Rob Alberts, Director Emeritus, is the Founder and Past President of EastView, and founder and former owner of Middlebury Fitness, Community Investment Counselors, and Vermont Sun Fitness.  Rob is responsible for the vision and building of EastView.  He has served as President of the United Way of Addison County (2008-2010) and as a Commissioner of the Vermont Housing Finance Agency (2006-2011).  Currently, he is an Assistant Basketball Coach for the men’s basketball team at Middlebury College.  He lives in Bridport with his wife, Sarah, and their three children when they are not away at school and college.

Diana Barnard is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. She has spent her entire career caring for and educating the residents of Addison County. After nearly 20 years of working as a Family Physician at Middlebury Family Health, she became board certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and began caring for patients living with serious illness. Dr. Barnard was the founder of Partners in Palliative and Home Care, an innovative practice providing exclusively home-based care. She played an instrumental role in the passage and implementation  of Vermont’s Medical Aid in Dying Law (act 39). Dr. Barnard  is currently a practicing Hospice and Palliative Care Physician at UVMHN Porter Medical Center and Helen Porter. She is passionate about providing patient centered care in her local community with the goal of living well and dying well. She lives in Weybridge with husband Bill Mayers where they raised their two daughters, Ruby and Zaidie Cooper, who have now have flown the coop!

Evan Langfeldt is CEO of O’Brien Brothers, where he oversees all aspects of the company, including operations, strategy, finance, and real estate development planning and execution. Evan joined O’Brien Brothers in January 2016. His previous eight years had been spent at ReArch Company, a Vermont based real estate development, construction and property management firm, where he served as Vice President of Development. Prior to ReArch, Evan spent several years as Director of Operations of Meridian Development Group, with locations in Incline Village, Nevada and Mammoth Lakes, California. While at Meridian, he was involved in the development of the base villages of Mammoth Mountain ski resort and Northstar-at-Tahoe ski resort. Evan was born and raised in Middlebury, Vermont, and graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He holds a certificate in Real Estate Management from the Harvard Business School. Evan contributes to his local community and the State of Vermont on a number of boards and commissions, including current positions on the Board of Directors and finance subcommittees of both the New England Federal Credit Union (NEFCU) and the Vermont State Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Vermont Business Roundtable. Past service includes board and committee positions at the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC); the Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Exit 12B Advisory Committee, the Board of Directors of the Shelburne Craft School, and multiple stints on the Building and Development Committees of the Greater Burlington YMCA. Evan lives in Charlotte, Vermont with his wife Elizabeth, daughter Louisa, and their two Labrador retrievers Zeus and Bear. In his free time, Evan spends as much time as he can sailing on Lake Champlain in the summer and skiing the Green Mountains in the winter

Russ Leng is from Middlebury, where he taught international politics full-time at Middlebury College, his alma mater, for forty years.  After retirement he continued teaching part-time at Middlebury for another ten years, before turning exclusively to adult classes.  Each year he teaches life-long learning courses for two groups on Cape Cod, as well as for EastView and ESI.  He has served on the boards of the Monterey Institute of International Studies for four years, and then on the Middlebury College board for 10 years.  He and his wife Cilla live in a cottage at EastView, where they enjoy the beautiful views and their new friends in the EV community.

Chris Metzler is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 20 years of finance and accounting experience.  He started his accounting career at PricewaterhouseCoopers and then worked as a Senior Audit Manager in the Burlington, VT office of KPMG.  Currently, he manages the accounting operations at Middlebury College as the institution’s Controller.  Chris lives in Charlotte, VT with his wife Meghan and their two daughters.

Sarah Peluso is Vice-Chair of the EastView Board of Directors.  She has been a licensed real estate broker for IPJ Real Estate in Middlebury, VT since 2009. Prior to that, she was an area designer for Crate and Barrel, responsible for the Boston area stores and visual merchandising and design, and later worked for a developer staging model homes throughout the Northeast. Sarah has been very involved with United Way of Addison County over the years and was Board President in 2012. Currently she serves on the Middlebury Planning Commission and is also the Addison County Director of the VT Realtors Association. Sarah lives in Cornwall, with her husband, Mark, Medical Director and Head Team Physician at Middlebury College, and their two children.

Ian Phair has worked for over 20 years in the area of private investment focused on start-up companies and projects in the energy, real estate, and financial sectors. In 2002, he served as the interim CFO for InterOil Corp., overseeing the company’s project financing needs in regard the development of a refinery project in Papua New Guinea. Ian has been involved in multiple energy-related companies and projects, including a commercial solar project in Pittsford VT, and in 2021 established Vermont Solar Fund LLC, a solar venture with a focus on tailoring financial structures to fit individual client’s needs. Previously he worked for JP Morgan in New York City for 5 years.  He spent the first two years at the bank in the Corporate Finance department servicing corporate clients of the bank in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt financing.  The following 3 years he worked in the bank’s Global Markets department trading energy financial derivatives. Ian has served on the boards of various portfolio companies as well as Stokely Creek Lodge (one of North America’s pre-eminent cross country ski lodges), the Algoma Highlands Conservancy, WestHarbor Capital (a London-based hedge fund), the Christian Montessori School of Ann Arbor, the Congregational Church of Middlebury, and EastView at Middlebury (a senior living community). He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University, where he studied economics.  He now resides in Middlebury, Vermont where he lives with his family – Tanya (wife), Bas (son age 23), and Eva (daughter age 21).

John Phinney, Chair was born and raised in Addison County and has recently returned after a decade working overseas in food and beverage production.  John has had a varied career in real estate, agriculture, and consumer goods business development, and most recently was running craft breweries in Australia.  Although his Australian raised children didn’t own long pants upon their return to Ripton, they are now avid skiers and sledders, and are working on their Vermont accents. John is deeply appreciative of the opportunity to work with EastView and to further connect with the community he calls home.

Benj Putnam began his legal career in Middlebury in 2005 and has built an extensive practice representing businesses, individuals, municipalities, and nonprofits in VT’s Champlain Valley.  He attended Addison County schools and advanced his education at college and law school in California and Texas that was further supplemented with an international internship.  Benj lives with his family in New Haven, VT, where he serves on the Town Planning Commission, participates in other local boards including serving on EastView Board’s Executive Committee, and enjoys outdoor activities amidst all Vermont has to offer