Our Board
- Honorary Chairman
- President George H.W. Bush
- Chairman
- Governor Thomas J. Ridge
- Vice Chairman
- Charles F. Dey
- President
- Carol Glazer
- Rohini Anand
- SVP and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo
- Philip E. Beekman
- President, Owl Hollow Enterprises
- Douglas R. Conant
- President and CEO, The Campbell Soup Company
- Jeri Eckhart Queenan
- Partner, The Bridgespan Group
- Stephen L. Feinberg
- Chairman, Dorsar Investment Company, Inc.
- Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Franklin L. Hagenbeck
- Hagenbeck & Associates LLC
- Robert David Hall
- Actor and Disability Advocate
- P. Todd Harbaugh
- Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Sam’s Club, a Division of Walmart Stores, Inc.
- I. King Jordan, Ph. D.
- Former President, Gallaudet University
- Richard Luecking
- President, TransCen, Inc.
- Harold McGraw, III
- Chairman, President, and CEO, The McGraw-Hill Companies
- C.J. Queenan, Jr., Esq.
- Senior Counsel, K&L Gates LLP
- Gay Forsythe Reich
- Honorary Founder, NOD
- Jeffrey P. Reich
- President and CEO, Bridge Street Capital Management, Inc.
- Kenneth Roman
- Former Chairman and CEO, Ogilvy & Mather
- E. John Rosenwald, Jr.
- Vice Chairman Emeritus, J.P. Morgan
- William G. Spears
- Chairman, Spears Abacus Advisors LLC
- Michael Stein
- Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
- Bonnie St. John
- President, Courageous Spirit, Inc.
- Bobby Sturgell
- Senior Vice President, Rockwell Collins
- Stephen J. Szilagyi
- Senior Vice President of Distribution, Lowe’s
- Humphrey Taylor
- Chairman, The Harris Poll
- Frederick B. Whittemore
- Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley
- Robert J. Saner, II, Esq.
- Counsel to NOD
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC
About Our Chairman
- Governor Thomas J. Ridge
- Chairman, NOD
- President and CEO, Ridge Global, LLC
Tom Ridge, the former Governor of Pennsylvania who served as the first US Secretary of Homeland Security, joined NOD’s Board of Directors in 2006 as its Chair. Under Governor Ridge’s leadership, the organization has adopted a strategic focus on employment of people with disabilities.
Prior to his appointment as Homeland Security Advisor, Governor Ridge was twice elected Governor of Pennsylvania and served from 1995 to 2001. Governor Ridge is a 1967 honors graduate of Harvard and holds a law degree from the Dickinson School of Law. He was drafted into the army during law school and served as an infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, where he earned a Bronze Star for Valor. He has tinnitus and a hearing loss as a result of his military service and wears a hearing aid. He was one of the first enlisted Vietnam combat veterans elected to the US Congress when he won that office in 1982, having previously been assistant district attorney for Erie County.
Governor Ridge began working with NOD soon after his appointment by President George W. Bush as Homeland Security Advisor. Ridge met with NOD leadership and continued his regular dialogue after becoming Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. He partnered with NOD’s Emergency Preparedness Initiative for the first ever conference on Emergency Preparedness for Individuals with Disabilities. Under his leadership, the Department of Homeland Security also implemented an aggressive program to hire people with disabilities.
