The Winston-Salem Symphony announces newly elected directors
The Winston-Salem Symphony is proud to announce newly elected directors for the Class of 2020. Directors serve three-year terms. The Class of 2020 includes four new and 15 renewing directors. The new directors are Jonathan Allen, Dawnielle Grace, Esq., Christopher Gyves, Esq., and Katie Hall.
Jonathan Allen is a client development manager at Inmar, where in May of 2018 he moved into the company’s Client Development organization.
Apart from a career at Inmar, Allen is an active servant at St. Paul United Methodist Church, located in Winston-Salem. Other organizations that he works with include United Way’s Young Leaders United, LEADGirls NC, and Love Out Loud. In 2017, Allen was awarded one of the Winston Under 40 Leadership Awards. Allen received recognition as one of the Most Influential African Americans Under 40 in the Piedmont Triad, by Black Business Ink. Allen holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Hampton University (2003), and a master of business administration from Wake Forest University (2017). He is a member of several boards in the city of Winston-Salem, including Greater Winston-Salem, Inc. (formerly the W-S Chamber of Commerce), The Royal Curtain Drama Guild, and HandsOn Northwest NC.
Dawnielle Grace, Esq. is the founder and owner of en•lign counsel+compliance. Her primary areas of practice are corporate and employment law, as well as regulatory healthcare compliance. Grace has both a master of business administration from Benedictine University and a law degree from Wake Forest and is proficient in Japanese from her undergraduate studies at both Purdue and Ochanomizu Universities.
Christopher Gyves, Esq. is a seasoned corporate and securities lawyer at Womble Bond Dickinson who helps public companies overcome their most significant legal issues. He is a partner in the Corporate & Securities Practice Group and chair of the firm’s Public Company Advisors Team.
Gyves is an adjunct law professor at the Wake Forest University School of Law, where he teaches mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance courses, and has guest-lectured on mergers and acquisitions and private equity at the Duke University School of Law and the Wake Forest University Babcock Graduate School of Management.
Katie Hall joined Vela Agency after experiences in communications, client relations, and business development at IFB Solutions, Bethesda Center for the Homeless, Hege Financial Group, and M Creative. After graduating summa cum laude from Salem College, she learned how to challenge the status quo and implement strategies that promote marginalized groups of people.
In July 2019, Hall was appointed to the Winston-Salem Local Governance Study Commission by Mayor Allen Joines served Authoring Action as a board member and marketing committee member. In September 2019, Katie graduated from Wake Forest University’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. Hall is a native of Midway, North Carolina.
Renewing directors are: Betsy Annese; James M. (Jim) Apple; Pam Cash; William F. (Bill) Clingman; James (Jim) Dossinger; Steve Holland; Martin L. (Mark) Holton III, Esq.; Francis (Frank) M. James, M.D.; Steve Koelsch; Stephen I. Kramer, M.D.; Jeffery T. Lindsay; John E. Pueschel, Esq.; Myra “Denise” Robinson; Deborah “Debbie” Wesley-Farrington, RN, BSN, CCRC, CCA; and Erna Womble, Esq.
For 2020–21, the officers for the doard of directors of the Winston-Salem Symphony are: Board Chair Ann Fritchman-Merkel; Treasurer Thomas Bornemann; and Secretary Pam Cash.
