Board of Directors

Dick Nightingale

Chair

V.P. Operations,
Midland Paper

Gary Abram

Vice Chair

President, B2G Data
Founder and partner, HCap
Founder, i.3.identity

Ronald Eiman

Chair, Emeritus

Accountant, TWA (retired)

Jay Bell

Board Member

Ultra Defense Corp.

Danielle Bordman

Treasurer

D. Bordman CPA, LLC

Nick Hadley

Secretary

Vice President
Commerce Bank

Susan Scott

Board Member

RE/MAX Commercial Real Estate

Kim Roam

Board Member

Kim Roam is an accomplished attorney and business executive. Mr. Roam has served on several boards in the region, including the St. Mary’s Medical Center Foundation and Grain Valley School District Foundation Advisory Boards. He has also been recognized for his leadership as the recipient of multiple distinguished community and philanthropic awards including the Truman Heartland Community Foundation Citizen of the Year Award (Grain Valley) and the William T. Kemper Foundation Community Service Award. Mr. Roam’s dedication to community service and strategic vision in helping nonprofits fulfill their mission will be an asset to Job One’s long-term planning.

John Fellows

Board Member

John Fellows is a finance professional with 30 years of experience. In John’s current role, he is a finance director for Broadridge and is the head of revenue accounting for one of their business units. John has worked in a variety of other roles for Koch Industries, Olin Corporation, DST Systems, and as a consultant for Sogeti.

John is a proud native of Independence, Missouri where he graduated from St. Mary’s High School along with his two brothers and two sisters. After high school, he stayed in Kansas City and attended Rockhurst University where he graduated with an accounting degree in 1989. Later, he graduated from Webster University with a MA and also an MBA from Rockhurst.

John is married to Coretta and they have two children in college and recent graduate from the University of Missouri. He enjoys spending time with family and friends.

Alli Kisner

Board Member

Alli is a Partner at Treo Marketing. She joined the Job One Careers Board in 2018 and was elected to concurrently serve on the main Job One board in 2019. Ms. Kisner has a dynamic background in marketing, sales and nonprofit leadership. She brings a fresh perspective on fund and business development, strategic planning, recruiting and operations. She has a strong commitment to advocacy for individuals with disabilities and is passionate about community service.

Drew Grossman

Board Member

Chief Executive Officer, St. Mary’s Medical Center

Scott Fullerton

Board Member

Partner, Fullerton CPAs

Christine Waldschmidt, JD

Board Member

Vice President – Trust Advisor
First Business Trust & Investments
Leawood, Kansas

Christine has over 25 years of experience in trust administration, estate planning, and corporate law.  She has worked in the corporate fiduciary environment, as well as in private practice assisting individual and business clients with estate planning, business succession planning, entity formation, compliance, risk management, and diverse transactional projects.

Christine grew up in the Kansas City area, and earned her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Kansas.  She resides in Leawood, Kansas, with her two sons and two gray tabby cats.  She is an avid reader, a supporter of the arts, very involved with the Kansas City Ballet Guild, and enjoys traveling, particularly to visit her identical twin sister residing in the Netherlands.

Richard Phillips

Board Member

Bryan Dennie

Board Member

Vice President of Marketing & Sales, Next Century Growth Investors

Nancy Nicolaus

Board Member

Nancy Nicolaus is retired from a career of over four decades working in eight states supporting people with neurodiverse, developmental, and mental health challenges. Her education includes a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, graduate work at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School-Dallas, School of Allied Health, and a master’s degree from Eastern Michigan University.

Nancy is passionate about supporting individuals to self-determine and control their lives including where and how they live, work, socialize and relate to their communities. Highlights of her work include the development of community supports and services, liberating individuals from institutions and creating gentle cultures. Most recently, Nancy served for twelve years as Agency Relations Supervisor at Eitas where she initiated Gentle Teaching training and endorsed the creation of individualized community employment opportunities at Job One.

In retirement, she is a board member of Gentle Teaching International and the Job One Careers Board.