Board — National Monuments Foundation

National Monuments Foundation Board of Directors

Caleb Clark

Caleb Clark is an Atlanta native, software engineer, and serial tech entrepreneur. He started Mobilization Labs in 2004, and over the next several years created the technology platform the ran many of the country’s leading Presidential, gubernatorial, and congressional campaigns. Caleb led Mobilization Labs through three funding rounds and a successful pivot from political software into an innovative fan engagement platform that has powered some of the world’s most respected brands. In 2010, Caleb was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 business leaders in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He is currently the managing partner at Whale of a Venture, an early stage seed fund/studio, and the co-founder of Winston Robotics, which is developing autonomous delivery robots that offer butler-type services (coffee, dry-cleaning, package delivery, etc) to residents in apartment complexes, condos and office buildings. Caleb is married to Anna Clark, and has two daughters, Lila and Virginia, and a son, Jack.

Rodney Mims Cook, Jr.

Rodney Mims Cook, Jr. is a graduate of Washington and Lee University. He is a scholar of the American Academy in Rome. At the age of 15, he initiated the campaign to successfully save the 5000+ seat Fox Theatre and in 1974 was a White House intern. In 1982, he established Rodney M. Cook Interests, a design/development company. In 1987, he established PolitesCook Architects which designed the Newington Cropsey Museum, NY, housing the largest American collection of Hudson River School paintings (Arthur Ross Award to founder). He is a Founding Trustee of The Prince of Wales’s Foundation for Architecture and organized the design and construction of the Princes’ Olympic Games Monument in Atlanta with Anton Glikine, et al. He is a charter signer of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Cook is currently orchestrating the design for a memorial library in Washington, D.C. to Presidents John and John Quincy Adams and their wives Abigail and Louisa Johnson Adams. Cook’s design proposal with co-designer Michael Franck won the 2011 commendation prize for the National Civic Art Society Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, also for Washington, D.C. This commendation resulted in Cook testifying before Congress. In November of 2015, he was a keynote speaker at the “Master Plan for 21st Century Havana” Conference, which for the first time in Cuban history, Cuban citizens and international scholars and urbanists participated together to develop an independent and comprehensive holistic vision for the entire city. In 2016, he was a delegate to the Novus Summit in the United Nations General Assembly Room. Cook was a speaker at the Museum of the XXI Century and New Media Technologies: Limits of Freedom Conference at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2017. He established the Millennium Candler Peace, Justice, and Millennium Gate Prize Denmark Commission in 2017. In 2019, he gave a keynote address at Burning Man on “CNU Cities and the Future of Global Urbanism on Land and Sea.” Cook is the founder and president of the National Monuments Foundation, an organization that choreographed the design and construction of the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta. He is on the boards of directors of the Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation (California), Fox Theatre Incorporated, the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, the Massachusetts Historical Society/Adams Papers, the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and the American University of Integrative Sciences. He has lectured at the University of Georgia, University of Virginia, University of Tennessee, Washington and Lee University, The Scott Room at the United States Senate, The Forbes yacht, Highlander, various waters, Hearst Castle, the Kremlin Armory, Tolstoy estate Yasnaya Polyana, Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation, Moscow, the Palm Beach Preservation Society Gruss Master Architect Lecture Series, National Building Museum, Washington DC, and the Russian Embassy, Washington. Mr. Cook’s work has been published in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, Architectural Digest, Time Magazine, The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times of London, Pravda, Izvestia, The New Yorker, The Weekly Standard, Forbes and USA Today.

Pat Daniel

Pat Daniel is CEO of P&J Beverage Corp., a privately owned holding company for retail liquor outlets in Columbus, Georgia, and is also a Director Emeritus of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, a member of the North Columbus Rotary Club, a member of the Advisory Board for the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University and a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church. A CPA by training, Pat is also a long-standing member of the Georgia Society of CPAs and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Pat currently writes a column for Columbus and the Valley Magazine about her passion for fine wines, wine regions and related topics. Pat was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia. She is the daughter of a World War II veteran, Irving W. Doty, Jr., a man with a lifelong interest in genealogy and their family history in South Carolina and Georgia. Continuing in that tradition, she is a member of the Georgia Historical Society, and has donated the Doty Library and genealogical research to the Georgia Historical Society at Hodgson Hall in Savannah. Pat resides in Columbus, Georgia with her husband, Steve Hodges.

Joe Gebbia

Joe Gebbia is a notable American city planner and peace visionary. He was instrumental in creating the new Georgia city of Brookhaven in the metropolitan Atlanta region in 2012 and served as an inaugural member of the Council and the City’s Mayor Pro-Tempore for 10 years. He is active in American state, national and world politics. Joe serve’s on the Executive Roundtable for both the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA) and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), and maintains numerous working associations with State Governors, members of the U.S. Congress and members of the Senate. He most recently founded “State Shield”, a national non-profit lobbying organization providing policy advice to Governors on how to protect their state economy and infrastructure in the event China invades Taiwan. Gebbia’s education on the state of world affairs has compelled him to embark on a campaign to promote peace, taking a lead role at the National Monuments Foundation. The NMF has declared Atlanta to be the global peace center and is focused on three disruptive areas of the world that foment discord, Russia/Ukraine, North Korea, and Iran. His efforts are focused on Iran as he has been assisting Shah Reza Pahlavi, currently styled His Royal Highness Crown Prince Reza, with efforts to not only restore a peaceful republic in Iran and greater Persia, but to also assist in creating strategies designed to make the new Iran the economic epicenter in the Middle East.

Bob Harris

Robert (Bob) G. Harris Jr., a member of Georgia’s Callaway family has built and sold a number of companies. He currently spends time between Carrollton and LaGrange. The Harris family was a lead patron of The Art of Diplomacy: Winston Churchill and the Pursuit of Painting, assisting with research in the United States and subsequently in the United Kingdom for further research. Their plantation and house museum, Hills & Dales, was the opening venue as reported in the Wall Street Journal for the Churchill exhibition.

Robert Hultslander

Mr. Hultslander is a proven entrepreneur and business executive, having founded various successful companies and organizations both in the U.S. and abroad. His most recent start-up, Leblon International, combines his passion for both technology and commercial real estate, providing IT leadership, services and solutions to owners, developers, brokers and managers. His other past endeavors include managing director of a security consulting company in Latin America, managing principal of a commercial real estate advisory firm in Spain, as well as sourcing capital for structured commercial real estate investment projects in the U.S and Europe. With over 15 years of technology experience as well, Robert's career included tenure with a number of software companies as a top revenue producer where he launched various regional and international offices and business development initiatives. Multilingual in Spanish and Portuguese, he has spent nearly 18 years overseas and continues to be involved in international business and real estate ownership. Robert is an honors graduate of Hampden-Sydney College where he earned a B.A. in Economics and Spanish. He currently lives in Atlanta with his wife Leslie and daughter Lainey. His philanthropic activities span various organizations, including the National Monuments Foundation, Soccer in the Streets, the Kaplan Public Service Foundation and other community activities and causes.

Padmini Singh Sharma

Padmini Singh Sharma is a conservationist and a passionate brand builder. She believes in the power of brands to be both a force for good and growth through ethical responsibility, community impact, diversity, inclusion, and environmental sustainability. Padmini has significant experience in Corporate Social Responsibility and Brand Management for organizations such as The Nobel Foundation, US Olympic Association, NUUN Jewels, Mayo Clinic, etc. Her experience growing up in India, and executing client projects across North America, Europe, China and India, have lent Padmini an international perspective. She currently serves as the Strategy Director for The National Monuments Foundation and is responsible for executing its mission of peace and civil equality. While at IMG, her project, “The Honeywell-Nobel Initiative", a multi-country education program, won the Gold Sabre Award. Padmini is a resident of Atlanta, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Gary Rayner

Gary Rayner co-founded Interpreta in 2014 and currently serves as Interpreta’s Chairman of the Board. Prior to founding Interpreta, Mr. Rayner was the founder and Chief Executive Officer at Lifeproof, an all-protective, everyday smartphone and tablet case company acquired by Otterbox in 2013. Prior to Lifeproof, Mr. Rayner was the VP of Business Development at Anvita. Previously, he founded DriveCam (now Lytx) and OpalTech. Mr. Rayner won E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in San Diego in 2013 and has authored over 25 granted US patents. He holds an M.S. in Computer & Communication Systems and an MBA from Queensland University of Technology.

Pamela Rollins

Pam R. Rollins holds a B.A. Degree from Stephens College with a major in Family Community Studies. Ms. Rollins is the granddaughter of the founder of Rollins Inc. and daughter of the Chairman of the Company. Ms. Rollins in her youth worked to save the historic Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, now one of the most successful theaters in the world. She is a noted philanthropist with a keen interest in education. She has served on the boards of or has been significantly involved with The Lovett School, Berry College, and Emory University, among other educational institutions. She is also involved with The Rollins School of Health at Emory University, among the world’s most important schools of health which is attached to the Centers for Disease Control.

Clyde L. Strickland

Clyde L. Strickland is the founder of Metro Waterproofing one of the most successful companies serving the construction industry in the Southeastern United States today. The company excels in everything from new construction waterproofing and total building restoration to routine maintenance and leak repairs. The company, now led by Ken Strickland as President, is also known for its strong work culture for employees. Ask anyone in a Metro Waterproofing truck or someone in the office and they will tell you the company strives to make every employee feel like part of their family, and every customer as a partner in their mission to help create better lives for anyone that might engage with them. The company is one of the most philanthropic in the Gwinnett community and is constantly looking for new ways to make a better America by doing good for all people.

J. Thompson Turner

Thompson is a trusts and estates attorney whose practice focuses on all aspects of sophisticated estate and wealth transfer planning, business succession planning for closely-held businesses, family office planning, creating and advising private foundations, insurance planning and post-death administration of estates and trusts. Thompson is also part of the 5th generation of family ownership at the W.C. Bradley Company in Columbus, Georgia and participates in both the business and charitable endeavors of his family’s enterprise.
Thompson holds a B.A. in English from Vanderbilt University, a Juris Doctorate from Emory Law School, and a Master of Laws in Taxation from Loyola Law School.

Arol Wolford

Arol Wolford has been a well-known entrepreneur in the construction industry for the past 30 years. He founded Manufacturers’ Survey Group in 1975 and five years later entered the construction information industry with the startup of Construction Market Data (CMD) in Atlanta, Georgia. Arol served on the Board of Revit before it was sold to Autodesk and was named an honorary member of The American Institute of Architects in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the architectural profession.

Andrew “Bo” Young III

Andrew “Bo” Young III is a successful businessman, entrepreneur and volunteer who invests in real estate, technology, agriculture and healthcare related companies. Young is currently the Managing Partner of Andrew Young Group, a private investment group that manages the financial interests of the Young Family. Some of AYG investments include Bank Greenwood, Pillow PH, Eunomia Partners and OVi Source. Young has 23 years of business experience with 19 years operating as a supplier to Fortune 500 companies. He also has extensive international exposure having visited over 40 counties around the world. Young is a founding member of Bank Greenwood, a FinTech with a sharp focus on building financial equity in Black and Hispanic communities across America. Young is the former Chairman and CEO of PakLab, a leading supplier of Contract Manufacturing and Co-Packing services with over $100 million in annual sales. Young was a founding member and board director of Bounce Media Group. BounceTV is the first African American broadcast network available nationwide. Young is married to Angelica Guevara Young. They live in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta with their three children. Young enjoys golf, skiing and has completed 3 triathlons. Young is active in charitable initiatives for Atlanta International School, Young Family YMCA, Latin American Association, National Monument Foundation, Hosea Helps and Wheelchair Charities Inc.

Colin Amery*
Advisory Board

Head of the World Monuments Fund, United Kingdom. Mr. Amery is a Founding Trustee of the Prince of Wales’s Foundation for Architecture. He is a preservationist, urbanist, and author of numerous books on architecture, as well as the architecture critic for the Financial Times of London.
*Deceased

Tommy Bagwell
Advisory Board

Chairman and CEO of American Proteins, Georgia. A philanthropist with an interest in classical architecture, Mr. Bagwell is a pivotal figure in educational advancements in Georgia and in the United States. His association with The Carter Presidential Center has taken him around the world as an emissary and elections monitor and observer.

Asa Candler VI*

Advisory Board

Asa Griggs Candler VI is a seventh generation Atlantan and a friend of the National Monuments Foundation since its inception. A member of the founding family of Coca-Cola, Mr. Candler’s career has taken him into the commercial real estate world. He is also a pilot and flies single pilot jets. He has supported the Millennium Candler Peace and Justice Prizes, established by his cousin, Matthew Middelthon. He suggested the NMF alternate giving the prizes between Atlanta and Copenhagen, which has become a notable new tradition within our foundation. The subsequent interest in Atlanta by the Nobel Peace Laureate Secretariat has compelled Mr. Candler to move about the world as an ambassador not only to the foundation but to the City of Atlanta. He is a world-class golfer and enjoys playing on courses all around the world.
*Deceased