Board of Directors
Chair: Travis Schmitt
USI Insurance
Vice Chair: Michael Alexakis
Wharton-Smith, Inc.
Secretary: Onchantho Am, Esq.
UCF College of Medicine
Treasurer: Jason Smith
Valley Bank
Immediate Past Chair: Dr. Georgia Lorenz
Seminole State College
Chris Card
Retired/Community Volunteer
Janelise Gastell, Esq.
TK Law Firm
Keith Trace
PIB Land
Noah Treadway
SIDECAR HR
Scott Tucker, PhD, LMHC
AdventHealth Hope & Healing Center
Jerri Weathers
Seminole County Sheriff’s Office
Advisory Board
Dick Batchelor
DMBG
Executive Management Team
Anna M. Kesic, MS
President/CEO
Marcie Dearth, MPA
Chief Operating Officer
Isabel Velasquez, MBA
Chief Financial Officer
Leslie Ziegler, MS
Vice President Human Resources
Amy Kryszan, MSW
Vice President Quality Management
Mary Cortez
Director of Development
Senior Mangement Team
Kevin Berio, LMHC
Clinical Director – The Grove & Drug Court
Judy Charuhas, LMHC, NCC, CCTP, EMDR Certified, QS
Clinical Director – Outpatient
William Felix, MD
Medical Director – The Grove Program
Kelle Groom, MFA
Grant Manager
LeeAnne Daughtry
Director of Finance
Laura Higginbotham
Director of Clinical Services
Jessica Hixon, MNM
Director of Community Based Programs
Reggie Palmer
Director of Residential Operations
Aaron Quinlan, MD
Medical Director- Psychiatric