Fund for the Arts Board Leadership

2026/2027 Officers of the Board & Committee Chairs

Board Chair
Scott Schaftlein

App Strategic Development Committee Chair
Scott Schaftlein

Community Investment Committee Co-Chairs
Nicole Yates and Dayna Touron

Governance & Nominating Committee Chair
Nicole Yates

Finance & Audit Committee Chair 
Larry Schwartz

Resource Development Committee Chair
TBA

Investment Committee Chair
Kristen Byrd

Equity Committee Co-Chairs
Hannah Drake*
Kellie Watson

*Non-Board Member

Alphabetical Listing of Board Members

James (Jim) Allen
Vice Chairman
R.W. Baird & Co.

Josh Anderson
Chief Production Officer
Heaven Hill Brands

Regina Blake*
Chief of Staff
Zelkova Strategic Partners

Neville Blakemore*
Managing Partner
ABS Advisors LLC

Kristen Byrd
Regional President
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

Jon Cherry
Pulitzer-Prize winning Photojournalist

Al Cornish
Chief Learning Officer
Closing the Gap Consulting, LLC & Culture Docs

Margaret Cotter*
Executive Director | Relationship Executive
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Gregory T. Dutton*
Attorney/Partner
Frost Brown Todd LLC

Charlie Farnsley
Principal
Farnsley Advisors

Cynthia Frederico
Director of Human Resources
Stock Yards Bank & Trust

Lalania Gilkey-Johnson
General Counsel, Corporate Secretary
GE Appliances

C. Edward Glasscock, Emeritus Member
Chairman Emeritus
Frost Brown Todd LLC

Jonathan D. Goldberg, Emeritus Member
Managing Partner
Goldberg Simpson, LLC

Ankur Gopal
Founder & CEO
Interapt

Carina Graves*
Senior Vice President
U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management

Alp Kayabasi
President Information Technology
UPS

Jessica Bennett Kincaid, Ex-officio
Office of Arts + Creative Industries, Director
Louisville Metro Government

Todd Klimek
Managing Partner, Louisville Office
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Kenya Lacy
AVP, Inclusion & Diversity Manager
Republic Bank

Todd P. Lowe, CFA, CFP®
President
Parthenon

Aaron Marcus*
Partner
Dentons

Lynn Moore
CEO/Owner
HJI Supply Chain Solutions

Sean O’Mahoney
Director, IT Support Services
Norton Healthcare

Scott Schaftlein
Partner/Principal
EY

Larry Schwartz
Office Managing Partner
KPMG

Maddie Shepard
President
Jefferson County Teachers Association

Doris Sims, CDME, CTA
Senior Vice President, Business Development
Danny Wimmer Presents

Alan Singleton
President Emeritus
CGB Agrifinancial Services

Kellie Stallard Watson
General Counsel / Legal Director
Louisville MSD

Andrea Strange, CPA
Vice President, CPA
Harding Shymanski & Company P.S.C.

Allyson Sturgeon
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel-Regulatory
PPL Services Corporation

Carl Thomas, Emeritus Member
Executive Director
V.V. Cooke Foundation

Leyla Touma Dailey
President and Chief Creative Officer
Doe-Anderson

Dr. Dayna Touron*
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
University of Louisville

Kendrick Vaughn*
Senior Manager, Business Strategy
Indeed Inc.

Mary Beth Warner*
VP & HR Segment Leaders/Group and Retail Segments
Humana, Inc.

Kellie Watson
General Counsel/Legal Director
Louisville MSD

Mark F. Wheeler, Emeritus Member
President
Central Bank

Terry Wright
Member & Chair, Intellectual Property & Technology Service Group
Stites & Harbison PLLC

Nicole Yates*
Chief Government Affairs and External Relations Officer
PC3 Health

*Member of the Community Investment Committee

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