Keynote Speaker Tony Payne, recently retired, was the Senior Vice President of External Affairs at MEMIC, Maine’s largest workers’ compensation insurance company. He is a Beta Class graduate (1995) of the ICL Intensive and former board chair of ICL. He has employed those organizational and collaborative leadership skills throughout his professional and civic life including service on the Falmouth Town Council, Chair of the Board of Visitors for the University of Southern Maine and Executive Director of the Alliance for Maine’s Future. Earlier this year, Tony was recognized for his advocacy work as the 2023 Volunteer of the Year by the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce as well as the ICL Distinguished Alum of the Maine Development Foundation. He and his wife Charlotte have five grown children and reside in Yarmouth.