Staff & Board

Staff
Bill Gallagher (President and Founder): Bill has been working with the camp for over 25 years. He grew up in Chadds Ford, PA and attended Kennett High School. Bill then went to the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University School of Medicine. He lives in Washington, DC.

Richard Fernandes (Director of Programs & Operations)

Key Volunteers
Katie Oleksiak (WW Deputy Director)
Brian Romanowski (Operations Intern)
Liz Scarcelli (Communications & Program Intern)
Sarah Burns (Wave Week Director)

BOARD
Spark the Wave would like to thank the board for their dedication, wisdom, and energy that they bring to our organization.

Brad Aronson: Executive Vice President, Product Development, aQuantive in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Karen Bierly, MEd: Reading Specialist in Mountville, Pennsylvania.
Nicole Bromley: Managing Director, Nancy Jacobson Consulting in Washington, DC.
Sarah Burns: Wave Week Director. New York, New York
Peg Doyle: Former Director at Gill St. Bernard's School in Gladstone New Jersey
Richard Fernandes, Jr.: Student at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
William J. Gallagher. M.D. (President and Founder): CEO, Spark the Wave and Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Steve Holstad: CFO of City Line Motors, LLC and Managing Director with Strattech Partners, LLC. in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 
Diane James, CAE (Treasurer): Executive Director, WTS International, Washington, DC.
Maria O’Toole Jones, L.L.M. (of Counsel): Member in the law firm of Miller and Chevalier, Chartered in Washington, DC.
Shannon Oates-Rivera: Senior Brand Communications and Ally Development Manager at AstraZeneca in Wilmington, Delaware
Margaret O’Sullivan: Philadelphia City Director of the Clinton Climate Initiative with The William J. Clinton Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Laura Payne: Graduate Student in Public Health at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Anthony Phillips: Executive Vice-President Youth Action Team, a Philadelphia based youth advocacy group. African American Studies and Philosophy student at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
Patricia Rizzo, JD: of counsel at the Philadelphia law firm of Weber Gallagher in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Erica Rubin (Secretary): Teacher, Needham B. Broughton Magnet High School in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Lisa Schildhorn: LSS Dental Team Consultants and President Dental Cares, Inc. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hadley Schmoyer: Marketing Coordinator, Wright-Ryan Construction in Portland, Maine.
Parker Stanzione: Communications Consultant inWashington, DC.
Andrew Sullivan: Founding CEO, Refinery, Inc. and Founder, Tools 4 Life in Philadelphia.

President’s Advisory Board
Laura Boyce: Director, Community Impact at United Way of SEPA in Philadelphia, PA
Elaine Kotell Binder: Consultant specializing in volunteer board development, strategic planning, and organizational assessment in the Washington, DC area.
Daniel Cardinali: President, Communities in Schools, Alexandria, Virginia.
A. Frank Donaghue: CEO, Physicians for Human Rights in Boston, MA.
Eleanor M. Donaghue, PhD, LCPC: Director of Counseling Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Wheaton, Maryland. Adjunct professor, The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
Susan J. Ellis: President and Founder, Energize, Inc. (an international training, consulting and publishing firm specializing in volunteerism) in Philadelphia, PA.
Kathy Felker: Executive Director, American Red Cross of the Susquehanna Valley in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
William J. Gallagher, Sr., Esq: Senior Partner, MacElree, Harvey, LLC. in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Wendell Jenkins: Chief Marketing Officer, DC Biodiesel in Washington, DC.
Pat Ma: Senior Program Officer for Elev8, Public/Private Ventures in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
W. Gerard Oleksiak: Treasurer, Pennsylvania State Education Association in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania