Board of Directors

Sheila Carnicelli (Chair)
Financial Services Executive

Elisabeth Ritz (Vice Chair)
Founder & President
Ritz Communications

Synim Rivers, MPH, CHES (Secretary)
Senior Director, R&D Communications
Amgen

Mike Capaldi (Treasurer)
Senior Advisor
Penn Quarter Partners

Julia Amadio
(Immediate Past Chair)

Sarah Butler
Chief Growth Officer
Foundation Health

Kristin Cahill
CEO
GCI Health

Heather Connor
Global Head of Communications, Healthcare, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Jeanette Contreras, MPP
Founding Executive Director
Organization for Latino Health Advocacy

Deepa Dahal
Co-Founder & CEO
DKI Health

Hayley Ellington-Buckles
Chief Compliance Officer
Versant Health

Candace Gibson
Principal & Founder
Gibson Impact Strategies, LLC.

Nancy Glick
Director of Food and Nutrition Policy National Consumers League

Nieca Goldberg, MD, FACC
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Phyllis Greenberger, MSW

Jeanne Haggerty
Partner
Williams & Jensen PLLC

Tyrone Jackson, MHA
Managing Partner
3 Pillars Consulting

Marcus Johnson
Enterprise Client Director
GE Healthcare

Charlotte Owens, MD, FACOG
Senior Vice President, Head of US Medical
Genentech

Lynn Taylor
(Director Emeritus)
Global Corporate Affairs Executive

Tamar Thompson
(2023 Director Emeritus)
VP, Head of Corporate Affairs
Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease

Christine Verini, RPh
(Director Emeritus)
Chief Executive Officer
CancerCare

Sarah Wells Kocsis
Senior Director, Public Health
Milken Institute

Ken Grounds
Governance Consultant