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Board of Trustees
Shirley Collier, Chair
She was founder and CEO for 15 years of Paragon Computer Services, Inc. and all of its subsidiaries, Managing Associate with an international consulting firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and prior to that established and managed end user computing for a $17 billion regional bank. Shirley has an undergraduate degree in Marketing with a Master’s degree in IT Management.
She has published over 50 articles and spoken extensively on aligning business and Information Technology, IT security/governance, strategic planning, technology commercialization and e- commerce. She is the immediate past chair the Board of the Howard County Economic Development Authority, currently serving on the Neotech Advisory Board and is a founding member and past President of the International Alliance of Technology Integrators. She formerly served on the Boards of the Howard County Chamber of Commerce (chairing the Education and Nominating Committees), the Lazarus Foundation and the Domestic Violence Center of Howard County (and recipient of their Spirit Award). Shirley serves on the Howard County Superintendent's Advisory Council for Educational Partnerships chairing the Technology Advisory Council, and is Vice President of the Board of the Multinational Development of Women in Technology, chairing the International Committee.
Shirley has served on numerous commissions and committees including the County Executive and County Council’s Compensation Committee, the Columbia Town Center Rotary annual fundraisers (for 7 years), The Heart Ball (chair for two years), the EDA's Incubator Committee (chair for 2 years), the Science, Technology Engineering and Math Business/Education Coalition and the Howard Community College’s Commission on the Future. She is a graduate of Leadership Howard County and was named Alumnus of the Year in 1996.
Shirley received the 1999 Woman of the Year award from the Business Women's Network of Howard County. She was named the Leadership Howard County's 1997 Distinguished Alumnus and was awarded the EBO Outstanding Woman in Business award in 1997. Shirley was named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women in 1996 and in 2000 and was named to the Circle of Excellence in 2005 by The Daily Record. She was named as one of the Arthritis Foundation's Women of Distinction, and in 1995 founded "Computer Mania," a free computer symposium for girls in the public school system to foster confidence in technology, mathematics and science, now being held worldwide. Shirley was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame by the Howard County Women's Commission. In 2004 she received the YWCA’s Special Leader award for leadership and economic empowerment, and the Children's Advocate Award by Leadership Howard County. Shirley and her company also were awarded the Torch Award for ethical business practices by the Better Business Bureau of Greater Baltimore.
Richard M. Krieg, Ph.D., President and CEO
Richard Krieg is President and CEO of The Horizon Foundation and also serves as a Foundation Trustee. He is former Health Commissioner and First Deputy Commissioner of Health for the City of Chicago. The Chicago Department of Health is the nation's largest local health department, with a staff of approximately 2,000 people and an $85 million annual budget. Its fifty-two general and specialty clinics make up the largest ambulatory care system in the Chicago, handling one million patient visits annually.
He is former Executive Director of the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs at Roosevelt University in Chicago, an urban policy and community action center. Richard formerly served as Associate Dean of The University of Illinois School of Public Health. For four years, he held the position of Director of Policy Analysis and Planning for the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council. He was a Peace Corps volunteer, working in the community health area in central Brazil.
He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago where he specialized in health policy and administration. He holds a masters degree from the University of Chicago's Harris Graduate School of Policy Studies. He is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School and the Brookings Institution Advanced Studies Program.
He has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers. He was a member of the Governor's Commission on Service and Volunteerism in Maryland and chaired the statewide Cancer Treatment Task Force established by the Maryland General Assembly in 2001. He was the founding Chairman of the Howard County Community Emergency Response Network, and chaired the Commission on the Future of Howard Community College. Currently, he is a member of the Strategic Planning Committee of Howard County General Hospital and serves on the Advisory Board of the National Peace Corps Association. Richard is a recipient of the Illinois Department of Public Health's "Award of Merit" and the Illinois Public Health Association's "Presidential Award" for 1990. Under former Illinois Governor James Edgar, he was awarded the "1992 Governor's Award for Unique Achievement" for his chairmanship of the League of Woman Voters' statewide ElderHealth Project.
Mary Ellen Duncan, Treasurer
Dr. Duncan received the Business and
Humanitarian Award from the Howard County
Chamber of Commerce in 2000. That same
year, she received the Business Associate of
the Year award from the Columbia Chapter of the
American Business Women's Association.
The Baltimore Business Journal named Dr. Duncan
one of 25 educators, and the only community
college official in its Who's Who in Higher
Business Education for "changing the face of
higher business education in Greater
Baltimore." President Duncan is a
graduate of the Leadership Maryland Class of
2001 and was named by The Daily Record as one
of Maryland's Top 100 Women for 2002. In
2004, Dr. Duncan received the Wylene Burch
Award for Distinguished Leadership from the
Howard County Center for African-American
Culture and was awarded the Foundation’s Richard
G. McCauley Leadership Award. In
2005, the Howard County Soroptimists honored
her with the Making a Difference for Women
Award. Most recently, Dr. Duncan has been
named the Northeast Regional CEO by the
Association for Community College Trustees and
a Business Leader of the Year for 2006 by the
Howard County Chamber of Commerce.
She holds a Ph.D. in Administration/Curriculum Development from The University of Connecticut.
T. James Truby, Secretary
Mr. Truby received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Master of Arts degree in Social Anthropology from American University. After two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia, Mr. Truby served as Manger of Facility Planning for the National Institute of Mental Health's pioneering Community Mental Health Program.
As Manager of Policy Planning for the Maryland Department of Transportation, Mr. Truby authored the Department's Action Plan for considering social, economic, environmental, and historical factors in the planning and design of the state’s transportation facilities. Moving to the Department's Aviation Administration, he served as Director of Planning and Development of BWI Airport and then Maryland Aviation Administrator with overall responsibility for BWI's renaissance and substantial growth and development during the first half of the 1980s.
Mr. Truby is a resident of Ellicott City, MD, and has participated in numerous community activities since moving to Howard County in 1970. He served as president of the Economic Forum, and was a member of the Adequate Public Facilities Commission, the organizing committee of Vision Howard County, and the board of Winter Growth. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Howard Community College, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Maryland Association of Community Colleges, the Environmental Steering Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Leadership Howard County, and the BWI Airport Development Council.
Dr. David Anderson
Dr. David Anderson was born in Washington, DC the son of a Baptist preacher. In 1984, empty and dissatisfied after years of seeking fulfillment in the ways of the world, David finally committed his heart and life to Jesus Christ at age 18. At that time, God gave him a powerful desire and calling to preach.
After 2 years at a local DC college where he became the first black president of the student body, he transferred to Moody Bible Institute. During his first year there David served as class president, then as student body president the following year. He became the first African American in the history of Moody to be elected to this position as well as to be reelected and complete a second term.
At age 20, while
continuing his studies, he obtained his license
to preach and accepted the position of
Assistant Pastor at the Near North Baptist
Church in the inner city of
Chicago. David also served as
Assistant Chaplain in the U.S. Army Reserve for
eight years.
After graduating with a
B.A. in Pastoral Studies with a Greek Language
Emphasis, he served full-time on staff at
Willow Creek Community Church (15,000 strong in
attendance then) as a pastoral intern.
During this period David served on the Alumni
Board of Directors for the Moody Bible
Institute where he was elected to serve as
President of the Board during his second
term.
His internship at Willow
Creek in conjunction with his quality education
and ample leadership experience prepared him in
fulfilling his dream to plant and pastor a
racially integrated church. In 1991, David
formed a church planting team, which brought
him to Columbia, MD, where his vision for an
integrated, non-denominational Church in the DC
area was finally realized.
In
1992, Bridgeway Community Church was born,
which David Anderson currently pastors.
David completed his master's degree at Moody
Graduate School in 1998 and his doctor of
Philosophy in Sociology and Religion at Oxford
Graduate School in 2001. He advanced to
the level of Fellow in the Oxford Society of
Scholars in 2003. He currently serves on
the board of the Friends of Zambia, a
non-profit organization comprised of business,
civil society and philanthropic leaders whose
mission is to promote knowledge and
understanding of Zambia in order to encourage
business investment and development, and
support for education and welfare among
Zambia's people. He previously served on
the board of the Columbia Foundation.
In
addition to founding Bridgeway Community
Church, he is the founder and president of the
BridgeLeader Network, a multicultural
leadership consulting organization, and an
instructor of cultural diversity at the
University of Phoenix, Maryland campuses.
He has co-authored a book titled Letters Across
the Divide: Two Friends Explore Racism,
Friendship and Faith (Baker, 2001), which has
generated media interest nationwide through
exposure on over 2000 radio stations and
television appearances, which include CSPAN,
Black Entertainment Television (BET), TBN, PAX
TV, and ABC. His book, Multicultural
Ministry: Finding Your Church's Unique Rhythm
(April 2004) highlights his messages and
lessons in doing multicultural ministry.
Dr. Anderson hosts a live radio show, called
Reconciliation Live on the largest Christian
radio station in the nation's capital. He
is a highly sought after conference speaker,
lecturer, and consultant for large corporations
on local, national and international
levels. Dr. Anderson and his wife Amber
reside in Ellicott City, Maryland with their
three young children, Isaiah, Luke, and
Asia.
David Barrett
Since 2005, David Barrett has been a
teacher of secondary mathematics in the Howard
County Public School System. He teaches
algebra in the Gateway program, the high school
component of the Homewood Center, the county's
only alternative school.
Barrett returned to teaching after a 30-year
career in the information technology (IT)
industry, starting as a computer programmer and
ending his IT career as a vice president.
During this period, he worked on or led teams
that programmed sophisticated weapons systems
for the U.S. Navy. In 1976, he was part of a
three-person team that designed and developed
the approach landing test (ALT). The ALT was a
training tool that simulated the landing of the
space shuttle and was used to train the ground
crew years before the first shuttle
mission.
Subsequently, he worked for management
consulting firm, Booz Allen and Hamilton and
computer manufacturers, Data General and Wang
Laboratories where he entered management.
His last IT position was with Houston
Associates, Inc. where he was vice president of
a group that designed and implemented high
performance networks used in war gaming and
mission-critical military endeavors.
Barrett made several trips to Bosnia where
these systems were first implemented in support
of the UN peace keeping force.
He serves on the boards of the Alpha
Foundation of Howard County, the Harriet Tubman
Foundation and the Howard County Poetry and
Literature Society as chair. For 10
years, he served on the board of the Howard
County Library. He is also a member of the
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and is an active
member of its education committee. He is
co-founder of the Alpha Achievers, an academic
club of high-school African American males who
have a 3.0 or higher GPA. He is a
percussionist in the Ellington-Adderly African
American Community Jazz Ensemble, another
educational program of the Fraternity.
Barrett was born and raised in Newark, New
Jersey, where he attended public school. He
spent one year at Delaware State College and
then transferred to Rutgers University, Newark
from which he graduated with a degree in
mathematics in 1965.
After college, he taught mathematics for one
year in Newark before being lured to
Pittsfield, MA to work for General Electric
Ordnance Department to be part of a team that
designed and built a missile fire control
system for the Navy nuclear submarine fleet. He
was still in Pittsfield when he watched live
television footage of the July, 1967 Newark
uprising. Moved by what he saw and
wanting to help make a difference in the city
of his birth, he moved back to Newark three
months later.
He soon became very active in Newark
politics, first as part of the local black
power movement (United Brothers and the
Congress Of African Peoples) that spearheaded
the election of Kenneth A. Gibson as Newark's
first black mayor and later as a candidate for
Freeholder and the state assembly.
He left Newark for Maryland in 1974 and two
years later, earned a masters degree in
computer science from Howard University.
Barrett is married to Saundra Barrett and has
three adult sons and two granddaughters. He has
lived in Columbia since 1977.
Lynn Coleman, CPA, MBA, Chair, Audit Committee
Lynn Coleman, CPA, MBA has worked in higher education for over twenty years and is currently Vice President of Administration and Finance at Howard Community College (HCC). In her HCC role, Lynn oversees all finance areas of the college, human resources, plant operations, security, capital projects, risk management and auxiliary services.
Prior to her
experience in higher
education, Lynn worked at The Rouse Company
and in public accounting.
Lynn is active in NACUBO (National
Association of College and University Business
Officers)
where she currently is serving as Secretary
of the Board. She has also served on the
EACUBO
(Eastern Association of College and
University Business Officers) Board of
Directors. She was
Chair of the NACUBO Community College
Planning Council and the EACUBO Two-Year
College
Committee. Lynn is a past-president of the
Maryland Association of Community College
Business
Officers and is also a past member and
Treasurer of the Board of the Maryland chapter
of the
American Council on Education Network for
women leaders in higher education.
In addition to activities in higher
education, Lynn is an active member of the
Community
Emergency Response Network, where she
co-chaired the Continuity of Operations
Committee. She was a member of the Howard
County Spending Affordability Committee and was
formerly on the Board of Leadership Howard
County. Lynn is active in her sorority,
Alpha Kappa Alpha, where
she works on a number of community service
projects through the local chapter.
Charmaine Gordon, JD
At present, Charmaine is a member of IHRSA, Howard County Chamber of Commerce, ECA and IDEA.
Charmaine attended Yale University where she
studied Latin American
Studies and earned a Bachelors degree. She also
attended Case Western
Reserve University where she studied Law and
earned a J.D. degree.
Louis G. Hutt, Jr., JD, CPA
Louis Hutt is a native of St. Louis, Missouri where he attended Washington University. Upon earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1976, he joined Ernst and Young Certified Public Accountants. As a Certified Public Accountant he participated in audits of both small and large corporations including several Fortune 500 companies. In 1978, while with Ernst and Young, Louis served as the firm's visiting professor of Accounting at Morgan State University for one year. Louis returned to Morgan as an adjunct member of the Accounting faculty in 1982, and remained for six years.
Louis graduated from the University of Maryland Law School in 1982. As a law student he interned with the Securities Division of the Maryland Attorney General's Office and clerked for the Honorable Judge Robert Bell on the Circuit Court of Baltimore.
After graduating from law school, Louis established The Law Office of Louis G. Hutt, Jr. and joined with W. Charles Bennett, CPA, a classmate from Washington University to start the Certified Public Accounting firm of Bennett, Hutt and Company. The primary focus of the law office has been to provide representation in connection with business transactions, tax controversies and contract negotiations. Bennett, Hutt and Company provides management advisory services to private closely held businesses including business planning, business acquisitions, tax planning, financial accounting and management training. The firm has offices in Columbia, Maryland and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Louis actively participates in several notable community and civic endeavors. In 2002 he completed two terms on the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Washington University, and was recently recommended to the Maryland State Senate as a Trustee to the Howard County Community College. He has been recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration as Accounting Advocate of the Year; NAACP of Howard County with the Minority Business Award; Distinguished Alumni of the School of Business at Washington University; and recipient of the Meritorious Service Award for Community Service from the Columbia Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Louis is a weekly guest on WOL's morning radio talk show in Washington D.C. discussing tax law issues and developments affecting individual taxpayers and businesses.
Louis is married to Nellie A.
Hutt, Esq. The Hutt's reside in Ellicott City,
Maryland.
John Isbister, JD
John B. Isbister is a partner with the Maryland law firm of Tydings & Rosenberg LLP. He concentrates his practice in the litigation of business and commercial disputes.
Mr. Isbister is an active
leader in the legal profession. He
currently serves as a the Publications and
Content Officer of the Section of Litigation of
the American Bar Association. Mr.
Isbister is a founder and program chair of the
thirteen annual National Institutes on Class
Actions presented by the American Bar
Association. He is a Past President of
the Maryland Chapter of the Federal Bar
Association. In 2006 he received a
“Champion of Justice” award from the Equal
Justice Council for his work helping the
Maryland Legal Aid Bureau provide access to
justice for low-income people.
Mr.
Isbister is a resident of Ellicott City and has
been a volunteer and leader in Howard County
community affairs since 1979. He
previously served on the boards of Howard
County General Hospital, Leadership Howard
County, the United Way Partnership of Howard
County, the Howard County Police Foundation,
and the Howard County YMCA. He currently
serves as a member of the Board of Visitors of
the University of Maryland School of
Law.
Robert I. Jeffrey, Chair, Finance Committee
A native of Baltimore, Mr. Jeffrey earned his BA and MA degrees from the Johns Hopkins University. He is a graduate of the Securities Industry Institute of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and studied policy sciences at the graduate level at UMBC. In his academic career prior to the investment industry, Bob published and presented papers with the American Association of Dental Schools and the American Public Health Association.
Bob is active in the community, serving as a Trustee of the Horizon Foundation, chairing Horizon's Investment Committee, and Director and Assistant Treasurer of the Howard Community College Educational Foundation. He recently completed two decades of Board service with CareFirst BlueChoice and CapitalCare and is a past president of the Jim Rouse Entrepreneurial Fund (JREF). Mr. Jeffrey is a 1991 graduate of Leadership Howard County and a 2000 graduate of Leadership Maryland.
A resident of Columbia since 1977, Mr. Jeffrey is married to Bach Tran-Jeffrey, a dentist practicing in Columbia, and has two sons, Alexander, who attends Washington Univ. in St. Louis, and Zachary, a student at the University of Maryland College Park.
Michael H. Kelemen, MD
Pam Mack, Chair, Policy & Communications Committee
She helped transition the CA board from the Rouse Company to community control in the 1980s and served as board chairwoman.
She also promoted low-income housing as chairwoman of the countywide housing task force.
As executive director and CEO of Health Alliance, a nonprofit providing uninsured residents with free healthcare, she recruited medical specialists to volunteer their services and improved its financial stability through her fundraising efforts.
She managed the transition of the Health Alliance patients into Chase Brexton Health Services, a federally qualified health clinic.
Mack's civic work includes chairing The
Columbia Association Board of Directors and
serving on the boards of The Columbia
Foundation, the Columbia Festival of the Arts,
Foreign-born Information and Referral Network
and the Howard County Chamber of Commerce,
among other activities. She is former Chair of
Family Life Center. She was nominated by the
Howard County Commission for Women for
induction into the Howard County Women's Hall
of Fame in 2008.
Floyd Malveaux, MD, PhD
Floyd J. Malveaux, MD, PhD is Executive
Director of the Merck Childhood Asthma Network,
Inc. (MCAN). Dr. Malveaux, a nationally
recognized expert on asthma and allergic
diseases, is Emeritus Dean of the College
of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and
Medicine at Howard University. A native
of Louisiana, Dr. Malveaux earned a B.S. degree
from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, a
M.S. degree from Loyola University in New
Orleans, a Ph.D. degree in Microbiology and
Public Health from Michigan State University,.
and the Doctor of Medicine degree, with honors,
from Howard University College of
Medicine.
Dr. Malveaux received
specialty training in Internal Medicine at the
Washington Hospital Center in the District of
Columbia and subspecialty training in Allergy
and Clinical Immunology at the John Hopkins
University in Baltimore. He was member of
the faculty at Howard University where he
established the Conjoint Training Program in
Allergy and Immunology and the faculty of Johns
Hopkins University where, as a member of the
Division of Clinical Immunology, he initiated
studies on asthma mortality and
morbidity. Dr. Malveaux served as
Chairman of Department of Microbiology and
Associate Professor of Microbiology and
Medicine at Howard, and became Dean in 1995 of
the Howard University College of
Medicine. From July 1996 until 2001, Dr.
Malveaux also served as interim Vice President
for Health Affairs and Dean, and Professor of
Microbiology and Medicine. From 2001 to
2003, he served as Vice Provost for Health
Affairs and Dean of the College of
Medicine. He remained Dean of the College
of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and
Medicine at Howard University until July
2005.
Dr. Malveaux is a fellow of the
American College of Physicians and the American
Academy of Allergy, Asthma and
Immunology. He is a member of Alpha Omega
Alpha Honor Medical Society and was elected to
the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academies of Science. He is active in
numerous professional organizations and is, or
has served as, a member of the Board of
Directors of the American Lung Association;
Creighton University; Children's Research
Institute of the Children's National Medical
Center; the National Allergy and Infectious
Diseases Advisory Council; chairman of the
Committee of Underrepresented Minorities,
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and
Immunology; the Board of Trustees of the Asthma
and Allergy Foundation of America, the National
Asthma Education and Prevention Program of the
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the
National Institutes of Health; and the HHS/APHA
Steering Committee of the Initiative to
Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health
Disparities. He has held a number of
positions with the National Medical Association
including member of the Board of Trustees (1988
– 1994) and was first chair of the
Allergy/Immunology Section. Dr. Malveaux was
founder and president of the Urban Asthma and
Allegory Center in Baltimore from 1986 to
1989.
Dr. Malveaux is the recipient of
numerous awards, including the National
Research Service Award from the National
Institutes of Health, the Vivian B. Allen
Foundation Fellowship, the Clemens von Pirquet
Research Award from the Georgetown School of
Medicine, the Outstanding Faculty Research
Award from Howard University and the Legacy of
Leadership Award from Howard University
Hospital.
Ann B. Mech, JD, RN, Chair, Strategic Planning Committee
Ann Mech, JD, RN, is Coordinator, Legal Affairs for the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She came to the School of Nursing in 1988 from University of Maryland Medical System, where she was an Assistant Director of Nursing.
Combining the fields of nursing and law, Ann Mech received both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society. Her Juris Doctor degree is from George Washington University.
A resident of Dayton, MD, since
1982, Ann Mech traces her roots
in Howard County through her
mother’s family to the middle
of the 19th century when the family
settled in Elkridge. Her community
activities have included serving on
the Howard County Board of Health,
the Howard County Health
Improvement Leadership Team, the Howard
County CORE Service Agency Task
Force for Mental Health, and the
Task Force on the Future of Howard
Community College. Currently,
she is a member of Howard County
General Hospital’s Board of
Trustees, the Vantage House Board
of Trustees, the Nursing Advisory
Board of Howard Community College,
and the Columbia Association’s
Aquatics Advisory Committee. She was
inducted into the Howard County Women’s Hall
of Fame in 2008.
Reverend Walter Rodriguez
Rev. Walter R. Rodríguez is a native of Uruguay, South America. In his country he served as a District Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene. In 1984 the Rodriguezes moved to Argentina, where the couple served as instructors at the South American Nazarene Theological Seminary in Pilar, Argentina. Walter served as the Vice President for the Extension Program with this institution with jurisdiction over Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Mabel (his wife) and Walter finished their Bachelor Degree in Theology with a minor in Counseling at the Seminario Nazareno de las Americas (Americas Nazarene Seminary) of San Jose, Costa Rica. In 1990 they moved to Kansas City, Missouri where Walter completed his Master of Arts in Missiology at the Nazarene Theological Seminary. At the same time, between 1991 and 1994, Walter was the Editor of Ministerio, a Spanish magazine for Ministers.
Since the Rodriguezes arrived in Maryland, Walter has been active in the community. First, with the Baltimore County Hispanic Advisory Board and also served the Hate Bias Task Force of the Howard County Human Rights Commission and the Multicultural Sub-Committee of the Domestic Violence Center, and participated in the Howard County Vision project.
Walter and Mabel live in Columbia, while his son Sebastian lives in Uruguay with his family, and Walter's daughter, Ana, lives in Baltimore, MD.
Steven W. Sachs
Steven W. Sachs ARM, is Executive Vice President and Director, Real Estate and Hotel Practice for Willis HRH.
Mr. Sachs has 32 years experience in the real estate development field as both a risk manager and insurance broker. Mr. Sachs utilizes a wide range of insurance market relationships to develop and implement innovative risk transfer products for real estate clients. He is a frequent speaker at the Risk and Insurance Management Society National Conference on disaster planning, managing large losses and loss forecasting. Mr. Sachs served from 1992 to 2000 on the Board of the Self-Insurance Education Foundation. He also served on the Board of the Self-Insurance Institute of America from 1996 to 1999.
Mr. Sachs served on the Board of Directors of the Howard County Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2002. He has been involved in his local community having served on the Board of the Howard Community College from 1987 to 1999, acting as Chairperson for a two-year term. He is a member and two-time past President of the Columbia Rotary Club. Mr. Sachs was selected by the County Executive as Chairperson of the Howard County Spending Affordability Advisory Committee in 1996 and 1997, and presently serves on the Board of the Howard County Police Foundation, and The Columbia Festival of the Arts. He is also a member of the Howard County United Way Cabinet and Partnership Board and co-chaired the new business campaign for 2001/2.
Mr. Sachs is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Sharbrooke Management Company, the operator of six Heavenly Ham franchise locations in the Baltimore Metropolitan area.
He has a BA in History from Duke University and a Masters in Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins.
Mary Ann Scully
Mary Ann has been a Howard County resident since 1995. She is Chair of the Columbia Foundation, Howard County's community foundation, and Vice Chair of the Maryland Bankers Association. Mary Ann is a trustee of Howard County General Hospital and a trustee of the Horizon Foundation. She is an active member of St. Louis Parish in Clarksville, Maryland. She is a 2007 graduate of Leadership Maryland. Mary Ann chaired the Howard Community College's Commission on the Future in 2007/2008 and was formerly a trustee of the Howard Community College Foundation Board as well as serving on the college's Campaign Council. She chaired the Howard County United Way Partnership Board until July 2008 and served on the board of the United Way of Central Maryland until 2009. She was also the 2003/2004 Howard County Campaign Chair of the United Way. She was the 2005/ 2006 co-chair of the Grassroots Capital Campaign.She served as Vice Chair of the Howard County Women's Giving Circle and was formerly on the board of advisors for Loyola College's Sellinger School of Business as well as a past vice president until 2000 of the Baltimore Opera Company Board of Trustees and a member of the board of the Maryland International Visitors Center.
In 2007, Mary Ann was recognized as an honoree in the Howard County Women's Hall of Fame; she was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Howard County Chamber of Commerce.In 2002, 2005 and 2007, Mary Ann was recognized as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women by The Daily Record, and was a 2008 Daily Record Influential Marylander. She was the BWN Woman of Distinction in 2008, received the United Way of Central Maryland's Clementine Peterson Award, was one of the Baltimore Business Journal's 2004 “Enterprising Women” and is a 2008 Seton Hill University Distinguished Alumni and a 2005 Alumni Laureate honoree for Loyola College.
Mary Ann and her family reside in West Friendship.
Robert N. Sheff, MD
Robert N. Sheff, M.D. prior to his retirement in September 2004, served as the Chairman of the Medical Management Group of the Patuxent Medical Group since April 1994 and previously served as PMG President from February 1995 to August 2000. Dr. Sheff also served as President of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maryland's HMO's from February 1995 to March 1998. From June 1994 to September 1995 he was BCBSM Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Quality Management, while in 1993 he acted as Medical Director for the BCBSM Division of Medical Affairs.
Since 1977 Dr. Sheff has been a radiologist with BCBSM's staff model HMO, the Columbia Medical Plan, which was merged into FreeState Health Plan on April 1, 1998. He has been the Chief of Radiology since 1977 and one of the Medical Directors since 1984. Prior to joining Patuxent Medical Group, Dr. Sheff was in private practice at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. Sheff received his B.A. from U.C.L.A. in 1965 and his M.D. from U.C.L.A. in 1968. His post doctoral training was at Johns Hopkins, U.C.L.A. and in the U.S. Public Health Service.
Dr. Sheff currently serves on the board of directors of Humanim, and is the chairman of Howard County General Hospital's Medical Review/Ethics Committee. He previously served on the board of directors of The Columbia Foundation, Leadership Howard County and the United Way Partnership of Howard County. Dr. Sheff also served as the 1998 Campaign Chairperson for United Way Community Partnership of Howard County.
Felícita Solá-Carter, Chair, Grants & Special Initiatives Committee
Felícita Solá-Carter, prior to
her retirement in January, 2009, served as
Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Human
Resources and Deputy Chief Human Capital
Officer of the Social Security Administration.
She shared national leadership of the
Personnel, Training, Civil Rights and Equal
Opportunity, Labor, Management and Employee
Relations, Human Capital Planning and Executive
Services Support programs.
A native of Puerto Rico, Feli graduated from the College of Mount St. Vincent in 1971. She began her career with SSA in New York City. In 1991, she joined the Office of the Commissioner in Baltimore, Md., as Senior Advisor to the Principal Deputy Commissioner, becoming the first Hispanic in that role. She is the recipient of a 2004 Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive and a 2005 Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive, the highest honor a career Federal executive may receive.
Feli currently is President of Conexiones, a volunteer, non-profit organization supporting Hispanic student achievement. Conexiones has been honored as the 2009 Maryland Non-profit of the year by the Governor’s Commission on Hispanic Affairs. She also serves on the Equity Council, the District Planning Team, as a mentor with the Partnership for Public Service, and the Bright Minds Foundation of the Howard County, Maryland Public School System. In 2008, she was named a Hispanic Hero by the United States Hispanic Youth Entrepreneur Education and as one of the 2008 Maryland Top 100 Women. Her professional affiliations include service as Senior Advisor to the Federal Training Institute of the League of United Latin American Citizens and the Hispanic Youth Symposium in Maryland.
Kwang Chul "KC" Whang
From 2001-2004 Mr. Whang served for 3 years as Senior Broker and Broker of Record for the national commercial real estate brokerage and investment firm of Sperry Van Ness (SVN), representing Maryland and Washington DC.
In 2004, Mr. Whang has resigned from SVN and re-focused on developing WGC, into a regional niche brand. Through WGC, Mr. Whang has brokered and facilitated numerous complex multi-million dollar business and investment transactions, representing landlords and tenants, buyers and sellers from all ethnic groups, and in a myriad of industries: medical, office, legal, food, entertainment, retail, education, religious, non-profit, etc. and, in real estate product categories ranging from: office, condominiums, warehouses, flex-spaces, land and shopping centers, etc.
For two and a half decades, Mr. Whang's success as a business transaction facilitator has earned him a distinguished reputation as a "deal-maker", in an increasingly complex global world where sensitivity to and knowledge of various cultures and business practices are a must. Mr. Whang, has lived and traveled overseas extensively in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South, Central and North America. He is a rare, multi-cultural and multi-lingual professional with a unique insight into business and regional real estate.
Mr. Whang also serves the public through his appointment as a board member of Maryland’s Howard County Economic Development Authority, and as the Vice Chairman of Howard County’s Committee for Economic and Business Diversity. Additionally, Mr. Whang serves on the board of Boltcutters Ministries International, Inc. an international Christian community development consultancy, and also sits on the Board of Elders of Bridgeway Community Church, in Columbia, MD.
Mr. Whang, earned his MBA at The Crummer Graduate School of Business Administration, in Orlando, Florida, and a BA from Middlebury College, in Middlebury, Vermont. Mr. Whang is a licensed real estate broker in the State of Maryland, Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. He resides in Howard County, Maryland, with his wife and three children.
Beverly White-Seals
Beverly J. White-Seals, Esquire, has a solo legal practice in Columbia, Maryland where she is Assistant General Counsel at General Growth Properties.
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ms. White-Seals earned her undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1972. She received her Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law in 1975. Ms. White-Seals began her legal career as a litigator with the U.S. Department of Labor before joining the Legal Division of The Rouse Company in 1979 where she worked until 1999. Ms. White-Seals is a member of the Maryland Bar Association where she previously served as a member of the Character Committee. She is also a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association as well as the American and National Bar Associations.
Ms. White-Seals and her family are residents of Columbia, MD where she has been actively involved in numerous community activities including, but not limited to, serving as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Howard County General Hospital and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine. She has also served as President of the Board of Trustees of Ballet Royale Company, and has been a member of the Boards of Howard County Hospital Foundation, Glenelg Country School, Vantage House, Howard County Arts Council, Columbia Interfaith Housing and Hospice Services for Howard County.