Plymouth Harbor board gets biz-centric infusion

SARASOTA — Former Sarasota Memorial Hospital President and CEO Dr. Duncan Finlay has been elected chair of the board of trustees that oversees Plymouth Harbor, a prominent nonprofit continuing care retirement community in Sarasota.

Finlay is currently president and CEO of the Florence A. Rothman Institute and Chief Medical Officer of Alive Sciences, a Sarasota-based health care firm. A Plymouth Harbor trustee for three years, Finlay is part of a new slate of elected officers and members with a heavy concentration of business backgrounds, according to a release. Other new officers include former State College of Florida President Sarah Pappas, named vice chair; Gateway Bank of Southwest Florida Executive Vice President Brian Hall, elected treasurer; and Cindy Malkin, a recent board chair of the William G. and Marie Selby Foundation, elected secretary.

New board members include former food service and hospitality executive John Cranor, who is currently non-executive chair of the board of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen; former Sarasota County Commissioner Nora Patterson; and current Sarasota Memorial Hospital CFO William Woeltjen.