Board of Directors

Peter Puciloski, President

Peter is senior litigator for Lazan, Glover and Puciloski LLP in Boston, with offices in Great Barrington. He has appeared before numerous courts, boards and commissions on the federal, state and local levels and handles both litigation and transactional matters, involving residential, commercial and development property, condominiums and land use regulation. Peter, a graduate of Harvard Law School, cum laude, and Boston College, magna cum laude, is the author of Real Estate Litigation. He has served on the Hingham Planning Board, the Hingham Historic District Commission and the Hingham Water Supply Company. Peter is a member of the Boston, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations, and of the Defense Research Institute. He is a former U.S. Navy Lieutenant.


Kim H. Whalen, Treasurer

Kim joined Smith, Watson & Company in 1989 after graduating from Western New England College with a BS in Business Administration in 1989. She is now a partner of the firm. Kim performs a multitude of public accounting activities such as personal financial planning, estate planning, preparation of taxes, audits, reviews, and compilations. Kim is the President of the Board of Directors of the John S. Watson Fund. She is responsible for organizing the Fund’s annual holiday food basket and clothing certificate programs in Southern Berkshire County. In addition to spending time with her husband and children, she enjoys traveling, skiing, boating, reading and gardening.

Wes Orlowski, Vice President

Wes has served continuously on the CDC Board of Directors since the mid 1990s. Before his retirement, Wes worked as a consultant in international business. For a number of years, he headed a nonprofit organization advancing energy conservation and renewable energy in the public and private sectors. His professional background is in electronic engineering, and he directed the Electronics Design Lab at Yale University. Wes did advanced graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Fulbright Fellow. He resides in Great Barrington, where he volunteers in several community organizations.

Jeffrey H. Kittross, Clerk

Jeffrey was educated in New York City public schools, received an AB in economics from the College of William & Mary and an LLB from Cornell Law School in 1959. He was admitted to the Bar in New York, and he is a United States Army veteran. He has worked for Bankers Trust Company, New York; Martin Marietta Corp (now Lockheed Martin), New York and The Okonite Company, New Jersey. In 1976, Jeffrey left Okonite as Vice President & General Counsel to become Executive Vice President of the Episcopal Church Foundation in New York, a national organization supporting the mission and ministry of the Episcopal Church. Later work with the Episcopal Church included community development and affordable housing in Newark, New Jersey. Currently, he serves on various corporate and non-profit boards. Married since 1960 to Emily Wade Kittross, with two children and three grandchildren, he is retired and living in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Mary White

Mary White has sold properties and found new homes for clients of her Barnbrook Realty business for 25 years. She serves on the Berkshire County Board of Realtors, the New Marlboro Planning Board, the Board of Directors of Construct, Inc., and the Rotary Club. Mary is a Massachusetts Association of Realtors Director and a Berkshire Realtor Representative on visits to legislators in Washington DC. Mary has also volunteered for Berkshire Children’s Chorus, Interfaith Committee of Southern Berkshire and St. Peter’s Church. The organizations in which she serves in leadership roles raise millions of dollars for those in need in the southern Berkshires.

Henry “Hank” Ervin

“Hank” Ervin is a native of North Carolina, attending the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, and he came to New England via his association with Camp Becket. He received his MBA from Boston University and is currently an economic development consultant. He has served on the Board of the South Berkshire Chamber of Commerce and the Great Barrington Rotary Club, and he was the former president and a director of the Massachusetts Rural Development Council. Presently, Hank is a director of the Berkshire South Regional Community Center. Hank was instrumental in the establishment of the Main Street Action Association that helped to redevelop downtown Great Barrington in the 1990s, and he was a member of a community focus group that spawned the “Berkshire Grown” movement for Community Supported Agriculture. Among his interests are rural economic development, land preservation, literature and golf.

Richard Brittain

Richard is the Mortgage Loan Officer at Greylock Federal Credit Union in Great Barrington. He hails from a family of five generations of Texans, and he is an Army veteran. He graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit and received an advanced degree from American College. He has served as President of the South Berkshire Chamber of Commerce, of the South Berkshire Chapter of the American Cancer Society and of Construct, Inc. He has been a Merit Badge Counselor for the Boy Scouts of America and a soccer coach. Currently, he teaches banking courses for the Center for Financial Training in Norwich, Connecticut, and he is a member of the Rotary Club.