Board of Directors

Aman Brar has an extensive background in leading technology companies through periods of high growth and has also held key strategic planning and finance roles at Fortune 500 companies. Brar is currently principal of Ground Game Ventures.

Brar’s previous company, Canvas, was acquired by Jobvite 17 months after launch as part of a four-company (Jobvite, Talemetry, RolePoint and Canvas) integration, to create a category leader in the recruiting software space. Brar was previously president of Apparatus and led the company through an acquisition by the publicly traded global technology firm Virtusa.

Prior to Apparatus, Brar was vice president of business development for the groundbreaking text-based service, ChaCha. Before returning to Indiana for graduate school, Aman lived and worked in Mountain View, California and played a variety of roles for the company credited with the first consumer DSL broadband service.

Brar sits on the board of trustees for Wabash College and is the board chair for Teach for America Indianapolis. Brar is also on the boards of Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, TechPoint and 16Tech. Brar earned his undergraduate degree from Wabash College and an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University-Bloomington. Brar lives in Indianapolis with his wife, son, dog and cat.

Harold Berfiend joined what was then Methodist Medical Group in 1996 and has held several leadership roles within the Indiana University Health system, including corporate controller, chief operating officer of IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital and vice president of strategic integration. He was named vice president and controller for the statewide system in 2024. He earned his MBA with a concentration in accounting from Cameron University.

Berfiend is married to Lisa, the owner of a successful real estate investment company. They have four children — a 32-year-old daughter (with a two-year-old granddaughter), two 28-year-old sons, and a 23-year-old daughter — plus a teacup Yorkie, who weighs four pounds soaking wet but thinks he is a Great Dane. When he has down time, he enjoys traveling with his family and spending time on the golf course.

Michael Justin (Jud) Fisher is a graduate of DePauw University and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. He joined Ball Brothers Foundation (BBF) in 2003 after working in administration for Old National Bancorp. In addition to his duties as president and chief executive officer of BBF, he serves on the boards of several regional and statewide organizations including the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Foundation, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, and First Merchants Corporation.

Alan Henderson is a former NBA basketball player, originally drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in 1995. He spent nine seasons with the Hawks, and then one year each with the Dallas Mavericks, Cleveland Cavaliers and Philadelphia 76ers. One of his NBA highlights was being named the NBA’s Most Improved Player in 1998.

Alan is an alumnus of Indiana University; he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology before earning his master’s degree from the Kelley School of Business in 2010.

He is an inventor and has been granted two US utility patents. He enjoys creating businesses around products and investing in real estate. He is a member of Eastern Star Church, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and the professional fraternity Sigma Pi Phi. His personal foundation, the Henderson Foundation, supports causes related to lower income children and abused women. Alan loves spending time with his wife, Maxine, and their four kids: Jacob, Joshua, Brooke and Jonah. Henderson currently leads Henderson Spirits Group.

Stephen G. Moore, MD, who served as president and CEO of CarDon & Associates from 2000-2021, is now a member of its Board and a CarDon shareholder. Moore, an Indiana native, graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine. He trained at the Mayo Clinic in internal medicine and at Johns Hopkins University in preventive medicine, where he earned his Master of Public Health degree and spent one year as chief resident. CarDon & Associates has a 30-plus year history of developing and managing communities for seniors in the state of Indiana. The company currently owns, operates or manages 22 communities for seniors throughout the state. These communities offer skilled nursing and rehabilitation services, long-term care, memory care, assisted living, senior housing apartments and garden homes.

Moore and his wife Julia are the founding donors of The Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse. The Moore Center is an academic research center, located within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, which is dedicated to applying the tools and methodology of prevention to the challenging social issue of the prevention of child sexual abuse. Stephen also serves on the Johns Hopkins Board of Trustees and chair its Capital subcommittee and Internal Audit subcommittee.

Shelly Schwarz is a native Hoosier who divides her time between Indiana and Florida. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and spent much of her career in the apartment and hotel industries.

Shelly and her late husband, Joe, were generous philanthropists who focused their attention on giving back across Indiana, in return for the success Joe found as an entrepreneur in the state. The couple were avid supporters of Indiana University, and she is currently a board member of the IU Varsity Club.

Following her husband’s death, Shelly turned her attention to healthcare philanthropy to express her gratitude for the care Joe received at IU Health. In 2018, she contributed $10 million to establish the Joe and Shelly Schwarz Cancer Center at Indiana University Health North Hospital. This was the largest gift ever to IU Health North and the largest single gift by a living donor to IU Health. Shelly remains an active champion for the IU Health Foundation.

Denny Sponsel is the CEO and Owner of RJE Business Interiors, which improves workplace design throughout the Midwest while providing RJE’s clients with the best possible customer experience. Sponsel extends his favorite mantra — Do What We Say We Will Do — to all of his philanthropic efforts as well. Outside of RJE, Sponsel has spent his life dedicated to bettering Indianapolis.

Throughout the course of his career, he has served on the boards of multiple organizations including YMCA Board, Conner Prairie Board, Indiana State University, United Way of Central Indiana, IUPUI, Indiana Historical Society, Downtown Indy, Inc., Rotary Club of Indianapolis, Girl Scouts of Central Indiana and Marian University. Sponsel has received the John A. Purdie Innovator Award, IUPUI Spirit of Philanthropy Award, Rotary Paul Harris Fellow, Indiana University Partners in Philanthropy Keystone Award, Indiana University Foundation President’s Award, finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and American Business Ethics Award.

Sponsel currently serves on the IU Health Adult Academic Health Center Board, as chair of IU Health Foundation's Adult Academic Health Center Philanthropy Council and was previously chair of the Methodist Health Foundation Board. He and his family make their home in Indianapolis.

Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH, MS is the inaugural Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer for Indiana University Health and the Associate Dean for Health Equity Research for Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), where she holds an endowed chair for Health Equity Research. Dr Tucker Edmonds is a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Clinical Pediatrics at IUSM, with training in general OBGYN, health services research, public health, and clinical ethics. She studies health equity and shared decision-making in reproductive health care. She is interested in understanding the impact of racism, classism, and culture on patient preferences and risk perceptions; physician decision-making and counseling; and ultimately, variations in treatment provision and service delivery.

Dr. Tucker Edmonds received an AB in Community Health and African American Studies from Brown University. She received her MD from Brown Medical School, and, concurrently, completed an MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Tucker Edmonds trained in OBGYN at Duke University Medical Center; then entered the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received health services research training and an MS in Health Policy Research.

Dr. Tucker Edmonds previously served as an Assistant Dean for Diversity Affairs at IUSM, and co-directed Workforce Development for the Indiana CTSI. She currently serves on American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' (ACOG) Committee on the care of underserved women and is the immediate past chair of the Indiana Section. Dr Tucker Edmonds is married to Dr Joseph Tucker Edmonds, an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Religious Studies. They live in Indianapolis with their daughter, Zora, who is the delight of their lives.