Tauana McDonald is a visionary healthcare executive with a track record of leading transformational turnarounds, crisis management, and strategic growth. McDonald is president and chief executive officer of Mount Carmel Health System, a member of Trinity Health. In that role, she oversees a $2B enterprise with 8000 employees, 2000 physicians and 400 volunteers, driving operational excellence and value creation to meet Central Ohio’s evolving healthcare needs. Previously, she served in a combined role as the president and chief operating officer of Mount Carmel Grove City Hospital and the chief administrative officer for Mount Carmel Health System. Prior to coming to Mount Carmel Health System, McDonald spent over 14 years at Trinity Health Corporate in progressively responsible roles and ultimately built an internal consulting practice accountable for implementing strategic initiatives across the national enterprise.
Before joining Trinity Health, McDonald spent several years with Deloitte Consulting as a senior manager in the firm’s healthcare practice. McDonald started her career as a sales representative with IBM. In 2016, McDonald was recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare. McDonald holds a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University and obtained an MHSA from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Ms. Duarte has served as Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Senior Vice President of CNL Healthcare Properties, Inc., a public non-traded real estate investment trust (REIT) since 2017. As a board facing executive, Ms. Duarte presents strategic and financial updates to the REIT’s board of directors and audit committee, leads financial strategy, debt financings, treasury operations, accounting, tax and public company reporting functions and serves on its investment committee and its cybersecurity committee.
Ms. Duarte previously served as group Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President for CNL Financial Group (“CNL”) where she established and led CNL’s enterprise-wide public company reporting platform for eight separate CNL-sponsored public companies with $10 billion in combined assets under management. The CNL-sponsored public companies included five non-traded REITs investing in multifamily development, healthcare and other asset classes; two non-traded business development companies (BDCs) co-advised with KKR, and one non-traded public partnership with debt and equity investments in middle-market businesses. Ms. Duarte served as senior vice president and chief accounting officer of Trustreet Properties, Inc., a publicly traded REIT (NYSE: TSY). Following the sale of Trustreet to G.E. Capital, Ms. Duarte was controller at G.E. Capital – Franchise Finance overseeing $12 billion in assets and participated in GE’s Experienced Financial Leadership Program..
Ms. Duarte received her Bachelor of Science degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, is an executive member of the Latino Corporate Directors Associations and is a certified public accountant. Prior to CNL, Ms. Duarte held the role of audit manager in the Orlando, Florida office of Coopers & Lybrand, and previously served on the audit staff in KPMG’s New York City office.
Ms. Duarte is a philanthropist in her community and an active community leader. She serves as national board treasurer and finance committee chair for ALPFA, the largest Latinx professional organization in the country. She also serves on the board and the finance committee of Junior Achievement of Central Florida and serves on the board of the Junior Achievement Foundation of Central Florida. She also serves on the board and audit committee of the Central Florida Foundation. Ms. Duarte is a member of the United Way Tocqueville Society and is fluent in Spanish.
Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope is the Dr. Barry Jay Epstein Endowed Professor of Forensic Accounting at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. Pope is a nationally recognized expert in risk, forensic accounting, and white-collar crime research, and an award-winning educator, researcher, author, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. Pope teaches managerial and forensic accounting both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
In 2020, the AICPA and the CPA Practice Advisor named Dr. Pope among the top 25 most powerful women in accounting. Her area of expertise lies in understanding and identifying financial fraud risk within financial statements, assessing corporate culture and compliance systems designed to confront internal control challenges. Pope’s research on executive misconduct culminated in directing and producing the award-winning documentary, All the Queen’s Horses which explores the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history. Pope’s TED Talk entitled “How Whistle-blowers Shape History” has been viewed over 1.6 million times, translated into 20 languages, and serves as a resource to help organizations and individuals embrace internal whistleblowing.