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Board Member Directory

Renny Arensberg

Community Affairs Committee
Executive Vice President,
KVC Health Systems
[email protected]

Rob Ayala-Flores

President, Puente Marketing & Advertising
[email protected]

Cathy Baier

Community Affairs Committee
Owner
US Federal Properties
[email protected]

Whitney Bartelli

Marketing Committee
Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, CommunityAmerica Credit Union
[email protected]

Paul M. Black

Board Development Committee
CEO, PB Global Ventures LLC [email protected]

Owen Buckley

Board Development Committee
President, Lane 4 Property Group
[email protected]

Lynn Carlton

Vice Chair, Community Affairs Committee
Practice Leader for Planning, Burns & McDonnell
[email protected] 

Kelly Carnago

Board Development Committee
Chief of Staff YouTube Global Operations,
Google
[email protected]

Jeff Chadiha

Board Development Committee
Senior Writer, NFL Media
[email protected]

Tim Cowden

Board Development Committee
President and CEO, Kansas City Area Development Council
[email protected]

Jason Dalen

Chair, Government Affairs Committee
Vice President – Financial Advisor, RBC Wealth Management
[email protected]  

Chelan David

Marketing Committee
Development Director, Lead to Read KC
[email protected]

Brian Dennie

Community Affairs Committee
Managing Director, Institutional Sales
Manulife Investment Management
[email protected]

Katie Dunn

Community Affairs Committee
Senior Wealth Consultant, Mariner Wealth Advisors
[email protected]

Ray Evans

Cancer Funding Partners
Senior Partner, Pegasus Capital Management
[email protected]

Kirsten Flory

Community Affairs Committee
President, Foundations Commercial Real Estate
[email protected]

Sonia Garapaty

Vice Chair, Marketing Committee
CEO and Owner, FSC, Inc.
[email protected]

Christy Gautreaux

Community Affairs Committee
Community Volunteer
[email protected]

Mercedes Givens

Government Affairs Committee
Private Wealth Manager, Creative Planning
[email protected]

Sean Goodale

Government Affairs Committee
CEO, Retina Associates
[email protected]

Tami Greenberg

Community Affairs Committee
CEO, Ronald McDonald House Charities
[email protected]

Ken Hager

Board Development Committee
Retired CFO and Treasurer, DST
[email protected]

Brigid Hall

Government Affairs Committee
Community Volunteer
[email protected]

Jane Henney, MD

Chair, Advancement Board
Retired Oncologist
[email protected]

Matthew Hufft

Community Affairs Committee
Founder
Hufft Architecture and Fabrication
[email protected]

Bob Hunter

Marketing Committee
Chair, Heart Funding Council
Vice Chair of the Board, FCI Advisors
[email protected] 

Brian Kaufman

Board Development Committee
Managing Director, Prairie Capital Management
[email protected]

Dr. Aman Kaur

Community Affairs Committee
Founder and President
Women in DSO
[email protected]  

Courtney Kounkel

Board Development Committee
Founder and Owner
Monarch Build
[email protected]

Jeffrey Kramer, MD

Board Development Committee
Thoracic and Cardiac Surgeon, The University of Kansas Health System
[email protected]

Alan Lowden

Chief Information Officer, H&R Block
[email protected]

Michael Maddox

President and CEO, CrossFirst Bank
[email protected]

Maria Maffry

Marketing Committee
Principal and Chief Business Development Officer, BNIM
[email protected]

Melanie Mann

Owner/Principal, Mann Development Company
[email protected]

Kay Martin

Chair, Community Affairs Committee
Community Volunteer
[email protected]

Tim McKee

Government Affairs Committee
CEO, Olathe Chamber of Commerce
[email protected]

Clyde McQueen

Community Affairs Committee
President and CEO, Full Employment Council
[email protected]

Melea McRae

Founder and CEO
Crux
[email protected]

Teesha Miller

Marketing Committee
Vice President and Director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
[email protected]

Laurie Minard

Community Affairs Committee
Vice President – Human Resources, Garmin International
[email protected]

Erika Moody

Board Development Committee
President, Helix Architecture and Design
[email protected]

Kyle Myers

Cancer Funding Partners
Regional President & Head of Corporate Banking, PNC Bank
[email protected]

Troy Nash, EdD, JD, MBA

Government Affairs Committee
Vice President/Principal, Newmark Zimmer
[email protected]

Paul Neidlein

Vice Chair, Board Development Committee
President, Midwest Region, JE Dunn
[email protected]

Dean Newton

Chair, Board Development Committee
CEO, Delta Dental of Kansas
[email protected]

Danny O’Neill

Owner and Founder, The Roasterie
[email protected]

Jason Parson

President and CEO, Parson & Associates
[email protected]

Andrea Perdomo-Morales

Chief Health Equity Officer, Vibrant Health
[email protected]

Sam Porritt

Chair, Marketing Committee
Founder, Falling Forward Foundation
[email protected]
[email protected]

Mary Ann Powell

Government Affairs Committee
Community Volunteer and Freelance Editor
[email protected]

Andrea Price

Community Affairs Committee
Community Volunteer
[email protected]

Stacie Prosser

Board Development Committee
Market President and Publisher, Kansas City Business Journal
[email protected]

Will Pryor

Board Development Committee
Vice President – Internal Audit, Hallmark
[email protected]

Danielle Puzio

Community Affairs Committee
CEO
HNC Living Foundation              
[email protected]

Dawn Rattan

Community Affairs Committee
Owner/President
Everfit, Inc. & Village West Discount Liquor
[email protected]

Ora Reynolds

Board Development Committee
President and CEO, Hunt Midwest Enterprises, Inc.
[email protected]

Elizabeth Rowe

Community Affairs Committee
Executive Director
Alzheimer’s Association Heart of America
[email protected]

Marilyn Rymer, MD

Retired Neurologist
[email protected]

Jim Saladin

Marketing Committee
Chief Marketing Officer, Lettermen’s Energy
[email protected]

Scott Smith

Board Development Committee
Retired CEO and President, HNTB Infrastructure
[email protected]

Scott Sollars

Board Development Committee
Senior Vice President and Certified Financial Planner
FCI Advisors
[email protected]

Jim Stowers

Owner, Oxford Companies
[email protected]

Jeannine Strandjord

Advancement Board Past Chair
Retired Chief Integration Officer, Sprint
[email protected]

Awais Sufi

Vice Chair, Government Affairs Committee
President and CEO, SchoolSmartKC
[email protected]

Mike Talboy

Government Affairs Committee
Attorney, Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhoades, P.C.
[email protected]

Ursula Terrasi

Community Affairs Committee
Owner, Terrasi Living
[email protected]

Bruce Toby, M.D.

Community Affairs Committee
Professor, Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine; Team Physician, Kansas City Royals Baseball Team; Team Consultant, Kansas City Chiefs Football Team; Director, Sports Medicine Product Line, TUKHS
[email protected]

Ricardo Torres

Board Development Committee
President and CEO, KC Billboards
[email protected]

Michael Tracy

Government Affairs Committee
Owner and Managing Principal, OMNI Employment Management Services
[email protected]

Tucker Trotter

Marketing Committee
CEO, Dimensional Innovations
[email protected]

Angelo Trozzolo

Marketing Committee
President and CEO, Trozzolo Communications Group
[email protected]

Chris Vaeth

Community Affairs Committee
Senior Vice President, Kansas City Regional Leader
McCown Gordon Construction
[email protected]

Sunti “Sunny” Wathanacharoen

Board Development Committee
Entrepreneur
Alliance Partners KC
[email protected]

Abby Wendel

President – Consumer Banking, UMB Financial
[email protected]

Debbie Wilkerson

Board Development Committee
President and CEO, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
[email protected]

Carey Wilkins

Marketing Committee
Chief of Staff
Concord
[email protected]

Kay Wolf

Government Affairs Committee
Former Kansas State Senator
[email protected]

Linda Woodsmall-DeBruce

Advancement Board Secretary
Community Affairs Committee
Community Volunteer
[email protected]

Emeritus Members

Patty Garney
Community Volunteer

Greg Graves
Retired, Burns & McDonnell

Forrest Hoglund
The Hoglund Foundation

Robert Honse
Retired, Farmland Industries

Drue Jennings
Retired, Polsinelli

Bob Regnier
Bank of Blue Valley

Charlie Sunderland
Retired, Ash Grove Cement Company

Lifetime Members

Mary Birch
Lathrop & Gage

Tom Bowser
Retired, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City

Janie Gaunce
Grapevine Designs

Laura Gregory
Community Volunteer

Bill Hall
Retired, Hall Family Foundation

Joyce Hayhow
Retired, Kansas City Business Journal

Mary Hunkeler
Community Volunteer

Cheryl Jernigan
Community Volunteer

Lynn Kindred, MD
Retired, The University of Kansas Health System

Pat McCown
Retired, McCown Gordon

Earl Merkel, MD
Russell Regional Hospital

Charlie Rhoades, MD
Dickson-Diveley Midwest Orthopaedic Clinic

Jewel Scott
Retired, Civic Council of Greater Kansas City

Joy Wheeler
Retired, Girl Scouts of Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri

David Wysong
Former Kansas State Senator

Ex-Officio Members

Douglas Girod, MD
Chancellor
University of Kansas

Bob Page
President and CEO
The University of Kansas Health System

Tammy Peterman, MS, RN, FAAN
President, Kansas City Division
The University of Kansas Health System

Dan Martin
President
KU Endowment

Robert Simari, MD
Executive Vice Chancellor
The University of Kansas Medical Center

Abiodun Akinwuntan, PhD, MPH, MB
Dean, School of Health Professions
The University of Kansas Medical Center

Dr. Noreen Carrocci
Chair
4-Wichita Advisory Board

Akinlolu O. Ojo, MD
Executive Dean, School of Medicine
The University of Kansas Medical Center

Jean Gidden, PhD, RN
Dean, School of Nursing
The University of Kansas Medical Center

Talal Khan, MD, MBA
President, The University of Kansas Physicians
Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management
The University of Kansas Medical Center and Health System

Matthias Salathe, MD
Chief Research Officer
University of Kansas

Steve Stites, MD
Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Kansas Medical Center
Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, The University of Kansas Health System

 

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