Our story began a century ago with a mission: to provide secure, fulfilling retirement living. Our board of directors is the steward of that continuing purpose. Our board members bring executive skills from government, business, health care, and more, making sure that our policies and funds enhance our mission.
Each community and affiliate has its own board of directors.
SALLY COX, CHAIR
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm and Ingleside at Home boards
Sally Cox worked as a financial and operations executive for over 30 years. Most recently as the chief operating officer at Central Union Mission, a not-for-profit organization helping the poor in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland. She began her career in public accounting in Houston, Texas, and has served not-for-profits such as the National Cathedral School for Girls, the Women’s Committee of the Washington National Opera, and the Virginia Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech. Cox holds a master’s in business administration, finance and investments from the George Washington University School of Business. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, John, and attends the National Presbyterian Church.
PHILLIP MAGIDSON, M.D., M.P.H., VICE CHAIR
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm, and Ingleside at Home boards
Phillip Magidson, MD, MPH is a faculty member within the Department of Emergency Medicine and Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Magidson graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine where he also received a Masters in Public Health. He then completed residency training in both internal medicine and emergency medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine followed by a clinical fellowship in geriatric medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Magidson has dedicated his career to improving the care of older adults with medical education, clinical research and operational leadership experiences locally, nationally and internationally on topics related to geriatric medicine and emergency medicine. Dr. Magidson is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, American Academy of Emergency Medicine and American College of Emergency Physicians and maintains a clinically active practice within emergency medicine, internal medicine, and geriatric medicine. He and his wife, Dr. May Chen, reside in Baltimore, MD.
JENNIFER CHANDLER HAUGE, SECRETARY
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm and Ingleside at Home boards
Following over a decade as Vice President of the National Council of Nonprofits and Senior Counsel at the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, Jennifer Chandler Hauge most recently managed a grantmaking social justice nonprofit, JusticeAid, retiring in 2024. Trained as an employment lawyer, Chandler Hauge soon pivoted towards a specialization in the laws governing tax-exempt organizations, and authored Taking the High Road, a guide to legal and effective employment practices for nonprofits. She is also the primary author of the free online resource, Nonprofit Audit Guide, available through the National Council of Nonprofits. Before moving to the DC/MD/VA area, Chandler Hauge founded the New Jersey program of Probono Partnership, a nonprofit legal service provider. She started her career as a lawyer serving nonprofits by offering a legal hotline for nonprofits that received funding from her local United Way and facilitating free workshops on the roles and responsibilities of boards of directors of charitable organizations. What started as a passion project grew into a full time role as legal advisor to national nonprofits and author of the legal compendium for Principles of Good Governance and Ethical Practice, a self-regulation code of conduct for the nation’s nonprofits (published by The Independent Sector). Chandler Hauge is grateful to have served on numerous Boards of Directors of national nonprofits and private foundations over the years and to serve currently on the Board of Directors of Ingleside. She received a law degree from Boston College and her undergraduate degree (English and French) from Dartmouth College where she captained the women’s lacrosse team. Chandler Hauge currently lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, a retired Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
LYNN O’CONNOR, PRESIDENT AND CEO, EX-OFFICIO
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm, Ingleside at Home, and Westminster Ingleside Foundation boards
Lynn O’Connor is Ingleside’s President and CEO, which includes Life Plan Communities; Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm, Ingleside at Home, Westminster Ingleside Foundation, and Ingleside the Parent Company. O’Connor has 45 years of aging services leadership experience, commencing her career in 1980 as an administrator in training at a Maryland nursing home and hospice. She was appointed by Governor Parris Glendening in 1995 to be a member of the Maryland Assisted Living Task Force, which was charged with creating Maryland’s first assisted living legislation and regulations. O’Connor has a bachelor’s in health care management from St. Joseph’s University, a Master of Science in health care administration from Central Michigan University, and a Long-term Care Certification from the University of Maryland. She is a Maryland-licensed nursing home administrator, a Certified Aging Services Professional, and a certified Montessori Dementia Care Professional. She has been a board member of what is now LeadingAge New Jersey and LeadingAge Colorado and served on the LeadingAge House of Delegates and the Board of Directors of the American Health Care Association, where she chaired the not-for-profit committee and was a member of the strategic planning and executive committees. Most recently, O’Connor served as the Chair of LeadingAge DC Board of Directors and as the Chair of the Presbyterian Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, where she chaired the executive committee. In 2022, O’Connor was named one of Maryland’s Most Admired CEOs by The Daily Record. She and her husband, Kevin, live in Washington, DC, and have a daughter Tara, son-in-law James, and two grandchildren, Henry and Annabel Foley. Lynn and Kevin are members of Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown.
BRUCE BARTELS
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm, and Ingleside at Home boards
Bruce M. Bartels has had a long and distinguished career in operational leadership of hospitals and health systems. This includes leadership from 1999 to 2014 as CEO of WellSpan, a diversified health system with 11,000 employees and $1.5 billion in revenue. WellSpan includes a home health agency, a 680-provider medical group, four hospitals (York Hospital, a more-than-500-bed community teaching hospital; Gettysburg Hospital, a 75-bed community hospital; Ephrata Hospital, a 122-bed community hospital; and a 73-bed surgery and rehabilitation hospital), a health plan, medical malls, five retail pharmacies and several other health-related activities. Since 2014, Bartels has continued his community and health services leadership as a health consultant and as a participant in boards and commissions including the Pennsylvania Early Learning Investment Commission, Penn-Mar Human Services (board member), Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, WITF Enterprises (board member, chair), the York County Community Foundation (Embracing Aging Committee chair) and the American Board of Dermatology. Bartels has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin. He has three daughters and enjoys reading, running, skiing, hiking and traveling.
DON BOARDMAN, RESIDENT DIRECTOR, INGLESIDE AT KING FARM
Ingleside, Ingleside at King Farm, and Westminster Ingleside Foundation boards
Donald Boardman spent over 20 years as Chief Financial Officer of Oxford Development Corporation as it grew from a small real estate company into the second largest multi-family housing developer, owner, and investor in the country. During the last several years of his time with Oxford, he was President of Oxford's project finance subsidiary and responsible for raising all equity and debt financing for over 40,000 housing units. After retiring from Oxford, he worked extensively on several nonprofit boards, primarily in the area of mental health including the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI Maryland) and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, a private global funder of basic research in mental illness. In addition, he served as President and Chairman of Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD, senior warden at St Columba’s Church in Washington, DC, and as co-founder of two homeless housing-related nonprofits. Donald and his wife, Janet, have lived at Ingleside at King Farm since November 2019 where he served as Chair of the resident finance committee.
PHIL COLLYER, ALTERNATE RESIDENT DIRECTOR, INGLESIDE AT KING FARM
Ingleside at King Farm board
Philip Collyer brings decades of cross‑sector leadership to the Ingleside Board, drawing on experience as a scientist, engineer, business executive, and nonprofit leader. He has founded and managed both for‑profit and nonprofit organizations, served on multiple boards, and was appointed to two state commissions on volunteerism. He was also recognized as a WETA “Hometown Hero” for nonprofit leadership in the District of Columbia.
A long‑time advocate for nonprofit economic self‑sustainability, Phil was a founding board member of NESsT, an international organization dedicated to sustaining social enterprises in Latin America and Eastern Europe. His career spans two distinct halves: early work in minerals exploration, mine development, nuclear waste disposal, and aerospace fuel safety, followed by senior nonprofit leadership at both local and national organizations. Before retiring in 2014, he launched what became a $60 million taxable nonprofit subsidiary that grew 20 percent year over year, and he served for several years as board chair of a 130‑year‑old therapeutic treatment and special education school in Washington, D.C.
Phil lives in Rockville, Maryland, with his wife, a retired federal district court judge. Their son is the chief information security officer for a Fortune 100 company.
PEGGY CECCHINE, CHAIR, WESTMINSTER INGLESIDE FOUNDATION
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm, and Ingleside at Home
Peggy Cecchine is a native of Havre de Grace, MD. She attended Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Bon Secours School of Nursing and has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of the State of New York. In 1986 after returning from Korea and Gary’s retirement from the Army, Peggy began working in the financial services business in Washington, DC, where she was the Assistant Vice President for Administration at Ferris Baker, Watts. In 1991 Peggy moved back to Havre de Grace and opened the third Edward Jones office in Maryland. She was very successful and at retirement managed over $130 million. In 1997 she became a limited partner in Edward Jones, a position she continues to hold even after her retirement as an active financial advisor. While in Havre de Grace she served as the president of the Chamber of Commerce (twice) and as president of the Havre de Grace Rotary Club (twice). She and Gary became residents of Four Seasons, an over 55 community in Dumfries, VA, in 2010. At Four Seasons she was on the finance committee for several years. After moving to Westminster at Lake Ridge in 2018 she has been active with the development, finance, hospitality and dining committees. She currently is the Chair of the Westminster Ingleside Foundation Board of Directors. She also serves on the Ingleside Boards of Directors, the Ingleside Finance and Investment Committee, the WLR Finance Committee and the WLR Development Committee.
DALE H. CLARK, RESIDENT DIRECTOR, WESTMINSTER AT LAKE RIDGE
Ingleside, Westminster at Lake Ridge and Westminster Ingleside Foundation boards
Dale H. Clark received a Bachelor of Arts in foreign language from the University of Rochester and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1956. He graduated from the Marine Corps Basic and Amphibious Warfare School, the NATO Defense College and the Naval War College. Clark was a member of the teaching faculty of Yale University and the U.S. Naval War College. He served combat assignments in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam and Lebanon, and was an infantry officer, with special skills in the employment of nuclear weapons, logistics, and research and development. He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps with the rank of colonel in 1986. Clark served as a civilian employee in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1986 to 1988, initially as principal director, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Drug Policy and Enforcement for three years, and then as senior management analyst, Office of the Director, Administration & Management for 10 years. From 1999 to 2000, he worked as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense as a specialist in defense organization and management, intelligence and counterintelligence. After moving to Westminster at Lake Ridge in September 2007, Clark served on the resident council and the resident dining, development and finance committees. He was appointed to the corporate governance & nominations committee in 2008, where he continues to serve. He served as chairman of the board of directors of the Westminster Ingleside Foundation from 2010 to 2015, as chair emeritus from 2016 to 2020, and as resident director from 2021 to the present. From 2010 to 2015, Clark served as director of the board of directors of Ingleside and its affiliate boards at Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at Rock Creek, and Ingleside at King Farm. In 2021, he was appointed as resident director of the boards of directors of Ingleside and its affiliate boards at Westminster at Lake Ridge and Westminster Ingleside Foundation, where he continues to serve. Clark and his wife, Janet Murphy Clark, enjoy life at Westminster at Lake Ridge. They have five children, whose families all reside in Northern Virginia.
HOWARD GLECKMAN
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm, and Ingleside at Home boards
Howard Gleckman is a Senior Fellow at The Urban Institute in Washington, DC, where he is affiliated with both the Tax Policy Center and the Program on Retirement Policy. He is the author of Caring for Our Parents (St. Martin’s Press) and writes a fiscal policy blog for the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and a regular column on aging issues for Forbes.com. He speaks and writes frequently on long-term care issues. In 2016, he was named one of the nation’s top 50 Influencers in Aging by Next Avenue. Gleckman was a member of the steering committee of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution project “Reimagining Care for Older Adults,” served on the National Academy of Social Insurance Study Panel on Long-Term Services and Supports, and was a convener of the Long-Term Care Financing Collaborative (2012-2016). He was 2006-2007 Media Fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation and a 2006-2008 Visiting Fellow at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Previously, he was senior correspondent in the Washington bureau of Business Week where he covered health and elder care, as well as tax and budget issues for nearly 20 years. Gleckman serves on several community boards, including the Johns Hopkins Health System’s National Capital Region Executive Governance Committee and the Johns Hopkins Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Committee. He previously served as chair of the board of trustees of Suburban Hospital (Bethesda, MD) and trustee of Johns Hopkins Medicine. He is a board member and past president of the Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington and is a former president of Tifereth Israel Congregation in Washington, DC.
NANCY M. GORDON, RESIDENT DIRECTOR, INGLESIDE AT ROCK CREEK
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, and Westminster Ingleside Foundation boards
Nancy Gordon’s experience on non-profit boards began with Worldwide Assurance for Employees of Public Agencies, now WAEPA, which provides over $10 billion of life insurance for federal employees. She was treasurer for four years and president for three during her eight-year term. She participated in the financial and policy governance of the Cosmos Club for 25 years. Key positions included chair of the Pension and Benefits Committee, assistant treasurer, treasurer, and member of the executive committee of the club’s Board of Governors. Gordon also served on the five-person board of The Willoughby of Chevy Chase, the 800-unit condominium where she resided. She was a longtime treasurer of the Willoughby board and president for four years.
Her career in public policy started on the faculty of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University just after receiving her doctorate in economics and statistics from Stanford University. After moving to Washington as a Brookings Fellow, she held positions spanning different aspects of public policy, from managing research projects at The Urban Institute to serving on President Carter’s White House staff. Gordon then joined the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), overseeing innovative research in areas like education, employment, and health payment systems, and testifying frequently before congressional committees. At the Census Bureau, she led a staff of about 1,000, preparing the content and data releases for Census 2000 and developing and obtaining funding for the American Community Survey, which replaced the long form in 2010. Among her international assignments, Gordon represented the U.S. for several years at the Statistical Conference of the U.N.’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
GREGG E. JOHNSON
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm and Ingleside at Home boards
Gregg Johnson was co-founder in 1992 of BIA Capital Strategies and served as a managing director until retirement in 2022. He provided strategic financial advice in mergers and acquisitions, financial recapitalizations and special situations, and raised nearly $1 billion in debt and equity capital, particularly in media and communications firms. He was also a general partner and co-founder of BIA Digital Partners, which invested $300 million of debt and equity funding in 38 lower middle market U.S. companies. Prior to joining BIA Capital Strategies, Mr. Johnson was the division manager of the Healthcare and Communications Lending Groups at American Security Bank (now part of Bank of America) in Washington, DC. He led and directed complex debt transactions for small to mid-sized companies throughout the U.S. He has served as an Elder on the Session of Potomac Presbyterian Church and as chair of its finance, endowment, and generosity committees. He previously served on the Session of Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church and as chair of its Finance Committee. Johnson received a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of Rochester.
RUTH KATZ
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm, and Ingleside at Home boards
Ruth Katz is the President and CEO of the Association of Jewish Aging Services (AJAS), which consists of mission focused, nonprofit aging services providers across the country. Prior to joining AJAS Ruth had a long career in aging and long-term care policy at the federal and provider levels. For more than 25 years, she served as a senior career executive focused on disability, aging, and long-term care policy in the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Her group led work on the National Alzheimer’s Advisory Committee and the Alzheimer’s/Related Dementia Plan. In addition, her team conducted demonstration projects and other research on innovative approaches to long-term care in all settings. For 6 years, immediately prior to joining AJAS, she was the Senior Vice President for Policy at LeadingAge, an association of nonprofit providers of aging services in every state. There she focused on Medicare, Medicaid, affordable housing, and other policy areas. She also hosted more than 500 member update calls, drawing hundreds of listeners. Ruth is especially interested in the intersection of federal and state policy with day to day operations in aging services communities.
JONATHAN KEARNEY
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm, and Ingleside at Home boards
Jonathan Kearney is a Senior Assurance Manager for CohnReznick in Bethesda, MD. He attended Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT, where he pursued a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and Spanish before he received his master’s in business administration from Southern Connecticut State University. Jonathan is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the states of Connecticut, North Carolina, and Georgia. Jonathan has worked in public accounting for 10 years. Jonathan has experience conducting financial statement audits, single audits, and GAGAS audits within the firm's real estate practice. His client base includes real estate developers, real estate operators, and quasi-governmental entities. He has focused on and continues to manage affordable housing engagements, housing authority engagements, market rate residential engagement, consolidated non-profit affordable housing developer engagements, and HUD Compliance/otherwise regulated engagements. His passion for real estate is what drew him to CohnReznick; however, his connection to affordable housing is personal as he had lived in Section 8 housing until high school. Now residing in Bethesda, MD, Jonathan is active within Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging initiatives, co-founded an employee resource group with CohnReznick focused on recruitment, engagement, retention, and development of Black professionals, and actively participates in causes that increases access and resources for underserved populations.
JOHN KREUTZER
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm and Ingleside at Home boards
John Kreutzer is currently First Vice President, Wiles-Kreutzer Group of BB&T Scott & Stringfellow in Alexandria, Virginia, with over 30 years of experience. Prior to forming the Wiles-Kreutzer Group in 2009, he managed the office of Wachovia Securities, now Wells Fargo Advisors. Throughout his career, Kreutzer has helped many clients with varied professional, personal and family needs, and has advised ERISA plan fiduciaries through years of technological, regulatory and investment product evolution. He has been selected to participate in the professional management program at BB&T Scott & Stringfellow, given only to a small group of advisors authorized by senior management to act as fiduciaries and manage accounts on a fully discretionary basis. After obtaining his graduate degree, Kreutzer worked as a consultant with TriBrook Group, a program and facilities planning firm in Oakbrook, Illinois. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration degree from George Washington University. He is an active member of the Rotary Club of Alexandria.
NATHANIEL D. MASSEY, JR.
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm and Ingleside at Home boards
Nathaniel Massey, Jr., CFP® (Certified Financial Planner™ (2006)) and ChFC® (Chartered Financial Consultant® (2008)), is a Financial Advisor with Brostrom & Berlin Wealth Management in Bethesda, MD. He joined the firm in 2003, shortly after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting at George Mason University. As a fully licensed financial planner, he helps clients and businesses with investments, retirement income planning, estate planning and legacy planning.
Nathaniel moved to Fairfax City, VA in 2018 and is a member of the condo association’s Budget & Finance Committee where he served as for 4 years. Nathaniel is especially interested in helping manage and maintain the long-term viability and financial success of the communities he serves, in the most efficient way possible. Other interests include mentoring financial planners as a member of the Association of African American Advisors (AAAA) and further enhancing knowledge in all areas of financial planning as a member of the Black Empowerment Advisor Community Network (BEACN at Ameriprise Financial).
MELISSA MESSINA
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm and Ingleside at Home boards
Melissa Messina serves as counsel to commercial and investment banks, political subdivisions, economic development agencies, for-profit and nonprofit entities, corporate trustees and bond purchasers in all types of tax-exempt and taxable bond transactions. She has also served as bond counsel on conduit bond financing transactions for life plan communities, hospitals, charter schools, independent schools, universities and other 501(c)(3) organizations, as well as on economic development transactions involving tax increment financing, special development districts, transit-oriented development and public-private-partnerships. Melissa previously served as a municipal advisor and investment banker at HJ Sims, counseling nonprofit life plan communities, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. She frequently advised management and boards of communities on capital and strategic planning matters to help them fulfill and expand their missions. She also represents financial institutions in connection with private banking, wealth management lending, asset-based lending, commercial finance transactions, and commercial real estate secured loans. With experience as counsel to lenders, issuers, underwriters, developers and trustees, Melissa is known for managing transactions to anticipate and resolve issues and for promoting long-term relationships among transaction parties.
ELIZABETH ORTIZ
Ingleside, Ingleside at Rock Creek, Westminster at Lake Ridge, Ingleside at King Farm and Ingleside at Home boards
Elizabeth (Liz) Ortiz is the Deputy Director for Consumer and Community Affairs in the Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Her professional career spans the private, public and social service sectors where she has played a leadership role in developing and implementing programs that support expanded access to financial services for underserved households and communities.
Prior to joining the FDIC in 2013, Liz served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), the nation’s largest non-profit intermediary providing financial and advisory services to small-and mid-sized nonprofit organizations around the country. NFF is a community development financial institution (CDFI) committed to increasing the flow of capital to nonprofits serving low-income individuals and families, especially organizations led by and serving people of color. Liz previously worked for the New York City Department of Education in implementing a major re-organization of the NYC Public School System.
Liz began her career in New York, working at Citi for 13 years, serving as Vice President in the Global Consumer Group and as its Director of Community Reinvestment (CRA), Fair Lending Reporting & Analysis.
Liz holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.