Our People
Board of Directors
The all-volunteer board behind Friends of Pamet River.
Friends of the Pamet River, Inc. is led by an all-volunteer board of Truro residents and friends with deep ties to the river, the harbor, and the coastal environment.
Officers
Gary Sharpless
President
Gary Sharpless has over 40 years of entrepreneurial experience in the composites industry. He launched Fiber Innovations, Inc., a composite contract manufacturing company, in 1984, which grew to about 100 employees and $20 million in sales. Working primarily in the aerospace and defense sector, Fiber Innovations was instrumental in developing braided composite production programs with clients such as Lockheed (JASSM cruise missile program), Northrop Grumman satellite structures, GEAE aircraft engine components, and Talley Defense SMAW rocket launchers, along with a variety of programs for the US Air Force and Marine Corps. A Fortune 500 company acquired Fiber Innovations in 2005. Gary is a leading expert in Braided Composite Structures, Weaving, 3-D Stitching, Resin Transfer Molding, Vacuum Infusion Molding, and the processing of Thermoset & Thermoplastic composite prepreg. Since retiring in 2008 he has served on many private-company boards, using his business-development and technical expertise to help those organizations grow. A 25-year resident of Truro, he is involved in many aspects of the community — mainly the ocean, boating, fishing, lobstering, and shellfishing — and is keenly interested in sustaining the coastal, river, and harbor environment and its health for the next generations.
Matthew McCue
Vice President
Founder of Friends of Pamet River. Full bio coming soon.
Bill McInerney
Treasurer
Bill retired after a career in commercial and consumer banking in New York City. He and his wife, Liz, moved to Truro full time after 25+ years as frequent visitors. Liz's family has a long history in Truro and Wellfleet, and both Bill and Liz have family nearby and have heard many stories of "the old days" at their home near Cold Storage. Bill looks forward to helping preserve the unique beauty and bounty of the Pamet and Truro.
Alice Gong
Clerk & Secretary
Alice Gong is a nonprofit leader with over a decade of experience building community through arts and cultural programming on the Outer Cape. She is currently the Program Director at Twenty Summers, serves on the board of Provincetown Commons, and chairs the Truro Cultural Council. Alice also works at the Provincetown Farmers Market and travels to coach for Beyond the Boundaries, a women's snowboard camp. At home in Truro, she is an avid forager of all the bounty of our woods and waters.
Board Members
Becca McCue
Board Member
Becca works as an environmental engineer (EIT) for Inter-Fluve, a firm that specializes in river and wetland restoration. Her work focuses on the restoration of tidal rivers, salt marshes, and wetlands, along with stormwater management and aquaculture. She is experienced in topographic and bathymetric survey, hydraulic modeling, CAD drafting, and ArcGIS.
Clementine Dulieu
Board Member
Clementine was born and raised in Truro. She followed her passion for the natural world to an undergraduate degree in geology at Colgate University, and has spent over 10 years as an environmental consultant specializing in the investigation and remediation of complex contaminated sites. She now lives in Boston but still spends enough time in Truro to maintain her status as a local.
Mike Murphy
Board Member
Mike was the founding principal and CEO of BrandIQ, a Los Angeles–based brand consultancy, and is a veteran marketing professional with 30 years of extensive experience in brand strategy, research, and innovation. He is an expert in the nonprofit space with "Collective Impact" — a structured, cross-sector framework used to solve complex social and environmental problems that has been proven to be best-in-class for population-level impact. Since 2024, Mike has been co-leading BECAP (Blue Economy and Climate Action Pathways), a Southern California workforce development project — a collaboration of the 19 Los Angeles County Community Colleges and AltaSea. Mike has been visiting Truro annually for 23 years, became a North Truro homeowner in 2024, and retired in late 2025.
Ty Medley
Board Member
Tyler is a year-round Truro resident, husband, and father of two adventurous young girls. A deeply connected community enthusiast, he proudly serves on both the Truro School Committee and the board of directors for the Cape Cod Collaborative. He takes full advantage of Truro's wild, natural playground by mountain biking, cross-country skiing, ice skating, hiking, playing volleyball, bodyboarding, and swimming the local beaches — fueling it all through a healthy obsession with local honey and whatever else the incredible farm stands have to offer that day. By trade he guides companies through business transformations to stay successful in a rapidly changing world, but the rest of the time you may find him calmly navigating the local waters: sailing out of Pamet Harbor, rowing the river with family, or putting his residential shellfish license to good use. Tyler joined Friends of Pamet River to serve himself, his young girls, and every other living organism in Truro.
Sherman Teichman
Board Member
Sherman is the Emeritus Founding Director of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University, which he led from 1985 to 2016. His teaching and public work have centred on some of the defining issues of our time: nuclear risk, corruption, human rights, international security, conflict resolution, the environment, and the responsibilities of global citizenship. Among the programmes he built with his students are ALLIES (Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services) and Engineers Without Borders, both currently tackling environmental and human security challenges on the Marshall Islands; the Institute's alumni have gone on to distinguished and varied careers in geopolitics, international security, technology, refugee and migration policy, design and architecture, and journalism. After becoming Emeritus he was named a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Center for Human Rights Policy and a Research Fellow at Oxford's Centre for International Studies, and founded The Trebuchet, an activist educational NGO with a global mentorship platform and academy. As a Senior Fellow of the Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development he helped create the Global Maritime Accord Academy with oceanographers, ecologists, and naval chiefs from six nations, focused on the security and environmental health of the high seas. He serves, or has served, in advisory roles with organisations including the Human Rights Foundation, the VII Foundation, Wellesley College's Albright Institute, and the Yale Center for Ecosystem + Architecture. He currently sits on the Advisory Board of International Student/Youth Pugwash, and is academic advisor for an upcoming documentary on averting nuclear war, built around the warnings of Daniel Ellsberg and narrated by Emma Thompson. Sherman and his family have loved the Outer Cape for decades, and Truro has been home for nearly twenty years — a house at the end of a cul-de-sac, with the word EQUILIBRIUM chiselled into a boulder at the top of the driveway. He runs the family's pup Remi in the surf most mornings, watches his son Nathaniel play Longnook volleyball, and is still astonished by the sunsets he and his wife Iris share. After sixty years as a global educator, and still very engaged in that world, he says it feels wonderful to give his time and energy locally, to the community he loves.
Board of Advisors
Beyond our directors, Friends of the Pamet River draws on a circle of advisors — friends of the river with particular expertise who lend their time and judgement to our work. They don't sit on the board or vote, but their counsel shapes what we take on and how we do it.
Jonathan E. Colman
Board of Advisors
Jonathan is an ecologist (Dr. Scient) from the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway, and co-founded the company NaturRestaurering Inc (the Nature Restoration company in Norwegian) in 2009. In addition to serving as a senior advisor and project manager at NaturRestaurering, he was a Senior Researcher at the Department of Biosciences at the UiO for 33 years. He is presently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, where he has led research and teaching in restoration ecology since 2005. He has over 30 years of experience managing numerous research and advisory projects, as well as extensive experience in teaching, environmental impact assessments, and the preparation of technical reports and scientific publications regarding biodiversity, ecological interactions and the restoration of nature. Jonathan and his family have a close connection with the Pamet river, having spent every summer and many winters at 73 Depot Rd since the 1960s.
Stephen Johnston
Board of Advisors
Stephen has spent his career in commercial real estate and management consulting, focused on large-scale transformations for companies across industries. He has also spent time helping nonprofits like United Way and Grassroots Collective. He has a deep passion for emerging technologies, and helps build and maintain the Friends of Pamet River website and technology footprint. He started coming to Truro in 2022. His first trip was supposed to be three days and turned into eight, which had a lot to do with him falling in love with his future wife, who he will marry in Truro. You will find him around town shadowing the McCue family, playing tennis at the Pamet Harbor Yacht Club, volleyball at Longnook Beach, grabbing some grub in Provincetown, or catching a movie at the Wellfleet Drive-In.
Have a skill the river could use?
We are actively looking for advisors — people with expertise in marine science, hydrology, water quality, law, fundraising, education, communications, or simply a long memory of this valley. You don't need to join a board or commit to meetings. Write to us and tell us what you know.
