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Board of Trustees

Richard Cotton

Richard Cotton

President

Richard C. Cotton is the Managing Partner of Hawk Pointe Golf Club and Asbury Farms Real Estate Development.  A fourth generation area resident, Richard has spent most of his professional life land...

Tish Lascelle

Tish Lascelle

Secretary

Tish is retired from a career in corporate environmental health, safety and sustainability with Fortune 50 companies across aerospace, automotive, chemical, medical, consumer, and pharma...

Robert Cassella

Robert Cassella

Rob Cassella is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in New Jersey and has worked in Corporate Finance for more than 25 years; he is currently the Operations Controller at Knipper Health, supporting the...

Oliver Grimsdall

Oliver Grimsdall

Oliver became an early outdoors enthusiast as a boy in England, and after emigrating to New Jersey in 1995, has persued membership active membership in environmental groups such as NJ Audubon...

Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy is an attorney with 25 years experience licensed in four states and currently Vice President and Counsel with one the largest global property and casualty insurance companies.  His legal...

Mary Paist-Goldman

Mary Paist-Goldman

Vice President

Mary Paist-Goldman is a licensed Professional Engineer specializing in water resources with more than 20 years of experience working in river restoration, wetland restoration, and dam removal.  Mary has been...

Ray Merrell

Ray Merrell

Treasurer

Ray is returning to the Musconetcong since first conducting water quality monitoring in 1977 as a student. Samuel Faust, PhD, was a gentleman farmer along the river in Changewater and Ray’s advisor at...

Michael Fox

Michael Fox

Michael Fox lives in Holland Township with his wife and two daughters just over the hill from the scenic Musconetcong River Valley. He has been with AT&T since 2000 and currently working as a program...

Samantha Johnson

Samantha Johnson

Sam was born and raised in Hackettstown, NJ and became interested in pursuing a career in environmental science when she sampled the Musconetcong River on a high school field trip. Sam began...

John Petrolino

John Petrolino

John Petrolino is an attorney licensed in New Jersey and has practiced as in-house counsel in the pharmaceutical and biotech sector for more than 20 years; he is currently the General Counsel at...

Bill Leavens

Bill Leavens

Vice President

Bill Leavens actively farmed in the Musconetcong Valley in Asbury in the 1980's.  During that time he developed a growing appreciation of the scenic beauty of the area.  He was one of the early trustees of the...

Beth Styler Barry

Beth Styler Barry

Beth Styler Barry is the Director of River Restoration at The Nature Conservancy. She has 18 years’ experience in river restoration, water quality monitoring, community outreach, and project management...

Claire Fly

Claire Fly

Claire Fly is a HS junior at the Environmental Sustainability and Engineering Academy. Her love of environmental policy and water conservation began at the Washington Youth Summit on the...

John Kluthe

John Kluthe

John is excited to join the MWA Board. He comes to us with a Bachelor of Science in agronomy from Missouri State University and a Master of Science from the University of Missouri. He has...

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