Gregory Rattler, Sr. is a retired Managing Director of JPMorgan Chase’s Government Banking team where he managed the bank’s largest Louisiana governmental banking relationships for over 32 years. Prior to that, Greg served as Deputy State Treasurer and later as First Assistant State Treasurer for the State of Louisiana. Greg is active on many boards including his Alma mater, Loyola University New Orleans Board of Trustees, the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine (XOCOM), the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the German Protestant Orphanage Foundation, and a founding board member of the Community Sailing Center New Orleans. He is a passionate and active mentor for the Silverback Society which provides a disciplined research-based social and educational skills building program for 8th grade males throughout the City of New Orleans. Greg is an honors alum of St. Augustine High School, Loyola University and is a fellow of the Loyola University Institute of Politics, the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute and Leadership Louisiana.
Lynne is a Partner in EisnerAmper’s Audit and Assurance Services Group. With over 25 years of public accounting experience, Lynne has focused her career on serving companies, providing audit and internal audit services, in a variety of industries, including energy, financial institutions, general commercial, real estate, employee benefit plans, and manufacturing and distribution companies. Lynne has been and continues to be involved with several area nonprofit organizations.
For 30 years, Guy has been the President and CEO of Gulf Coast Bank & Trust Company.
He is the current Chairman of GNO, Inc. He also serves on the Board of Baptist Community Health Services, City Park, Jefferson Business Council, NOLA Business Association, and Baptist Community Ministries.
He is an active sailor who served on the Municipal Yacht Harbor Board and helped the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation rebuild the Lighthouse on the New Basin Canal after Hurricane Katrina.
He is the current Chairman of GNO, Inc. He also serves on the Board of Baptist Community Health Services, City Park, Jefferson Business Council, NOLA Business Association, and Baptist Community Ministries.
He is an active sailor who served on the Municipal Yacht Harbor Board and helped the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation rebuild the Lighthouse on the New Basin Canal after Hurricane Katrina.
Frank is a principal of Mount Royal Capital, LLC., where is co-head of a “best ideas” investment vehicle for a Fort Worth, TX-based family office. He leads the investment, due diligence, and performance tracking processes for direct and LP investments. Frank sources and manages investments across a wide spectrum ranging from early-stage tech to equity long/short hedge funds. He is a lifelong sailor, who lives in New Orleans with his wife and two young children. Frank is on the Board of the New Orleans Speech and Hearing Center and on its Investment Committee, as well as being an advisor to the GWR Fund, a Fort Worth, TX-based charity.
Guy is a recently retired banker after a 44-year career in New Orleans. He serves on the Board of the New Orleans Ballet Association and previously served on the board of the Leukemia &Lymphoma Society of Mississippi and Louisiana. He is a lifelong sailor who got his start with sailing as a child through a community sailing center in Hollywood, Florida. For many years Guy served as the principal alum advisor to the Tulane Sailing Team, helping the team in a variety of ways, including improving its facilities and getting back in operation after Katrina.
Warner is a District Manager for the Port of New Orleans, having previously served as the Superintendent of Police for the Harbor Police Department, where he rose through the ranks. Warner is the former Chairman and current Vice-Chairman of the Harbor Police Retirement System Board and serves on the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Trustee Education Council. Warner has been very active in boating for several decades and served as President of the Orleans Marina Tenants’ Association. Presently he is the President of the New Orleans Municipal Yacht Harbor Management Corporation.
Raised in North Carolina, Catherine graduated from Sweet Briar College in Virginia. She worked in New York City and Atlanta before moving to New Orleans in 1995 when she worked in nonprofit development and foundation management until 2015. Most recently Catherine enjoyed profiling local nonprofits for St. Charles Avenue magazine and currently shares duties with her husband at their business, Mosquito Authority NOLA. Over the years, she has served on many local and national nonprofit boards and chaired several major local fundraisers. Catherine is married to a native New Orleanian, the mother of three grown children, and enjoys playing tennis and pickleball in her spare time.
Kim is a partner at Phelps Dunbar. She practices in the areas of labor and employment, civil rights, constitutional law, commercial, tort and general litigation. Kim was also elected as the first female African-American president of the Louisiana State Bar Association (2009-2010) and the first African-American president of the New Orleans Bar Association (2003). Kim has been actively engaged in leadership roles in our community for many years, with some highlights including: in 2016 Kim was named vice-chair of Tulane University’s board of directors, having served on the board since 2009. She currently serves on the boards of trustees for Dillard University, Touro Infirmary and the New Orleans Business Alliance. She is president and chair of the board for the Amistad Research Center.
Susan manages communications for The Nature Conservancy’s Southern Deltas, an area encompassing Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Prior to joining TNC, she was the Director of Communications for the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans and editor of its award-winning magazine, Preservation in Print. Before the PRC, Susan was a longtime editor and writer for The Times-Picayune. Susan also serves on the Board of Directors for the Cancer Association of Louisiana, the Journalism Advisory Board for WWNO Radio Station, and has previously served on the Louisiana State University Manship School of Mass Communication Alumni Board. She is an active sailor and previously was a volunteer scuba diver and naturalist with the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas.
Whit is Managing Director-Americas for ED&F Man Liquid Products, a fully owned subsidiary of London based ED& Man Ltd. – a business engaged in global molasses trading and distribution, fish oil trading and distribution, other agricultural product trading and ownership of one of the largest North American animal feed manufacturers, Westway Feed Products. In addition to his professional career, Whit is very active with several civic organizations and serves on the Boards of the following non-profit organizations: LCMC Health (Children’s Hospital) where he served as Board Chair and remains on the Executive Committee, St. Michael Special School and HeartGift.
Bob has more than 38 years of experience in public accounting with Arthur Anderson and Ernst Young with 12 years serving as the Managing Partner of the Ernst & Young Louisiana practice from 2005 until 2017. Following his retirement from public accounting, Bob has been providing advisory services to the business community to assist both developing and established organizations in addressing their business challenges with a particular focus on those in startup or early growth phases. Bob has been active in a variety of nonprofits organizations having or currently serving on the Boards of several nonprofits including the Children’s Bureau of New Orleans, LSU Health Foundation, United Way of Southeastern Louisiana, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, GiGi’s Playhouse-New Orleans, Plaquemines Parish CARE Centers Foundation, Inc., Metropolitan Human Services District and the United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana. He has held various leadership roles with these organizations including Board Chair, Treasurer, Fundraising Chair, Vice President, in addition to committee chairs such as Executive, Finance, Governance and Audit.
Robert M. Kottler is Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of Whiteclay, a leading provider of banking software
and solutions, after a 37-year banking career. Bob served as Executive Vice President at Iberia Bank. Prior to joining Iberia Bank, Bob was Executive Vice President at Capital One Bank and was Senior EVP at Hibernia Bank. Originally from Cleveland, Bob earned his Bachelor of Science in management and his Master of Business Administration from Tulane University. He also is a graduate of the Graduate School of Retail Banking, Consumer Bankers Association, at the University of Virginia. Bob’s community activities include being a board member and treasurer of US Sailing and the International Council of Yacht Clubs. He also is an active Tulane Alum serving on the Business School and President’s council. Bob is an avid sailor and serves on race committee at Southern, Annapolis and New York Yacht Clubs.
and solutions, after a 37-year banking career. Bob served as Executive Vice President at Iberia Bank. Prior to joining Iberia Bank, Bob was Executive Vice President at Capital One Bank and was Senior EVP at Hibernia Bank. Originally from Cleveland, Bob earned his Bachelor of Science in management and his Master of Business Administration from Tulane University. He also is a graduate of the Graduate School of Retail Banking, Consumer Bankers Association, at the University of Virginia. Bob’s community activities include being a board member and treasurer of US Sailing and the International Council of Yacht Clubs. He also is an active Tulane Alum serving on the Business School and President’s council. Bob is an avid sailor and serves on race committee at Southern, Annapolis and New York Yacht Clubs.
John is retired, having been a partner with Phelps Dunbar, LLP in its New Orleans office for many years. Having pursued his dream of creating a community sailing center in New Orleans since 2009, he formed Community Sailing New Orleans, Inc. in 2010, served as its President through 2023, and served on the Executive Committee in 2024 and 2025 as Immediate Past President. In 2021 John joined CSNO’s first Executive Director Jacob Raymond (2016 Marty recipient while in Charleston) in receiving US Sailing’s Community Sailing Martin A. Luray Award (The Marty). “The Marty is Community Sailing’s highest honor, presented to a recipient who has made an outstanding and unselfish contribution to further public access sailing.” Previously John served as President of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) New Orleans and President of the New Orleans Municipal Yacht Harbor Management Corporation. John and his family have been engaged in sailing and boating for several decades.
Mikki Mathews is a Vice President working exclusively with government clients for JPMorgan. In this role, she manages diverse facets of client relationships including direct placements, equipment financing, and treasury management. Mikki has over 14 years of experience working with government clients. Prior to rejoining JPMorgan, Mikki provided investment banking and underwriting services to a broad segment of local governments and public agencies. Mikki, her husband, and young children live in New Orleans.
Ric serves as a Director of Metairie Bank and Trust Company, having retired in 2013 after many years as Chief Executive Officer. He is a past Chairman of the Louisiana Bankers Association, Jefferson Business Council, Jefferson Parish Economic Development and Port Commission, Tulane Association of Business Alumni, East Jefferson General Hospital Foundation and the Jefferson Community Foundation, a Fund of the Greater New Orleans Foundation. An avid sailor, Ric presently serves on the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Municipal Yacht Harbor Management Corporation as its Treasurer.
Judge Smith, Section A of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court, is a graduate of Morehouse College and Tulane University School of Law. Upon graduation from law school, he served as the judicial law clerk for the Honorable Revius Ortique, Jr. Clint has practiced broadly across many areas of the law. Clint serves on the boards of the Legacy Donor Foundation, the Louisiana Affiliate of the National Kidney Foundation, the Faith & Marriage Advisory Board, Willwoods Community, and has served as a board member of the Audubon Commission and the New Orleans Soccer Association. Clint is a member of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and Sigma Pi Phi, Fraternity, Inc. (Boule’). He has served as an adult member and volunteer for Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of America. He has mentored in the Archdiocese Isaiah 43, and Omega Psi Phi programs. He is active in the Boule’s social actions program and as a mentor and speaker for the Silverback Society.
Gordon is the President & CEO of the YMCA of Greater New Orleans, with 400 full-time and part-time team members and five community center branch locations across the metro area serving over 44,000 people each year. A graduate of Jesuit and UNO, Master of Public Administration, his first engagement in community work, right out of his undergraduate program, was in ministry work, running community homes for abused and neglected kids for ten years. Prior to the YMCA Gordon had a three-decade career with Catholic Charities. In his role as President & CEO of Catholic Charities, he had responsibility for health and human services organizations with 750 full-time staff, 18,500 volunteers and part-time staff operating 47 diverse programs. Gordon has served on numerous non-profit boards and currently serves on the boards of the Jefferson Community Foundation and the GPOA Foundation. Since 2020 Gordon has donated his expertise, wisdom, and time to Community Sailing New Orleans including two years of service on the working group responsible for developing its Business Plan 2025-2029.
