CitySquare CEO and leadership

Nadia Salibi joined the CitySquare team in June 2017, with more than 15 years' oversight of complex county and nonprofit healthcare initiatives. As Chief Program Officer, she is responsible for leading and supporting all CitySquare programs around Hunger, Health, Housing, and Hope.

Nadia began her hospital career at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as part of a team conducting cancer research. Since then, her experience has focused on program evaluation and community research for government agencies, nonprofits, and foundations that are working to address health disparities and understand community needs. At the University of Chicago Medicine, Nadia launched and managed the Community Benefit department and was responsible for developing UCM’s community benefit strategic plan and facilitating community benefit programming throughout the enterprise by driving education, training, evaluation, and data analysis of community benefit activities. In this effort, she designed and implemented several Community Health Worker programs.

Nadia holds an M.P.H. in Health Policy and Management from Columbia University and a B.S.E. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In her volunteer time, she works with the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund to provide medical and humanitarian care to children in need.

Sarah Cantu is a Chief Development Officer at CitySquare.

Kris joined the CitySquare team in May 2019. Previously he was the Chief Financial Officer for Amen Properties, an oil and gas investment and development company. While there, Kris guided the company through its transformation from a complex public company to a lean private company with consistent cash flow and dividends.

Kris has served in a wide range of roles, including as a senior financial advisor, vice president of marketing and sales, and audit senior, from which he gained deep financial expertise and broad business experience across functions and industries. His experience enables him to look at situations both logically and systematically, and he is known for delivering insight, solutions, and ultimately value in addressing complex opportunities and issues.

Kris is a CPA with an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BBA in Accounting from Abilene Christian University. He has been active in the community serving as an elected Trustee of the Richardson Independent School District (RISD) for seven years, as well as serving on the Board of the District’s Excellence in Education Foundation. He is also a graduate of the Richardson Chamber of Commerce Leadership Richardson program.