Meet our CEO coaches
Guiding business leaders to greater success.
Helping Leaders Reach Their Full Potential
Tim Dodge
AJ Mirabedini
Mark Herman
Tiare Tawil
Tim Dodge, Chair
Tim Dodge is a business entrepreneur with 40 years of experience starting and leading companies across multiple categories including a manufacturing, software and marketing services business. He is the co-founder and current owner of Hanson Dodge, one of Wisconsin’s leading digital marketing and advertising agencies and served as their President and then CEO for 30 years.
Tim has an education in journalism and marketing from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. He was a Vistage/TEC member for over 12 years in Wisconsin and has served as chapter chair for YPO Wisconsin and education chair for YPO International’s Digital Marketing and Media Network.
Through Hanson Dodge, Tim and his team had the opportunity to work with leaders from some of America’s most revered brands like Trek Bicycles, Thule outdoor products, Keen Footwear and Briggs and Riley Luggage. His career has been focused on leveraging changing communication technology to help build strong brands and grow business revenue.
His consulting experience combined with his business operations experience and his career long involvement in CEO peer organizations positions him uniquely for his career as a Vistage Chair.
Along with his passion for helping grow business Tim is an avid skier, photographer, fisherman and part-time home fix it guy. He has been married to Denise for 42 years. Together they have 4 children, 3 grandchildren and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Cooper.
AJ Mirabedini, Chair
An innovative, outside-the-box thinker, with dynamic expertise in helping business leaders define and achieve success on their own terms. A mastery of the science and art of business management has evolved A.J. into a business disruptor leading the charge towards holistic business success. After a successful career building, growing, and selling businesses, A.J. is now dedicated to supporting other entrepreneurs during their lonely journey. He’s intimately familiar with bootstrapping, sacrifices, juggling acts of life, endless hours, and unique business needs. He’s supported others through failures and successes that come with the territory. A.J.’s commitment to other entrepreneurs is profound. A.J. is a serial entrepreneur, consummate business executive offering nearly 30 years of outstanding success history coaching, consulting, and leading entrepreneurial businesses, particularly founder-led organizations. He’s a passionate advocate of entrepreneurs globally and committed to their holistic success through a deep focus on the key pillars of success; finance, HR, marketing, SOP, products/ services. Recognized as a powerful, savvy business leader with strengths in navigating businesses through periods of challenge and explosive growth and profitability. A.J. is passionate about ensuring scalability and sustainability of client companies through team building, and empowerment of a well-trained organization. A.J. is valued as a key partner and contributor to the bottom line success of private equity and investor-led organizations alike.
Mark Herman, Chair
Born and raised in Albuquerque, Mark started working as a pizza maker at Dion’s after graduating from high school in 1987. In 1991 he graduated from the University of New Mexico with a BA in Economics and a dream of working on Wall Street. After a short, comically unsuccessful stint with MassMutual, Mark found himself back making pizzas to pay the bills. Over the years, he took on various roles in the company, always learning and always wanting to do more, earning him an unofficial MBA from The School of Hard Knocks. In 2006, Mark became COO and focused on aligning Dion’s culture, management talent, and systems to prepare for successful regional expansion. Mark became Chief Executive Officer in December 2013, and opened Tula’s Kitchen (Dion’s sister brand) in 2022.
Mark’s mission is to influence and inspire growth through authentic relationships and a commitment to growth. He has a passion for helping others get more of what they want out of work and life. Some of Mark’s biggest “aha” moments came through coaching youth soccer and on trail running adventures. In addition to work with local non-profits, he chairs a peer advisory group for Vistage, a global organization focused on developing CEOs and key executives. Mark is married, with two children and two stepchildren. When not eating pizza or sipping whiskey, he enjoys running and skiing through the mountains of New Mexico and Colorado.
Tiare Tawil, Chair
Tiare Tawil is a leader shaped by many life experiences and mountains climbed. With determination and her calm and deliberate presence, she has built and led high performing teams, created exceptional workplace cultures, articulated visions and set effective paths to execution. Tiare spent 18 years serving in Human Resources and Executive leadership roles within the healthcare and telecommunications industries. Most recently, she played a key role leading the transformation of an organization to historically high levels of both operational and financial excellence, leading to the successful sale of the company in 2015. She subsequently led the delicate and complex two-year process of post-acquisition integration, while expanding oversight across 10 states and managing greater than 50 million in revenue. She now serves as President of Vistage New Mexico and as a Vistage Chair, coaching CEOs and Business Owners and facilitating executive peer advisory groups.
At the center of Tiare’s heart is a passion for helping both companies and individuals achieve their full potential. She sees life as an exciting mountain to be climbed, a mixture of preparation, attention to detail and risk. This she has personally honed, both in the workplace and while scaling 6,000 meter glacial peaks in Bolivia and technical climbs on the desert towers of Utah. She values courage, honesty, integrity, hard work, and always being true to one’s self. These values have played a significant role in her effectiveness as a coach to those she’s led and worked alongside.
As the daughter of hard working parents who never graduated high school, she became the first in her family to achieve post secondary education. She holds a B.S. in BusinessManagement and a “PHD equivalent” in life.
Tiare’s passion outside of work includes her three sons, Daniel, Derek and Asher and husband, Isaac. She loves to travel and is an avid climber, skier, trail runner, mountain biker, and all around outdoor enthusiast.
“The rewarding part about being a chair is working with the members and watching the growth over time that they can’t even see.”
Janet Fogarty Vistage Chair since 1993, Denver, Colorado
Linda Gabbard
Vistage Chair since 2005
Atlanta, Georgia
I’m a huge believer in the power of a group. Vistage combines this with the opportunity to work with high-performing CEOs and entrepreneurs. Together we create growth and value for each member, their employees, their families and their entire community.
George Glover
Vistage Chair since 2016
Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK
As a CEO, I was blessed to have worked in five countries on three continents, and I thought that just the impact on people I’ve worked with and led was life-changing. But to be able impact those who I don’t directly work with—and their organizations—has been life-changing.
Allen Hauge
Vistage Chair since 1994
St. Louis, MO
The life of a Chair for me has been extraordinarily rich. If you have any orientation toward learning, it’s the best learning experience you will have as an adult, hands down.
“Chairing demands I give others the full range of my experience”
Chair Guillermo Hysaw fought racism on the football field and persevered through Jim Crow. He became a pioneering auto exec and, ultimately, a leader of leaders.
Arturo Lopez
Vistage Chair since 2014
Houston, Texas
My approach to Chairing is firm, compassionate and resolute. I come from a military background and have worked hard to be an agile Chair. I help my members bring a warrior mindset to challenges so they’re prepared to face anything.
Liza LeClaire
Vistage Chair since 2017
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
It’s not just helping them be more successful, it’s not just helping them make more money, it’s helping them be a better person.
Dwight Frindt
Vistage Chair since 1994
Orange County, California
What unleashes individual’s motivation? What gets team members focused, collaborating and acting effectively for a shared purpose? What keeps organizations productive and agile? These are the questions that drive my passion as a business leader and trusted advisor.
“I work with CEOs individually and in a peer advisory board format to help them lead more strategically, effectively and substantially on both personal and professional levels. I am passionate about calling forth a leader’s clarity and courage to act boldly in advancing their business.”
Mark Murphy Vistage Chair since 2012, Yorba Linda, CaliforniaTake the next step.
Vistage Chairs have realized the kind of success to which most only aspire. Now, they have the opportunity to share their knowledge and experience to help others.
