Dean Phillips is the president and chief executive officer of Phillips Distilling Company, representing the fifth generation of his family to manage the Minneapolis-based company.
Phillips is a trustee of the Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation, one of Minnesota's largest private grant makers; is a member of the advisory board of the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Center for the Study of Politics and Governance; and serves on the board of Winmark Corporation, a publicly traded franchising, leasing and financing company.
Phillips recently completed terms as a regent of St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn. and as a director of Meld, a national organization that provides support for parents raising children in high stress conditions. He has been a guest lecturer in the areas of marketing, philanthropy and ethics at both the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas.
Phillips holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University in Providence, R.I., and Master of Business Administration from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.
Christine A. Morrison
Vice chairperson
Christine A. Morrison is a businesswoman and an active community volunteer whose current commitments include the Lakewood Cemetery Board, Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) of Wayzata, the WomenVenture Advisory Board and the Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation Board. Her past board experience includes the United Way of Minneapolis, Minnesota Women's Campaign Fund, WomenVenture, Ripley Memorial Foundation, The Blake School, Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, Guthrie Theater and the School for Young Children.
Morrison is a past member of the Wayzata City Council and Planning Commission and the First Trust Advisory Board.
She holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Tufts University in Massachusetts.
William L. Beer
Director
William L. Beer is president and chief executive officer of Wenger Corporation. Based in Owatonna, Minnesota, Wenger is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of furniture and equipment for the music education, music performance and athletic markets.
Beer is a member of the board and executive committee of the United Way of Steele County, and is a board member of the Owatonna Foundation Board of Trustees and the Owatonna Hospital Capital Campaign Steering Committee.
Beer holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE with additional work toward a Master of Business Administration, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.
Nate Garvis
Director
Nate Garvis is vice president of Government Affairs and Senior Public Affairs Officer at Target. He is responsible for the corporation's civic education and advocacy efforts in addition to Target's political, legislative and regulatory agenda globally. Garvis also consults internally on a variety of business issues that have a public component and require engagement strategies.
Garvis also serves as the chairman of the board for Rational Energy, an alternative fuels company. He previously served as chairman of the Washington D.C. based Public Affairs Council, as well as the Foundation for Public Affairs.
Garvis serves on a number of other boards throughout the nation, including the non-partisan Citizen's League civic think tank. He is a former policy fellow at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Policy at the University of Minnesota and serves on the board of the Institute's Center for the Study of Politics and Governance. He has served on the executive committee of the board of the Boston College International Center for Corporate Citizenship.
In 2004, Garvis was honored as the first ever corporate public affairs recipient of the Hubert H. Humphrey Public Leadership Award. In 2008, Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential Minnesotans.
Garvis has a bachelor or arts degree in history from the University of Minnesota and a juris doctorate degree from the University of Oregon.
Subbarao Inampudi, MD, FACR
Director
Subbarao Inampudi, MD, is a board-certified radiologist with Consulting Radiologists, Ltd. at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. He specializes in vascular and interventional radiology.
Inampudi is the founding member and co-chairperson of Abbott Northwestern's Clinical Council. He is also an executive committee member and president-elect of the Minnesota Radiologic Society. Inampudi has served as a counselor at the American College of Radiology for the past year. He also has served on the boards of Abbott Northwestern and Virginia Piper Cancer Institute, participating in their finance, nominating, and budget committees.
Inampudi is currently a principal investigator and lead radiologist in clinical trials for prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancer screening. He is also a member of the American College of Radiology, Hennepin Medical Society, Minnesota Medical Association, Minnesota Radiological Society, Radiological Society of North America, Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology.
He received his medicine degree from Sri Venkateswara University in India and completed his radiology residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Mark Jordahl
Director
Mark Jordahl is the chief investment officer of FAF Advisors, an investment organization that offers money management and financial guidance to individuals and institutions. His responsibilities are to guide the company's investment philosophy and manage the mutual funds.
Prior to joining FAF Advisors, Jordahl worked at ReliaStar Financial Corporation, most recently as the chief investment officer, and president and chief executive officer (CEO) of ReliaStar Investment Research, Inc. His experience has been in integrating staffs, processes and technologies after two recent mergers: ReliaStar and ING Investment Management and the merger of FAAM and FIRMCO. He also was the executive vice president and managing director of Washington Square Advisors, Inc. in Minneapolis.
He earned a bachelor of arts in political science and English from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., and a master of business administration from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management in Minneapolis.
Gloria Perez Jordan
Director
Gloria Perez Jordan is the president and chief executive officer of the Jeremiah Program, a broad-based collaborative community initiative based in the Twin Cities, aimed at assisting low-income single women and their young children move from dependency to self-sufficiency. Jordan joined the Jeremiah Program in 1998 after serving as executive director of Casa de Esperanza, a domestic violence agency in St. Paul.
Her current community service, volunteer work and professional affiliations include the College of Saint Benedict, the Family Housing Fund of Minnesota, and the Irwin Andrew Potter Foundation. She has previously served on the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice, the Ripley Memorial Foundation, the board of the Convent of the Visitation school and several neighborhood organizations.
Gloria is a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul.
Jean Delaney Nelson
Director
Jean Delaney Nelson is senior vice president and chief information officer at Securian Financial Group, where she is responsible for all technology strategic direction setting and services. She has held various information technology (IT) positions at Securian since 1979, and works with a staff of 400 associates who provide application development, network, technical, telecommunications and data security services.
Nelson was selected by Computerworld magazine as one of the 100 premier IT Leaders and named in 2004 by The Business Journal as one of the 25 Women Changemakers in the Twin Cities. She is a member of the Twin Cities Chapter of LOMA - Life Management Institute and the Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals (ICCP).
She serves on the advisory board of the College of St. Catherine and was formerly a board member at Minnesota Fire & Casualty Company and an instructor at the College of St. Catherine's Weekend College program. Her community service has included work with Children's Hospital in St. Paul and the St. Croix Catholic School and St. Croix Valley Girl Scouts in Stillwater.
Nelson holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the College of St. Catherine. She is a fellow of the Life Management Institute and also holds a data processing certification.
Hugh Nierengarten
Director
Hugh Nierengarten is a shareholder with Nierengarten & Hippert, Ltd. Attorneys at Law located in New Ulm, Minnesota. His areas of practice are municipal, real estate, business, financial and family law. He has been the city attorney for New Ulm since 1979 and the city attorney for Courtland, Minnesota, since 1983.
Nierengarten is affiliated with a number of professional associations, including the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, Minnesota State Bar Association, Minnesota City Attorneys Association, Ninth Judicial District Bar Association, and Brown County Bar Association.
He is active in his community, previously serving as director of Heritagefest, Inc., Leo H. Hoffman Center, the Peacepipe Girl Scout Council and United Prairie Bank-New Ulm. He serves on the boards of organizations such as Housing Alternatives Development Company Ridgeway and New Ulm Medical Center, and is a member of the Rotary Club of New Ulm. Nierengarten has also volunteered for the Senior Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) and the Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Service.
Nierengarten graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor of arts in political science and earned a juris doctorate degree from William Mitchell College of Law.
Kenneth Paulus
President and chief executive officer, ex officio
Ken Paulus became Allina Hospitals & Clinics' president and chief executive officer (CEO) in 2009. He moved into that leadership position after serving as chief operating officer (COO), responsible for the operations of Allina's 11 hospitals, specialty operations and clinic groups (Allina Medical Clinic, Aspen Medical Group and Quello Clinic). He has led numerous growth initiatives, including a number of joint ventures, partnerships and acquisitions.
Before joining Allina in 2006, Paulus was president and chief executive officer of Massachusetts-based HealthOne Care System, one of the nation's largest physician organizations and a teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Prior to that he was chief operating officer of Boston-based Partners Community HealthCare, Inc., and chief operating officer of Alta Bates Medical Resources in Berkeley, California.
Paulus is a Wisconsin native and University of Minnesota graduate.
Stephen C. Remole, MD
Director
Stephen C. Remole, MD, is a board-certified cardiologist practicing with Metropolitan Cardiology Consultants, PA. Prior to joining that practice in 1993, he was an assistant professor of medicine in the cardiology division at the University of Minnesota.
He has served as president of Metropolitan Cardiology Consultants as medical director of the Cardiac Centers of Mercy & Unity Hospitals, and is a member of the board of the Mercy & Unity Hospitals Foundation. He currently chairs the Physician Governance Council of the Allina board.
Remole is a graduate of St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn. and received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota. He completed his internship and residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire. He also completed fellowships in cardiovascular disease and cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a testamur of the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners.
Mark Sheffert
Director
Mark Sheffert is the founder, chairman and chief executive offier of Manchester Companies, Inc., a national financial advisory and corporate renewal firm. Prior to founding Manchester Companies, Sheffert was president of First Bank System, which is now US Bancorp.
Sheffert’s firm has received more Turnaround of the Year Awards from the Turnaround Management Association, in recognition of successful financial restructurings and turnarounds than any other firm in the country.
For his service on public company boards of directors, he has been named one of Minnesota’s five Outstanding Directors of the Year by the National Association of Corporate Directors.
Sheffert has served on more than 40 boards during his career in a broad range of industries including, health care, airlines, financial services, manufacturing and technology. He is chairman of the board for two public companies: Health Fitness Corporation and BNC Bancorp. He also is a board member for PCI Construction.
Sheffert writes monthly columns about leadership, ethics and corporate governance for Twin Cities Business. His articles also appear in various national and regional business and corporate governance media.
He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, Association for Corporate Growth, Turnaround Management Association and American Bankruptcy Institute.
Sheffert received his master's degree in management from the American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and completed the Minnesota Executive Program at the University of Minnesota.
Rebecca (Becky) Koenig Roloff
Director
Becky Roloff is chief executive officer of the YWCA of Minneapolis. She is responsible for leading the internal and external strategy, relations and operations of the organization's six divisions: Health and Fitness, Early Childhood Education, Girls and Youth, Racial Justice, Public Policy and Women's Wellness.
Formerly, she was senior vice president of Global Financial Advice and Systems and a member of the senior leadership team at American Express Financial Advisors in Minneapolis, Minnesota for 17 years.
Roloff has chaired the Board of Trustees of the College of St. Catherine, The Blake School and The Children's Theatre Company. She served for three years as governor for the CFP Board of Standards, in which she led the Globalization Task Force. She is also an outside director for C.H.Robinson Worldwide, Inc., a global provider of multimodal transportation and logistics solutions. She is a long-standing member of the Minnesota Women's Economic Roundtable and the Minnesota Women's Forum.
Roloff is a graduate of the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota. She holds a master's in business administration with distinction from the Harvard Business School.
Terry Tinson Saario, PhD
Director
Terry T. Saario has extensive experience in philanthropy, corporate affairs, and government, serving as a program officer at the Ford Foundation, special assistant to President Carter's Assistant for Women's Affairs in the White House, deputy assistant secretary in the Education Department during the Carter Administration, director of corporate contributions and community affairs at the Standard Oil Company, vice president of community affairs at the Pillsbury Company, and president of the Northwest Area Foundation.
She has served on numerous nonprofit and corporate boards, and is currently an active member of the Minnesota Women's Economic Roundtable, the Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation Board, the Benton Foundation, the Gardner and Florence Call Cowles Foundation, and the Wendell Foundation. She is also a past chair of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra board.
Saario holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the University of California, Riverside. She received her doctorate from Claremont Graduate University.
Edson W. Spencer, Jr.
Director
Edson W. Spencer, Jr. is the founder and chairman of Affinity Capital Management, a health care focused venture capital firm. Prior to founding Affinity Capital, Spencer was an officer at Dyco Petroleum, an oil and gas exploration company.
Spencer currently serves on the board of directors of Affinity portfolio companies: AppTec Laboratories, Inc., Celleration, Inc. and Geodigm Corporation. He has also served on the boards of other portfolio companies, including Gentra Systems, Image Guided Neurologics, Medintell Systems, ProVation Medical and TouchPoint Software.
In addition, he has served on several non-profit boards, including Children's Health Care (former chairperson), Katahdin House, Minneapolis Club, Minnesota Children's Museum (former chairperson), Minnesota Venture Capital Association (former president), The Blake School (former chairperson), Wilderness Inquiry and Woodhill Country Club.
Spencer earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School in New York.
Joan Thompson
Director
Joan Thompson is the executive vice president/chief financial officer (CFO) of Minnesota Wire & Cable Co. and has been with the company since 1981. She currently serves as chairperson of the United Hospital Foundation board of directors. She also serves as a director at Park Midway Bank and the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation.
She is a member of many organizations, including the National Association of Corporate Directors, Rotary International, Defense Alliance of Minnesota, Association of the US Army, St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and the US Chamber of Commerce.
In 2006, Thompson was named by Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal among the year's top Women in Business and was also the United Hospital Foundation's Trustee of the Year. She's also received the Bravo Award, Deubner Award and HERBIE Award from the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce.
Her family owned manufacturing business received the 2007 Tibbets Award for Small Business Innovation Research Excellence. She speaks regularly to business, government and community organizations about ethics, leadership, family business and workforce development. She studied at the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas.
Rodney Young
Director
Rodney Young is president and chief executive officer, and a director of Angeion Corporation in St. Paul, Minnesota, a manufacturer and marketer of cardio-respiratory diagnostic systems sold to hospitals, medical centers, universities and health and fitness clubs globally. He has more than 25 years of experience in the medical device, health care and pharmaceutical industries.
Previously, Young served as chairman, chief executive officer and president of LecTec Corporation, a Minnesota-based manufacturer of medical devices. He was also the vice president and general manager of Baxter International, Inc., and held several marketing and sales positions within 3M Company's medical product division. He started his career at Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
Young currently serves on the board of directors for Delta Dental Plan of Minnesota, Health Fitness Corporation and Possis Medical Company.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Truman University in Kirksville, Mo. He completed business management graduate studies at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois.
