Leadership Team

Dolly Farrell, Executive Director

Farrell earned a Master of Public Administration from Appalachian State University. She followed a path from Habitat for Humanity & PACE to positions at three universities. 

As part of her duties, Farrell oversees the growth and distribution of Donor Advised Funds established to inspire philanthropy on the islands. She will also manage the Leadership Program and continue our focus on strengthening the organization’s impact.

Dolly Farrell Contact Info:
Email: dfarrell@sancapcfi.org
Office: (239) 322-3818 | Cell: (239) 703-3226

Michael Bennett

Michael is a winter resident of Captiva. He hails from Arnold’s Park, Iowa. Michael presently serves as Chairman of OCI N.V. They are a leading producer and distributor of nitrogen projects providing sustainable solutions to agricultural and industrial customers around the world. Their production capacity spans four continents and comprises approximately 16.1 million metric tons per year of nitrogen fertilizers, methanol, diesel exhaust fluid, melamine, and other nitrogen products. The company employs 3,600 people. Prior to OCI N.V., Michael worked with Terra Industries for 36 years including as President and CEO.

Michael has been a board member of Chapel by the Sea, serving as President in 2019 and 2020. He currently serves as Treasurer. He has also served his community in a variety of capacities including Morningside College Board of Directors from 2005-2015 (chairman 2012-2104), United Way of Siouxland (campaign chair 2008), Boys Scouts of America Mid-America Council Board of Trustees, and the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce. Michael is married to his wife Margie. They have four children and eight grandchildren.

Susan Boren

Susan ‘Sam’ Boren King is a former Partner and member of Spencer Stuart’s Board and CEO practices.  She now serves governance clients through her own consulting firm, Trillium Advisors.  Sam’s interest in boards grew from her experience as a corporate director for two public companies and her service on many not for profit boards, both in the Twin Cities and in Africa.

Sam and her husband, Steve King, spend part of the year on Sanibel where they are avid fly fishermen and gardeners.  When not on the island, they live on a small lake west of the Twin Cities in Wayzata, MN.

Sam’s background includes a career in investment management, banking, retail, and executive search.  Her board service includes Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Public Radio, Minneapolis Foundation, NatureBridge, and several boards of organizations working in Tanzania and Zambia.  She and Steve have focused their personal philanthropy on the environment and particularly clean water.

Sam has an undergraduate degree from Antioch College and an MBA from the University of Dayton.

Chauncey Goss

Chauncey Goss grew up on Sanibel in the 1970’s and ‘80’s. He received a BA from Rollins College and a Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University. He is married to Allison and they have three grown sons. He began his professional career as the Executive Director of the nonprofit Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association in Boca Grande and then moved to Washington, DC and became an expert in the federal budget process working at both the White House’s Office of Management and Budget and as Deputy Staff Director for the House Budget Committee. He is currently managing partner of a firm he founded that provides budget forecasting and federal fiscal policy analysis.

He has served on the City of Sanibel’s Council and was appointed by the Governor to the Governing Board of the South Florida Water Management District in 2019 and was reappointed in 2023. He has been Chair of the Governing Board since his appointment.

Goss is involved in his community and is a member of the Sanibel Captiva Kiwanis as well as the Sanibel Community Church. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Canterbury School where he has served as Board Chair as well as the Board of Directors of Captains for Clean Water (where he is Treasurer), the United Way, and the Community Foundation of Southwest Florida (Collaboratory). He is a trustee of the Lee County Electric Cooperative. He has been a board member of the Sanibel Community Association, the Ding Darling Wildlife Society, the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation, and the Lee Coast MOAA Foundation.

Al Hanser, Chairman Emeritus

Al Hanser founded The Sanibel Captiva Trust Company in 2001. His 50+ years of experience in the investment and banking industries has helped to guide our firm’s vision and growth for the benefit of our clients, shareholders, employees and communities.

Al has previously served as Chairman and CEO of Resource Bank and Trust Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota and was also Senior Executive at Dain Rausher, an investment banking firm (now RBC Wealth Management). He was Chairman, CEO, and board member of USB Merchant Bank as well as Chairman of Hanrow Financial Group, Ltd. Other business interests include his family’s ownership interest in the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team for over 50 years. In addition to years of civic and philanthropic service, he is the current Chairman of the Charitable Foundation of the Islands, member of LHMS Planning Committee and Director of Lee Memorial’s Children’s Hospital. He is a former director of The Schoolhouse Theater, Sanibel-Captiva Kiwanis, Lee Memorial Health System Foundation, and past Chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Florida.

Jane Majeski

Jane Majeski and her husband Paul split their time between Sanibel, FL and Demarest, NJ.

Jane is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University with a degree in Economics. She was employed by Great West Assurance in Baltimore, MD marketing large group employee benefits and annuities. After marrying Paul, she was transferred to the North Jersey office where she worked until she joined forces with her husband at Music Trades; the leading trade magazine for the music industry since 1890. During her tenure at Music Trades, she played key roles in finance, marketing, and sales. After their third son was born, Jane transferred her energies to raising their boys and giving back to the community. Through the years, she has served in numerous leadership roles including: Demarest Library Board, PTA Board, Elder of Presbyterian Church at Tenafly, Demarest Board of Education, Garden Club of Englewood (GC of America member).  Jane was honored to be a part of the Charitable Foundation of the Island’s (CFI) inaugural Leadership Sanibel-Captiva Class of 2022 and joined the CFI Board in the Spring of 2022.  In 2023 she was invited to join the FISH of SanCap Board of Directors.

She is active in various social clubs and enjoys spending time with her children and three grandchildren, playing golf and gardening. The community, the beaches, and the wonders of nature are what have made Sanibel and the islands a place that her family has enjoyed for over 50 years.

John Morse, Secretary

John and his wife Kay have been year-round residents of Sanibel since January 2005. On August 8th, they will have been married for 50 years; they have two adult children.

John graduated from Wichita State University in 1972 and received his J.D. degree from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1975.

As of January 1st of this year, John fully retired as a corporate attorney, having spent ten years in private practice in Wichita, and the past 35 years as Senior Vice President and General Counsel (and a partner) of LodgeWorks Partners, L.P. (and its predecessors), a national hotel development and management company with corporate offices in Wichita. Upon his retirement, John was named Senior Vice President & General Counsel Emeritus.

 John is serving in his tenth year on the Board of Directors of F.I.S.H. of Sanibel-Captiva, Inc., having served two years as Board Chair. John is the current Board Chair of the F.I.S.H. of Sanibel-Captiva Foundation, Inc. He has also served two terms as President of the Kiwanis Club of Sanibel-Captiva Islands and continues to serve on its Board. John recently retired from the volunteer position of Secretary and General Counsel for USA Swimming, Inc., the national governing body for swimming and USOC member.  He served as the Board Chair of the Wichita State University Foundation for two years and was a member of its Board of Directors for 28 years. John continues to serve on its National Advisory Council.

John and Kay are Life Members of SCCF and were sea turtle volunteers for 12 years. John served five years on the SCCF Board of Trustees, with one term as President and two separate terms as Vice President. He continues to serve on the Finance Committee. 

Jeff Muddell

Jeff and his family have been Sanibel residents since 2017.  He joined the Sanibel Captiva Trust Company in 2019 as senior vice president and wealth services advisor after twelve years in nonprofit management and philanthropy, primarily in the health care sector.  Most recently he served as System Director of Gift Planning for the Lee Health Foundation in Fort Myers, FL where he led strategic planning and management of the organization's fundraising initiatives.

Before arriving on Sanibel, Jeff spent 18 years in the Orlando area where he led fundraising efforts at Orlando Health Foundation, served as Vice President at Pace Center for Girls, and worked as a Senior Fundraising Consultant at Winkler Group.  He has worked in support of dozens of nonprofit organizations throughout his career, both professionally and on a volunteer basis.  

Jeff holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Florida’s Warrington School of Business and is in the process of earning his Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Communications from the University of Miami and began his professional career in broadcasting and journalism. Jeff and his wife Stephanie have three children - Caroline, Charles and Grant - all students at The Sanibel School.

Eric Pfeifer

Eric Pfeifer grew up in Baltimore, Maryland where he attended the Gilman School for Boys and later graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Civil Engineering. Eric worked as an Engineer and Project Manager on jobs in both Georgia and Florida building bridges and wharves and beltways. Eric later joined his two older brothers in a family business where they grew their company rapidly, earning recognition from Inc. 500 for two consecutive years as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.

As a business owner managing over 80 employees, family vacations to Sanibel were always too short and too far between. After the birth of his second child in 1998, Eric and his wife decided that Sanibel could no longer be just a dream put off for future retirement, but a home for their family year-round. The Pfeifer family moved to Sanibel full-time in 2001.

Sanibel's lack of demand for Professional Engineers prompted Pfeifer to launch a new career in Real Estate. He was quickly recognized as Sanibel & Captiva’s “Real Estate Rookie Realtor of the Year” by fellow Realtors in 2002 and went on to open his own Brokerage, Pfeifer Realty Group in 2008. As a 7-time recipient of the Sanibel Captiva Community Service Award and former Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year, Eric continues to set the bar high for every team member fostering a culture of service and community support.

Pfeifer is currently the Vice-Chair of the Sanibel Planning Commission, President of Shell Harbor's HOA, and has served on the Sanibel Captiva Kiwanis Club Board for 21 years.

Rachel Pierce

A lifelong artist, Rachel grew up in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and went to college in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where art classes were a major focus of her studies.

Ultimately, it was her passion for journalism that launched her on a 19-year career - 17 of those as a TV desk anchor - first in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, followed by Omaha and Des Moines, and finally Fort Myers, Florida, where she currently resides with her husband and their four young children.

Rachel's return to art was unexpected. As an active member of the community and a well-known TV personality in Southwest Florida, she is asked to emcee dozens of local events every year. In 2018 she was invited to be a celebrity painter and create a design on a large ceramic platter for a fundraising auction benefiting a local non-profit.

It wasn't long before commission requests started, and within a year of selling her first painting, what had begun as a passion and faded into an occasional hobby was now quickly becoming a second career.

After selling dozens of pieces and donating dozens more, Rachel decided to step away from the anchor desk and fulfill her first dream - becoming a full-time artist.

Though she loved her career in journalism - maybe not those daily 2 a.m. alarms - being an artist means painting whenever she wants while, most importantly, being home to raise her four children with her husband.

Lisa Riordan, Vice Chair

Lisa Riordan first visited Captiva more than 40 years ago and has been a Captiva resident since 2012.  After vacationing on Captiva for several years, she and her husband David expanded their time there after retirement. 

 A New York native, Lisa spent many years in the communications industry before beginning her 25-year career in labor representation.  She directed and managed the New York staff for a major labor union and negotiated and administered collective bargaining agreements with large public and private sector employers and municipalities including Verizon, City of New York, and State of New Jersey, as well as dozens of smaller employers and municipalities.  

 Since her retirement in 2012, Lisa has spent her free time getting involved in the Captiva community.  Beginning in 2013 she joined the Board of her homeowner’s association and has served as President for 5 years.  In 2015 she was invited to join the Captiva Memorial Library Board of Trustees and has served as the President for the last 3 years.  In 2015 she was also invited to join the Board of Governors of the Captiva Civic Association and served as the President for 3 years before currently serving as Treasurer.  She was appointed to the Captiva Civic Association Foundation Board of Governors, the fund-raising vehicle of the Civic Association, in 2017 and continues to serve there as President. 

 Lisa has two adult daughters, and seven grandchildren, all of whom reside out of state.  When she is not busy with her community activities, Lisa enjoys boating, traveling, reading and spending time with friends. 

Chip Roach, Chair

Chip joined the real estate firm, started by his father and uncle in suburban Philadelphia and helped to grow it from 30 people in 1966 to approximately 4,000 people in 2003, when he sold his interest to his partners.  At the time it was the fifth largest privately owned real estate services company in the USA.

He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.  He retired from active involvement in 2007 and became a resident of Sanibel. Chip was active as a board member for nonprofit organizations and the state and National Association of Realtors.  He chaired the boards of Rosemont College, his local Chamber of Commerce, a national real estate referral service, as well as the MLS system for 33,000 Realtors in the Philadelphia region.

Chip & Nancy have been married for 57 years and have 3 children and 5 grandchildren. Nancy started a program called Nancy Cares (with the University of Pennsylvania Health System) in 2004 after a brush with breast cancer.  “Nancy Cares” provided free mammograms for uninsured women and carried out over 3,000 health procedures. 

Chip serves locally on the board of the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation.  He is the board Vice Chair at the Captiva Chapel by the Sea. 

Chip & Nancy have served together as Honorary Chairs of several island fundraisers for charity.

Brian Rist

Brian Rist is a visionary entrepreneur and dedicated philanthropist with a lifelong passion for building successful businesses and strengthening communities. As the former executive chairman of The Smart Companies, he led its largest subsidiary, Storm Smart, to become the nation’s top manufacturer of storm protection products. His strategic leadership and ability to simplify complex concepts played a key role in the company’s unprecedented growth.

Today, Brian and his wife, Kim, focus on creating lasting positive change through philanthropy. Guided by a holistic approach to community betterment, they support a wide range of causes, including ongoing initiatives benefiting Sanibel and Captiva Islands.

The Rists reside on Sanibel Island and enjoy spending summers at their home on Cape Cod. Their commitment to giving back reflects a shared belief that success is most meaningful when it uplifts others.

Ken Washuta

Ken Washuta is a seasoned technology executive who has developed and executed strategic programs for organizations of all sizes. He held progressive technology leadership roles throughout his 40-plus-year career, with a focus on healthcare over the last 25 years. He retired from UnitedHealth Group in 2022, where he was the UnitedHealthcare Community & State (Medicaid) CIO for 10+ years. He lives in Sanibel with his wife and dogs.

Robert (Bob) Wiesemann II

is the retired CEO of Continental Carbonic Products, Inc. (CCPI), a dry ice manufacturer and distributor in the eastern half of the United States and parts of Canada. The company was founded in 1976 by Bob and his father, Bob Sr., with two locations and six employees. In 2014 when the company was sold to Matheson Tri-Gas CCPI had 38 locations, including eight manufacturing plants, 750 employees and sales in excess of $110 million.

Bob is a 1975 graduate of Marquette University. He and his wife, Kathy, have resided on Sanibel and now Captiva since 2004. They previously lived in Decatur, IL for 32 years and also part time in Chicago. They have three married daughters and six grandchildren.

Previous volunteer board service includes HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital, St. Teresa High School, Richland Community College Foundation and the Chamber of Commerce – all in Decatur, IL. Bob is also a BIG ARTS board member as of 2023 and a member of the inaugural Charitable Foundation of the Islands Leadership class. Bob is currently a Director of First Illinois Corp., Cegway Foundation, Inc. (a family foundation), Cegway Farms, LLC and an advisor for the Wiesemann Charitable Fund at the Community Foundation of Macon County.