Annapolis, MD – December 13, 2019 – Leadership Maryland announced today that 50 members of the Class of 2019 have completed the professional development program dedicated to building a better Maryland by harnessing the strength of its local business and community leaders. Leadership Maryland honored the entire Class of 2019 at its 27th annual graduation ceremony held December 10 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel. 

Each member of this year’s class was chosen by committee to complete Leadership Maryland’s eight-month hands-on learning program focused on the state’s most vital social, economic and environmental issues.

“As this year’s Leadership Maryland cohort completes its class program, their journey as a graduate of our state’s finest organization of professionals begins,” said Leadership Maryland Board Chairman Dr. Memo F. Diriker ‘12, director of BEACON at Salisbury University. “Over the past eight months they have learned about our state, the critical issues it faces, and above all, themselves. On behalf of the Board, I congratulate each of them for completing this defining milestone and I look forward to seeing them apply these lessons to accomplish great things for our state.”

Leadership Maryland is open to senior-level executives with significant achievements in either their careers and/or their communities. Ideal Leadership Maryland members have a desire to learn more about Maryland’s most critical issues and a personal commitment to be a force for positive change in their organizations, their communities, and their state. For more information about Leadership Maryland, please visit www.LeadershipMD.org, call 410-841-2101 or email Info@LeadershipMD.org.

Leadership Maryland Class of 2019 graduates:

Lisa Akchin
Associate Vice President & Assistant to the President
University of Maryland-Baltimore County

Dr. Heidi M. Anderson
President
University of Maryland-Eastern Shore

Melissa L. Baldwin
Executive Director, Ventures & Innovation Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States

Nona O. Carroll
Chief Strategy Officer
Maryland Business Roundtable for Education

Andrea E. Chapdelaine
President
Hood College

Ellington E. Churchill, Jr.
Secretary
Maryland Department of General Services

Mary Beth Cook
Deputy Director of Planning & Zoning
Calvert County Government

Steven J. Czinn, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Director, University of Maryland Children’s Hospital

Kevin A. Day
Co-founder & Managing Principal
Living Design Lab

Albert A. “Al” Delia
Vice President, Regional Development and Engagement
Frostburg State University

Matthew D.  Doyle
Business Development Specialist, Attraction
Frederick County Office of Economic Development

Antonia K. Fasanelli, Esq.
Executive Director
Homeless Persons Representation Project

Ellen R. Fish
Group Manager, Senior Vice President
Revere Bank

Gail L. Foltz
Vice President, Commercial Banking Officer
Shore United Bank

Michael A. Franklin
President/CEO
Atlantic General Hospital

Richard G. Griffin AICP, CEcD
Director of Economic Development
City of Frederick

Kelly R. Groff CDME
President & CEO
Visit Montgomery

Michael C. Harris
CFO and Treasurer    
Maryland Environmental Service

Matthew S. Helminiak
Commissioner of Labor and Industry
Maryland Department of Labor

Melanie M. Heuston, D.N.P., RN, NEA-BC
Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer
Meritus Health

Gail D. Houser
Executive Director, Corporate Lending
MidAtlantic Farm Credit

Donny R. James
Chief Real Estate Officer
Revenue Authority of Prince George’s County

Erica N. Joseph
President
Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore

Michael P. Kelleher
Executive Director
Maryland Manufacturing Extension Partnership

Christine Y. Koski, CPA
CFO and Vice President
KCI Technologies, Inc.

Mikiko Land
Director of Corporate Marketing & Business Development
Charles P. Johnson & Associates, Inc.

Sandra S. “Sandy” Love
President
Qlarant

Felton Magee, Jr.
President & CEO
Regent Healthcare, Inc.

Andrea E. Mansfield
Lobbyist
Manis Canning & Associates

Robin M. McKinney
Co-founder and CEO
CASH Campaign of Maryland

Eric D. Milhollan, Sr.
Senior Project Manager
Willow Construction, LLC

Eli J. Modlin
Chief of Staff
Salisbury University

Mary M. Morris
Director, Baltimore Economic Development Fund
University of Maryland Baltimore – UM Ventures

Karen J. Nelson
President & CEO
Planned Parenthood of Maryland

Rodney Oddoye
Chief Customer Officer and VP Customer Operations
Baltimore Gas & Electric

M. Joann Petillo
Senior Vice President
Schnabel Engineering, Inc.

Erin J. Roth
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning
Maryland Department of Labor

Dr. Patricia W. Saelens
Superintendent
Caroline County Public Schools

Edward Schlotterback
Division Vice President
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

Steven J. Schupak
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
Maryland Public Television

Leon E. Scioscia
Executive Vice President of Operations
Strathmore

Carolyn J. Scruggs
Assistant Secretary of Programs, Treatment & Re-entry
Maryland Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services

Dana Seiler
Founder, Principal/CEO
Vantage Point Solutions Group

Blair Brennan Slaughter, Ph.D.
Vice President, Organization Development, Executive Coach
T. Rowe Price

Jody P. Thomas
Director of Brand Management
International Association of Better Business Bureaus

Mary B. Tung, Ph.D., Esq.
Director
Maryland Energy Administration

Leroy Albert Tyler, Jr.
Vice President, Economic Development, Capital Projects Development Group
Maryland Stadium Authority

Tracie Watkins Rhodes, Esq.
Director, Office of Small & Minority Policy
Maryland Department of Transportation

Dr. Charles A. Wight
President
Salisbury University

Jeffrey C. Wilke
Director of Bond Financing
Maryland Economic Development Corporation

About Leadership Maryland
Leadership Maryland is a professional development program dedicated to building a better Maryland by harnessing the strength of its local business and community leaders. Each year, as many as 52 diverse and accomplished executives from Maryland’s public and private sectors are selected to come together as a class for an eight-month hands-on learning program focused on the state’s most vital social, economic and environmental issues. The first Leadership Maryland class graduated in 1993, and the organization’s alumni network now consists of more than 1,100 leaders from all industries and regions of the state. To learn more, please call Leadership Maryland at 410-841-2101 or visit www.LeadershipMD.org.