JAMES T. DRESHER JR. has been a successful business owner in the Baltimore region since 1972. He is Founder, CEO and Principal of Skye Asset Management LLC, a private investment company. Skye has investments in several industries including banking, biotech, and healthcare supply chain management.
Earlier in his career Jim and his brother-in-law, Tony Meoli, owned and operated a portfolio of McDonald’s restaurants. In 1994 Jim founded Skye Hospitality, a private entity that developed, owned, and managed ten Hilton and Marriott-branded hotels in the Baltimore region. The hotel company was sold in 2012. Since then, Jim has lead Skye Asset Management.
Jim has served on the board of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center since 1999 and is Past-Chairman. He also serves on the boards of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Health System, and John Hopkins Medicine where he chairs the Nominating Committee.
PATTI DRESHER is co-founder and partner at Katherine’s Keepers, a home care company in Harford County. Patti is the mother of two children and two stepchildren. She enjoys spending time with their 6 grandchildren and hosting the family on their farm. Patti is Past-President of The Dresher Foundation and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Harford Day School.
Jim and Patti own Glenangus Farm in Bel Air, Maryland where they raise Thoroughbred horses.
The Dresher Foundation was established in 1989 as a private family foundation by James and Virginia Dresher. Philanthropy was central to who they were as individuals, and they understood how it could lead to hope and opportunity for their fellow man. Three generations later, the opportunity – and the responsibility – to use the Foundation’s resources wisely for the good of society is the legacy Jim and Virginia left to the family they loved. Today, the Foundation is governed by a fourteen-member Board of Trustees, including Jim and Virginia’s children, their spouses, and seven grandchildren.
THE DRESHER FOUNDATION provides meaningful financial assistance to qualified nonprofit organizations located primarily in Harford County, Maryland. Priority funding initiatives focus on programs that address vital health, education, and human service needs, along with civic and cultural opportunities. By empowering nonprofits with the support, they need, the Foundation continues to create positive change in the community we call home.