Board of Directors
Steven H. Akre
Chairman of the Board, Wings of Hope
Attorney
Travis Brown
Partner, Pelopidas, LLC
Civic Volunteer
Steven Busch
Chairman, President, Krey Distributing Co.
Civic Volunteer
Louis G. Chiodini
Principal, Chiodini Associates
Civic Volunteer
Cameron Conway
Vice President, General Manager of Sales Effectiveness Solutions, Maritz Motivation Solutions
Roger Debenport
Deputy Chair, Wings of Hope
Founder & President, MasterPac Corp., retired
Civic Volunteer
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)
Samuel C. Hutchinson
CEO & Owner, Interface Construction Corporation
Donald T. Kukla
Partner, Moneta Group
Fred Meyland-Smith
Managing Partner, Executive Workforce Consultants
Ralston Purina, retired
Alderman, City of Town and Country; President, Colgate University Alumni Club
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
Michael J. Ross
Chairman, Jefferson Bank & Trust
Board Member, Christian Brothers College High School
John Schmidt
Volunteer and Former CFO, Wings of Hope
Program Manager Information Systems, McDonnell Douglas, retired
Civic Volunteer
Patrick T. Wittenbrink
Principal, Carmody MacDonald
Senior Staff
Bret Heinrich
President & CEO
Elizabeth Campbell
Chief Financial Officer
Laura Helling
Vice-President &
Director of Development
Dan Lorenz
Director of Hangar Operations
Bernie Schmidt
Director of Volunteer Fulfillment
Angela Walleman
Director of Administration &
Director of Human Resources
Jessica Watson, Ph.D
Director of Programs