Proposed Slate of Board Directors
for the Annual Meeting

Nominees to be elected to the Board for a three-year term ending in 2027

Vote by October 20

Paul Ahern grew up on Long Island and beginning at age 12 shared a Boston Whaler with his brother which they kept in Oyster Bay. Paul felt so lucky and blessed to have grown up with that sense of freedom to roam Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor. He said he never lost his love for the Sound or that sense of discovery and freedom it offers. His partner Ilene and him now have a residence in Greenport, so retirement has been a trip back to that wonderment.

Before getting into Renewable Energy, Paul had an advertising background with firms like Omnicom, and ultimately his own agency where he pushed for eco-conscious products and practices. As a second act, he was able to build-up and eventually sell a commercial solar company. He has an MBA from New York University and a B.A. from Vassar College.

Paul describes Save the Sound as awesome. He said: “Their mandate is right in front of us, local and inviting. The legal track record and heritage is both practical and highly effective. As a businessperson, I love results. The leadership is strategic, committed and persistent, in a word successful. The Anthropocene challenge is clearly to manage our species into natural sustainability, daunting as an individual, but I think possible with a collective consciousness. Let’s hope we get there.”

Evan Heller is a real estate and private investment advisor. He has served on the Save the Sound board since 1996, he serves on the Board of Advisors for the Institute of Urban Research (IUR) at the University of Pennsylvania, the Board of Directors of the Westchester Chapter for the American Jewish Committee and the Board of Directors for Friends of the Forum. Mr. Heller also served for nine years as a trustee of the Rye Neck School Board and for two years as its president.  Mr. Heller received his MBA at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.  Mr. Heller has a deep and longstanding commitment to the environment and Long Island Sound.  He views Save the Sound as a most impactful environmental organization and is proud and pleased to lend his support to the organization.

Oliver Radwan is the head of technology at Bridgewater Associates, a global macro hedge fund based in Westport, CT. He graduated from Bowdoin College with honors in Computer Science and additional studies in Biology and Mathematics. Oliver, his wife, and young son live in Westport and actively engage with the Sound and surrounding watershed virtually every week of the year – be that through boating, fishing, or hiking. Oliver believes deeply that curating curiosity and respect for the natural world is a critical component towards driving responsible stewardship of our planet for future generations.

Timothy T. Taussig retired in 2018 as President and Chief Operating Officer of Epoch Investment Partners, an investment management firm he co-founded in 2004. Prior to Epoch, he spent over 25 years in senior business management positions at Trident Investment Management and BEA Associates, both NY-based investment firms; Mr. Taussig started his professional career in 1979 with Aetna Capital Management in Hartford, CT. Tim holds a BA from Dartmouth College and has completed investment and finance courses at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Graduate School of Business and at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Tim grew up and always lived in the Northeast.  From an early age going to the Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, Tim learned to love and care about water quality and the lake (which is still used for drinking water). His mother was involved with Audubon Society where she earned recognition for her commitment to water quality and the environment.

Thirty-eight years ago, he moved to Larchmont. Tim is an avid boater. He has owned sailboats on Long Island Sound since 1980 -starting in Noank, CT and now in Larchmont.  Helping preserve and protect Long Island Sound has become a personal passion for Tim after 40 plus years of enjoying the Sound.  He views Save the Sound as a truly impactful environmental organization focused on protecting what has been called the “American Mediterranean” and is pleased to lend his support.  Tim also serves on the Board of his nephew’s nonprofit, Backcountry Medical Guides, focused on emergency medicine safety for the outdoors, as well as on Boards for local Shore and Country Clubs.  

Dr. Johan C. Varekamp is the Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science emeritus and the current mineralogy curator of the Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History at Wesleyan University, Middletown CT. He authored ~80 publications on environmental geochemistry and volcanology, including two chapters dealing with mercury pollution and water quality in the Long Island Sound (LIS) monograph, ‘The Urban Sea’. He served as resident director of the Wesleyan Program in Bologna, Italy, and spent sabbaticals at Cambridge and Bristol University, UK, Pisa, Italy and Kyoto, Japan. He is past president of the ‘Limnogeology Division’ and the ‘Geology and Public Policy Committee’ of the Geological Society of America, and served for decades on the EPA-STAC for LIS.

He served on the Board of Directors of the CT Agricultural Research Station, and on the Science Advisory Board of the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, CT. He is a past Board Chair of Save the Sound, and he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut River Museum in Essex, CT. He has provided outreach to civic and religious groups on climate change, sea level rise, and mercury pollution. Since his retirement, he resides with his wife Dr. Ellen Thomas, a paleoclimatologist at Yale University, near Gillette Castle in East Haddam.

Current Board Members

If you are unable to attend the Annual Meeting, please vote by returning your proxy ballot by October 20.

The Board and Staff of Save the Sound
cordially invite you to attend the

ANNUAL MEETING

Thursday, October 24, 2024 at 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Stamford Yacht Club
97 Ocean Dr W
Stamford, CT 06902