Board of Directors

Bobby Brannon
President, World Trade Center of New Orleans
Brannon is Executive Vice President and Treasurer of Ochsner Clinic Foundation (OCF) and Ochsner Health System (OHS) and Vice President and Treasurer of Ochsner (OCH)
Brannon is responsible for Treasury/Portfolio Management, Insurance, Capital Financing, and Real Estate Management at Ochsner. Brannon has been an employee of Ochsner for the past 35 years, serving as Controller, Vice President and Director of Finance, and Executive Vice President, Director of Finance & Treasurer.
Prior to joining Ochsner, Brannon was a manager with Haskins & Sells (presently Deloitte & Touche LP) where he worked for more than eight years. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Mississippi State University in 1966 and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is a member of Financial Executives International, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, and a member of the Executive & Finance Committees of the World Trade Center of New Orleans. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Christian Health Ministries.
President
Bobby C. Brannon- Executive Vice President & Treasurer, Ochsner Health System
President-Elect
David W. Kearney- Vice-President, The Kearney Companies
Directors
Lawrence L. Boudreaux, III- Chief Operating Officer, World Trade Center of New Orleans
William S. App, Jr.- President, J. W. Allen & Co., Inc.
Jane Ettinger Booth- President, Booth & Booth
Michael B. Bruno- Managing Partner, Bruno & Tervalon LLP, CPAs
Bernard L. Charbonnet, Jr.- President, Charbonnet & Associates Planners and Consultants, Inc.
Robert G. Evans, Jr.- President, Con-Tech International
Corrado Giacona, II- President & CEO, Giacona Container Company, Inc.
Edward T. Hayes- Attorney at Law, Leake & Andersson, LLP
Patricia Hightower- President/CEO, Bayou Equity Mortgage
Richard L. Katz- President, RLK Investments
John A. Kazour- President, Petrotech, Inc.
Sharon A. Perlis-Partner, Perlis & Associates
Robbert W. Vorhoff- Director of Corporate Planning, Laitram, L.L.C.
Thomas D. Westfeldt- President, Westfeldt Brothers, Inc.
Constance C. Willems- Partner, McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC