Officers & Directors

Joseph S. Piropato
Director
President
Joseph S. Piropato is a Portfolio Manager at Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. He joined Tocqueville in 2007 and is a member of the Wealth Management Group. He manages private portfolios for individuals, families, and trusts. Prior to joining Tocqueville, he was a Managing Director of William D. Witter, Inc. and Inverness Counsel, Inc. He began his career in 1983 at Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst and his early career includes positions as Managing Director at Robertson Stephens & Co. and Founder and President of Pacific Heights Capital Management. Mr. Piropato is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and he earned an A.B. from Princeton University.

Tina Albright
Director
Treasurer, Secretary
Tina Albright is a Principal at Albright Law Office, P.C. Ms. Albright counsels wealthy families with regard to preserving and protecting wealth for multiple generations, including estate and business succession planning with a special emphasis on U.S. tax and reporting issues for multi-jurisdictional families. She also advises individuals on wealth transfer planning and drafts implementing documents such as wills, trust and corporate/partnership and LLC agreements. Ms. Albright advises non-U.S. settlors and off-shore fiduciaries on establishing, funding and administering foreign trust structures.

Alison Edwards Curwen
Director
Alison Edwards Curwen is a learning specialist. Currently, she is working in special education at Fiddlehead School of Arts & Sciences in Gray, Maine. Before moving to Maine, she and her husband worked in boarding schools, in the USA and UK, for twenty-plus years. She earned her BA from Connecticut College, her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, Reading Specialist Credential, and MEd from the University of California, Berkeley. Outside of her work, Alison is an avid reader, a swim official, and any free time is spent endeavoring to do some form of exercise.