Junior Achievement of Georgia is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of leaders in the business and education communities. The Board has responsibility for the operation and expansion of JA programs within the state of Georgia. Board members are called upon to contribute their time and resources in areas such as student impact, planning, policy making, financial management, marketing and administration, as well as creative skills in areas of volunteer recruitment, special events, publicity and public relations. Their dedication ensures that Georgia’s students are prepared to compete in an increasingly globalized workforce.
JA of Georgia is governed by a statewide Board of Directors based in Atlanta. Additionally, each area office outside of Atlanta has its own governing board.
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Chairman Joe Reinkemeyer PricewaterhouseCoopers Partner Vice Chair Helene Lollis Pathbuilders Partner & President Treasurer Steve Voorhees RockTenn Company EVP & CFO Corporate Secretary Lynn Chastain Chick-fil-A, Inc. VP & Asst. General Counsel President Jack Harris Junior Achievement of Georgia President Immediate Past Chair Dwight Duke Cisco Systems SVP, SPVT Group Executive Committee Margaret Anderson SAP Labs, LLC VP, Customer Solution Adoption Ed Baker Atlanta Business Chronicle Publisher Dr. Ken Bernhardt Georgia State University Professor of Marketing & Asst. Dean Richard Carrano Purchasing Power President & CEO Don Chapman ChapCo Investments, LLC Chairman Rob Cherof BBDO Atlanta EVP & CMO John Dwyer AT&T Mobility SVP, Customer Experience Tom Hawkins Forte Ventures Managing Partner Tad Hutcheson Delta Air Lines VP, Community & Public Affairs Tony Kidd Cox Media Group Atlanta VP, Programming-Atlanta Radio David Klatt Newell Rubbermaid - Tech GBU President, Technology GBU Mitch Lewis Euramax President & CEO Stephen Lewis Troutman Sanders, LLC Managing Partner Dr. Cindy Loe Fulton County Schools Superintendent (Retired) Marie Neff Neff & Associates, LLC President & CEO Cyril Turner Delta Global Services & Delta Private Jets President Directors Roz Alford ASAP Staffing CEO Lisa Agona LexisNexis Chief Marketing Officer Michael Arabia em-jay-a, LLC President & CEO Dr. Robert Avossa Fulton County Schools Superintendent David Balos JP Morgan Chase President-Georgia Market Neda Barqawi Adam Bloomston PayScape Advisors President-Finance & Operations Dr. Tim Blumentritt Kennesaw State University Director MBA Programs Karstin Bodell General Bus. Enterprises IBM VP Marketing Brian Boutte GE Energy GM-PowerXpand Alexander Burgess Xerox Corporation VP & GM Global Document Outsourcing Pedro Cherry Georgia Power Community & Econ Development Ralph Cleveland AGL Resources EVP & President, Nicor Gas Lee Crump Rollins CIO & Group Vice President Jim Cullinan Kaiser Permanente VP, Marketing Sales & Business Development Rick DeCoster Aon Risk Services of Georgia Resident Managing Director Rene DIaz Diaz Foods President & CEO Roxanne Douglas McKesson Corporation Chief Counsel Allison Dukes SunTrust Banks, Inc. Executive Vice President James Dwane Chartis Insurance President, Southeast Region Monte Edwards SRS, Inc. Executive Vice President James Ellis Accenture Partner Wayne Ellison Ellison Insurance Agency Owner/Agent Eric Estroff Nokia Head of Product Collaboration Ed Fisher SouthPointe Ventures Managing Partner Ann Franks AGSI Managing Prinicpal Greg Galvez The Galvez Group LLC Susan Gambardella The Coca-Cola Company VP, Global Wendy's Acct. Team Dr. Kelly Garmon Georgia's Own Credit Union SVP, Marketing & Sales Alex Gonzalez Equifax President-Commercial Info. Solutions Chad Gregory Wells Fargo South Atlanta Market President Matt Guffey UPS, South Atlantic District Director Marketing Mona Harty PSR Associates President & CEO Rick Haviland Marketsource President Todd Helms Genuine Parts SVP, Human Resources, NAPA Jeff Hilimire Engauge President, Chief Digital Officer Justin Hotard NCR VP & GM Entertainment Stuart Johnson Barnes & Thornburg, LLP Partner Terrie Jones AGSI President & Founder Jeff Kammerer PricewaterhouseCoopers Partner Timothy Kemper CohnReznick. Managing Principal Joel Koblentz The Koblentz Group Senior Partner & Founder Andrew P. Lechter Studley EVP, Branch Manager Annette Lege Invesco US Corporate Controller Dr. Emily Lembeck Marietta City Schools Superintendent Debbie Levine Global Payments SVP, Talent Management Brad MacAfee Porter Novelli Partner, Managing Director Barry McCarthy FirstData Global Head & GM Strategic Clients & Alliances Eric McMurray Towers Watson Managing Consultant - Southeast Neil Metzheiser Lockton Companies, LLC Executive Vice President Beth Armknecht Miller Executive Velocity Executive Coach Tom Money Kauffman Tire EVP & COO John Morrow Cisco Chief of Staff, SP Video Avery Munnings Deloitte & Touche LLP Partner Ray Padron Brightworth President & COO Christiane Palpant FinTech Securities Executive Vice President Mike Passilla Dave Patton Alston & Bird Partner Eric Pearson InterContinental Hotels Group EVP, CIO Scott Peters Generation Mortgage Co. President & CEO Warren Pope King & Spalding LLP Partner Drew Atkinson Putt First Citizens Bank Division Executive Metro Atlanta & N. Georgia Jill Ratliff Assurant Specialty Property SVP, Human Resources Dana Ripley ING Americas SVP, Americas Communications Steven B. Rivers Hardin Construction Company LLC Executive Vice President David Riviere Alvarez & Marsal Business Consulting Managing Director Doug Rohleder Ernst & Young SE Area Assurance Managing Partner Jana Schmidt Ecova SVP & General Manager Ted Schrafft PGi President Misty Skedgell Turner Broadcasting System SVP, Corporate Communications Larry Slovensky McKenna Long & Aldridge Partner Wade Stribling Sutherland Partner Jim Suciu GE Energy President, Global Sales & Marketing Jay Sutton AGL Resources SVP, Operations Jim Sweet Newell Rubbermaid EVP, Human Resources Karen Swope Ticketmaster Senior Client Development Dir Greg Thompson Georgia Gulf Corporation CFO & Treasurer Tony Vazquez Bank of America SVP, Workplace Strategy Brent Yamaato Stephen Young Verizon Business Group President (Retired) 
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Chairman Robert Beier Georgia Power Company Key Account Manager First Vice- Chair Eddie Jordan Papa John's Pizza Operating Partner Finance Vice-Chair Phil Caldwell Publix Super Markets District Mngr Strategic Development Vice-Chair Dr. Marc D. Miller Augusta State University Dean, Hull College of Business Immediate Past Chair Jerry Shumpert Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc VP - Piedmont Division Executive Director Laurie Cook JA of Georgia Executive Dir Directors Michelle Adams Georgia Bank and Trust Co Product & Campaign Mngr Jean Barney Community Volunteer Judy Beltz Club Car, Inc Employee & Community Relations Mngr Deanna Brunk Junior Achievement Senior Mngr of Education Damon Cline Georgia Health Sciences University Publications Manager Chris Conner Coca-Cola Bottling Company, United Piedmont Division Marketing Mngr Bill Graves AT&T Area Mngr - Network Svcs John Gregg Westside Comprehensive High School Business Educator Patti McGrath Community Volunteer Renee Meldrum ADP, Inc SmartShore Proj Specialist Tony Robinson ASU- James M. Hull College of Business Associate Dean Claudia Schmidt Retired Julia Truman Doctors Hospital Vice President Greg Van Bladel John Deere Commercial Products Controller Kevin Wade Intellisystems, Inc CEO/ President 
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Chairman Rich Cellino Columbus Bank & Trust SVP - Risk Mgmt Directors Audrey Bergeron Muscogee County School District Dir - Career & Technical Education Jim Bowie Columbus Regional Technology Incubator Dir Rich Cellino Columbus Bank & Trust Sr VP - Risk Mgmt Dr Stephen Cooper The Spine & Joint Centers Physician Victor Cross Phenix City Chamber President Kim Jinks Steeplechase General Mngr Jem Morris Georgia Power Reg Sales Mngr Carolynn Obleton Columbus Band & Trust Sr VP - Branch Banking Group Adam R. Pease Page Scrantom Sprouse Tucker & Ford PC Attorney Allen Pettis TSYS Group Executive Cathy Phillips Buffalo Rock Company Key Account Cooridinator Timothy Porter Columbus Bank & Trust VP Portfolio Analysis - Risk Mgmt Tammy Segura UGA SBDC Business Consultant Terry Smith AT&T Reg Mngr Mark Strunk The Pastoral Institute Dir - Business Resource Center Jack Turner Columbus Bank & Trust VP Ellaween Wright Muscogee County School District Work Based Learning Specialist 
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Chairman Jim Kortum Windstream Communications VP/General Mngr Directors Donald Amonett Dalton Public Schools Asst. Superintendent Phil Bates Beaulieu of America VP - Organizational Development Bill Blackwood Coldwell Banker/Kinard Realty Commercial Mngr Tim Burke Shaw Industries Group, Inc. Dir - Information Systems Security Brad Cummings Tandus Flooring SVP - Human Resources Heather Dixon First Bank of Dalton VP Dee Goodwin Whitfield County Schools Teaching & Learning Coordinator Orenda Gregory Dalton State College Assistant Professor -School of Education Kay Henderson J&J Industries Contract Compliance Specialist Jason Hopkins Hamilton Healthcare System Dir - Human Resources Shaun Lance BB&T Business Services Officer Jeff Shephard Dalton Utilities Asst. VP, Finance/Comptroller Angel Silva Frontera Tax Service Owner Cheryl Teasley CertusBank VP, Branch Mngr Dr. Cheryl Thomasson Murray County Schools Dir of Secondary Education Jamie Upton Cohutta Banking Company VP/Branch Manager Vicki Warren Mohawk Industries, Inc. HR Relationship Mngr Tom Woodby Chick-fil-A of Dalton Owner/Operator 
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Directors David Abee Regions Bank Nick Bruner Rushton & Company Libby Caldwell Bank of America T.J. Callaway Five Mile Club Matt Dubnik Full Media Russell Dye Norton Agency Darla Eden Walters Management Co. Sherri Frankum Gargill, Inc. Betty Griffith Wilson Orthodontics Janet Kaup Padgett Business Services Shane Lazenby Forrester & Brim LaCrisia Larkin Gainesville City School System Bill Lightfoot Brenau University Abit Massey Georgia Poultry Federation J.D. Mealor Wells Fargo Alex Patterson Alston & Bird Zach Propes Bates Carter & Company Moss Robertson Moss Robertson Automotive Group of Gainesville Dale Rochester Rochster & Associates Sandy Salyers Wells Fargo Rhonda Samples Hall County Schools Kathleen Simmons Gainesville College Kelly Simmons Gainesville State College Kelvin Simmons Milliken & Company Darrell Snyder Georgia Power Maxine Trapnell Hamilton State Bank Philip Wilheit, Jr. Wilheit Packaging Morgan Cody Wood PGA Championship 
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Chairman Shawn Kachmar Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn Partner Vice Chairman Ryan Chandler Colonial Group Inc. VP of Development Secretary Joseph Hargrove Wells Fargo Insurance Services VP Treasurer Scott Knudsen National Distributing Co Past-Chairs Edwin Byck Weiner, Shearouse & Shawe Partner Camille Russo Alta Innovations Partner Vice President Johnathon Barrett JA of Georgia CPA Directors Michael Butler Seacrest Partners Partner Theresa Feuger Paula Deen Enterprises Manager Brynn Grant SEDA VP, Marketing & PR Ben Johnson Regions Financial Corporation VP, Community Banks Becky Keightley Memorial Health University Dir - Marketing Randy Gaston Gulfstream Aerospace VP- Flight Operations Douglas Herman Oliver Maner, LLP Partner Stephanie Johnson Suntrust Banks, Inc. VP & GA Region Community Dev Mngr Dr. Thomas Lockemy Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools Superintendent Danny Mahfet Karp, Ronning & Tindol, P.C. CPA Denise Marsh Georgia Pacific Company Mngr- Accounting James McCurry Georgia Ports Authority Asst Dir - Administration Robert Meng Caterpillar, Inc Retired Jim Nordone Savannah Technical College VP Student Affairs Jackie Ogden Chatham County Extension Service Dir Patrick O'Neil Bank of America VP, SCM Kaylan Padgett AT&T Regional Dir External Affairs Eula Parker The Savannah Bank VP Steve Pound St. Josheph's/Candler Health Systems Executive Director Joe Rotellini Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Executive Dir Gary Sanchez Atlanta Gas Light Dir of Community and Economic Dev Ken Sellers Terminal Investment Corporation Regional Manager David Slatinsky Willis Insurance VP Randy Shearouse Effingham County Board of Education Superintendent Stan Sparks Georgia Power Coastal Region Sales Mngr Bob Thomas International Paper Manufacturing Excellence Mngr Benjy Thompson Development Authority of Bulloch County and Statesboro-Bulloch Chamber of Commerce CEO Advisory Board Members The Honorable Louisa Abbot Dale Critz, Sr Robert Demere, Jr Howard Morrison, Jr Brooks Stillwell, III Emeritus Doug Fuss
To provide our programs free of charge, JA of Georgia relies on the generous support of our donors.
JA of Georgia’s volunteers are the critical link between the business and education communities.
Teachers are where everything starts; get your students involved in Junior Achievement.
