“I am a 2010 graduate of Lyndon State College aka Northern Vermont University in where I completed my B.S. in Business Administration. After leaving college, I found my first real community banking opportunity in Claremont and since then my career has led me full circle back with Claremont Savings Bank in a commercial lending role for the Upper Valley. I have a strong passion for helping entrepreneurs grow and support our local vital communities. I am an active member with a few financial committees within the industry and state association, as well I am the VP of a board that focuses on Mental Health Rehabilitation Services. When not working or involved with my non-profit associations, you can find me on the golf course, with family or at the gym.”

Alison Fiorito is a video producer in Seattle, Washington. Alison has served as a Producer & Project Manager for several of Microsoft’s largest products including Xbox, Skype in the Classroom, Bing in the Classroom, and currently Windows 10 Education. Her experience includes working in various production capacities at a national level on commercials, entertainment, and marketing campaigns; perhaps most notably the 2004 Emmy Award Winning opening sequence for Six Feet Under and the 2013 Xbox One launch campaign. Before that, Alison produced more than 70 documentary-style marketing pieces for the Microsoft Corporation, including videos used in keynote speeches for Bill Gates and other leaders at Microsoft. Her specialties include pre-production, crafting client stories, interviewing executives, overseeing editing through post-production, and the strategic inclusion of videos and commercials on web, television, at conferences and events.

She is a graduate of the University of Washington’s Master of Communication Digital Media program and holds a BFA in theater from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. Alison is originally from Arkansas and still has family there, however she has made Seattle her home for many years. Alison has worked in film and video production for most of her career, and has a passion for education, environmentalism and the arts. She is also the coach of her son’s robotics team, Error 404: Page Not Found. The team builds competition robots during the fall and winter and underwater robots during the spring and summer. Alison’s version of Orpah’s favorite things list are being with her family, hanging out with her dogs, coaching the robotics team and hiking.

An employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs/Veterans Health Administration of over 10 years, Brynn Cole currently serves as the Director of Programming for the VHA Innovators Network (iNET). In this role, Brynn’s primary focus is coordinating training + events, managing alumni relationships, facilitating iNET’s annual Spark-Seed-Spread Innovation Accelerator program, identifying + meeting the learning needs for both Innovation Specialists + Investees at the 37 VA sites of care (VA hospitals all over the country) that make up the VHA Innovators Network. Brynn is energized to bring together people and ideas to act as a catalyst of positive change, and as an antidote to the “can’t do” attitude that some believe inherent to the federal government.

Brynn earned her Bachelor of Arts from Johnson State College in Johnson, VT, with a focus on Gender Studies and Sociology and has recently returned to her native Vermont after years in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is obsessed with her snug cabin on 11 acres of Vermont mountainside, enjoys rambling around in the woods with her nieces and nephews, 12-year-old Golden Retriever (Angus) and two bobtailed cats, which makes for quite a scene! As both a member and Director of The Space On Main, Brynn is grateful for the opportunity to both support and benefit from such an incredible community resource.

“I’m currently on an entrepreneurship journey that includes renting food trailers and trying to solve education finance-related problems in emerging markets such as India. Prior to this journey, I spent over a decade leading the Career Development Office at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth where I helped Tuck MBAs with their careers and job placement. Prior to moving to the Upper Valley, I worked in corporate finance and investment banking with Coopers & Lybrand and Alex. Brown & Sons and initially cut my teeth on entrepreneurial efforts with Strategic Capital Resources and as the first employee of a technology start-up Revbox. I did my undergraduate studies at Harvard University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. Somewhere along the line I met my wife on a bus in Mexico and we have two daughters. I live in Lyme, NH and really enjoy running up and down the hills as exercise.”

Marvin retired in 2018 after a 31 year stint in community banking (primarily consumer, mortgage and commercial lending) with the Wells River Savings Bank, the last 21 of those years in the Bradford office across from The Space On Main. He is a charter member of the Cohase Chamber of Commerce (18 years) and has been actively involved with the Bradford Business (fka Merchants) Association along with numerous boards and committees associated with education and workforce development.

Like so many, his long work career (10 years working in manufacturing prior to banking) was a very different path from his BS in Education from SUNY Cortland, but it appears to have all worked out! He is excited about The Space On Main and its ability to bring together such a powerful and interesting cast of characters on Main Street at a critical time in Bradford and the Cohase region’s future.