Board of Directors

Rainbow Connection Board of Directors 2025

Board of Directors Meeting

Ryan Giacolone
Audit Services Partner & Employee Benefit Plan Audit Practice Leader

Grant Thornton

Rob Bava
Vice President
Community Choice Credit Union

Dan Flynn
2nd Vice President and Treasurer
City Wide of Michigan

Kevin Schnieders
Past President
Educational Data Systems, Inc.

Janet Dobson Vernier 
Meritorious Director

L. Brooks Patterson 
Founder
1939-2019


Members

Dave Anderson                                                                                                                                                
OneDigital

Travis Blair                                                                                                                                             
Kroger Michigan Division

Brad Byrnes
SunByrnes Properties, LLC

Roland Chu
Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Krista Eschbach 
Iroquois Industries, Inc.

Howard Goldman
Plunkett and Cooney PC

Kathi Hunt 
Iroquois Industries, Inc.

John Jackson
Pepsi Bottling Group

David LewAllen 
WXYZ TV

Steve Neiheisel 
Plante Moran

Michael Plotzke
Plastipak Holdings, Inc.

Sue Welker
Retired

Kevin Zezula
Ameriprise Financial Services

Ingrid Todt
Executive Director

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