CEO

President & CEO
Kandi Pickard
Board of Directors

Founder and Board Member Emeritus
Elizabeth F. Goodwin

Board Chairman | Talent Leadership Executive Coach
Carlo P. Frappolli
FRAPPSTRONG LLC

Vice Chairman | Vice President, Undersea Warfare Programs General Manager, Manassas Operations
Tom Warner
Lockheed Martin

Board Treasurer | Executive Vice President
John Short
EY

Board Secretary | Retired
Janet Slaughter Eissenstat

Deputy Secretary | Entrepreneur
Candace Whiting
Great Life Unlimited (This board seat is held by a self-advocate with Down syndrome in honor of Mia Peterson.)

Audit Chair | Executive Director, Strategic Strike Programs
Misty Holmes
Raytheon Missiles Defense

VP of Global Digital Marketing
LaSandra Brill
NVDIA

Chief Happiness Officer
John Cronin
John's Crazy Socks

President
Karen Gaffney
Karen Gaffney Foundation

Self-Advocate
Courtney Gaines

Partner
Hector Guinness
Hg

Assistant Special Services Director
Schunda Jones-Murphy
Wynne School District

Chief of Staff
Joe Joyce
Keystone

Assistant Director of Programs and Communications
Michael Kulma
International House at the University of Chicago

Partner & Global Head of the Conflicts Resolution Group
John McGuire
Goldman Sachs

Senior Vice President
Debbie Morris
Verisk

Chief Operating Officer
Beverly Paperiello
Heartwood BioPharma Group

Occupational Therapist/Mother/Advocate
Lisa L. Pelham, OTR, MA

Regional President
Anthony Providenti
Antech Diagnostics

Assistant Vice President, Federal Affairs
Tom Santos
Zurich North America

Vice President, Head of Consumer Insights and Research
Kerry Sette
Voya Financial

Director of the School of Special Education, Leadership and Professional Studies
Marjorie C. Shavers
Interim Associate Dean in the College of Education, Missouri State

Retired / Board Member of the ARC of Chester County
Bob Siegel
DuPont Company / Past President of the Board of Directors of the ARC of Chester County

Founder & CEO
Ciara Siegel
CJC

Senior Advisor, Government Affairs Lobbyist
C. Mitch Taylor
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Parent / Advocate
Victoria Tremonti

Pro Bono Immigration Attorney
Ludivine Van Der Heyden
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Medical Director / Assistant Professor
Dr. Lauren Wang
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. George Capone
Kennedy Krieger

Dr. Jamie Edgin
The Virginia Tech College of Science

Dr. Elizabeth Head
University of California at Irvine

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. Amy Lewanda
Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC

Dr. Priya Chandan
University of Louisville

Dr. Laura Mattie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Brian Chicoine
Advocate Medical Group, Park Ridge, IL

Dr. Robert Siegel
Volunteer advocate and DSMIG member

Dr. Heather Anderson
Ohio State University