David Taylor
President, Board of Directors
David Taylor currently co-owns and operates Tribe, Suzy Wong’s House of Yum & Play Dance Bar. Prior to starting those businesses, Taylor was a management consultant serving colleges and universities with a primary focus on strategic planning, organizational design, and process design.
Taylor chaired Artrageous 13 in 2000 and has been a member of the CARES board since 2006. He served as Co-Chair of the Fund development Committee in 2007-2008, Vice President in 2008-2009 and was elected Board President in December 2009.
Taylor earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, summa cum laude, from Birmingham-Southern College where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2003, he was elected to the Board of Governors of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC,) the nation’s largest GLBT civil rights organization, and served as a member of the Nashville HRC Steering Committee for many years. In 2003 he was also appointed by the Tennessee Board of Education to its Accountability Committee and was awarded the Community Service Award from Nashville Pride.
In 2007 Taylor was elected to the national Board of Directors of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, the nation’s largest GLBT PAC whose sole purpose is to help elect GLBT people to public office. He is currently co-chair of the Victory Fund Campaign Board’s Nominating Committee.
Taylor is a member of Leadership Nashville’s Class of 2008. He lives in the Belmont-Hillsboro neighborhood with his partner of 18 years, Michael Ward.
Joseph Interrante, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Joseph Interrante is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nashville CARES. He joined the staff of CARES in May of 1994.
Interrante received a B.A. from Brown University in 1974 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1983, and has taught at Harvard University and Oberlin College. In the mid 1980s he moved from academics to nonprofit work with the AIDS Action Committee of Boston MA. and later the AIDS Taskforce of Cleveland OH. In the early 1990s, he was a member of the Education Advisory Committee for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) and the Citizen's Committee on HIV/AIDS for Greater Cleveland. In Nashville, he has served on the Board for the Center for Nonprofit Management and the Community Investments Committee and Wellness Strategy Team for the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville.
Currently Interrante is Board Chair of the AIDS Action Council of Washington DC, a board member of the National Association of People with AIDS, and Board Co-Chair of the Southern AIDS Coalition. He also serves as a member of the Metro Nashville HIV/AIDS Planning Council, Co-Chair of the Tennessee AIDS Advocacy Network, and as a community advisor to the National Quality Center for HIV/AIDS.
In 2005, Interrante was recognized as Nonprofit CEO of the Year by the Association of Nonprofit Executives and in 2006 as Public Citizen of the Year by the Tennessee Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. He is a 2005 graduate of Leadership Nashville.
Interrante has been a caregiver to a person with AIDS and has himself been living with HIV infection for more than 26 years.
