Foundation Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Honorary Chairman   

John Q. Hammons
Founder & CEO
John Q. Hammons Hotels &

 

President  President-elect 
Jim Moore
Managing Partner
American Products LLC
Jan Robbins
Executive Director
GYN Cancers Alliance

Members

Rob Baird
CEO
Conco
Bob Beine
Owner
Republic Ford
Judy Breeding
CEO
Ben Steele Properties

Hattie Brown
Senior Vice President
Ozarks Coca Cola / Dr Pepper Bottling Company

Julie Turner Brown
Shareholder
Carnahan, Evans, Cantwell & Brown, P.C.
Jerry F. Cash, D.D.S., M.S.
Owner
Cash Family Orthodontics
Jerry Clark
Retired, Vice President of Public Affairs
Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce
Kim Day
President & CEO
St. John's Health System
Marshall Gordon, Ph.D.
Retired, President
Missouri State University
Jeffrey Gower
President
Wil Fischer Companies
Sam Hamra
Chairman & CEO
Hamra Enterprises
Tyler Hedden
Vice President, Clinical Services
CoxHealth Systems
Rick Hughlett
Founder & President
Rick's Automotive, Inc.
Jerry Jared
President
Jared Enterprises
Bill Killian
President & CEO
The Killian Group
John Lambert
Owner
Missouri Insulation & Supply, Inc.
Dianne Elizabeth Osis
Publisher/President
Springfield Business Journal
Steve Plaster
Executive Vice President
Evergreen Investments, LLC

Neal D. Spencer
CEO
BKD, LLP

Jim Towery
Owner
Steelman Transportation

Ex-Officio Members

J. Howard Fisk
Owner and President
J. Howard Fisk Limousiness
Dr. Hal Higdon
President
Ozark Technical Community College