Staff Leadership
The Chase Home’s leadership each holds social work degrees and credentials, and years of experience in their field, which provide the knowledge and expertise needed to stabilize families and help them develop tangible life skills to better manage and advance their own lives.
Board of Directors
The team at The Chase Home is guided by two volunteer boards, served by individuals with deep ties in the seacoast community.
The Chase Home is led and overseen by a strategic board. The Board of Directors works to uphold, elevate, and guide The Chase Home’s mission to provide supportive and restorative residential and family services to at-risk youth in a safe and nurturing environment.
Scot Hopps
Board President As a 20 year hospitality professional, taking care of people is core to what drives Scot. Currently Vice President of Operations for Lark Hotels, he has been instrumental in scaling the company while overseeing the management of 50+ boutique hotel properties, including 8 full service restaurants, across 13 states.
Operational logistics, development of teams, and physical asset management are some of the key skills he brings to his work on The Chase Home’s Board of Directors. Scot received his Bachelor’s Degree Cum Laude from Harvard University and his Masters in Mechanical Engineering from UMass Lowell.
Celeste Ledoux
Board Treasurer Celeste brings over 30 years of accounting experience to the Chase Home Board with a background in real estate and non-profits. She most recently served as Chief Financial Officer at CHMWarnick and Director of Finance and Accounting at the Center for Action and Contemplation. Celeste started her career in public accounting and now provides boutique recordkeeping services through her company, CCC Accounting Group, LLC. Celeste holds a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. A Portsmouth resident for over 30 years, Celeste has had children in the Portsmouth schools for most of that time. She is inspired by the dedicated staff at Chase Home and is honored to support their mission of serving at-risk youth and their families.
Shane McDonough
Board Member Shane has been in the business sector for 30 years as Director of Operations, Salesperson and HR professional. He is currently employed by Society for Human Resource Managers (SHRM). His current role is Director of Corporate Partnerships where he works with companies with 5,000 or more employees to craft custom solutions to HR challenges.
Shane attended the University of Southern Maine after completing his commitment in the US Army.
William Tucker
Board Member Tuck, as he’s known to friends, is chief information officer for JSA Design and an architect with more than 40 years’ experience in architecture and software development. From pioneering efforts with computer-aided design and building information modeling applications to web-based project collaboration and asset management technologies, Tuck has long been at the forefront of software technology for design professionals.
He has a bachelor’s degree in environmental design from North Carolina State and a Master of Architecture degree from UCLA. Tuck serves as a Portsmouth election official and regularly joins local community radio to chat about New Hampshire politics.
Ben Lindberg
Board Member Ben currently serves as a Product Owner for Liberty Mutual for which he has worked for the last 15+ years. In this role, he has helped drive significant growth within the digital sales space by building best-in-class customer experiences for online insurance shoppers. More recently, his focus has been on building the backend platform that supports omni-channel capabilities across the company’s various business functions.
Managing stakeholders, organizing teams, and strategy execution are transferable skills that Ben brings to The Chase Home. When he is not working, Ben enjoys staying active/exercising, spending time with his wife and two kids, coaching, and woodworking. Ben received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Business Administration from Endicott College.
Joshua Scott
Board Member Joshua Scott is a principal in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, office of Jackson Lewis P.C., a management side national employment law firm. Josh grew up on the seacoast and believes strongly in the importance of giving back to the community. He has been on the board of several seacoast non-profits and recognizes the importance of the Chase Home and its mission to not just the seacoast, but to all of New Hampshire.
Nicole Dionne
Board Member Nicole “Nikki” Dionne, is a Licensed Clinical Mental health Counselor (LCMHC) and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), with over 20 years of experience supporting youth and their families in the Seacoast region of NH. She began her career in community mental health as a therapist and later as a clinical supervisor, and now owns a private practice in Greenland, NH where she provides psychotherapy as well as consultation and professional training centered around trauma-informed care, neurodiversity-affirming care, and behavior in the context of trauma.
Nikki is passionate about staff development, program development and sustainable systems of care that honor the dignity, safety, and voice of young people. She holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Saint Anselm College, and masters degrees in Counseling from the University of New Hampshire, and Applied Behavior Analysis from Ball State University.
She is honored to support The Chase Home’s mission of providing safe, restorative care to at-risk youth and their families.
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Jennifer McDonough
Board Member Jenn is a Florida native but lived in Virginia Beach for 10 years before making her way to the Seacoast in 2020. With over 20 years in the business world, she brings sales and leadership experience, non profit fundraising knowledge and her current role is with Gartner supporting emerging technology companies in the Northeast; she also owns a donut shop in Suffolk, VA. Her passion for our youth and desire to see them be given every opportunity is what drives her. The Chase Home has really opened her eyes to the kind of support that is needed to help children thrive and it has given her great perspective into what many experience but may never speak of.
Jenn has a bachelor’s from the University of Central Florida in Interpersonal and Organizational communications and a minor in Psychology.
T.D. Thompson
Board Member T.D. is Managing Director of Schooley Mitchell- Boston, the largest independent expense reduction consulting company in North America. His firm specializes in helping nonprofits reduce operating expenses so they have more funds available to apply toward the organization’s intended mission.
Board of Trustees
- David Splaine
President - Ben Wheeler
Treasurer - John Ricci
- John Hebert
- Michael Magnant
- Reverend Robert Stevens
- Pastor Jennifer Mazur
- Ted Alex
- Lisa Destefano
- Phillip Pettis
- Jay McSharry
- Kate Sears