Tigerlily Foundation: Board of Directors

Officers

Maimah Karmo, President
Maimah Karmo
President

Donna Kaufman
Vice President

Vacant
Secretary

Nada Bright
Treasurer

Directors

Lynda Ellis President, Capital Concierge
Lynda Ellis
President, Capital Concierge

Elizabeth Marcotte Co-Owner, Let's Dish! Franchises
Elizabeth Marcotte
Co-Owner, Let's Dish! Franchises

Farah Ahannavard President, Signature Kitchen, Bath & Closets
Farah Ahannavard
President, Signature Kitchen, Bath & Closets

Wendy Caputo Pizza President, Casleigh Consulting
Wendy Caputo Pizza
Pizza President, Casleigh Consulting

Cindy Glover, RN, MBA, NEA-BC
Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer, Reston Hospital Center

Dr. Suzanne Powers, MD, FAAP Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, Reston Hospital Center
Dr. Suzanne Powers, MD, FAAP
Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, Reston Hospital Center

Emily Summers

Emily has more than 12 years of experience in marketing and relationship building. Emily is the founder of Market Torque, LLC, a company focused on helping emerging businesses optimize their resources for growth. Her areas of specialization include advising senior leaders on marketing and proposal strategy and execution. Her vision is to deliver corporate perspectives on marketing and branding to help emerging business owners and entrepreneurs take their established companies to the next level. Her experience includes working for a Big Four firm in creative project management and for a Top 100 public accounting firm. She has held positions for National Marketing and as the marketing lead for Reznick Group, P.C.'s Government Services practice.

She has also served as account executive for a national design firm and as business development manager for a local county government. Throughout her career, she has successfully contributed to both winning new business and establishing internal or external relationships to help foster growth.

Robin Crawford

Robin Crawford is a senior vice president with Ruder Finn's Washington, DC, office and has more than 15 years of experience developing and implementing targeted communications programs. She has managed award-winning programs for Jamestown 2007 - America's 400th Anniversary, Quallion, ACCIONA Energy North America, the American Forest & Paper Association, the White House Council on Y2K and Nintendo of America, among others. Robin's client work focuses on renewable and alternative energy and consumer education initiatives.

Robin led the client team for Quallion LLC, the largest manufacturer of lithium ion batteries in the US. In support of Quallion's bid for stimulus funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Robin's team quickly secured support from members of the California Congressional Delegation and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The team delivered outstanding media coverage, which reached an audience of more than 84 million people and included company profiles in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Financial Times, the Washington Post, Fox Business Channel, and the Los Angeles Times.

Robin's team launched ACCIONA Energy North America's revolutionary Nevada Solar One plant in Boulder City, Nevada, which was the first utility scale concentrating solar power plant to be built in 17 years and the third largest plant of its kind in the world. Media coverage of new facility was secured in hundreds of domestic and international outlets including TIME, National Geographic Magazine, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Financial Times, The Economist, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Washington Post, and reached 200 million readers and viewers around the world. The team also assisted ACCIONA in generating visibility for its wind energy business with the launch of its West Branch, Iowa turbine manufacturing plant, and the dedication of the Tatanka Wind Farm in North and South Dakota. Feature media coverage was secured in the New York Times, Associated Press, the Chicago Tribune, and numerous print and broadcast outlets across the country that reached an audience of more than 54 million people.

Robin led Ruder Finn's Jamestown 2007 America's 400th Anniversary team, which won the Public Relations Society of America's highest honor in 2008, the Silver Anvil Award. This 18-month campaign consisted of 10 high profile Signature Events commemorating the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, VA, the first permanent English settlement in the New World. The team secured more than 24,000 media placements in top-tier media outlets with an estimated audience of more than 12.6 billion people in the United States and countries around the world. Jamestown realized the positive impact of this increased visibility with a 40 percent jump in national awareness, a 40 percent increase in visitation, and a 600 percent increase in Web site traffic.

Requirements of the Tigerlily Foundation Board of Directors

A Tigerlily Foundation Director must:

Be dedicated to the vision, mission, ideals and principles for which the Tigerlily Foundation stands;
Be capable of attending all meetings of the Tigerlily Foundation Board, and any committees to which he/she is assigned,
Commit the time required to discharge Board and committee duties.

"Capable of attending" means being able and willing to afford the travel to and from locations within the Washington DC Metropolitan area at least four times a year; and able to afford the time away from his/her profession to attend these meetings and for related work.

Be responsible for discharging his/her duties
in good faith,
With the care that an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would exercise under similar circumstances,
In a manner the Director reasonably believes to be in the best interests of the Tigerlily Foundation,
Keep all matters in meetings of a proprietary nature private, unless the Board of Directors unanimously agree the information is to be public.

Board of Directors Nomination Procedures

Board of Directors Nomination Petition Form