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Raymond L. Barton is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Great Clips, Inc. Mr. Barton holds a BS
degree from San Diego State University. In addition to his service on the Children’s board, Mr. Barton is a board member
of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, and serves on several advisory boards of private corporations.
He has served on the board of directors of Junior Achievement Association of the Upper Midwest.
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Russ Becker is President and Chief Executive Officer of APi Group, Inc., a billion dollar holding company for more than 32 independent construction and construction-related businesses.
Becker has worked in the construction industry since 1994, initially with Ryan Companies, and subsequently with Jamar Company, where he became President.
In 2002, Becker became President of the APi Group, the parent company of Jamar. Two years later, he became CEO of APi group.
Becker grew up on the Iron Range in Virginia, Minn. He earned a hockey scholarship from Michigan Tech and graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1989, and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering in 1991.
Russ Becker serves on the Board of Directors of Dunwoody Institute, and is an active member in the Young Presidents Organization. He resides with his wife, Trish, and 3 sons in Dellwood, Minnesota. He is active in his passion for hockey, coaching youngsters to high school age hockey teams.
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Pamela Gigi Chawla, MD, is the Chief of Staff of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.
Dr. Chawla, a pediatrician in the Children’s Clinic on the St. Paul campus, attended medical school at the University
of Minnesota. She completed her pediatric residency training and chief residency at the University of Minnesota. She was
employed at Boston Children's Hospital as a fulltime Hospitalist for a year before moving back to Minnesota to join the Children’s Clinic in 2001.
Dr. Chawla serves on several professional staff committees and is actively involved in progression to full electronic
medical record at Children’s. Her areas of clinical interest are in the health care of children with advanced needs and the care
of hospitalized patients.
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Michael V. Ciresi is a name partner and former Chairman of the Executive Board of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P,
with its principal office in Minneapolis, is internationally recognized for its expertise in litigation. Mr. Ciresi’s trial
practice and consulting is focused in the areas of product liability, intellectual property, business and commercial litigation.
Mr. Ciresi has acted as counsel for corporations, individuals and governmental entities throughout his career, and has taught and
lectured nationally and internationally to various professional and business groups. Mr. Ciresi is one of the few number of lawyers
who has been recognized on two occasions in the National Law.
Journal’s annual list of “Ten of the Nation’s Top Trial Lawyers”, and in 1997, 2000 and 2006 was named by the Journal as one of
the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America”. He has also been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1989 and was honored by
the Australian National Consumer Law Association as “Product Liability Lawyer of the Year” in 1989, and in 1998 was given a "Lifetime
Achievement Award" by the Minnesota Association for Justice (formerly Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association). In 2001, an Honorary Degree
of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon Mr. Ciresi by Southwestern University School of Law, and in 2002, Mr. Ciresi was awarded the Ellis
Island Medal of Honor by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations Foundation, Inc. Mr. Ciresi is one of 289 lawyers listed in The
International Who’s Who of Patent Lawyers 2005 and is named in The Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America.
Mr. Ciresi is a member, among other professional organizations, of the American Board of Trial Advocates, American College of Trial
Lawyers, Inner Circle of Advocates, and International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He serves on the Board of Trustees for the University
of St. Thomas, the Board of Governors of the University of St. Thomas School of Law, the Guthrie Theater (term completed 2005), Ordway
Center for the Performing Arts (term completed 2005), Regions Hospital Foundation and Minnesota Early Learning Foundation.
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Molly Culligan is a founder and managing partner of M. Culligan & Associates, a solution-based recruitment assistance and employee retention firm. Based in the Twin Cities, Molly works with a broad range of companies to help attract and retain senior level management personnel to this area. She attended both the College of St. Catherine and the University of Minnesota. In addition to the Children’s Board, Molly long served as a board member of the Guthrie Theater, The Minnesota Museum of Art, Voyager Outward Bound, and several cause-related organizations.
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Kelly Delahunty, MD is a pediatrician in private practice with Pediatric and Young
Adult Medicine with offices in St. Paul and the surrounding communities. Dr. Delahunty is a member of the
professional staff of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. She earned an undergraduate degree at the
University of Wisconsin – River Falls and received her MD degree from the University of Minnesota, where she completed
her pediatrics residency.
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Michael B. Fiterman is President and CEO of Liberty Diversified Industries, a company involved in the
manufacture and marketing of recycled paper, corrugated containers, composite building material and corrugated plastic,
material handling equipment, office storage, office furniture and graphic arts equipment.
Mr. Fiterman received a BS degree from the University of Minnesota. In addition to his service for Children’s, he also
serves on the boards of the Greater Twin Cities United Way and Herzl Camp. In the past, Mr. Fiterman also served on the
boards of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation and Mt. Sinai Hospital, as well as dedicated time and effort to various
fundraising activities for Children’s Cancer Fund, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and Vail Place.
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Alan L. Goldbloom, MD, has been President and CEO of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota since 2003. Prior to joining
Children’s, Dr. Goldbloom served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. He also directed residency-training programs in pediatrics, and served as chairman of the examining board in pediatrics
for The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Goldbloom is a 1973 graduate of the medical school at McMaster University
in Hamilton, Ontario. He practiced pediatrics in Nova Scotia, where he also served on the faculty at Dalhousie University. He then served
as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto, and Associate Pediatrician-in-Chief at The Hospital for Sick Children.
Dr. Goldbloom serves on the boards of Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA), the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and
Related Institutions (NACHRI), the Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA), the Science Museum of Minnesota, and the Minneapolis Community
and Technical College Foundation.
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Andrea Kmetz-Sheehy has professional experience that includes positions with FahlgrenMartin
Advertising, Cincinnati, Ohio, American Nursing Care, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Peak Health Plans, Colorado.
She holds a BA degree from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Ohio State University in Columbus,
Ohio. Ms. Kmetz-Sheehy serves on the boards of the MacPhail Center for Music and the Greater Minneapolis Crisis
Nursery, and is a volunteer at Breck School.
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Cynthia (Cyndi) Lesher is the retired president and CEO, Northern States Power Company-Minnesota, an Xcel Energy company.
During her career at Xcel Energy she served as Xcel Energy's vice president, chief administrative officer and chief human resources officer, president of NSP Gas, vice president of NSP human resources, and various other positions.
Lesher was appointed chair of the Governor’s Workforce Development Council in 2004 by Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. In 2003 she was inducted into the Women’s Economic Roundtable, comprising of the top 100 women leaders in Minnesota.
CityBusiness magazine named her among the Twin Cities' most innovative women. In 2007 she received the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal’s Lifetime Career Achievement Award. She was selected by the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce as 2008 Woman of the Year.
She serves on the Board of Directors of Anchor Bank, Opportunity Partners, JetE Corporation, the Twin Cities Area Red Cross (Board Chair), the Animal Humane Society and the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology Advisory Board. She serves as a commissioner of the New Brighton Economic Development Commission. She is a Regent Emeritus of the University of Minnesota.
Lesher earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Drake University, a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling and psychology from St. Cloud State University, and completed the Master of Excellence Program at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.
In January 2007 Lesher was named President of the Host Committee for the 2008 Republican National Convention responsible for raising $58 million to fund the convention and to showcase Minneapolis, St. Paul and Minnesota to the world.
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Chad M. Lindbloom is a Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for C.H. Robinson Worldwide.
Mr. Lindbloom has been with C.H. Robinson since 1990 and served as Corporate Controller prior to his position as
Executive and Chief Financial Officer in 1999. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Masters of Business Administration
from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.
In addition to serving on Children’s board, Mr. Lindbloom also serves on the Board of Directors of Xata Corporation, a
provider of vehicle data and fleet operations services to the trucking industry.
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Matt Majka (pronounced MAY-kuh) begins his second season as Chief Operating Officer for Minnesota Sports and Entertainment (MSE) after being named to the position in October of 2008. Majka begins his 13th year with the organization. He previously held the positions of Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President of Business Operations and Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Sponsorships.
MSE is a regional sports and entertainment leader that has grown into several different business operations including the Minnesota Wild, its minor league affiliate the Houston Aeros, Wildside Caterers, 317 on Rice Park and the facility management of Xcel Energy Center and Saint Paul RiverCentre.
During his tenure with the Wild, Majka has been instrumental in fostering the unique relationship between the hockey club and its fan base. The team’s continued dedication to the fans of the “State of Hockey” was shown again when the Wild was named the “Best Stadium Experience” in the National Hockey League, according to ESPN The Magazine’s “Ultimate Standings 2009” list. Minnesota also ranked second overall for “Stadium Experience” in the field of all 122 major league sports franchises.
Majka, 48 (10/21/60), came to the Minnesota Wild in October of 1997 from Rollerblade, Inc., where he started work in 1984. Beginning as a Sales Representative for the fledgling company, he held positions of increasing responsibility through his 13-year tenure including: Sales Representative, Regional Sales Manager, Marketing Manager, Director of International Business, Senior Director of Product Marketing and culminating with his appointment as Vice President of Product Marketing. During his tenure, the privately held company grew revenues from $1 million to more than $200 million annually.
The Detroit, Mich., native has lived in the Twin Cities for more than 40 years. Majka is a 1984 speech communications graduate of the University of Minnesota. He and his wife, Kym, have two sons, Sam and Nick. The family resides in Wayzata.
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Gaye Adams Massey, is a senior deputy general counsel at UnitedHealth Group. Ms. Massey has been with UnitedHealth Group since 2001,
and has also served as general counsel of the company’s Ovations business unit. Prior to joining UnitedHealth she served as vice president
and general counsel for QualChoice Health Plan, part of the University Hospitals Health System in Cleveland, Ohio, and in various legal
roles at Aetna, Inc. in Hartford, Connecticut. Ms. Massey began her legal career with Crowell & Moring in Washington, D.C., after serving
as a judicial clerk on the D.C. Court of Appeals. Prior to embarking on her legal career, Ms. Massey served as an Executive Assistant
to the President of the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Massey serves as a trustee of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and on the Board of Directors of Twin Cities
Diversity in Practice. Previously she served on the board of Families Moving Forward, a member of the Interfaith Hospitality
Network serving homeless families in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. She has also served on the boards of the Centers
for Dialysis Care in Cleveland, Ohio, and Hartford Community Health Services and Lawyers for Children in Hartford, Connecticut.
She is an active member of the Minneapolis Chapter of the Links, Inc., and the Minneapolis Chapter of Jack & Jill. Ms. Massey
earned her bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and a juris doctor from Harvard Law School.
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David J. Miller is Chief Executive Officer of Minnetonka Moccasin Company. He has been with Minnetonka Moccasin Company since 1979.
Mr. Miller is a graduate of Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois. He has extensive non-profit board experience,
and has sat on a number of for-profit business boards that include both public and private companies. In addition to his
service for Children’s, Mr. Miller also serves on the board of directors for Sing for Hope, a non-profit organization consisting
of professional artists who donate their talent and time to the humanitarian causes that inspire them. He also recently served as
vice chair for the Jane Goodall Institute, an international organization whose mission is to advance the power individuals to improve
the environment for all living things.
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Michael J. Ott is president CEO of Somerset Asset Management LLC a Twin Cities based investment management firm
and affiliate of Dougherty Financial Group LLC.
A native of Chicago, Mike spent nearly 7 years on active duty as an Air Force officer. While an officer, he served as a
project engineer and acquisitions officer – managing the development, approval and installation of several intelligence and
communications systems for joint service use in numerous worldwide locations. Leaving active duty in late 1991, Mike spent time
as an engineer at Ford Motor Company, eventually working his way to the financial services industry in 1993 when he joined a
boutique investment bank in Chicago, The Chicago Corporation.
Mike became a Minnesotan in June 1995, when he was recruited by Piper Jaffray & Co., becoming responsible for building
the firms’ West Coast presence in selling research and IPOs. After more than 7 years as a leading salesman in that group,
Mike was promoted to Head of Equity Research in 2003. Mike continues to serve as an officer in the Air Force Reserves in
his current rank as a Lt. Colonel. He also serves as a Liaison Officer for the admissions department at the U.S. Air Force
Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from which he graduated in 1985.
Mike is a member of YPO (Young Presidents Organization) and is a trustee for the Falcon Foundation in Colorado Springs.
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Timothy J. Pabst is a shareholder with the law firm of Leonard, Street and Deinard,
where he is chair of its Business Division, vice president of the firm, and is member of the firm’s Board of
Directors. He participates in both the Closely Held Business and Tax and the Estate Planning and Probate practice groups.
Mr. Pabst is a member of the American Bar Association and the Minnesota State Bar Association. He has been a member of the
Joint Finance Committee of the Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota Board since 2002. Mr. Pabst is also a member of the
Guthrie Theater Board of Directors. He holds a BA from the University of Minnesota and a JD from the University of Iowa College of Law
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Octavio Portu, Jr., co-founded Portu-Sunberg Marketing, a manufacturer’s representative firm that markets seasonal holiday
products to major regional and national retailers. He also co-founded Seasonal Specialties, importing holiday seasonal products to
major regional and national retailers, and Strategic Designs, designing and marketing new product ideas. Mr. Portu holds both a BA
and an MBA from The American University in Washington, DC.
In addition to serving on Children’s board, Mr. Portu is a board member of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. He has
served on the boards of the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery and the Children’s Theatre Company. Portu also has long service
with the Breck School, currently serving as a board member and member of the Executive Committee.
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Ryan D. Robinson is Chief Financial Officer, United States, Senior Vice President of Finance, and Treasurer for Best Buy Co.,
Inc., a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services. In this capacity, Robinson oversees the
planning, performance management and development of Best Buy U.S. operations. Robinson manages the treasury functions for the
global enterprise including capital structure, financing and investing needs. He also oversees the financial matters of several
of the company’s emerging businesses, including Best Buy Financial Services, Best Buy for Business, Best Buy Mobile,
Pacific Sales and Magnolia stand-alone stores.
Mr. Robinson joined Best Buy in 2002 as vice president of finance and treasurer. Robinson previously led the company’s
corporate development activities, including mergers, acquisitions and new business ventures as well as the enterprise tax function.
Prior to joining Best Buy, Robinson spent 15 years at ABN AMRO, a leading international bank, most recently serving as senior
vice president and director of the company’s North American private equity activities. Robinson also held a number of other
management positions in ABN AMRO’s corporate finance, finance advisory, acquisitions and asset securitization divisions.
Mr. Robinson earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s of business administration from the
J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Patrick Ryan is President of Ryan Companies US, Inc., a leading commercial real estate firm. Ryan provides integrated
design-build, development and real estate management services to customers in the industrial, retail, public sector,
office, mission critical, health care and hospitality markets.
He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, a member and past director of the National Association of Industrial and
Office Properties, University of St. Thomas School of Law Board of Governors chair, past president of Young President’s
Organization (YPO) and a current member of the World President’s Organization (WPO).
His community work includes serving as trustee and past president of Children’s Cancer Research Fund, past president of
Benilde-St. Margaret’s High School, and past board member of Catholic Charities. Pat is a founder of Cristo Rey Jesuit High
School, which is an inner-city college preparatory school for impoverished children. Pat is co-chair of the Spring Point Project,
which is focused on finding a cure for diabetes.
Mr. Ryan graduated from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota with honors where he received a degree in business
administration finance. Additionally, he earned a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Sandra Sackett, MD, is a pediatrician in private practice and a member of the professional staff of Children’s Hospitals and
Clinics of Minnesota. She received her BA degree from Macalester College and an MD from the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Sackett has served Children’s in a variety of capacities, including a term as chief of staff and as a member of the
board of trustees for the former Children’s Hospital of St. Paul. Dr. Sackett currently serves as chair of Children’s
credentials committee and member of the professional executive committee. In addition to her service for Children’s, she
is a clinical professor of pediatrics for the University of Minnesota. Dr. Sackett is a board member of the Children’s Physician
Network, and will serve as its Chair in January 2008.
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Susan Sencer, MD, is Vice Chief of Staff of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. Dr. Sencer is Medical Director,
Hematology-Oncology Division, and Director, Integrative Cancer Care, at Children's Hospitals and Clinics. After a childhood spent in
Atlanta, Georgia, she received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. She attended medical school,
residency and fellowship at the University of Minnesota, specializing in pediatric hematology/oncology. She has been at Children’s
since 1991. Her primary research interest is in pediatric integrative oncology. She has previously served on the Board of Make-a-Wish of
Minnesota and is currently a medical advisory board member for Bear Necessities, a pediatric cancer philanthropic organization based in
Chicago. She lives with her husband, the writer David Mura, and their three children Samantha, Nikko and Tomo in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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James D. Sidman, MD, is in practice with Pediatric ENT Associates in Minneapolis, and is Clinical Associate Professor
of Otolaryngology and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Sidman graduated from Vassar College, then spent two
years in the Peace Corps in Micronesia before earning his MD at Dartmouth Medical School. He served in the National Health
Service Corps as a general practitioner in rural Maine for two years before completing his Otolaryngology training at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Sidman is the director of the Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and the
University of Minnesota. He is Chief of Otolaryngology at Children’s Hospitals, where he is also the Director of the Cleft
and Craniofacial Teams. He is on the Board of Children’s Surgery International (CSI) and travels once or twice a year to third
world countries with CSI to lead medical missions primarily focused on cleft lip and palate repair. He has served on numerous
committees for the American Academy of Otolaryngology, the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Society, American Society of
Pediatric Otolaryngology, and has been an oral board examiner for the American Board of Otolaryngology.
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Colin Smith is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Deephaven Capital Management LLC.
He was previously a Vice President with Peter Schoenfeld Asset Management and Schroder Wertheim. Prior to that he was a
financial analyst specializing in mergers and acquisitions advisory at Continental Partners. Mr. Smith received his Bachelor
of Arts from Northwestern University. He is a member of the Board of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation Foundation and the
Board of Minneapolis Jewish Day School.
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Our Mission
We champion the special health needs of children and their families. We are committed to improving children's health by providing high-quality, family centered pediatric services. We advance these efforts through research and education.
Our Vision
Children’s will be a national leader in advancing the health of children, innovating and delivering
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