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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Casey Cook
Chief Revenue Officer
DoublePositive Marketing Group
Baltimore, MD

Ed Holt
Managing Partner,
Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center
Annapolis, MD

Dave Kiersznowski
Trustee Emeritus
President & CEO – DEMDACO
Leawood, KS

Mike Metzger
President & Senior Fellow –
The Clapham Institute
Annapolis, MD

Jay Shadwick
Managing Partner
Duggan, Shadwick, Doerr & Kurlbaum, P.C.
Overland Park, KS

Timothy S. Smick
Principal & Founder
Harbor Retirement Associates, LLC
Vero Beach, FL

Dann Thomasson
Chairman of the Board
Managing Director
LaSalle Investment Management
Baton Rouge, LA

Chadwick Watson
President
Charter Financial Inc.
Severna Park, MD

 

  


MICHAEL METZGER
President and Senior Fellow

Mr. Michael Metzger is the President and Senior Fellow of The Clapham Institute, whose mission is to help people and organizations “sail the blue ocean.”  TCI works primarily with business professionals, the arts, media, and civic organizations in a mentoring and consultant role.  Prior to launching the institute, Mike was the Executive Director for the Osprey Point Leadership Center, an exclusive property and gathering place on Maryland’s Eastern Shore for leaders worldwide to consider business and morality.  Osprey Point is part of The Trinity Forum, an international organization committed to the transformation and renewal of society through the transformation and renewal of leaders.

Before his involvement with The Trinity Forum, Mr. Metzger worked as a consultant and advisor for dozens of organizations and churches, speaking and lecturing throughout the United States and Western Europe.  He has also been an adjunct instructor at several graduate schools.  For several years before his work with Osprey Point, Mr. Metzger developed and led business and professional ‘open forum’ discussion groups throughout the Baltimore/Washington, DC area.  

A history graduate of Western Michigan University, Mr. Metzger also earned a Masters degree (with honors) from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. Mike and his wife Kathy live in Severna Park, Maryland.  They have two sons and a daughter.  Mark is the founder and president of Legacy Videos.  Stephen is a business student at the University of Maryland in College Park.  Their daughter Jennifer is a college student studying international development.



JOHN SEEL
Senior Fellow

John Seel a cultural renewal entrepreneur. He works with people and projects that foster human flourishing and the common good. He is active in the entertainment industry serving as an executive producer on various film projects. Seel is a Senior Advisor to the Wedgwood Circle, an angel investment firm investing in art and entertainment. He also serves as a Senior Fellow for Cardus, a Canadian think tank, where he conducts research on educational reform.

He grew up in South Korea, the son of medical missionaries. He earned his B.A. from Austin College with majors in Philosophy, History, and Business Administration. He has a M.Div. degree from Covenant Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland (College Park).

Dr. Seel began his career as the Vice President for Client Services for The Naisbitt Group, where he worked closely with technology firms. He was a co-founder and Administrative Director for the Williamsburg Charter Foundation, a national reaffirmation of the First Amendment for the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution as well as The Trinity Forum, a leadership academy contributing to the transformation and renewal of society through the transformation and renewal of leaders. He has served as a Senior Fellow and Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia as well as headmaster at The Cambridge School of Dallas.

Dr. Seel has written numerous articles and is the author of three books.

John is an avid alpine mountaineer, rower, and sailor. He has climbed the highest peaks in the Alps and the Cascades as well as coached high school oarsmen to a gold medal finish at the USRowing Junior National Championships.

John and his wife, Kathryn, have three grown children and live in Cohasset, Massachusetts.









     
 
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