Staff and Board Leadership
Staff Leadership
Susan Haigh, President & CEO
Alan Raymond, Senior Vice President, Programs & Services
Robert White, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Nancy Brady, Vice President, Resource Development & Community Relations
Andy Barnett, Director, Construction
Kristin Beckmann, Director, Government & Community Relations
Chad Bouley, Director, Project Management
Deqa Essa, Controller/Human Resources Director
Brian Juntti, Director, Marketing & Communications
Stacey Millett, Director, Family Services
Tom Tarnow, Director, Resource Development
Board of Directors
Board Officers
Gerry Stenson, Board Chair, Wells Fargo
Mark Anema, Board Vice-Chair, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Randy Boser, Board Treasurer, Ameriprise Financial
Darla O'Donnell, Board Secretary, UnitedHealth Group
Board Members
Norman Baer, Anthony, Ostlund, Baer & Louwagie
Tanya Bell, Wellington Management
Tim Campbell, Compass Airlines
Gary Cunningham, Northwest Area Foundation
Dale Fehrenbach, Cargill Inc.
Steve Fritze, Ecolab, Inc.
Rich Gammill, Black River Asset Management
Jill Harmon, Schall Executive Search
Rick Lancaster, Great River Energy
John Lavander, Caliber Development Corporation
William Lentsch, Delta Airlines
Barry Mason, IBM Corporation
John Mulligan, Target Corporation
Peter Myers, Meyers Communication Group
Tom Naughtin, Community Volunteer
Mike Nordstrom, General Mills
Jennifer Sarteau, Community Volunteer
Mary Schumacher, Andersen Corporation
Mary Lynn Staley, Community Volunteer
Peter Torvik, Community Volunteer
Wesley Walker, Northway Community Trust
Billie Zippel, Medica Health Plans
Staff Bios
Susan Haigh has led Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity as its CEO and President since February 2005. Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity is one of the most successful Habitat affiliates in the United States serving the entire seven county Twin Cities region. Sue serves on the Minnesota Housing Partnership Board, the Minnesota Housing Commissioner’s Resource Advisory Committee, Habitat for Humanity U.S. Council’s Finance Committee, Park Bank Board, and the Macalester College Board of Trustees. She is also a member of the International Women’s Foundation and the New Century Club.
Susan brings an extensive background in community service and leadership to Habitat for Humanity serving ten years as a Ramsey County Commissioner and twelve years as a chief deputy county attorney. Her past community service includes service on the boards of the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, St. Paul YWCA, Regions Hospital, Landmark Center, St. Paul Riverfront Corporation, Metropolitan Counties Light Rail Transit, Metropolitan Counties Solid Waste Management, Association of Minnesota Counties, and Minnesota County Attorney’s Association. She has received the Spurgeon Award from the Boy Scouts and the Distinguished Citizen Award from Macalester College for her community service. Susan is a passionate advocate for affordable housing and led successful efforts to create housing endowment funds with her congregation and with Ramsey County. Susan has a BA in Political Science from Macalester College and a JD from William Mitchell College of Law. She is married to the Honorable Gregg E. Johnson and they reside in St. Paul with their four daughters.
Alan Raymond is an architect with a background in construction, community development, real estate and land conservation. Raymond joined Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity in 2005 following 15 years with the Trust for Public Land where he served as director of projects for the central region, overseeing land acquisition for parks and open space throughout 14 states of the central U.S. Prior to 1990, Raymond worked for 15 years in housing and community development in the Twin Cities as an architect, construction manager, real estate developer and consultant. He also served as president of Shelter Resources, Inc., an architecture and construction management company.
Raymond received his BA in architecture from the University of Minnesota and an MBA in Finance from the University of Minnesota Carlson School Of Management.
Robert White joined Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity in 2001 and has been involved in affordable housing since 1982 as Vice President of Finance for the national home building and mortgage finance division of Insilco Corporation. White’s financial experience includes construction accounting, cash management, financial reporting, mortgage-backed bonds, sale and pledging of mortgage notes. Additionally, White served as board secretary for Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota, a state support organization and CDFI providing affiliate debt funding. He is also involved in non-profit accountability issues and serves on other non-profit committees.
White is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a BS in Accounting, received his MBA in Management from the University of St. Thomas, and was a practicing CPA.
Nancy Q. Brady has over 15 years of nonprofit leadership experience including overseeing capital campaigns, corporate relations, special events management, donor cultivation, grassroots fundraising and strategic marketing, including leading successful capital campaigns for Neighborhood House and the Minnesota Children’s Museum. Prior to moving to Minnesota in 2000, Brady spent ten years at the national office of the March of Dimes, where, as the national director of strategic marketing, she helped establish and promote the organization’s brand identity and began to develop an organization-wide relationship marketing strategy. Brady was also a team manager at Greenwich Associates, a business strategy consulting firm, based in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she managed the development of annual syndicated market research projects in the domestic and international banking industry.
Brady holds an MBA from New York University and a BA in Psychology from the University of Illinois.