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Angela Newman - Board Chair
Founder/CEO of Pink Ladders, LLC
Vice President Renal Advantage, Inc.
Founder and CEO of Pink Ladders, LLC - a woman owned and operated business inspiring and motivating women to climb their career ladder and achieve success in their personal and professional lives. Designer of the Pink Ladders Task Manager, a woman focused planner helping women accomplish their goals. In addition to Pink Ladders, Ms. Newman has over 15 years experience in healthcare supply chain management. She currently serves as Vice President of Supply Chain for Renal Advantage Inc (RAI), a dialysis company in Brentwood. Prior to RAI, she served as Vice President of Logistics for National Nephrology Associates. She holds a MBA in Healthcare Management.
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Kevin Hargrove - Treasurer
Branch Manager, the Brickman Group
Kevin Hargrove began his career in Springfield, MO designing and installing landscapes in the residential market while attending Southwest Missouri State. He moved to Nashville in 2003 to work for the Brickman Group, a national landscape company. He managed accounts for Brickman locally and is involved in Brickman’s military portfolio nationwide. Kevin became branch manager in late 2006 and now oversees their Tennessee operations with over 100 employees. Kevin enjoys playing softball, golf and baseball in Nashville’s wood bat league, MCBA. His involvement with RBI began in 2007 when Brickman was involved with the Pearl Cohn baseball field renovation.
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Steven J. Eisen - Secretary
Partner in the Nashville office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz.
His experience includes corporate representation, securities offerings, intellectual property , and representation of financial institutions throughout the Southeast. Eisen was named one of "Best Lawyers in Nashville" by Nashville Post magazine in 2003, one of the "Best Lawyers in Tennessee" by Business TN annually since 2004, one of the “Mid-South Super Lawyers” by Mid-South Super-Lawyers Magazine annually since 2006, and has been listed annually since 1995 in the preeminent legal guide Best Lawyers in America©.
He is a member of the lawyers committee and government relations committee of the Tennessee Bankers Association and a member of the American Bar Association, its Banking Law Committee of the Business Section and the Intellectual Property Section. He is a board member of the Downtown Nashville Exchange Club, the Exchange Club Family Center , and an affiliate of the American Cancer Society.
Eisen holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; and both a Juris Doctor Degree and MBA from Vanderbilt University.
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Reggie Whittemore - Executive Director
Whittemore has spent much of his life in Nashville having played locally for the McGavock High School team, which he led to a state championship. Mr. Whittemore went on to play at Lipscomb University in the late 1970’s where he was part of two national championship teams, 1977 and 1979. His professional baseball career lasted for nine years and was spent primarily in the Boston Red Sox minor league system, where he spent time with the Triple-A organization. Mr. Whittemore was asked by Charlie Finchum, a long-time executive of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Nashville, in the early 1990’s to bring the RBI program to Nashville.
Mr. Whittemore began the Nashville RBI program in 1996 with six teams and has grown the organization to include over 1,000 kids in the last ten years. The Nashville Sports Council awarded him in January 2003 with the Community Spirit Award for his work with Nashville RBI and subsequently awarded him with the Comcast Champions Awards in 2006. He received the Reese L. Smith, Jr. Community Service Award in 2005 for his outstanding contribution to the youth of Nashville.
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John Clemmons
Attorney, Blackburn & McCune, PLLC
John Ray Clemmons, a native of Lebanon, Tennessee and lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, resides in Nashville with his wife, Tamara, and his son, John Baxt. John is a civil litigation attorney with Blackburn, McCune, Happell & Zenner, PLLC, a Nashville firm, and represents clients on issues such as civil rights, business and contract disputes, employment issues, copyright, medical malpractice, and personal injury. John's legal experience includes litigation before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. District Courts in the Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee, and State courts across Tennessee. In addition to his service on Nashville RBI’s Board of Directors, John proudly serves the State on the Tennessee Civil Service Commission as an appointee of Governor Phil Bredesen. John's community involvement also includes his role as an active member of the Belmont-Hillsboro Neighborhood Steering Committee. John is also actively involved with the Columbia University Club of Nashville and Columbia’s Alumni Representative Committee. Prior to practicing law, John spent several years in the political and public service sectors during which he served as Political Director of the Tennessee Democratic Party, a legislative aide to an U.S. congressman in Washington, DC, and co-chairman of a Nashville mayoral campaign. John received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in New York City and his Juris Doctorate from University of Memphis’ School of Law. While attending Columbia, John rowed on the Columbia Lightweight Crew and briefly worked as Visting Professor George Stephanopoulos’ student research assistant. It was during John’s college years in New York City that he developed an appreciation for the New York Yankees which he adopted as his “other team.” As a lover of all things sports related, John is an avid Predators, Vols, Titans, and Sounds fan, in addition to his beloved Chicago Cubs and Bears. Favorite baseball players include: Ryne Sandberg; Mark Grace; Andre Dawson; Paul O’Neill; and, Derek Jeter.
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Benton Dalton
Partner, KFMG printing
Mr. Dalton has been in the printing industry for more than 17 years. In 2005 Benton became a partner at KFMG, a locally owned printing distributorship that services a variety of industries through out the United States . He manages local and national accounts that have between one and 300 branch offices. Benton has been very active in youth sports in Nashville and Hendersonville for many years.
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Tom Jurkovich
Attorney, Waller Landsden
Tom Jurkovich is a partner at the Nashville law firm of Waller Lansden and practices primarily in the area of government relations. Tom represents clients in involved in major retail, residential and commercial development projects, and also counsels businesses seeking to establish, expand or relocate corporate operations in Nashville .
Prior to joining Waller Lansden, Tom served for six years as the Director of The Mayor’s Office of Economic Development, serving as former Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell’s principal liaison to the Nashville and Metropolitan Davidson County business community. He also represented the administration on the boards of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, Nashville Chamber of Commerce, Nashville Downtown Partnership, Nashville Technology Council and the Nashville Sports Council.
Tom earned his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and his J.D. from the University of Tennessee. He attended high school with Nashville RBI executive director Reggie Whittemore.
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Andrew Maraniss
Vice President, McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations, LLC
Maraniss, a native of Washington, D.C., joined McNeely Pigott & Fox in November 1998 after spending the previous six years in athletic media relations. He specializes in writing and media relations, working with clients in fields ranging from automotive remarketing to wireless technology. Maraniss served as media relations manager for major league baseball's Tampa Bay Devil Rays during the team's inaugural season of 1998. Prior to that, he spent five years as associate director of media relations at the Vanderbilt University athletic department. A 1992 Vanderbilt graduate, Maraniss attended VU on the Fred Russell - Grantland Rice sportswriting scholarship.
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"Butch" McCord
Former Negro League baseball player
A first baseman in the Negro Leagues from 1946-50, McCord played for the Baltimore Elite Giants (including the club’s 1949 National Negro League championship team), Chicago American Giants, and Nashville’s Black Vols and Cubs. Butch followed up that five-year stint with a successful career in the minor leagues, where he made history by becoming the first minor leaguer to win two batting titles and Silver Glove awards in two consecutive years (1958-59). In the minors he played for the Denver Bears, Louisville Colonels and Victoria Rosebuds. “Butch” had a batting average of .392 and was the first player ever to be awarded the Silver Glove 2 years in a row.
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