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Board of Directors 2023

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Rita McDonald, Chair, Nashville Chamber of Commerce

Carnell Elliott, Past Chair, ChangeHealthcare

Erin Tomlinson, Chair Elect, Mathison

Robin Barrick, Treasurer, Smith, Seckman & Reid (Retired)

Jamaal Oldham, Secretary, DELL

Sperry Bell Simmons, Co-Development Chair, ABF (Retired)

Jillian Frist, Co-Development Chair, Ankura

John Thetford, Associate Board Liaison, Thetford Insurance Services, Inc.

OPERATING BOARD MEMBERS

John Bearden – Civis Bank

Patrick Fears – Aon

Katie Grant – Kraft CPAs

Rasheen Hartwell – Enterprise Holdings

Tracey Henry – Community Volunteer

Ellie Ivancich – Morgan Stanley

Nikki Jones

Sharon Kay – JAZZY 88 FSK/Fisk University

Tyler Layne – Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP

Shelby Lomax – Bradley Boult Arant & Cummings LLP

Andrew Maraniss – Vanderbilt Athletic Department

Mary Martin – Hands on Nashville

Lizzie McKeand – Truxton Trust

Ellis Metz – Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock

Casey Mulligan – Pinnacle Financial Partners

Renease Perkins – Belmont University

Mary Leigh Pirtle – Bass, Berry & Sims

Andrew Quinn – AJ Advisors

Robert Rosario – Zeitlin Sotheby’s International Realty

Andrew Solinger – Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP

Richard Stone – CapStar Bank

Grace Sweeney – Entrepreneur

Alden Ward – Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants

James R. Williams – Nashville Veterinary Specialists and Animal Emergency

HONORARY BOARD

James Bradshaw III – Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP

Brogan Bunnell – Nuffer, Smith, Tucker Public Relations

Daphne Butler – Community Volunteer

Jacques Cabell – Judicial Magistrate, Williamson County Juvenile Court

Karla Calderon – Community Volunteer

Mike Coupe – Place of Hope

Beth Cox – Decisions, Choices & Options, Inc.

Kevin T. Dyson – Centennial High School

J. Bryan Edwards – Hughes-Edwards Custom Builders

Hilton B. “Buck” Forcum – Nashville Office Consulting

LeShane Greenhill – Pishon Consulting

Orrin Ingram – Ingram Industries

William A. (Tinker) Kelly – VEBA

Paige Kisber – Hospital Alliance of Tennessee

Mary LaGrone – Attorney at law

Darwin Mason Sr., Ed.D. – Metro Nashville Public Schools – Retired

Derrick Mason Sr. – 102.5 & 106.3 The Game

Colton Mulligan – FoxFuel Creative

*Brackney Reed – Gresham, Smith & Partners

John R. Robinson – Nashville Lawn Equipment

Sabrina S. Ruderer – HCA – Retired

Bill Rutherford – HCA

Christopher C. Sabis – Sherrard, Roe, Voigt & Harrison

J.C. Siegrist Jr. – Entrepreneur

Douglas M. Smith – UPS – Retired

Tricia Spehr – Community Volunteer

Sammy V. Swor, Ed.D. – Metro Nashville Public Schools – Retired

Christian von Allmen

Kimberly Watts –  athenahealth

Richard Winstead – Crosslin & Associates

Luther Wright, Jr. – Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.

Ron York – York & Friends Fine Art
*Charter

ASSOCIATE BOARD

Kerry Burke, Chair – Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock

Blake Stadler Maschmeier, Chair Elect – Coupa Software

Margaret-Anne Byerly – Enterprise Solutions LLC

Karen Chan – Harvest Hands

Tiara Coleman – Enterprise Holdings

Brianna Collins – Apostrophe

Josh Curtis – Lyft, Inc.

Sam Curtis – IQVIA

Birdie Loeffler – ProAssurance

Cramer Martin – Metro Nashville Public Schools

Miranda McDonald – Calvert Street Group

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