Jessie Clark is the Owner of Carefree Boat Club, a members-only boat club with 80 locations around the world. She also serves as the company’s Vice President of Marketing and Member Relations. She joined forces with her husband 12 years ago to engage fully with the business. Prior to that, she worked in international marketing and has expertise in strategic marketing and branding, product life-cycle management, cross-cultural communications, customer retention, research and project management. She held senior positions at VeriSign, Iridium and Global One/Sprint International.
Jessie is an active, hands-on volunteer. She is TESOL-certified and teaches English as a Second Language (ESL) classes and volunteers as a pro-bono business consultant for nonprofits through COMPASS. She has been a board member of the Reston YMCA since 2018. Her history with NVFS goes back to 2012 when she began serving on the Marketing Committee and she made the transition to the NVFS board of directors in February 2020.
Jessie is a graduate of Ohio State University with degrees in Japanese and German and has a Master’s of International Management from Thunderbird (American Graduate School of International Management).