2026

Board of Directors

A 501(c)(3) charitable organization supporting world-leading research to prevent and treat obesity and chronic disease since 1988.

Officers

Chairman
Charles Lamar
Investor / Philanthropist
Chairman Elect
Art Favre
Performance Contractors
Immediate Past-Chair
George D. Nelson, Jr.
Louisiana Companies
Treasurer
Monica Zumo
Hannis T. Bourgeois, LLP
Secretary
Annette D. Barton
Community Leader / Philanthropist

Directors

Marvin Borgmeyer
Exxon Mobil, retired
Paula Pennington de la Bretonne
Community Leader / Philanthropist
Tom Easterly
Taylor Porter
Fran Harvey
Louisiana Remote Sensing and GIS Institute
Meredith Hathorn
Foley & Judell, LLP
Veneeth Iyengar
State of Louisiana
Tom Olinde
Olinde Hardware and Supply Co., LLC
Claude B. Pennington, III
Investor / Philanthropist
Mary Werner
Sweet Lake Land & Oil Company
Ann Wilkinson
Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation, retired

Ex-Officio Members

Bri Barrett
Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation
Rebecca Boniol
LSU Board of Supervisors
Jim Dalton
LSU Executive Vice President & Chancellor
Jayson Newell
Greater Baton Rouge Partnership
Janet Olson
Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation
Amanda Robertson
Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation
Jennifer Rood, Interim Senior Vice Chancellor and Executive Director
Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Founding Members

We honor the visionary leaders whose founding commitment made the Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation possible.

John W. Barton, Sr.
Henry Goodrich
Robert S. Greer, Sr.
William H. LeBlanc
Charles W. McCoy
Leonard R. Nachman, II
Thomas P. Singletary
J. Frank Terrell, Jr.
David M. Walker
W. W. Williams
Milton J. Womack
William H. Wright, Jr.