Meet the Board

Susan Manch | President

Sue lives in the Ephraim Schooley House in Waterford. She is the principal in a consulting firm, Legal Talent Strategies, that collaborates with law firm leaders to devise talent strategies that enable firms to attract, hire, and prepare lawyers and professional staff to provide high quality service to clients and build successful and satisfying careers. Sue has been a thought leader in the legal talent development field for over 30 years. In 2021, she retired from her most recent role as Chief Talent Officer at Winston and Strawn, LLP.

Sue was a founding Principal of Shannon & Manch and built a leading consultancy advising law firms and other legal employers on strategic talent and firm management. She is the author of four books, including the 2012 ABA publication, Learning from Law Firm Leaders, numerous book chapters, and hundreds of articles. She is a regular keynote speaker and has deep and broad experience in devising talent strategy and ensuring employee engagement. She has a MEd in Clinical Counseling from the University of Virginia and a BA in Psychology from Ohio University. Sue is also a Certified Master Coach, Mental Health First Aid First Responder, and a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management.

Sue and her husband Bill were regular Waterford Fair visitors prior to moving to Waterford in 2020. She sits on the Waterford Foundation Education Committee, the Waterford Foundation Homes Tours Committee, the Waterford 2033 Committee, and the Waterford Citizens Association Beautification Committee. 

Chris Wood | Vice President

Chris Wood is architect and Vice President with the SmithGroup in Washington, DC where he directs the firm’s Cultural Studio of architects and engineers focusing on museums, interpretive centers, archives, performing arts centers, and historic sites. Over the course of his 24 years with SmithGroup Chris has led projects for the Smithsonian Institution, National Archives, National Park Service, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and several other State and private museums across the country. He is a member of the Society of American Archivists, American Institute for Conservation, and the Land Economics Society. He is currently leading the renovation and expansion of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. Chris and his family have lived in Loudoun County since 2007 and the Village of Waterford since 2017 where he serves on the Architectural Review Board for the Waterford Foundation, and the Loudoun County Historic District Review Committee.

Chris Doxey | Treasurer

Chris Doxey is retired author, speaker and management consultant. She has lived in Paeonian Springs, VA for almost 19 years. She is originally from Worcester, MA and lived in Houston, TX prior to relocating to VA. Chris spent over 25 years at Hewlett Packard and Verizon in senior P2P, logistics, and finance & accounting leadership positions. Chris held executive positions with global P2P audit firms for 8 years and has 9 years of management consulting experience at Fortune 100 companies.

Chris is a Certified Accounts Payable Professional (CAPP) and holds a Certification in Controls Self-Assessments (CSA). She is a Certified Professional Controller (CPC) and a Certified Internal Controls Auditor (CICA). Chris holds a BA, BS, MBA, and a Graduate Certificate in Project Management. She is on the advisory board for the Institute for Internal Controls (The IIC). Chris is the author of “The Internal Controls Toolkit”, “The Fiscal Close Toolkit,” “The Controller’s Toolkit” and “The AP Toolkit.” Chris is a volunteer for the 4Paws Recue Team. She enjoys supporting animal rescue efforts, gardening, collecting antiques and reading mystery novels.

Sharyn Franck | Secretary

Sharyn Franck has assisted multiple communities over her many decades of community development and volunteer work. In 2008, she was a co-founder of the nonprofit Arlington Boulevard Community Development organization (ABCD), established to improve the quality of life for residents of Kingsley Commons and Kingsley Park, low income communities in the Falls Church area of Fairfax County. While at ABCD, Sharyn created programs through a public/private partnership to distribute laptops to families who could otherwise not afford them, provide English language and citizenship classes to residents, and even help create a soccer team for children in the community. Since moving to Waterford in 2012 and retiring from ABCD in 2015, Sharyn has been a member of the Waterford Foundation and serves on the Education committee and Archives subcommittee. For the past two years she has volunteered with the Second Street School Living History Program as one of the docents portraying 1880’s school teacher, Miss Nickens. Sharyn has also been an active member of the Waterford Citizens Association, serving as vice-president for two years. She is currently on that organization’s traffic committee. Sharyn is currently serving as chairperson of the Foundation’s Education Committee.

Karen Bennett

Karen C. Bennett is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Earth & Water Law and co-chair of the Sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Practice, Environment, Land, & Natural Resources Law Practice, Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, and the Government Relations Group. A recognized “inside the beltway” strategist, Karen represents clients and industry sectors before the Administration, federal regulatory agencies, and Congress in obtaining strategic federal regulatory policy and legislative goals. She provides businesses and investors with legal guidance on project development including siting, environmental analysis and land use approvals and mitigation, historic preservation, and tribal consultation. She advises on compliance with federal environmental laws and regulations, obtaining and defending permits and appeals. Karen also regularly presents on infrastructure issues to local and national organizations. Prior to entering private practice, Karen was Vice President for Environmental Affairs at the National Mining Association (NMA), the Washington, D.C. based trade association that represents the coal and hard rock mining industry before Congress, the Administration, and regulatory agencies. Karen is a resident of Waterford with a horse farm just outside the Village. She enjoys horseback riding, running and cycling and is interested in protecting the historical and agricultural landscape of the community.

Kerry Roszel

Kerry Roszel is the Development Manager at Land Trust of Virginia, joining the Land Trust of Virginia (LTV) team in the fall of 2015. She currently oversees the Development program while cultivating and developing donor relationships and soliciting major gifts.
Kerry honed her skills while serving as the Director of Education for the Associated Builders & Contractors – Virginia Chapter (ABC-VA) where she was responsible for directing and providing overall guidance for all technical, managerial, and fiscal activates related to educational programs to include Apprenticeship & Craft and Workforce Development. At ABC-VA, Kerry sought out and hired instructors, developed curriculum, and negotiated in house training and specialized group training for Association members throughout the Northern Virginia Region.
At LTV, Kerry utilizes her past experiences at the ABC-VA to direct the grassroots Volunteer Program, and takes the lead on all LTV fundraising events, outreach programs, and volunteer activities through team-based fundraising, donor engagement, and education. She is also responsible for creating the annual Corporate Sponsorship program. Kerry and her husband Dev have lived in the heart of Middleburg for the past 12 years and in Virginia for over 25, where they happily raised their three sons. Kerry volunteers with many of the local non-profits in the area believing soundly in the power of community partnerships and preservation of our open space and cultural and historical resources.

Anna Rathmann

Anna began serving the Waterford Foundation in 2016 as a member of the Development Committee. In her professional work, she is expanding and protecting natural habitats in Southern Africa as the Director of the Great Plains Foundation. The Great Plains Foundation identifies and implements sustainable wildlife, land, and community conservation initiatives throughout Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. Ms. Rathmann began her career in conservation as a Park Ranger in Yellowstone National Park and later spent more than a decade with the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. She and her family live in Waterford and are honored to help preserve the legacy of such a special community.

Grey Frandsen

Grey Frandsen is the Chief Executive Officer of Oxitec, Ltd, a biotechnology company headquartered in Oxford, England. There he leads a team from 15 countries on five continents to end malaria and dengue in our lifetime, and to address other climate change-related challenges globally. Earlier in his career, Grey served in government where he responded to various conflicts overseas, and since then he has served in various advisory roles for the US government and other institutions relating to conflict and public health emergencies. Grey has served on multiple boards at the local and international levels, where he enjoys being of service to outstanding teams carrying out important missions. Grey and his family love Waterford, and they’re honored to be a part of preserving its unique legacy for generations to come.

Emily Houston

Emily Houston lives on a small horse farm on Old Waterford Road, where she has maintained a modest horse boarding and riding lesson business for the past 17 years.  She was the editor of Horse Times magazine for 10 years, and worked in both the editorial and marketing sides of publishing previously.  Emily is currently working with the publishers of the new magazine WANDER, which encourages appreciation of the “beauty, bounty and byways of the Loudoun County countryside” (to borrow the magazine’s tag line).  Emily is on the board of the Loudoun County Equine Alliance, is a member of the Rural Roads Committee, the Waterford Citizens’ Association Traffic Committee, and is a founding member of America’s Routes, a nonprofit enterprise working to preserve Loudoun’s unpaved road network.

Emily Eig

Emily Eig moved to Waterford in 2012 from Chevy Chase, Maryland having made the bold step of crossing the Potomac. She is the President and CEO of EHT Traceries, a DC-based historic preservation consulting firm. Since its founding in 1977, Traceries’ projects have, like preservation, a wide range of activities, and work around the Us as well as internationally. Beyond overseeing the vast range and amount of work that Traceries has been involved with over the years, she is a recognized expert in federal, state, and local regulations, entitlements, evaluation of historic significance, and historic rehabilitation, and is an accomplished architectural historian. She specializes in late 19th and 20th century buildings and historic districts. Some recent exciting projects include transformation of the DC Carnegie Library into a flagship Apple Store, rehabilitation of the hydrogen bomb-proof Army Pathological Laboratory into a functioning 21st century lab, and the renewal of the 1968 Martin Luther King Jr Public Library in DC. She has also played a major role in the development of master plans for The Yards, McMillan Reservoir Park, Walter Reed Army Medical Historic District, and Howard University.  During her career, she has had the privilege of working with some of the country’s most illustrious architects helping to revise and refine designs to better retain historic character.  She is looking forward to assisting in the effort to fight against forces that threaten Waterford’s future as a National Historic Landmark. 

David Hunt

Dave has been supporting the Waterford Fair for 40 years as a crafter, a volunteer and running a concession stand with the boy scouts. He and his wife Gail have renovated two historic buildings in Loudoun County. They moved to Waterford 25 years ago because they love the community, the history and the natural beauty here. Dave has served as a member of the Waterford Foundation property committee, joined the board in 2019 and now serves as Treasurer.
Dave is a business graduate of Virginia Tech and President of Homeland Security Consulting, LLC, providing crisis management planning, training, and exercises for universities, corporations and government agencies. He is a life member of the Leesburg Fire Company, and a national subject matter expert on active shooter and workplace violence preparedness. He recently revised the DHS active shooter preparedness training program and the national standard on workplace violence prevention and intervention.

Nancy Iarossi

Nancy is currently the Director of the Second Street School program for the Foundation. She has served in that capacity for the past two years. Nancy and her family moved to Waterford in 2020 from California. She immediately became involved with the Foundation by becoming a docent for the Second Street School and working as a volunteer at the fair. It was a perfect fit for her transition into retired life after a career in education that spanned thirty-eight years. She is a graduate of Montclair State College with a degree in sociology and history. She is also a Reading Specialist with a M.Ed. from George Mason University. Her diverse educational background has afforded her the chance to work with all grade levels from High School through Primary as well as with adults. She has taught in New Jersey, Virginia and California. During her career, she has had the privilege of expanding into other areas of educational development outside the classroom. In California she was the President of her teachers’ union, NEA/CTA/SMEEA, for twelve years. In that capacity she represented over 700 teachers and served as their voice in contract negotiations and work disputes. She was an instructor for the Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Induction Program, BTSA, for Santa Barbara County. The program was run under the guidance of the UCSB department of education and gave her the chance to mentor teachers as they began their careers in the classroom. While living in Santa Maria, California she was appointed to the Board of Directors for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Santa Barbara County. This experience gave her another avenue to work to improve the lives and educational experience of children.

Susan Hill

Susan is a retired public sector community planner with a big interest in bringing people together to share ideas about community, find inspiration together and align aspirations for the future. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s in urban and regional planning from the University of Iowa. Over the next 40 years she applied her skills to professional planning positions in Texas, Kansas, and Loudoun County, Virginia before rounding out her career as planning director for the Town of Leesburg. Within these positions she addressed a full spectrum of community planning functions including land development review, long range planning, zoning administration, and historic preservation. Susan is currently working as a consultant for Community Heart and Soul, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping small towns and cities identify what matters most to residents and plan for the future using a highly inclusive and thorough community engagement process. She is a certified coach of the CH&S engagement model and conducts market development in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. She and her husband Chris have lived in western Loudoun County for the past 35 years where they raised their two children. Susan loves everything small town and rural living have to offer in Loudoun and is pleased to be engaged in efforts to preserve the historic, cultural, and natural beauty of its unique places.

Carl Scheider

Before relocating to Waterford, Carl served nearly three decades as an engineer, program manager and senior executive in the US Intelligence Community, including multiple overseas postings.  After retiring from federal service, he became VP for Strategy and Growth for the Intelligence Group at STG, Inc. and later joined Leidos as program manager and VP, Mission Technology Division.  In 2019, he joined the Potomac Riverkeeper Network (PRKN) to help spearhead the establishment and growth of the organization’s Virginia DEQ-certified water testing laboratory. Additionally, he oversaw the training and certification of hundreds of volunteers to execute PRKN’s community science water quality testing program. For his contributions, he was honored with the 2020 Protector of the Potomac-Volunteer of the Year Award. Subsequently, he initiated PRKN’s pioneering Rapid Response Team and continues to support data analytics and visualization initiatives.  In November 2021, he became a member of the Waterford Foundation’s Phillips Farm Committee, contributing to its endeavors in managing the farm’s historical and natural resources while advocating for its positive agricultural, educational, and community utilization. To this end, he spearheaded the development of the new west side Phillips Farm pilot hiking trail. He resides within the village of Waterford where he and his wife, Jane Williams, are dedicated to preserving and enriching their historic Waterford home.

Camilla Strongin

Bio coming soon….