Our Board

Tom has been a mem­ber and sec­re­tary of the VGRCCA board since 2008.  He grew up in Wis­con­sin and attend­ed UW-Madi­son where he met his wife, Pat. They lived in the San Fran­cis­co Bay area for 25 years and he retired in 2007 after 35 years with 3M Com­pa­ny in tape and elec­tron­ics sales.  Tom and Pat have been full-time res­i­dents and golf mem­bers of the Venet­ian since 2005.  Tom served on the VCDD board from 2008–2014 and has been on the Venet­ian POA board since 2015.  He is chair of the City of Venice Envi­ron­men­tal Advi­so­ry Board, which works with the City Coun­cil to fos­ter envi­ron­men­tal improve­ment in Venice.  His out­side inter­ests are golf, hik­ing, scu­ba div­ing, pho­tog­ra­phy, music, trav­el, and any­thing to do with the ocean.

Michelle is from Beth­le­hem, PA and earned a B.A. from Mora­vian Col­lege (1993) and a M.B.A. from Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty (2002).  Her life is some­what atyp­i­cal in that she had a career for 20 years pri­or to becom­ing a mom.  For the first ten years she trav­eled exten­sive­ly as a Nation­al Sales Man­ag­er for Allied Waste (for­mer­ly BFI.) The sec­ond decade was spent self-employed as an inde­pen­dent mar­ket­ing con­sul­tant and entre­pre­neur coach.  Pri­or to relo­cat­ing to Flori­da, Michelle served on the boards of sev­er­al non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tions in the Beth­le­hem area, includ­ing hold­ing exec­u­tive posi­tions such as Trea­sur­er.  Michelle is mar­ried to David Trent and togeth­er they have a daugh­ter Maria who was born in 2014.

Michelle has been com­ing to the Venet­ian Golf & Riv­er Club since 2006 and has been a prop­er­ty own­er since 2015.  Her goals are to keep VG&RC wel­com­ing, thriv­ing, attrac­tive, and ulti­mate­ly the place “to be” in south­west Flori­da.  After liv­ing most of her adult life only 10 miles from her par­ents, it was dif­fi­cult to move far away. How­ev­er, the Venet­ian feels like home and pre­serv­ing its beau­ty and esteem is very impor­tant to her.  Some of her many inter­ests include bik­ing and learn­ing to play the ukulele.  After Michelle’s daugh­ter starts school she’d like to get back to work and begin her “sec­ond” career.  So until she finds her next call­ing she is vol­un­teer­ing her time and being sup­port­ive to her neigh­bors in a mul­ti­tude of ways.

Lew and his wife Pam have resided at the Venet­ian for 12 years. Pri­or to retir­ing to Venice, Lew served as Chief of Police and is expe­ri­enced in all aspects of Admin­is­tra­tion. This includ­ed Plan­ning and Research, Labor Man­age­ment, Bud­get Prepa­ra­tions and pre­sen­ta­tions, and Secu­ri­ty Pro­to­col. Lew earned a Mas­ters of Pub­lic Admin­is­tra­tion, Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Admin­is­tra­tion, and is a Grad­u­ate of the F.B.I. Nation­al Acad­e­my. He has served on numer­ous com­mu­ni­ty orga­ni­za­tions the P.O.A. Board of Direc­tors (2015–2017), where he chaired the Com­mit­tee on revis­ing leas­ing pro­ce­dures at the Venet­ian and attend­ed meet­ings of the ACC and Rules Com­mit­tees. He was the Chair­per­son of the VCCD Traf­fic Enforce­ment Com­mit­tee (2017). Pre­sent­ed rec­om­men­da­tions of the Com­mit­tee to reduce and iden­ti­fy offend­ers and imple­men­ta­tion of sig­nage, and oth­er traf­fic calm­ing mea­sures to improve dri­ving and pedes­tri­an traf­fic con­cerns with­in the Venet­ian Com­mu­ni­ty.  He served on the Venet­ian Riv­er Club Fit­ness Com­mit­tee – (2013–2015 Chair­man).  He also served on the Venet­ian Golf Hand­i­cap Com­mit­tee and the Men’s Golf Com­mit­tee (2015–2017).  Lew was the Pres­i­dent of the San Mar­co II Home­own­ers Asso­ci­a­tion, Venet­ian (2005–2010) and was Vice-Pres­i­dent of the Corn­field Point Beach Asso­ci­a­tion, Old Say­brook, Ct.  2001–2016. While liv­ing in Con­necti­cut Lew was a mem­ber of the Board of Select­men — Town of Clin­ton, Ct.  1994–2003, a mem­ber of the Board of Finance — Town of Clin­ton, Ct. 1992–1994 and served on the Plan­ning and Zon­ing Com­mis­sion — Town of Clin­ton, Ct (Chair­man for 2 years) 1986–1992.

Jer­ry was born and raised in Grand Blanc, Michi­gan. He received a Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing degree from Case Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy (lat­er to become Case West­ern Reserve Uni­ver­si­ty) in 1961. His work­ing career con­sist­ed of 35 years with Chica­go Bridge and Iron Co., an inter­na­tion­al engi­neer­ing and con­struc­tion firm. Jer­ry held var­ied sales and man­age­ment posi­tions with CB&I, being assigned to sev­er­al South­east Asia and U.S. West Coast loca­tions. At the time of his retire­ment in 1996, he served as Vice Pres­i­dent and Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of CB&I’s open shop con­struc­tion arm for the west­ern Unit­ed States. Pri­or to mov­ing to the VG&RC in 2007, Jer­ry and his wife Barb spent their “first” retire­ment years in Flat Rock, North Car­oli­na where he served two years as pres­i­dent of the Ken­mure Archi­tec­tur­al Com­mit­tee, respon­si­ble for review and approval of all new con­struc­tion and home mod­i­fi­ca­tions in a com­mu­ni­ty of some 700 res­i­dents. In addi­tion to his sev­er­al years on the Com­mu­ni­ty Asso­ci­a­tion Board and as Chair of the CA Exter­nal Affairs Com­mit­tee, Jer­ry served  as Vice Pres­i­dent on the VG&RC  Prop­er­ty Asso­ci­a­tion Board and ear­li­er, on the POA Archi­tec­tur­al Con­trol, Riv­er Club Explorato­ry and Tran­si­tion Com­mit­tees. He also serves on the Venet­ian CDD , being Chair of that Board for the last 3 ½ years.    Jer­ry was also a mem­ber of the City’s Sol­id Waste & Recy­cling Stake­hold­ers Group and is present­ly a mem­ber of Venice’s Util­i­ty Rate Stake­hold­ers Group.

Diane received her under­grad­u­ate degree in psy­chol­o­gy from Get­tys­burg Col­lege, and her Master’s degree from Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty. She pur­sued a career in edu­ca­tion and real estate spe­cial­iz­ing in land devel­op­ment in sub­ur­ban Philadel­phia. Under Gov­er­nor Tom Ridge of Penn­syl­va­nia she was rec­og­nized as a busi­ness woman of dis­tinc­tion. She has served on many boards, includ­ing most recent­ly, pres­i­dent of her HOA in Sandes­tin Golf and Beach Resort for eight years.

Michael Wen­droff spent 30 years in marketing/ man­age­ment for major cor­po­ra­tions, both domes­ti­cal­ly and glob­al­ly. He cur­rent­ly heads up his own con­sul­tan­cy, spe­cial­iz­ing in strate­gic devel­op­ment, posi­tion­ing, and mar­ket­ing.

Bob was born in the Bronx, N.Y. and moved to Long Island in 1955 until 2006.  He and his wife, Noel, moved to the Venet­ian Golf & Riv­er Club in 2006. Bob attend­ed Nas­sau Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege and served in the U.S. Army 1966–1968.  He con­tin­ued his edu­ca­tion at John Jay School of Crim­i­nal Jus­tice and began his career in Law Enforce­ment.  Ear­ly in his career, he was appoint­ed to the Detec­tive Divi­sion and rose to the rank of Sergeant.  Dur­ing this time, he was elect­ed to serve as Trea­sur­er, fol­lowed by Pres­i­dent of the Long Beach Police Benev­o­lent Asso­ci­a­tion.  He retired in 1989.  Dur­ing his 21 plus year career in law enforce­ment, Bob co-owned a suc­cess­ful exter­mi­nat­ing com­pa­ny.  Bob served on the Long Beach Youth Board for four years.  Fol­low­ing his retire­ment from law enforce­ment, Bob entered into the mort­gage field as the Direc­tor of the REO Divi­sion for a lead­ing Mort­gage Bank­ing Com­pa­ny, man­ag­ing over $20 mil­lion in a real estate port­fo­lio.  This posi­tion led Bob into the Mort­gage Bank­ing con­ven­tion­al and sub-prime lend­ing busi­ness for the next 15 years, part­ner­ing with his wife.  Bob has been in the Venice area since the year 2000, own­ing a home in the Vene­tia Com­mu­ni­ty.  Bob is active in ten­nis and golf and has served on the Board of the VGRCCA  since 2012.