Executive Leadership and Leadership Team
The Management Team works as one team committed to Volunteer’s Mission. It is the Team’s belief that the key to organizational success lies in creating an environment where people thrive. Volunteer’s Management Team holds that philosophy and serves with a set of high standards by which the organization is measured, a set of values about how employees, colleagues, and communities ought to be treated and a set of principles that makes this organization unique and distinctive.
The following dedicated professionals are committed to excellence in the provision of mental health services. As dedicated leaders they serve together to reach desired goals, and they encompass decades of service in the Behavioral Health field. They are focused with a sense of direction for the future to the organization, employees and communities.
Executive Leadership Team
Chris Wyre
President/Chief Executive Officer
Phyllis Persinger
Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer
Greg Lewis
Clinical Director
Connie Farmer
Vice President of Grant Services
Kandy Templeton
Senior Vice President of Housing and Pharmacy Services
Dr. Troy Gilson
Medical Director
Aly Shelby
Executive Assistant
Leadership Team
Melissa Johnson
Vice President of Human Resources
Dawn Carlton
Vice President of Fiscal Services
Gala Murray
Vice President of Compliance and Quality Management Services
Robert Edmonds
Regional Vice President
Carrie Robinson
Regional Vice President
Sejal West
Regional Vice President
Kim Rush
Vice President of Community Health Services
Aaron Hall
Vice President of Information Technology
Angela Hampton
Vice President of Administration
Angela Murphy
Centralized Access/Customer Service Director
Mary Chesnut
Housing Operations and Planning Director
Angie Stokes
Vice President of Nursing
Laura Tedesco
Vice President of Crisis Services
Nancy Carroll
Crisis Director, Southeast Region
Ron Abrams
Center Director
Bryan Herriman
Center Director
Shirley Jennings
Center Director
Nathan Miller
Center Director
Tonya Moran
Center Director
Susan Phillips
Center Director
Christopher Sales
Center Director
Anne Stamps
Center Director
Nakita Watts
Center Director
Melissa Wilson
Center Director
