Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Steven H. Akre
Chairman
Attorney
Fred Meyland-Smith
Vice Chairman
Managing Partner, Executive Workforce Consultants
Ralston Purina, retired
Alderman, City of Town and Country; President, Colgate University Alumni Club
Roger Debenport
Deputy Chairman
Founder & President, MasterPac Corp., retired
Civic Volunteer
Patrick T. Wittenbrink
Secretary
Principal, Carmody MacDonald
John Schmidt
Treasurer
Volunteer and Former CFO, Wings of Hope
Program Manager Information Systems, McDonnell Douglas, retired
Civic Volunteer
Bret Heinrich
President & CEO
Board Members
Travis Brown
Partner, Pelopidas, LLC
Civic Volunteer
Cameron Conway
Vice President, General Manager of Sales Effectiveness Solutions, Maritz Motivation Solutions
Kelli Fabick
Product Support Pricing Analyst, John Fabick Tractor Company
A.C. “Butch” Giessman
CEO & Founder, AVMATS
Parks College of St. Louis University, U.S. Bank, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Professional Aviation
Maintenance Assoc. (PAMA)
Dr. Kendra Holmes
Vice President & COO, Affinia Healthcare
Dr. Manish Kohli
Chairman, Global Board of Directors Health Information and Management Systems
Adam Kruger
Cheif Compliance Officer, MBM Wealth Consultants
Donald T. Kukla
Partner, Moneta Group
James D. Moffat
National Product Specialist, Marketing, Graybar, Inc., retired
Civic Volunteer
Shelley Perulfi
Executive Director, The Heart Center at Washington University & St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Richard Vincent Ropp, III
President, Jet Linx
Lucia Rosenbloom
Owner, Partner, Chair of Community Outreach, Los Angeles Rams
Board Member, Variety the Children’s Charity of St. Louis
Senior Staff
Laura Helling
Vice-President &
Director of Development
Angela Walleman
Director of Administration &
Director of Human Resources
Elizabeth Campbell
Chief Financial Officer
Dan Lorenz
Director of Hangar Operations
Jessica Watson, Ph.D
Director of Programs
Bernie Schmidt
Director of Volunteer Fulfillment