Board of Directors

Plymouth Tube Company 

VP of Marketing

Holly has more than 25 years of commercial experience in the metals industry. Her key areas of expertise include Market Research, Pricing Strategy, Competitive Landscape Assessment, Product Development, and Corporate Communications. A compelling blend of analytical and creative competencies, Holly creates high performance teams to help her execute scalable strategies that drive impactful results and cultivate long-term customer loyalty. Holly is a process-driven leader in pursuit of continuous improvement and embraces the concepts of lean manufacturing.

Trust Well Network 

Chief Psychologist and Managing Partner

Dr. Heller  provides individuals with management tools including The Core Motivation Analysis for companies, consultants, and coaches. He is a mental health professional with highly specialized training in the diagnosis and psychological treatment of mental, behavioral and emotional illnesses, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). His main focus is on diagnosing and treating mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. He also treats learning disabilities, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.

Mental Health Association of Greater Chicago

President & CEO

Stella Kalfas, MHAGC Executive Board Member, was appointed as President and CEO in October, 2009. Stella is an advocate for individuals and families coping with mental illness.

Thomson Reuters

Senior Director, Professional Services

Lauren Kovar is a CPA, CGMA and CITP and an expert in business operations, transformation, technology strategy and finance improvement. Lauren leads the Corporates Professional Services Operations Center of Excellence at Thomson Reuters, a $110M business that provides Tax, Legal and Risk technology services to Corporations. Lauren also advises Fortune 500 companies on leading practices for tax operations and technology. 

MHAGC Director

Maria Martinez is a retired education professional. Her career spanned several decades in educational roles at AT&T and other organizations. She is instrumental in getting the MHAGC materials translated to Spanish and serves as an interpreter in several of the webinars provided for parents and for corporations.

Apollo Global Management 

Managing Director, Client and Product Solutions

Joe focuses on Registered Investment Advisor sales and is bringing more than 26 years of financial services experience. Prior to joining Apollo in 2022, Joe served as Head of US Intermediary Distribution at Ivy Investments, where he was responsible for distribution of the Ivy investment strategies to financial intermediaries and home office platforms. Previously, he held leadership roles at BNY Mellon, Oppenheimer Funds and Deutsche Bank/DWS. Joe graduated from the University of Dayton with a BA.

WAV, LLC 

President and Chief Operating Officer 

Bob Nelson is accomplished in Sales, Operations and Executive Leadership. He is an expert in building high performing sales organizations and leadership teams, and a problem solver that’s adept at meeting the complex challenges faced by businesses in today’s environment of rapid change.

Hightower Advisors

Chairman and CEO

Bob Oros has a history of driving results in the financial services industry. He is highly focused on creating profitable growth through the creation of very satisfied clients and associates.  HighTower Advisors, LLC operates as an investment management company. The Company offers portfolio management, financial planning, and investment advisory services in the United States.

Carosh Compliance Solutions 

Chief Business Development Officer   

Greg is a Health Tech Executive who grows start-ups from ideas into well-funded success stories. His success is in Series A Fundings at ZocDoc, ePatientFinder, BetterDoctor, Health iPASS, Pearl Health, ShiftMed and now Carosh.  Greg has helped deliver over $635M dollars in total funding.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association 

Executive Director of Information Technology

Devendra is focused on Corporate IT Strategy specifically Cloud Services. His area of responsibility includes customer engagement, product design & delivery, leading Agile development teams, DevOps and supporting diverse set of technology platforms both On-Premise and Cloud.

Dailexa, An IBM Company

Sales Executive

Robby consults organizations on balancing the demands of customer-centricity while also driving financial success. Robby’s journey towards helping others began on the football field as a scholarship student-athlete for The Ohio State Buckeyes. He took a page from Coach Tressel's 'Winners Manual', which instilled the importance of balancing mental health with high-performance athletics. After experiencing a series of concussions and feeling the physical and mental toll, Robby decided to pursue his passion for assisting others who also struggle with mental health issues. Robby studies School Counseling at the University of Dayton. 

Concordia University 

Professor of Education

Dr. Tagaris facilitates graduate courses in teacher leadership and education courses in curriculum and instruction. Dr. Tagaris holds a Doctoral degree in Teacher Leadership and Masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction. She serves many EdD and PhD students dissertation committees assisting PhD students completing their terminal degree. In addition, she has written curriculum and served many student teachers in their internship.

Century Sales Solutions, LLC

President

Rick Tkaczyk helps owners of small businesses take their business to the next level through hands-on sales advising and sales leadership. Rick has a BS from Western Michigan University.

Author

Steve was most recently the Director of Sales and an Account Manager at Accuity (now Lexis Nexis Risk). He has over thirty years of leadership experience in the high-technology solutions business, including being the President of Cyborg Systems, Vice President and General Manager of Dun & Bradstreet Software, Vice President of Client Services (Sales) at AC Nielsen, Vice President of Sales at three software companies and a Senior Manager at Deloitte and Touche. His recent book "Above Quota Performance" contains tips and techniques to close more sales and achieve higher performance.