Board of Directors

Many Thanks To Our…

2023-24 Board of Directors and Advisors

Beth Schiavo, Executive Director

Executive Committee

Jeffrey Blake, Board Chair

Dana Sugar, Board Treasurer

Sydney Langdon, Vice-Chair of Development

Larry Mark, Vice-Chair of Governance

Mary Lynn Realff, Secretary

Allen W. Yee, Immediate Past Chair

Vincent Anthony, Founder and Executive Director Emeritus

Beth Schiavo, President & Executive Director

Board of Directors

Jeffrey Blake / Merchant & Gould

Deborah Hicks Ellis / Community Volunteer

Judy Garland / Community Volunteer

J. Cameron Hardin / Sales Manager, Lighting and Smart Services, Georgia Power Company 

Cheryl Henson / President, The Jim Henson Foundation

Cal Jennison / Community Volunteer

Joe King / Senior Partner Ernst & Young Atlanta

Sydney Langdon / Senior Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, Warner Bros. Discovery

Larry M. Mark / Retired, The Coca-Cola Company

Sophie Merven / VP, Brand, PR & Events, Inspire Brands

Matthew Pritchard / Head of Industry, Travel, Southeast US, Google

Mary Lynn Realff, Ph.D. / Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Kim Rousseau / Principal, Perkins&Will

Todd Sanders / Senior Portfolio Manager, Fifth Third Bank

Dana Sugar (Board Treasurer) / Investment Portfolio Management, Bank of America

John T. Tester / SVP and Chief Accounting Officer, Acuity Brands

Advisors

Robert H. Barnett / Chief Transformation Officer, Brookwood Baptist Health

Margo A. Brinton, Ph.D. / Regents’s Professor, Georgia State University

John T. Chandler, Jr. / Equifax Inc. (Retired)

Anne L. Cross / Senior Vice President, Private Client Advisor, Bank of America

Sherrod DeGrippo / Director of Threat Intelligence Strategy, Microsoft

Diane K. Gray / President, Lyon & Associates, LLC

Christopher Hardwick / Managing Director and Founder, Build Technology Group

Shelley Hoffmann / Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Mike Hostinsky / Partner, Risk Advisory, Bennett Thrasher

Vir Nanda / Community Volunteer

Kristi Patterson / Resident Consultant, Bentley Systems

Brian Reed / Cybersecurity Evangelist at Proofpoint

Dean DuBose Smith / Community Volunteer 

Joan N. Whitcomb / Community Volunteer

Allen W. Yee (Immediate Past Board Chair) / Community Volunteer