Board Vice President
Phoebe Miles founded the Cade Museum in 2004. She is also co-founder and Vice-President of the Gloria Dei Foundation, a family-operate charity that awards grants to organizations that promote the common good in accordance with Christian principles.. Read more...
Board Vice President
Richard Miles co-founded the Cade Museum and has been Vice President of the Board of Directors since September 2010. Mr. Miles is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. A career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State from 1993-2009, Mr. Miles served in various jobs domestically and overseas. Read more...
Richard Allen founded and served as CEO of Xhale, a medical technology spin-out from the University of Florida with technologies in patient monitoring, drug monitoring and pharmaceuticals. Over a 35 year career, including his work with Synogen, Mr. Allen has co-founded Axogen, OrthoHelix, Viewray, Chaologix, Optima Neuroscience, and BluAzu. 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...
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...
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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...
Jay Fant is an attorney and corporate executive with a background in Florida banking, trust services, fiduciary services, and lawmaking.
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...
Paul Hassie provides financial, accounting and management services to small and mid-market companies, primarily by serving as CFO for companies in the life sciences industry. Services provided include... Read more...
Jeff Lyons is the Chief Operating Officer for Personify, the leading provider of constituent management and engagement technology for the association market. Prior to Personify, Jeff was responsible for the global services team at Skillsoft. Over the past two decades he has held leadership roles in almost every business function and at tech companies ranging from startup, to public companies, to private equity LBOs. 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...
Cathryn Perdue-Adler is a writer specializing in the field of animation, writing scripts for television and direct to video films for several animation studios most notably The Walt Disney Company. She has also developed movies for the CBS Television Specials Department. 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...
Scott Perdue is an aviation writer for several U.S. and foreign magazines and the author of the novel, “Pale Moon Rising.” He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, NASA, Raytheon and the RAND Corporation. He was involved in the TV show, “Wings to Adventure” for two years... 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...
Kevin Thorpe is the Senior Pastor of Faith Missionary Baptist Church, where he has served since 1998. Pastor Thorpe is a son of the historic Mt. Ararat Baptist Church of Jacksonville. Today he is the Executive producer of the Faith Church television Broadcast and an adjunct professor at Conservative Theological University in... Read more...
Freddie Wehbe is President of Wehbe Marketing and Make It Happen Consulting, Gainesville based companies specializing in Marketing, Branding and Management Business Consulting. His areas of expertise include branding, activation, sports agency, 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
