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 of Muhammad Ali Center
Roula Allouch
Attorney at Graydon Law
Dr. Muhammad Babar
Physician at UofL Health
Michael Baer
President, Co-Owner at Fusioncorp
Rufus Friday
CEO, Consultant, and Marketing Strategist at Rufus Friday Consulting, LLC
Ingrid Gentry
Retired CFO at The Bardstown Bourbon Company
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, PhD, 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.
Jole Burghy
Northern Regional Sales Director for Humana
Mary Casey
Senior Associate – KY Financial Group
Emilie Deutsch
Vice President-Original Programming and Features at CBS Sports
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
Derrick Littlejohn
Senior Vice President – Commercial Banking Marketing Executive – PNC Bank
Christian McBride
American Jazz Bassist, Composer, and Arranger at The Christian McBride Company
Peter Olsson
Serial Entrepreneur; Icons Network | GeniusSHIFT
Crystal Peterson
Executive Vice President, Chief Inclusion and Global Community Relations Officer for Brown-Forman
Karmen Powell
Manager, Distribution Electric Engineering at LG&E and KU Energy LLC
John Ramsey
Director of City Partnerships
Peter Villegas
Co-Chair of Actum and Chair of California State Athletic Commission
Stacey Wade
CEO/ECD at NIMBUS, Inc.
Jean West
Jean West’s Medical Digest
Tom Williams
Attorney at Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC
Emeritus Members
Ina Brown Bond
River Bend Farms
Robert Croft Jr.
Attorney at Humana
Ralph de Chabert
Retired SVP and Chief Diversity Officer at Brown-Forman Corporation
Laura Douglas
Interim President and CEO at West End Opportunity Partnership
Bennie Ivory
Retired Media Executive, Journalist, Consultant
International Advisors
Geoff Thompson, MBE FRSA DL
Chair, London Youth Games