Leadership and Board

Trisha Cunningham

President and CEO

Trisha Cunningham

President and CEO

In addition to having a keen understanding of corporate culture, philanthropy and sustainability efforts, Trisha is also very well versed in marketing and communications, having served as a top communications leader for TI both locally and abroad.

Trisha has a vast amount of experience with local nonprofits and has an executive certificate in nonprofit management through the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance. Some of the boards and organizations she has been affiliated with include:

Secretary, Treasurer - Leadership Women (national)
Vice Chair, Board Development - Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas
Director; Nominating, Capital Campaign and CEO Search Committees; Luncheon Co-Chair - VolunteerNow (Volunteer Center of North Texas)
Director; Marketing and Development Chairs - Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas
Director - Dallas Friday Group
Vice Chair - Dallas Breakfast Group
Founder, Chair, Steering Team – DFW Corporate Citizenship Network
Community Advisory Board - Junior League of Dallas
Advisory Board - UTD – Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Advisory Board – Alliance for Greater Work
Alumni – Leadership Dallas, Leadership Texas, Leadership International, International Women’s Forum Fellows Program
Member – United Way Women of Tocqueville, National Association of Corporate Directors, UTD - Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, Sustainability 50

Trisha has earned numerous awards in recognition for her service to the community including:

CSR Executive of the Year, 2011 – Center for Nonprofit Management
Women Leading Greater Good Award, 2013 – Alliance for Greater Works (formerly Faith and Philanthropy Institute)
Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas – Honor Pin, Outstanding Leader Award, Outstanding Volunteer Award

Trisha has a B.S. in Computer Information Systems with an emphasis in marketing and business from Murray State University. She and her husband, Greg, reside in Fairview (Collin County). They have two grown children, Chris and Carrie.

Brad Stewart

Chief Operating Officer

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Brad Stewart

Chief Operating Officer

Brad Stewart is the Chief Operating Officer for the North Texas Food Bank. He joined NTFB from Microsoft, where he most recently served as Director of Delivery Management in Microsoft’s Consulting line of business. While at Microsoft, Stewart executed multiple strategic global initiatives, as well as managing projects with a wide range of external clients across multiple sectors and industries. Prior to Microsoft, he worked at Texas Instruments in Quality and Procurement roles.

Servant leadership is a guiding principle for Stewart who together with a small group of families, founded Lovepacs, a 501(c)(3) focused on providing food-insecure school children via partnership with School Counselors. Stewart served as the President of the organization from 2011-2016, and under his leadership, Lovepacs served more than a million meals to hungry kids.

Stewart earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Texas and an MBA with focus in the areas of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Management & Consulting and Marketing from Southern Methodist University. He has called North Dallas home all of his life, along with his wife, Nila and their three children.

Erica Yaeger

Chief External Affairs Officer

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Erica Yaeger

Chief External Affairs Officer

Erica Yaeger is the Chief External Affairs Officer for the North Texas Food Bank. Prior to joining the Food Bank, she served as Assistant Dean of Development and Alumni Relations at The University of Texas at Dallas, where she led the Naveen Jindal School of Management’s development and alumni relations team, and as Executive Director of Sci-Tech Discovery Center in Frisco. Before joining the non-profit sector, Yaeger spent eight years in the telecom industry and was the founder, owner and publisher of Richardson Living magazine, a lifestyles publication designed to connect communities and inspire involvement.

As a community volunteer and advocate, Yaeger currently serves on the City of Richardson Civil Service Board, Junior League of Collin County Advisory Council and John Paul II High School Board of Trustees. However, she is most excited about engaging the community in her current role to support the mission of the NTFB and to close the hunger gap in North Texas.

Yaeger earned a Bachelor of Communication from North Carolina State University and an MBA with a concentration in marketing from the University of Texas at Dallas. She lives in Richardson with her husband, Dave, and two children.

Jeanne Clark

Vice President of Finance and Administration

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Jeanne Clark

Vice President of Finance and Administration

Jeanne Clark is North Texas Food Bank's Vice President of Finance and Administration. At the Food Bank, she oversees the organization's accounting, tax, finance, real estate, and general administration functions. She manages the agency's annual budget that is supported by food industry donations, individual and corporate donors, and the USDA.

Prior to her role at the NTFB, Jeanne served as Finance Director at Metrocrest Social Services, which provides food, rent and utility assistance, employment counseling and clothing. She also has served in additional financial roles for a variety of for-profits organizations. Jeanne began her career at Ernst & Young.

A Wisconsin native, Jeanne was born into a food family that manufactured boxes for the state's famed cheese industry. The parents of three grown sons, Jeanne and her husband Jerry live in Farmers Branch. She is active as a community and church volunteer.

Suzanne Drotman

Vice President of People and Culture

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Suzanne Drotman

Vice President of People and Culture

Suzanne Drotman is the Vice President of People and Culture of NTFB. Prior to joining the Food Bank Staff, Suzanne served in the field of public education and human resources for 19 years with the Plano Independent School District. As a member of the executive team, Suzanne helps direct and lead the strategy, development and execution of human resources programs that support the organizational vision, objectives and strategic plan. She also keeps a pulse on the people environment with the goal of building a positive, motivated and engaged team in an organization culture representative of our values of integrity, collaboration and compassion.

Suzanne received her Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies from Texas A&M University and went on to receive a Master of Educational Administration from the University of North Texas. She has previously served as President of the North Central Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators (NCTASPA), Chair of the Leadership Plano Board, and Secretary of the Heritage Farmstead Museum. She has also been a member of numerous professional and community organizations. She is also certified as Professional Human Capital Leader in Education (pCHLE).

Suzanne is inspired by the impact the Food Bank will continue to make as we achieve the goals set forth for 2025. Her aspiration is to embrace, develop and positively influence the team who have been called to fulfill the tremendous mission of the North Texas Food Bank.

Executive Committee

Anurag Jain, Access Healthcare, (Chair)
Michael Brookshire, Bain & Company (Vice Chair)
Julia Buthman, Prudential Capital Group
Tyler Cooper, Cooper Aerobics
Calvin Hilton, Alliance Data
Bill Hogg, Community Volunteer
Cheryl Hughes, Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
Ginny Kissling, Ryan, LLC
Adam Saphier, Trammell Crow Co.
Priya Sarjoo, Grant Thornton, LLP

Members at Large

John A. Beckert, Highlander Partners
Flauren Bender, Community Volunteer
Bobby Chestnut, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jerri Garison, Baylor Scott & White Health
Jeff George, Maytal Captial
James D. Jordan, Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.
Retta Miller, Jackson Walker, LLP
Mike Preston, FedEx Office
Katherine Perot Reeves*, Community Volunteer
Andrew Rosen, Kainos Captial, LP
Emily Straten*, Junior League of Dallas
Todd Yoder, Fluor Corporation

*Ex-officio members

LIFE Board Members

John A. Beckert, Highlander Partners
Jerry Ellis, Community Volunteer
Bette Perot, Perot Foundation
Teresa Phillips, TPHD, LLC
Stephan Pyles, Stephan Pyles Concepts

General Counsel

Andy Zollinger, DLA Piper LLP (US)

Founders

Jo Curtis
Ambassador Kathryn Hall
Lorraine Griffin Kircher
Liz Minyard

Leadership and Board

Trisha Cunningham

Brad Stewart

Erica Yaeger

Jeanne Clark

Suzanne Drotman

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