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New board members, Cassandra, Jaclyn, and Paul.

Insight Welcomes New Board Members

Insight Memory Care Center is led by a diverse board of directors, lending their skills and expertise to our mission. We owe many thanks to our Board of Directors for guiding Insight through the last year. The board worked closely adjusting our finances and quickly pivoting as things changed. We are a stronger organization today thanks to the work of the board of directors and Insight leadership.

We are excited to share that Insight welcomed three new board members in 2021: Cassandra, Jaclyn, and Paul. They all bring experience and expertise to support Insight’s growth and expansion. Their three-year term began July 2021.

Cassandra Allison has over 10 years of experience in providing strategic Human Resource transformation consulting. Her specialties are HR process redesign, HR assessments and strategic and organizational change management. Cassandra is from Madison, WI but fell in love with the DC area after moving here after college. Cassandra has her Bachelor of Business Administration, Management and Human Resources from the University of Wisconsin. Her hobbies include running, traveling, and exploring new parts of the DMV area.

Jaclyn Irvine has spent her career working for a big 4 accounting firm, specializing in Asset & Wealth Management. Her experience includes the management of tax compliance engagements for a broad range of clients within the investment management industry and providing advice to enhance tax efficiencies for a diverse investor base, including not-for profits. Jaclyn earned a B.S. in Finance and a MS in Accountancy from Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, NC. She is a CPA licensed to practice in the state of Virginia and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants. She lives in Vienna, VA with her husband and two children.

Paul D. Evans, PhD is a retired corporate financial officer, decision scientist, and academician. More recently he served multiple terms as Board Treasurer for the Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) and on the Finance Committee of Arlington Neighborhood Village (ANV). Dr. Evans spent most of his professional career in information systems support and management, and in facilitating group decision making for clients in numerous Federal and state agencies and in international and national not-for profit organizations.

A graduate of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Ross Business School, Dr. Evans received his Doctorate after studying how business professionals decide to trust spreadsheet models developed by others. He then joined the Business School faculty at George Mason University in the Department of Decision Sciences. Along the way, he earned certifications as a Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Information Systems Auditor. Originally from southwestern Ohio, Paul graduated from the University of Dayton in both Computer Science (BS) and Management Science (MS). He currently lives with his wife of nearly fifty years in Falls Church, VA; they met as undergraduates in the same academic program at Dayton. Paul enjoys collecting and displaying glass sculptural objects, listening to choral music, having performed twice on the Concert Hall stage at the Sydney Opera House, lake kayaking, and visiting grandkids.

The full board consists of 13 members a full list of our board of directors can be viewed here.