National Board of Directors

Yvette Smith (Board Chair)
Senior Vice President, Customer Success and Business Transformation
F5 Networks

Barron Witherspoon (Chair Emeritus)
Retired, Senior Vice President, Global Industry Affairs & Corporate Race Initiative
Procter & Gamble

Reba Simmons (Vice Chair)
Executive VP & Executive Director Talent and Culture Partners
PNC Bank

Karl Minter (Board Secretary)
Retired Captain, United Airlines
Past Chairman, Board of Advisors -
Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals


Niki Allen
Chief Information Technology, Operations Officer & Vice President of Infrastructure & Operations
Boeing Information Technology & Data Analytics

Earl Barnes
Managing Director, Customer Technology
American Airlines

Tonya Bryant
Vice President, Technology Services
Southern Company

Rahsaan J. Coefield, Esq.
Director, Corporate EEO Investigations
Lockheed Martin Corporation

Chantalle Couba
Senior Client Partner
Korn Ferry

Jeannie Finkel
Retired – Former Chief Human Resources Officer
Cetera Financial Group

Jim Girard
Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer
L3Harris Technologies

Patrice Graves
Global Chief Human Resources Executive

Forest T. Harper, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer
INROADS, Inc.

Helena Haynes-Carter
Executive Vice President, Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer
Key Bank

Kevin L. Henderson
Vice President
Development, Retention & Advancement
UnitedHealth Group

Robert Holmes
Retired Chief Human Resources Officer
nThrive

Jerri Irby
Senior Vice President and System Chief Human Resources Officer
TriHealth

Alfred Johnson
Vice President, Supplier Management
Grainger

Roxanne Lagano
Executive VP, Chief Human Resources Officer, and Global Operations
Zoetis

Merrilee Matchett
Executive Vice President and Head of Global Customer Service and Operations
MetLife

Rosa Nunez
Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer
Foley Hoag LLP

Dirgesh Patel
Salesforce.com Practice Lead and Owner
Unify Consulting

Andre Powell
Vice President Finance Investor Relations
United Rentals

Thomas L. Ransom
Regional President of the Virginia Region
Truist

Angela Rivers
Consumer & Small Business Third Party Executive
Bank of America

Karen Sachs
Retired, SVP, Chief Culture, Inclusion & Diversity Officer
UnitedHealth Group

Kevin Simmonds
Partner - Cybersecurity, Privacy & Forensics
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Richard Simons
General Manager, Parts Sales, and Marketing
Daimler Trucks North America

Brian L. Williams
Senior Vice President
Sales, US Regional and Corporate Customer Teams
Procter & Gamble

Darryl Willis
CVP of Energy Industry
Microsoft

Clarence Stephens IV
Student National Board Member
Morehouse College