Eugene William Stetson III is an American businessman, film producer and environmental policy advisor to numerous entrepreneurial, not-for-profit and political organizations. Family Stetson is the grandson of Eugene W. Stetson, a corporate and banking pioneer who was involved in early ownership of Coca-Cola and expansions of the Illinois Central Railroad and J.P. Morgan & Co., and the great grandson of Lunsford Richardson, a U.S. pharmacist and entrepreneur who founded the Vicks Chemical Company (which became Richardson Vicks Inc.), which owned companies such as Vidal Sassoon and Pantene and created a number of well-known products, including Vicks VapoRub, Clearasil, Nyquil, and Oil of Olay cream. Stetson is married to Jane Watson Stetson, the former National Finance Chair for the Democratic National Committee in the United States and granddaughter of Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM. They reside in Norwich, Vermont and have three daughters Nancy, Katharine, and Grace. Education Stetson earned his bachelor's degree in government from Harvard University in 1982, where he was a fellow to the Harvard Institute of Politics and member of the renowned Hasty Pudding Club. He attended the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he studied energy and natural resources. Stetson also studied at the Austro-American Institute in Vienna, Austria, where he focused on European government. Business experience Stetson served as CEO of Fairhill Oil & Gas Corporation, the New York parent company of Canadian energy and exploration firm Fairhill Oil Ltd. While at Fairhill, Stetson worked to transform the company from a traditional oil and gas firm to a profitable natural gas business. He has served on the board of directors for Piedmont Financial Company, based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Stetson's business endeavors and major investments since the late 1990s have focused on socially responsible companies such as Tom's of Maine and the Beech Hill Farm in Rockport, Maine (formerly the largest commercial organic blueberry operation in the state of Maine), which is now operated by the Coastal Mountains Land Trust. Environmental experience Stetson sits on the Board of Directors of Foundation for Our Future, an energy and environmental think tank. He directed the Vermont and New Hampshire operations of the Connecticut River Watershed Council, and served as a supervisor of the Ottauquechee Natural Resources Conservation District (U.S. Department of Agriculture). Stetson is co-founder of River Watch Network (later successfully merged with River Network