buildOn Boards
Meet our global board leadership
The buildOn movement is made up of passionate and determined people from all walks of life who are committed to the belief that service and education can end poverty. Our boards include community and business leaders from throughout the country.
National Board of Directors
Diahann Billings-Burford
CEO, RISE
Kathy Cassidy
Sr. VP & Treasurer (retired), GE
Marc Friedman
Chief Revenue Officer, buildOn
Sanjay Gupta
Dean, Broad School of Business, Michigan State University
Randi Hedin
Co-President, RPX Research
Suzie Ivelich
Suzie Ivelich Consulting
Dan Janki
CFO, Delta Airlines
Margaret Keane
Executive Chair, Board of Directors, Synchrony
Missy Kiernan
General Counsel, buildOn
Alan Murray
President and CEO, FORTUNE
Rassaan Parris
Educator & Dean, The School for Tourism and Hospitality
John Raffaeli
Senior VP, Human Resources (Retired) Thomson Reuters
Amnon Rodan
Chairman, Rodan + Fields
John Seifert
Worldwide CEO, Ogilvy & Mather
Karen Seitz
Founder and Managing Director Fusion Partners
Jim Parke
Vice Chairman & CFO, GE Capital, Founding Board Member 1991-2018 (deceased)
Jim Ziolkowski
Founder, President & CEO, buildOn
Global Advisory Board
Skyler Badenoch
CEO, Hope for Haiti
Rich Been
Founder, True Leader Coaching
Jim Bell
Jeff Bornstein
Managing Partner, Generation Capital Partners
Lee Cooperman
Founder & CEO, Omega Advisors, Inc.
Robert Green
EVP and CFO, Cambrex Corporation
Jane Hackney
AJ Klenk
Managing Partner, Capstone Companies
Eric Miller
Head of Securitized Products Sales, Credit Suisse
John Myers
Denis Nayden
Chairman, James Alpha Holdings
Geoffrey Norman
EVP (retired), GE Asset Management
Jim Reynolds
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Loop Capital
Ryan Richert
Executive Director of Global Media Golin
Alex Rohan
Managing Director, Miller Buckfire
Trevor Schauenberg
Catarina Schwab
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, NPX
Keith Sherin
Khozema Shipchandler
CFO, Twilio
Boston Board
Leslie Appleby
Don Epperson
Principal, Digital Trek
Allan Hackney
Patrick McGuinness
SVP & Chief Information Risk Officer, Manulife
Daniel O’Neil
Partner – PwC
Anthony Ostler
Senior Vice President, Investor Services Americas, State Street
Victoria Ostler
Program Director, Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization
Loredana Sandu-Vieil
Global Client Service Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
Karen Vachon
buildOn Boston Board Chair
Chicago Board
Ellie Forman
Corporate Community Relations Manager, Mesirow Financial
Courtney Gentleman
SVP & Chief Marketing Officer Payment Solutions, Synchrony
Andrew Nolan
Partner, KPMG
Lori Nutter
Vice President, Salesforce
Don Resnick
Partner, Jenner & Block
James Richards
VP – Audit Staff GE
Peter Ricker
Chairman & CEO, MB Real Estate
Kyle Robbins
Senior Vice President – Tenant Advisory, MB Real Estate
James Seymour
Senior Managing Director, Capital One, buildOn Chicago Chair
Kyle Weber
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Detroit Board (In Formation)
Daryl Brown
Regional Sales Manager, LinkedIn Detroit
Keely Crimando
Licensed Lending Officer at LoanDepot
LaRon Johnson
Head of Americas: Start-Ups – Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kimberly Hoyle
Director of Business Development Metro Consulting Associates, buildOn Detroit Chair
New York Board
LaNelle Alexander
Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion – L+M Development Partners Inc.
David Casto
Executive Vice President & Chief HR Officer, Synchrony
Fred Doss
Co-founder, Good Circle
John Gicking
Ralph Layman
CEO & Managing Partner, Blue Ocean Management Partners, LLC
Soenke Lehmitz
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Shelley Leibowitz
Director, Morgan Stanley
Paul Nestro
Managing Director, State Street Global Advisors
Ranjit Samra
Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase, buildOn New York Chair
Andrea Valerio
President & CEO, VERBIO North America
Jennifer VanBelle
Senior Vice President GE Capital CEO and Treasurer of GE & GE Capital
Steve Wanner
Partner – Ernst & Young
West Coast Board
Liam Doyle
Senior Vice President, Salesforce, buildOn West Coast Chair
Camilla Norman Field
Founder, Integral Coaching
David Gunning
Branch Manager, American Pacific Mortgage
Deepa Mahajan
Partner, McKinsey
Pam Martinson
Partner, Sidley Austin
Justin O’Connor
Partner, PWC
Brad Tewksbury
Senior Director, Oracle
Lynne Zydowsky
President, Zydowsky Consultants