Board of Directors

Officers

William Bifulco, MBA | Board Chair

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Jodi M. Sturgeon | Vice Chair

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Zenali Tirado, JD | Secretary 

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Paul L. Wilder | Treasurer 

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Directors

Dorian Alexander, MD

Amelia Corbie, MBA

Lizanne Fontaine, JD, RN

Lionell G. Jackson, MBA

Neil Leibowitz, MD, JD

Donna Lichti, RN

Tina (HsinTing) Liu, CPA, MBA

Lilliam Perez

Peter Rivera, Esq.

Althea Serrant

Seth Townsend, PhD, MBA

Chairs Emeriti

Charles L. Burgess

Amanda Heron Parsons, MD, MBA

Directors Emeriti

Virginia Bird

Laura Parsons, PsyD

William M. Trust, Jr.

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William Bifulco is a native New Yorker who joined the VIP Board of Directors in 2017. He lives in New York City with his wife, Noreen and their son, Conor.

Will oversees the operations of the DC37 Welfare and associated Trust/Funds, where he is responsible for the prescription drug, optical, dental, audiology, legal, behavioral health, and annuity services for 300,000 NYC municipal workers and retirees. He has been in this position since 2021.

Previously he was Vice President of Clinical Administration of The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, responsible for the operations of all clinical services offered. Will joined Brookdale in 2014 to focus his career on servicing the underserved from Southampton Hospital, where he served as VP/CIO and VP Ambulatory services.

Will graduated from SUNY Stony Brook with a B.S. in Clinical Laboratory Sciences and an MBA. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from SUNY Stony Brook in 2006. In 2016 he published an article on Babesia infections in The Journal of Clinical Chemistry.

Jodi M. Sturgeon is President of PHI, a nonprofit committed to improving quality care for older adults and people with disabilities by creating quality jobs for direct care workers—including the country’s four million home health aides, personal care aides, and certified nursing assistants. Under Jodi’s leadership, PHI has worked with hundreds of employers and achieved state and national policy victories elevating compensation for millions of home care workers. PHI sees investing in training, support, fair compensation, and advancement for caregivers as not only a social justice issue, but as essential to strengthening the U.S. health care system.

Jodi has worked in nonprofit management for 30 years. She previously held Vice President and Chief Operating and Financial Officer roles at PHI, introducing innovations that strengthened the organization’s infrastructure and programs. Prior to PHI, Jodi served as Vice President of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, where she directed investment in housing, jobs, and services for low-income individuals and families. Jodi is currently the Vice Chair of VIP Community Services, a Bronx-based integrated medical, behavioral, housing, and social service organization and Board Treasurer of both Cooperative Home Care Associates in the Bronx, the largest worker-owned company in the country and Home Care Associates in Philadelphia.

Jodi received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Franklin Pierce University. She received an Advanced Certificate in Governmental Finance Administration from Southern New Hampshire University and completed the Senior Leaders Program for Nonprofit Professionals at Columbia Business School, Executive Education.

Zenali Tirado has been a member of VIP Board since 2013. She currently serves as Attorney and Vice President of Santa Barbara Realty Corporation, located in The Bronx, New York. She also handles legal contractual, and immigration matters in her personal practice. Zenali is a graduate of Tulane Law School and began her career as a criminal defense attorney at the Legal Aid Society. Thereafter, she specialized in immigration, handling deportation, asylum and exclusion hearings, before the Immigration Naturalization Service. as well as challenges before the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Zenali worked in the pension field for Mutual of America, TIAA-CREF and the Commission on college Retirement. She is a graduate of Cornell University.

Paul L Wilder is Executive Director of CommonWell Health Alliance where he is leading the organization into a new chapter empowering clinicians, practitioners, and individuals with nationwide interoperability services. With over two decades in health IT, Paul has focused on imaging, clinical informatics, and interoperability.


Before CommonWell, Paul was Vice President of Strategy & Business Development for Philips Interoperability Solutions. He also spent nearly a decade at the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) as Chief Information Officer, VP of Product Management, and Program Director for the Regional Extension Center. At NYeC, he helped almost 10,000 primary care providers attest to Meaningful Use, establishing New York as a leader in health IT adoption.

 

Earlier, Paul worked at McKesson, Fujifilm Medical Systems, and GE Healthcare. He holds an MBA from New York University with a focus on Finance and Operations and dual bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Biomedical Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Paul lives in the New York area with his wife, two daughters, and their dog Penny.