Board Members & Staff

PRESIDENT
Addie Drolette

VICE PRESIDENT
Joanne O’Sullivan

TREASURER
Savannah Fabbio

SECRETARY / CLERK
David Sutkowy

DIRECTOR
Lori Andrews

DIRECTOR
Joan Bates

DIRECTOR
Brendan Crane

DIRECTOR
Sudie Gifford

DIRECTOR
Ed Monteiro

DIRECTOR
Tammy Rausch

DIRECTOR
Maro Titus

DIRECTOR
Thomas Zine

Executive Director
Laura M. Moynihan
Falmouth Housing Trust’s Executive Director
Laura M. Moynihan, a resident of Falmouth, is a 1990 graduate of the University of British Columbia where she earned her law degree (L.L.B). She was admitted as an attorney to practice law in British Columbia in 1991 and the state and federal courts of Massachusetts in 1995. Laura had been in private law practice in Falmouth since 1995 and served as counsel for the Falmouth Housing Trust for 18 years before working in her current position as Executive Director for the Falmouth Housing Trust. She has extensive experience in real estate law, zoning and land use law, including affordable housing financing and development.

Chief Development Officer
Karen Bissonnette
Falmouth Housing Trust’s Chief Development Officer
A resident of Falmouth, Karen graduated from Falmouth High School and from Northwestern University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Sociology.
Karen joined Falmouth Housing Trust with a wealth of experience in nonprofit management, fundraising and the Falmouth community. She has held positions as the Chief Development Officer of the Community Health Center of Cape Cod and as Executive Director of the Falmouth Hospital Foundation.
She has served as a Falmouth Town Meeting Member since 1998, is President of the Falmouth Scholarship Association, serves on the executive committees of the Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation Board and the Edward Bangs Kelley & Elza Kelley Foundation, is a Corporator of Cape Cod Five Cents Saving Bank and is a Board Member of Falmouth Dog Parks, Inc.
Marie Bigelow retired in 2014 from Corporate Banking in Boston after 28 years, mostly with BankBoston, Citizens, and Santander Bank. Her banking experience is primarily as a Senior Credit professional with experience in diversified lending arenas including Non-Profit, Large Corporate, Middle Market, Asset Based, Leveraged Finance and Commercial Real Estate Lending. She brings strong financial analysis, real estate finance, and loan structuring experience to her new role at FHT.
Dave Garrison and his wife, Lori, moved to Falmouth in 2014 after full and interesting careers in Washington DC. Dave was raised in the Boston suburbs. He has been coming to the Cape every summer since 1944.
After completing a 35 year career in marketing and communications, most recently as Senior Vice-President of Marketing for Dunkin’ U.S. – with previous marketing leadership roles at The Gillette Company and Ocean Spray Cranberries – Tom Manchester currently sits on the board and is an investor in a start-up business, The Mobile Locker Company and is also an instructor for Sports Marketing at Stonehill College.
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Troy Clarkson is an author and speaker with more than a quarter-century of experience in positions of leadership in government and public service. He has been actively involved in his beloved Falmouth since his teen years, when he wrote and published ‘The Cove Chronicle,’ a newspaper that he sold door-to-door for a quarter and that documented the lives of his friends and neighbors.
Kevin McCarthy joined the board of directors of the Falmouth Housing Trust in 2012. Kevin’s entire career has been spent pursuing various “oceans” related endeavors, first as a professional diver, followed by various senior level management positions at a number of oceanographic manufacturing companies, including Klein Associates and Teledyne Benthos. He holds a B.S. from Northeastern University and an M.B.A. from Suffolk University. In 2000, he joined Hydroid LLC, a startup subsea robotics company that was founded to commercialize the REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle technologies developed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In 2008, the company was acquired by the Norwegian company, Kongsberg Maritime. Kevin retired from his position of Vice President of Marketing in 2010 to devote more time to his passion for wildlife photography. Some of his work can be viewed at: www.McCarthyNatureImages.com.
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Kenneth Buckland and his family; wife Nicolette and two boys, moved to Falmouth during Hurricane Gloria in 1985. They moved to town so that Ken could take the position as the Town Planner.
Beth Ciarletta grew up in rural New Jersey then moved to Raleigh, NC for eighteen years where she met her husband Michael, co-founded a business, married and began their family. She relocated to Falmouth in 2012 with her husband to raise their children in a smaller community-based town, and to be closer to family. Her husband’s family lives in Norwood, MA and vacationed in Falmouth and on Cape Cod for many years.
Carey Murphy lives in Waquoit with his wife of 31 years, Martha. Their three adult sons are all employed in the ski business, a sport that Carey loves to spend his winter months enjoying. They recently sold their retail business, Kensington’s at Mashpee Commons, after owning and operating it for 29 years.