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BOARD MEMBERS
Gretchen M. Dahlen.
Gretchen Dahlen is a
health care executive
and consumer
advocate from Verona,
Wisconsin. She is
currently the interim president and
CEO of the South Dakota
Association of Healthcare
Organizations. Her professional
career includes positions as Mayo
Clinic Health System chief
administrative officer for
Winneshiek Medical Center,
executive director of North Woods
Community Health Center,
president and senior consultant of
the Dahlen Company LLC,
president and CEO of Meriter
Health Enterprises, administrator
and chief executive officer of
Sanford Hospital and Nursing
Home and assistant administrator of
Metropolitan Hospital and Health
Centers. She developed and
founded ConsumerHealthRatings.
com, a free public service guide to
online ratings of health care cost
and quality for consumers.
Beth Ellard. Beth
Ellard, MBA, of New
York, New York, is
executive vice
president of media,
overseeing the media
function for the Ad Council and
securing more than $1.5 billion in
donated media support annually for
the organization’s 50 national public
service campaigns. To this end, she
is chiefly responsible for the Ad
Council’s relationships with over 200
U.S. media companies across all
platforms, as well as the top 20 U.S.
media agencies. She also oversees
media marketing and distribution,
media measurement and analytics
and creative services. She has also
held positions at several top media
companies, including NBCU/
Comcast, Hearst, Disney and Time
Inc., with significant experience in
brand development, revenue
diversification and digital
transformation.
Annette Franqui.
Annette Franqui, of
Miami, Florida, is a
founding partner of
Forrestal Capital, a
company providing
wealth management and direct
equity investment advice to a select
number of families in Latin America.
A native of Puerto Rico, she is a
senior financial services executive
with prior CFO experience as well
as 15 years on Wall Street with JP
Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs.
She serves on the boards of several
early-stage private companies as
well as Arcos Dorados, a NYSE-
listed company that is the largest
operator of McDonald’s restaurants
in Latin America and the Caribbean
and its largest franchisee, in terms
of system-wide sales and number of
restaurants.
Catherine Alicia
Georges. Catherine
Alicia Georges, EdD,
RN, FAAN, of the
Bronx, New York, is
professor and chair of
the Department of Nursing at
Lehman College and the Graduate
Center of the City University of New
York. She is president of the
National Black Nurses Foundation.
Previously, she was a staff nurse,
team leader, supervisor and district
manager for the Visiting Nurse
Service of New York.
Jewell D. Hoover.
Jewell D. Hoover is a
former bank regulator
from Charlotte, North
Carolina. Now the
president of Hoover
and Associates LLC, a bank
consulting firm, she worked for 28
years as a bank regulator and senior
spokeswoman with the U.S. Office
of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Previously, she taught in the West
Virginia and Baltimore City public
schools. She began her working life
as a clerk typist for the U.S. Coast
Guard. She serves on the boards of
Fifth Third Bancorp and Foundation
for the Carolinas.
Lloyd Johnson. Lloyd
Johnson, MBA, of
Charlotte, North
Carolina, is managing
director and global
chief audit executive
with Accenture. He has more than
25 years’ experience in auditing,
finance, accounting, mergers and
acquisitions, divestitures and risk
management with large
corporations. Previously, his career
experience includes senior finance
positions with automobile
electronics and components maker