Head of School Joins Leadership Atlanta 2017

Atlanta Girls’ School Head Ayanna (“Yanni”) Hill-Gill has been selected to join the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2017. Yanni joins more than 80 local leaders from diverse businesses and organizations throughout the metropolitan Atlanta area who will be participating in Leadership Atlanta’s signature nine-month executive level program. Yanni began her tenure as the Head of Atlanta Girls’ School in July 2014. A national educational leader for all girls’ education, Yanni serves as a Board member of the National Coalition of Girls’ School and an Advisory member of the Global Village Project.

According to its website, “Leadership Atlanta is the oldest sustained community leadership program in the nation, celebrating more than 47 years of developing leaders. Together with an expansive network of distinguished alumni, Leadership Atlanta continues a proud tradition of connecting and inspiring leaders to strengthen metro Atlanta’s communities.”

“I am honored to be chosen to join the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2017. As a relative newcomer to Atlanta, I look forward to getting to know the city better, learning from my esteemed colleagues in the cohort, and making a significant contribution to the city of Atlanta through our service. I am most excited about the continued opportunities that Leadership Atlanta creates beyond this upcoming year which allow me to continue to serve the community through ongoing service and partnerships.

Leadership Atlanta

The core of Leadership Atlanta’s programming is its signature nine-month, executive-level series. Leadership Atlanta chooses approximately 80 established leaders each year to represent a broad cross-section of metro Atlanta. Through retreats, full-day seminars, service projects, discussion groups and community tours, members explore critical community issues, examine themselves as leaders and build relationships of trust and mutual understanding. Each class year’s programming is created and executed by a dedicated team of hundreds of Leadership Atlanta alumni volunteers, under the direction of the organization’s staff. Each of these volunteers donates his/her time, experience, and expertise in order to create the best possible experience for class members.

Leadership Atlanta Class of 2017

  • Christopher Ahrenkiel, Managing Director, Tishman Speyer
  • Marlene Alexander, Regional Vice President, Ivy Funds Distributors, Inc
  • Allison Ashe, Executive Director, Covenant House Georgia
  • Ilham Askia, Executive Director, Gideon’s Promise
  • Brett Bartlett, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • Jim Beard, Chief Financial Officer, City of Atlanta
  • Stephanie Benfield, Director of Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, City of Atlanta
  • Aaron Berger, Executive Director, William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
  • Simon Bloom, Partner, Bloom Sugarman LLP
  • Sherry Boston, Office of DeKalb County Solicitor-General, DeKalb County Solicitor-General
  • Emily Boyle, Chief Relationship Officer, The Molly Fletcher Company
  • Duke Bradley, High School Principal, Fulton County Schools
  • Greg Bradley, Vice President, North Highland
  • William Brewster, Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
  • Gerry Carson, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, GlobalPath Translations, Inc.
  • Dan Corso, Senior Vice President, Metro Atlanta Chamber
  • Kelly Dolan, Executive Director, The Atlanta Women’s Foundation
  • Greg Euston, Principal, McGraw Euston Associates
  • Steve Fennessy, Editor in Chief, Atlanta Magazine
  • Victoria Forbes-Roberts, Vice President, Pricing & Revenue Management for the Americas, Delta Air Lines, Inc.
  • Brian Friedman, Principal & Senior Partner, Wellspring Associates
  • Kelly Garmon, Chief Marketing Officer, Georgia’s Own Credit Union
  • Ben Garren, General Counsel, North America, The Coca-Cola Company
  • Jamila Hall, Partner, Jones Day
  • Lucy Hall-Gainer, Chief Executive Officer/Founder, Mary Hall Freedom House, Inc.
  • Bennie Harris, Senior Vice President, Institutional Advancement, Marketing and Communications, Morehouse School of Medicine
  • Sarah Higinbotham, Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Laurel Hill, Senior Vice President, Government & Institutional Banking, Wells Fargo Bank
  • Ayanna Hill-Gill, Head of School, Atlanta Girls’ School
  • Dock Hollingsworth, Senior Pastor, Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church
  • Michelle Horn, Global Director Client Service Personnel, McKinsey & Company
  • Keith Horton, Assisant Commissioner, Department of Juvenile Justice
  • Michael Iverson, Owner, Trillium Financial, Inc
  • Edward Johnson, Chief Administrative Officer, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
  • Larry Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Global Business Management Solutions
  • Matthew Johnson, Principal (Partner), KPMG LLP
  • Scott Jordan, Atlanta Market President, BB&T
  • Jonathan Karron, National Vice President, Brand & Digital Strategy, Boys & Girls Clubs of America
  • Soon Mee Kim, Executive Vice President, Porter Novelli
  • Eloisa Klementich, President and CEO, Invest Atlanta
  • Barry Koch, Senior Vice President / General Manager of Cartoon Network Latin America, Turner
  • Brian Kurlander, Actor/Writer/Teacher, Self-employed
  • David Lee, Senior Vice President, External Affairs & Executive Director Atlanta Hawks Foundation, Atlanta Hawks, LLC
  • Bradley Levenberg, Rabbi, Temple Sinai
  • Marva Lewis, Vice President – Human Resources, Cousins Properties Inc
  • Melissa Long, Anchor/Reporter, WXIA-TV
  • Kathleen Marran, Vice President of US Marketing, UPS
  • David Mathews, Principal, Pritchard & Jerden, Inc.
  • Merritt McAlister, Partner, King & Spalding LLP=
  • Jamala McFadden, Partner, The Employment Law Solution: McFadden Davis, LLC
  • Gary McGaha, President, Atlanta Metropolitan State College
  • Shukura Millender, Judge, Magistrate Court of Fulton County
  • Melinda Miller-Thrasher, Chief Operating Officer and Medical Director, Innovative Women’s HealthCare Solutions
  • Glenn Mitchell III, Managing Partner, EY
  • Meredith Moore, Owner/Chief Executive Officer, Moore and Associates Wealth Managment
  • Winfield Murray, Associate General Counsel – Trial Counsel, United States Department of Housing & Urban Development
  • Vish Narendra, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Graphic Packaging International
  • Nick Nelson, Principal & Chief Marketing Officer, Liquid Soul
  • Byung Pak, Founding Member, Chalmers Pak & Burch LLC
  • Malloy Peterson, Senior Vice President, Carter & Associates, LLC
  • Amy Phuong, Commissioner, Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Atlanta
  • Evan Pontz, Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP
  • Shannon Powell, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Midtown Alliance
  • Pilar Prinz, Partner, Lawler Green Prinz, LLC
  • Tracy Rathbone, Executive Director, Town Center Community Improvement District
  • Denise Reese, Director Business Development, US Head of Sales, Endava, Inc
  • Clinton Rucker, Chief Senior Asst. District Attorney, Fulton County District Attorney’s Office
  • Amelia Rudolph, Partner, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • Mike Russell, President, ETS Solutions
  • Kenneth Saffold, Senior Vice President, Capital One
  • Shannon Sale, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning and Business Development, Grady Health System
  • Kerri Sauer, Vice President of Technology Delivery, Elavon
  • Georgia Sheats, Chief Executive Officer, Special Olympics Georgia
  • Daniel Shoy, President, East Lake Foundation
  • John Sparrow, Director, BoardWalk Consulting
  • Wendy Stewart, Atlanta Market President & Co head Southeast Region, Global Commercial Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  • Gary Stiles, Chief of Police, Fulton County Police Department
  • Brannigan Thompson, Senior Vice President, Organization and Corp Development, Voya Financial
  • Jeonghwa Towery, Partner, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
  • Belisa Urbina, Co-Founder/Executive Director, Ser Familia, Inc.
  • Tameeka Walker, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician, Atlanta Perinatal Consultants
  • Michelle Wells, Lead Physicist, Piedmont Healthcare – Piedmont Cancer
  • Marian Woods, Vice President Human Resources, Maxum Specialty Insurance Group

Published : May 10, 2016