Core Leadership Team

Morgan Binswanger
Missy Douthit
Philippe G. Hills
Greg Lee
Andy Miller
Betty Otter-Nickerson
Mona Patel
Doug Ulman

Morgan Binswanger
Chief of Staff

Morgan Binswanger joined LIVESTRONG as Chief of Staff in June 2008. He is a member of the executive management team and provides leadership, direction and vision facilitating LIVESTRONG's short-term and long-term strategic planning.

His responsibilities include managing the LIVESTRONG's vision and purpose, creating mileposts and symbols to rally support behind the vision and making the vision sharable by everyone. He also defines, develops and implements a leadership development program for the management team and serves as a bridge on business and politically related activities relative to LIVESTRONG's growth and position within the world of philanthropy. He works closely with the LIVESTRONG Board and its committees.

Before joining LIVESTRONG, Morgan served as Interim COO for Habitat for Humanity Greater Los Angeles and as Director of Habitat's Jimmy Carter Work Project. Prior to that, he was the COO for the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Co-Director of the Creative Artists Agency Foundation for seven years. He has served as a consultant for Rock the Vote, the Broad Foundation and America's Promise. He served at the United States Department of Education as Chief of Staff in Elementary and Secondary Education. Morgan taught history and coached for four years at Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts.

He has a B.A. in history from Bowdoin College and studied language at Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata, Japan. He serves on the Board of The League, a national afterschool initiative.

He reluctantly runs marathons and preferably eats blueberry pies from his home state of Maine.

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Missy Douthit
Executive Vice President of Advocacy & Engagement

Missy Douthit is the Executive Vice President of Advocacy & Engagement. She is a member of the executive management team and is responsible for the growth and engagement of the global grassroots LIVESTRONG movement. In her role, Missy provides strategic direction for the Advocacy, Government Relations, Communications, and Marketing teams to ensure that LIVESTRONG constituents have a variety of different ways to get involved and engage with the LIVESTRONG movement for a world without cancer. 

Prior to joining LIVESTRONG, Missy had a 16 year retailing and merchandise career in the corporate sector. She began her retailing career at Neiman Marcus in the Executive Development Program where she remained for eight years. When she and her husband decided to relocate to Austin from Dallas, Missy joined Golfsmith where she was Director of Inventory Management for the retail, catalog, and ecommerce divisions. 

In the fall of 2004, Missy took a sabbatical from the corporate world. An avid cyclist, Missy decided to begin volunteering at LIVESTRONG in January 2005. During this time, LIVESTRONG was launching the LIVESTRONG ecommerce store and expanding the merchandise offering. Missy then began serving as an independent contractor to LIVESTRONG for that purpose. In January 2006, Missy joined the staff as Director of Merchandise Programs. Since that time, she has also provided leadership to Grassroots Fundraising, Annual Giving, Grassroots Advocacy, and Constituent Relations before assuming her current role. 

Missy has a BBA degree in Marketing from Texas A&M University. 

In her spare time, Missy enjoys cycling, catamaran sailing, hiking, yoga, and spending time with family and friends.

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Philippe G. Hills
Executive Vice President for Development

Phil joined LIVESTRONG as Executive Vice President for Development in 2008. Phil assumes this role as LIVESTRONG continues its fight against cancer through its public health and education programs, support of research and advocacy of comprehensive cancer policies at the state and national levels. Phil provides fundraising leadership and helps develop, prioritize and implement fundraising initiatives. His responsibilities include building the infrastructure of a development program that supports short-term and long-term fundraising goals, crafting a strategic development plan to increase restricted and unrestricted giving and developing a stewardship program that communicates with donors the positive impact their contributions have on the lives of cancer survivors and in the battle against cancer.

Prior to joining LIVESTRONG, Phil served as Vice President of Development for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. During his tenure at Emory, the Health Sciences Center raised more than $1.4 billion in philanthropic support. Previously, he was Director of Development and Alumni Affairs for the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida, Director of Major Gifts at George Washington University and the Executive Director of the National Alumni Association at The University of Tampa.

Phil has a B.A. in Political Science from The University of Tampa and a master's degree in Public Administration from George Washington University.

He has served on the Board of Directors for the Alliance to Improve Emory Village, is a past member of The University of Tampa Board of Trustees, past South Regional Chair for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Institutional Advancement and has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations in Washington, D.C., and Atlanta.

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Greg D. Lee, CPA
Chief Financial Officer

Greg Lee, CPA, is the Chief Financial Officer for LIVESTRONG, which inspires and empowers people affected by cancer. With more than 25 years of experience in financial management and work in the non-profit arena, he is responsible for the integrity and operation of all financial, accounting, and compliance activities for LIVESTRONG.

Prior to joining the LIVESTRONG, Greg served as the Manager of Finance and Administration for The University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO), where he was responsible for the finance, accounting, and compliance activities for this non-profit organization, managing the more than $21 billion in investments for The University of Texas System.

In his role as Vice President of Finance and Business Operations for the American Heart Association, he directed the activities of both the finance and operations functions, including 31 staff in 14 regional offices, revenues in excess of $32 million, a $28 million operating budget and an investment portfolio of $35 million. 

Greg also led a team of forensic accountants, conducting more than 168 white collar criminal investigations for the Texas Rangers. He also has extensive experience in designing and reengineering financial and accounting systems, where his work with the Texas State Auditor's Office led to comprehensive system changes in the finance and accounting structures for a number of Texas state agencies.

In addition to his current responsibilities at LIVESTRONG, Greg teaches several classes on Accounting Control Systems and Risk Assessment for the Institute of Internal Auditors.  He also teaches classes on budgeting, performance management, and statistical analysis for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. 

While a licensed CPA, Greg is working hard to break the stereotype of accountants.  During the last five years he has given more than 50 educational, motivational and inspirational presentations to a variety of corporate, civic and social groups.

In addition to his professional career, Greg often can be found chasing a golf ball around the links. He is a graduate of the University of Texas and has a wonderful wife and two kids.

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Andy Miller, MHSE, CHES
Executive Vice President of Mission

Andy Miller is Executive Vice President of Mission for LIVESTRONG. He oversees LIVESTRONG’s strategic direction and daily operations of its programmatic activities, including grants and partnerships, educational programs for those affected by cancer, and implementation of LIVESTRONG’s cancer policy platform.

Andy initially joined LIVESTRONG in 2003 to assume responsibility for the creation of LIVESTRONG’s public health initiatives and went on to oversee LIVESTRONG’s development of all survivorship programs. These included LIVESTRONG’s Community and Research Programs, its cooperative agreement with CDC to provide survivorship programs to underserved populations, and strategic partnerships development with other public health organizations to meet the priority needs outlined in the National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship.

Andy has worked to further the public’s health for the past fifteen years. Prior to joining LIVESTRONG, Andy directed the Physician Oncology Education Program, a joint project of Texas Medical Association and the Texas Cancer Council. The mission of the POEP was to educate primary care physicians on cancer prevention and early detection issues. Andy also worked at the University of Florida as a Health Educator, coordinating patient education on a variety of health-related topics for a campus of over 40,000 students. While at UF, he also served as the director of the Campus Alcohol and Drug Resource Center and coordinated grants from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education.

Andy has a B.A. from Southwestern University in Sociology and a Masters of Health Science Education from the University of Florida in Community Health Education and Promotion. He is also a Certified Health Education Specialist.

Andy current serves on the Board of Directors for the Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials (ENACCT), the National LGBT Cancer Network, and AIDS Services of Austin. He is also serves on the National Partnership for Comprehensive Cancer Control, the Advisory Committee for the Texas Cancer Registry, the Texas Pain Advocacy and Information Network, and the Texas Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition. He is also a member of the Equal Health Opportunity Committee of the American Public Health Association.

Andy lives in Austin, TX with his partner Brian and their 2-year old son, Clark.

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Betty Otter-Nickerson
Executive Vice President of Navigation Services and LIVESTRONG SurvivorCare

Betty Otter-Nickerson is the Executive Vice President of Navigation Services and LIVESTRONG SurvivorCare. Betty initially joined LIVESTRONG in 2005 as Chief Operating Officer responsible for strategic direction and leadership for Marketing, Business Development (Cause Marketing and Sponsorships), Event Fundraising and Production, Information Technology and Constituent Relations for LIVESTRONG.

Today, Betty has undertaken the intrapreneurial role of building a sustainable business around navigation to ensure those affected by cancer have access to the medical, informational, emotional and practical resources they need during a cancer journey to deal with the - LIVESTRONG SurvivorCare, the LIVESTRONG Care Plan, and the LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence Network are integral components of LAF’s Navigation Services offering.

Prior to joining LIVESTRONG, Betty served as President and Chief Executive Officer of GalleryWatch.com, an online legislative tracking service that is now part of Roll Call Group. She also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Vincera Software, Inc., Vice President of Operations for Product Management and Development for BMC Software and held a variety of technical and information technology positions at Lower Colorado River Authority, Syntex Pharmaceutical and TRW. She started her professional life as a social worker.

Betty has been deeply committed to the Austin community and served on numerous boards. Currently, she serves on the Capital Area Food Bank board. Betty also serves on advisory boards for the University of Texas College of Engineering, the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (an advisory committee for the Texas Emerging Technology Fund) and serves as a judge for the Global Moot Corp competition.

Betty holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of South Florida in Tampa, a B.S. in Information Management from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.

When she is not at the office, you can find her spending time with family and friends, on the tennis court or on her bike.

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Mona Patel
General Counsel and Executive Vice President of People & Organizational Development

Mona Patel joined LIVESTRONG in 2009 and is the General Counsel and Executive Vice President of People & Organizational Development. She is the primary steward of the culture at the Foundation and leads the people and organizational strategies to support the LAF's mission and future vision.  In addition, Mona oversees risk management, merchandise and branding strategy for the LAF.

Prior to joining LIVESTRONG, Mona served as General Counsel, Director of Human Resources & Organizational Development for Athleta, Inc. in Petaluma, California. During her tenure at Athleta, she focused on leadership development, corporate social responsibility and corporate communications. She also represented Athleta, Inc. in its acquisition by Gap, Inc. of San Francisco, California. Previously, she was Chief Legal Officer, Vice President of Human Resources at Patagonia, Inc., in Ventura, California, and served as pro bono counsel for 1% for the Planet.

Mona has a B.A. in Political Science from Boston College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She will receive an M.B.A. from both the Berkeley Haas School of Business and Columbia Business School in December 2009.  She is a member of the California, Vermont and Massachusetts State Bar Associations and is in the process of applying for membership in the Texas Bar Association.

She is a cancer advocate and has participated in numerous fundraising events in memory of her younger brother, who had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and in honor of her mother, who is a breast cancer survivor. Mona was a member of the Bristol Myers Squibb 2005 Tour of Hope Team and the LIVESTRONG's 2006 ING New York Marathon Team.

In her spare time, Mona enjoys photography, modern art & design, cycling, surfing, snowboarding and tennis.

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Doug Ulman
President and Chief Executive Officer

In his role as President and Chief Executive Officer Doug is ultimately responsible for the strategic vision and direction of LIVESTRONG.

Doug Ulman is a three-time cancer survivor and nationally recognized cancer advocate. After overcoming chondrosarcoma and malignant melanoma twice during his sophomore year in college, Doug and his family founded the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, a non-profit organization to provide support, education, and resources to young adults, their families and friends who are affected by cancer. He served as Executive Director of the Ulman Cancer Fund for four years before joining LIVESTRONG as director of survivorship in 2001.
 
Doug has received numerous awards for his leadership and community service. In 2002, Doug was selected from more than 20,000 individuals to appear on more than 15 million boxes of Wheaties Energy Crunch as an American Everyday Hero. In 2003, Doug was selected as the Austin Under-40 award winner in the healthcare category. In 2005, Doug was honored by both the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and the Association of Oncology Social Workers. Most recently Doug was named to the Non-Profit Times Power and Influence Top 50 for 2009, an honor bestowed to the top 50 Non-profit executives.

A frequent guest and contributor on national and local media programs, Doug has been featured on CNN, ABC News, NBC Nightly News, and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post among many other outlets. Doug also speaks frequently to corporations, civic organizations, schools and Universities covering topics including cancer, philanthropy, grassroots movements, social change, and social media.

Doug currently holds numerous civic and charitable board positions across the country and he just completed serving a four-year term as the Chairman of the National Cancer Institute Director's Consumer Liaison Group. He also sits on the executive board of the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, and is a founder of the LIVESTRONG Young Adult Alliance among many other board and advisory roles.

Following his three cancer diagnoses, Doug returned to the soccer field and helped Brown University to three Ivy League Championships in four years. He has participated in many marathons, including a 100-mile marathon in the Himalayan Mountains, the New York City and Boston marathons.

He spends his free time reading, playing golf, working out and traveling. Follow him on twitter @LIVESTRONGCEO.

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