Board of Directors

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Board of Directors

Chair

Kenneth B. Robinson

Director Emeritus
Retired Procter & Gamble and Exelon Corporation
Finance Executive and Corporate Board Member

Vice Chair

Phillip Lanham

Chief Philanthropy Officer
Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Secretary

Hon. Jeffery Hopkins

U.S. District Judge
District of Southern Ohio

Treasurer

Jill Berkemeier

Chief Financial Officer
Cincinnati Museum Center &
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Honorary Co-Chairs

Rev. Damon Lynch, Jr.

Director Emeritus
New Jerusalem Baptist Church

John Pepper

Director Emeritus
Retired Chairman & CEO
The Procter & Gamble Company

Edwin Rigaud

Director Emeritus
Retired Vice President
The Procter & Gamble Company

CEO

Elizabeth Pierce

Cincinnati Museum Center &
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

President and COO

Woodrow "Woody" Keown, Jr.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

 

Board of Directors

Paul Booth, Jr.

President
Momentum Restaurants, Inc.

Charles H. Brown
Executive Advisor
Toyota Motor North America, retired

Susan Esler

Vice President and Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer
Ashland, Inc., retired

Dawn Gilmore

Director of Talent Acquisition
The Kroger Company

Hon. Jeffery P. Hopkins

Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge
U.S. Bankruptcy Court

Damon Jones

Chief Communications Officer
The Procter & Gamble Company

Robert W. Jones
President and CEO
Realm Capital Ventures

C. Ed Massey

Partner
Blankenship Massey & Associates PLLC

Robert W. McDonald

Partner
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

Roy A. Mitchell

Principal
Kunimura Mitchell & Company LLC

Michael Moore

President and CEO
Black Achievers, Inc.

Nicole Redus

President and CEO
Ascension Wealth Management

Sean Rugless

Founder and President
The Katalyst Group

Brian Sand

Partner
Warehouse Collaborative

Edgar L. Smith, Jr.

Chairman & CEO
World Pac Paper LLC

Pete Strange

Chairman Emeritus
Messer Construction Company

Brian C. Thomas, Esq.

Associate General Counsel/SVP
Fifth Third Bank

Jaia Thomas, Esq.

Founder
Diverse Representation

Meggan E. Thompson

Wealth Management Banking Specialist, AVP
Merrill Lynch

Barbara Turner

President and COO
Ohio National Financial Services

Carole Williams

President, Freedom Center Ambassadors
First Lady
Mount St. Joseph University