Board of Trustees
The Muhammad Ali Center Board and Leadership Team works to oversee the Center’s collections, exhibits, programs and more to mobilize Muhammad Ali’s legacy and advance social justice.
Meet our Board
Executive Committee
Lonnie Ali
Co-Founder and Vice Chair of Muhammad Ali Center
Roula Allouch
Attorney at Graydon Law
Dr. Muhammad Babar
Physician at UofL Health
Michael Baer
President, Co-Owner at Fusioncorp
Bill Carroll
Partner Attorney at Mettler Randolph Carroll & Sterlacci, P.L.
Laura Douglas
Interim President and CEO at West End Opportunity Partnership
Rufus Friday
Executive Director at Hope Center, Inc.
Ingrid Gentry
Retired CFO at The Bardstown Bourbon Company
Bennie Ivory
Retired Media Executive, Journalist, Consultant
Akure Paradis
Deputy General Counsel at CareSource
Kris Sirchio
Founder/CEO of Net Positive/Sirchio Family Office
Katina Whitlock
Senior Manager, Community Engagement at GE Appliances
Members-at-Large
Rashaad Abdur-Rahman, DSW, MSSW
Founder and CEO of Racial Healing Project
Kim Baker
President and CEO of Kentucky Center for the Arts
Brad Blackwell
Sr. Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Churchill Downs
Neville Blakemore
Managing Partner at FTC, Inc.
Ralph de Chabert,
Retired SVP and Chief Diversity Officer at Brown-Forman Corporation
Robert L. Decker
Retired Managing Director at Corporate Finance Associates
Emilie Deutsch
Vice President-Original Programming and Features at CBS
Michelle Duncan
Partner Attorney at Dinsmore Law
Dr. Lee Gill
Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at University of Louisville
Colin Gottlieb
UK Media Executive
Kristel Jensen
Senior Vice President at Fifth Third Bank
Dr. Christopher Jones
Associate Professor Surgery Director, Section of Hepatobiliary & Transplant Surgery at University of Louisville School of Medicine
Dr. Amani Kettaneh, PhD, CRC
Dept. of Early Childhood, Rehabilitation Counseling and Special Education at University of Kentucky
Christian McBride
American Jazz Bassist, Composer, and Arranger at The Christian McBride Company
Karmen Powell
Manager, Distribution Electric Engineering at LG&E and KU Energy LLC
John Ramsey
Media Personality
Brad Siegel
Sr. VP and General Manager at Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino
Rama Tamimi
Architect
Andrew Te Whaiti
Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Genio Global Entertainment
Peter Villegas
Co-Chair of Actum and Chair of California State Athletic Commission
Jean West
Jean West’s Medical Digest
Paul Wood
Chair and Co-Founder of MadHorse France, 358 Fashion & Luxury Consulting
Emeritus Members
Ina Brown Bond
River Bend Farms
Robert Croft Jr.
Attorney at Humana
International Advisors
Peter Olsson
CEO of Performance Plus GmbH
Geoff Thompson, MBE FRSA DL
Chair, London Youth Games