Board of Directors

Jane Abraham | Director

For over 15 years, Jane Abraham served as a Retail and Fashion Coordinator for Bloomingdales. Throughout her life, she has remained committed to various community organizations including the Aaron & Lillie Straus Foundation; the Jewish Historical Society; Hebrew Homes of Maryland; and the Lombardi Cancer Center. She has generously supported Second Genesis for years and served as Gala Chairperson in 1996. Abraham is also a loving wife, mother, and grandmother.

Bob Carlstrom | Chairman of the Board

Bob Carlstrom is Vice President for Marketing of National Cable Communications. Bob joined the NCC corporate team in January 2007, after having developed the initial strategy for the industry to bring TV On Demand to the political, governmental, and public affairs arenas. A former senior executive in the White House Office of Management and Budget, he also co-founded and ran two substantial business enterprises, one in professional services, which under his leadership became one of the largest independent government and public affairs firms in Washington, and the second in manufacturing, formed through the concurrent acquisition of six companies in five states. Carlstrom earned his B.A. in Political Science from Augustana College (IL) and has studied general management, public administration, and law at American University (DC) and Wayne State University (MI). Carlstrom is serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Second Genesis.

Patti Farrell | Secretary

She is a married mother of three daughters, one of whom was a resident at the Second Genesis Anne Arundel program and is now herself a successful owner of a small business. Patricia has served on the Board of Trustees at the Connelly School of the Holy Child in Potomac, MD, where she and her daughter are currently the dive coaches. She has served as the Home & School president and on the Parent Advisory Board at St. Bartholomew’s School in Bethesda, where she coached cheerleading and softball for her daughters’ teams. She also served as President on the Montgomery County Dive League. She is currently the Secretary of the Executive Board at Second Genesis.

Jack Klimp | Director

Lieutenant General Jack W. Klimp graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1968 with a B.S. degree and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. He also holds M.A. degrees in Public Administration and National Security and Strategic Studies. He is a graduate of the Amphibious Warfare School, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the U.S. Naval War College. In 1998, he was promoted to lieutenant general and was assigned as Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. General Klimp was the Senior Vice President and Director of the NY region for Phoenix House, a drug rehabilitation progam for adults and adolescents, upon retiring from the Marine Corps. In 2005, he became President of GAMA, an association of appliance and equipment manufacturers. In 2008, he became the CEO of AHRI (Air-conditioning, Heating Refrigeration Institute) after leading a successful year long merger effort with ARI (Air-conditioning Refrigeration Institute). After leading Second Genesis as its president for two years Jack is now the president of the National Association for Uniformed Services (NAUS).

Roscoe Little | Treasurer

Mr. Little is an Investment Consultant with Miles Howland & Co. LLC. He graduated from Duke University with a BA in Economics in 1979 and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Finance MBA, in 1983. Mr. Little has over 20 years of financial institution and investment advisory experience and is actively involved in tutoring Executive MBA students from a number of regional MBA programs as well as tutoring math for 5th and 6th grade students. Mr. Little resides in Vienna, VA and is an avid golfer and cyclist. He has four children ages 24, 22, 20, and 14.

Charles Lollar | Director

Charles Lollar has been in business for over 15 years. Starting as a front line manager for UPS in 1993. Charles served for 3 years as a manager for UPS and joined the Marine Corps in spring 1997, where he continues to serve in a reserve capacity as an Intelligence Analyist at the Pentagon. In the summer of 2004, Charles began a career as a Service Manager for Cintas Corp. and for the past 5 years has been the General Manager for Cintas, managing both the D.C. and central Maryland markets. He currently serves as an Executive Board member of Leadership Maryland, Merrick School of Business/UB, Maryland Chamber of Commerce and is currently a member of the Class of 2007 for Leadership Prince Georges County. Charles resides in Newburg, Maryland with his wife Rosha and four daughters.

Kerwin Miller | Director

Attorney Kerwin E. Miller is a Washington, DC native, who serves as a Government Relations Consultant and also serves as an Executive Coach with Career Consulting Incorporated, a premier full-service career management, development and marketing firm. Kerwin has served as a Federal Government Attorney and was appointed by DC Mayor Anthony A. Williams to his Cabinet Administration, as the Director of the newly-established DC Office of Veterans Affairs. Kerwin was responsible for the management and daily operation of the new office which provides advocacy support and benefits assistance and information to District of Columbia’s 40,000 veterans, their dependents, and their survivors concerning federal and District laws and regulations affecting veterans’ benefits and claims. Kerwin was later reappointed, as the Director, in the Cabinet Administration of Mayor Adrian Fenty, where he served, until his recent Federal Government retirement. Kerwin is a retired Naval Reserve Officer, who has received awards and honors for his Washington, DC community service involvement. Kerwin earned his LL.M., from the George Washington University Law School; his J.D., from Howard University School of Law; and his B.S. from the United States Naval Academy.

Peregrine Roberts | Vice-Chairman

Mr. Roberts is a native of Baltimore, Maryland and a graduate of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia (1981 B.A. Economics). He resides with his wife in the Observatory Circle neighborhood of Washington DC and is a member of the All Saint's Church in Rehobeth Beach, Delaware. Mr. Roberts founded Bethesda based TSC Realty Services LLC in 1999 in partnership with The John Akridge Company. TSC Realty Services LLC is a multi-faceted commercial real estate advisory firm. In 1985, Mr. Roberts began his real estate career as an industrial broker with the Carey Winston Company, now known as Transwestern Commercial Real Estate Services, and is a Life Member of the Washington Board of Realtors. He is a licensed real estate broker in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. During his 20 years in the industry, Mr. Roberts has overseen the leasing, sale, development and operation of office and industrial projects totaling approximately 20,000,000 square feet.

John Troha | Director

John Troha recently celebrated his thirty-fifth anniversary as a freelance photographer. John received a B.S. in Physics, from St. Vincent College. His extensive professional experience has included a myriad of situations from photojournalism and personal events to high- tech industrial photography. He has photographed six of the last seven presidents, produced and directed DVD’s, television commercials and video crews and received numerous trade and print media awards. John also creates gallery prints, giclee cards and an annual calendar of favorite subjects. Having photographed at Second Genesis facilities, John is committed to publishing the message that treatment programs work. John and his wife, Carol live in their historic pre-Civil War family house. Their two sons grew up as the sixth generation in the family home. John's interest in historic restoration is well explored in his own home.