Board of Directors
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
John T. Chandler, Jr., Vice Chair, Capital Strategy
Vincent Anthony, Founder and Executive Director Emeritus
Beth Schiavo, President & Executive Director
Board of Directors
Jeffrey Blake / Merchant & Gould
Judy Garland / Community Volunteer
Deborah Hicks Ellis / 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
Sophie Merven / VP, Brand, PR & Events, Inspire Brands
Larry M. Mark / Retired, The Coca-Cola Company
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
Lo Li Carper / Managing VP, Customer Digital Experience & Payments, Capital One
Christopher J. Chan / Founder, Christopher J. Chan IP Law
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 / Community Volunteer
Mike Hostinsky / Partner, Risk Advisory, Bennett Thrasher
Vir Nanda / Community Volunteer
Kristi Patterson / Resident Consultant, Bentley Systems
Brian Reed / Cybersecurity Evangelist at Proofpoint
Becky Riley / Vice President, Client Services, NorthgateArinso
Dean DuBose Smith / Community Volunteer
Annie-York Trujillo / Community Volunteer
Rasmus Wegener, Ph.D. / Partner, Bain & Company, Inc.
Joan N. Whitcomb / Community Volunteer
Allen W. Yee (Immediate Past Board Chair) / Community Volunteer