Board of Directors

Katherine Freund
President

Katherine Freund is the founder and President of the Independent Transportation Network®(ITN), and ITNAmerica™. Katherine has a Master of Arts degree in Public Policy from the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

She is a past National Transit Institute Fellow and served for nine years on the Transportation Research Board's Committee on the Safe Mobility of Seniors where she chaired of the Alternative Transportation Subcommittee. She currently Chairs the Transportation Research Board's Joint Subcommittee on Transportation Options for Seniors. She is past Chair of the Task Force to Study the Safe Mobility of Maine's Aging Population.

Orlando Delogu
Chair

Orlando Delogu is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law. His areas of expertise include property law, land-use law, water law, environmental law, state and local government law, administrative law and medical-legal law. He holds a masters degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin where he also earned his doctorate in law. He has served on the Portland City Council and the Portland Planning Board. Orlando has served on the boards of several professional organizations, was a co-founder of Maine's Civil Liberties Union and has been a member of the national board of the ACLU. He has published books and articles on land use law, water law, environmental law, and state and local tax issues, and has served as a consultant to federal, state and local government agencies, land-use planning firms, and law firms in his areas of expertise.

Mark Filler
Treasurer

Mark G. Filler, CPA/ABV, CBA, CVA leads Filler & Associates' Litigation and Claims Support practice in Portland, Maine. He has been in public accounting since February 1968 and has been a Certified Public Accountant since November 1972, a Certified Valuation Analyst since November 1994, a Certified Business Appraiser since May 1997, and has been Accredited in Business Valuation since February 1999. His experience has been entirely with small firms, and consequently his focus has been on helping small business entrepreneurs solve their tax and business problems, such as tax minimization, aid in making business planning and major business decisions, aid in obtaining financing, determining management information needs, setting up cash management tools, instituting cost reduction and budgeting techniques, and the placement of bookkeepers and controllers.

Aside from his practical experience developed over the last 30-plus years, from 1986 to 1994 Mr. Filler taught the Dale Carnegie Management Seminar some 17 times to over 250 local business owners and managers. This experience gave him a deeper awareness of how small businesses run, especially the extent of the people problems they face. Mr. Filler participates in 40 hours of continuing professional education each year, including tax, finance, statistics, business valuation and litigation support courses.. Accordingly, the AICPA has awarded him two Certificates in Educational Achievement, one in Tax Planning and Advising for Closely-Held Businesses, and the other in Business Valuation. Mr. Filler is also credentialed as a CVA, CBA, and an ABV.

John W. Austin
Board Member

Since 1994, John he has been president of Portland Air Freight (PAF Transportation) The company has been in Maine since 1955, and provides transportation and logistic services to Maine businesses.

PAF Transportation has more than 100 employees, and has recently relocated to Scarborough. John is the Chairman of the MMTA Workers Compensation Trust, Vice Chairman of the Maine Motor Transportation Association, and A/VP of the American Trucking Association.

Merrill Barter
Board Member

I am a "native Mainer" – I was born in Boothbay Harbor and have had the good fortune to live in Maine my entire life. I am a senior tax manager at IDEXX Laboratories, and have over 17 years of business and tax experience. Due to an eye condition that prevents me from driving, I am an ITN customer, and often utilize the service to get to and from work. In addition to the ITN board, I have been on the board of the Iris Network since 1999. I live in Portland with my wife, three daughters and yellow lab Jake, and enjoy outdoor activities, traveling and reading.

Martha Giles
Board Member

Martha began as one of the first two ITN volunteers in 1995, when the organization was housed in one room with two customers and two employees. Since then, Martha has traveled enough miles as a volunteer driver to circle the globe over three times. She also donates thousands of dollars worth of ride credits that she earns as a volunteer to low-income riders through the Road Scholarship program. Someday she plans to just move over to the passenger seat and become a riding member of the organization she has nurtured for so many years.

Thomas H. Hey
Board Member

Thomas was born and raised in Portland, Maine. After graduating form Boston College with a B.A. in Economics, he earned an MBA at the University of Southern Maine. Tom joined the family-owned heavy construction firm of R J Grondin & Sons in Gorham, Maine, in 1971. From a fledgling company of less than ten employees, this third generation business has grown to nearly 200 team members and has earned a reputation as one of the finest earth moving contractors in the State of Maine. Tom is past president of the Rotary Club of Westbrook/Gorham, past president of the Maine Better Transportation Association, past director of the Associated Constructors of Maine, and is currently the treasurer of the Sturdivant Island Tuna Tournament, a charitable organization that has donated over $240,000 to various Maine Community College scholarship funds in the past nine years. Tom resides in Falmouth with his wife Bess Grondin Hey. They have two married children and two grandchildren.

F. Robert "Bob" Heyner
Board Member

Robert is an aeronautical engineer, (University of Cincinnati 1953), a graduate of USAF Pilot Training (1954), and a retired Colonel, Command Pilot, United States Air Force Reserve. He worked on the F-106 Mach 2 Interceptor Design for General Dynamics, and he is a retired Vice President of Engineering for the Protection of Nuclear Weapons, Command & Control & Physical Security Systems, Analytical Systems Engineering Corporation. Bob is currently the State Coordinator for the Driving Safety Program of AARP, Maine.

Paula Klimek
Board Member

Matthew McKenzie
Board Member

Matthew Mckenzie is vice president of marketing and public affairs for AAA Northern New England. A South Portland native and graduate of Greely High School, Matt worked briefly for UNUM before beginning his career at AAA in 1994. In addition to his marketing and public affairs responsibilities, Matt’s duties include strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting and systems integration. He is frequently called upon to provide information and commentary on issues affecting automobile transportation in Maine, including road safety and gas prices. Matt also serves on the board of directors of the Iris Network in Portland, and he currently lives in Gorham.

DiDi Stockly
Board Member

Didi Stockly has been a volunteer driver for ITNPortland since 2001. She has served on the boards of several land trusts as well as on the board of Maine Historical Society. Driving for ITN has been very rewarding, Didi says, giving her the opportunity to meet wonderful people and to learn lots about the geography of Greater Portland.