Atlanta Ballet Board of Trustees

Officers

Nancy Field, J.D., Chair
Community Volunteer

Barbara S. Joiner, Vice Chair
Community Volunteer

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

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

Elizabeth Adams, Immediate Past Chair
Community Volunteer

Lynda B. Courts, Chair Emeritus
Community Volunteer

Trustees

Emily C. Baker
Partner, Jones Day

Ron Breakstone
President, Refrigiwear, Inc.

Ginny Brewer
Community Volunteer

Chris Carlos
EVP & Director, National Distributing Company, LLC

Dr. Meria Carstarphen
Former Superintendent, Atlanta Public Schools

Lynn Cochran-Schroder
Interior Designer, Paces Properties

Cynthia Crain, Ed.D.
Author; Dance & Education Consultant

Vanessa Delmer
Community Volunteer

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

Nigel Ferguson
Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting

Jacqueline Flake
Community Volunteer

Amy Gerome
Sr. Business Analyst, Incomm

Matthew Hartnett
Sr. Vice President, Wealth Management Advisor, Merrill Lynch

Mona Heyer
Community Volunteer

Lindsay R. Hill
Vice President of Human Resources, Southern Company Gas

Joyce Houser, Ph.D
Retired Professor

Tharon Johnson
Founder/CEO, Paramount Consulting

Kathleen Knous
Community Volunteer

Araya Mesfin, CFP
Senior Vice President, Wealth Management, USB Financial

Taylor Meyer, CFA
Vice President, Goldman Sachs

Linda Morris
EVP, Head of Branch Banking, PNC Bank

Gennadi Nedvigin*
Artistic Director, Atlanta Ballet

Rachel Lee Phipps
Sr. Strategic Digital Partner, Chick-fil-A

Katherine Scott
Community Volunteer

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

Pam Wakefield
Community Volunteer

Tom West*
Executive Director, Atlanta Ballet

*Ex-Officio


Advisory Council

David M. Barnett
President, Oxford Development, LLC

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

Harvey Coleman
President, Coleman Management Consultants

Elaine E. Davis
Arts Patron and Supporter

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

Anne-Laure Desjonquères
Consul General of France

F. Javier Diaz
Consul General of Mexico

Raoul “Ray” Donato
Consul General of the Philippines

Jake Evans
Partner, Holland & Knight

Linda Nau Givens
Community Volunteer

Robert L. Green
Senior Counsel, Holland & Knight

Marius Hechter
Chair, Atlanta Ballet Corps de Ballet

Ceci Johnson
Co-President, Parents Association

Susan S. Kettering
Kettering Family Philanthropies

Allen Maines
Partner, Holland & Knight

Santiago Marquez
CEO, Latin American Association

Juan Mejia
Founder, JCM Ventures

Allen W. Nelson
Counsel, Taylor English Duma, LLP

Eric Robbins
CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta

Joni Santos
Co-President, Parents Association

Laura Turner Seydel
Community Volunteer

Rebecca Christian Smith
Diversity & Inclusion Manager, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Andrew Staunton
Consul General of the United Kingdom

Laura Turner Seydel
Chairperson of the Captain Planet Foundation

Anat Sultan-Dadon
Consul General of Israel

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.


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.

Edward B. Krugman
Partner, Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP.

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

Karen Vereb
Retired Vice President, AT&T

Patti Wallace
Founder and CEO, Schmidt Wallace Healthcare Management Company

In Memoriam


Lifetime Members

Jane Dean
Carole Goldberg
Joseph Prendergast
Deen Day Sanders

Corps de Ballet Board

Marius Hechter, Chair
Jane Dean
Kimberlyn Daniel
Nancy Flaherty
Jacqueline Flake
Joanne Chesler Gross
Caroline Jeffords
Corrie Johnson
Amy Nelson
Gailen Rosenberg
Arden Hess Rowland
Sharon Silvermintz
Dottie Smith
Marsha Taylor
Doug Weiss
Preston Wilson, Jr.