EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Rita McDonald, Chair, Nashville Chamber of Commerce
Carnell Elliott, Past Chair, ChangeHealthcare
Erin Tomlinson, Chair Elect, Ambition
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
Ryan Armstrong – Concept Technology
John Bearden – Civis Bank
Bill Burrow – Jackson National Life Insurance Company
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
Greg Kelly – Heartland Steel Products
Tyler Layne – Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP
Shelby Lomax – Bradley Boult Arant & Cummings LLP
Andrew Maraniss – Vanderbilt Athletic Department
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 – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Alden Ward – Dollar General
Mary Wessel – Hands on Nashville
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 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
Brianna Collins – Apostrophe
Josh Curtis – Lyft, Inc.
Sam Curtis – IQVIA
Birdie Loeffler – ProAssurance
Miranda McDonald – Save the Children US
CEO
Rodger Dinwiddie
