PORTLAND, ME – Rosa Scarcelli, owner and president of Stanford Management LLC, has been named to the Aspen Institute’s 2009 Henry Crown Fellowship Program.
Scarcelli, 39, is the first Mainer to be named a Crown Fellow. She joins a class of 21 that includes best-selling author Timothy Ferris; Rebecca Blumenstein, international news editor of the Wall Street Journal; and Preeta Bansal, senior policy advisor to President Obama in the Office of Management and Budget. Past fellows have included Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts; Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Jack Markell, businessman and governor of Delaware; and economist Sonal Shah, a member of the Obama-Biden Transition team.
Founded in 1997, the Aspen Institute’s prestigious Henry Crown Fellowship is designed to engage the next generation of leaders in the challenge of community-spirited leadership. It brings together entrepreneurial young executives and professionals under age 45 who have already achieved conspicuous success in their chosen fields and are at a point of inflection in their lives and careers.
A native of Wilton, Maine, Scarcelli had an early passion for real estate and land development, seeking out investments that incorporate provisions for quality affordable housing, restore and reuse historically significant properties, and that assist in revitalizing neighborhoods and reinvest in local communities. Through Stanford Management, she currently owns and manages 80+ affordable housing complexes in Connecticut, Maine, Mississippi and Pennsylvania, and continues to grow their portfolio.
From 1999-2005, she was owner and President of DE Property Management LLC. Prior to that she was Development Director for Landmark America LLC, an industry leading multi-family real estate development company, as well as Development Coordinator for Gleichman & Company, an affordable housing development company in Portland. A graduate of Bowdoin College with a B.A. in Art and Art History, she served as Sen. George Mitchell’s first senate page and as an intern for the New York City Council. Last year she served on the New England Finance Committee for Barack Obama. She is a member of YPO, the Women’s International Network of YPO, the International Women’s Forum, the Maine Women’s Forum, and is a member of the Steering Committee for the Portland Museum of Art.
“We are delighted with this year’s class of Henry Crown Fellows,” said Peter Reiling, Executive Director of the program. “For society, they represent a potent force of talent,
ready to focus their energies on some of the greatest challenges of our times. For them, they are embarking on a personal journey—a journey ‘from success to significance’—that will change their lives forever.”
The Henry Crown Fellowship Program was established in 1997 to honor the life and career of Chicago industrialist Henry Crown (1896-1990) and was initially funded by the Henry and Gladys Crown Charitable Trust Fund. The Fellowship is the flagship program within the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN), now comprising over 900 Fellows from 43 countries, all of whom are committed to applying their entrepreneurial talents to address the foremost challenges of their organizations, communities, and countries. Individuals do not apply to the Henry Crown Fellowship Program; they must be nominated by recognized leaders of business and community organizations or by Fellows, senior mentors, members of the Henry Crown Fellowship Board of Overseers or trustees of the Aspen Institute, and are chosen from a wide pool of young and accomplished entrepreneurial leaders.
The Aspen Institute is an international non-profit organization founded in 1950. Its mission is to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues.
