Karen Greenwood
Chair
After relocating from New Hampshire to Michigan in 1998, Karen fell in love with the area and along with her husband decided to plant roots and start a family. Her and her husband moved to Troy in 2001 and still reside in the city. Karen has been actively involved in Troy and the surrounding community including serving on the Board of Directors of the Stage Nature Center. She loves spending time walking the trails or volunteering her time to support the center.
Karen earned her MBA from Davenport University and holds many professional accreditations. Karen also devotes a large portion of her time to the Real Estate industry including leadership roles in the National Association of Realtors, as a Michigan Realtors Public Policy appointee, and having served as the 2017 President for the largest realtor association in Michigan, the Greater Metropolitan Association of Realtors.
Outside of real estate, Karen enjoys spending time with her friends and family exploring all the wonders Michigan has to offer and relaxing at her cottage in Caseville, MI.
Jennette Smith Kotila
Vice Chair
Great media relations and content marketing strategies boil down to great storytelling and a knack for “finding the angle.” Jennette is particularly skilled at this due to her more than 20 years of experience as a business journalist prior to a career change to marketing and public relations, she was previously a commercial real estate reporter and executive editor of Crain’s Detroit Business and as VP marketing and communications for CORE Partners, a Michigan-based full-service commercial real estate firm. Jennette joined MCCI in 2018 and became part of the ownership team in 2020, serving in a lead client relations role on select accounts and more recently, leading business development for several economic development and infrastructure accounts.
Jennette has extensive experience with event partnerships and philanthropic efforts. She served on the steering committee for the Detroit Homecoming events, an annual in-person and hybrid conference that attracts philanthropy and investment by expats/former Detroiters. Beyond her work with the Troy Community Foundation, she is the chair of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s volunteer Trustee Marketing Council and serves on the governing board of the award-winning Michigan mentoring nonprofit Winning Futures. She's been a Troy resident since 2009 and has six kids in a blended family with her husband Mike.
Jon Boguth
Secretary
Jon Boguth would like the Troy Community Foundation to help make Troy a little more interesting, and to support the great work that its residents are doing to improve the community. Jon and his wife have lived in Troy since 2013, but he has been nearly a lifelong resident of Michigan, growing up in Sterling Heights and spending seven years in Ann Arbor. His two boys attend Harlan Elementary in BPS.
Jon would rather be golfing, but he also works as an attorney (focusing on technology transactions), is the chairman of a nonprofit organization working to reform economic development initiatives from a free-market perspective, occasionally writes a blog, and is somewhat addicted to Twitter (reach out to him there).
Dan Duggan
Board Member
Dan Duggan has been a Troy resident since 2007 and is a (nearly) lifelong resident of metro Detroit. He is employed as the vice president of loan origination at Bernard Financial Group, the largest commercial mortgage banking firm in Michigan. He came to this role after more than a decade of real estate and executive level media experience in Detroit and Chicago.
In addition to the Troy Community Foundation, Dan is serving a two-year term on the board of directors for the Commercial Board of REALTORS for the state of Michigan and is chair of the programming committee.
Dan is a proud graduate of Michigan State University and the fifth generation of his family to call metropolitan Detroit his home. He is a member of Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park. He enjoys spending time with his wife, three children and newly-adopted dog.
Doug Tietz
Board Member
Doug Tietz has led communication efforts around the United States, including four years as the Senior Adviser to a United States Congressman, and other efforts as President of Great Dane Marketing Services Inc.
Doug has been active in the community as: President of the Troy Toastmasters, President of the Troy Kiwanis, coach with Troy Youth Soccer League, and coach with Upwards basketball. In addition to those activities, Doug served as an elected Troy City Councilman and County Commissioner. In 2015, Doug Tietz and Mayor Slater founded the Troy Community Foundation with no supporters, no money, and no idea what they were getting into. Through their efforts the foundation grew to more than $850,000 in endowments and assets in five years.
All that aside, Doug’s best times are with his wife and family.