phone: 803-708-4861   •    2025 Main Street Columbia, SC 29201   •   fax: 803-708-4803

 STAFF

Craig Currey - Chief Executive Officer

LaKisha Wheeler - Case Management Program Manager 

Debbie Lane - Facility Operations Manager

Don Hall - Accountant 

John Dawkins - Community Resources Manager

Olivia Bryant - Development Administrator

Jeremy Martin -Emergency Services Program Manager

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
 

James K. Lehman, Esquire—Chair
Partner, Nelson Mullins Scarborough LLP

Claire Fort—Vice Chair
Director of Community Relations, McNair Law Firm

J. Mac Bennet—Treasurer
President & CEO, United Way of the Midlands

Matt Kennell
Secretary
President & CEO, City Center Partnership

Mary Anderson
Pastor, Incarnation Lutheran Church

Julie Ann Avin
Executive Director, Mental Illness Recovery Center, Inc.

Charles Beaman
CEO, Palmetto Health

James A. Bennett
Executive VP/ Director of Public Affairs, First Citizens Bank

Mike Brenan 
Group/State President, BB&T Midlands Region

Lee Bussell
Chairman & CEO, Chernoff Newman

Amos Disasa
Pastor, Downtown Presbyterian Church

David Pankau
CEO & President, Blue Cross Blue Sheild of SC


Kathy Chesrown
Director of Discharge Planning, Lexington Medical Center

Ike McLeese
President & CEO, Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce

Mickey E. Layden
President, LCK LLC
 
Tom Harrell
Tax and Business Consultant, Elliot Davis, LLC
 
Hank Sindhu
Department Manager, Michelin - Lexington Facility

 

REPRESENATIVES

Tonnya Kennedy Kohn
Represenative, Lexington County
 
Terry Davis
Represenative, Downtown Neighborhood Association
 
Tameika Isaac Devine
Represenative, Columbia City Council

Greg Pearce
Councilmember, Richland County Council

Richard Rowe
Representative, Columbia Downtown Coalition of Neighborhoods

 

ADVISORS

Samuel Tenenbaum
President, Palmetto Health Foundation

Anita Floyd
Vice President, Community Impact, United Way of the Midlands

John Folsom
President & CEO, Colliers International

Alan Kahn
President, Kahn Development Company

Bobby Lyles
Principle, Stevens & Wilkinson SC

John Mikula
Good to Great Team, Investor Relations, Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce

Milton Pope
County Administrator, Richland County

Rick Silver
Vice Chairman, Chernoff Newman