Wendy Northcross

Wendy Northcross is the executive director of the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum, which she helped to create in 1991. She retired as the chief executive officer of the Cape Cod (MA) Chamber of Commerce in 2021, having been with the organization since 1997.  Currently, Northcross is an appointed member of the Town of Barnstable’s Affordable Housing Growth & Development Trust Fund Board and was appointed in 2022 to the Town of Barnstable Local Comprehensive Plan Committee, which she chairs. She has an extensive history of holding leadership positions in business and civic organizations at the local, regional, and national levels. Named among the most powerful women on Cape Cod, Northcross’ has received honors and recognition from a wide variety of business, government, history, and environmental organizations.  She joined the board at the bank in 2000, and serves on the bank’s Compensation Committee, chairs the Governance Committee and is on the board of the bank’s charitable foundation. Northcross was born in Michigan, raised in the greater Boston area and on Cape Cod where she lives with her husband, Van, a local author, who is retired from Cape Cod Healthcare. She and her husband enjoy the Cape’s rich cultural offerings as well as traveling and spending time with family.