Truth Initiative CEO and leadership

Dave Dobbins is an Interim COO at Truth Initiative and is based in Washington d.c. Metro Area. He studied at University of Michigan Law School between 1993 and 1996.

Eric Asche is the Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at Truth Initiative. Asche is known as a creative leader and top health influencer, due to his role in developing some of the most successful, life-saving public education campaigns in history – including truth – a national and award-winning youth smoking prevention campaign.

Tricia Kenney is a Chief Communications Officer at Truth Initiative and is based in New York City, New York. She has worked as Chief Communications Officer at Publicis Kaplan Thaler, Communications Consultant Truth Campaign at Truth Initiative, and EVP Managing Director of Corporate Communications at Kaplan Thaler Productions.

Amanda L. Graham PhD is a Research Investigator, Schroeder Institute at Truth Initiative; Professor of Medicine (Adjunct) at Mayo Medical School; and Chief of Innovations at Truth Initiative and is based in Rochester, Minnesota. She has worked as Director of Research Development, Schroeder Institute at Truth Initiative; Assistant Professor of Oncology (Adjunct) at Georgetown University Medical Center; and Visiting Scientist at National Cancer Institute (NCI). Amanda attended University of Richmond; Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin U Med & Science; and VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven.

As Truth Initiative’s Chief Information Officer, Derrick A. Butts, who holds a CISSP and ITILv3F certifications, oversees a team of specialists supporting computing, phone, cyber preparedness security and other information technologies, along with innovations for enterprise applications. His background, spanning three decades in information technology, includes prototyping, managing and architecting secure information enterprise systems. He is well versed in cybersecurity design strategies; application interoperability; transitional engineering logistics and planning (TELP) strategies; and implementing cloud computing/virtual networking infrastructures. Derrick's advised top executives on business processes, infrastructure improvements and technology refresh efforts to improve the continuity of secure business operations at major corporations such as Siemens and MCI/WorldCom and the Department of Defense-Navy. Before joining the Truth Initiative, Derrick was president of Continuums Corporation, proving secure business continuity and cyber strategies for enterprise architectures.

Donna M Vallone is a Chief at Truth Initiative and is based in New York University.