Board of Trustees

Chair: Bill Zollars
Vice-Chair: Robert C. Bloss, Senior Vice President - Human Resources, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Treasurer and Finance Chair: Darcy A. Howe, Senior Vice President - Investments, Merrill Lynch Private Banking & Investment Group
Secretary: Patrick Dujakovich, President, Greater Kansas City AFL-CIO
Audit Committee Chair: Julie Quirin, President and CEO, St. Luke's Hospital
Community Impact Committee Chair: Jennifer Haile, Managing Director, Resources Global Professionals
Governance Committee Chair: Robert C. Bloss
Campaign Co-Chair: Greg Graves***, Chairman and CEO, Burns & McDonnell
Campaign Co-Chair: Patrick Dujakovich

Terry Bassham, President and COO, Kansas City Power & Light
Ajit Bhatia, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Ericsson, Inc.
Rob Bratcher, Senior Vice President, Division Manager of Healthcare Banking - Western Region, Commerce Bank
Julie Browne, Vice President, Managed Care and Marketing, GEHA
Carolyn Caldewell, President & CEO, Centerpoint Medical Center
Kelly Carnago, Vice President, eRecyclingCorps
Thomas Cranshaw**, CEO, Tri-County Mental Health Services, Inc.
Jo Anne Gabbert
Esther George, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Kevin Gideon, Plant Manager, Ford Motor Company-Claycomo Plant
Gene Johnson, Superintendent, Shawnee Mission School District
Ben Jones, Director of Government Affairs in Kansas and Missouri, Union Pacific Railroad
Ray Kowalik, President & General Manager - Energy Division, Burns & McDonnell
Megan Fuller Pfannenstiel, Court Administrator, Kansas City, Missouri Municipal Court
Todd Pleimann, Managing Partner, RubinBrown
Jeanette Prenger, Owner/President, ECCO Select Corporation
Jeff Provost, Office Managing Partner, Deloitte.
Ralph Reid, Vice President of Social Responsibility, Sprint
Brenda Sharpe, President & CEO, REACH Healthcare Foundation
Brent Stewart**, President & CEO, United Way of Greater Kansas City
Reginald Thomas***, President/Business Manager for Local 264
Tom Trabon, Managing Partner, Trabon & Company
Andrew Underwood, Superintendent, Belton School District
Edward Underwood, Executive Director, Institute for Urban Education, School of Education, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Betsy Vander Velde **, President and CEO, The Family Conservancy
W. Russell Welsh, Chairman and CEO, Polsinelli Shughart
Dorothy Witherspoon, Regional Administrator for Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
Hannes Zacharias, County Manager, Johnson County Government

** ex-officio members (non-voting)
*** ex-officio members (voting)