Trustees
Gail Markham, Chair
CPA and Founding Partner, Markham Norton Mosteller Wright & CO., PA
Gary H. Griffin, Vice Chair & Secretary/Treasurer
Construction Professional, President and CEO B & I Contractors, Inc.
Malike Adigun
Entrepreneur
Julie Ben-Susan
Retired Banker, JPMorgan, and General Manager, Shelter Island Heights POC and North Ferry Company
William M. Blevins
President/CEO, Gulf Coast Business Bank
Suzanne Boy
Employment Attorney and Founding Partner, Boy Agnew Potanovic Miller, PLLC
Lauren C. Drasites
Attorney, Patrone Bentley Law Group
Rosemary Fllori
Executive Director, Glades County Economic Development Council
Sally Jackson
Community Volunteer
Bishop Harrison S. Knight, Ph.D.
Sr. Pastor of Thee Trinity Church, Agency Owner, Senior Life Insurance Company, and Real Estate Agent
Fred Moon
Former Assistant Treasurer, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. Former Director, Surdna Foundation
Clay Motley, Ph.D.
Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and a Professor of English at FGCU
Khandyce Mosely
Consultant and Grant Writer, City of Fort Myers Police Department
Dale Anne Reiss
Retired Ernst Young LLP, Global and Americas Head of Real Estate, Construction, Hospitality and Infrastructure
Lillie B. Rentz, C.M.
CEO – LBR Strategies, LLC
Damon Romanello
CEO – Studio+
Andrew W. Sheppard
Retired, FineMark National Bank & Trust, Portfolio Manager
Karen Watson, MSW
Medical Social Worker, Lee Health, Co-founder of Impact Dunbar, Executive Director, After the Rain of Southwest FLORIDA Inc.
Senior Advisors
Audrea Anderson
Retired Teacher and Administrator Associate Vice President for Community Relations and Marketing, Florida Gulf Coast University
Juan D. Bendeck
Attorney, Shareholder, Dentons Cohen & Grigsby P.C.
Jay Brett
Retired Attorney, The Sheppard Law Firm
Patricia K. Dobbins
Nurse, Teacher, Healthcare Professional. Administrator, Health Departments for Hendry and Glades Counties
Chauncey Goss
Former Member, President’s Office of Management and Budget, Former Deputy Staff Director of the US House Budget Committee
Larry Allen Hobbs
Emergency Physician at Gulf Coast Medical Center
Howard Leland
Pilot. Retired Northwest Airlines Captain
William T. Prather
Entertainment Industry Entrepreneur. Executive Producer, Owner, The Prather Family Theaters
Guy Whitesman
Attorney, Of Counsel and Immediate Past Chair, Business and Tax Department, Henderson, Franklin Starnes & Holt, P.A.
Emeritus
Marie Mallory Ackord
Susan Bennett
Joseph Catti
Dawn-Marie Driscoll
Robert da Frota
Guy S. Emerich
Kevin Erwin
M. William Frey, Ph. D
Chris A. Gair
Hon. Archie B. Hayward, Jr.
Lee Howington
Jerry Hussey
Charles K. Idelson
Donna Kaye
D. Hugh Kinsey, Jr.
David Lucas
Joe Mazurkiewicz, Jr., Ph. D
Jim McFadden
Melvin Morgan
Jim Nathan
Steve Pontius
Robbie Roepstorff
J. Tom Smoot, Jr., Co-Founder
Gene Solomon
Gay Rebel Thompson
Karson Turner
Scott White
Steven R. Whitley, CPA
