Bob Moog Foundation Board of Directors

The Board of Directors for the Bob Moog Foundation, an independent 501 (c) (3) non-profit, is the governing body of the organization.

The Board acts as the final legal and fiduciary entity of the Bob Moog Foundation and is responsible for the standards, policies, procedures and operation of the organization.

If you would like to contact the Board, please inquire at info@moogfoundation.org.

Please Note: The Bob Moog Foundation is not associated with the manufacturer Moog Music, Inc. We are an independent 501 (c) (3) non-profit organizatiton. Our work is driven by donors like you.

 Bob Moog Foundation Board of Directors

 

David Mash

President

 

David Mash recently retired from his position of Senior Vice President for Innovation, Strategy, and Technology at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He previously served as the founding chair of the Music Synthesis Department, Berklee’s Assistant Dean of Curriculum for Academic Technology, Vice President for Information Technology, and Vice President for Technology and Education Outreach. He retired in 2017 after 41 years of service.

A leading authority on music technology and education, Mash has been featured on national and international media broadcasts such as 3-2-1-ContactNewton’s AppleWorld MonitorCBS Evening NewsAll Things Considered, and Voice of America.

He has collaborated on product development with leaders in the multimedia and music industries including Adobe, Avid, Kurzweil, Roland, and Korg, as well as many manufacturers of music technology products. Rolling Stone magazine has called him “the industry’s leading evangelist for the marriage of music and technology.” In 1997, he was named an AppleMaster by Apple Computer for his contributions to music, technology, and education.

David was Bob Moog’s long-time friend and colleague, working with him on several projects while Bob was the vice president for new product research at Kurzweil Music Systems. Moog commissioned Mash to write the after-market “Kurzweil 250- A User’s Guide,” and served as his technical editor.

Bob Moog also wrote the foreword to Mash’s book, “Macintosh Multimedia Machine.”

 

Terence Van Arkel

Treasurer

Terence van Arkel is chief financial officer of HCA  Healthcare’s newly established North Carolina Division, which includes Mission Health, the state’s sixth-largest health system, based in Western North Carolina. Mission Health operates six hospitals, numerous outpatient and surgery centers, post-acute care provider CarePartners, long-term acute care provider Asheville Specialty Hospital, and the region’s only dedicated Level II trauma center. Mission Health has approximately 12,000 employees.

Appointed to this role in April 2019, Terence has spent more than 23 years in leadership roles with HCA Healthcare. Throughout his healthcare career, he has served in a variety of financial and operational leadership roles. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Stetson University in Florida and his MBA in Healthcare Administration from Western Governors University. He is also a Certified Public Accountant who enjoys playing the guitar and surfing.

 

Chris Halaby

 

Chris Halaby is CEO of KVRAudio, Inc., a website/forum founded in 2001 as a community for musicians, music composers, and developers of music authoring products. The website currently receives over 600,000 unique visitors a month. KVR was acquired in 2003 by Muse Research, Inc, which Chris founded in 2000 to conceive, design, develop, and build user-friendly, networked audio products that take advantage of computer hardware. 

Prior to Muse Research, Chris was President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Opcode Systems, Inc. from 1987 until 1999. Under his leadership, Opcode grew to become a leader in music creation software, hardware synchronizers, and MIDI I/O devices. In 1999 Opcode was merged with the Gibson Guitar Corporation, with Chris joining Gibson’s  the Board of Directors.

He has served as Chairmen of the Information Technologies Subcommittee and member of the Executive Council of the Board of Trustees of the Berklee College of Music. and currently serves on the institution’s President’s Advisory Council.

Chris has over 30 years of experience performing and producing music, including several years spent with the George Coates Performance Works, the Gary Palmer Dance Company, ACT, and numerous other musical entities. He has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Doolittle Theater in Los Angeles, and the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. He holds a degree in Art from Stanford University and a degree in Guitar Performance from Berklee College of Music.  

 

Henry Panion, III

 

Henry Panion, III, Ph.D., holds degrees in music education and music theory from Alabama A&M University and the Ohio State University, respectively. He is most known for his work as conductor and arranger for superstar Stevie Wonder, for whose performances and recordings he has led many of the world’s most notable orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic, the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, the Birmingham (England) Symphony, the Orchestra of Paris, the Melbourne (Australia) Symphony, the Rio de Janeiro Philharmonic, the Ra’anana Philharmonic, the Nice Symphony, the Gothenburg Symphony, and the Boston Pops Orchestra. The two-CD set Natural Wonder features Dr. Panion conducting his arrangements of many of Stevie Wonder’s award-winning, chart-topping songs with Stevie and the Tokyo Philharmonic.

The creative force behind Gospel Goes Classical featuring Juanita Bynum, Jonathan Butler, and the GGC Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Dr. Panion made history topping the Billboard charts on both the Gospel and Classical Crossover Charts simultaneously. Other artists for whom Dr. Panion has had the opportunity to conduct and/or arrange include The Winans, Yolanda Adams, Lady Tramaine Hawkins, Eugenia Zuckerman, Chet Atkins, The Clark Sisters, Aretha Franklin, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Chaka Khan, Kirk Franklin, the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Kelly Price, India Arie, Robin Thicke, LeAnn Rimes, and American Idol winners Carrie Underwood and Ruben Studdard.

Dr. Panion’s own works are programmed throughout the United States by many of this country’s major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, Cleveland Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Houston Symphony, and the National Symphony. A select list of other orchestras performing Dr. Panion’s works includes San Antonio, Nova Scotia, Columbus, Charlotte, San Diego, Louisville, North Carolina, Indianapolis, Arkansas, Jacksonville, Alabama, and the former Birmingham Metropolitan Orchestra, for which he served as Music Director from 1995-1997.

As a producer, composer, arranger, and orchestrator, Dr. Panion’s work has produced two Grammy Awards, two Dove Awards, and a host of other national music awards and nominations. From 1994 to 2000, Dr. Panion served as chair of the Department of Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is Director of the UAB Music Technology program. He also serves as President and CEO of Audiostate 55 Recording Studios & Entertainment Company. Other honors include a 1995 Distinguished Alumni Award from Alabama A&M University and a 1996 Distinguished Alumni of the Year Award from the Ohio State University. He is the 1996 recipient of the Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Award for Scholarly Distinction and the 2009 recipient of the Congressional Black Caucus’ Civic and Cultural Advancement Award. Dr. Panion was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1995, as well as the Alabama A&M University Hall of Fame in 2000. In 2019, Dr. Panion was inducted into the Alabama Arts Hall of Fame.

The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees has honored Dr. Panion for his many contributions to the field of music by bestowing upon him the distinguished appointment of University Professor. In 2009, Dr. Panion was appointed to the post of Cultural Ambassador for the City of Birmingham, AL, and in 2013, he received the Drum Major for Justice Award from the SCLC/W.O.M.E.N, Inc. Dr. Panion was recently appointed to the Berklee College of Music’s BCMN Advisory Board and is in year two of a six-year term appointment by the Governor of Alabama to the Alabama State Council on the Arts. In 2017, Dr. Panion was appointed by the Mayor of the City of Birmingham to Chair its three-year commemoration and celebration of the State of Alabama’s Bicentennial.

The 2020 PBS documentary-concert Dreams of Hope produced by Dr. Panion has been broadcast over 450 times since its release; received an unprecedented 13 Telly Awards for Education, Music, Directing, Cinematography, and Social Impact; and is being featured in prestigious film festivals abroad in major cities such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Sydney. Dr. Panion has recently been appointed to the Board of Governors of the Southeast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (The Emmys). In 2022, the City of Birmingham will host the World Games, and Dr. Panion has been appointed Artistic Director and Composer for the World Games theme song and its Opening and Closing Ceremonies.

Dr. Panion and his lovely bride, Karyl, have four children —  Lekisha, Henry (IV), Alex, and Jonathan — and three grandchildren — Tyler, Jordan, and Haleigh.

 

Marcus Ryle

Vice President

An innovator and entrepreneur in music and audio technology for over 40 years, Ryle joined Oberheim Electronics in 1980 as a design engineer, helping create several iconic synthesizers. After leaving Oberheim in 1985, Ryle co-founded Fast Forward Designs with Michel Doidic and Susan Wolf. 

At Fast Forward, Ryle helped conceive and develop groundbreaking keyboards, drum machines, sound cards, studio effects, and digital multitrack recorders for brands including Alesis, Dynacord, and Digidesign. In 1996 Fast Forward Designs launched its own brand, Line 6, to bring music technology to guitarists through innovations in digital modeling. 

Line 6 became a leading brand of guitar effects, amplifiers, and wireless products, and in 2014 was acquired by Yamaha. Ryle later became the general manager of Yamaha’s worldwide guitar division, which included the Line 6 and Ampeg brands along with Yamaha Guitars. 

In 2019, Ryle left Yamaha with Susan Wolf to found the consulting firm WRiiG, providing strategy, technology, and mergers and acquisitions advisement in the music and audio industries. In 2022, his career came full circle with a role in relaunching the Oberheim brand and developing the new OB-X8 synthesizer.

His innovations have resulted in 22 U.S. patents and multiple product awards, and have placed him in the Technology Hall of Fame of both Keyboard Magazine and Guitar Player.

As a musician, Ryle has performed in bands with his vocalist/keyboardist wife, Susan Wolf, and in the 1980s played keyboards and created sounds on releases for artists including Barbra Streisand, Olivia Newton-John, Christopher Cross, Chicago, Chaka Khan, and Lee Ritenour.

Prior to joining the board of directors, Ryle spent three years as a member of the Bob Moog Foundation Board of Advisors. He also serves as co-chair for the Bob Moog Foundation’s Captains of Industry supporter program

Marcus Ryle is based in Calabasas, California. 

 

Sally Sparks

Secretary

Sally Sparks is a musician and engineer living in Madeira, Portugal. She began exploring synthesizers in the early ‘70s (acquiring a Minimoog as a teen) and went on to play in progressive rock bands and earn advanced degrees in engineering.  

Today, she focuses on advancing the art and science of new expressive instruments and expanding music education access and opportunities for the next generation. Sally is board chair of the Asheville Music School, board chair of Girls Rock Asheville, and a primary organizer of ContinuuCon, a conference of players and developers of the Haken Continuum Fingerboard. Her most recent music project is the album Pearl Diver, a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Chris Stack in their duo “YONDER.” Sally also organizes the Streamside concert series, which features an eclectic, global mix of world-class musicians, and has now gone online as the Keep Music Live Project.

 

Yvonne Spicer

 

Dr. Yvonne Spicer was sworn into office on January 1, 2018 as the first Mayor of Framingham. Mayor Spicer was previously the Vice President for Advocacy and Educational Partnerships at the Museum of Science, Boston. Prior to joining the museum, she served as a teacher and administrator in both Framingham and Newton Public Schools. Spicer was appointed to the inaugural Massachusetts Governor’s STEM Advisory Council by Governor Deval Patrick as the co-chair of the council’s teacher development committee. She was reappointed in 2017 by Governor Charlie Baker and led the Computer Science and Engineering and Career Pathways committees. Mayor Spicer served on the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, the Massachusetts Office of the Treasurer Economic Empowerment Trust Fund, and on the Framingham Standing Committee on Ways and Means. She served on the Board of Directors from 2017-2020 to the International Technology Engineering Education Association (ITEEA).

Dr. Spicer a is native Brooklyn, NY but has called Framingham home since 1985. She is a graduate of the State University of New York-Oswego where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Arts &Technology and a Master of Science degree in Technology Education. She earned her doctorate in 2004 from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in Educational Leadership.

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