OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
From Our Co-Chairs
Detroit is in the midst of robust recovery and growth. We agreed to serve as co-chairs of the Mayor’s Workforce Development Board because we know that Detroiters want to work, and we are thrilled to support the City-wide effort to remove the systematic barriers that prevent all Detroiters from finding employment.
Our board unifies leaders from industry, education, government, philanthropy, labor, community organizations around a common mission to:
- Ensure that Detroiters are able to gain the skills and support required to obtain jobs and enter career pathways; and
- Ensure that Detroit employers can locate City residents with the skills they need to fill jobs.
Our Board has set an audacious goal to employ 40,000 more Detroiters. Our work centers on assembling a portfolio of investments and strategies that will help us to reach this goal. Our efforts to date have included: revitalizing the Randolph Technical Career Center as a hub for developing construction-related skills for both youth and adults, employing over 8,000 young people every summer through Grow Detroit’s Young Talent program, and supporting accelerated and targeted training initiatives that provide Detroiters with career pathways into the skilled trades, manufacturing, information technology, healthcare, and other high-growth, high-demand industries.
Detroiters are building skills that give them access to careers in a rapidly changing Detroit landscape through new and expanded training initiatives. Our success with these training programs shows current and future Detroit employers they can grow in Detroit, and should provide them with confidence that the City is developing a talent pool to sustain their growth.
We have an enormous opportunity to support our City’s economy, and the long-term commitment across every constituency on our board is both unprecedented and impressive. We are honored to work side by side with so many dedicated and talented people in improving our City and the lives of Detroiters.
Cindy Pasky
CEO and President, Strategic Staffing Solutions
Dave Meador
Vice Chairman and Chief Administrative Officer, DTE Energy
Mike Aaron
Business Manager
Laborers’ Local 1191
Tonya Allen
President
Skillman Foundation
Dr. Colleen Allen
President & CEO
Autism Alliance of Michigan
Rick Blocker
President
Metro AFL-CIO
John Carter
President, Michigan Middle Market
Chase Bank, N.A.
Hilarie Chambers
Chief of Staff
MI Secretary of State
Matt Cullen
Principal
Rock Ventures LLC
Bruce Dall
President
Motor City Casino & Hotel
David Dauch
CEO
American Axle Manufacturing
Alessandra DiNello
Chief Executive Officer
Flagstar Bank
Bill Dirksen
VP of Labor Affairs
Ford Motor Company
Dr. Darienne Driver
President & Chief Executive Officer
United Way of Southeast Michigan
John Fox
Chief Executive Officer
Beaumont Health
Mark Gaffney
Business Agent
Teamsters Local Union 214
Marita Grobbel
Executive Director
Reading Works
Mike Haller
President
Walbridge
Dr. Curtis Ivery
Chancellor
Wayne County Community College District
John James
CEO
James Group International, Inc.
Wright Lassiter, III
CEO
Henry Ford Health System
Thomas Lewand, Jr.
CEO
Shinola
Conrad Mallett, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer
Sinai Grace Hospital
Mike McLauchlan
Vice President of Government Relations
Illitch Holdings
David Meador
Vice Chairman and Chief Administrative Officer
DTE Energy
Jean Meyer
Chief Operating Officer
Ascension Michigan
Faye Nelson
Director of MI Programs
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Cindy Pasky
President and CEO
Strategic Staffing Solutions
Mark Reuss
President
General Motors
Andra Rush
Chief Executive Officer
Rush Trucking
Calvin Sharp
Executive Vice President, Retired
Penske Corporation
Bill Robinson
Director
Bureau of Services for Blind Persons
Michelle Sourie Robinson
Chief Operating Officer
Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council
Toney Stewart
Executive Director
Michigan Regional Counicl of Carpenters and Millwrights Local 687
Brigadier General Michael Stone
Assistant Adjutant General – Installations and DMVA Deputy Director
Michigan Army National Guard and DMVA
Scott Thiele
Chief Procurement Officer
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
Alice Thompson
President and Chief Executive Officer
Black Family Development
Bishop Edgar Vann
Bishop
Second Ebenezer Church
Frank Venegas
Chief Executive Officer
Ideal Group
Carla Walker-Miller
CEO
Walker-Miller Energy Services, LLC
Steven White
CEO
Energy Infrastructure Solutions
Dr. Nikolai Vitti
Superintendent
Detroit Public Schools
Roy Wilson
President
Wayne State University
Nia Winston
President
Unite Here Local 24
Councilmember Janeé Ayers (Ex-Officio)
Detroit City Council