Board of Directors
The Board of Directors provides direction, strategic planning, financial support, and leadership to ensure the success of the Club’s programs. These ladies and gentlemen are leading executives in the St. Louis area who contribute a wide array of expertise to the organization. In fact, three Board members are former club members themselves. Every Board member helps us to fulfill our mission of empowering youth in the St. Louis metropolitan area, especially those who need us most, to realize their physical, intellectual, and emotional potential.
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*Former Gene Slay’s Girls & Boys Club of St. Louis members
Executive Committee
President
Jill Slay-Garlich
Slay Industries
Executive President
Edward Finkelstein
Labor Tribune
Vice President
Jomo Castro
AT&T
Vice President
Anthony (Tony) E. Gordon*
Schnucks (Retired)
Secretary
TBD
TBD
Treasurer
Ken Stein
Enterprise Holdings
Member Directors
Trent Ball
Southeast Missouri State University
R. Hank Bellina
ARCO Construction
Djuan Coleman*
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Nancy Hawes
The Hawes Law Firm
Frank Jacobs
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Vicki LaRose
Civil Design, Inc.
Leona Lucas
Lucas Consulting
Lisa Monteleone
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital
Alex Oliver
Oliver Properties
John R. Peter, MD
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Rhonda Thompson
KPMG
Michael Yates
Truck Centers, Inc
Lifetime Directors
Gary Prindiville
Gary Slay
Executive Director
Robert Puricelli
Robert (Bob) Puricelli is responsible for furthering the mission of the Club through comprehensive resource development, community engagement, and management of the facility. Bob has spent over 20 years in non-profit executive management of housing, social service, and substance treatment agencies where he managed numerous highly regulated programs and licensed facilities. Through his leadership, he has set quality, training, and regulation adherence as hallmarks of his care philosophy.
Bob has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Fontbonne University in St. Louis. Bob works with GSGBC’s Board’s Development Committee to design and implement GSGBC’s development plan and its components needed to achieve the proposed fundraising goals.
Bob has a passion for empowering underserved populations and through his work to create long term financial sustainability needed to break the cycle of poverty. Bob also oversees the maintenance and expansion of the plant, the Club’s largest asset.
Contact
(314) 772-5661