Our Founder
Michael A. Liberty, founder, has been a serial entrepreneur and a successful business executive for more than 30 years in industries ranging from real estate, textile, retail merchandising and manufacturing to entertainment, the Internet and wireless technology. In 1980, Mr. Liberty founded Liberty Group Inc., which has grown to become one of the largest and most successful real estate holding companies in New England. Its subsidiary, American Housing Preservation Corporation, is a leader in the subsidized housing industry with a portfolio of more than 10,000 units in 18 states, valued at more than $600 million. In 1985, Mr. Liberty was nominated by President Reagan as one of the Outstanding Young Men of America.
In the early ’90′s, Mr. Liberty co-founded Cambridge Associates Holdings Corporation, a Massachusetts-based private equity firm. As CEO, he led numerous management/leveraged buyouts in the consumer products, textile and food products industries. In this capacity, Mr. Liberty was instrumental in developing and creating multiple brands as well as structuring a number of top-level supplier relationships with large U.S. retailers, including Wal-Mart, on behalf of investee companies. Mr. Liberty has had great success in building consumer product brands across various industries.
Michael Liberty has been a visionary and pioneer in the wireless industry since 1997, when he became an angel investor in a mobile paging company called Intelligent Information Incorporated, prior to going public as I3 Mobile (IIIM, NASDAQ).
In 1998 Mr. Liberty founded Mobile Media Group, Inc. (MMG), a wireless content company formed to aggregate and re-purpose entertainment content for distribution and syndication to wireless networks, including I3 Mobile’s carrier customers. Since MMG’s early leadership and recognition of multi-channel value added services, MMG has become a pioneer and leader in mobile payment processing. The company now operates under the name Mozido, LLC. Mr. Liberty is the Vice Chairman and Founder of Mozido.
Mr. Liberty is a world-class brand builder and creator, with unmatched knowledge of supply chain management, manufacturing, brand building, distribution and global sourcing. His company American Sales & Merchandising (AS&M) negotiated and delivered the worldwide merchandising rights to the CBS global hit reality television show, America’s Next Top Model, to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. America’s Next Top Model apparel and cosmetics rolled out in 300 Wal-Mart stores nationwide November 2008.
Board of Directors
Dr. Stan Liberty- President, is a native of Maine and earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is President Emeritus of Kettering University, having concluded six years of service as Kettering’s sixth president on June 30, 2011. Upon his retirement, he was lauded for his innovative leadership style, credited with the launch of new academic degree programs and the construction of an innovation center in addition to the development of initiatives that deepened the university’s involvement in the surrounding community. Although retired, he served as Interim President of Bradley University from June 1 – December 31, 2015. He also served as a professor-in-residence of electrical and computer engineering at Bradley University and taught graduate and undergraduate courses on both part-time and full-time bases between January of 2014 and May of 2017. While president of Kettering, he served as a member of the Strategic Board of the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce and he served on the Boards of: Kettering University; PalNet (a Flint area higher educational library consortium); the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Michigan, Michigan Virtual University, the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, the National Commission for Cooperative Education, the Association of Independent Technological Universities, and the Tri-County Venture Capital Fund I, LLC in Peoria, Illinois. Presently he serves on the Boards of the Liberty Family Foundation (as president), and Fintiv, Inc. He is also Manager of Ridgefield Healthcare, LLC and CEO of S.R. Liberty Consulting Services, LLC. Dr. Liberty went to Kettering from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, where he had served seven and one-half years as provost and vice president for academic affairs. While at Bradley he was a member of the Board of the Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce (PACC), chaired the PACC Transportation Committee, was a member of the PACC Business Advisory Committee, and served on the Peoria Civic Federation Transportation Committee. He also chaired the Research, Education and Innovation Team of Peoria NEXT, a science and technology based economic development initiative, and he was a member of the Community Advisory Board for the Peoria Area World Affairs Council. Before joining Bradley, he served as dean of engineering for 13-1/2 years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and as that university’s interim vice chancellor for academic affairs. Under former Nebraska Governors Kay Orr and Ben Nelson, he served as the Nebraska representative on the Science and Technology Council of the States, a working group of the National Governor’s Association. In 1995 he worked at Transcrypt International, a manufacturer of secure communications products, in a part-time position as director of advanced research and planning. He also served as department chair of electrical engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and as a faculty member at Texas Tech University, where he was founding director of Texas Tech’s center for energy research, an associate dean of graduate studies, and a member of the Texas Energy Advisory Council. Prior to his academic career he was employed as a design engineer by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Dr. Liberty’s research in the 2 areas of mathematical system theory and stochastic control theory was supported by grants from several federal agencies including NSF, NASA and the Office of Naval Research. The statistical control theory known as “cumulant control” has its origins in his work. In 1976 he was named the “Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Professor in the United States” by Eta Kappa Nu; He is a 2005 recipient of the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering Honor Award for “significant contributions to the advancement of engineering, or meritorious achievements in engineering;” And he was a 2016 recipient of the Cheverus High School (Portland, Maine) Magis Award. Dr. Liberty is an accomplished musician, having first performed professionally at the age of 13. He has been very active as a coach and leader in youth sports organizations in four states. He is an avid fisherman and a golfer.
April Liberty- Artistic Program Director, is a passionate educator who strives to encourage and inspire youth to reach their full potentials. Ms. Liberty’s efforts to inspire students of all ages has been supported by her music performance degree from the University of Miami, high school diploma from Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts/New England Conservatory Prep and her certifications as a Music Together Specialist and O’Connor Violin Method educator. Through the years, Ms. Liberty has taught, mentored, consulted, conducted and performed in numerous venues both locally and internationally. Ms. Liberty has been an educator within the Community Arts Program Conservatory for the Arts, Florida Youth Orchestra Program’s S.T.E.P.S outreach, P.A.C.E Homeschool Enrichment, Henry West Laboratory Elementary School, and served both as an educator and consultant at the Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart. In addition, Ms. Liberty established her own violin and viola studio serving students all throughout the greater Miami area and founded and Directed the first American Music Camp in Maine. Aside from her passion for music education, Ms. Liberty has volunteered her time for the Indego Africa organization and is proud to continue her more than ten years of involvement with the Liberty Family Foundation (“LFF”). While volunteering with LFF, Ms. Liberty has had many wonderful experiences helping to facilitate impactful initiatives. Some of her most memorable initiatives have included helping Nigerian music teachers receive certifications and training within the American music system in the US and serving on the foundation’s scholarship committee providing thousands of dollars in financial aid for deserving Maine college-bound seniors. Most recently, Ms. Liberty was honored to introduce and support a group of DACA students from UCLA’s NAID Center/Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicano/a studies at the White House and on Capitol Hill where the students presented their research and provided solutions for DACA reform policies. At home, Ms. Liberty is a supportive contributor towards her husband’s real estate career and a proud mother of two curious and creative young girls.
Adriana M. Liberty- Director, is a philanthropist and equestrienne, currently studies Leadership and Spanish at Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Prior to Peace College, Adriana earned her high school diploma from Cheverus Jesuit Preparatory High School in Portland, Maine in 2007. Adriana has devoted much of her life to her equestrienne career and as a result, has achieved multiple regional, national and world championship titles with Morgan show horses since 2002. Adriana first began her volunteer work at Redbank Child Development Center in South Portland, Maine, as a helper in the toddler room. Adriana continued her volunteer work while in college at the Rosa Parks Center in Fulton Missouri, home of youth female correctional offenders; where she mentored two of their residents. After her work in Missouri, she traveled to Ethiopia for a five- week volunteer term with Projects Abroad. During her stay in Ethiopia she worked at the Enat Alem Orphanage in Addis Ababa where she aided in the general care of the children and read children’s books to the older children in English.
Richard A. Liberty- Secretary, graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in accounting/corporate finance. Mr. Liberty has been an award winning investment professional of over thirty-three years. During the past fourteen years Mr. Liberty owned and operated his own investment advisory firm. Prior to that he was a branch manager of a Wall Street securities firm and an accountant for the international accounting firm Cooper & Lybrand. Mr. Liberty also co-founded an internationally marketed energy drink where he assisted in formula development, packaging and marketing strategies. Mr. Liberty has been a Trustee and or Director of several charitable entities and organizations and has been head chaperon for New England Conservatory’s (“NEC”) international orchestral performance tour of Spain and chaperone of many other NEC performance tours including Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela.
Anthony T. Fratianne – is General Counsel and Senior Vice President of the Liberty Companies. Prior to moving to Maine in 2009, Anthony practiced in the Real Estate and Private Client Groups of Morgan Lewis, one of the world’s leading global law firms, resident in the Philadelphia office, where he represented numerous Fortune 100 companies, Forbes 400 families, and Hollywood celebrities. While practicing at a leading Portland Maine law firm, Anthony was named a “rising star” by Superlawyers magazine, and handled many high-profile deals, including the sale of the largest resort complex in Maine, and the $100,000,000+ acquisition of a portfolio of wind turbine farms. Anthony was also the national real estate leasing counsel for the public company, IDEXX. Anthony is a 1998 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy, where he was an all-conference member of the baseball team, and he graduated in 2002 from the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University.Anthony is a member of the Board of Directors of the PortOpera, and a member of the Cumberland Club and the Portland Yacht Club
Alan D. Theriault- Treasurer