Board of Trustees

Officers

Elizabeth Adams, Chair
Community Volunteer 

Barbara S. Joiner, Vice Chair
Community Volunteer

Kristen Manion Taylor, Vice Chair
Managing Director, Reservations Support & Solutions, Delta Air Lines, Inc. 

Juan Carlos Urdaneta, Treasurer
Former President, Turner Broadcasting Systems Latin America

Kathleen Knous, Secretary 
Community Volunteer

Allen W. Nelson, Immediate Past Chair
Partner, Taylor English Duma LLP

Trustees

Emily C. Baker
Partner, Jones Day

Jan Beaves
Retired Global Human Resources Director, The Coca-Cola Company

Ron Breakstone
President, Refrigiwear, Inc.

Ginny Brewer
Community Volunteer

Kelly C. Cannon
Client Advisor, SunTrust Bank, SunTrust Investment Service, Inc.

Chris Carlos
EVP & Director, National Distributing Company, LLC

Dr. Meria Carstarphen
Superintendent, Atlanta Public Schools

Lynn Cochran-Schroder
Interior Designer, Paces Properties

Lynda B. Courts
Community Volunteer

Cynthia Crain
Author; Dance & Education Consultant

Lavona S. Currie 
Community Volunteer

Elaine E. Davis
Arts Patron and Supporter

Vanessa Delmer 
Founder, Welcome Home Company

Yelena Epova, CPA
Partner-in-Charge, International Services, HA+W | Aprio

Nancy Field
Community Volunteer

Jacqueline Flake
Community Volunteer

Amy Gerome
Sr. Business Analyst, Incomm

Sue Gibbs
VP Finance & Accounting, Comcast

Lindsay R. Hill
Human Resources Manager, Georgia Power

Joyce Houser, Ph.D
Retired Professor

Arturo Jacobus*
President & CEO, Atlanta Ballet

Edward B. Krugman
Partner, Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP

Nicola McCarthy, Ph.D
Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow 
Stevens Institute of Technology

Linda Morris
EVP, Head of Branch Banking, PNC Bank

Gennadi Nedvigin*
Artistic Director, Atlanta Ballet

Stanley Rose III
Retired Tax Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Sharon Silvermintz* 
President, Atlanta Ballet Corps de Ballet

Katherine Scott
Community Volunteer

Stephanie Thomas Stephens
Community Volunteer

Kirsi Tehrani* 
Chair, Atlanta Ballet Centre for Dance Education Parents Association

Pam Wakefield
Community Volunteer

Jon S. Wright
President & Chief Executive Officer, Access Point Financial

Dr. Vonda Wright
Chief, Sports Medicine & Orthopedics, Northside Hospital System

*Ex-Officio

Advisory Council

David M. Barnett
President, Oxford Development, LLC

Mark Bell, D.Phil
Head of Family Office Services and Private Capital, Balentine        

Barbara Bing
Former VP & Publisher, Garden & Gun

Kevin Brown
President & CEO, Piedmont Healthcare

Erroll B. Davis
Retired Superintendent, Atlanta Public Schools; Retired CEO & President, Alliant Energy Corporation

William De Baets
Consul General of the Kingdom of Belgium

F. Javier Diaz
Consul General of Mexico

Raoul “Ray” Donato
Consul General of the Philippines

Jorge Fernandez  
Consultant, Pendleton Group

Robert L. Green  
Senior Counsel, Holland & Knight

Susan S. Kettering
Kettering Family Philanthropies

Allen Maines
Partner, Holland & Knight

Santiago Marquez
President & CEO, Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Juan Mejia
Founder, JCM Ventures

Carl Pascarella
Executive Advisory, TPG Capital; Chairman of the Board, San Francisco Ballet

Eric Robbins
CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta

Laura Turner Seydel
Community Volunteer

Takashi Shinozuka
Consul General of Japan

Andrew Staunton
Consul General of the United Kingdom

Nadia Theodore
Consul General of Canada

Laura Turner Seydel
Chairperson of the Captain Planet Foundation

Takashi Shinozuka
Consul General of Japan

Dov Wilker
Regional Director, American Jewish Committee

Allen W. Yee
Senior Counsel for Litigation, The Coca-Cola Company

Sonjia Waller Young
Community Volunteer & Founder, Eventions, Inc.

Kim Young-jun
Consul General of the Republic of Korea

Honorary Board

Margaret Carton
Retired VP, Coca-Cola Enterprises

David Crosland
Principal, Crosland Capital, LLC

Kenneth R. Hey
Managing Partner, Inferential Focus

Wade Hooper
Managing Director, Major, Lindsey & Africa

J. David Hopkins
Partner, J. David Hopkins Law, LLC

Bill Huber, CPA
Chief Financial Officer, VELUX

Michael Jones
Principal, Springdale Partners Consulting

Sloan Kennedy-Smith
Vice President Affiliate Sales, HBO Services, Inc.

Amanda Shailendra  
Consultant, Pendleton Group

Michelle Sullivan
SVP, USI Insurance Services

Trustees Emeriti

Lynda B. Courts, Chair Emeritus
Community Volunteer

Lavona S. Currie
Community Volunteer

Stanley Rose III
Retired Tax Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Karen Vereb
Retired Vice President, AT&T

Patti Wallace
Founder and CEO, Schmidt Wallace Healthcare Management Company

Lifetime Members

Jane Dean
Carole Goldberg
Joseph Prendergast
Deen Day Sanders