Since 2014, Joanne Bean, a resident of Portland, has served as Vice President and Chief Advancement Officer at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. Joanne is responsible for overseeing development support and marketing for the Mission-Aligned Businesses at Saint Joseph, an entrepreneurial strategy for addressing emerging issues in the region, including an on-campus Institute for Integrative Aging. She received her nursing degrees from Gwynedd-Mercy University in Pennsylvania and her MBA from Thomas College in Waterville.