The Woodruff Arts Center CEO and leadership

Hala Moddelmog is a business and civic leader with more than 20 years in president and CEO roles. She also serves as a corporate director for two NYSE companies - FLEETCOR Technologies and Lamb Weston - and as a board member of several blue-chip nonprofit organizations.As the first female president and CEO of the nearly 160-year-old Metro Atlanta Chamber, Hala works on behalf of FORTUNE 500 companies and SMEs in the country’s ninth largest metro region. Prior to joining MAC, Hala was president of Arby’s Restaurant Group, president and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and the first woman to lead an international restaurant company as president of Church’s Chicken.Hala’s current nonprofit boards include Georgia Public Broadcasting appointed by the Governor of Georgia, Woodruff Arts Center, The Alliance Theatre co-chair for 2017-2019 and Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business.Hala has a Master of Arts degree in journalism and mass communications from the University of Georgia and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Georgia Southern University. She has attended executive education programs at Harvard Business School and Kellogg School of Management. Georgia Southern University awarded Hala an Honorary Doctorate of Letters.

Joy Lopez-marinelli is a Risk Management Specialist & Executive Asst to the CFO at Woodruff Arts Center and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. She has worked as Owner at Musicans Referral Service and Entertainment Coordinator at Norwegian Cruise Line. Joy studied at University of Florida.

Rhonda Matheison is a Chief Financial Officer for Robert W Woodruff Arts Center at Woodruff Arts Center and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Stephen P. Merz is an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Woodruff Arts Center and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. He has worked as Audit Manager at Deloitte. Stephen studied at Kent State University between 1968 and 1972 and Emory University between 1979 and 1981.