MERRILLVILLE – Legacy Foundation of Lake County has elected five community leaders to its board of directors.
The new members, all serving three-year terms, are David Austgen, a Cedar Lake attorney; Robert Johnson III, president and CEO of Cimcor Inc. of Merrillville; Tom Keilman, director of government affairs at BP in Whiting; Martha Rivas-Ramos, vice president and branch manager at First Midwest Bank in Munster; and Sandra Snearly-Vosberg, a certified public accountant in Crown Point.
At the same time, officers for 2011-12 were elected. They are Robert Nickovich, CEO of Lake County Parks Department, chairman; Nancy Clifford, owner of Financial Strategies, vice chairman; Amy Han, director of development for the Indiana University School of Medicine-Northwest, secretary; Ken Krupinski, CPA with Swartz Restson & Co., treasurer; Margot Clark, community volunteer, immediate past chair; Danette Garza, chief operating officer and general counsel at Medical Specialists of Indiana, chair of the Development Committee; and Tory Prasco, attorney with Burke Costanza & Carberry, chair of the Grants Committee.
Also serving on the Legacy Foundation Board are David Bochnowski, chairman and CEO of Peoples Bank; Cornelia Brown, president of Creative Communications Inc.; Howard Cohen, retired chancellor of Purdue University Calumet; Fredricka Davidson, community volunteer; Frankie Fesko, president, Community Foundation of Northwest Indiana; Matthew Glaros, broker and consultant, Employer Benefit Systems; Carol Highsmith, senior partner, Centier Bank; Janet Moran, owner, Copywrite Communications LLC; William Nangle, executive editor, The Times of Northwest Indiana; Dave Ryan, executive director of the Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce; and Michael Suggs, director of operations integration and strategy at NIPSCO.
