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Dave Geenens
Associate ProfessorDave Geenens is an Associate Professor and is the Director of the Thompson Center for Integrity in Finance and Economics in the School of Business at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. His over 30-years of executive experience in addition to his bachelor’s degree, MBA, and CPA license (inactive) add a realism to his research and teaching. Dave has written four books and speaks often on the integration of faith and work and the critical role Christian virtue plays in protecting free markets and liberty.
George Antony
George began his professional life at the Big 4 consulting firms first EY and then KPMG. A project lead him to the start up world where as CFO of a cable TV start up he helped in its successful exit. He then co-founded a consulting firm which he ran for a few years before moving to North America. Working for America’s largest Broker Dealer as a Fractional CFO he is based in San Diego. He thinks football (not the American version) is the best game in the world and Brazil is best at it and likes to travel and read.
Tom Centarri
Thomas Francis Centarri was brought up in Omaha, NE where he lived and was educated through his undergraduate time at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He graduated from UNO in 2006 and went on to receive his Masters Degree in 2008 from Mount Marty University in Yankton, SD in Pastoral Ministry. From there he served from 2008-2015 as a Catholic lay minister in either Catholic schools as a theology teacher, parish youth ministries as a youth minister or University Newman Centers as a campus minister. He worked and lived in South Dakota, Ohio, Wyoming, Iowa, Maryland and Nebraska before he relocated to Texas as campus minister at TCU in Fort Worth in 2015. He served at TCU until 2019 when he changed careers from ministry to the Knights of Columbus as a field agent. He serves councils and parishes in the Arlington area now and has been serving for 5 years now. His favorite hobbies are being with family, being outdoors, following sports, exercisign and travel. Him and his wife Carre, who have been married since December of 2015, reside in Arlington, TX with their five kids and one on the way in 2024. Thomas enjoys working with Catholic families and helping them with their goals, concerns and plans for their family should something unexpected happen.
Karen Golden-Russell
As General Manager of P&Ls up to $170M, Karen Golden Russell’s career has two major themes: optimizing profitability and turning around underperforming businesses for PE firms and Fortune 500s. For 30+ years she has served the healthcare industry with a range of solutions, including software, medical devices, multi-site clinics, and BPO services.
Karen holds an MBA from Boston University, an MA from Northeastern University, and a BA from Boston College. A native Bostonian, for the last 4 years she has called Dallas, TX home where she lives with her husband of 24 years, Terry Russell. They are members of the Dallas chapter of Legatus.
Andrew Gowasack
Andrew is the President and a co-founder of Trust Stamp. His primary focus is seeking out and building the strategic partnerships needed to open new identity-related markets around the world.
As the President of Trust Stamp, Andrew has participated in a number of the leading accelerator programs in the U.S. and overseas and built relationships with some of the world's largest financial institutions. Andrew is an accomplished public speaker who can regularly be found addressing leaders in both financial services and real estate.
Andrew received a BA in both Finance and Economics from Benedictine College and began his career in financial services with a focus on sales and marketing prior to co-founding Trust Stamp. Andrew is actively committed to ongoing learning, studying at world-class institutions such as the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Andrew is a member of Communion and Liberation and a Third Degree Knight of Columbus.
Steve Hayes
Senior Advisor / Managing Director of Gallagher Executive Search & Leadership AdvisorsSteve Hayes is a board member with YCP’s Nashville Chapter. He holds over 30 years of experience in human resources, executive search, and leadership consulting.
Steve is a Senior Advisor & Managing Director with Gallagher’s Executive Search and Leadership Advisors. In his current role, Steve focuses on advising organizations on how to Find, Strengthen, and Grow transformational leaders that deliver lasting results. Prior to joining Gallagher, Steve led his own executive search and leadership advisory firm as a Senior Partner of The Human Capital Group, where they successfully completed 1,000+ retained searches for a variety of clients across industries. He has served industrial, manufacturing, refining, private equity, technology, consumer goods, education, nonprofit, and faith-based industries.
Throughout his career in human resources, he served in leadership roles of increasing responsibility at Amoco/BP, Frito-Lay/Pepsi-Co, MagneTek, Russell Corporation, and as Chief Human Resources Officer at ClientLogic, a 17,000-employee global services company.
Steve’s experiences have given him deep insights into both the day-to-day and longer-term challenges facing organizations – and more importantly, the impact that having the right individuals in leadership positions can have on an organization’s overall performance.
A graduate of Louisiana State University, Steve and his wife Adrienne live in Brentwood, Tennessee and are active members of Holy Family Catholic Church. They are blessed with five children and six (soon to be seven) grandchildren.
Anand Irimpen
Dr. Anand Irimpen is an Interventional Cardiologist at Tulane University, New Orleans where he holds Professorship. He established the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Tulane and is currently its Program Director. Anand is the Chief of Cardiology at the VA in New Orleans since 1997. He is the Cath Lab Director at University Medical Center and Tulane. He enjoys being the Vice Chair for Alumni and Development and organizing the Annual Essentials in Internal Medicine at Tulane for the past few years that attracts alumni from all over the country and the world. Further, he is a Fellow of the American College Cardiology and a member of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. He serves in various committees of both organizations.
Bill Leimkuehler
Bill Leimkuehler is a third-generation entrepreneur with over fifteen years in startup management. Bill is the co-founder and COO of Biolectrics, a medical device startup commercializing a technology to treat periodontal (gum) disease. Bill earned his MBA and BS from the University of Notre Dame and lives in the Greater Cleveland area with his wife and two sons.
Mike McCartney
Mike McCartney is a YCP board member for the Toledo chapter. He is an executive coach who helps successful people become better leaders. He’s coached leaders at all levels—from Fortune 500 C-suites to family businesses. He has spoken on leadership, coast-to-coast, drawing from his background as business leader, executive coach and former professional rodeo athlete. Mike and his wife, Molly, are Legatus members of The Genesis Chapter (Toledo); Mike served on the Legatus National Board of Governors. They have been married 44 years and have 7 children; they are active in their diocese and the prolife movement. Together, they seek to, “study, live, and spread the Catholic faith...” in the spirit of the Legatus Mission.
Billie Jean Mounts
Bon Secours Mercy HealthBillie Jean Mounts, FHFMA, CRCR, CSMC, is the Chief Revenue Officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health, a catholic healthcare ministry comprised of 50 hospitals and more than 450 locations serving people in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina and Ireland. In her role, she leads the Revenue Management team which includes managed care, government reimbursement, and revenue cycle. She is responsible for the ministry's U.S. payment, contracting and payer-related business development initiatives and leads payer strategy, contract negotiations and managed care analytics. She works closely with the Ireland-based managed care team to provide analytics reporting and analysis. She also serves as the operations finance liaison to revenue cycle and responsible for managing a fully outsourced revenue cycle operation to Ensemble Health Partners.
Previously, Billie Jean was the Chief Reimbursement Officer for Providence Health & Services. In that role, Billie Jean established the system’s corporate reimbursement function aligning 5 regional reimbursement teams to one team. The function was responsible for monthly net revenue calculations, annual cost reports and reimbursement-related regulatory filings. The function also communicated changes and trends to the finance team, served others by proactively providing timely updates as new regulations were implemented and ensured that all Providence entities were compliant with existing Medicare regulations. Prior to Providence, Billie Jean was Assistant Vice President of Reimbursement for Health Management Associates, Inc. (HMA) of Naples, Fla., and was responsible for the oversight of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for the company's 71 hospitals located in 15 states. Over the course of her career with HMA, she served in various positions, including those of Reimbursement Manager, Director of Reimbursement and Director of Reimbursement Financial Reporting.
Billie Jean received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. She is a fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and an active member of the HFMA Southwest Ohio chapter. She is the recipient of HFMA’s Follmer Bronze, Reeves Silver, Muncie Gold, and Medal of Honor awards. She recently served on the HFMA National Advisory Council for Payment and Reimbursement and is also the immediate past chair of the Ohio Hospital Association Finance Committee. In addition, Billie Jean is a past president of the Florida chapter where she was recognized with the Florence Henry award for excellence in women’s leadership.
Pat O'Donnell
Pat O'Donnell has over 30 years of experience managing technology companies. He currently runs Unabridged Technology as an incubator for startups focused on Justice issues. Portfolio companies are currently addressing cybersecurity, asbestos claims, and AI for legal contracts.
Previously he founded and led Bridgeway Software which he grew to be one of the most successful providers of software systems for in-house legal departments with over 25% of the Fortune 500 using one of their products. In 2015 Bridgeway was acquired in a market consolidation.
Mr. O'Donnell is married to his high school sweetheart, has three amazing grown children, and three (almost perfect) grandsons. As an avid traveler, he truly appreciates a good pair of walking shoes, Google maps, and his trusted baseball hat. As a proud Houston native, Mr. O’Donnell’s favorite food is Texas BBQ. Mr. O’Donnell received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of St. Thomas and a Master of Applied Mathematics from Rice University.