Trustees

Gary Gradinger, chair (Chairman & CEO - Golden Star, Inc.)

Officers

Bill Zahner, vice chair and chairman elect  (CEO, A. Zahner Company, Architectural Steel)
William M. Lyons, vice chair (CEO - Terra Capital LLC)
Patrick McLarney, vice chair (Managing Partner - Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP)
Annie Hurlbut Zander, vice chair (CEO and Co-Owner - Peruvian Connection )
Joan Horan, secretary (Vice President Human Resources - DST Systems, Inc.)
Grant Burcham, treasurer (President & CEO - Missouri Bank)

Board Members for 2009-10

Hugh Andrews (President and CEO-Andrews McMeel Publishing)
Robert Bernstein (President - Bernstein-Rein Advertising, Inc.)
R. Philip Bixby (President, CEO and Chairman - Kansas City Life Insurance Co.)
Mary Lou Brous (Global Brand Visual Identity Manager - Accenture)
Eran Cohen (Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer - Payless Shoesource Worldwide, Inc.)
Faye Davis (Community Volunteer)
Shirley Helzberg (Community Volunteer)
Carol Hudson (Community Volunteer)
Nancy Lee Kemper (Community Volunteer)
Barbara Marshall (Community Volunteer)
Steve Mayse (Faculty Representative)
C. Stephen Metzler (President/CFO - Metzler Bros. Insurance)
Susan Seidler Nerman (Community Volunteer)
Brad Nicholson (Owner - Nicholson Group)
Margaret Silva (Community Volunteer and Owner - Grand Arts)
Mark J. Spencer (Creative Resource Manager - Hallmark Cards, Inc.)
Maurice A. Watson (Partner - Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP)
Katie Wendel (Art Teacher/Community Volunteer)
Marie Evans, Member Emeritus
Kathleen Collins, Ex Officio (President - KCAI)