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Gayle Douglas Gouzd


Chair of the Risk Committee, Independent Director

Gayle offers a broad perspective on shifting consumer preferences in the modern era and holds a deep understanding of how to seamlessly realign strategies for corporate responsibility against the backdrop of a constantly-changing world. Gayle is responsible for directing the Risk Committee at Global Management Corporation, regularly offering up unique perspectives that ably dissect complicated issues into actionable goals.
Mr. Gouzd is a celebrated arbitration expert and has successfully run a nationwide effort to raise awareness of the various political injustices that regularly lead to the gradual worsening of the societal bedrock.

James Conelly


Compensation Committee Member

James Conelly has served as a member of the Board since 2022 along with having held a variety of leadership roles across the company including Executive Vice President of Human Resources from 2016 through 2020, where he promoted the first restructuring of several departments to align with a multi-faceted HR strategy that more correctly met the overarching demands of a successful multi-faceted business environment. Additionally, Mr. Connelly acted as the driving force behind Global Management Corporation's social impact campaigns, which seek to promoting diversity and inclusion through the empowerment of women and children.

Ryan Meeker


Risk Committee Member, Independent Director

Mr. Meeker is an industry-wide leader in corporate development with a focus on strategic planning, regulatory capital ratios, and enterprise risk management. He owns Sector Fidelis, which has assessed growth capital and offered advisory services concerning corporate governance and risk management for over 40 years. Additionally he has served on various corporate and not-for-profit boards including the nationally-recognized fund at IntraVestment. Mr. Meeker joined the Risk Committee Board at Global Management Corporation in 2014.
He and his family, Julie Ann and her children, lead a very active life.

Steven Raptis


Nominating & Governance Committee Member

Steve Raptis is the Chief Financial Officer of the Thornton & Mary-Dunn Holdings Corporation, specializing in all facets of business with a laser-like focus on compounding growth strategies. He has served as a member of the Board at Global Management Corporation since 2012, providing invaluable scrutiny to the impacts of day-to-day business models. With a solid understanding of both long & short-term restructuring goals, Steve has shown with stunning consistency, dignity, and grace, that he is second to none with regard to driving finance.
His book, The Four Facets of Man In Business, spent three weeks on numerous nationally-recognized best-seller lists upon its much-awaited publication in 2014. He along with his wife, Helen, divide their time between New York and D.C.

Lee Merrill


Compensation Committee Member

Well known for his experience in executive compensation and as well for utilizing a wide range of insights for the comprehensive understanding of corporate governance, Lee has served in the industry for over thirty years on various boards providing capable leadership and considerable expertise. Before joining Global Management Corporation in 2015, Lee Merrill was the non-executive director of the Usry Group’s North American division, and has since assumed several roles on the advisory boards of several non-profits, including the Consumer Preference Assistance Foundation.
He is also fluent in Spanish and Portuguese which he uses for communication with our Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking clients, respectively.

Piper Raleigh-Fox


Audit Committee Member, Independent Director

Piper Raleigh-Fox brings decades of thoughtful and unique business acumen to the audit committee through her unmatched experience in both the private and public sectors. Specializing in intuitive, end-to end systems that offer a holistic approach to competitive financial analytics, Piper has earned accolades from various institutions as a integral decision-maker with a keen understanding of market leveraging.
Also named General Manager of the Year in 2004 by the Alliance of Financial Planners, as well as an Honorary Guest Of Note by the Assythment Women’s League in 2020, 2021, and most recently in June of 2023.

George Riggs


Compensation Committee Member

George Riggs touts considerable expertise in various capacities advocating a diversified set of interests within private and general managerial roles. Having close to a decade of business development experience with wide-ranging knowledge focused on shifting corporate governance, George has proven time and time again that ascendancy over leading-edge technology is the key to long-term profitability for virtually any enterprise. Currently Mr. Riggs is as a member of the Compensation Committee and fills various leadership roles at the company.

Danan Lori


Chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee

Danan Lori is a proven leader, providing counsel to industry-specific companies and public-facing institutions in and across the globe for over 20 years. With a solid record of providing valuable insight and support to a wide array of diverse clientele, his deep understanding of corporate citizenship offers up a veritable font of strategic information and insights to every contingent of the present-moment board, of which he currently serves as Chair for the Nominating and Governance Committee.
In 2021 Danan Lori was said to have “considerable expertise" by the Gallatin Free Union Sentinel in their lauded yearly round-up of Noteworthy Business & Associates.

AIlen Taylor Metz


Corporate Responsibility Committee Member

Mr. Metz is the retired chairman and CEO of the Boise RoE Exchange, where he led a multitude of key strategic decision referendums that resulted in twelve consecutive quarters of positive net dividend-readjustment comparable sales. More recently he has been engaged in corporate-level sponsorships for several national and international 501(c)(4) non-profit social welfare organizations, and additionally serves as an esteemed member of the Conservancy Federation in and around the lands of North Carolina, located in The United States Of America.
He enjoys spending time with his family of daughters with whom he currently resides along with his beautiful wife, whom he calls Huckle.

Digley Joe Chapman


Risk Committee Member, Independent Director

Digley Joe Chapman has been an independent consultant since 2006 specializing in workforce resource-compliance issues, risk management and government administration. Between 2010 and 2016 he held several positions in county-specific public oversight boards in and around the Clemson Expanse Boundary, and more recently has been actively involved in private local advocacy groups as a Senior Professional to address a multitude of important issues such as insurance fund redistribution, public safety, and resource certification management.

Benjamin Michael Hall


Risk Committee Member

Mike Hall is a private investor who for more than a decade offered his broad executive experience at the Lindholme Foundation of Trust, where he held senior Executive positions across a myriad of departments. He became a board member at Global Management Corporation in 2020 and has continuously served in various senior advisory and oversight positions with a steady eye towards long-term profitability.
Additionally, Mr. Hall is also chairman of the Think Free Advisory Union, and a financial-supporting member of the Council for the Children of Families.

Marie Karensa-Phillips


Chief of External Affairs, Risk Committee Member

Ms. Karensa-Phillips has overseen external affairs since 2015. Previously she has served on the Board Of Ethical Management at the Thun Consortium, representing issues foundational for practical business models across the Washington D.C. area and in urban centers around the world.
She is currently deeply involved in a community-led effort to promote and sustain profitability, and additionally volunteers her time to multiple organizations that promote diversity and inclusion within capital-intensive startups.

Stephen Phillips


Compensation Committee Member

Mr. Stephen Phillips is a private investor for public and private ventures wherewithin he has served for over 40 years in various leadership capacities throughout a variety of industries. He was appointed Executive Vice President in 2010 of the Western Energy Consortium and from 2011 through 2013 he was the acting Chief Restructuring Officer for Allegiance Power Group (APG), where he helped drive their award-winning corporate-to-classroom initiative. He was elected to the board in 2013 and has since played a key role in the Company's continual success at balancing investor expectations with competitive retention strategies.
Mr. Phillips has a degree in Jurisprudence from Cotham University and holds ICD.D designation.

Charles Christopher Peters


Chair of the Compensation Committee

Charles Christopher Peters has a twenty-year proven track record in the promotion and development of agile office work environments for a wide array of businesses seeking solutions for workplace realignment. With a background in Corporate Directorship, Mr. Peters holds broad knowledge of associate advantage in the modern era. He has been a member of the board since 2015, as well as an ongoing Management Consultant at T.E.A.M, as well as a renown bestselling author.
His most recent book, Remote Workforce Control, won several awards including the Outstanding Insight Award from the Paasch Project in 2020 and the Required Reading designation from the online digital magazine, Hardworking Resident.

Golik Alcorn


Nominating & Governance Committee Member

An accomplished mission-oriented executive with an unmatched passion for asset class-style infrastructure, Golik Alcorn has over 20 years of hands on executive-level business experience. Since joining the board in 2012 he has worked tirelessly to identify and pursue critical company-wide opportunities, most recently leading him to chair the North American Administrators of Structural Progress in 2024 where he brokered comprehensive restructuring goals to meet our projected needs for newly divergent climate futures.

Steven Bradley


Audit Committee Member

Steven Bradley has served as a Committee Member since 2010, and as a director for the company since 2008. Previously a senior vice president and board member for the North American subsidiary of the nonprofit Branch Of Trustees, Mr. Bradley has provided continual oversight for countless redeployments of nationwide private-sector subject matter audits.
Additionally, he has spearheaded a broad range of strategy issues and holds several advisory positions for various boards relating to his fields of expertise, such as the Global Interfacing Leadership Council and the Manbote Advocacy Group.

Julia Girardi


Chairman, CEO, Founder

Ms. Julia Girardi founded Global Management Corporation in 2005 with a mission to propel progressively implemented economic paradigms to the forefront of unified business solutions through the use of future-ready planning strategies and leveraged investment.
She is the former co-Director of Solutiones Pro Populis and current Chairman of the SPP Private Division, which investigates and promotes solutions for ongoing social issues under the guiding principles of the most high degree.

Atwell Ioseph Accthorpe


Et Iusto, Odio Dignissimos

Mr. Atwell Ioseph Accthorpe is Et Iusto & Odio Dignissimos at Global Management Corporation. As a senior executive with over seven decades of industry-leading experience, Mr. Accthorpe has repeatedly pioneered prominent market-disruption strategies that have changed the face of business the world over. Beginning his well-esteemed career across a variety of industry sectors including manufacturing, power, and utilities, most previously Mr. Accthorpe has served as Vice-President of Operations for The De Secundis Officiis Project from 2008 until 2013 before assuming his ongoing role at Global Management Corporation.
Recognized in 1982 by The A Sapiente Delectus, Mr. Accthorpe additionally sits among the most distinguished names currently in the field of leadership guidance and mentorship innovation.