About Us
ETCF Staff
Kyle Penney
President
LISA JUSTICE
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
LINDSAY SNEED
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
HOLLY MCFARLIN
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
DANA DURMAN
PROGRAM OFFICER
KATHRYN MARTINEZ
PROGRAM OFFICER
OUR HISTORY
East Texas Communities Foundation was founded in 1989 by visionary leaders who saw the need for a community foundation to serve the people and communities of East Texas. The strong leadership of early organizers like Isadore Roosth, Norman Shtofman, “Dub” Riter, and an investment of the United Way of Tyler/Smith County launched the Foundation. By 1994, the Foundation’s assets had grown to more than one million dollars.
In 1997 the Foundation’s Board of Directors made a bold commitment to its future growth and vitality: each director made a personal three year financial commitment to allow the Foundation to hire a full-time executive director.
With permanent staff and with the continued vision, energy and leadership of a strong Board of Directors, ETCF has experienced strong annual growth in the last decade. The number of charitable funds, the collective assets in those funds and the grant dollars distributed from those funds have all established positive long-term growth trends. ETCF’s success comes from sound financial management, strong leadership, the flexibility of our donor services and, most of all, the generosity and wisdom of the people of East Texas.
We are a giving people-and supporting the charitable needs of our communities, our region and our world is important to our daily lives.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
BARBARA BASS
Board Chair
Benefits / Fundraising Auctioneer
ANTHONY BROOKS
Vice Chair, Governance Chair
CEO Azalea Orthopedic and Sports Medicine
RICHARD PERRYMAN
Investment Chair
Retired Investment Advisor
JOHN JONES
Treasurer
CEO Jones Legacy Ventures
KRIS GUSA
Grants Chair
CPA / Partner, Gollob Morgan Peddy
MARK HAGAN
Marketing Chair
Senior VP Wealth Management, CFP/ CAP KNH Wealth Management UBS Financial Services
DIRK COLEMAN
Audit Chair
Retired CPA
MARK WHATLEY
Policy Chair
President & CEO Burns Commercial Properties
SHANNON GLENNEY
Immediate Past Board Chair
Community Volunteer
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CRAIG ADAMS
ATTORNEY
ADAMS & COKER, P.C.
RICK ALLEN
CPA / SHAREHOLDER
HENRY & PETERS, P.C.
ROBERT BAILES
CPA / FOUNDER
BAILES & COMAPNY, P.C.
B. GARNETT BROOKSHIRE
PRESIDENT
PEOPLE’S PETROLEUM
SHANNON DACUS
ATTORNEY
THE DACUS FIRM, P.C.
TOBY FAILS
SVP, WEALTH MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR VERABANK
JAY FERGUSON, Ph.D.
HEAD OF SCHOOL
GRACE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
LEE GEARHEART
PARTNER
GEARHEART + GEARHEART, PLLC
GREGORY T. KIMMEL
ATTORNEY, PARTNER
ALLEN, LOTTMAN, KIMMEL P.C.
DAVID MCWORTER
PRESIDENT OF GANS & SMITH INSURANCE AGENCY
AMY MILLER
ATTORNEY, PARTNER,
BOON CALK ECHOLS COLEMAN & GOOLSBY P.L.L.C.
JEFF MOORE
CPA, SHAREHOLDER
HENRY & PETERS, P.C.
BILL NEWBURN
CFP, MARKET PRESIDENT EAST TEXAS
SOUTHSIDE WEALTH MANAGEMENT
ROGERS POPE, JR.
VICE CHAIRMAN & CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICER, TEXAS BANK & TRUST
JOSH ROBERTS
CPA, CFP, OWNER / FINANCIAL ADVISOR, ROSEMAN WEALTH ADVISORS
STEVE SPITZER
ATTORNEY, MANAGING SHAREHOLDER
RAMEY & FLOCK, P.C.
PATRICK STACEY
VICE PRESIDENT / GENERAL MANAGER KLTV TV
LONNY UZZELL
SENIOR EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
SOUTHSIDE BANK
MARK WHATLEY
PRESIDENT & CEO
BURNS COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES
ADVISORY BOARD
W. FRED SMITH, JR.
PRESIDENT
THE GATHERING
DOUG BOLLES
PARTNER, WORTHPOINTE WEALTH MANAGEMENT
GORDON NORTHCUTT
VP/ TRUST OFFICER,
VERABANK
EMERITUS BOARD
ALLEN BURT
ALLEN M. BURT FINANCIAL SERVICES
H.T. SMITH
MANAGING PARTNER
RUTLEDGE CAPITAL
NORMAN SHTOFMAN*
THE SHTOFMAN COMPANY
A.W. “DUB” RITER, JR.*
RITER MANAGEMENT CO., L.C.
F. WILLIAM MARTIN
RETIRED CIVIC LEADER
*DECEASED
GREGG COUNTY ADVISORY COMMITEE
MARK BOON
BOON , CALK, ECHOLS, COLEMAN & GOOLSBY, P.L.L.C.
LINDA BROOKS
WEALTH & TRUST OFFICER
TEXAS BANK & TRUST
DIRK COLEMAN
RETIRED CPA
KRISTEN ISHIHARA
ISHIHARA & PARKER LAW FIRM, P.L.L.C.
JEFF MOORE
HENRY & PETERS
HEATHER SANDERS
HENRY & PETERS
DAY SHELMIRE
UT TYLER SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER
MIKE STARR
COGHLAN & CROWSON, LLP
LINDA THOMAS
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER
GORDON NORTHCUTT
VP & TRUST OFFICER AT VERA BANK
DALE LUNSFORD
LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY