Judith Rinearson, Chair

Judie Rinearson, an attorney who is a partner at K&L Gate’s New York and London offices, has served on the Board of the National Chorale since 2009. In 2012 she accepted the role of Board Chair, where she has led the National Chorale during some of its darkest years, following the death of its brilliant founder Martin Josman. A lover of choral music (and a member of the choir at her Unitarian Universalist congregation in Montclair NJ) she is delighted to see the National Chorale’s re-emergence under the direction of their skillful and charismatic music director, Everett McCorvey, and the passionate and dedicated Executive Director, Amy Siegler. She hopes that more people learn of the National Chorale’s service to the New York City public schools and its cultural arts community: “There is something about great choral music that truly touches the soul.”

Jasmine Ahmed

Change is hard - Jasmine Ahmed recognizes that and her career has been focused on helping people embrace disruption to deliver transformation, accelerate growth and achieve personal success. She is recognized for building high performing teams and winning trust-based business partnerships by simplifying the complex to carve out a path for everyone to win. Jasmine’s in-depth transformation expertise across operating model, talent investment, technology stack and data has driven her success in multiple global industries to directly transform the way 8000+ employees work in multiple functions across the globe to create an empowered workforce while delivering over $110M benefits per annum. Her diverse industry experience includes highly federated media organizations, global pharmaceuticals, complex financial service companies and regulated utility companies.

Jasmine currently serves as the Global Head of Finance Innovation for WPP, the world’s largest media agency with $15B+ in annual revenues and 100,000+ employees globally. Jasmine is leading the finance design across WPP subsidiaries to enable the deployment of the largest Workday implementation underpinned by automated finance processes, optimal target operating model and increased use of shared capabilities.

Prior to WPP, Jasmine served as the Global Head of Finance Transformation for News Corp, a holding company with a diverse portfolio of standalone businesses. Jasmine defined and executed the strategy to enable a digital finance function across the News Corp portfolio to accelerate each business unit’s access and adoption of emerging technology and data capabilities.

At Dentsu, Jasmine served as Senior Vice President at Dentsu in Finance and Business Operations where she built shared capabilities that served as a catalyst to break down barriers between standalone media brands and provided 14,000 employees with seamless customer insight and operational efficiencies. She led teams of 300+ to implement global ERP solutions and reduced the cost to serve without disruptions in service provided to 1600+ customers.

While at National Grid, Jasmine led the efforts to turnaround an unsatisfactory audit opinion over 12 months while rationalizing the SOX controls portfolio from approximately 3000 to 300 SOX controls. This turnaround was a pivotal turning point to rebuild National Grid’s reputation with state regulators, investor community and debt holders.

Additionally, she had roles of increasing responsibilities at Pfizer and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Jasmine has a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor of Science, Commerce from University of Virginia. Jasmine obtained her CPA from Virginia and completed an Executive Leadership program in Digital Transformation from Columbia Business School. Originally from Bangladesh, Jasmine now lives with her husband and daughter in New York City.

Pamela Anderson

Bill Baroni

Dr. William B. Drake, Jr.

Peter Perlman, Esq.

Sherry Wright

Pamela Anderson joined the Chorale’ Board of Directors in 2017. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Purdue University, a Juris Doctorate degree from Seton Hall University School of Law and a Master of Science degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Management. Her professional career is in the Financial Services industry employed at a Global Banking firm. Pamela is an accomplished musician, having performed as a choral singer in concerts at various venues, including international performances in Cote d’Azur and Provence regions of France. Her performances in the U.S. include at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Princeton University.

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Peter has served on the Board of the National Chorale since 2015 and has remained an active member. As such, he attended a meeting with Executive Director, Everett McCorvey in Paris, France to explore fundraising options for the Notre-Dame cathedral. In his lengthy career as a trial lawyer, Peter has earned more than 60 multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements in personal injury, product defect and wrongful death cases. He was inducted into the Inner Circle of Advocates in 1985. This is an elite organization limited to the top 100 trial lawyers in this country. The Kentucky Justice Association’s highest honor, “The Peter Perlman Outstanding Trial Lawyer,” has been presented each year since 1994. Throughout his career, Peter has maintained a close relationship with his alma mater, the University of Kentucky. He was an Adjunct Professor in the law school for 25 years, and has been inducted into the Hall of Fame and U.K’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni. In 1999, Peter created an Endowment Fund. This has provided annual scholarships to students who have shown, “a concern for providing equal justice under the law.”

Over the years, Peter has given numerous talks to civic and legal groups and continues to do so. In his trials, Peter stressed the power of America’s juries, and the difference jurors make through their collective verdicts. His current presentations emphasize these themes.

Awards & Honors

American Association for Justice –Champion of Justice (2012)
Trial Lawyers “Hall of Fame” (Inducted 2017)
University of Kentucky “Hall of Distinguished Alumni” (2015)
Kentucky Justice Association – Lifetime Achievement Award (2013)
Civil Justice Foundation – “Champion of Justice” (2011)
Fayette County (KY) Bar Association – Lifetime Achievement Award (2010)
American Association for Justice – Former President
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice – Former President
National Litigation Counsel – Former President
Civil Justice Foundation – Former President
Southern Trial Lawyers Association – “Tommy Malone Great American Eagle Award”; “War Horse Award”; “Mickey Smiley Lighthouse Award”
Board of Trustees of the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada

Sherry Wright is an award-winning commercial theater producer, developing shows for Broadway and beyond. Her productions have been recognized by the Tony Awards, the Grammy Awards, the Drama Desk, Drama League, Chita Rivera, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Awards with numerous nominations and wins.

Broadway projects include Beetlejuice, David Byrne’s American Utopia (Tony winner), Plaza Suite with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Children of a Lesser God, Paradise Square (Tony winner), Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (Joel Grey Director), and Doctor Who: Time Fracture (London). Projects in development for Broadway include John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Sherry is a founding partner of Haffner Wright Theatricals, a founding Co-Producer of the Museum of Broadway in New York City, a full member of the Broadway League, and a voter for the Tony Awards.