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AFBAmerican Foundation®
for the Blind

Expanding possibilities for people with vision loss

AFB's Board of Trustees

Concetta F. Conkling, Chair
Retired Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Bank

Michael N. Gilliam, Vice Chair
Chief Executive Officer, San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind

Peter D. Tonks, Treasurer
Executive Vice President & CFO, Nassau Broadcasting Partners, L.P.

Elaine J. Pommells, Secretary
Chief Financial Administrative Officer, Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center, Inc.

Elcio Barcelos
Vice President of Global Staffing, Hewlett-Packard Company

John T. Bourger
Chairman, President & CEO, Brown, Bridgman & Company

Cathy Burns
Director, Ohio University Southern Business Training Resource Center
Director, Huntington-Ironton Empowerment Zone, West Virginia

Debbie Dennis
Vice President-Dallas Region Customer Operations, Oncor

James R. Fisher, CPA
Managing Member, Fisher Capital Corp. LLC

Melanie Lockwood Herman,
Executive Director, Nonprofit Risk Management Center

Marjorie Kaiser, Ed.D.
Superintendent, South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

James Kesteloot
Retired CEO, Chicago Lighthouse

Shafiq A. Khan
Senior Vice President eCommerce, Marriott International

Larry Kimbler
Retired Senior Executive, Staubach Company

Patricia Leader
Vision Specialist, Cupertino School District

Susan Mazrui
Director, Federal Regulatory, AT&T Services, Inc.

James H. McLaughlin
CEO, J.H. McLaughlin & Co., LLC

Christopher (Kit) J. Migel
Retired Executive Vice President, General Reinsurance

Kenneth Miller
Consultant

Susan Mink
Executive Vice President, Human Resources Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Jane Parker
CEO, Interbrand Health

Barbara Rifkind
Barbara Rifkind LLC

Milt Springut
Founding Partner, Kalow & Springut

Patricia Cary Sueltz
Board Director, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Paul Sullivan
Author and Columnist

Jeff Thom, Esq.
President, California Council of the Blind

Pearl Van Zandt, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Norb Vonnegut
Author & former Managing Director, Silvercrest Asset Management

Cynthia A. Watson
Manager, Contract Services, Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind

Art Weisberg
Owner/Founder, State Electric Supply Company

William Wiener, Ph.D.
Dean, The Graduate School
University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Thomas Wlodkowski
Accessibility Director, AOL, LLC

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