Board of Trustees

Officers

Allen W. Nelson, Chairman
Partner, Taylor English Duma LLP

Elizabeth Adams, Vice Chair
Community Volunteer 

Barbara S. Joiner, Vice Chair
Community Volunteer

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

Asif Ramji, Vice Chair
President & CEO, Paymetric

Sue Gibbs, Treasurer
VP Finance & Accounting, Comcast

Kathleen Knous, Secretary
Community Volunteer

Trustees

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

Tony Catalfano
CEO, Catalfano LLC

Lynn Cochran-Schroder
Interior Designer, Paces Properties

Lynda B. Courts
Community Volunteer

Cynthia Crain
Author; Dance & Education Consultant

David Crosland
Principal, Crosland Capital, LLC

Lavona S. Currie
Community Volunteer

Cynthia Day
President & CEO, Citizens Trust Bank

Vanessa Delmer 
Founder, Welcome Home Company

Nancy Field
Community Volunteer

Janet Gagliano
State and Local Tax Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Amy Gerome
Sr. Business Analyst, Incomm

Lindsay R. Hill
Human Resources Manager, Georgia Power

Joyce Houser, Ph.D
Retired Professor

AJ Igherighe
Partner, RedStone M&A Group, LLC

Arturo Jacobus*
President & CEO, Atlanta Ballet

Edward B. Krugman
Partner, Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP

Allen Maines
Partner, Holland & Knight LLP

Linda Morris
EVP, Head of Branch Banking, PNC Bank

Gennadi Nedvigin*
Artistic Director, Atlanta Ballet

Joey Reiman
Founder & Chairman, Brighthouse

Sharon Silvermintz* 
President, Atlanta Ballet Corps de Ballet

Stephanie Thomas Stephens
Community Volunteer

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

Juan Carlos Urdaneta 
Former President, Turner Broadcasting Systems Latin America

Pam Wakefield
Community Volunteer

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

*Ex-Officio

Advisory Council

David M. Barnett
President, Oxford Development, LLC

Mark Bell
Managing Principal, Diversified Trust

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
Vice President Global Commerce, Metro Atlanta Chamber

Maria Stela Frota
Consul General of Brazil

Robert L. Green
Senior Counsel, Holland & Knight

Susan S. Kettering
Kettering Family Philanthropies

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

Jeremy Pilmore-Bedford
Consul General of the United Kingdom

Eric Robbins
CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta

Laura Turner Seydel
Community Volunteer

Takashi Shinozuka
Consul General of Japan

Ewoud N. Swaak
Honorary Consul General of the Netherlands

Judith Varnai Shorer
Consul General of Israel

Dov Wilker
Regional Director, American Jewish Committee

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

Honorary Board

Margaret Carton
Retired VP, Coca-Cola Enterprises

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
Expansion Lead, Google Fiber

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