Meet Our Leaders

Cynthia Heath
Board Chair
Retired, Emerson
Jessica Willingham
1st Vice Chair
Senior Vice President & Chief Communications & Marketing Officer
Spire
Dawn L. Kotva
2nd Vice Chair
Vice President of Operations
MTM, Inc.
Cyndy Donato
Secretary
Regional VP of Human Resources
BJC Healthcare
Donna Doerhoff
Treasurer
Partner
BKD, LLP

Laurel “Buff” Burkel
Colonel, US Air Force
Retired Inspirational/ Motivational Speaker
Lisa Bell-Reim
President
Oculus Inc.
Dana Creswell
Student
Hazelwood West High School
Vicki Dawkins
President
Emerson Hermetic Motor
Jeromey Farmer
Director, Enterprise Analytics & Talent
Edward Jones
Kalen Fumagalli
Sales Team Lead eCommerce
Nestle Purina
Mira Iyer
Student & Senior Girl Scout
Kimberly Hodge-Bell, PhD, DABT
Senior Science Fellow & Macromolecule Toxicology Lead
Bayer U.S. – Crop Science
Christine Iovaldi
Customer Experience Manager
Dot Foods, Inc.
Mike Kiefer
Chief Financial Officer
Afinitas
Julie Leverenz
MBA, FACHE Founder & CEO
JLev.Life Consulting
Keith Marty
Superintendent
Parkway School District
Mark Murray
Partner
Armstrong Teasdale LLP
Sonni Nolan
Partner-Technology, Manufacturing, and Transportation
Husch Blackwell
Dana Plonka
Vice President of Risk and Strategic Finance
Alter Trading Corporation (ATC)/Goldstein Group Inc.
Thuy Vi Quach-Braig
Marketing Leader
Eastman Performance Films, LLC
Jeff Steiner
Senior Portfolio Manager/VP
U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management
Anastasia Stevenson
Operating Effectiveness Director, Sales & Account Management Optimization
Cigna/ Express-Scripts
Kit Sundararaman
Principal, Client Experience & Insights
Edward Jones
Susan L. Thomas
President
Truman State University