Peter Whitman of Kittery Point is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design Professional Development Series in Real Estate Development. Whitman’s career focused on entrepreneurial management and real estate development. He has extensive board experience and helped to form the Friends of the Wentworth, working to save this historically significant New Hampshire hotel. He has worked in real estate development with companies such as Ocean Properties (owner of the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel and the largest family-owned hotel company in the country) and on his own. He has served on boards such as Scholarship America (formerly Citizens Scholarship Foundation-Dollars for Scholars); Ocean Research and Educational Society; Seacoast Community Healthcare-Families First; Kittery Land Trust; Workforce Housing Coalition; Long Creek Watershed; Sail Power and Steam Museum; and Kittery Port Authority.