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Orlando Pacheco has served as Lancaster Town Administrator since March of 2005. Prior to serving as Town Administrator, Mr. Pacheco served as Aide to Mayor David T. Hildt of Amesbury Massachusetts. Mr. Pacheco has also served in various capacities with the Town of Andover and the US Social Security Administration. Orlando has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a Master of Public Administration from the University of New Hampshire at Durham. Mr. Pacheco is a recipient of the Bronze and Silver Congressional Award and is a 2 time Ronald E. McNair Scholar. Orlando is a member of the Massachusetts Managers Association, and serves as a management representative on the Massachusetts Municipal Association’s Energy and Environmental Policy Committee. He was also one of Governor Deval Patrick’s Appointee’s to the Regionalization Advisory Commission, established by the State Legislature.

Tim has served seven North Carolina Towns in the past 22 years in positions ranging from Building Inspector, Public Works Director, and Planning Director to Town Manager. He is a member of ICMA and the North Carolina City and County Manager’s Association. Tim earned his Masters in Public Administration from North Carolina State University while working full time. He also is an AICP certified planner and holds level three inspection certificates in all trades for the State of North Carolina. He is married to Betsy Holloman and they have two children, Michael age 9 and Abbey age 7. Betsy is currently working on a Masters in middle school education to teach math and science. In addition to serving his municipality, Tim is cub master for Pack 270 and is a member of the Topsail Island Kiwanis club. Tim enjoys working with people and the fact that every day as a Town Manager is different. Serving as Town Manager offers him a way to influence and shape the community. Encouraging others to consider public service is a high priority and he utilizes graduate students and interns when possible to allow them to gain experience and complete projects that benefit the community. He plans to stay in city and county service many more years and possibly serve outside his home state of North Carolina.

Teri has been dedicated to public sector executive search since 1999. Serving communities with populations over 1 million to towns as small as 2,000, she has built a substantial base of clients across the Western United States that continually rely upon her personalized service and recruitment expertise. Her clients also include special districts, utility agencies and non-profit organizations. Before entering the executive search field, Teri enjoyed a successful career in local and federal government, serving in management positions where she oversaw public safety, finance, human resources, communications, public/legislative affairs, information technology and strategic planning. In the 42nd Presidential Administration, Teri served as Chief of Staff in the U.S. Department of Justice COPS Office where she managed a $2 billion annual budget and a staff of over 200.

CTI was founded in 1992 by three of the earliest recognized luminaries in coaching – Laura Whitworth, and Karen and Henry Kimsey-House – whose earlier collaboration with Thomas Leonard gave rise to coaching as an industry. To date, more than 35,000 coaches, consultants, managers, and new career explorers have been trained through CTI. CTI-trained coaches come from varied backgrounds such as entrepreneurs, CEOs, scientists, medical and technical specialists, parents, educators, therapists, and community leaders. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, CTI is the largest and oldest in-person coach training school in the world and the only program to teach CTI's ground-breaking Co-Active® Model of coaching. CTI is also the very first organization accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF). CTI's founders, along with Phil Sandahl, are co-authors of the industry bestseller, Co-Active Coaching, now in its third edition with 100,000 copies sold.

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