Board

The Lighthouse for the Blind Board of Directors
2010 - 2011

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

Mrs. Mathilde Villere Currence, Chair
Community Activist

Ms. Katy Casbarian, Vice-Chair
Vice President
Arnaud’s Restaurant

Mr. Gary F. Reynolds, Treasurer
President
Reynolds & Company, CPA’s

Mrs. Adrienne Casbarian, Secretary
Small Business Consultant

Mr. Curtis Eustis, At-Large
Vice President
Merrill Lynch & Company

Mr. Keith Katz, At-Large
Senior Vice President – Wealth Management
Smith Barney

Mr. Paul Masinter, At-Large
Member/Attorney
Stone Pigman Walther Whittmann, L.L.C.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

Mr. Chris Casey
Senior Manager
KPMG

Mr. John Charpentier
President
Dawn Services, LLC

Dr. Shehab Ebrahim
Owner
The Retina Institute

Mrs. Amy Farnsworth
Real Estate Agent

Mrs. Carli Fried
Auxiliary President

Ms. Tabatha George
Attorney
Fisher & Phillips, LLC

Mr. Alex Glaser
Attorney
Phelps Dunbar

Mrs. Ginger Gundlach
Special Counsel
Jones Walker

Mrs. Shannon Gunther
Community Activist

Mr. H. Elder Gwin
Assistant Vice President – Commercial Lending
Whitney National Bank

Mrs. Patricia Ramsey Hall
Community Activist

Ms. Julie Isacks
CPA
Superior Energy

Dr. Jarrett Ann Johnson
Optometrist
Primary Eye Care

Mrs. Lourdes Keiffer
Sales Manager
WWL-TV

Dr. Jay LaCour
Ophthalmologist 

Dr. James C. McGuinness
Owner/Optometrist
St. Charles Vision Outlet

Mr. Mark Ripple, AIA
Partner/Architect
Eskew Dumez Ripple

Dr. Alan M. Robson
Medical Director
Children’s Hospital

Mr. Andy Romero
Independent Fundraising & Philanthropic Consultant
Louisiana Philanthropic Consultants LLC

Mrs. Marjorie McKeithen Schlesinger
Attorney
Jones Walker

Mr. Gaines Seaman
Commercial Agent
Stirling Properties

Mr. Lonnie Stockwell
Vice President/Private Banker
Private Wealth Management
J. P. Morgan
 

ADVISORY BOARD – NEW ORLEANS

Dr. Joyce Adema
Owner
The Adema Vision Clinic

Mr. Mark Brown, CPA
Eye Surgery Center of Louisiana

Mr. Troy Carter

Mr. John Jeremiah
Senior Vice President
JP Morgan Chase

Mr. I. Harold Koretzky
Law Partner
Carver, Darden, Koretzky, Tessier,
Finn, Blossman, & Areaux

Mr. Marc Livaudais
Attorney-At-Law
LeCorgne, Livaudais, & Baus

Ms. Virginia Miller
Partner
Beuerman Miller Fitzgerald

Mr. Kevin Rafferty
Market President, Houston, TX
Iberia Bank

Ms. Elizabeth Ryan
Attorney-At-Law
Lemle & Kelleher, LLP

Ms. Carroll Suggs

Mr. George Villere
Partner
St. Denis J. Villere & Company

ADVISORY BOARD – BATON ROUGE

Mr. Lonnie Stockwell, Chair
JP Morgan Chase
Executive Director/Private Banker
Private Wealth Management

Dr. Marie Acierno
Neuro-Ophthalmologist
LSU Eye Center

Representative Regina Barrow

Mr. David M. Beach
Associate
JP Morgan Chase

Senator Sharon Weston Broome

Dr. Carl Carnagio
The Vision Center

Mr. Warren Drake
Superintendant
Zachary Schools

Councilwoman Ronnie Edwards

Mr. Ty Gose
Commercial Sales & Leasing
Latter & Blum

Mr. Jeff Koonce
Attorney-At-Law
Phelps Dunbar

Mr. Buddy Ragland
Architect
Coleman Partners

Mr. Bobby Simpson
Interim Director
Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired

Mr. Zack Stafford
Producer
Besselman & Little Agency

Erich Stemberg
President
Starmount Life Insurance Company

Councilman Scott Wilson