Rosemary Hanley is a Co Founder of The Little Bit Foundation, and is currently Executive Director.

Suzie is a partner of Stark & Associates, Inc. She has a BA in communications with a minor in business from Loyola University in New Orleans and is very active in the St. Louis community. Besides The Little Bit Foundation, she's involved with the following activities: United Way Board, Chair Women Business Owners United Way Women’s Leadership Initiative, Vice Chair Whitfield School Board, Chair Westbridge Bank Advisory Board, Advisory Board for The Entrepreneurship Institute, The St. Louis Forum, and most recently, Social Venture Partners.

Richard E. Fister, Jr. has been a professional in the financial services industry for 30 years.  He is currently a Senior Vice President-Investments and Senior Portfolio Manager for UBS Financial Services Inc. in St. Louis.  Previous to that he worked at Stifel Nicolaus for five years and fifteen years a Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.  His area of expertise is in financial planning and wealth management for private investors and small to medium sized private companies.  Fister has served on a number of boards including most recently as President of Glen Echo Country Club for 3 years; President and Board member of Logos School, a private school which serves the needs of learning disabled children.  Under his leadership Logos achieved the highest enrollment in its history.  He is a past board member of the Cardinal Glennon Development Board and has served in various leadership capacities for the Fair Saint Louis, at the time one of the largest Fourth of July celebrations in the United States.  Fister is a native St. Louisan and graduate of St. Louis University (1978) and Chaminade College.  He lives in the city of St. Louis with his wife, Mimi.

Karl is the President of Missouri College.

He attended Principia College and received a Masters of Arts degree in Teaching from Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan. Karl serves as the Secretary on the The Little Bit Foundation’s Board and is an active member on TLBF’s Development Committee. In addition, he is a member of the Career College Association (CCA), a committee member of the CCA’s Federal Legislative Committee, a member of the St. Louis Regional Commerce Growth Association’s (RCGA) Leadership Circle, and a certified facilitator for the Pacific Institute.

Kelly J. Weis, CPA is a Principal in the Audit Services group. Kelly has 16 years of auditing, accounting and corporate taxation experience. Her areas of concentration include manufacturing, distribution, rental real estate and other professional service industries.

Her responsibilities at Brown, Smith, Wallace. LLC. include supervising a staff of 20, reviewing audit and accounting financial statement engagements, keeping staff up to date on recent technical pronouncements, and working with small business owners and managers on dealing with day to day accounting and financial challenges.

Kelly assists in the implementation and monitoring of the Audit Services group business plan and is a member of the firm’s audit technical committee.

Kelly received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Southwest Missouri State University. She is a member of the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants and is active in nonprofit organizations, including The American

Partner, Armstrong Teasdale LLP, St. Louis law firm where Phil handles a wide variety of business matters on behalf of commercial enterprises, including contractual arrangements, financing, and mergers and acquisitions.

Background:
Before entering law school in 1980, Phil practiced as a certified public accountant in auditing and tax. Upon graduation from law school in 1983, he commenced employment as a law clerk at the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District. In 1984, Phil joined the law firm of Shepherd, Sandberg and Phoenix (now Sandberg, Phoenix and von Gontard), a litigation firm - primarily handled commercial, products liability and medical malpractice matters.  In 1986, he joined Armstrong Teasdale.  Phil is married to Beth Louis  and they have three daughters.

Phil Civic and Charitable Activities:
Phil is currently Baord President of The Little Bit Foundation.  He is a past Board Member and Baord President of Lydia's House (which provides transitional housing and services for abused women and their children) and Sherwood Forest Camp (a summer camp for inner-city youth located in Lesterville, Missouri.

A native of southern California’s Orange County, David Hill enters his first year as the director of athletics at Christian Brothers College High School.  Mr. Hill spent the last three years at John Burroughs School as an assistant football coach and assistant athletic director. He previously served as director of district athletic programs for Geary County Schools in Junction City, Kansas.  He was also the director of student-athlete recruitment and assistant football coach at DePauw from 2002-2005.

He has also served as a senior assistant director of admission and coordinator of athletic recruitment and was an assistant director of athletics from 1996-2001. Hill left DePauw in August 2001 for the membership services department at the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Upon graduation from Servite High School in Anaheim, part of the Seven Holy Founders parish, Hill attended Penn State University where he was a walk-on defensive back for the Nittany Lions. He earned his bachelor of arts in communications degree in 1985. Hill previously served as an assistant football coach and coordinator of athletic recruiting at Chapman University and as a secondary coach at Pomona College.

Hill earned a master’s degree from Indiana State University in 1998.

Tomea Mayer Mersmann is the Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Lecturer in Law at Washington University School of Law. She focuses on new project development and strategic planning, most recently helping to lead the university’s effort to establish a deeper presence in Washington D.C. and an academic partnership with the Brookings Institution. Ms. Mersmann is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Washington University School of Law. She practiced law with Thompson & Mitchell and has held legal writing appointments and led the career services office at Washington University School of Law. She is a native of St. Louis and lives in Kirkwood with her family.

CBIZ is a national employee benefit consulting and insurance brokerage company offering consulting in the areas of; retirement, benefit plan design, and commercial insurance.  Rebecca brings employers 20+ years of experience in the employee benefits and insurance industry. Prior to joining CBIZ she managed the marketing department for a regional managed care organization located in St. Louis, Missouri where she was responsible for product development, strategic sales planning, and membership satisfaction.  She has experience in network development and individual insurance planning and investments.

Rebecca's in-depth knowledge of managed care, insurance and investments enable her to develop creative, cost-effective benefit packages for CBIZ clients with a strong focus on health and productivity initiatives.  She has developed deferred compensation programs for many non-profit organizations to assist employers with recruitment and retention strategies. 

Rebecca is also actively involved with multiple professional organizations including the National Association of Health Underwriters, Working in Employee Benefits, and Gateway Human Resource Association of St. Louis.  She is on the advisory board for United HealthCare in St. Louis and has held advisory board positions with a number of managed care organizations, and is viewed as an expert in the area of employee benefits and administration.  She graduated from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln with a Bachelor's of Science in Finance with an emphasis on Insurance.   She holds a number of insurance licenses in various states, and is a registered securities representative holding a Series 6, 63, 24 securities license.