Staff
Camille Burns
Chief Executive Officer
Sara Charbonnet
Chief Operating Officer
Kirsten Wynn
Chief Innovation and Programming Officer
Jane Kim
Director of Events
Megan McDonough
Global Director of Growth
Judy Waak-Pearce
Director of Customer Engagement
Carissa Arty
Executive Operations Manager
Tomi Jane DeTorres
Chapter Chair Manager
Giana Dominguez
Communications Coordinator
Melissa Horne
Bookkeeper
Carly Ward-Popek
Membership Coordinator
Board of Directors
The WPO has assembled a dynamic and accomplished group of individuals to serve on the Board of Directors and the Advisory Council, offering the potential to increase opportunities available to WPO membership and to grow the WPO as an organization.
Camille Burns (CEO), Women Presidents Organization
Elaine Buxton (Interim Chair), Confero, Inc.
Margery Kraus (Chair Emerita), APCO Worldwide, Inc.
Fortunate Mdanda (Treasurer), Smith Capital Equipment (Pty) Ltd
Kerrie R. Heslin, Esq., (Secretary) Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, P.C.
Ida Abdalkhani, Ability to Engage, Inc.
Nicolette Algene Jacobs, PricewaterhouseCoopers
J Lynn Anderson, FHLB of Cincinnati
Lynda Applegate, Harvard Business School
Sue Commanda, Hudson River Community Credit Union
Susan Denk, White Crane Construction LLC
Betty Hines, Women Elevating Women
Barbara Hutchinson, M.D., Ph.D., FACC, Chesapeake Cardiac Care
Sandy Marsico, Sandstorm Design
Alina Martin, Compliance Strategies Canada Ltd.
Hetal Parikh, Rangam Consultants, Inc.
Christina Seelye, Maximum Games
Anne Whelan, Seafair Capital
Meryl Unger (Counsel), Katsky Korins, LLP
Linda Hamilton (CPA), Linda Hamilton, CPA LLC
Marsha Firestone, Ph.D. (Honorary), Women Presidents Organization
Diversity Policy Board Statement
The Board of the WPO confirms its commitment to its core values of inclusiveness, diversity, equality and helping women entrepreneurs achieve business success through the sharing of education, experience and best practices. As a global membership organization, the criteria for membership are ownership and revenue. There is no tolerance at WPO for judging any company on any other basis. WPO has zero-tolerance for any divisiveness. We will not tolerate any type of discriminatory practices as it pertains to race, ethnicity, age, religion, social status, sexuality, disability, or any other protected characteristics. As we move forward, the Board will continue to take steps to assure that the chapters formed reflect diversity. We will do this through the recruitment of diverse chapter chairs and the training and education of its membership on diversity and inclusion.
Advisory Board
Moira Buckley, Prudential
Maranda Bruckner, EY
Francine Farkas Sears, Francine Collections
Linda Graebner, Chapter Chair - East Bay
Sheri Griffiths, BMO Bank of Montreal
Fernando Hernandez, The Coca-Cola Company
Jayne Huston, Chapter Chair - Lancaster
Dawn O'Connor, Chapter Chair - Calgary I-III
Joanne Tabellija-Murphy, Walmart