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Board of Directors
Our Board helps to guide and advance the HeroBox mission. The Board members make decisions on programming, funding, and a variety of other HeroBox activities. The Board holds quarterly meetings during which discussion and voting takes place. Below is a list of our Board members, consisting of political, military, community and business leaders; all share the common interest in supporting our Heroes.
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William Thielemann, Brigadier General USAR (Ret)
Chairman of the Board
board@herobox.org
General Thielemann commanded 1-121st Infantry Battalion (Mechanized) during its mobilization for DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM (1991). He served as Operations Officer of 1-108th Armor for the first reserve battalion rotation
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| to the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, CA (1983), and commander the 48th Brigade for the first brigade level reserve rotation to the National Training Center (1996). He led the Armor Battalion through transition to M1 Abrams tanks (1987), and led the Infantry Battalion through transition to M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles (1989). General Thielemann served as Ground Forces Commander during OPERATION CRESTED RIVER, the Georgia floods of 1994. |
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Ryan Housley
Executive Director
ryan@herobox.org
Ryan founded HeroBox in 2008 so that overseas troops could quickly and easily customize their support packages. He realized the need for such a solution after receiving special requests from his youngest brother who was deployed to Iraq in late 2007 with
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| the 25th ID. Ryan launched a simple web page (HeroBox 1.0) to field these requests from his brother and other soldiers. As word spread, the demand soon outweighed the supply and the little web page soon became a non-profit organization. Connect with Ryan on LinkedIn and Facebook. |
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Senator Ronnie Chance
Director
ronnie.chance@senate.ga.gov
Ronnie is a native Georgian and was first elected to the State Senate from Georgia's 16th District in 2004. He serves as chairman of the Government Oversight Committee, secretary of the Finance Committee and is a member of the Higher
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| Education and Economic Development committees. In 2006, Ronnie was appointed Senate Floor Leader by Governor Sonny Perdue. Ronnie is a 2007 graduate of Leadership Georgia and was recently named to James Magazine’s list of Most Influential Georgians. He has been named Georgia EMS’s Legislator of the Year for 2008 and recently received the Pathfinder Award from the Georgia Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission. |
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George Dillard III, Ph.D
Director
george@ptcchristian.com
Dr. George Dillard is the Senior Minister at Peachtree City Christian Church where he has been preaching since 1993. He graduated with his Bachelor of Science degree from Atlanta Christian College in 1983. He received both his Masters of |
| Ministry in 1995, and Dr. of Philosophy in Theology in 2001 from Evangelical Theological Seminary. George has been happily married to his wife Renee for 19 years and they have three children; Tiffany (17 years old), Alexis (13 years old), and Stewart (5 years old). George and his family live in Peachtree City, GA. |
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Major John Burrescia
Director
john@herobox.org
CPT Burrescia, a native of Dickinson, Texas, graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution in 2000. CPT Burrescia was commissioned a 2LT in the United States Army upon graduation and attended the
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| Engineer Officer Basic Course in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Upon arriving at Fort Hood, CPT Burrescia was assigned to Bravo Company, 20th Engineer Battalion (Lumberjacks) where he would spend the next 3 years in a variety of positions ranging from Combat Engineer platoon leader, and Combat Engineer Company Executive Officer. During this time CPT Burrescia would also deploy to Baghdad, Iraq in support of OIF II where he served in several staff positions to include 20th EN BN Asst S-3, and 1st Brigade EN. |
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Evan Housley
Director Emeritus
evan@herobox.org
Evan is the inspiration behind HeroBox. It was Evan's late night (or early morning?) talks with his brother that eventually led to HeroBox. Evan is a US Army Scout with the 25th ID and was deployed to Taji, Iraq in 2007. Evan is a graduate of McIntosh High School in Peachtree City, Georgia.
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