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Bill Braine
Bill is a marketer, communications specialist, product manager, and writer with extensive experience promoting world-class companies to consumers, businesses, and governments. Because of his interests in local government, small business, social welfare, and sustainability, Bill is a thrice-elected Trustee of the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY. He volunteers extensively within his community and with Hudson Valley nonprofits.
Bill formed Braine Consulting LLC after decades in high-performing marketing organizations: at Mastercard—where he worked on sustainability initiatives, enterprise business pitches, and solutions to promote small businesses and local commerce—and at Sotheby’s auction house, where he helped source consignments from, and marketed them to, some of the world’s wealthiest and most sophisticated collectors.
Along the way he’s helped complex, world-class companies and small municipalities and nonprofits meet their disparate goals: win business, build brand, improve the constituent or customer experience, achieve and promote sustainability best practices, manage expenses, improve infrastructure, and encourage economic activity.
Decades of experience
Volunteerism and civic engagement at the core
A longtime local commerce booster, Bill believes in bringing business experience, administrative skill, and sweat equity to bear in the community. As a part-time Village Trustee, he is one of five tasked with oversight of finances, operations, local law, conservation, development, and the water system for a 3,000-resident Hudson Valley village. He is the former Chair of the Town of Cornwall (NY) Economic Development Advisory Committee and primary creator of the town’s Main Street revitalization plan, Cornwall Rising. He is a former co-host of the Cornwall New Year’s Eve ball drop, a former Running columnist for the Times Herald-Record, author of the rural suspense novel Bone Hollow, and a volunteer with the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley, Habitat for Humanity, Riverkeeper, the Cornwall July 4 Committee, and the Cornwall Cleanup Crew. Bill was a Trustee of the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum for two years, and he is also a founding member of the Cornwall Community Co-Op, which gave rise to the local Farmer’s Market.
