New board for think tank on aging boasts star power

SARASOTA — An executive with Intel and a national expert on aging and adult transitions are part of the newly elected board of directors at the Institute for the Ages.

Nancy Schlossberg, professor emerita at the University of Maryland and author of books about retirement and life transitions, was elected board chair of the nonprofit, which studies how to connect businesses with seniors. Steve Agritelley, director of Health Research and the Innovation Lab at semiconductor firm Intel, was elected vice-chair, according to a release.

Other board members for the 2014 term include Treasurer and Secretary Rob Lane, a partner with Sarasota-based accounting firm Kerkering and Barberio; Immediate Past Chair John Dart, a senior partner at Sarasota law firm Adams and Reese; Richard Adler, a distinguished fellow at The Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, Calif.; C.J. Fishman, President of Venice-based commercial kitchen firm Fishman and Associates; Gail Hunt, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Caergiving in Bethesda, Md.; Sarasota-based CAP Brand Marketing President Roxanne Joffe; and H.R. (Rick) Moody, retired director of academic affairs at AARP in Washington, D.C.

Schlossberg, one of the founders of the organization and a nationally known speaker on aging, has been on the board of the Institute or the Ages since it was founded in July 2011. Agritelley is responsible for directing research for Intel's growth in the personal health marketplace. He has been with the firm since 1996.

The Institute recently entered a partnership with Georgia Tech to help bring aging-care products to the marketplace.