Doug Lee

A graduate of Hampden-Sydney College with degrees in English and French, Doug Lee grew up in Roanoke, Virginia, in a house where his parents still live. He spent summers at Hilton Head and began working there in 1977 soon after he graduated. In 1984, he made a trip to Kiawah with the sole goal of "checking out my competition" and but was so impressed with the Island that he took a job that day! President of the Gibbes Museum of Art, Doug also served as a board member of the Historic Charleston Foundation, the Charleston Horticultural Society, the Charleston Concert Series, and the Charleston Neighborhood Association - and he’s a Development Committee member of Bishop Gadsden. "I’ve worked here 25 years and this is only my second job," he says. "I can't imagine being anywhere else."