Steering Committee

The Steering Committee for the Center is composed of ACS and Horizon Foundation board members in addition to the President and CEO of the Horizon Foundation and the Director of the Association of Community Services. The role of the Committee is to oversee the Center’s work by providing advice and support in carrying out its mission.

Roy L. Appletree

Roy, a 33 year Columbia resident, refers to himself as “on sabbatical” since transitioning out as the Executive Director of FIRN, Inc, a local non-profit serving the foreign-born. From 1979-1982.he was the President/CEO of the then Columbia Interfaith Housing Corporation His public service career has focused on local government, including 20 years as the Assistance Executive Director for the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission. He holds degrees from The University of Southern California (DPA), Syracuse University (MPA), and Penn State (BA).

Roy remains active in the community, and serves as the immediate Past-President of The Association of Community Services (ACS) – the local umbrella agency of human service providers celebrating its 47th anniversary. Roy, and his wife Sue, volunteer as the Co-Coordinators of Prepare for Success, a community based effort to provide backpack and supplies to low income, Howard County Public School System students. He graduated Leadership in the Class of 2005.

Shirley Collier

Shirley Collier is CEO, of Optemax, LLC, an exclusive licensee of mobile wireless optical technologies from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. For over 20 years, she has worked in the product technology, university, government, systems integration and financial services industries in a variety of technical and managerial positions.

She was founder and CEO for 15 years of Paragon Computer Services, Inc. and all of its subsidiaries, Managing Associate with an international consulting firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and prior to that established and managed end user computing for a $17 billion regional bank. Shirley has an undergraduate degree in Marketing with a Master’s degree in Management.

She has published over 50 articles and spoken extensively on aligning business and Information Technology, IT security/governance, strategic planning and e-commerce. She serves on an advisory board of BB&T Bank, is the immediate past chair the Board of the Howard County Economic Development Authority, currently serving on the Technology Leadership Consortium, and the Howard County Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Business/Education Coalition, and is a founding member and past President of the International Alliance of Technology Integrators. She formerly served on the Boards of the Howard County Chamber of Commerce (chairing the Education and Nominating Committees), the Lazarus Foundation and the Domestic Violence Center of Howard County (and recipient of their Spirit Award). Shirley serves on the Howard County Superintendent’s Advisory Council for Educational Partnerships chairing the Technology Advisory Council, and on the Board of the Center for Women in Information Technology at UMBC, chairing the International Committee.

Shirley has served on numerous commissions and committees including the County Executive and County Council’s Compensation Committee, the Columbia Town Center Rotary annual fundraisers (for 7 years), The Heart Ball (chair for two years), the EDA’s Incubator Committee (chair for 2 years), and the Howard Community College’s Commission on the Future. She is a graduate of Leadership Howard County and was named Alumnus of the Year in 1996.

Shirley received the 1999 Woman of the Year award from the Business Women’s Network of Howard County. She was named the Leadership Howard County’s 1997 Distinguished Alumnus and was awarded the EBO Outstanding Woman in Business award in 1997. Shirley was named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 1996 and in 2000 and was named to the Circle of Excellence in 2005 by The Daily Record. She was named as one of the Arthritis Foundation’s Women of Distinction, and in 1995 founded “Computer Mania,” a free computer symposium for girls in the public school system to foster confidence in technology, mathematics and science, now being held worldwide. Shirley was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame by the Howard County Women’s Commission. In 2004 she received the YWCA’s Special Leader award for leadership and economic empowerment, and the Children’s Advocate Award by Leadership Howard County. Shirley and her company also were awarded the Torch Award for ethical business practices by the Better Business Bureau of Greater Baltimore.

Jacqueline L. Eng

Ms. Eng holds a baccalaureate in business administration, with a minor in Journalism, from the University of Maryland and a Masters of Health Policy from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has over 25 years professional experience, including executive positions in the federal government and three non-profit national and international associations. Throughout her professional career, Ms. Eng was involved in the development of regulatory and legislative health policy, and has worked extensively with the media and with governmental, professional, higher education, and health care communities. Her fields of expertise include strategic planning, policy development, communications and project management. Locally in Howard County, Maryland, Ms. Eng is a director and past president of Congregations Concerned for the Homeless and serves on the Association of Community Services’ Board of Directors.

Glenn Falcao

Glenn is currently President of Falcao Investment Group, an investment firm he founded in 2001. He focuses on funding early stage technology companies and he is a partner in a real estate investment firm that invests in commercial real estate in south Florida. Prior to founding his company, Glenn was a partner with Bessemer Venture Partners, a Venture Capital Company in Boston. Before joining Bessemer, he was the Executive Vice President of Corvis Corporation; an optical networking company that he helped take public in one of the most successful IPOs in 1999. Before Corvis, Glenn held various executive management positions at Nortel Networks where he was instrumental in the launch of their Optical Networking business and their Internet business. He has been involved in the Communications industry for over 20 years and sits on a number of company boards.

Glenn is past chair and is currently on the NeoTech Advisory Board for the Howard County Business Incubator and is on the Finance Committee of the Columbia Festival of the Arts. He is also on the Board of St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore and the advisory board of Partners in Excellence, which administers a number of Catholic schools in Baltimore. Glenn works with the Mortel Foundation which builds schools in Haiti. Glenn lives in Howard County with his wife Beth and two daughters, Genesa and Jenael.

Richard M. Krieg

Richard Krieg is President and CEO of The Horizon Foundation and also serves as a Foundation Trustee. He is former Health Commissioner and First Deputy Commissioner of Health for the City of Chicago. The Chicago Department of Health is the nation’s second largest local health department. In addition to mainstream public health functions, the Department operates a system of 52 clinics for low-income city residents.

He is former Executive Director of the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs in Chicago, an urban community action center responsible working in the health, education and community development areas. Among other positions, Richard was Director of Policy Analysis and Planning for the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council – the association of 102 Chicago area hospitals. He was a Peace Corps volunteer, working in community health in central Brazil.

He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago where he specialized in health policy and administration. He holds a masters degree from the University of Chicago’s Harris Graduate School of Policy Studies. He is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School.

Richard currently serves on the advisory board of the National Peace Corps Association. He served on the board of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers and is a member of Washington Grantmakers. He chaired the statewide Cancer Treatment Task Force established by the Maryland General Assembly and was appointed to the Governor’s Commission on Service and Volunteerism.

T. James Truby

T. James Truby is the founder and president of the project management/owner’s representative firm of Synthesis Incorporated. His practice focuses on managing all stages in the development of health, education, religious, and environmental buildings and facilities, from conception through the completion of construction and move-in .

Mr. Truby received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Master of Arts degree in Social Anthropology from American University. After two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia, Mr. Truby served as Manager of Facility Planning for the National Institute of Mental Health’s pioneering Community Mental Health Program.

As Manager of Policy Planning for the Maryland Department of Transportation, Mr. Truby authored the Department’s Action Plan for considering social, economic, environmental, and historical factors in the planning and design of the state’s transportation facilities. Moving to the Department’s Aviation Administration, he served as Director of Planning and Development of BWI Airport and then Maryland Aviation Administrator with overall responsibility for BWI’s renaissance and substantial growth and development during the first half of the 1980s.

Mr. Truby is a resident of Ellicott City, MD, and has participated in numerous community activities since moving to Howard County in 1970. He served as president of the Economic Forum, and was a member of the Adequate Public Facilities Commission, the organizing committee of Vision Howard County, and the board of Winter Growth. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Howard Community College, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Maryland Association of Community Colleges, the Environmental Steering Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Leadership Howard County, and the BWI Airport Development Council.