Karl Suerig received a BS from Queens College in Chemistry and Mathematics, and an MD from NYU Bellevue Medical Center. After Internship and Residency at Greenwich Hospital, he graduated from the Aerospace Medical Center and became a Naval Flight Surgeon. He was involved with electronics at NASA in Houston, Texas. This led to his part in Cardiovascular Associates while practicing medicine in Greenwich. His involvement was in the Catheterization Laboratory and with pacemakers, implanting the first pacemaker in Spain. He then joined the original Emergency Physicians at the Greenwich Emergency Room from which he recently retired after 35 years. During those years, he also did construction and developing as the President of Ryewood Farms Ltd. He has designed several gardens and buildings and, in retirement, is enjoying woodworking and construction.

Florence Suerig began her professional career as an interior designer and builder of homes.

After her son Michael died at the beginning of the AIDS pandemic, she and her husband Karl Suerig, a doctor in their community, decided to work toward helping survivors of the disease and to raise funds toward finding a cure. To this end, they founded the RED RIBBON FOUNDATION (originally called Jazz for AIDS). With the help of friends and, later, a hard-working board, they have endeavored to raise awareness of AIDS and to raise funds in Greenwich and surrounding communities.

After the foundation was underway, Florence resumed her artistic work first as an abstract quilt-maker and more recently sculpting in clay. She has two children, and her husband has three; between them they have fourteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. They reside in Greenwich.

Andy Levison founded Southfield Capital Advisors, LLC, a private equity firm focusing on investments in private, middle-market companies, in November 2002. Prior to forming SCA, he was the Head of Leveraged Finance at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he oversaw the firm's banking and origination activities for all investment banking products for leveraged companies. Prior to joining DLJ, he was a Managing Director of the Leveraged Buyout Group at Drexel Burnham Lambert and a Vice President of the Special Finance Group at Manufacturers Hanover Trust.

Andy has sat on numerous Boards of public and private companies related to investments and is currently on the Board of Directors of Ferrellgas Partners, L.P. (NYSE: FGP), Titan Holdings Group, Material Handling Services, RCR International, Military Financial Services, and the Levison/Present Foundation at Mount Sinai Hospital. Andy earned a B.S. in Finance from Babson College.

Kevin M. Ryan is a senior partner in the New York law firm of Nicoletti, Gonson, Spinner & Owen serving as litigation and coverage counsel for national liability insurers. Kevin was previously a principal of the law firm of Ryan & Gulino until its merger with the Nicoletti firm in January, 2007.

Kevin is active in the New York bar as a member of the New York County Lawyers’ Association Committee on the Judiciary and a member of the Defense Association of New York. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Boston College School of Law. Kevin resides in Greenwich, CT. In addition to serving on the Board of the Red Ribbon Foundation, he has been involved with the Greenwich Arts Council sponsoring its annual “Art to the Avenue” in 2006.

Diane Terry has been involved in AIDS activism since the late 1980s while living in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco just as the disease was beginning to surface. Fueled by the personal loss of a dear high school friend, her passion led her to work for the cause in a variety of capacities: first as an AIDS Buddy as part of a care-giving team to those in the final stages of the disease, currently as an active board member of the Red Ribbon Foundation in Greenwich, CT, and as a volunteer and friend to a small Kenyan orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS which she visits on an annual basis. An avid world traveler and photographer, Diane has seen the effects of this global pandemic and its grip while on assignments in Romania, South Africa, Kenya, India, Tanzania, China, as well as in numerous other countries in Eastern Europe, Asia and South America. She lives in Greenwich with her husband and three daughters.

Her hope is that in her lifetime a cure will be found and that HIV/AIDS will disappear from the planet as quickly as it surfaced.

Scott Williams has brought a unique and powerful visual perspective to a variety of industries — hotels, television and theater.

Williams has served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Morgans Hotel Group since July 2007, where he oversees and is the chief architect of MHG's marketing and brand strategy. From 1999 to 2007, Williams was the Chief Creative Officer of Starwood Hotels, where he set the company's global visual and verbal communications strategy, developed worldwide creative standards, and bore the final responsibility for the quality of all of Starwood's advertising/marketing creative products.

Prior to Starwood, Williams was Vice President of Programming and Creative Director for CBS Eye on People, Vice President Creative Services at ESPN Classic Sports Network and, from 1991 to 1995, Williams was responsible for both the development and production of original, award-winning programming and advertising and promotion at HBO.

Prior to entering the television industry, Williams was both a producer and director at the notable Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago and the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.

Williams has been involved with Red Ribbon Foundation since its inception and served as board President from 2004-2009. He also serves on the board of the Stamford Center for the Arts. Married with three children, Williams resides in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Kathleen Snoddon has lived in Greenwich since 1992 with her husband, Larry, and their three daughters. She worked for Congressman Jim Jeffords of Vermont for 8 years prior to moving to NYC to work for Burson-Marsteller, a global public relations company. Kathleen later moved to London where she worked for Business in the Community, a non-profit organization headed by the Prince of Wales. There, she advised UK corporations on strategic philanthropy. Most recently, Kathleen co-founded Unleashed Adventures, a women’s adventure travel company. Besides her commitment to the Red Ribbon Foundation and its mission, she has previously been involved with Families for Children, an international adoption agency and the Grameen Foundation, an international organization committed to alleviating poverty through micro-economics.

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S. Wear Culvahouse, MD, a native of Ten Mile, Tennessee, currently lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with his partner, Douglas Graneto. A graduate of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and East Tennessee State University College of Medicine, Wear received his OB/GYN training at Georgetown University. Since 1986, he has worked in private practice in Greenwich at Brookside OB/GYN Associates. As recently as 2004 and 2006, he was named one of the top OB/GYN’s by Consumer’s Research Council of America. During his three year term as Chief of Staff of Greenwich Hospital, the new Watson Pavilion opened in 2005. He is currently serving on the Board of Trustees for Greenwich Hospital.

Wear has been involved with Red Ribbon since its inception. He chaired the 1995 event starring Diane Schuur and helped form the Red Ribbon Board of Directors, serving first as Co-Chairperson of the Board and then as President through 2000.

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Jen Danzi, a native of Greenwich CT, is very active in the local community.  She is a member of the RTM, is on the development committee for the Chamber of Commerce on the Greenwich Initiative For Tomorrow (G.I.F.T.) program, volunteers for Greenwich Library's Flinn Gallery,  and serves on numerous event committees including:  Greenwich Hospital's Great Chefs and Under the Star, Greenwich Point Conservancy's Beach Ball, American Red Cross Red & White Ball, Bruce Museum's Renaissance Ball and Dimensions Dinner, Greg Ball's Republican Campaign Fundraiser for NY Senate "The Victory Cup", Dispute Settlement Center's Margaritas for Meditation, Sound Waters Tall Ships Ball, The Hole in the Wall Gang's Polo for Children, United Way's Oktoberfest, and The Historical Society of Greenwich's Antiquarius.

Outside of her volunteer and fundraising activities, Jen sells advertising for Moffly Media and markets a new tax relief program for e-commerce businesses set-up by the US Treasury in the US Virgin Island for Ecommerce Island.

Bobbi Eggers spent most of her career as the Executive Creative Director at blue chip agencies in NYC, London, Paris and Amsterdam including Saatchi and Saatchi, J. Walter Thompson, McCann Erickson and Revlon. She was involved with long running national ad campaigns for  Coca-Cola (“Don’t say the P Word”), British Airways ("The World's Favourite Airline"), Hanes, Miller Genuine Draft ("Miller Time"), Clairol, Herbal Essences, Ford, Revlon, Borghese, Charles of the Ritz, Cover Girl, Halston, Lady Footlocker, Champs, Wrangler (“The Jeans Made for Adventure”) & Joop jeans, Dannon, Smucker’s (“With a Name Like Smucker’s It Has to be Good.”), Proctor and Gamble (Tide, Finesse, Oil of Olay, Dawn, Cascade, etc.), Dress for Success and African Wildlife Foundation and more. She started a women’s advertising agency for JWT called The Intuition Group. She received awards from the Art Director’s Club, the Clios and CEBA: helping African-American Women in advertising. She designed the book, “New York Actors” with photographer Susan Shacter, helped the Wall St. Journal launch “Offspring,” a children’s magazine and created soulfulhomes.com with Mimi Doe, author and parenting guru.  Bobbi currently works on new product development for large brands and relaunches and markets new companies.

In Greenwich, Bobbi is known for creating cartoons with Jane Condon, stand-up comedian. They produce a product line of calendars, memo pads, and accessories. The cartoons run bi-monthly in the Greenwich Post. Bobbi also writes and illustrates for Greenwich Magazine.

Bobbi graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Cooper School of Art with a major in Communication Design, and a minor in Fashion Illustration.  She currently sits on the advisory board of Greenwich Magazine and the Greenwich Music Festival, serves on the board of the Junior League of Greenwich,  and has been on the board of The  Bishop’s Fund for Children, the Vestry of Christ Church Greenwich, Kids in Crisis and the Putnam Indian Field School.

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Born in Paris, France, Dee spent her youth in Scotland, England, and Italy. She attended boarding school in England, and graduated from the University of London with a BA in Humanities. Dee moved to the United States in 1988, where she worked in New York City as an art gallery director for the Alexander Gallery, Coe Kerr Gallery, and The Artis Group. She also worked with Richard M. Thune, a private art dealer in Manhattan. Dee became interested in helping people with AIDS in 1989, when she started volunteering in the AIDS unit at the Terrance Cardinal Cooke Center in New York City.

Dee currently resides in Greenwich with her husband, Stephen, and their three children, where she is an active volunteer with numerous local organizations.

Since July of 1989 Tom Mahoney has been the director of the Office of Special Clinical Services for the Greenwich Department of Health. In this capacity he has had responsibility for HIV/STD prevention and testing programs, oral health, and bloodborne pathogens education. Prior to assuming his duties with the Town of Greenwich, Tom was the Resident Manager of the New Haven Ronald McDonald House, a facility that serves as a home-away-from-home for families seeking medical care for their seriously ill children.

He has earned degrees from the University of Maine and Fordham University, and is currently pursuing a master's degree in public health at the University of Connecticut Health Center.

Tom lives in Greenwich where he serves on several non-profit and recreational boards including Sekolo Projects, Inc., the Greenwich Coalition to Improve End of Life Care, AIDS Alliance of Greenwich, and Greenwich Basketball Association.

Amy graduated Barnard College of Columbia University in 1992 with a B.A. in political science. She began her career at Merrill Lynch & Co. as an analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions group. In 1994, she joined Morgan Lewis Githens & Ahn, Inc. as a Vice President dividing her time between their investment banking and private equity entities. Amy founded Paradise HorsesTM, a premium toy horse company, in 2004 inspired by her love of horses. The line of posable horses, ponies and riders fosters imaginative play and provides a realistic equine experience for children. She currently resides in Greenwich, CT with her husband and three children.

Amy is also on the board of The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich.

Nicole lives in Rye, NY with her husband, Jon, and two young daughters. She began her career in the nonprofit sector 15 years ago in Hartford, working as a policy analyst for state government and as a grant writer for a large child welfare/human service agency. After moving to Manhattan, Nicole began working with a national nonprofit accrediting body, the Council on Accreditation (COA), first as an analyst and eventually as the director of the organization's research arm. Exploring "what works" in human service delivery systems throughout the US took her to the taro plantations of rural Oahu, New Orleans' 9th Ward, and to the historic Bronzeville section of Chicago's South Side. Through collaborating with over 1200 public and private social service agencies, she gained a bird's eye look into the helping the most vulnerable among us with increasingly thin economic and political resources.

After taking a few years off to devote her energies to being a full-time mother and active community volunteer, Nicole resumed work in 2008 as a management consultant with local nonprofit groups. She was thrilled to begin working as the Executive Director of the Red Ribbon Foundation in January 2009.

Nicole is a member of the boards of Family Services of Westchester and Family-to-Family, and is a member of the Junior League of Westchester on the Sound and the Community Synagogue of Rye. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and holds her JD and MSW from the University of Connecticut.