Rebuild Upstate announces 2020 board members and leadership team

Rebuild Upstate announces 2020 board members and leadership team

GREENVILLE, S.C. – Rebuild Upstate has elected new board officers and members for the upcoming year.

The new officers are Chip Reaves as board chair; Ashley Brooks as vice-chair and governance chair, Michael Cunningham as finance chair and Lisa Gilstrap as the engagement chair. All four team members have been actively working and volunteering throughout the Upstate communities for multiple years and will bring that experience to their new roles.

Reaves is the President of local online training studio Bigger Brains. Cunningham is the Vice President of Community Health Partnerships at AnMed Health. Gilstrap is a mortgage executive at Countybank Mortgage. Brooks is the Director of Branch Operations for HTI.

In addition, Rebuild Upstate voted in two new board members Justin Felker, the Area Assistant Vice President for Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., and Michael Mumma, the managing director of BlackStream | Christie’s International.

“We are confident that these new leaders and members will help us achieve our 2020 goals,” said Chris Manley, Rebuild Upstate’s President/CEO and Founder. “Our team is a good combination of people that are active within the Upstate communities and we are excited to see what we all can accomplish together.”

 

About Rebuild Upstate:

Rebuild Upstate serves low-income homeowners with repairs and accessibility improvements to create safe, livable housing in existing homes and neighborhoods in Greenville, Anderson, Pickens and Oconee counties. Its team envisions a community where everyone has the opportunity to live a life of dignity in a safe home environment in order to maintain and foster strong, sustainable communities. Learn more at www.rebuildupstate.org.