Rick Gilbert, Chairman. Rick is the co-founder and chief operating officer of CompuCredit Corporation. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Georgia Community Foundation, Inc. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Berry College in Rome, Georgia.
Karen Baynes-Dunning. Karen is an Associate Professor in the College of Human & Environmental Sciences at the University of Alabama. She was formerly the Assistant Director for the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia and an Atlanta Juvenile Court Judge. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Georgia Community Foundation, Inc.
Tim Embry. Tim is the ownerand chief executive officer of American Lube Fast, Inc., the largest privately owned and operated oil change and maintenance company in the United States. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Georgia Community Foundation, Inc.
Stan Epperson. Stan is the founder and president of Deli Provision Co., Inc., the distributor of Boar’s Head Brand products in the metro Atlanta area. He is the treasurer and past president of the Southeastern Brain Tumor Foundation and a member and past chairman of the Duke University Brain Tumor Advisory Board. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Georgia Community Foundation, Inc.
Terry Hartman. Terry is a member of the Board of Directors of Georgia Community Foundation, Inc. and serves as the Director of its Vera Jackson Scholarship Program. She is an active member of the Order of Malta and A Million Matters. Since 2006, she has participated as a mentor for the Central Eurasian Leadership Alliance.
Allen Hughes. Allen is the chief executive officer of Walton Press, Inc., the sixth largest printer in Georgia. He is the founder of the Children’s Scholarship Fund of Georgia, Inc.; the Chairman of All Children Matter (Georgia), a school choice advocacy group; and a member of the Advisory Board of University Community Academy, a public charter school serving low-income families in southwest Atlanta.
Dean Mathison. Dean is a vice president and the controller at Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., a leading global exchange for the trading of energy and agricultural commodities and financial futures. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Georgia Community Foundation, Inc.
Albert Murray. Albert serves as a member the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles. He is the former Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (2004-2010) and was responsible for the oversight and management of the juvenile correctional system statewide. Mr. Murray is a recipient of the American Correctional Association’s E.R. Cass Award for Lifetime Achievement and is a member of the Board of Directors of Georgia Community Foundation, Inc.
Commissioner Gerard Robinson. Gerard is the current Education Commissioner of the State of Florida. Most recently, Gerard served as the Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Gerard also worked from 2005-2010 as a program director and later president of the Black Alliance for Educational Options ("BAEO"), a national nonprofit organization with a mission to increase access to high-quality educational options for Black children by actively supporting parental choice policies and programs that empower low-income and working-class Black families. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Georgia Community Foundation, Inc.
Pastor Dexter Rowland. Pastor Rowland is the Senior Pastor of New Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia. He serves on the Board of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice and as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the South DeKalb YMCA. Pastor Rowland, who earned his undergraduate degree at Georgia Tech and his Masters of Divinity degree from Emory University, is a member of the Board of Directors of Georgia Community Foundation, Inc.
Chris Welton. Chris is the chief executive officer of Helios Partners, one of the world’s leading corporate sponsorship consulting, sports property brand marketing, and Olympic bid city consulting firms. He founded Meridian Management, the previous worldwide managing agency responsible for the International Olympic Committee’s worldwide sponsorship program. A former lawyer with the Atlanta firm of King & Spalding, Chris earned his law and business degrees from the University of Georgia, where he was also an Academic All-American defensive back on the 1980 National Championship football team. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Community Foundation and the Nature Conservancy of Georgia.
