CEO
Kandi Pickard
Board of Directors
Chair
Tom Warner
Vice President, Undersea Warfare Programs General Manager, Manassas Operations at Lockheed Martin
Audit Chair
Misty Holmes
Executive Director, Strategic Strike Programs at Raytheon Missiles Defense
Treasurer
John Short
Chief Growth Officer at Kearney & Company
Secretary
Janet Slaughter Eissenstat
Retired
Deputy Secretary
Candace Whiting
Motivational Speaker at Great Life Unlimited and Entrepreneur (This board seat is held by a self-advocate with Down syndrome in honor of Mia Peterson.)
Audit Chair
John McGuire
Partner & Global Head of the Conflicts Resolution Group at Goldman Sachs
Founder and Board Member Emeritus
Elizabeth F. Goodwin
Retired
Executive Committee Member
Hector Guinness
Partner at Hg Capital
Executive Committee Member
Anthony Providenti
Regional President at Antech Diagnostics
Board Member
LaSandra Brill
VP of Global Digital Marketing at NVDIA
Board Member
Karen Gaffney
President at Karen Gaffney Foundation
Board Member
Courtney Gaines
Self-Advocate
Board Member
Carlo P. Frappolli
Talent Leadership Executive Coach at FRAPPSTRONG LLC
Board Member
Schunda Jones-Murphy
Assistant Special Services Director at Wynne School District
Board Member
Joe Joyce
Chief of Staff at Keystone
Board Member
Michael Kulma
Associate Director, Programs and Communications at International House at the University of Chicago
Board Member
Beverly Paperiello
Chief Operating Officer at Heartwood BioPharma Group
Board Member
Tom Santos
Assistant Vice President, Federal Affairs at Zurich North America
Board Member
Kerry Sette
Vice President, Head of Consumer Insights and Research at Voya Financial
Board Member
Marjorie C. Shavers
Director of the School of Special Education, Leadership and Professional Studies at Interim Associate Dean in the College of Education, Missouri State
Board Member
Ciara Siegel
Founder & CEO at CJC
Board Member
C. Mitch Taylor
Senior Advisor, Government Affairs Lobbyist at Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Board Member
Victoria Tremonti
Parent / Advocate
Board Member
Ludivine Van Der Heyden
Pro Bono Immigration Attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Board Member
Dr. Lauren Wang
Medical Director / Assistant Professor at Timothy Freeman, MD, Center for Intellectual Developmental Disabilities, UC Health / University of Cincinnati
Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board
Chair
Dr. William Mobley
UC San Diego
Vice-Chair
Ms. Romney Croft
Private Practice Therapist
Dr. Heather Anderson
Ohio State University
Dr. George Capone
Kennedy Krieger
Dr. Priya Chandan
University of Louisville
Dr. Brian Chicoine
Advocate Medical Group, Park Ridge, IL
Dr. Jamie Edgin
The Virginia Tech College of Science
Dr. Elizabeth Head
University of California at Irvine
Dr. Amy Lewanda
Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC
Dr. Laura Mattie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Paul Moore
Vanderbilt
Dr. David Patterson
University of Denver
Dr. Sonja Rasmussen
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Roger Reeves
Johns Hopkins
Dr. Stephanie Sherman
Emory
Dr. Robert Siegel
Volunteer advocate and DSMIG member