JACKSONVILLE, Fla.,
Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- Robert G. Riney, Chair of the Board of The Nemours
Foundation, and Hugh Durden,
Chairman of the Alfred I. duPont Charitable Trust, today announced
the election of three new members to The Nemours Foundation
Board of Directors. Joining the Board are William F. D'Alonzo,
former CEO and President of Friess Associates and Chairman of the
Brandywine Funds, Elliot Joseph,
advisor and board member for several private equity portfolio
companies including TPG Growth, Chicago Pacific Founders, Triple
Tree and Epsilon, and Harold Mills,
CEO of VMD Ventures.
The Nemours Foundation Board of Directors announced the election of
three new members.
"Nemours is delighted to welcome these accomplished leaders and
the depth of experience they bring to our organization," said R.
Lawrence Moss, MD, president and CEO
of Nemours Children's Health System. "Their entrepreneurial spirit,
proven track record and knowledge of the diverse communities we
serve will be a tremendous asset to our mission."
Mr. D'Alonzo served Friess Associates for more than 30 years,
growing the company from a staff of five to more than 40 through
even the most tumultuous of financial times including the
tech-stock bubble, the 9/11 attack, war in the Middle East and the Great Recession. He is an
accomplished investor managing both financial and land assets with
a deep commitment to and success with conserving land and restoring
wildlife habitat. Mr. D'Alonzo owns and operates five farms, all of
which are in Conservation or Agriculture Easements. Four of the
farms are on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and one is in Delaware.
He currently serves on various non-profit boards including
Delaware Wild Lands, The University of
Delaware College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Advisory Board, Wetlands America Trust and Ducks Unlimited Canada.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and an MBA
concentrated in Finance from Widener
University.
Mr. Joseph most recently served as CEO of Hartford HealthCare
(HHC) a large, highly integrated regional health care delivery
system. Under his leadership of 11 years, HHC grew annual revenue
from $1 billion to $4.2 billion. He chairs the Advisory Board for
Press Ganey, the board of Health Insights and also serves McKinsey
as a faculty member for the Bower Forum.
His previous board and advisory roles include the American
Hospital Association, The Bushnell Performing Arts Center,
Connecticut Hospital Association Board where he also served as
Finance Committee Chair, Greater New York Hospital Association,
GNYHA Ventures Corporation and as chair of the Hartford HealthCare
Indemnity Services LTD Board. He holds a Masters of Health Services
Administration from the University of
Michigan, a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York, and completed the
Wharton School CEO Program for Healthcare Leadership.
Mr. Mills is the CEO of VMD Ventures focused on investing in
entrepreneurs in a variety of technology and service industries. He
is the former Chairman and CEO of ZeroChaos, a leading global
provider of workplace management solutions, transforming the way
Fortune 1000 companies acquire and manage their outside contingent
labor. Prior to ZeroChaos, he held various executive positions in
general management and corporate development with leading
internet-based HR and technology companies. He was formerly
Director and General Manager for one of AT&T's (then
Ameritech's) emerging technology business units.
Mr. Mills serves on the boards of Florida Blue, Rollins
College and the University of Central
Florida. His community-based board participation has
included LIFT Orlando, the Florida Hospital for Children, the
Florida Minority Business Opportunity Council, the Boy Scouts of
America, the Federal Reserve Bank of Jacksonville, Fifth Third Bank, Florida's
Council of 100, the EDC Governor's Council and Florida Citrus
Sports, among others, as well as a former member of the Young
Presidents Organization. He holds a bachelor's degree from
Purdue University and earned his MBA
from Harvard Business School.
Rotating off The Nemours Foundation Board of Directors are
former Florida Lt. Governor Toni
Jennings and Rosa Baumanis
Hakala. Ms. Jennings joined The Nemours Foundation Board in
2007 and served on the Board's Operations and Quality Committee,
the Compensation Committee and as Chair of the Nominating and
Governance Committee. She also served on the Nemours Florida Board
of Managers from 2009-2018. In addition to her service to Nemours,
she served the children and families of Florida as a two-term
President of the Florida Senate, successful businesswoman and
fifth-grade teacher.
Ms. Hakala, a highly successful retail executive, joined The
Nemours Foundation Board in 2006. She recently retired as Vice
President Distribution and Logistics for Barnes and Noble, Inc., a
Fortune 500 company and the leading retailer of content, digital
media and educational products. Ms. Hakala served on the Board's
Operational Performance, Quality and Safety Committee, and the
People, Compensation and Reputation Committee.
"Nemours is extremely grateful to Ms. Jennings and Ms. Hakala
for their more than a decade of dedicated service and leadership
that saw the expansion of our children's health system with a new
freestanding children's hospital in Orlando, and new patient towers in
Delaware," said Moss. "All of us
at Nemours are deeply grateful for their many contributions on
behalf of children and their families, and our communities."
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