Hennepin Healthcare Foundation Board of Directors
Board Leadership
Chair: Jennell Bilek, JD - Shareholder, Carlson Caspers
Vice Chair: Brett Edelson - CEO, UnitedHealthcare MN, ND, SD
Treasurer: James N. Young - Financial Consultant and Real Estate Investor
Secretary: Tenbit Emiru, MD, Ph.D- Chief of Neurology, Hennepin Healthcare
Rebecca Anderson - Proprietor, France 44 Liquors Inc., and France 44 Foods, Inc.
Lisa Brezonik - President, SALO, LLC
Molly Burke, JD - Attorney, Jeff Anderson & Associates
Laura Chin - Community Volunteer
Dominic Ciresi - Principal, Ciresi Weisz Agency
Courtney Cushing Kiernat - Exec. Director, Peris Project- Graves Foundation
Richard Daddi - Business Architect, Prime Therapeutics
Courtney Godfrey - Television Reporter
Jantze Haley - Community Volunteer
Shira Hauschen, JD - Managing Principal, Dorsey Health Strategy, Dorsey & Whitney
Ajay Israni, MD, MS - President, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute
Stanley Jackson - Founder, Stanley Jackson and Partners
Adrienne Jordan - Senior Consultant, The Prouty Project
Richard Kyle, MD - Orthopaedic Physician, Hennepin Healthcare and Medical Director, Excelen Center for Bone
Joseph Lally, JD - Exec. Director Delta Dental of MN Foundation, VP Government & Community Relations for Delta Dental of MN
Brooke Moss - Community Volunteer
Craig Samitt, MD - CEO Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
Serafin Samson - Healthcare Consultant, Scientia Healthcare
Katie Severt - Advisory Board Member, Adoption Medicine Clinic at University of Minnesota
Chris Sherman - Sr. VP Operations & Capital Markets, Sherman Associates
Deborah Yungner - CEO/Founder, ERBUS Inc., LifeGRID Technologies
Ex-Officio Members
Jennifer DeCubellis - CEO, Hennepin Healthcare
Theresa Pesch, RN - President, Hennepin Healthcare Foundation
Alexis Fraley- Chair of Young Professionals of Hennepin Healthcare