John Wigglesworth Everets

John Everets has been chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Bank of Maine from 2010 to date. Prior to the Bank of Maine, he was the chief executive officer of General Electric H.P.S.C. from 2004 to 2006. From 1993 to 2004 he was chairman and chief executive officer of H.P.S.C., which was acquired by General Electric in 2004. He is a director of the Eastern Company, and over the last 35 years he has served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards including those of the Soane Museum Foundation and the Trust for America’s Health, which he assisted Governor Lowell Weicker in founding. In 1989, John Everets began collecting first editions of rare books from a small press in Paris called Black Sun. Over a 25-year period, thanks to numerous fortunate coincidences and the birth of the internet, he was able to assemble a wonderfully varied collection that he and his wife Cynthia donated to the Athenaeum. Mr. Everets resides in Boston with his wife and four children.