BRUNSWICK — Coastal Enterprises, Inc., a mission-driven investor specializing in rural economic development in Maine and throughout the U.S., recently announced that Angela Butler, John Dorrer, Charles Rudelitch and Miriam Shark have been named to its board of directors.

Outgoing board members in 2017 include chairwoman Ellen Seidman, and members David Bennell, Sue Inches and Peter Pitegoff.

Butler is the senior vice president, Commercial Services, for Katahdin Trust Company in Bangor. Prior to joining Katahdin Trust in 2016, she worked as a commercial banker in Maine for People’s United Bank and its predecessor, Merrill Bank, for 22 years. She has extensive experience with low income housing tax credit and state historic tax credit financing as well as commercial lending in the medical, manufacturing, logging and agriculture sectors. Butler graduated from Colby College with a B.A. in administrative science.

Dorrer is a labor economist and consultant focused on human capital development who has worked at the local, state and national level in leadership, executive and technical roles over the past 35 years. Most recently, he served as senior adviser at Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, where he helped organize a multi-state consortium of state policymakers, academic economists and data scientists to examine links between state education and training investments with economic and labor market performance. Dorrer received a M.S. degree in resource economics and B.A. in economics from the University of New Hampshire.

Rudelitch joined the Sunrise Economic Development Council as executive director in May 2014. He has earned degrees in applied history from Carnegie Mellon University; resource economics and policy from the University of Maine; as well as a law degree from the University of Maine School of Law. Prior to joining SEDC, he served as the staff attorney for Pine Tree Legal in Hancock and Washington counties.

Shark is an independent consultant working from Portland to help organizations achieve their visions of excellence. Over a 25-year career at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Shark assumed wide-ranging management and programmatic responsibilities across issue areas of family, community and opportunity. Shark has an A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis, an M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from St. Louis University and an M.P.A. from Harvard University.