2024 Women of Influence: Sarah Myer
Sarah Myer provides strategic guidance and operational leadership to support Indiana Sports Corp. in its mission to impact the community through sports.
Sarah Myer provides strategic guidance and operational leadership to support Indiana Sports Corp. in its mission to impact the community through sports.
Comptroller Elise Nieshalla’s office is responsible for reporting on Indiana’s finances, and it does so in a 900-plus-page “Annual Comprehensive Financial Report”—a volume that, because of its length, is not widely read.
Aimee O’Connor joined Thompson Thrift as vice president of property management in 2014. Previously, she had worked for Buckingham Cos. as senior property manager and CORE Realty Holdings Management as regional manager.
Mary Beth Oakes has more than 30 years of experience in the change-management consulting and office furniture industries.
In her 2-1/2 years at Indiana University, Nancy Paton has established and launched the first university-wide marketing and communications strategy; modernized and restructured marketing/communications; launched an internationally award-winning brand strategy and national campaign that has resulted in strengthened awareness and reputation for IU; and helped drive increased student applications across all IU campuses and IU Online.
Marci Reddick was a practicing attorney for 39 years, the last 21 of those at Taft, where she is now senior counsel after retiring from full-time practice at the end of 2021.
Julie Sharp leads the tax credit equity division at Merchants Capital, the real estate financing division of Merchants Bank.
Tanuja Singh became the 10th president of the University of Indianapolis in July 2023.
Veteran broadcaster Anne Marie Tiernon anchors the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts on WTHR-TV Channel 13. Her job includes presenting enterprise special reports and covering Indiana newsmakers, Olympians and Olympic hopefuls.
Donna Walker leads Hoosier Energy, a not-for-profit electric generation and transmission cooperative that provides wholesale service to 18 member distribution cooperatives in central and southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois.
As CEO of Purdue Polytechnic High Schools, which opened in 2017, Keeanna Warren oversees the school system’s overall administration, educational programs, financial management and strategic direction.
As president of DePauw University, Lori White oversees a campus of more than 1,900 students and 600 faculty and staff and a total annual budget of $115 million.
Tamara Winfrey-Harris has been president of the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana for almost two years. In 2023, she oversaw an organizational assessment to develop a bold new strategy.