders to develop strategic giving programs and conducts market scans comparing the needs of Mainers for essential services to the availability of those services. Chad is a graduate of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where he helped found the Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, helped nonprofits launch and manage revenue generating enterprises, and analyzed social and financial returns for a venture capital fund investing in low-income areas and environmentally responsible products. Chad also worked with Monitor Consulting, where he designed tools to analyze product-line profitability and led market research efforts.
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Becky Rosen, Hospice of Southern MaineCGV’s organizational development and executive coaching expertise was invaluable. And their nonprofit orientation was an enormous benefit to us; they understood working with volunteer boards and within nonprofit financial and time constraints.
