The Veteran Companion Animal Services Board of Directors provides oversight and leadership by adopting sound, ethical and legal governance and financial management policies that allow VCAS to best serve veterans for years to come. The board also plays a key role in fundraising so that VCAS can achieve its mission.
Meet The Team
He has been volunteering with VCAS for almost a year now. He was inspired to start volunteering with VCAS once he learned about
their mission. His daughter, Kym Ashford, is the VCAS Volunteer and Events Coordinator and decided that “I couldn’t let her have all the fun and
honor with helping our Veterans!” “I needed to find a way of paying it forward as well. Serving my country was one of the most rewarding things I had done in my life, and after retirement, there was a huge hole that needed filling. What better way to fill that hole than by taking two things very important to me; our nation’s veterans and the love and companionship of a dog and assisting the two to find each other!” Outside of VCAS his family keeps him busy. His wife, Pharol and him have two children, along with six grandchildren and four grand dogs.
Board of Directors
Previously, Supt. Petit was Vice President of faculty and regulatory compliance programs for an Ohio college. She also served as Director of Constituent Inquiries for Governor Taft and was Administrator for the Secretary of State’s campaign finance division during the Taft SOS administration. She also held positions with the former Diamond Savings & Loan in Findlay and Mid-American National Bank in Toledo.
Supt. Petit is also active on the national level where she served as President of the Association of Appraiser Regulatory Officials (AARO) from 2015-2016 and the international level, where she served as the 2019 President of the Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO). She is the only regulator to serve as president for both organizations.
Mr. Carrell is a retired Air Force Colonel, spending his career in Air Defense operations, education, and various base & HQ staff assignments. He holds multiple graduate degrees and completed his post-graduate fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is very active with Veterans organizations and foundations across central Ohio and nationally, and is passionate about the mission of VCAS to benefit veterans through the human-animal bond. He is grateful for the opportunity to serve and make a difference in veteran’s lives.