Cade Board of Trustees |
Chairman of the Board
Phoebe Miles is the Co-founder of the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum, named after Gatorade inventor (and Ms. Miles’ father) James Robert Cade, exists to transform communities by inspiring and equipping future inventors, entrepreneurs, and visionaries. Read more...
Vice Chairman of the Board
Jay Fant is an attorney and corporate executive with a background in Florida banking, trust services, fiduciary services, and lawmaking.
President
Stephanie Bailes joined the Cade Museum as its Executive Director in February 2017, and was appointed to the Board of Trustees in November 2020. She has spent almost twenty years leading teams and initiatives in domestic and international private sector start-up, corporate, and nonprofit environments. Read more...
Richard Miles co-founded the Cade Museum and served as Vice President of the Board of Directors until 2019. From 2017-2021, Mr. Miles was a Senior Fellow and Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. He currently serves as Chairman of the Trinity Forum and as a board member of Prison Fellowship International. Read more...
Mary Strasburger Cade was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She attended the University of Texas in Austin and received a B.S. in Nursing in 1951. In 1952, while working in Texas Children’s Hospital, she met James Robert Cade “over a fractured liver.” The two married in 1953, and later lived in St. Louis and near New York City... Read more...
James Bates ‘Batesy’, as ‘The Head Ball Coach’, Steve Spurrier, calls him, played college football at the University of Florida as a middle linebacker, where he attained All Southeastern Conference status and was a captain of the Florida Gators' 1996 national championship team, while graduating with a telecommunication degree. Read more...
Pam Davis is the executive director of Gainesville Housing Authority. With more than 22 years of experience in the housing industry, Davis has implemented and developed innovative programs to enhance housing and economic empowerment opportunities for residents and the community. Read more...
James Di Virgilio is one of the country's leading fiduciary investors and financial planners. He is the co-founder of Chacon Diaz & Di Virgilio Wealth Management, a fiduciary firm that serves as legal guardians in financial matters for their clients, a claim that less than 15% of financial firms can make. Read more...
Jeff Fitzsimmons helped develop magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). His NIH funded research led to the development of a number of new receiver coils which optimized imaging of everything from the human brain to the heart, spine, breast and the extremities. He also co-founded a company (InVivo) which went on the employ over 500 people who design, build and distribute MRI imaging coils all over the world. Read more...
Weaver Gaines is a co-founder and Chairman/CEO of Evren Technologies, Inc., a development stage medical device company in the neuro-modulation space. Evren’s transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation (“tVNS”) is a breakthrough treatment for PTSD. Read more...
Gary Miller, Ph.D. is a founder of Exactech and has been its executive vice president of research and development since February 2000. Gary was vice president of research and development from 1986 until 2000, and director from March 1989 until November 2007. Miller was associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and director of research and biomechanics at the University of Florida College of Medicine from July 1986 until August 1996. Read more...
Kristin Pickens graduated from the University of Florida before obtaining her Juris Doctor degree from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. A third generation attorney, originally from Live Oak, Florida, she has served over 22 years as an Assistant State Attorney in the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. Read more...
Dr. Jackson Streeter is the director of UF Innovate | Ventures, which was founded to increase the number and quality of UF technology-based startup companies. Before joining UF Innovate, Jackson was the CEO and executive director of the Florida Technology Seed Capital Fund, a seed-stage venture fund investing in companies commercializing technologies developed at Florida universities, colleges or research institutes. Read more...
Freddie Wehbe is President of Wehbe Marketing and Make It Happen Consulting, Gainesville based companies specializing in Marketing, Branding and Business Consulting. His areas of expertise include branding, activation, sports agency, podcast production, and improvement management. Read more...
Board Emeritus
Joseph D. Cirulli, Lucinda Lavelli, Susannah Peddie, Thomas Rose, Sheila Spence, Marilyn Tubb
Joseph D. Cirulli, Lucinda Lavelli, Susannah Peddie, Thomas Rose, Sheila Spence, Marilyn Tubb
