Bill Stetson

Eugene William "Bill" Stetson III is an American businessman, film producer and environmental policy advisor to numerous entrepreneurial, not-for-profit and political organizations.

Stetson is the grandson of Eugene W. Stetson, a corporate pioneer who was involved in early ownership of Coca-Cola and expansions of the Illinois Central Railroad and J.P. Morgan & Co., and the great grandson Lunsford Richardson, a U.S. pharmacist and entrepreneur who founded the Vicks Chemical Company (which became Richardson Vicks Inc.), which owned companies such as Vidal Sassoon and Pantene and created a number of well known products, including Vicks VapoRub, Clearasil, Nyquil, and Oil of Olay cream. Stetson is married to Jane Watson Stetson, National Finance Chair for the Democratic National Committee in the United States and granddaughter of Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM. They reside in Norwich, Vermont and Washington, DC with their three daughters Nancy, Katharine and Grace.

Stetson earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard University in 1982, where he was a fellow to Harvard University’s Institute of Politics and member of the renowned Hasty Pudding Club, the oldest collegiate social club in America, founded in 1770. He attended the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he studied energy and natural resources. Stetson also spent time at the Austro-American Institute in Vienna, Austria, where he focused on European government and history studies.

Stetson served as CEO of Fairhill Oil & Gas Corporation, the New York parent company of Canadian energy and exploration firm Fairhill Oil Ltd. While at Fairhill, Stetson worked to transform the company from a traditional oil & gas firm to a profitable natural gas business. He has served on the Board of Directors for Piedmont Financial Company, based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Stetson’s business endeavors and major investments since the late 1990s have focused on socially responsible companies such as Tom’s of Maine, Amber Alert, and the Beech Hill Farm in Rockport, Maine (formerly the largest commercial organic blueberry operation in the state of Maine), which is now operated by the Coastal Mountains Land Trust.

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