Board of Directors

Ilona Birenbaum is a leadership and organizational consultant/leadership coach with over 25 years of experience and a diverse organizational development background. She is an adjunct professor and coach with American University’s School of Public Affairs’ Key Executive Leadership Program. Her specialties include leadership coaching, facilitation, change management, leadership assessment and development, action learning, performance management, training, strategic planning, and conflict resolution.

Jim is a Director at Clearsight Advisors. Jim has over 15 years of experience in leadership roles at various investment banking, private equity and operating enterprises throughout his career. Most recently he was a senior member of the investment banking team at Outcome Capital. Jim has been involved in many M&A and capital raising transactions in his career with a variety of key strategic acquirers and private equity investors. Jim originally hails from upstate New York, where he spent the long dark winters cultivating his love of baseball, history, and fond dreams of moving southward. He and his lovely wife are happily married with four children, who keep him looking old but feeling young. Jim has an MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.

Virginia (Gin) Kinneman is the owner and principal agent of Kinneman Insurance, which has been serving the Metro DC area with offices in Alexandria and McLean, Virginia since 1997. Prior to that, she was in banking for thirteen years; her final banking position was as an Assistant Vice President at a regional bank. She has the professional designation of Life Underwriting Training Council Fellowship (LUTCF) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from George Mason University. She currently serves on the Alexandria Small Business Development Center board, 2019 to present. Gin also serves on the Greenhill’s Pickett Place Community Foundation. She served on the board of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce from 2014-2019, her involvement with the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce included serving as the Board Chair, Membership Chair and the Chair of the Women’s Networking Group. Further, her ongoing service on a national advisory board to the president of Nationwide Insurance (2011 to 2016) an appointment on the McLean Planning Commission (2010 to 2016) as a commercial landowner. Recent community groups she has supported through volunteering include: MADD, The Alexandria Police Foundation, Volunteer Alexandria, The Capital Area Food Bank, The Alexandria Sportsman’s Club and National Night Out. Gin and her husband Eric live in Annandale, Virginia. She enjoys a wide variety of professional and personal activities. Her personal hobbies include: photography and weaving.

Ted Phillips is a CPA specializing in tax services. He has over 20 years of experience working with individuals, trusts, estates and small businesses. He earned his undergrad degrees in accounting and finance from Indiana University, and his Masters in Taxation from American University. Ted and his wife, Carrie, reside in the Del Ray section of Alexandria with their sons, Brandon and Benjamin.

Ambreen Rizvi, CCTS (Corporate Certified Trust Specialist) has over 18 years of experience in risk management, operations and program management, and regulatory relations in financial services including Fannie Mae and Capital One. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from Mount Holyoke College, and a Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate from Georgetown University. Ambreen is fluent in English, French and Urdu. She joined the NHH board on July 1, 2018, and is a proud Rotarian/ President-Elect Nominee of her local Rotary club.