Board of Directors

Vincent Burke, III

Vincent Burke III is a Senior Advisor at Brown Advisory, a leading independent investment management firm. He previously served as Managing Director of the Bank of Georgetown and as a Partner at Furey, Doolan & Abell, LLP in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Mr. Burke earned his law degree from the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America and holds a bachelor's degree from the College of the Holy Cross.

He is an active leader in the Washington, D.C. community, Mr. Burke has devoted significant time to supporting numerous nonprofit and service organizations. He currently serves as Chairman, President, and Trustee of the Clark-Winchcole Foundation. In addition, he is a Board Member of the Consortium of Catholic Academies and the Maryland Catholic Conference.

His prior leadership roles include Vice President and Trustee of The Supreme Court Historical Society, Trustee of the Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation, Board Member of HEROES, Inc., and Chairman of the Monumental Scholars Fund. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of the Consortium of Catholic Academies and held board positions with several respected organizations, including the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and the Christ Child Society.

He has also served on the Board of Trustees of Georgetown Preparatory School and Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, and has contributed to Catholic Charities DC.

Patrick Dorton

Patrick Dorton is a public affairs communications expert with extensive experience in corporate, financial, public policy, and political strategy and messaging. He is currently a Partner at Rational 360, a full service strategic communications firm in Washington, DC. He is an experienced spokesperson who has been quoted in more than 2,000 news stories during the past several years. Mr. Dorton served as a senior strategic advisor in the White House and for U.S. Senators, Congressmen, and the Senate Agriculture Committee and has directed fully integrated communications campaigns on behalf of companies and non-profits. Mr. Dorton has provided high-level counsel to companies and organizations such as RR Donnelley, Arthur Andersen, and KPMG; advised numerous Washington trade associations on sensitive PR situations; and worked on a wide variety of issues, including financial services, health care and medical research, business transactions, agriculture policy and education, human resources, tax policy, international trade, land use, privacy, aviation, and military defense.

Karen Grau

Karen Grau has built a robust banking career spanning over four decades, marked by significant leadership roles in financial management and reporting within various institutions. Beginning as Chief Financial Officer at FBR National Bank & Trust, she successfully navigated a charter conversion and acquisition, meeting stringent regulatory demands. Mrs. Grau had a pivotal role in establishing new community banks such as Congressional Bank and Monument Bank, overseeing their growth and financial stability, and managing key relationships with regulatory bodies. Mrs. Grau, a Montgomery County, Maryland resident, is an original Washingtonian and received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from the University of the District of Columbia.

Pinkie Dent Mayfield

Pinkie Dent Mayfield is Chief Communications Officer and Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company) where she is a key member of the executive team responsible for corporate affairs, public relations, communications, strategic initiatives and advising the chairman on matters of special interest. A seasoned finance executive, Mayfield previously served as the Vice President of Corporate Solutions, responsible for leadership and management of the company’s largest procurement contracts. She joined the company in 1998 as the Corporate Cash Manager, and she became the Assistant Treasurer in 1999.

Prior to joining Graham Holdings, Mayfield was a Vice President and Trust Officer at NationsBank (now Bank of America) in the Investment Services Division as part of the Foundations & Endowments Group. She began her career with Prudential-Bache Securities.

With a strong commitment to community service focused on the advancement of women and children through education, Mayfield currently chairs the board of the Washington Area Women’s Foundation. She serves on board of directors of the District of Columbia College Access Program (DC-CAP), the Arlington Chamber of Commerce and the Bullis School. She is also a trustee of the Philip L. Graham Fund and is a past chair of Leadership Greater Washington (Class of 2001).

Honored with the Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business Award (2013), Mayfield also received an Honorary Doctor of Laws (2016) from her alma mater, Trinity Washington University, where she previously served on the board of trustees.

Mayfield graduated magna cum laude with a BA in business administration from Trinity Washington University, and earned an MBA from the University of Maryland University College. She and her husband, Carl A. Mayfield, live in Washington, DC, with their two children.

Martin McCarthy

Mr. McCarthy has 18 years of experience in banking and real estate including underwriting experience. Mr. McCarthy has served as Senior Vice President, Commercial Real Estate and C&I Lending at Revere Bank, headquartered in Rockville, MD. From October 2010 until its sale in September 2016, Mr. McCarthy served as Vice President, Commercial Real Estate Loan Officer at Bank of Georgetown where he was also responsible for the management of a commercial real estate loan portfolio. Prior to joining the Bank of Georgetown, Mr. McCarthy worked as Associate Director at the mortgage banking firm, Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. Mr. McCarthy earned a B.A. degree in Political Science from Lehigh University, is a graduate of ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking, University of Pennsylvania, and earned the Wharton Leadership Certificate for Executive Leadership in Banking. Mr. McCarthy has been and is currently active on a number of boards and committees for various organizations in the WMA area since 2002. Mr. McCarthy currently serves on the Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation Board of Trustees & The Father McKenna Center Board of Directors.

Obiora (Bo) Menkiti

Bo Menkiti is the Founder and CEO of The Menkiti Group, a nationally recognized real estate company transforming neighborhoods with a double bottom line of social impact and financial returns. Over two decades, he has led $400MM in investment and more than 4.7M SF of development, with a current pipeline exceeding 3.5M SF. Through the Obsidian Catalyst Fund, Bo is pioneering new pathways for minority developers to access capital and scale impact nationwide

Prior to founding The Menkiti Group, Mr. Menkiti served as Chief Operating Officer of College Summit, a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the college enrollment rate of low-income students. He is also the Founder, and for twenty years, acted as the CEO of Keller Williams Capital Properties (KWCP), a brokerage that generated over $30B in annual sales under his leadership.

Named as the EY Entrepreneur of the Year, honored as CEO of the Year by WBJ, and recognized on the Swanepoel Power 200 multiple years, Bo is driven by one mission: to expand opportunity and transform communities through real estate.

Mr. Menkiti is currently Vice Chairman of the Board at City First Bank. He has served as a Director at CFBanc Corporation and City First Bank of DC as well as a former Director of WashingtonFirst Bankshares, Inc. and WashingtonFirst Bank.

Kelly Shooshan O’Shea

Kelly Shooshan O’Shea is the CEO of Shooshan Company, a real estate investment and development company in Arlington, VA. Prior to joining the Shooshan Company in 2003, Ms. Shooshan O’Shea was an Investment Analyst for Medical Office Properties, Inc., focusing on underwriting portfolio acquisitions. Ms. Shooshan O’Shea also worked as a Financial Analyst for Spaulding and Slye (currently Jones Lang LaSalle ) in the structured finance group.

She is a graduate of Georgetown University earning a Masters degree in Professional Studies in Real Estate, Real Estate Finance and a BS degree in Health Science.

David Pollin

Dave Pollin is the co-founder and president of the Buccini/Pollin Group (BPG), a full-service real estate acquisition, development and management company headquartered in Chevy Chase, MD. He also serves as chairman of PM Hotel Group, the hotel management affiliate of BPG. Mr. Pollin leads the firms' hotel acquisition, development, and capital markets efforts. In years past, Pollin served on the Federal City Council of Washington, DC; Starwood Hotels & Resorts North American Owner's Advisory Council; and the Owner Advisory Council of Hilton's Embassy Suites brand. Mr. Pollin was a founding board member of Monument Bank of Maryland and currently an advisory board member of Revere Bank in Maryland ; co-founder and president of the Board of Starlight Children's Foundation MidAtlantic; and regional chair of the Northeast U.S. Region of the Young Presidents Organization.

Charlie Tate

Charlie Tate was the President of Tate & Tryon, PC, an accounting and consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., until its acquisition in 2020 by RSM US, LLP, one of the 10th largest independent public accounting and advisory firms in the nation, where he was a Partner and Office Leader until his retirement in 2023. Mr. Tate previously served as a director of EagleBank and participated in the Audit and ALCO Committees. He has a CPA certificate from the District of Columbia and Maryland. He has been an active leader in the Washington, DC community throughout his career, volunteering his time to numerous non-profit organizations.

Kevin C. Virostek

Kevin Virostek recently retired as the Managing Partner for EY’s Greater Washington Region, where he led a team of 5,000 professionals and oversaw $1 billion in annual revenues. With a versatile career spanning audit, consulting, transaction support, and corporate development, Kevin has worked with Fortune 100 corporations and venture-backed startups alike. At EY, he managed multi-million-dollar client portfolios and provided strategic guidance across industries such as government contracting, life sciences, and technology.

In addition to his client-facing roles, Kevin played pivotal leadership roles in transactions and corporate development. He advised CEOs and investors on capital markets strategies and was instrumental in establishing EY’s Center for Strategic Transactions. His expertise includes governance, organizational transformation, capital allocation, and fostering diversity and inclusion.

Beyond his professional achievements, Kevin is deeply committed to giving back to the community. He has served on the boards of several prominent nonprofits in the Greater Washington area and actively mentors at-risk youth. A proud alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, Kevin earned his BA in Business Administration and further honed his leadership skills through EY’s Strategic Leadership Program at Harvard University.

A native Washingtonian, Kevin and his wife, Mary Anne, have three grown children and divide their time between Maryland and Michigan.