Chimes Leadership

Leadership Team

Steve DaRe

President and CEO

Steve DaRe is the President and CEO for Chimes, bringing more than 30 years of specialty and managed healthcare finance and operations experience to the team. Prior to joining Chimes, Steve held the CFO role at Emergency Medical Associates (part of Alteon Health) and MEP Health (part of US Acute Care Associates.)

Earlier in his career he served as the senior vice president of finance at APS Healthcare, a behavioral health, disease management and specialty managed care company; was CFO of American Psych Systems, a behavioral health management company; and was a divisional CFO at Magellan Health Services, where he had overall financial responsibility for the public sector (State Medicaid/Tricare) division and acquisition integration activities for the Merit Behavioral and CMG Health purchases.

He holds an MBA from Loyola College and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Baltimore.

Brian Johnson

Chief Administrative Officer

In his role as Chief Administrative Officer, Brian oversees human resources, IT, compliance, facilities and legal functions for Chimes, which supports more than 25,000 people across six states and the District of Columbia. For the past 5 years, Brian has served as Chief Information Officer at Chimes.

Brian brings two decades of experience in healthcare finance management to this senior leadership position. Throughout his career, Brian has leveraged his extensive knowledge of financial and clinical analysis, budgeting and project management skills to take on roles of increasing responsibility with a number of leading national and regional healthcare and behavioral health service providers.

Brian earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from Towson University.

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Kevin Zgorski, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

In his role as Chief Financial Officer at Chimes, Kevin “Chip” Zgorski, CPA, provides strong fiscal oversight and supports the organization’s mission and operations.

Prior to his promotion to CFO in August 2022, he served as Controller from April 2014 to August 2022, where he managed key financial and accounting functions for the organization.

Pamela Z. Meadows

Chief Operating Officer

Pamela Z. Meadows is our Chief Operating Officer.  Prior to joining Chimes, she spent 13 years as the Executive Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at The Lightstone Group.  Prior to her tenure with Lightstone, Ms. Meadows served as the Executive Vice President of Human Resources for Prime Retail and played a pivotal role in forming the company’s human resources department.  Earlier in her career, Ms. Meadows was responsible for accounting, human resources and tenant relations with Shopco Management. Ms. Meadows is an active member of the Society of Human Resources and the National Payroll Association.

Executive Team

Shelly Shaffer

Senior Vice President, Strategic Operations & Business Expansion

Lindy Bowman

Senior Vice President of Development & Communications

Carmelo ‘Tito’ Crespo

Senior Vice President of Business Development

Nicholas Dunphy, JD, CHC, CHPC

Corporate Counsel

Heather Ayotte

Director of Operations, Chimes Virginia

Nicole Brown

Chief Operating Officer, Chimes Holcomb

Chuck Budd

Division Director, Chimes Delaware

Leslie Thompson, MNW, BSW

Division Director, Chimes Maryland

Board of Directors

Eric Danielson, Chair

Karen Holcomb, Secretary

Kevin Zgorski, Treasurer (non-voting member) *

Stephen DaRe*, President and CEO, ex-officio (non-voting member) *

Martin Brunk

Angel Figueroa

Jean Young Gillis

Aubrey Harris (non-voting member)*

Lionel Lyle

Michael Mitchell

Cindy Nanasi

Pamela Owens

Nancy Staisey

Mark Woodward

Michael Mitchell, Chair

Kevin Zgorski, Treasurer

Stephen DaRe, Secretary

Lindy Bowman (non-voting member)

Dr. Ogochukwu Ekwueme

Donald McGuire

Candice Ray

Douglas Schmidt, Chair

Mark Woodward, Vice-Chair

Karen Holcomb, Secretary

Eric Danielson

Stephen DaRe, President & CEO

Billy Don Farris

Tom Seamands

Pam Meadows

Kevin Zgorski, Treasurer