Board Members

Carlos Dominguez is a senior vice president in Cisco’s Office of the Chairman of the Board and CEO. Dominguez has been with Cisco since 1992, spending most of his career with service providers, including cable operators, mobile operators, and content providers. He ran Worldwide Service Provider Operations for three years. He co-leads Cisco's Mexico and Brazil Boards, which oversee new business in those countries. He was recently named one of the "Top 50 Hispanic Executives" in the United States by Hispanic Engineering and Information. Before joining Cisco, Dominguez held management positions at Timeplex, Inc. and at New Jersey Bell/Bell Atlanticom.

Phil Jacobs joined The Pendleton Consulting Group in 2010, after retiring from AT&T/Bellsouth in 2007. Jacobs began his telecommunications career in 1973 as a marketing communications consultant, and in 1983 was named operations manager of strategic planning in the newly formed BellSouth Corporation. During his tenure with BellSouth, Mr. Jacobs held positions of increasing responsibility including vice president of sales for national accounts; president of BellSouth Business Systems; chief operating officer of Optus Communications, an Australian company of which BellSouth owned a stake; president of Georgia operations; and president of Planned Communities Services. After BellSouth merged with AT&T, Jacobs served as president of Business Communications Services for AT&T Southeast through October 2007.

Bob Jeffrey is the chairman and CEO of J. Walter Thompson (JWT), a global advertising network composed of 9,600 employees in more than 300 offices across 89 countries. Jeffrey took the worldwide reins of JWT in 2004, after having served as president of JWT North America for three years and before that, president of JWT’s flagship New York office for three years.

Charles H. McTier is a trustee of the Robert W. Woodruff, Joseph B. Whitehead, and Lettie Pate Evans Foundations. McTier has been associated with these foundations for more than 35 years. Active in regional and national foundation associations, he served as chairman of The Foundation Center Board of Trustees, vice chairman of the Council on Foundations and chairman of the Southeastern Council of Foundations. For nine years he was a Commissioner of the Joint Commission on Accreditations of Health Care Organizations. He is a graduate of the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and currently serves as a Goizueta Executive Fellow.

David Ratcliffe is the retired chairman, president and chief executive officer of Southern Company, one of America’s largest producers of electricity. Having worked with Southern Company and its subsidiaries since 1971, Ratcliffe became president, CEO and chairman of Southern Company in 2004. In addition to the CDC Foundation, he currently serves on the boards of the Edison Electric Institute, the Nuclear Energy Institute, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations and CSX Transportation and is a member of the Georgia Bar Association. Ratcliffe received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Valdosta State University and a law degree from Woodrow Wilson College of Law.

Amy Robbins is the executive director of The Nduna Foundation, her family foundation focused on improving the lives of children. Robbins was co-founder and chief operating officer of Glenview Capital Management until 2004. Prior to forming Glenview, Robbins spent eight years with First Chicago/Bank One in Corporate Banking in their Chicago, New York and Hong Kong offices. Robbins serves on the boards of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, the National Fish and Wildlife Federation, KIPP Academy Charter Schools, Teach for All and the Teacher's Training Institute in partnership with Hunter College. She also is actively involved with the Robin Hood Foundation, The Acumen Fund, International Medical Corps, and The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Robbins recently received UNICEF's Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award for her support and transformative leadership in Niger, Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia.