Andy Shepard

Andy spent 16 years at L.L.Bean in Freeport, Maine working on strategies, products and services to inspire people to spend time outdoors. While at L.L.Bean Andy and longtime friend, Max Cobb, were co-architects of a strategy to develop a new economic model for Northern Maine. That model, with the support of the Portland-based Libra Foundation, has become the Maine Winter Sports Center.

Their programs continue to get thousands of Maine’s kids started on a healthy, active, outdoor lifestyle each year, provide world-class coaching that helps those kids with Olympic aspirations to fulfill their dreams and help create empowered volunteer organizations from Eliot to Fort Kent. The Maine Winter Sports Center has won awards around the globe, across the country and here at home. Acknowledging the success of the Maine Winter Sports Center, Andy was named the Outstanding non-profit business executive for Maine in 2010, recipient of the Russell Wilder Award by the US Ski and Snowboard Association in 2009 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Maine in 2006. Andy is also a trustee of Pineland Farms and is a co-founder, Vice Chairman and trustee of the United States Biathlon Foundation.