EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Judi Caron
Board Chair
In addition to serving as Chair of the board of Hamptons Community Outreach, Ms. Caron has also served on the Boards of French American Cultural Exchange, Julia Mandle Performance and the Sag Harbor Partnership. She has worked for Independent Curators International and volunteered for Partnership for the Homeless and Student Sponsor Partners, which is an organization that sponsors and mentors high school students in the Bronx. She is a devoted mom and grandmother who enjoys yoga, hiking, swimming, cooking and walks on the beach with her dog Charley.
Hollis Rafkin-Sax
Board Secretary
Hollis is a photographer whose passion is visual storytelling. After a 30 year corporate career, Holli pursued a second chapter focused on photography. She combines her love of photography with strategic philanthropy and partners with non-profit organizations helping them tell their stories, raising awareness and financial support. Previously Holli was recognized as one of the nation’s leading crisis communications counselors working globally on critical reputational issues. She was Vice Chairman and Chair of the Executive Committee of Financial Dynamics (FD). Holli is a graduate of Bowdoin College, served two terms as a Trustee of the College. She completed graduate work at the London School of Economics in international relations. She currently serves as an ambassador on the board of the JDC (Joint Distribution Committee), and a founding member of the Beacon Group (a women’s giving circle). Holli and her husband Ben split their time between Sag Harbor and Larchmont, NY. They have two adult sons and twin grandchildren living on the west coast.
David Roberts
Treasurer
David Roberts writes the Substack newsletter Sparks from Culture. He publishes weekly personal essays about wealth, class, and capitalism from the POV of someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency. He is a lifelong Manhattanite married for forty years to Debbie, another lifelong Manhattanite. He has three children, ages 37, 34, and 31, a son-in-law and daughter-in-law, three young grandchildren, and Sophie, his beloved Shih Tzu. After a long career in finance, David retired to take up writing as a vocation. In addition to writing his bestselling Substack, David is working on a novel about the Manhattan and East Hampton “bubble world” he’s lived in. David has had a long “career” in supporting and serving on the boards of nonprofits. He was the past Chair of the Riverdale Country School Board and the past Chair of the Board of Overseers of UPenn’s Graduate School of Education. He also has served as a volunteer strategic advisor to the Robin Hood Foundation since 2017, advising on program related investments. Currently the focus of David and his wife Debbie’s philanthropy is on grassroots organizations that fight poverty and have high impact compared to their budget. So HCO is a perfect fit! Notably, David and Debbie started a project during Covid to improve nutrition and health in a middle school in Washington Heights. The project involves weekly deliveries of food to all families at the school, emergency aid, and beginning this year, the introduction of an innovative health information and measurement program in coordination with a leading expert in health inequity at Weill Cornell.
Lindsay LoBello
Events Chair
Lindsay is an entrepreneur who started her own consulting business for the beauty industry, specializing in taking small beauty startups to luxury retailers. After 15 years with global leading corporations Procter & Gamble, Coty, and L’Oreal, she took the leap to create her own vision and redefine the beauty industry as she knows it by focusing on helping female founded startup businesses.
Born and raised around the cornfields of Peoria, Illinois, she left her rural community at age 18 for a more urban life in Phoenix, AZ where she graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Justice Studies. Her career took her all over the country, living in cities San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and then NYC in 2014. After coming to the Hamptons on the weekends for 7 years, she finally decided to become a year round resident and resides in North Haven with her husband Claas and Bernedoodle Winston.
Her heart beats to philanthropic efforts as she has always been involved in organizations with a give back philosophy including spearheading food drives, Speak Women Mentorship- mentoring high school students from immigrant families, and Step-up Mentorship for young girls to name a few. Besides volunteer work, you can find her front row at soul cycle, playing tennis, gardening, or helping friends with design projects.
DIRECTORS (alphabetical)
Court Golumbic
Board Member
Court is global head of Financial Crime Compliance, responsible for administering the firm’s anti-money laundering, anti bribery and government sanctions compliance programs. In addition, he oversees the Compliance Testing Group and co-heads the Markets Surveillance team. Court is a member of the Firmwide Conduct Committee, the Firmwide Compliance and Operational Risk Committee, and the Deputy Regulatory Oversight Committee. Previously, he oversaw Compliance for the global Prime Brokerage and Clearing businesses from 2005 to 2007. Court also served as co-head of Compliance for Operations, Technology, Finance, Human Capital Management, and Services from 2010 to 2012. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2005 as a managing director and was named partner in 2016. Prior to joining the firm, Court was a senior managing director and global anti money laundering compliance officer for Bear Stearns & Co. He previously served as an Assistant US Attorney in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted securities fraud, money laundering, and other white collar crimes. Prior to serving as a federal prosecutor, Court was Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Enforcement at the US Treasury Department, where he specialized in financial crime policy. Earlier in his career, he was an associate at the law firms of Richardson, Berlin & Morvillo and Jones Day. Court has been an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where he lectured on white collar crime. He is on the Board of Advisors for the College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt University. Court earned a BA, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University, and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the Virginia Law Review and Virginia Journal of International Law.
Denise Silva-Dennis
Board Member
Denise “Weetahmoe” Silva-Dennis (Shinnecock/Hassanamisco-Nipmuc) is an artist, arts advocate and retired Elementary School art teacher. Her professional achievements include selection of several works for the “In Beauty It Is Begun…,” a joint exhibition for The Smithsonian and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She also won the Parrish Art Museum’s Judge’s Award in the painting category. Ms. Silva-Dennis is also an accomplished beadwork craftswoman. The traditional Eastern Woodland style of beadwork was handed down to her from the elder women of the Shinnecock and Hassanamisco-Nipmuc Nations. Her work includes traditional jewelry, beaded medicine fans, walking sticks, and beaded cradleboards. Her beaded necklaces have been shown at the Louise Himelfarb Gallery and at The Studio Connection, both in Southampton, NY. Several Native American exhibitors carry an assortment of her beaded creations to Powwows throughout the Northeastern United States.
Dini von mueffling
Board Member
Dini von Mueffling is the founder and CEO of Dini von Mueffling Communications (DVMC), an award-winning boutique public relations firm in New York City, where she develops and leads client relationships, designs and executes media and brand strategies, and directs reputation and crisis management. DVMC is highly regarded for its social impact work in gun violence prevention, democracy reform, medical debt relief, and anti-bullying. Their campaigns have garnered 32 Cannes Lions, 2 Emmys, and hundreds of other industry awards. DVMC also works in the fields of tech, business, healthcare, law, real estate, books, art, and design, and with high-profile individuals. Before founding DVMC, Dini was the co-founder of HvM Communications, specializing in lifestyle PR. Prior to HvM she spent five years in-house at SUITE New York, was a reporter and freelance writer, and is the author of two non-fiction books. Currently, Dini serves on the board of The Church, an art and cultural organization in Sag Harbor.
Lynne Marshall
Board Member
Lynne Marshall is a member of the Shinnecock Nation and is a 2nd grade teacher at the Westhampton Beach Elementary School. Her love for working with English Language Learners inspired her to pursue certification as an English as a New Language teacher. She holds a B.A. in Elementary Education and an M.A. in Literacy. She enjoys reading, taking long walks and volunteering for Hamptons Community Outreach. She loves helping anyone in need but has a special passion for helping homeless people.
Marc Lowenberg
Board Member
Marc Lowenberg was at the forefront of the cosmetic dental revolution, which began in the 1970’s. Graduating from NYU College of Dentistry in 1972, his specialized dental practice has evolved into one of the most renowned dental practices in the world, changing the smiles of America’s most famous faces. Over the last 50 years, he has spent time teaching young dentists the art of cosmetic dentistry and giving back to the community doing pro Bono dentistry to those in need. He has spent the majority of those years splitting his time between Manhattan and the Hamptons.
Michael Donovan
Board Member
Michael Donovan was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of DDS for 45 years. DDS was originally based in New York and London, and today operates globally with over 1,500 employees. In March 2012, DDS merged to form Mediaocean, where Michael became Executive Chairman and the largest shareholder. In 2015, Mediaocean was bought by Vista (a Private Equity group). Since then, he has no longer been involved in day-to-day operations: but is still Vice-Chairman and on the Board.
Born in Panama and brought up in Costa Rica and Peru, Michael went to high school as a boarding student at Winchester College (UK) and then graduated from Cambridge University (UK) with a degree in Engineering. While at Cambridge, he was Secretary of the Golf Team and won the Peruvian Amateur twice. He continued his studies at MIT (US), where he obtained an MS in Computers and Business.
Michael has been married to Linda for 36 years, and they have a daughter, Logan, who graduated from Columbia Engineering in 2013. He also has four grown children from a prior marriage, and six grandchildren — the oldest of which just graduated from Georgetown Medical School. Four of the others are at various Colleges.
He is currently the leading funder and on the Board of “OLA of Eastern Long Island”, which works to create a more equitable East End for Latino Immigrants. Last year during the Covid-19 Crisis, he funded over $2M worth of Chromebooks thru’ OLA for East End schools to provide their students with remote learning / teaching. He works with and funds many other non-profits thru’ his Donor Assisted Fund. Michael is also involved as an investor and advisor to several start-ups and small businesses. He serves on the Board of his Co-op Building (1040 Fifth Ave); and on two other non-profit Boards: The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Foundation The American Friends of Winchester College.
George Negroponte
Board Emeritus
George Negroponte is Director Emeritus of The Drawing Center and was appointed the first President of the institution in 2002. Mr. Negroponte is a fundraising consultant to several non-profit organizations and serves as the President of the Board of ARCAthens. Mr. Negroponte studied art at Yale University and has had 20 one-person shows at numerous galleries worldwide. Further, he has taught painting and drawing at The Studio School, Parsons School of Design, The School of Visual Arts and Princeton University. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Mr. Negroponte resides in East Hampton with his wife and three sons.