Board of Directors

Tom Poppey has supported the Scituate Animal Shelter for many years in many capacities.  He was a past Board member and has previously served two terms as President of the Board.   

Head of Global Securities Lending at Brown Brothers Harriman in Boston,  Tom has been a longtime member of  SAS's Finance and Audit Committee.  Tom and his wife Elissa Flynn-Poppey reside in Scituate with a menagerie of rescued dogs and cats, including SAS alums. 

Peter has been a supporter of SAS for many years,  and currently serves as Chair for the Finance and Audit Committee.  

Presently, he is the CFO  of Rockland-based Polymer Corporation, a precision plastic parts manufacturer.   Peter resides in Scituate with his wife, and two cats adopted from SAS:  Nemo and Casper. 

Jay is a Principal at the Boston office of Fish & Richardson PC. She focuses on helping academic and research institutions, hospitals and biotech companies from start-up to midsize to protect their cutting-edge and foundational life science discoveries with strong intellectual property rights, both in the US and abroad. Jay has a life-long love of animals, and she and her family are currently owned by 6 kitties, three of whom are over the age of 15.  She joined the SAS Board in 2021.

Heidi Condon is the principal of HC Designs, a Scituate-based design firm founded in 1998 that is one the best known residential design firms in the region. 

She holds two degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design in both fine arts and architecture.  A longtime supporter of SAS, Heidi joined the Board in 2019.  She lives in Scituate with husband Rick and two rescue dogs.

Michelle Cox began volunteering with SAS as a dog walker in 2014, and she and her partner Kerrie have been very strong supporters since that time.   Michelle is a realtor with Jack Conway & Company in Hingham, and her career in real estate takes her all over the South Shore.  

Michelle and Kerrie lived in Hingham for many years but now divide their time between Hull and Cape Cod, where they live with four special needs rescue dogs including SAS alum Johnny.

Paul Kennedy joined the board in 2024.  He is a longtime supporter of the Scituate Animal Shelter.  As a recently retired partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston, he is able to focus more of his time on the shelter, volunteering as a dog walker and lending a hand to facility maintenance.  

Paul was a senior partner with PwC who led the firm’s Financial Services Mergers & Acquisitions practice in the US, assisting Private Equity and Corporate clients plan for and successfully execute some of their most complex acquisitions and divestitures.  He lives in Cohasset with his wife Maria and SAS alum Tippi.  Lifelong animal welfare advocates, Tippi is the fifth rescue they have adopted together.  

Michael Rosen joined the Board in November 2023.  He is a Senior Audit Manager with Iron Mountain in Boston. An alumni of Umass Amherst, he graduated with an accounting degree from the Isenberg School of Management. He has previously served on the Finance and Audit Committee with SAS. 

Since childhood, Michael has been an avid animal lover and advocate. Michael and his wife Juliette reside in Norwell with their rescue dog Walter and turtle named Mars.