Chip Roach and Virginia Stringer will assume the roles of co-chairs for the Charitable Foundation of the Islands (CFI) board of directors.
Roach joined the real estate firm started by his father and uncle in Philadelphia in 1948 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. He retired from active practice in 2007 and became a resident of Sanibel. Roach is former chair of the board of directors for 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. He previously served on the board of Sanibel Sea School and is vice chair at Captiva Chapel by the Sea.
Stringer has been a board member since 2014, serving as grants committee chair, vice chair and now co-chair of the board. She began her career in marketing at IBM and then moved to The Pillsbury Company where she was vice president of human resources for US Foods. She received an Outstanding Corporate Director award from the National Association of Corporate Directors and Twin Cities Business. She chaired the Saint Paul Riverfront Corporation Board and Minnesota’s Governor appointed her to the Minnesota Board on Judicial Standards. She has served as chair of the Minnesota Opera, Voyageur Outward Bound School, Minnesota Women’s Campaign Fund and Minneapolis Club. She’s also served on the board of Madeline Island Chamber Music now part of the MacPhail School of Music.