Morris Pearl – Morris Pearl chairs the Board of Directors at Patriotic Millionaires. He was formerly a managing director at BlackRock and had a long tenure on Wall Street, where he invented some of the securitization technology connecting America’s capital markets to consumers in need of credit. He has also co-authored two books: Tax the Rich: How Lies, Loopholes and Lobbyists Make the Rich Richer (2021) and Pay the People: Why Fair Pay is Good for Business and Great for America (2024).
Erica Payne – Erica Payne is the Founder and President of Patriotic Millionaires. Previously, she founded and ran The Agenda Project, a public policy advocacy organization, and the Tesseract Group, a marketing strategy firm specializing in public policy advocacy. She is the co-author with Morris Pearl of Tax the Rich: How Lies, Loopholes and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer (2021), which economist Gabriel Zucman called a “must read,” and the author of The Practical Progressive: How to Build a 21st Century Political Movement (2008).
Bob Lord – Bob Lord, a retired tax lawyer and former Congressional candidate, currently serves as Senior Vice President, Tax Policy at Patriotic Millionaires and as an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. He previously served as tax counsel to Americans for Tax Fairness and as an adjunct faculty member at the Arizona State University School of Law, where he taught classes in federal tax policy and estate and gift taxation. Bob’s work about taxes has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Arizona Republic, The Dallas Morning News, Newsweek, US News and World Report, The Hill, and numerous other print and online publications.
Stephen Prince – Stephen Prince is the Vice-Chair of the Patriotic Millionaires. In 1993, he founded National Business Products – now known as Card Market, Inc. – as a gift card and in-store marketing material production company. Since selling the majority of his company in 2019, Stephen has focused on his real estate investments, political engagement, and traveling.
John Driscoll – John Driscoll is the Chair of Magnit Global, an international staffing firm managing over 700,000 employees, and chairs the board of Waystar. He’s also a Senior Advisor to Walgreens Boots Alliance, where he previously served as President and Executive Vice President overseeing Walgreens’ healthcare assets. Driscoll joined WBA in October 2022 when the company acquired CareCentrix, where he had served as Chief Executive Officer since 2013.
Chuck Collins – Chuck Collins is the great-grandson of Oscar F. Mayer, the founder of the Oscar Mayer meat processing brand. He is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org. He has authored over ten books and dozens of reports about economic inequality, climate disruption, philanthropy, the racial wealth divide, affordable housing, and billionaire wealth dynasties.
Drew Pomerance – Drew Pomerance is a nationally renowned trial and appellate attorney, with decades of expertise in all aspects of complex business litigation, insurance coverage and bad faith disputes, as well as labor and employment matters. He has tried numerous cases to verdict, argued at the state and federal courts of appeal, and has won both of the cases he argued to the California Supreme Court. He is now turning his full-time focus to mediation and has opened up his own private practice.
Patricia Martone – Patricia Martone is a retired trial lawyer, academic, and political activist focused on increasing the number of women in political office and reducing wealth and income inequality. During her 47 years of law practice, Patricia was a partner in leading “Big-Law” firms and also founded her own firm. She is currently an Alumni Fellow at the Engelberg Center at the NYU School of Law.
Scott Ellis – Scott Ellis was previously a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and also ran a supply chain analytics organization at Hewlett Packard. Over the last 15 years, he has founded and led several education nonprofit organizations, served on multiple nonprofit boards, and conducted his family’s philanthropic grantmaking. He has also provided consulting in strategy, operations, and finance to dozens of nonprofit CEOs.
Alan Davis – Alan Davis is president of The Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund, a private family foundation, and director of its social justice program, The WhyNot Initiative. He is the founder and Chairperson of the Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute. He was founder and CEO of Conservatree Paper Company, the leading distributor of recycled paper, and founder and CEO of ASDavis Media Group, a publisher of more than 40 travel guidebooks.
John Esler – John Esler was the founder and CEO of Esler Companies, the largest affiliate of Renewal by Andersen, the nation’s premier replacement window and door brand. After retiring, John and his wife Jeanne established the Esler Family Foundation with a mission to reduce wealth inequality, advance leadership development, and increase access to mental health services.
Pierre Hollis – Pierre Hollis is the Managing Director of Embracing Health and is a board member of several businesses and professional associations in Northern Virginia. He is also a retired US Marine Corps officer and served as a Military Transition Team advisor during Operation Iraqi Freedom and as an operations officer in Medan, Indonesia during the 2005 tsunami relief effort.
Kim Hoover – Kim Hoover is a retired attorney and an owner operator of a real estate operating company, RED Multifamily LLC. She is currently chair of the board of Voices for Progress, serves on the Board of Visitors of Duke University Law School, is a member of the Affordable Housing Advisory Board for Miami-Dade County, and is a member of the advisory board at the University of Miami Law School.
Ritchie Tabachnick – Ritchie Tabachnick is a retired energy industry entrepreneur. From 1996 to 2020, he was President of Equipment & Controls Africa Group, a privately-owned group of engineering service companies that works in the energy sector in Africa. He also served as a partner in, and board chair of, Breen Energy Solutions, a technology company that developed and marketed environmental technologies for the power industry in the US and abroad.
Cathy Raphael – Cathy Raphael helps direct her family’s funds at The Pittsburgh Foundation as well as her own at the DANU Fund. She is a founding member of the Women and Girl’s Foundation of Southwest PA and has served on the boards of the Ms. Foundation for Women, Women Donors Network, Women’s Law Project, Society for Contemporary Craft, and the Funding Exchange. She is also the author of a fantasy novel, Journey to the Heart Stone.
Ken Olum – Ken Olum is a research professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. He is part of the NANOGray collaboration, which in 2023 found the first strong evidence for gravitational waves with periods of several years. He is the grandson of Jacob Olum, who founded Olum’s Furniture and Appliances of Binghamton, NY, and a trustee of the Vivian and Paul Olum Charitable Foundation.
Terry Meehan – Terry Meehan is the Founder, President, and CEO of Azimuth Trust, a fund of hedge funds, and the Chairman of the Board for SupplyPro, an inventory solutions company. He previously worked for MJ Meehan & Co., a specialist firm at the NYSE, and Fleet Meehan Specialists after the merger of Meehan and Fleet. He is also a board member and trustee of Bread for the World Institute and the founder and a board member of Alliance to End Hunger.