Officers of The Board of Directors:

SEAN WELSH
Chair, Econ Club
Regional President
PNC

PHILOMENA MANTELLA, Ph.D.
Vice Chair, Econ Club
President
GVSU

NATALIA KOVICAK
President
Economic Club of Grand Rapids

The Board of Directors:

SARA ARMBRUSTER
President & CEO
Steelcase

RICK BAKER
President & CEO
Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce

TASHA BLACKMON
President & CEO
Cherry Health

ROSALYNN BLISS
Mayor
City of Grand Rapids

PAUL BOEHMS
Executive Director
Warner Norcross & Judd 

JOHNNY BRANN, JR.
Owner
Kitchen67 and Interphase

ERIC BROWN
President & CEO
Urban League of West Michigan

BRIAN CALLEY
President & CEO
Small Business Association of MI

ANTHONY CHANG
Founder & CEO
BAMF Health

GUILLERMO CISNEROS
President & CEO
W. MI Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

SHANNON COHEN
Founder & CEO
Shannon Cohen, Inc.

LAUREN DAVIS
West Michigan Region President
Huntington Bank

PAUL T. DOYLE
Founder & CEO
Inclusive Performance Strategies

ERIC FOSTER
Co-Founder, Chair & Managing Director
Rende Progress Capital

TINA FREESE DECKER
President & CEO
Corewell Health

LASANDRA GADDY
President & CEO
Grand Rapids Community Foundation

SARAH GASS
Managing Director, Michigan Account Executive Leader
Aon

TIM GORTSEMA
President
Grand Rapids Griffins

BOB HERR
Retired
Crowe

LYNNE JARMAN-JOHNSON
Chief Marketing Officer
Consumers Credit Union

JOE JONES
President
The Hekima Group

JIM KEANE
Former President & CEO
Steelcase

CHRISTINA KELLER
CEO & Chair
Cascade Engineering 

MATT KIRK
President of North America Retail
Acrisure

JD LOEKS
President
Studio C

RICH MACKEIGAN
Regional General Manager
ASM Global

JEFF MADDOX
CFO
Gordon Foods

RACHEL MRAZ
Vice President-Wealth Management,
Merrill Lynch

MICHAEL NELSON
Chief Administrative & Supply Chain Officer
Amway

MAT NGUYEN
Founder
19 Alpha, Inc.

ANDI OWEN
President & CEO
MillerKnoll

ANA RAMIREZ-SAENZ
CEO & Founder
La Fuente Consulting, LLC

LEADRIANE ROBY, Ph.D.
Superintendent
GRPS

GARRICK ROCHOW
President & CEO
Consumers Energy

BOB ROTH
President & CEO
RoMan Manufacturing

CARLOS SANCHEZ
Executive Director, Casa Latina Program
Davenport University

VIK SRINIVASAN
Chief Administrative Officer
Meijer

KEVIN STOTTS
President
TalentFirst

RENEE TABBEN
President
Bank of America Grand Rapids

PRAVEEN THADANI
President
Priority Health

RANDY THELEN
President & CEO
The Right Place, Inc.

JOHN TRUSCOTT
CEO
Truscott Rossman

MIKE VANGESSEL
CEO
Rockford Construction

ZACHARY VERHULST
Founder & CEO
Pure Architects

MARK WASHINGTON
City Manager
City of Grand Rapids