CDP Board Chair, Ken Jones is Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The MacArthur Foundation. He’s not the kind of leader to sit behind a desk. Before joining the Annie E. Casey Foundation in 2008 as Vice President and CFO, he traveled extensively in Africa, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe as CFO of Danya International, a public health and education organization, and Jhpiego, a nonprofit international health affiliate of the Johns Hopkins University. Before working in the nonprofit sector, Jones held corporate finance positions at Ford Motor, Pfizer, Mirant and Prudential.

Jones oversees finance, accounting, grants management, facilities, operations and information technology, but the Foundation’s core mission is “personally near and dear to my heart,” he says. While earning a bachelor’s degree at Boston University and a master’s degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Jones, a Bronx native, worked with Upward Bound and also ran summer programs for youth.

After earning an M.B.A. at the Sloan School of Management at MIT and launching his corporate career in finance, he continued to participate in Habitat for Humanity, Paint the Town and other community service activities.

Tiffany Benjamin is senior director, social impact and president of the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation. Ms. Benjamin joined Eli Lilly and Company in 2013. In her current role, she manages the company’s corporate social responsibility efforts, disaster relief efforts, global health initiatives, Environmental, Social and Governance strategy, and community civic engagement. In 2020, she led the company’s global philanthropic efforts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as its philanthropic efforts to address racial inequity in the United States. Prior to this role, she served in various roles within the legal function, including senior director, litigation and legal compliance; assistant general counsel, assistant corporate secretary; and anti-corruption counsel and legal counsel on the company’s privileged internal investigation process.

Prior to joining Lilly, Ms. Benjamin served as senior investigative counsel for the Democratic Staff of U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, working on investigations into national matters including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Wal-Mart Mexico bribery allegations, the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak and supporting passage of the Affordable Care Act. Before joining the Committee, she worked as an attorney in the D.C. office of King and Spalding, handling white-collar matters and government investigations.

Ms. Benjamin has a law degree from Harvard Law School and an undergraduate degree in Journalism and Political Science from Indiana University.

Ms. Benjamin was the recipient of the 2021 Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Young Alumni Award. She serves on the Board of Visit Indy, the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee, the 2024 NBA All-Star Game Committee and the Kennedy King Memorial Initiative.

She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband, three children and a rambunctious flat-coated retriever.

Travis Campbell leads the External Research Office at AMD, which provides resource support to universities and institutions to accelerate technological innovation and science in the public interest. In that role, Travis led the $15M COVID-19 High Performance Compute Fund that distributed leading-edge technology to 23 organizations across the globe to support the fight against the pandemic and future medical research.

After spending almost 20 years in corporate responsibility strategy and public affairs roles at leading multinational corporations, Travis understands how to protect and invest in a brand’s reputation. Travis was recognized as a Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leader by Assent Compliance in their inaugural list. Travis earned his M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University, M.L.A. in Social Change and Western Culture from the University of Richmond and B.S. in Business Management from Virginia Tech.

Heather Geronemus is director of corporate affairs and corporate social responsibility at UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), where she drives the strategic direction of financial, international, customer and thought leadership public relations and oversees the company’s global corporate philanthropic investments. Heather has been with UKG (formerly Ultimate Software) for over a decade, serving in various marketing, public relations and community relations leadership roles.

Heather is an accomplished nonprofit volunteer leader serving organizations such as the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, American Heart Association and many more. Following the loss of her father, Dr. Robert Geronemus, to a drunk driver in 2009, Heather took a leadership role in Broward County’s Mothers Against Drunk Driving organization. Heather established the Annual Walk Like MADD and MADD Dash Fort Lauderdale in 2011 and has since then continually chaired the event, raising millions of dollars for the organization. In 2015, Heather joined MADD’s National Board of Directors where she now serves as chair.

Her work has been profiled in People Magazine, the Sun Sentinel, and she has appeared on NBC, ABC and CBS to discuss issues and efforts to fight drunk driving. She has been honored by many publications and organizations for her leadership in fundraising, advocacy and strategy. Heather is a sought-after speaker on philanthropy, personal branding and women’s empowerment topics. Heather is a graduate of New York University.

Christine Riley Miller is Senior Director, Reputation & ESG Lead at BeiGene, where she is responsible for advancing the company’s global environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities.

Before joining BeiGene, she was director of sustainability at Samsonite where she launched the first-ever global sustainability strategy across nine brands. Previously, Christine led the sustainability team and the corporate foundation for eight years at Dunkin Brands Inc. Prior to Dunkin’ Brands, Christine developed integrated campaigns and strategies for communicating sustainability and philanthropy at Cone Communications. She previously managed the CSR Initiative at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University.

An engaging public speaker, Christine has been selected as a presenter and panelist on the circular economy, ESG strategy and deforestation including at GreenBiz Circularity ’20, Association of Corporate Contributions Professionals Ask the Expert series, and Innovation Forum conferences.

In 2012, Christine was named one of 12 White House Champions of Change for her leadership and influence. She holds a graduate certificate in Leadership for Change from Boston College and a Bachelor’s of Science in Sociology from Brigham Young University.

Christine joined the Center for Disaster Philanthropy board in 2019 and currently serves as the chair of the governance committee.

Sabrena Silver is a Partner in the Debt Finance group of White and Case LLP. Sabrena has broad international experience, and has worked extensively in Europe, Asia and Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala Mexico, and Peru, as well as other Latin American jurisdictions. Named by Latinvex in 2020 as one of Latin America’s top 100 lawyers, Sabrena has led on many high-profile finance deals.

Sabrena also promotes economic and social justice through her work. Sabrena is a Committee Member of the Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar Association, which advances global justice by engaging lawyers across borders to support civil society and an ethically active legal profession. She is an adviser to B Lab and Sistema B, which promote the use of private companies as catalysts of social change across the world. And she is a legal advisor to Help Peru, a 501(c)(3) committed to improve access of Peruvians to education, healthcare, water and sanitation and to promote a culture of philanthropy among Peruvians.

Anita is a Principal at KPMG. In her work she helps companies leverage corporate social investment to engage with investors, customers, employees and communities. She advises corporate funders on reducing their exposure while making intelligent investments.

Over an 18-year career, Anita focuses on serving not-for-profit organizations – particularly private foundations and public charities, where she counsels on a range of tax and operational issues. Her work is global – including Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, and Southeast Asia (India) as well as North America. She has also served as a resource on disaster philanthropy.

Prior to KPMG, Anita was a financial analyst at the George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates in Washington DC and a financial analyst for Indiana University Medical Center, in Indianapolis.

Anita is a board member of the Association for Corporate Citizenship Professionals and Global Impact, and a frequent speaker at professional conferences on international giving and best practices for governing charitable organizations.

She lives in Virginia with her husband, Jay, and daughter, Sara.