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 |