Board of Directors

Fund Raising Strategies is blessed to have an outstanding Board of Directors who provides guidance and direction to the management team. In addition to the outside directors shown below, Bruce Eberle serves as Chairman of the Board, Bill Griffiths serves as Vice President, and Sandy Redhage serves as Secretary of the corporation.

Carl T. Berquist
Carl joined Marriott International in December 2002 as Executive Vice President of financial information and enterprise risk management. In this role he is responsible for Financial Reporting, Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk Management, Taxes, and Financial Planning and Analysis. Prior to joining Marriott, Carl was a managing partner of the mid-Atlantic region at Arthur Andersen LLP, and had global responsibilities for its real estate and hospitality practices. He is a board member and past treasurer of the National Capital Boy Scouts of America and Vice President of Joe Gibbs' Youth for Tomorrow Home for Boys and Girls.
Jon Bruss
Jon is Founder, President and CEO of Fortress Bancshares, Inc. This is a banking entrepreneurial venture that now owns five banks in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. Mr. Bruss has been involved in the banking and finance industries since 1963. During his professional career, he has planned, executed and managed the start-up of 16 new businesses including one mutual fund, four equipment leasing companies, three equipment leasing partnerships, a Canadian finance company, a value-added IBM-PC retail distributor and four non-captive equipment finance companies, a bank holding company and a bank investment subsidiary.
Katherine M. Eberle
Kathi currently serves as corporate Treasurer of Fund Raising Strategies. Over the years, she has worn a number of corporate "hats" serving as the first bookkeeper of the organization. In addition to her corporate duties, Kathi serves as a member of the Northern Virginia Embroiderers' Guild, and has been an active volunteer in church and related activities. Kathi serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of Joe Gibbs' Youth for Tomorrow New Life Foundation, a resident home for at-risk young men and women. In that role she has served as co-chairman of the live auction at the 19th annual Country Fair hosted by the organization. Kathi is a graduate of James Madison University.
Peter Hannaford
Peter is the editor of the editorial pages of the Eureka, CA, Reporter, a daily newspaper. He is also president of Hannaford Enterprises, Inc., a public affairs consulting firm and is a Senior Counselor to APCO Worldwide, a public affairs and strategic communications firm based in Washington, D.C. For a number of years he was closely associated with the late President Ronald Reagan. From 1975-95 he was Chief Executive of The Hannaford Company, Inc. (founded as Deaver & Hannaford, Inc.), merging it with another firm in 1996. He has served on the Advisory Board of Mount Vernon, George Washington's home; Co-Chairman of the National Advisory Board of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Association; the Public Relations Advisory Committee of the United States Information Agency; the Commonwealth Fund's Commission on Elderly People Living Alone; and the Board of Trustees of the White House Preservation Fund. He is the author of numerous articles and nine books: The Reagans: a Political Portrait; Talking Back to the Media; Remembering Reagan (co-author); My Heart Goes Home: a Hudson Valley Memoir; Recollections of Reagan; The Quotable Ronald Reagan; The Essential George Washington; The Quotable Calvin Coolidge; and Ronald Reagan and His Ranch: the Western White House, 1981-89.
James M. Irving
Marty, as he is known to his friends and business acquaintances, is founder and CEO of Irving Interests, a firm specializing in real estate development. In 1985 he founded The Irving Group and from 1975 through 1985, Mr. Irving served as a founding partner of Tycon Developers, one of the largest land development organizations in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Marty's professional affiliations include: Partner, Board of Directors, Washington Capitals Hockey Club; Board of Directors, National Association of Industrial and Office Park Developers; President, Fairfax County Public Schools Education Foundation; Board of Directors, Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce and Board of Directors, United States Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation.