The Library Foundation
Board of Directors - Biographies
Matthew Barzun - Mr. Barzun is the president of BrickPath, an Internet media company devoted to lifelong learning. He is the former executive vice president and chief strategy officer of CNET Networks, a publicly traded Internet media company. Mr. Barzun joined CNET in 1993 as its fourth employee, spending eight years at its San Francisco headquarters. While there, he launched and managed many of CNET’s websites, including Download.com. Mr. Barzun graduated Magna cum Laude from Harvard College. Among his other charitable activities, he has volunteered with Public Radio Partnership and has served on the Cathedral Heritage Foundation (aka Festival of Faiths) board and the policy board of the Greater Louisville Project.
Maria L Bouvette - Ms. Bouvette is president and chief executive officer of Ascencia, a division of PBI Bank. She is a CPA with two decades of banking, finance and management experience. Since 1983, she has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Porter Bancorp, Inc., a Kentucky bank holding company, specializing in bank and corporate acquisitions, management and real estate development. She also serves as CFO and Director for two affiliated Kentucky banks. Ms. Bouvette serves as an Officer and Director for many corporations and businesses involved in real estate development.
She previously was a manager at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte & Touche).
She holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of Louisville. Her memberships include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Kentucky Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Kentucky State Board of Accountancy.
Monty L. Boyd - Mr. Boyd is the President and CEO of Whayne Supply Company, one of the oldest and largest Caterpillar, Inc. dealers in the U.S. Mr. Boyd serves as the President of the Kentucky Equipment Distributors, is on the Board of Directors of the Associated Equipment Distributors, Kentucky Association of Highway Contractors, Kentucky Coal Association, Kentuckians for Better Transportation, Boy Scouts, and is a member of the Louisville Rotary Club. He is an active member of the Middletown United Methodist Church. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nebraska and a MBA from the University of Louisville.
Ulysses L. Bridgeman, Jr. - Mr. Bridgeman is the owner and President of Manna, Inc. and ERJ Inc. which currently oversees the administration and operation of 163 Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburger Restaurants in five states and 24 Chili’s Restaurants in four states.
From 1975-1983 and from 1986-1987, Mr. Bridgeman played professional basketball with the Milwaukee Bucks. During the interim of 1983-1986 he played for the Los Angeles Clippers.
Mr. Bridgeman was associated with the NBA Players Association for eleven years. During his time with the Players Association, he held the title of treasurer for three years and president for four years.
He currently serves on the board of directors of Fifth Third Bank, the West End School, Jackson Hewitt, Governor’s Rider Cup, Governor’s Scholar Program, Louisville Community Initiative, National Basketball Retired Players Association, Crusade for Children Foundation and Wendy’s National Advertising board. He is capital campaign co-chair for the African-American Heritage Foundation, and serves as past chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Louisville, and chair of the Grand Gala Derby Event.
Mr. Bridgeman has received many awards including the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame; Volunteers of America, Tribute Award for outstanding service to the Commonwealth of Kentucky; John Thompson Foundation Outstanding Achievement Award; Jim Near Legacy Award; and the Coach Wooden Key to Life Award.
J. McCauley Brown - Mr. Brown serves as Vice President, Director of Business Services at Brown-Forman Beverage. Before taking this position in October 2002, his experience was focused in sales and marketing roles, including Brand Director of various brands and Regional Director over 24 states. He has served as an advisor to the Cathedral Heritage Foundation, on the Board of Overseers for Channel 15, and on the board of Stage One. He currently serves on the boards of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate Association) and The Filson Club Historical Society, and is on the Kentucky Historical Society executive committee. He holds an MBA from George Washington University and an undergraduate degree in business from Georgetown University.
Craig Buthod - Mr. Buthod has directed the Louisville Free Public Library since 1998. Prior to his tenure at Louisville, he served six years as a senior executive for the Seattle Public Library and eighteen years at the public library in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He earned his degree in librarianship at the University of Denver and studied public administration at the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Buthod serves on the board of the Americans for Libraries Council in New York and is past chair of the Arts and Cultural Attractions Council of Louisville.
H. Scott Davis, Jr. - Mr. Davis, a trustee of the Mildred V. Horn Foundation, is a former banker and serves as the chairman of the Library Foundation’s finance committee. He serves on the Community Foundation of Louisville and Metro United Way of Louisville’s finance and investments committee. Mr. Davis' other community involvement includes serving on the board of directors of the Southeastern Council of Foundations, and on the investment committee for The Kentucky Foundation for Women.
Robert L. Decker - Mr. Decker is managing director of Global Leisure Partners LLP, an investment banking firm with its corporate office in London, England. He is also the president of Robert L. Decker, LLC, a business consulting firm, and is the former executive vice-president and chief financial officer for Churchill Downs Incorporated. He serves on the Louisville advisory board of US Bank and on the board of directors of the Greater Louisville Sports Commission and the 2007 National Summer Senior Games.
Scott W. Dolson - Mr. Dolson is a member of the legal firm Frost Brown Todd, LLC and serves as the legal counsel for the Library Foundation. His practice focuses on busienss and tax issues for emerging and closely-held businesses. He also a director of the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft.
Jane Godchaux Emke - Ms. Emke has served as director of development for Bridgehaven and for Cedar Lake Lodge, Inc. Ms. Emke is president of Library Lovers PAC (LLPAC) whose purpose is to build financial support for the Louisville Free Public Library from our elected officials and from the general public.
Stephen C. Gault - Mr. Gault is the president of the Stephen C. Gault Company a firm specializing in the sale, lease and development of industrial real estate. He serves on several boards, including The Morton Center, Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services, and The College of Wooster.
C. Edward Glasscock - Mr. Glasscock is a co-managing partner of Frost Brown Todd LLC. He is listed and ranked in Chambers and Partners, Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyer,(2005-2007) as the number one corporate merger and acquisition lawyer in Kentucky. Mr. Glasscock received the Gold Cup Award for Outstanding Community leadership, Greater Louisville, Inc. in 2003, and was voted one of the three most influential people in Louisville in Louisville Magazine’s 2006 “Power 50” survey. He is currently chairman of Kentucky Center for the Arts and chairman of the board of directors for Leadership Louisville. Mr. Glasscock has served as board chairman for the Fund for the Arts, the Louisville Chamber of Commerce, and Greater Louisville, Inc.
Mary H. Griffith - Mary H. Griffith was named vice chairman of Kentucky banking for National City Bank in 2001. In this role, she has primary responsibility for the positioning, continuity and leadership of the bank’s commitment to the community. Ms. Griffith is charged with bringing the company’s new customer champion initiative to life at the bank, and is actively engaged in selling National City’s services in the wealth management, charitable and endowment areas. In April 2006 Ms. Griffith received National City’s Lifetime Achievement Award, its first female recipient and one of only three presented in the award’s history.
Ms. Griffith joined National City in 1990 as vice president and director of Corporate Communications. She had previously served as senior vice president and director of public relations at First Kentucky National Corporation, which National City acquired in 1988. At First Kentucky, she was responsible for media relations, investor and employee communications and the First Kentucky National Charitable Foundation. Ms. Griffith was named senior vice president of marketing communications for National City Corporation in 1992.
Ms. Griffith’s charitable activities include: the board of trustees, Centre College; the board of trustees, chair, investment committee, member executive committee, Bellarmine University; chairman, board of directors, Downtown Development Corp.; chairman, board of directors, Kentucky Center for the Arts Endowment; chairman, board of directors, Kentuckiana Works; board of directors and executive committee, Metro United Way; board of directors, Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, Inc.; and the board of directors, Teach Kentucky. Ms. Griffith currently serves as the chairman of the board of directors, for the Louisville Free Public Library Foundation.
A Louisville native, Ms. Griffith has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Centre College, and was honored in 1991 with the College’s Louisville Distinguished Alumni Award.
W. Frank Harshaw - Mr. Harshaw is President and Owner of Harshaw Trane, a heating and air conditioning firm located in Bluegrass Industrial Park. He has served on the board of the Louisville Community Foundation, and is a graduate from the University of Florida with a Masters in Engineering. He has also completed post-masters studies as well.
Roberta M. Henderson - Ms. Henderson is a civic leader who has served on numerous boards, including leadership positions with Planned Parenthood and Scenic America. She is past President of the Glenview Garden Club.
Henry V. Heuser, Jr. - Mr. Heuser is chairman of the Henry Vogt Machine Company; Unistar, LLC, a national group purchasing company; and Grateful Greens, Inc., a hydroponics greenhouse growing lettuces, herbs, and edible flowers. He is also president of the Henry Vogt Foundation, Inc.
Mr. Heuser has served on numerous cultural and philanthropic boards, including the I. W. Bernheim Foundation (Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest), Community Foundation of Louisville, Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Inc., Filson Historical Society, Operation Brightside, Speed Art Museum, Metro YMCA, and Boy Scouts of America. He is a founding director of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center and Gilda’s Club of Louisville. Mr. Heuser is serving on the board of the Housing Partnership, Inc, Jefferson County Public Education Foundation, Memorial Auditorium Commission, Jewish–St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation, and University of Louisville Board of Overseers.
Mr. Heuser received the Jefferson County Public School’s Champions for Children Award in 2000, the Fredrick Law Olmsted Distinguished Award for Leadership in 2000, The Housing Partnership, Inc. annual Lampton Award for Outstanding Service in Affordable Housing in 2003, and the Joseph W. Kelly Award from the Kentucky State Board of Education in 2006.
John A. Hillerich IV - Mr. Hillerich was elected a director of Hillerich & Bradsby Company in 1997 and took over as president and CEO in 2001. He is active in supporting the Boy Scouts and serves on the board of directors of the Louisville Science Center.
Rae Horton - Mrs. Horton is a retired marketing professional and the co-owner of Beauchance Farm. She is past president of the Friends of the Library and currently serves as chairman of the Louisville Free Public Library Advisory Commission. She has served on a number of local philanthropic boards.
Alfred S. Joseph III - Fred Joseph is a lawyer with the firm of Stites & Harbison, specializing in real estate law. His public service includes attorney advisor in the Office of General Counsel, Office of Economic Opportunity, and Assistant Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Mr. Joseph’s professional activities include, among others, service on the board of directors of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the Louisville Bar Association. He was co-author of the article "Certificates of Insurance: The Illusion of Protection" for Probate & Property magazine, which was awarded the 1995 Excellence in Writing Award by the magazine, as well as numerous other articles relating to real property and insurance. Mr. Joseph’s current civic activities include serving on the Downtown Development Corporation Board of Directors. He has served on numerous private agency boards and as President of the Jewish Community Federation of Louisville and the Legal Aid Society of Louisville, Inc. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Michigan Law School.
Robert W. Lanum - Mr. Lanum is an attorney with Stites and Harbison, PLLC. He is active with the Louisville Metro Donors Forum, Junior Achievement, and One Southern Indiana. Mr. Lanum is a director of the Regional Leadership Coalition and the I.U. Foundation. He is also president of the Paul Ogle Foundation, Inc. and an advisor for the Jeffersonville Carnegie Library Foundation.
Stephen G. Mullins - Mr. Mullins is the Director of Client Service & Marketing for Mainstream Investment Advisers. In addition to the Library Foundation finance committee and board, he also serves on the investment and finance committee of the Metro United Way and the boards of Bellarmine University and Assumption High School in Louisville.
Debra M. Murphy - Ms. Murphy is executive vice-president of Trover Solutions, Inc. She serves on the University of Louisville board of overseers, and on the board of directors of the Center for Women and Families.
Carolyn Neustadt - Mrs. Neustadt is a retired fund raising executive. She is a member of the board of Elderserve and on the board of the Association of the Louisville Orchestra. She also serves on the endowment committee of the Foundation for Planned Giving of the Jewish Community Federation of Louisville.
Steve Poe - Mr. Poe is CEO of Poe Companies, LLC which takes an entrepreneurial approach to development, conquering complex projects, and creating strategic partnerships. Mr. Poe is very active in local charities and civic groups. He is a trustee of the University of Louisville, chairman of the capital campaign for Home of the Innocents, a board member and past president of the Louisville Apartment Association, and an active board member of Middletown Christian Church. He was recently awarded the Kentucky 10th Annual Governor’s Economic Leadership Award.
Marcia L. Roth - Ms. Roth is the executive director of the Mary Byron Foundation. She was the first director of the Jefferson County, KY Office for Women and helped implement the first victim notification program in the country. Ms. Roth has served on the board of numerous community organizations including the Jewish Community Federation, Leadership Louisville, the Waterfront Development Corporation, and Metro United Way. She has served on all state committees organized to address violence against women, and speaks both locally and nationally on the issue of domestic violence.
Nicholas X. Simon - Mr. Simon is President and CEO of Publishers Printing Company. He serves on the board of directors of Stockyards Bank and is active in support of the American Heart Association and the Ursuline Campus Schools.
Tad Thomas - Mr. Thomas practices law in Louisville and is an active member of the American Association for Justice, the Kentucky Justice Association, and the American, Kentucky, and Louisville Bar Associations. He is currently the president of the Friends of the Library.
Paul W. Thompson - Since 1999, Mr. Thompson has served as senior vice president, Energy Services, for E.ON U.S. (formerly LG&E Energy Corp). He has 15 years of experience in the electric and natural gas industry, with prior experience in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Thompson holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in business administration in finance and accounting from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an Advisory Board Member for the Center for Applied Energy Research. He serves on the boards of the Jefferson County Education Foundation, Greater Louisville Inc., and the Louisville Downtown Development Corporation. He is a 1998 graduate of Leadership Louisville. Mr. Thompson represented LG&E as co-sponsor of Habitat for Humanity, and has twice served as Honorary Chairman of the March of Dimes Annual Walkathon.
Joanna B Travis - Ms. Travis, an attorney, has been involved with many philanthropic and cultural projects in the Louisville area and in Texas and Michigan prior to moving to Louisville. In addition to the Library Foundation Board, she currently serves as board member for Fund for the Arts, the Kentucky Opera, Bunbury Theater and as a board member of Women 4 Women
Albert J. Warner - Mr. Warner is senior vice-president of investments for UBS Financial Services. He serves on the Jewish Hospital Med-Group management board, and was on the Jewish Hospital board of directors for 16 years.
Orme Wilson III - Mr. Wilson is the president and owner of Gobi Corporation and former owner of Giant Graphics Inc. in Louisville and Digital Printing Inc. in Madison, Indiana. Additionally, he is a partner in Westfield Farm Limited Partnership in Virginia and an owner of Gramercy Farm, also in Virginia. Mr. Wilson is a director and vice president of the Filson Historical Society, serves as treasurer and secretary of River Fields Inc, and is a director and the immediate-past president of both the Kentucky Tennis Association and the Raise a Racquet Foundation for Kentucky Tennis.
