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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Officers & Executive Committee

Kathleen Furey McDonough, Esq., Chair

Partner, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP

 

Thomas D. Wren, Vice Chairman

Special Advisor, Promontory Financial Group, LLC

 

Thomas J. Shopa, CPA, CFP, Secretary

Managing Director, McBride Shopa & Company, P.A.

 

Marc A. Ham, Assistant Secretary

Former President, Flapdoodles, Inc.

 

Katherine K. Wilkinson, Treasurer

Vice President & Division Manager, Wilmington Trust Company

 

William L. Allen Jr., Assistant Treasurer

CEO and President, ALW Sourcing LLC

 

Robert E. Dickerson, Southern Delaware Advisory Committee Chairman

Administrator of the Town of Selbyville   

 

Thomas R. Pulsifer, Esq., Immediate Past Chair

Partner, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP

 

Directors

James C. Borel, Group Vice President, DuPont

Martha Carper, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

Anne S. Dougherty, Vice President & Head of the Fiduciary Group, J.P. Morgan Trust Company of Delaware

Stephen A. Fowle, Executive Vice President & CFO, WSFS Bank

Patrice Gilliam-Johnson, PhD, Vice President & Founding Member, Gilliam Foundation

Norman D. Griffiths, Esq., President, Wilmington City Council, Corporate Counsel, DuPont Legal Department

Sylvia Dent-Harris, Esq., Founder, Peter Kate Shoes

John C. Hawkins, President/CEO, Aloysius, Butler & Clark

Marilyn Rushworth Hayward, Principal, Hayward & Associates

Mary B. Hickok, Esq., Managing Director & Trust Counsel, Wilmington Trust  Company

Hon. Stephen P. Lamb, Partner, Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Omar Y. McNeill, General Counsel, Freeh Group International

Kay Preston, Chair, Fund For Women, Development Director, SOAR, Inc.

Havidan Rodriguez, PhD, Deputy Provost, University of Delaware

Joseph M. Schell, Retired, Investment Banker with firms in New York City & San Francisco

Laurisa S. Schutt, Community Activist      

Valerie J. Sill, CFA, President & CEO, DuPont Capital Management

Beth Steele, President, Foxden Farm, Ltd.

Cindy L. Szabo, Esq., Partner, Ellis & Szabo, LLP (Gubernatorial Appointee)

John H. Taylor Jr., Senior Vice President, Delaware State Chamber of Commerce

Michelle A. Taylor, President & CEO, United Way of Delaware (ex officio)

John S. Wellons, CPA, Director of Finance, Buccini Pollin Group

 

COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Several committees, composed of members of the Board of Directors and other volunteers from the community, support the work of the Foundation. Each committee works closely with one or more DCF staff members to achieve its mission. 

 

Audit Committee

Thomas J. Shopa, Chairman

Peter S. Kennedy

 

Development Committee

John C. Hawkins, Chairman

Martha S. Carper

Roger D. Kirtley

Anne L. Naczi

Peter Parker

Deenie Reeves

Laura Lubin Rossi

Susan D. Sherk

Michael J. Sicuranza

Sonia S. Sloan

 

Finance Committee

Katherine K. Wilkinson, Chairman

Stephen A. Fowle

Marilyn R. Hayward

Robert W. Pierce

David W. Singleton

John S. Wellons

 

Grants Committee
Stephen P. Lamb,
Chairman

Arthur J. Bacci
Christine A. Cannon
Linda L. Chick

Wendy R. Danner
Edward H. Deptula

Chaitanya R. Gadde
Linda J. Gilliam

Patrice Gilliam-Johnson
Muriel E. Gilman

Marc A. Ham
Sally V. Hawkins

Mary B. Hickok
Caroline M. Lunger
Omar Y. McNeill
Mary Jane Richter

Havidan Rodriguez

Laurisa S. Schutt

Denise Schwartz
M. Lynn Herrick Sharp
William M. Shea
Ben S. Smith III
Beth Steele

Matthew H. Terrell

William F. Weber

 

Investment Committee

Valerie J. Sill, Chairman

Charles C. Cruice

Frederick J. Dawson

Paul H. Harrell Jr.

Cynthia A. Hewitt

Geoffrey M. Rogers

Joseph M. Schell

Philip C. Timon

Thomas D. Wren

 

Marketing and Communications Committee

John H. Taylor Jr., Chairman

Martha S. Gilman

John C. Hawkins

Dorothy R. Jacobson

Steven H. League

Mark R. Mendelson

Frank J. "Skip" Pennella

Laura Lubin Rossi

Michele Schiavoni

Joni L. Silverstein

Gilbert H. Smith Jr.

Rita C. Turner

Philip C. Wescott

 

Nominating Committee

Donald R. Kirtley, Chairman

Kathleen Furey McDonough

Thomas R. Pulsifer

Thomas J. Shopa

 

Personnel Committee

Kathleen Furey McDonough, Chairman

James C. Borel

 

Planned Giving & Professional Advisory Committee

Mary B. Hickok, Chairman

Paul L. Bechly

R. Clifford Berg Jr.

Nancy F. Blumberg

Mary M. Culley

John A. D'Agostino

Christopher F. Daniels

Anne S. Dougherty

Todd A. Flubacher

Michael A. Friedberg

John P. "Jack" Garniewski Jr.

Bryan E. Keenan

G. Ward Keever IV

Carol G. Kroch

Jeffrey W. Mitchell Jr.

Richard J.A. Popper

W. Donald Sparks II

Michael R. Stein

Donald P. Truesdell

Beverly J. Wik

 

Scholarship Committee

Linda F. Poole

Frances Leach

Matthew Shipp

Richard D. Gochnauer

Malik Stewart

 

Southern Delaware Advisory Committee

Robert E. Dickerson, Chairman

Eugene H. Bayard

Raymond F. Book III

David G. Burton

Linda L. Chick

Richard S. Cordrey

David C. Doane

Fernando N. Guajardo

D. Wayne Holden

Harold W. T. Purnell II

Joseph M. Schell

Beth Steele

Cindy L. Szabo

Sherman L. Townsend

 

Youth Philanthropy Board Advisory Committee

Linda L. Chick, Chairman

Phyllis M. Wynn, Founder (deceased)

 

New Castle County

Sylvia "Sissy" Dent Harris, Esq., Chairman

Madeleine M. Bayard

Kathy D. Bevans

Muriel E. Gilman

Leslie Newman

Kay Preston

David T. Woods

 

Kent County

Linda L. Chick, Chairman

Michelle R. Brown

Loretta Cannatelli

Doug Crouse

Betty A. Wyatt-Dix

 

Sussex County

Judith R. Warrington, Chairman

Linda L. Chick

Lee A. Wheeler

Richard B. Wheeler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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