Bay Park Conservancy hires first full-time CFO

The Bay Park Conservancy has taken another step in growing its executive team, naming Steve Germaine as the nonprofit organization’s first full-time chief financial officer. 

Germaine will initially report to Founding CEO AG Lafley, then to new president and CEO Stephanie Crockatt when she joins the BPC in June 2023. The conservancy is responsible for planning, developing, operating and maintaining The Bay, the 53-acre city-owned park on Sarasota Bay. 

“Steve is a seasoned accounting and financial manager with more than 20 years of experience as the financial head of a major for-profit business and with significant nonprofit experience,” said Lafley in a news release. “He is well qualified to lead, manage and deliver the breadth and depth of financial management, accounting and reporting that The Bay Park Conservancy will need as it continues to expand and grow.”

For the past 20 years Germaine has served as controller and then vice president of finance and CFO of the largest division of Timex Corp. His prior financial experience was with both large and mid-size publicly and privately held companies in various manufacturing sectors. He also has served as the treasurer for nonprofit organizations that support children, college athletics, church and community.

“I’m excited about elevating the finance function of the Bay Park Conservancy to its highest level so it can meet the evolving and growing needs of its internal team, its network of external partners, and importantly, the park guests and supportive donors of The Bay,” said Germaine in the release.

The hiring comes on the heels of the recent naming of Crockatt as the BPC’s first full-time CEO. She is currently executive director at the Buffalo Olmsted Park Conservancy.