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Robert Taylor is president of Taylor Lohmeyer Law Firm, LLP, Counselors and Attorneys at Law and a long-time Susan G. Komen for the Cure advocate. He also served for 30 years as chairman of the Dallas/Fort Worth Duke University Alumni Admissions Committee and is past chairman of the Highland Park United Methodist Church Board of Trustees. Taylor received his A.B. and J.D. from Duke University and received his L.L.M. and S.J.D. in Taxation from Georgetown Law Center. |
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Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure on a promise she made to her sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer. She led a relentless breast cancer information and awareness campaign and succeeded in breaching the silence surrounding the disease, fundamentally changing the way it is talked about and treated. She started the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® and also pioneered cause-related marketing, both of which have had a profound impact on the breast cancer movement. An outspoken champion of all people with breast cancer as well as those who are at risk for developing the disease, Ambassador Brinker takes her cause and her passion all over the world, seeking the fresh input and international partnerships essential to ending breast cancer forever. Among her many leadership roles, Brinker served as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary from 2001-2003 and as U.S. Chief of Protocol from 2007-2009. |
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Jane Abraham was elected to Komen's Board of Directors on May 31, 2012, after serving as an interim board member and as a member of the Komen Advocacy Alliance Board of Directors. The wife of former Senator and U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, she has long been a breast cancer advocate, having actively participated for a number of years in both the annual Komen Global Race for the Cure in Washington, D.C., and Race for the Cure events in her home state of Michigan. She serves on the boards of the Detroit-based Covenant House Michigan, the Arab American National Museum, The Nurturing Network and is General Chairman of the Susan B. Anthony List. Abraham is president of Abraham Strategies LLC., which handles strategic marketing assignments for a variety of clients. |
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Linda Custard is a full-time volunteer with a wide range of experience in educational, cultural and social service boards. She has served as president of the Junior League of Dallas, vice chair of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Hockaday School, president of the Community Council of Greater Dallas and president of the Dallas Woman's Club. Presently, she serves as a Trustee of Southern Methodist University and as a Director of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation. She has served on the Susan G. Komen for the Cure board since 1982.
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Alan D. Feld joined Akin Gump Strauss, Hauer and Feld, LLP in 1960 and is one of three senior executive partners in one of the world’s most respected law firms. He was appointed by the governor to the Texas State Securities Board in 1985 and served as the board’s chairman through 1991. In 1998 he was honored by the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law with the establishment of the Alan D. Feld Professorship. He currently serves as chairman of the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law’s executive board. He has served on the American Bar Association Commission on Opportunities for Minorities in its Profession. He was a member of the board of directors of the Dallas Citizen Council, a trustee of Southern Methodist University, board of visitors member for UT Southwestern University Hospitals and Clinics, board of visitors member at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and a former board member of the ARC, Timberlawn Psychiatric Research Foundation, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Brandeis University.
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Elyse Gellerman serves the Susan G. Komen for the Cure board as Affiliate representative,representing the interests of the breast cancer organization's more than 120 Affiliates worldwide. A long-time activist for women's issues, she is passionate about Komen for the Cure's mission to save lives and end breast cancer forever, having experienced breast cancer as a co-survivor of many friends and co-workers battling the disease. Gellerman brings to Komen's board more than a decade of Affiliate expertise as a volunteer, board member, officer and advocate. |
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Connie O'Neill has been involved with Susan G. Komen for the Cure since 1992. She served as treasurer of the organization for two years and then chaired the National Awards Luncheon in 1994. In 2000, she was again appointed treasurer of Komen for the Cure and served for three years. In addition to her work with Komen, O'Neill serves on the boards of Children's Medical Center Foundation, Children's Health Services of Texas as chair of the audit committee, the SMU Alumni Association where she was past president, La Fiesta de las Seis Banderas and the Highland Park Education Foundation as vice president. She also serves on the finance committee of the Highland Park ISD. O'Neill is a member of the Leadership Dallas Alumni Association and the Crystal Charity Ball. She was formerly president of the Junior League of Dallas and also has served on the boards of Presbyterian Hospital Foundation, St. Paul Medical Center Foundation and St. Mark's School of Texas Parents Association Board. O'Neill is a 1977 graduate of SMU and worked as a certified public accountant for Ernst & Young from 1977 to 1985. She is married and is the mother of four children. |
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Tricia Ory served six years on the Komen Charlotte Affiliate Board: two years as president, two as treasurer and two as board secretary. During her tenure with the Charlotte Board, the Affiliate increased staff, race participation and revenues (from $1.4 million to $2.5 million), and increased the Charlotte Affiliate’s funding of community health programs from $825,000 to $1.4 million. Also during her tenure as Board President, Komen Charlotte won the prestigious Outstanding Philanthropy Award, presented by the Charlotte Chapter of the Association Fundraising Professionals in 2010. Ory is currently Director of External Reporting for Peak 10, Inc., where she is responsible for the preparation and presentation of financial and operational results to all key stakeholders, board of directors, shareholders, executive management, financial institutions and reporting agencies.
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John D. Raffaelli brings to Susan G. Komen for the Cure more than 25 years of experience in federal policy and policymaking. He is a founding partner of Capitol Counsel, LLC and prior to that was a founder and former chairman of The Washington Group, a government relations firm in Washington, D.C., where he represented a wide variety of business, tax and trade clients on Capitol Hill and before executive branch agencies. Raffaelli also spent four years on Capitol Hill as counsel for tax and international trade to Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX). Raffaelli has been nationally recognized by outlets such as the Washington Post as one of the most effective lobbyists in Washington and is respected by both Democratic and Republican lawmakers for his knowledge of the legislative process and his ability to develop public policy solutions to client issues.
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