The Maine Community Foundation recently welcomed four new members to its board of directors. They will begin their first term in September.
Among them is Raymond Rice of Presque Isle, president of the University of Maine at Presque Isle.
Rice has served as campus president since 2016. He pioneered the initiative to provide free and reduced tuition for Maine students, has overseen the expansion of Early College offerings at secondary schools across the region and has led UMPI in becoming the first public university in New England to offer regionally accredited, online competency-based education degrees.
Under his direction, UMPI began offering its first master’s degree program in 2020.
Rice has a bachelor’s degree in English and Latin from Dickinson College and a master’s and doctorate in English from the University of Connecticut.
He serves on several national governing bodies, including the executive board of the Competency Based Education Network and the NCAA Division III Presidents Council. He also serves on the Maine School of Science and Mathematics Board of Trustees.
“MaineCF is thrilled to welcome these four community leaders to its board of directors,” said Adilah Muhammad, MaineCF board chair and founder and executive director of The Third Place. “Their perspectives, skills and experiences will help shape the foundation’s future and mission to build a better Maine.”
The following were also named to the board.
Scot Draeger serves as the president of wealth management firm R.M. Davis, Inc., where he is the chairman of the Management Committee and serves on the Board of Directors. He also serves on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Asset Management Advisory Committee.
Prior to R.M. Davis, Draeger served in senior legal, business and management roles at the SEC, Citigroup’s Corporate & Investment Bank and as a law firm partner. Draeger has also served as adjunct professor of corporate and securities law at George Mason University School of Law. He currently serves on the boards of Maine Behavioral Health and Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, and previously served on the board of Maine Justice Foundation and on the Asylum Pro Bono Panel for Immigration Legal Advocacy Project.
Ingrid Kiefer of Los Angeles and Boothbay Harbor is a partner and chief business development officer with SLR Capital Partners. She graduated with a BA in English from Yale University and began her career in the asset management industry at Fischer Francis Trees and Watts. She has since held numerous product specialist roles at firms such as BlackRock, Drake Management and Satellite Capital, and in 2009, became a partner at Canyon Partners, where she ran the company’s capital formation effort for nearly 14 years.
In 2023, Kiefer was recognized as one of Pensions & Investments’ 65 Most Influential Women in Institutional Investing. She serves on the North American Committee of the Standards Board of Alternative Investments.
Alistair Raymond of Yarmouth is the vice president of regulatory compliance for Avangrid, Inc., the parent company of Central Maine Power and one of the largest clean energy producers in the United States. Before joining Avangrid, Raymond was a corporate lawyer at the Portland law firm Verrill, LLP. He received his J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law, an MBA from the University of Southern Maine, and a B.S. in chemistry and philosophy from St. Lawrence University.
Raymond also serves on the board and is the former board chair of Spurwink Services. He has previously served on the boards of Maine Development Foundation and Pine Tree Legal Services, and on the Advisory Board for the University of Maine School of Law’s Compliance Certificate Program.
