Board of Directors

Robert C. Macauley, Founder and Chairman, AmeriCares Foundation
Robert C. Macauley is the founder and chairman of AmeriCares. Mr. Macauley founded AmeriCares in 1982. Prior to AmeriCares, Mr. Macauley founded and served as President of the Virginia Fibre Corporation (now Greif Bros. Corporation). He continues to serve as director at Greif Bros. In addition, Mr. Macauley serves as an advisor to the National Executive Service Corps. and New York Medical College. Previously, he served as an advisor to World Share and Christmas in April. Mr. Macauley graduated from Yale University and served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, Air Transport Command, African Middle East Wing, from 1943-45.  back to top

Alma Jane Macauley, Co-Founder and Vice Chairman, AmeriCares Foundation
Alma Jane Macauley is the co-founder & vice chairman of AmeriCares. In addition, Mrs. Macauley is a director and treasurer for Friends of Children, a non-profit foundation whose purpose is to promote the well being of orphaned, abandoned, sick, injured and needy children around the world.    
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Curtis R. Welling, President & Chief Executive Officer
Curt joined AmeriCares as President and CEO in 2002. He brings to AmeriCares an extensive career in the investment banking and securities industry with firms such as SG Cowen, Bear Stearns and Credit Suisse First Boston. Curt has served as Board Chairman of Spence Chapin Services and was the founding Board Chairman of the Donaldson Adoption Institute. Curt received both his Master's of Business Administration and Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth, and received his law degree from Vanderbilt Law School.    
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Carol B. Bauer, Former Chairman, Board of Trustees, Norwalk Hospital
Ms. Bauer joined the AmeriCares board in 2002. Carol has served on several boards, including those of The United Way, Norwalk Hospital Foundation and the American Heart Association. She was Chairman of the Board of Norwalk Hospital from 1996 - 2001. Ms. Bauer received a BA from Harris Teachers College in St. Louis, MO and a graduate degree in education from Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY. She has taught physically and mentally handicapped children and has been a lecturer in French history.   back to top



Jerry Leamon, Global Managing Partner, Clients & Markets,  Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Mr. Leamon joined the AmeriCares board in 2005.  He is currently the Global Managing Partner, Clients & Markets for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.  In this role, he is responsible for all client- and market-facing programs, including the Global Strategic Clients, Strategic Clients, and Global Industry Programs, as well as Marketing and Business Development. Mr. Leamon graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a B.B.A. in Accounting, where he participated in a co-op student program with the Internal Revenue Service, and received CPA certification.  back to top



C. Dean Maglaris, Group Vice President (Ret.), Pfizer, Inc.
Mr. Maglaris has over 33 years of experience in marketing and general management in the pharmaceutical, medical device and health care industries at Pfizer, Inc. Since retiring as a senior executive from Pfizer, Mr. Maglaris has advised companies on matters pertaining to health care and marketing products as well as services for the delivery of health care. Dean graduated from the University of Vermont and received an MBA from Northeastern University.  back to top

Stephen Winter, M.D., Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Norwalk Hospital
Dr. Stephen Winter joined the AmeriCares board in 2003. He is currently chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Norwalk Hospital and an associate clinical professor of medicine at Yale University, both in Connecticut. Dr. Winter was the recipient of the 2002 Humanitarian Award of the Connecticut Thoracic Society and the 1999 Community Service Award of the American College of Chest Physician Governors. His volunteer work with AmeriCares has taken him to Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, the Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Serbia, Albania, North Korea and Ground Zero in New York on 9/11.  Dr. Winter received a M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, graduated from University of Michigan Medical College, received an M.S. in Systems Analysis and Synthesis from Stanford University and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from University of Illinois. He completed a residency in internal medicine at The New York Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering and a fellowship at Yale-New Haven Hospital and West Haven Veterans Administration Hospital.  
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