Our Misson

Established by the private sector, Schoharie Economic Enterprise Corporation, commonly known as “SEEC,” was organized as a not-for-profit to strengthen Schoharie County by fostering economic growth.

SEEC serves as a liaison to local municipalities and institutional leaders with the common goal of highlighting distinctive points of light within the community, cultivating entrepreneurial endeavors and enhancing the ability of local businesses to add value to their enterprises.

MWBE Event with ESD & UAlbany SBDC representatives, SEEC. 2024

Measures of Success

Expanded Business Resources
and Network
Connections

Community and Economic Development Engagement

Community Character and Environmental Enhancements

Business
and Industry Growth

Spirit of SEEC

SEEC is guided by social, environmental and financial principles that will accelerate growth and help provide sustainability through a collaborative and thriving business community. 

    • PLACEMAKING. We will inspire people to celebrate our assets and then collectively reimagine, reinvent and rejuvenate structures and streetscapes that strategically enhance the physical and social character of our Schoharie County communities.

    • LEVERAGING ASSETS. We believe a community’s environmental, socio-cultural, and economic advantages may be leveraged into sustained economic growth and productivity. We will deploy asset-based economic development strategies in which villages, hamlets and towns amplify the value of natural and working landscapes, local institutions, existing infrastructure, historic and cultural resources, industry clusters and human capital that compels new capital investment.

    • RESILIENCY. We understand communities and enterprises that can foresee, adapt to and leverage changing conditions to their advantage are best positioned to attract and grow new businesses, retain high caliber industry, cultivate skilled workers, grow healthy families and promote a high quality of life.

    • Digital Revolution

    • Industrial Diversity

    • Main Street Vitality

    • Aspire

    • Enlighten

    • Unify

    • Uplift

SEEC Associates

Advisory Council

Korsah Akumfi, Schoharie County Administrator

Erynne Ansel McCabe, Community Activist

Richard Ball, Commissioner of Agriculture, NYS Department of Agriculture & Markets

Tarkan Ceng, Superintendent, Jefferson Central School District

Barton Finegan, Retired Executive

Dr. S. Scott Ferguson, Chief Economic Development Officer & Executive Director, Institute of Rural Vitality at SUNY Cobleskill

Jacqui Hauser, Small Business Owner & International Human Resource Consultant

Robbin Jorgensen, Founder & CEO, Women Igniting Change

Honorable Denise Kelly, Mayor, Village of Sharon Springs

Donna LaVigne, Retired Small Business Owner

Maureen Lodes, Small Business Owner, Cobbler & Co.

Augustus McGiver, Chief of Staff, SUNY Cobleskill President’s Office

Dr. Marion A. Terenzio, President, SUNY Cobleskill

Alicia Terry, Town Supervisor of Gilboa, Chair, Agriculture & American Plan Act Committees

Board of Directors

  • Thomas O. Putnam

    SEEC Founding Member & Chairperson

  • Eric H. Stein, Fache

    SEEC Founding Member & Treasurer

  • Peter Johnson

    SEEC Founding Member & Secretary

  • Jim Becker

    SEEC Founding Member

  • Steven A. Harris

    SEEC Founding Member

  • Julie Pacatte

    SEEC Board Member

  • Nan Stolzenburg

    SEEC Board Member

  • Paul Conroy

    SEEC Board Member

  • Benjamin Oevering

    SEEC Board Member