Board of Directors

Palace Performing Arts Center Leadership

Many of the Capital Region’s most prominent business and community leaders are members of the Board of Directors. The Palace Board provides governance to the organization, oversight to the Leadership Team and supports the Palace Performing Arts Center’s philanthropic efforts at a local and national level.

Officers

• Stephen P. Baboulis - Chairman
• John D. Bennett MD - Vice Chairman, President & CEO, CDPHP
• Wadler St. Jean - CFO, Business for Good

Members

• James Barba
• Thomas E. D’Ambra, PhD - Chairman of the Board, Albany Molecular Research, Inc.
• George R. Hearst, III - President & Publisher, Albany Times Union
• Marilyn Pendergast - Managing Director, UHY Advisors
• Dominick Purnomo - Owner, dp An American Brasserie
• Honorable Randolph F. Treece - Magistrate Judge Northern District of NY, retired
• Jonathan Scherzer - Marketing Director, CDTA
• Charles Pinckney - Regional President - Capital District at M&T Bank
• April Volk Ulrich - VP/Private Bank NBT Bank
• Leola Edelin - General Manager, Renaissance Albany Hotel
• Mark Eagan - CEO, Capital Region Chamber, Ex Officio Member
• Dan McCoy - County Executive, Ex Officio Member
• Honorable Kathy M. Sheehan - Mayor of Albany, Ex Officio Member
• Alan P. Goldberg - Chairman Emeritus