Our Team

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Board of Directors

Officers

• Beth Bershok, Chair  
  Chief Marketing Officer, CPA firm Louis Plung & Company
• J. Thomas Agnew III, Executive Vice Chair  
  Co-founder of BOOM Concepts
• Monteze Freeland, Secretary  
  Co-Artistic Director, City Theatre Company
• Robert Rak, Treasurer  
  Director of Finance and Administration, Pittsburgh Opera
• Dr. Veronica Morgan-Lee, Immediate Past Board Chair
  Director of Fund Development, Hill Dance Academy Theatre
• Patrick Fisher  
  CEO, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council

At Large

• Rob Hippert 
  Surety Manager & Account Executive, Henderson Brothers Inc.
• Olivia Lammel 
  Senior Communications Manager, PNC Financial Services Group
• Elsa Limbach 
  Dance Educator and Community Volunteer
• Jeanine McCreary
  President, The McCreary Group
• Nicholas Ng
  Banker, JP Morgan Private Bank
• Richard Parsakian 
  Owner, Eons Fashion Antique
• Nayli Russo-Long, PharmD, MBA
  Vice President, People & Strategy, Pittsburgh Pirates
• Michael E. Sawyer, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of African American Literature & Culture, Director of Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh
• Jack Tomayko 
  President & CEO, The Tomayko Group
• Susan Tsu 
  Bessie F. Anathan University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University