The MARK Board

Members of the MARK board include:

Ernest Steiglehner, President
-Arkville

Ernest A. Steiglehner of Arkville is the 2009/2010 M-ARK Project President. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marine transportation from SUNY Maritime. He worked for Eastman Kodak and Canon USA in sales and marketing during his professional career. He is presently managing investments in the Arkville-Margaretville area.

Brian Mulder, Vice President
-Roxbury

Brian Mulder is in his fifth year as a M-ARK Board member and is the current Vice President of the board. Since relocating from northern NJ to Roxbury over 20 years ago he has been very active in his community. He lives in Roxbury with his wife Penny and two children. He is the owner of Mulder Construction Group a full service construction and spray foam insulation company. He is a 10 + year member of the Roxbury Volunteer Fire Department and has served as an officer 1st as Captain and then Asst. Chief. Brian has also served on the Board of the Building Performance Contractors Association of New York State. BPCA/NYS is a not-for-profit statewide trade association of more than 200 building performance contractors, home energy raters, building diagnosticians, energy auditors, engineers, architects and consultants. Brian brings many years of experience and training into all of his projects and believes all new and remodeled homes should be built as energy efficient and healthy as possible. Brian says that his time spent on the M-ARK board has been very rewarding and challenging. Being able to meet and work with so many wonderful people in the communities that we serve has been the icing on the cake. In his spare time he enjoys skiing during the winter months and traveling around the state with his family competing in Cowboy Action Shooting in the warmer months.

Teresa Hynes, Treasurer
-Roxbury

Teresa Hynes joined the M-ARK board in 2005 and is the current Treasurer of the Board. She has been employed by The National Bank of Delaware County for the past 22 years and is currently the Branch Manager/Loan Officer of the Roxbury Office. She resides in Margaretville with her husband Tim. Teresa has a step-daughter Meghan who lives in Knoxsville Tennessee with her fiancée. She loves to travel, play golf and spend time with family.

Kent Brown, Secretary
-Margaretville

Kent Brown is an Iowa native with a BA degree from Luther College and an MM degree from the University of Texas in Austin. He moved to Margaretville in 1986, and is currently the General Manager of PACT Training in New Kingston NY and the bookkeeper for the Roxbury Arts Group in Roxbury NY. He served on the Margaretville Village Zoning Board of Appeals and as Village Trustee, and is currently a member of the Village Planning Board. He also chaired Margaretville’s Revitalization and Recreation Committee and its Comprehensive Plan Committee. He has served on the Boards of Directors of the Erpf Catskill Cultural Center, the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, the Central Catskills Planning Alliance and the Round Barn of Halcottsville. In addition to serving as Secretary of the M-ARK Project Board, he is actively involved in Margaretville United Methodist Church.

Peg DiBenedetto
-Halcott Center

Peg is a mother of 3, grandmother of 2. For the last 10 years she has hiked the Catskill Mountains for NYC DEP Land Management. A lifelong resident of the Fleischman’s area, Peg is pleased that her children, and now her grandchildren, have/ are being been raised on the land where she grew up on her father’s dairy farm. After graduating from Margaretville Central School, Peg ’s college experiences took her to Iowa and Texas, before she finished her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology at Oneonta State. She and her family lived for a time in South Korea while her husband Michael taught for the Department of Defense Schools. She is active in the communities of Halcott and Fleischmanns and is a hands on contributor to both the MARK project and several other community organizations. In her down time, Peg enjoys traveling and snorkeling, and spends as much time as possible in the Caribbean.

Caroljean Finch
-Margaretville

Carol Finch is a graduate of SUNY Delhi with a major of Business. She has been with NBT Bank for 30 years, and is presently the Branch Manager of the Margaretville Office, as well as, she supervises the Grand Gorge and Hobart Office. Along with being a member of the MARK Board of Directors, she is a member of Rotary and on the Loan Committee of the Catskill Watershed Corporation, along with a member of the Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce. She has two children and two grandchildren. Carol enjoys reading, and vacationing in Florida.

John Finn
-Bovina

John moved with his family to Bovina in 1970.  After graduating from Delaware Academy in 1988, Finn graduated with honors from LeMoyne College, where he majored in Accounting.

In 1992, John joined KPMG, a public accounting firm, where he worked for three years as a staff auditor, auditing manufacturing, financial and governmental institutions.  In May of 1995, joined left KPMG to pursue a freelance accounting career in the film business.

From there, John learned the film business from the ground up and eventually saw a niche to be filled in providing post and production accounting services.  In 1998, Finn formed JFA, Inc. to provide such services.  Along the way, John employed up to 10 accountants who helped independent producers track the expenses of their films.  In 2004, after seeing another opportunity, Finn started Indiepay, which was incorporated to provide payroll services as well to the film community.

Finn worked closely with the programmers to develop a specialized general ledger accounting system for the film and television industry.  In 2006, Indiepay opened a satellite office in Delhi, NY, wehre there are currently four full-time employees, who provide a backroom data processing center for Indiepay clients.

John relocated full-time back to Bovina in 2003.  Now Finn spends his time back and forth between Bovina and New York City, where he oversees the operations as CEO.  John has a three year old daughter named Emmylou and is expecting another daughter in October.

Elaine Grandy
-Margaretville

Elaine grew up in the foothills of the Adirondacks and loves to be in the woods and in the lake.  She currently lives in Andes on a beautiful, small lake where she has a Massage Therapy practice.  She has a son who was born in Woodstock, raised on Main Street, Roxbury and now resides in Montana.

Elaine lived in New York City for 10 years, during which time she worked for GAF Corporation and graduated from Columbia University with a BA and received a Masters in Psychology from the New School.
Elaine once rode on the back of a motorcycle from New York to California and back.

Gail Lennstrom
-Margaretville

Gail accepted the invitation to join the Board of Directors of the MARK Project in Sept. 2008 because of two shared interests and missions she has with the organization. One is in the promotion of Health and Wellness. Gail holds both the allopathic tradition and also the more holistic (Body/Mind/Spirit) and complimentary health care model with equal importance. This has evolved through Gail’s 40 year career as a practicing Physical Therapist (Columbia University–1968).

She has worked in a wide variety of acute hospital, rehabilitation center, outpatient clinic and home care settings. She believes that physical therapy invites clients to ‘be all that they can be’ physically, while also accepting and dealing with their current limitations and challenges and maximizing their strengths and assets. Towards these ends Gail is serving as a representative from the Mark Project to the Community Health and Wellness Task Force and the Margaretville Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Wellness Committee.

Her second shared interest with the Mark Project involves creating the best housing situation possible for people in need of a safe; clean and hospitable living environment, while also seeking to optimize a responsive and responsible landlord/tenant relationship. She is part owner in a Private LLC, in which she manages both a residential and commercial rental property and a college housing unit in Delhi. She also owns and manages a large Retreat and Vacation rental property in Big Indian (The Crystal Spring House) serving groups of up to 16 since 1990. Renovating several properties in need of TLC and reselling them involved much of Gail’s time from 2003-2005. Serving on the Buildings Committee of the Mark Project currently provides a place for her to further explore and promote these interests on a community level.

Chuck McIntosh
-Bovina

Charles F. McIntosh of Bovina, NY joined the Board in early 2000. He graduated from Andes Central School in 1962 and SUNY Delhi in 1966 with an Associates Degree in General Agriculture. Chuck worked in the family agricultural business and for Bobcat Ski Center, becoming manager in 1989, started McIntosh Auction Services in 1975, and has been an active member of the Bovina Fire Department for 46 years. He is a founding member of the Bovina Emergency Squad, a Town of Bovina Councilman and holds the position of Deputy supervisor, and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Midrox Insurance Company. Chuck is also a Licensed Real Estate Salesperson and an Auctioneer.

Dennis Metnick
-Margaretville

Dennis Metnick is in his twelfth year as a MARK Board member having served from 1994 through 2000. He rejoined the Board in 2004.  During his four terms he has been Chair of the Finance Committee, Vice President and President.  Since opening his law practice in Margaretville in 1992 he has been Town Attorney for the Town of Middletown and has served on the boards of directors and as an officer of many not-for-profit corporations in the area including the Erpf Catskill Cultural Center (now the Round Barn of Halcottsville), Roxbury Arts Group, Shandaken Theatrical Society, Greater Margaretville Chamber of Commerce (Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce), Margaretville Memorial Hospital, Mountainside Residential Care Center, Delaware County ARC and as member of the Board of Governors of New York State ARC.  Dennis lives in Margaretville with his wife, Amy, and their dogs, Diva and Cisco.  They have two children and five grandchildren.  In his free time Dennis acts in and directs plays, reads voraciously and writes sporadically.