Our Team

Mary Budd

President

Mary Aselton Budd joined Starboard Leadership Consulting as its managing director in 2018. Having successfully managed a number of executive searches, Mary has established herself as an energetic and discerning consulting partner for nonprofit organizations in leadership transition. Her practice also includes strategic planning, leadership training, and executive coaching for clients invested in continuous improvement. She is a certified trainer and facilitator in “Everything DiSC.®"

Mary came to Starboard after seven years at the helm of Penobscot Theatre Company in Bangor. As board president and then executive director of the nonprofit regional theatre company, she developed and implemented an ambitious strategic plan that resulted in financial stabilization, programmatic expansion, audience development, and many capital improvements.

Earlier, Mary worked as an independent consultant, heavily focused in the education reform space, with clients including EdisonLearning, Ascend Learning, Leeds Global Partners and the Black Alliance for Educational Options. Mary began her career as a political appointee in the U.S. Department of Education in Washington and later worked for Massachusetts Governor William Weld. She served for five years on the City of Bangor Commission on Cultural Development (two as chair), and was previously elected to the Bangor School Committee.

Keri Lyle

Consulting Partner

Keri joined Starboard in 2022 and brings a decade of coaching experience alongside 15 years in corporate HR. She is a native Mainer and University of Maine at Orono alumna, and "boomeranged" back after a long stint in the Bay Area.

Keri spent the majority of her corporate career at Google where she led large-scale change management and strategic initiatives including the company’s global location strategy and return-to-office. She also advised executives as an HR business partner where she gained direct experience in talent acquisition, organizational design and change, learning and development, diversity and inclusion, and performance management.

In addition to her corporate HR roles, Keri has also been a coach for the last decade serving clients across various levels, functions, and industries – from startup incubator CEOs to emerging and new leaders to women working in environmental and social impact. She also ran Google's best-in-class executive coaching program and delivered coaching skills training to the company's new managers and internal coaches.

Keri is a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and serves on the executive committee of the Maine Coaches Network. She lives in Portland where she is an active member of the community as a volunteer and mentor, and is an avid explorer or Maine's mountains and trails.

Jeff Wahlstrom

Founder

When he founded Starboard Leadership Consulting in 2005, Jeff brought more than 30 years of hands-on non-profit leadership experience, including 11 years as president of the United Way of Eastern Maine, and 12 years of fundraising and related work for Kimball Union Academy and Trinity College. During his tenure, he consulted with dozens of organizations and their leaders on strategic, leadership, and management issues; and was a frequent presenter and workshop leader on a lengthy list of topics. Jeff successfully facilitated nonprofit mergers, counseled organizations through executive searches and leadership transitions, led strategic planning processes, and supported the development and implementation of a wide range of efforts, from community assessments to board governance projects. He also developed an online board self-assessment for nonprofit boards of directors that is available through the Maine Association of Nonprofits.

As a volunteer, Jeff gained substantial experience as a member of a variety of state and local boards, including the Bangor School Committee, the Unity College Board of Trustees, and the Maine Conservation Alliance. He chaired the boards of the United Ways of Maine, the Maine Philanthropy Center, Bangor area's Communities for Children, and the Maine Health Access Foundation. His active community service resulted in Jeff being honored by Bangor Rotary with its Paul Harris Fellow's award and by the Bangor YMCA for his work on behalf of youth.

A 1980 graduate of Bates College, with an M.A.L.S. degree from Dartmouth College, Jeff and his wife live in Bangor, Maine, and have two grown children. He continues to serve Starboard in an advisory capacity.

Mike Hyde

Consulting Partner

Mike Hyde offers more than 40 years’ experience in nonprofit management to clients of Starboard Leadership Consulting. Mike’s expertise includes board relations, strategic planning, fundraising, communications, and government affairs. He has assisted boards to restructure themselves and to adopt best governance practices. He has guided organizations, large and small, through the strategic planning process, and along the way he has raised more than $350 million in support of those plans for the institutions he has represented.

Mike came to Starboard from The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he served as Vice President for External Affairs and Strategic partnerships. In this role he helped to build an understanding of the Laboratory and its programs among key constituencies and represented the organization in policy discussions at various levels of government. He secured the approval of the Connecticut legislature for a $291 million expansion of the Laboratory into that state. He also managed the reorganization of the board of trustees and reshaped the Lab’s branding and communications programs.

Before joining the Laboratory in 2006, Mike served in senior management positions at Oberlin College, Allegheny College, and Alfred University. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Mike has served as a member of the Board of the Maine Biomedical Research Coalition and as a member of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce. He is currently a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Southern Maine. He and his wife Vivian live in Trenton, Maine. They have three grown children.

Scott Schnapp

Consulting Partner

Scott brings to Starboard Leadership Consulting more than 30 years of nonprofit management experience. Having served in staff and board leadership positions for much of his career, Scott particularly enjoys working closely with leaders driving transformational change through their organizations.

Most recently he served as Executive Director of the Maine Association of Nonprofits (MANP) for 14 years. In that position, Scott led the development of a major expansion of professional and organizational development resources for Maine’s nonprofit leaders, including a comprehensive management training program, leadership development programs, capacity building services, assessment tools, management resources, and a technical assistance program. Prior to his work at MANP, Scott served successively as Executive Director of Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility (MEBSR), Camp Sunshine, and Big Brother-Big Sister of Greater Lowell (MA), and before that as Director of Development at the Portland Museum of Art and North Yarmouth Academy.

As a volunteer, Scott has served on the boards of the Maine Development Foundation, Maine Initiatives, and the Children’s Theatre of Maine, and served as Board President of the Falmouth Memorial Library. He has also coached several Odyssey of the Mind teams and local youth sports teams.

A 1978 graduate of Colgate University, Scott lives in Old Orchard Beach with his wife Heidi and a menagerie of pets, and has two grown children.