Jessica Clark, now retired, is the former owner and Vice President of Marketing and Member Relations of Carefree Boat Club, a members-only boat club with 125 locations around the world. 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.
Jessica 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 was named volunteer of the year of the Reston YMCA in 2022 due to her work with establishing a food pantry during the pandemic. She has been on the board of the Abramson Scholarship Foundation since 2022. 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.
Jessica 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).