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Board of Directors & Committees

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Officers & Executive Committee

Thomas D. Wren, Chairman, Senior Advisor, Promontory Financial Group, LLC
Thomas J. Shopa, CPA, CFP, Vice Chairman, Partner, BDO USA, LLP
Marilyn Rushworth Hayward, Secretary, Principal, Hayward & Associates
Omar Y. McNeill, Esq., Assistant Secretary, General Counsel, Freeh Group International Solutions, LLC
Katherine K. Wilkinson, Treasurer, Senior Vice President, Delaware Commercial Banking, Fulton Bank
William L. Allen Jr., Assistant Treasurer, CEO and President, ALW Sourcing LLC
Harold W.T. Purnell II, SCAC Chairman, Partner, Archer & Greiner, P.C.     
Jennings P. Hastings, CPA/ABV, KCAC Chairman, Director of Operations, Faw, Casson & Co., LLP
Kathleen Furey McDonough, Esq., Immediate Past Chairman, Partner, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP
Joseph M. Schell, Member at Large, Retired, Investment Banker with firms in New York City & San Francisco

Directors
Martha S. Carper, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
Doneene Keemer Damon, Director, Richards, Layton & Finger
Anne S. Dougherty, Vice President, J.P. Morgan Trust Company of Delaware
Stephen A. Fowle, Executive Vice President & CFO, WSFS Bank
Patrice Gilliam-Johnson, PhD, Program Coordinator, Organizational Dynamics Fusion Program, Wilmington University

Martha S. Gilman, Vice President, Gilman Development Company
John C. Hawkins, President/CEO, Aloysius, Butler & Clark
Mary B. Hickok, Esq., Managing Director & Trust Counsel, Wilmington Trust Company
Lynn M. A. Kokjohn, Co-owner, Fauxbulous FX, Inc.
Hon. Stephen P. Lamb, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Janice E. Nevin, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President & Executive Director, Christiana Care
Hon. Vivian Rapposelli, JD, Secretary of the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families
Chip Rossi, Credit & Underwriting Executive & Delaware Market President, Bank of America
Thomas L. Sager, JD, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, DuPont Legal Department
Laurisa S. Schutt, Community Activist   
Valerie J. Sill, CFA, President & CEO, DuPont Capital Management
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)
Ranney B. Ward, CFP, Chair, Fund For Women, Vice President, Private Banking, Wilmington Trust Company
John S. Wellons, CPA, Director of Finance, Buccini/Pollin Group
Harry L. Williams, EdD, President, Delaware State University

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

Jennings P. Hastings, Chairman

Peter S. Kennedy

 

Development Committee

John C. Hawkins, Chairman

Martha S. Carper
Patrice Gilliam-Johnson, Ph.D.

Anne L. Naczi

Peter Parker

Deenie Reeves

Laura Lubin Rossi
Tom Sager

Susan D. Sherk

Michael J. Sicuranza

 

Finance Committee

Katherine K. Wilkinson, Chairman

Stephen A. Fowle

Marilyn R. Hayward

Robert W. Pierce

David W. Singleton
Ranney Ward

John S. Wellons

 

Grants Committee
Stephen P. Lamb, Chairman

Carolyn Bray
Christine A. Cannon
Linda L. Chick
Wendy R. Danner
Edward H. Deptula

Chaitanya R. Gadde
Linda J. Gilliam

Sally V. Hawkins

Mary B. Hickok
Rodney A. Lambert Jr.
Omar Y. McNeill
Mary Jane Richter

Chip Rossi
Vivian Rapposelli

Laurisa S. Schutt

Denise Schwartz
William M. Shea
Denise Schwartz
Matthew H. Terrell

William F. Weber
Janet M. Yabroff

 

Investment Committee

Valerie J. Sill, Chairman

Richard L. Arvedlund
Charles C. Cruice
Frederick J. Dawson

Paul H. Harrell Jr.

Cynthia A. Hewitt
Robert N. MacGovern
Geoffrey M. Rogers

Joseph M. Schell

Philip C. Timon

Thomas D. Wren

Kent County Advisory Committee
Jennings P. Hastings, Chairman
Linda L. Chick
D. Wayne Holden
Dean E. Holden
John W. Paradee
S. Renee Smith
Brian J. Stetina
Peni G. Warren
Harry L. Williams

Marketing and Communications Committee

John H. Taylor Jr., Chairman

Peter C. Fulweiler
Martha S. Gilman

John C. Hawkins

Dorothy R. Jacobson
Kay Keenan
Steven H. League
Mark R. Mendelson

Frank J. "Skip" Pennella

Michele Schiavoni

Joni L. Silverstein

Gilbert H. Smith Jr.

 

Nominating Committee

Kathleen Furey McDonough, Chairman
Donald R. Kirtley
Mark Lucey

Thomas R. Pulsifer

Thomas J. Shopa

Thomas D. Wren

Personnel Committee

Kathleen Furey McDonough, Chairman

Doneene Keemer Damon

 

Planned Giving & Professional Advisory Committee

Anne S. Dougherty, Chairman

Paul L. Bechly

R. Clifford Berg Jr.

Nancy F. Blumberg

Mary M. Culley

John A. D'Agostino

Christopher F. Daniels

Anne Eidschun

Todd A. Flubacher

Michael A. Friedberg

John P. "Jack" Garniewski Jr.
Mary B. Hickok

Bryan E. Keenan

G. Ward Keever IV

Carol G. Kroch
William H. Lunger

Jeffrey W. Mitchell Jr.

Richard J. A. Popper
Jordon N. Rosen

W. Donald Sparks II

Donald P. Truesdell

Beverly J. Wik
Bradford H. Winton

Kent County Planned Giving & Professional Advisory Committee
Brian Stetina, CPA, Chairman

Kevin M. Baird, Esq.

Scott R. Brown, CPA

Shelly S. Cecchett

Kathryn J. Garrison, Esq.

Kathleen Hawkins, CFP

Beth B. Miller, Esq.

Peter A. Oldziey, CHFC

W. Charles Paradee III, CFP

William G. Ryon

Charles H. Sterner Jr., CPA

Gerald I. H. Street, Esq.

Sussex County Advisory Committee

Harold W. T. Purnell II, Chairman

Raymond F. Book III

Charles Burton
Valery L. Cordrey

Robert E. Dickerson
David C. Doane

Fernando N. Guajardo
Lynn M. A. Kokjohn

Cindy L. Szabo

 

Youth Philanthropy Board Advisory Committee

Linda L. Chick, Chairman

Phyllis M. Wynn, Founder (deceased)

 

New Castle County

Madeleine M. Bayard

Leslie Newman
Kay Preston

Shefon Taylor

David T. Woods

 

Kent County

Linda L. Chick

Michelle R. Brown

Doug Crouse

Betty A. Wyatt-Dix

 

Sussex County

Linda L. Chick
Melinda Huff

Lynn M. A. Kokjohn

Lee A. Wheeler

Richard B. Wheeler



 

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