Marc Friedman, CFO of a Few Cool Hardware Stores will be NCB’s new board chair and Gigi Hyland, Executive Director of the National Credit Union Foundation will assume the vice-chair position. Patrick Jury, Principal, Patrick S. Jury Advisor, LLC retired from NCB’s board after serving since 2017.
The Board benefits from a diverse group of members, who come from a variety of industries in which cooperatives play an important role.
• Marc Friedman (Chair), CFO of a Few Cool Hardware Stores in Washington, DC;
• Gigi Hyland (Vice-Chair), Executive Director, National Credit Union Foundations, Washington, D.C.;
• Josh Ablett, Chief Information Security Officer, Adelia Associates, New Bedford, MA;
• Caroline Blakely, Former President & CEO, Rebuilding Together, Washington, DC;
• Robyn DesHotel, Chief Financial Officer, National Co-op Grocers, St. Paul, MN;
• Jennifer Dolin (Chair), Principal, Jen Dolin Consulting, San Francisco, CA;
• Thomas Fink, Capital Markets Executive, New York, NY;
• Janis Herschkowitz, Former President and CEO of PRL, Inc. in Cornwall, PA.;
• Brian Obergfell, Chairman, and Partner, Emmet, Marvin & Martin, LLP, New York, NY;
• Andrew Reicher, Former Executive Director, UHAB, New York, NY;
• Maria Smedley, Vice President – Human Resources, Performance Foodservice, Little Rock, AR;
• Elizabeth Vealey, President, Sophius, LLC, Lancaster, NY; and
• Curtis Wynn, CEO, SECO Energy, Sumterville, FL