Meet the Board Chair and Vice Chair for the Baton Rouge Area Foundation.
Jennifer Eplett Reilly serves as the Board Chair of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation and previously, the founding chair of New Schools for Baton Rouge. She has been engaged in civic leadership as co-founder of City Year Inc., founding executive director and president of Echoing Green Foundation, and leader of numerous innovative public-private partnerships in Louisiana. She also served as a strategic advisor to Mitchell Landrieu in his first term as lieutenant governor.
Jeff Koonce serves as the Board Vice Chair of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation and is a Partner of Bernhard Capital Partners. He serves as a member of the Investment Committee and is involved in all areas of the Firm’s investment activities. Before joining Bernhard Capital Partners, he was a partner at Phelps Dunbar, LLP where he focused on federal and state taxation, business formations and business transactions. Jeff has been recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Louisiana Super Lawyers and was recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” in tax law by The Best Lawyers in America.
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