Pete Fackler is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst). He has an A.B. in economics from Duke University and a M.B.A. from the University of Michigan’s Graduate School of Business. Pete’s career spanned nearly 30 years in higher education where he mixed classroom teaching with administrative assignments in virtually all of the operating areas of the academic enterprise. Retiring in 2003, he is now a private investor with an emerging interest in options trading. 

Pete received a cochlear implant in 2004 and about the same time discovered the Hearing Loss Association of America. He is active with the HLAA Rochester chapter and, in 2009, co-chaired the Walk4Hearing committee and is chair of the theater committee which has successfully worked to bring captioned live theater to Rochester. He is a founding member of the finance (investment) committee of the Maine Health Access Foundation. Pete brings to the HLAA board of trustees experience and expertise in finance, strategic planning, and marketing and development. He was appointed to the HLAA Board of Trustees in March of 2007 and elected to a seat in June of 2007. 

Committees:  Mr. Fackler chairs the Executive Committee and serves as an ex officio member of the Finance, Nominating, Strategy Planning, Membership and Fund Raising committees.