The Dem Corps Board of Directors
President and Executive Director
Al Sicard is President of Rocky Coast Marketing and brings 25 years of marketing experience to the group. In May 2000, he completed his Executive MBA studies at the Whittemore School at the University of New Hampshire, where he was a finalist in the Paul Holloway Business Plan Competition. The plan led to the creation of UNH's first outside business venture. He also holds a BS in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University and was a working journalist early in his career.
Treasurer and Secretary
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Sam Spencer was elected Democratic National Committeeman for Maine in 2004 and again in 2008, a position held in the past by Ed Muskie, George Mitchell, and Tom Allen.
As Democratic National Committeeman, he has traveled around the state to meet with local Democratic committees as part of his promise to better connect Maine Democrats with the national party.
He is President of Spencer Monks Development, a firm which focuses on redeveloping former manufacturing plants and mills into new commercial and residential uses. He previously was Vice of President of Harper’s Development in Winthrop and Managing Director of Saco Island, LLC.
During the Clinton Administration, he served on the White House staff for four years, including as Special Assistant to Vice President Al Gore.
Sam is a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Business School.
A native of Maine, Sam grew up in Standish and in Portland where he currently lives.
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Ben Geyerhahn is President of Progressive Ventures, Blue Tiger Group. Ben runs progressive ventures and sits on the board of Blue Tiger Group. Until joining Blue Tiger in 2006, Ben ran the New Democratic Network (NDN) in New York and consulted for the Small Business Majority. At NDN, Ben was responsible for NDN's entire New York operation, managing its 200 member Network, hosting 12-18 events a year with politicians ranging from Senator Barack Obama to Governor Tom Vilsack, and taking responsibility for all New York fundraising operations. In 2004, he was New York State Deputy Political Director for the John Edwards for President Campaign and served with Kerry Edwards 2004. Ben was a litigation attorney for Pierce Atwood LLP and Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP from 1998 until 2004. He also distributed the movie Paper Clips, a documentary film about a small, rural community in Tennessee and their efforts to honor the lives of the victims of the Holocaust.
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Chris Quint is the Director of Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England in
Maine.
In this role Chris oversees all lobbying, grassroots organizing and electoral functions in
Maine for a three state affiliate.
Earlier in his career Chris oversaw all public policy and communications work for the Colorado Tobacco Education and Prevention Alliance where he played a key role in maintaining the original intent of the landmark Master Settlement Agreement with the major tobacco companies, enacting several local smoke-free ordinances and getting a major tobacco tax increase onto the ballot in 2004.
Chris holds a BA in History/Political Science from Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire and is a member of the Colby-Sawyer College Presidential Alumni Advisory Committee.
Youth Coordinator: Ben Goodman Ben at 18 is the youngest Maine member of the Democratic National Committee. A recent graduate of Kennebunk High School, he is also state youth coordinator for the Obama Presidential Campaign. Ben will be attending the University of Maine in Orono this fall.