Board of Directors

MacPhail is Governed by a Talented and Committed Board of Directors

MacPhail is grateful to its all-volunteer Board of Directors for their support of our mission to transform lives and strengthen communities through music learning experiences. We deeply appreciate their support of and enthusiasm for all MacPhail offers.

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Current as of September 3, 2024.

Officers and Committee Chairs

Hudie Broughton, Board Chair
Managing Director, Wealth Management Advisor – Merrill Lynch
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Kate Whittington, Immediate Past Chair
Chief Customer Officer, Quantum Metric
Paul Babcock, Chief Executive Officer
MacPhail Center for Music 
William Z. Pentelovitch, Secretary and Governance Committee Chair
Retired, Maslon LLP, Of Counsel
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Chip Emery, Treasurer and Audit & Finance Committee Chair
Retired; CEO, Supply Chain Services
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Patty Murphy, Development Committee Chair
Community Volunteer
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Nicole Strydom, Human Resources Committee Chair
Deputy General Counsel, C.H. Robinson

Directors

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Margaret (Margee) Bracken
Arts Education Advocate
Life Member
Evan Everist, MacPhail Board Member
Evan Everist
Partner, Dorsey & Whitney
Alexa Fang, MacPhail Board Member
Alexa Fang
President, Aspen Waste Systems
Rahoul Ghose
Rahoul Ghose
Chief Information Officer (CIO), ECMC Group
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Natalia R. Hernández
Head of School, Breck School
Justin Kelly
CEO of Winslow Capital
Syntyche Koumaglo, MacPhail Board Member
Syntyche Koumaglo
Senior Technical Training Developer, Cummins Inc.
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Linda Mack
Retired, Star Tribune Architecture Critic
Marshall Tokheim
VP, Process Orchestration and AI at Ecolab
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Joseph Hinderer
Senior Vice President and Managing Director (Investments), Ascent Private Capital Management of U.S. Bank
Mary Cate Peris
Mary Cate Peris
Associate Partner, Director; McKinsey & Company
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Christopher Perrigo
Partner, PwC
Lowell Picket, MacPhail Board Member
Lowell Pickett
President and Co-Owner, Dakota Jazz Club
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Peter R. Spokes
Retired, Wells Fargo Corporation Vice President; Community Volunteer
Life Member
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Sylvia Strobel
President & CEO, Twin Cities PBS
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Dianne Thomas
Retired, School Administration Education, Psychology and Mental Health Consultant
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Reverend Carl Walker
Pastor, Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church; Co-Founder, Walker West Music Academy
Anne Yoder
Senior Director of Communications, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce
Fay DeBellis
Institutional Consulting Director; Graystone Consulting of Morgan Stanley
Min Jeong Park Graf
Physician, Hennepin Healthcare
Jim Stake
Retired 3M Executive
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