Executive Staff
Donna Rodgers
Executive Vice President/COO/CFO & Interim CEO
Donna Rodgers joined the YMCA of Northwest North Carolina in June of 2004 as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and became a Senior Vice President in 2009. In her role, she has provided leadership and guidance to the organization in fiscal management, budget and forecast development, strategic planning, and enterprise risk management. She holds a bachelor of science in business (major – accounting) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Donna began her career in public accounting in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1989. Since serving in both the audit and tax divisions of Price Waterhouse, she has held various financial manager positions in both employee benefit administrative and consulting companies, as well as financial reporting and management positions with large manufacturing corporations, both privately and publicly held. During her tenure with employee benefits administration, she obtained her Certified Employee Benefits Specialist designation, and served on retirement investment committees overseeing the investments and administration of a $700M master trust. Her current responsibilities also include overseeing Information Technology, Human Resources, and Payroll for the YMCA of Northwest North Carolina.
Donna resides in Kernersville, North Carolina, with her husband, Brad, and their two children, Rob and Beth.
336.777.6232
Amanda Hurley
Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer
336.777.6249
Kelley Kenner-Patridge
Vice President/Chief Human Resources Officer
Adam McIver
Senior Vice President of Growth
336.777.6240
Jordan Lloyd
Senior Vice President of Operations and Infrastructure
336.777.6225
Joe Peele
District Vice President
336.245.7201
Kim McClure
Vice President, Youth Development and Aquatics
336.245.7226
Shon Gilmore
Vice President of Branding
336.245.5140
Chris Elmore
Vice President of Finance
336.777.6224
Richard Daniels, Sr.
Vice President of Community Engagement\Executive Director
336.721.2100 ext. 6272
Scott Spillman
Vice President of Operations/Executive Director
336.679.7962
Val Elliott
Vice President of Major Gifts
336.245.7207
Amy Cook
Executive Assistant
336.777.6221
For questions and more information about your membership, please call 336.777.8055 option 8 or email memberservice@ymcanwnc.org. Please note that answers to questions may be delayed Saturday & Sunday due to calls only being answered at the branches and emails are only monitored Monday-Friday from 7:00am-5:00pm.
Association Office
Address (Not a branch location):
100 North Main Street, Suite 350
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Phone
336.777.8055
Fax
336.777.6345
For Media Inquiries only, please contact:
Lucy Berres
Communications Director
l.berres@ymcanwnc.org
336 777 6252
For all other questions, please contact memberservice@ymcanwnc.org.
2025 Association Board Of Directors
Officers
Chief Volunteer Officer, Board Chair: Ashley Kohlrus
Vice Chair: Simpson (Skip) Brown
Treasurer: Courtney Driver
Secretary: Julia Clinard Townsend
Immediate Past Chair: Hernan Sabio
Branch Leadership Council Representative to the Board of Directors
*currently open*
Branch Leadership Council Members
Alexander County Board Chair: Gary Herman
Davie Board Chair: Dawn Highsmith
Jerry Long Board Chair: Ed Weiss
Kernersville Board Chair: Suzanne Hill
Robinhood Board Chair: Annette Lynch
Statesville Board Chair: Rob Gill
Stokes Board Chair: Jared Jones
Wilkes Board Chair: Dan Day
William G. White, Jr. Board Chair: Thad Brown
Yadkin Board Chair: Holly Joyner
YMCA REACH Center at Winston Lake: Derek Wilson
YMCA Camp Hanes Board Chair: Ksenia Richards
YMCA Youth Development: Hayluri "Luly" Beckles
Committee Chairs
Audit: David Hinton
Finance: Courtney Driver
Financial Development: Joyce Mounce
People and Culture: Kevin Williams
At Large Association Board Members
Curtis Bland
Randell Cain, Jr.
Ashleigh Craven
The Honorable Chester Davis (retired)
Rob Davis
J. Wesley Davis
Margaret Elliott
Dawnielle Grace
Dr. Anthony Graham
Laura Holby
Dr. Shea Kidd Brown
Jim Lawton
Duane Long
Dr. Todd Martin
Sylvia Oberle
Juan Palacios
Chris Parker
Christopher Pedersen
Chief William Penn
John Willardson
Dr. Fabby Williams
Linda Wood
David Zimmer