Leadership
Meet the Food Bank's leadership team, including executives, directors and our board of directors.
Executives
Directors
Hope Indeglia O’Brien
Director of Community Programs
Officers of the Board
Jyothi Subramaniam
President
Johnson & Wales University
Former Faculty
Rilwan Feyisitan, Jr.
Vice President
East Bay Community Action Program*
President & CEO
David Macchioni
Secretary
Stop & Shop
Store Manager
Polly Wall
Treasurer
Royal Bank of Scotland
Former Managing Director
Members of the Board
Nazem Azzi
Fidelity Investments
Senior VP Client Experience
Aline Binyungu
Women’s Refugee Care*
Executive Director & Co-founder
Darrèll Brown
Rhode Island Conservation Law Foundation
Vice President
Cynthia Butler
Butler & Associates
Founder & President
Michael DiSandro
First Citizens Bank
Senior Vice President
Kimberly Fernandez
Federal Hill House Association*
Executive Director
James Galloway
FM Global
Former Executive VP and Manager of International Operations
Angelo Garcia
Segue Institute for Learning*
Founder/Executive Director
Brian Gross
NAIL
Creative Partner
Dennis Leamy
Amica Insurance
Innovation & Strategic Initiatives Leader
Kathy O’Donnell
Citizens Bank
SVP and Head of Public Affairs
Mathies J. Santos
Providence VA Medical Center
Former Associate Chief, Patient Services
Paul A. Silver
Hinckley Allen
Partner
Deborah Thurston
TAPIN*
Food Coordinator
Alison Tovar, PhD, MPH
Brown University School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Behavioral & Social Sciences
Genie McPherson Trevor
Edible Rhody
Editor
Polly Wall
Treasurer
Royal Bank of Scotland
Former Managing Director
Lisa Wesner
Martha Wofford
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island
President & Chief Executive Officer
Honorary Board Members
Stephen Ashworth
US Trust, Bank of America
Managing Director
Maureen Barishian
Bryant University
Senior Accountant/Investment Analyst
James A. Bussiere
Amica Mutual Insurance Company
Senior Vice President, Marketing
Patricia M. Cerilli, CPA
Mullen Scorpio Cerilli
Partner
Wayne Charness
Hasbro
Retired Sr. VP Corporate Communications
Kim Cummins
Fidelity Investments
SVP, Organizational Performance
Frank D. DePetrillo
RI Department of Human Services
Retired Community Liaison
Mary Eastman
Fidelity Investments
HR Lead, FBOT Client Experience & Operations Services Group
Gerry Fernandez
Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance
President & Founder
Mary M. Flynn, PhD, RD, LDN
The Miriam Hospital & Brown University
Research Dietitian & Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinical
Charles S. Fradin
The Sirenic Trust
Consultant
Harley Frank
Admiral Packaging, Inc.
President
Mark Freel
Partner
Locke Lord, LLP
Arnold M. Friedman
Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
Retired Counsel
Kathleen Gorman, PhD
Feinstein Center for a Hunger-Free America
Director, University of Rhode Island
Douglas Johnson, PhD
Heritage Consulting Group, Inc.
President
Robert Leach
TD Bank
Senior Relationship Manager
Michele Lederberg
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of RI
General Counsel & Chief Administrative Officer
Donna Lee
The Providence Journal
Retired Food Editor
Joseph J. MarcAurele
The Washington Trust Company
Chairman & CEO
Peter Marino
Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island
President and Chief Executive Officer
Eugene Martin
Gordon Brothers Finance Company
President and Chief Executive Officer
Bob McDonough
RI Department of Human Services
Former Administrator for Family & Adult Services
John D. Muggeridge
Fidelity Investments
VP Public Affairs
John Murphy
KPMG LLP
Partner
Linda Newton
Newton & Newton, LLC
Independent Consultant
Russell Partridge
WARM Center*
Executive Director
Pauline Perkins Moye
Newport Housing Authority
Director of Social Services
Robert Powers
Textron Systems
Retired Sr. Vice President, HR
Mark A. Ross
Ross-Simons Jewelers
Retired Vice President
Dennis Roy
East Bay Community Action
Chief Executive Officer
Cheryl A. Senerchia
The Washington Trust Company
Vice President, Compliance
Richard Silverman
Tanisha Simpson
Westbay Community Action*
Senior Manager of Volunteer and Nutrition Services
Honorable Justice William Smith
Federal District Judge
Lisa Stanton
Monitise Americas
General Manager
William R. Walter
Innovative Solutions for Non-Profits, Inc.
President and CEO
Marilyn Warren
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center
Former Executive Director
Robert A. Weygand
University of Rhode Island
Director
Master of Public Administration Program
Christopher C. Whitney
Pierce Atwood LLP
Partner
*Member Agency of the Food Bank