Leadership
Board of Directors
Kevin is the award-winning founder and president of St. Vartan Park Conservancy, and the president of Manhattan East Community Association.
Before he created the Conservancy for the nonprofit to serve the park and its surrounding community, Kevin led an advocacy campaign that successfully opened the park’s city-owned garden and lawn to the general public after decades of closure. The Conservancy is now the official steward of the green oasis.
An accomplished management, technology, marketing and media production professional, Kevin has led New York Sports Tours and other companies. His clients have included many prominent brands. Also an independent writer, Kevin authored the nonfiction bestseller The Average American.
A former all-America athlete, Kevin serves as a volunteer sports coach, including as the head coach of an East Midtown school’s champion track and field program. In basketball, he runs Swish You Were Here, a community nets-replacement program he started in 2020.
Kevin has served on East Midtown’s Manhattan Community Board 6 since 2019. In the borough, he also serves as a trustee of the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association, a board member of the Stuyvesant Cove Park Association and an advisory board member of The Village Trip.
Kevin and his wife and their three teenaged children have lived in East Midtown’s Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village since 2017, following the family’s more than 15 years in Murray Hill close to St. Vartan Park.
Michael-Ann leads St. Vartan Park Conservancy’s green team and a number of other initiatives. She is known for her effective leadership on environmental issues in the St. Vartan Park community of Murray Hill, where she lives west of the park.
A Murray Hill Neighborhood Association (MHNA) trustee, Michael-Ann has led Keep Murray Hill Green & Clean and other breakthrough community initiatives.
In 2022 and 2023 under Michael-Ann's direction, the Adopt A Tree program added many trees planted in public spaces in the community.
Michael-Ann is an Emmy Award-winning food and travel journalist.
Lilli serves as St. Vartan Park Conservancy’s treasurer and development director. An expert in derivative theoretics as an institutional risk manager and investment strategist, Lilli has earned high praise from clients for her demystification of the investment process and her dedication to partnerships with purpose.
Lilli holds extensive executive experience and achievements in the nonprofit realm, including with Student Sponsor Partners, Robin Hood, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Museum of Tolerance, The Good Dog Foundation, Geffen Playhouse, 100 Women in Finance and High Water Women Foundation.
A Murray Hill resident for more than 30 years, Lilli is a trustee of the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association who has served as chair for multiple association committees.
Charlie is St. Vartan Park Conservancy’s sports and recreation committee chair. Now retired after a successful sales leadership career with AT&T, he holds extensive knowledge of domestic and global sales teams and matrix management of numerous internal resources.
Charlie is a long-time supporter of the Doe Fund, whose mission is to break the cycles of poverty, homelessness and recidivism through economic opportunity, housing and comprehensive supportive services.
An active St. Vartan Park pickleball player, Charlie lives east of St. Vartan Park with his wife and enjoys spending time as a new grandfather to his grandson.