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Honorary Committee
Board of Advisors Deidre Bounds serves as Chair of the Sphinx Board. Elected Managing Partner at Brogan & Partners Convergence Marketing in early 2009, Deidre is responsible for executing the annual business objectives set by the agency’s Board of Directors. She ensures the day to day quality of our products, our client servicing, our staff morale and works hand in hand with CFO/COO Maria Marcotte. And she leads the equity partner team that is our next generation of management and our top talent. Starting as Marcie Brogan’s administrator in 1992, Deidre showed a great big appetite for learning our business. After conquering client service, she led our media team, then the PR practice and next the interactive team. Most recently she has created a website addressing the top five health concerns of African-American women. Deidre’s leadership and innovative spirit earned her a Partner designation in 1998. And her character—principled, responsive, stable, and fearless—put her on the Managing Partner track. Knowing that work is not everything Deidre and her husband Bill successfully and actively parent their two children. Daughter Katie is seldom without her mom’s cheers at soccer and basketball games and track meets. Deidre has always made time for our community too: She managed our externship program with a Detroit Public School; she volunteers at a women’s shelter; she co-led the Detroit Image Team under Mayor Archer; served on the executive board for ArtServe Michigan; she is active in local, state and national political campaigns; she currently serves on boards for the Sphinx Organization and the Detroit Regional Chamber. In her severely limited free time, she dreams about traveling and working out. Deidre lives in Southfield with her husband Bill and children Jacobe and Katie. Howard Hertz serves as the Vice Chair of the Sphinx Board. He formed the law firm of Hertz Schram with Bradley Schram in 1979. He specializes in entertainment law and is the lead attorney of Hertz Schram's Entertainment Practice Group. Among the many organizations and honors to Mr. Hertz's credit, he is a member of the Board of Directors and President of the Detroit Music Awards Foundation, a member of the Board of Governors of the Recording Academy Chicago Chapter (Grammys) a member of the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers, and a member of the Wayne State University College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts Board of Visitors. In 2008 Mr. Hertz became an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan Law School, teaching a course in entertainment law. Mr. Hertz graduated from Wayne State University in 1972 with distinction and received his law degree from Wayne State University in 1976, where he graduated cum laude. Anthony Glover serves as Treasurer of the Sphinx Board. Mr. Glover is Senior Vice President, Retail Financial Services - Consumer Banking, JPMorgan Chase. As Midwest Regional Manager, Tony Glover is responsible for over 400 Chase branches in Indiana and Michigan. With more than 20 years' experience in financial services, Glover has been with Chase and its predecessor, Bank One, for more than eight years. Before becoming Midwest Regional Manager, Mr. Glover served as a Market Manager in the Chicago West and Central Illinois markets, and a District Manager in Chicago. Mr. Glover held positions of increasing responsibility at American Express from 1984 to 1998, culminating in his appointment as Vice President and Controller of the Southern Region. Mr. Glover has a B.S. Degree in Accounting from Florida A & M University. Judge Kurtis T. Wilder serves as Secretary of the Sphinx Board. Judge Wilder serves as one of 28 judges on the Michigan Court of Appeals. Previously, Judge Wilder was Chief Judge of the Washtenaw County Trial Court. Before taking the bench, Judge Wilder practiced law with the law firms of Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C. (Lansing) and Butzel Long, P.C., (Detroit). He graduated from the University of Michigan with an A.B. degree in Political Science in 1981, and from the University of Michigan Law School with a Juris Doctor degree in 1984. Judge Wilder holds memberships in the State Bar of Michigan; the Fellows of the Michigan State Bar Foundation; the Michigan Judges Association; the Association of Black Judges of Michigan; the Federalist Society, Lawyers Division-Michigan Chapter; and the Wolverine Bar Association. Ruben Acosta is co-manager and founding member of the diverse business law firm Williams Acosta, PLLC based in Detroit. As a business counselor and trial lawyer, Mr. Acosta has practiced before both state and federal courts, including the Michigan Supreme Court, the Michigan Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. Born in Cuba and fluent in Spanish, Mr. Acosta has represented Latin American companies and citizens involved in transnational commercial disputes in the United States and abroad. He serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development. He graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan in 1982 and is a 1988 cum laude graduate of the University of Detroit-Mercy School of Law. Martha Darling is an education policy consultant based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Prior to moving to Ann Arbor in 1998, Ms. Darling was a Senior Program Manager at The Boeing Company in Seattle, from which she retired in 1999. She joined Boeing in 1987, with assignments in 747 Program Management, Commercial Airplane Government Affairs and Boeing's Corporate Offices, where she supported the CEO and other executives in their leadership roles in public education reform at the state level and in Seattle. A northwest native, Ms. Darling is a graduate of Reed College and of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Aaron Dworkin is Founder and President of the Sphinx Organization. An accomplished electric and acoustic violinist, he received his Bachelors of Music and Masters of Music in Violin Performance from the University of Michigan School of Music, graduating with high honors. A member of the Golden Key, Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Kappa Lamda National Honor Societies, Mr. Dworkin is a recipient of the MLK Spirit Award. He previously attended the Peabody Institute, the Philadelphia New School and the Interlochen Arts Academy and has studied with Vladimir Graffman, Berl Senofsky, Jascha Brodsky, John Eaken, Renata Knific, Donald Hopkins and Stephen Shipps. Additionally, Mr. Dworkin studied piano with Robert Alexander Böhnke in Tübingen, Germany. More info ---> Sally Stegeman DiCarlo is an owner and an executive committee member of a real estate investment and property development firm, with primary responsibility for the marketing and leasing of a student housing portfolio of properties. Earlier in her career, she was a non-profit development professional for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and WBEZ National Public Radio in Chicago, among others. Ms. DiCarlo has degrees in History and German from Smith College and Harvard University, and she has served on numerous non-profit boards. She and her husband reside in Ann Arbor and in San Francisco. Kenneth C. Fischer is President of the University Musical Society (UMS) at the University of Michigan, a position he has held since June 1, 1987. In addition to his position at UMS, Mr. Fischer has contributed to the performing arts presenting field as a speaker, workshop leader, writer, consultant, and conference chair as well as a site visitor and panelist for many public and private grant programs. He currently serves on the boards of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, National Arts Strategies, Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan, Music in ME, Arts Midwest, and Ann Arbor SPARK. Jenice Mitchell Ford is an Associate in the Detroit office of Foley & Lardner and is a member of the firm's Litigation Department serving in the General Commercial Litigation, Business Reorganization and Labor & Employment Practice Groups. Ms. Mitchell formerly worked as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Anna Diggs Taylor in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Carl Herstein is a partner in the law firm of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP in its Detroit office. Carl graduated from the University of Michigan with high distinction and highest honors in Political Science, and is also a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and a teaching assistant. Carl specializes in real estate and related areas of law, as well as usury law and horse racing law, and helps manage his firm's operations in the areas of billing and collection and technology. He also writes frequently on real property, usury and other issues for the academic and legal press. He has served on the Financial Institutions Advisory Board for the University of Detroit Mercy Law School, and is currently on the Technology Advisory Committee of the Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and is a Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation. Al McDonough (C.F.P.) is a professional in the accounting field where his experience includes several years in the financial management field, including nineteen years as a self-employed accountant/ financial planner in Ann Arbor, MI. His certifications include Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Accreditation of Certified Accountants (ACAT), Securities-Series 7 License and an Enrolled Agent to Practice Law before the Internal Revenue Service (EA). Daedra A. Von Mike McGhee is Director, Government and Business Affairs, Office of the Governor of Michigan. Director McGhee's career includes being honored as one of 100 Outstanding Women in the City of Detroit, recognized by the Detroit City Council, the Michigan House of Representatives, former Governor John Engler, and former United States Attorney General Janet Reno for outstanding police community relations programs including effective programs to reduce youth violence in middle schools, and served as a member of the Detroit Grant Team that successfully received funding for the City of Detroit from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Detroit's Health and Safety of Children Initiative. A member of Women of Wayne, and the board of directors of Wayne State University's Center for Peace and Conflict Studies CLL Alumni Association, Daedra is pursuing a dual Masters-PhD of Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University. Juan Ramírez is a violinist/ composer/ conductor and founder of the Atlanta Virtuosi Foundation, Inc. He began his studies in Mexico with Ivo Valenti and Vladimir Vulfman. His studies with Henryk Szeryng began at the age of fourteen, and continued as he became his principal mentor in Mexico, the U.S. and Europe. While in Boston attending the New England Conservatory of Music, Mr. Ramírez was privileged to study with Joseph Silverstein. In the symphony orchestra, he has played under Leonard Bernstein, Eric Leinsdorf, Colin Davis, William Steinberg, Leon Barzin, Bruno Maderna, Gunther Schuller, Seiji Ozawa, and many others. Service in the Boston and Pittsburgh Symphonies preceded his 1974 acceptance of a permanent position with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Ramírez founded the Buckhead Youth Orchestra in 2000, and serves as Artistic Director and Conductor. Since 1999, he has also served as Music Director and Conductor of the Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra. David Ericson Rudolph is a consultant and president and CEO of D. Ericson & Associates Public Relations. Before founding D. Ericson & Associates, David worked in the corporate communications and community relations department for the Palace Sports & Entertainment and the Piston-Palace Foundation. While at the Detroit Pistons David initiated groundbreaking programs such as the PARK Program - Partnership to Adopt and Renovate Parks for Kids an $8 million project to renovate selected public parks in the city of Detroit. David Rudolph has a Master of Science degree in International Affairs from Florida State University and Bachelors of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University. In addition, he is a graduate of Indiana University's Leadership Works Fundraising Program and Wayne State University's Essentials in Fundraising program. In 1996 David was one of three awarded a National Society of Fundraising Executives Minority Fellowships. Anne L. Taylor, M.D. is currently Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. She received her medical degree from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine and completed her internship, residency, and a two year clinical cardiology fellowship at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Her research training was conducted at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Iowa. She was Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where she also served as Director of Echocardiography at Parkland Memorial Hospital. From 1990 to 1997, Dr. Taylor was an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology at Case Western Reserve University and Chief of Cardiology at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In 1997, she was appointed Vice Chair for Women’s Health Programs in the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. From 2000 to 2007, Dr. Taylor was Professor of Medicine/Cardiology and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She joined the faculty at Columbia University in November, 2007. Kathy Weaver has sat on the board of many organizations for over 20 years, including the board of trustees for Walnut Hill School, and the boards of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas County Historical Society, Dallas Symphony Society, Dallas Art Society, Dallas Youth Leadership, and Easter Seals. Her many civic and volunteer activities include working with New Canaan Cares, Wavery Care Center, Austin Lyric Opera, Dallas Lyric Opera, Dallas Symphony and the Philadelphia Heart Association. Ms. Weaver has worked for TICOR Relocation in London and Sheridan Real Estate in New York. She attended Southern Methodist University and Chatham College. Beverly Willis, after graduating from the University of Michigan's Art School, worked for several regional agencies, designing publications and overseeing a variety of marketing and public relations responsibilities. In 1981, she co-founded BBA Graphic Design, a full-service marketing company which presently offers services to various businesses and organizations, including the University of Michigan and the Jim Bradley Automotive Group.
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