Leadership & Board
2023 Zoo Atlanta Senior Leadership, Board of Directors and Leadership Council
| Leadership | |
| Raymond B. King | President and Chief Executive Officer |
| Cary S. Burgess | Senior Vice President of Operations, Guest Services and Community Affairs |
| Russell Jacobs | Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer |
| Zoe Nieminen | Vice President and Chief Advancement Officer |
| Sam Rivera | Vice President of Animal Health |
| Wednesdá L. Furman | Vice President of Human Resources |
| Eric Hall | Vice President of Facilities |
| Jennifer Mickelberg | Vice President of Collections and Conservation |
| Jennifer Smith | Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Initiatives |
| Shawn Whitman | Vice President of Membership and Guest Experience |
| Richard Hezlep | Senior Director of Marketing |
| Tomson Karivelil | Senior Director of Technology |
| Staci Wiech | Senior Director of Education |
| Board of Directors | ||
| Meredith Cagigal | VP, Foodservice Strategy & Execution, North America Operating Unit | The Coca-Cola Company |
| Bill Cary | Chief Investment Officer | Georgia Division of Investment Services |
| Beth Kytle Chandler | Managing Director, Wealth Advisor | Cresset |
| James Cheeks | Owner | Fortas Homes and Fortas Realty |
| Tye Darland | Senior Vice President, General Counsel | Georgia-Pacific |
| Cindy Davis | Shareholder | Greenberg Traurig |
| Benna Deese | Manager, Global Operations & Economic Mobility | Ford Motor Company Fund |
| Mike Dickerson | CEO | ClickDimensions |
| Todd Ellis | Principal & Mid-South Hub Advisory Market Leader | KPMG |
| Andrew W. Evans | Executive Vice President & CFO (Retired) | Southern Company |
| Nick Franz | Partner | Ernst & Young LLP |
| Fran Forehand | Executive Vice President, Power Delivery | Georgia Power |
| Jerry Gahlhoff | President & CEO | Rollins, Inc. |
| Kathleen Goddard | Community Leader | Atlanta |
| Robert Holder | Vice President | Holder Properties |
| Dr. Duane Jackson | Professor of Psychology/Chair of the Division of Science & Mathematics | Morehouse College |
| Sonji Jacobs | Vice President, Corporate Communications and Public Relations | Cox Enterprises |
| Lisa Laube | President (Retired) | Floor & Decor |
| Nathan Lewis | President and CEO | Security Capital Brokerage, Inc. |
| Suzanne Mitchell | CEO | SynergyGPS, LLC |
| David Moody | President and CEO | Moody Construction |
| William Nemetz | Executive Vice President, PFS Investments | Primerica, Inc. |
| Sunny Park | President | Global Sun Investments, Inc. |
| Mary Clancy Peak | Director of Organizational Agility | Chick-fil-A |
| Deepak Raghavan | Co-founder/Lecturer, Astronomy | Manhattan Associates/Georgia State University |
| Caroline Reddington | Senior VP, Regional Sales Executive, Central SE Region, Treasury Management Corporate & Institutional Banking | PNC |
| DeRetta Cole Rhodes, PhD | EVP, Chief Culture Officer | Atlanta Braves |
| Mark Roberts | Chairman | Bentley Holdings |
| Gigi Rouland | Community Leader | Atlanta |
| Lovette Russell | Senior Consultant | Coxe Curry & Associates |
| Matthew Simon-Schumann | Community Leader | Atlanta |
| R. Scott Taylor, Jr. | President and CEO | Carter & Associates |
| Tim Wilkerson | Senior VP, Home Services | The Home Depot |
| Leadership Council | ||
| Marc Azar | Tax Partner | Smith & Howard |
| Jorge Bazan | Principal/Director of Design | Flux Architecture |
| Eddy Benoit Jr. | President and CEO | The Benoit Group |
| Celeste Bottorff | VP (Retired) | The Coca-Cola Company |
| Tony Brewer | Owner | Tony Brewer & Company |
| Meg Boyles | Commercial & Middle Market Sustainability Consultant | Truist |
| David Bueno | Partner | McKinsey & Company |
| David Calhoun | Partner | Morris, Manning & Martin |
| Dan Campbell | Partner | MSouth Equity Partners |
| Thomas Carroll | President | Homrich Berg |
| Bob Cortelyou | SVP, Network Planning (Retired) | Delta Air Lines |
| Randy Dalbey | Partner (Retired) | Chilivis, Grubman, Dalbey & Warner |
| Sandra Edwards | Vice President, Wealth Management Advisor | Merrill Lynch |
| John Ethridge | Partner | Smith, Gambrell & Russell |
| Anastasia Falconio | Chief Human Resources Officer | Quikrete Holdings |
| Whitney Frank | Community Leader | Atlanta |
| James Garvie | SVP HR, Total Rewards and Technology | Southern Company |
| Hollis Gilliam | Head, Equity Trading | EARNEST Partners |
| Christian Given | Vice President | Stephens Inc. |
| Steve Goodman | Managing Partner | MeetingAdvice, An Etherio Company |
| Jodie Guest | PhD, MPH, Professor and Vice Chair | Rollins School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Emory University |
| Ashley Heintz | Partner | Jones Day |
| Susanne Hodges | Senior Vice President | LocusTenens.com (a Jackson Healthcare Company) |
| Elizabeth Hood | Senior Vice President | Callan |
| Carli Huband | Partner-in-Charge, Specialty Tax | Aprio |
| Steve Hughes | Senior Vice President (Retired) | CBRE Group, Inc. |
| Nancy Hunter | Director of Marketing and Communications | MedShare |
| Janin Hutcheson | Pilot (Retired) | Southwest Airlines |
| Candace Johnson | Community Leader | Atlanta |
| Justin King | Partner | King & Spalding |
| Allegra Lawrence-Hardy | Partner | Lawrence & Bundy, LLC |
| Patrick Lowther | Partner | Morris, Manning & Martin |
| Peter McGaffigan | Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager | Wells Fargo |
| Michelle Merrill | Associate Broker/Owner and Trainer | Berkshire Hathaway Georgia Properties/Laughing Dog Farm |
| Molly Millard | Director | Cushman & Wakefield |
| Ward Morse | SVP, Employee Benefit Practice | Willis Towers Watson |
| Whitney Ott | Partner | Jackson Spalding |
| Bharath Parthasarathy | Senior Director | Slalom Consulting |
| Erica Qualls-Battey | Area General Manager | Marriott International |
| Brent Reid | President and CEO | Winter Construction |
| Dana Sample | Director, Central Sales | Delta Air Lines |
| Lia Santos | Principal | Mercer |
| Len Van Popering | President | Applause Innovation Group |
| Chris Willis | Partner | Troutman Pepper LLP |