Executive Board
Of Directors
WoVO’s Board of Directors is the highest governing body of the organization, providing strategic oversight and guidance towards the fulfillment of WoVO’s mission. WoVO is led by these members who donate their time as volunteers and share their passion for the voiceover profession by serving in officer or director-at-large positions.
DAN LENARD
President
Dan Lenard, also known as “the Knowledgeable Voice” and “The Home Studio Master” is a co-founding Board Member and Vice President of Technical Standards for World-Voices Organization®. Hailing from Sherman Oaks, California, Dan has been a radio personality, a high school Media and Social Studies teacher, and currently is a freelance producer and professional voice artist and professional home voice over studio technical consultant. Dan specializes in commercial voiceover e-learning narration. He also has become a recognized industry expert and consultant in home VO studio setup and problem solving, specifically for voiceover artists new to the industry, or experienced, but with little or no self-recording experience. He is co-host of the popular weekly live webcast Voice Over Body Shop (http://vobs.tv) with George Whitham, which talks about home voice over studio tech, presents guests from the voice over industry and other relevant voice over industry news. His websites are: danlenard.com, homevoiceoverstudio.com & vobs.tv . His philosophy: Keep it simple!
RAMESH MAHTANI
Executive VP
The son of Indian parents, Ramesh grew up in the Canary Islands, Spain, the UK, and the USA. His career as a voice over artist spans over 20 years, a large component of which is public speaking. Thanks to his work experience in fields ranging from investment banking at Goldman Sachs to NGO’s and his multi-cultural diversity, Ramesh is able to create the right persona sounding convincing and real, working from a professional home studio in Spain with state-of-the-art equipment. His warm and friendly personality combined with efficiency and attention to detail have helped him consolidate his global voice over career in Europe and beyond.
MEMO SAUCEDA
Treasurer
Memo moved to Miami from Mexico in 1997 to host a TV show with Telemundo. He has been a member of SAG-AFTRA since 2000, a VO since 1989 and an actor since 1982, having worked in nearly every genre. He has served as the President of the AFTRA Miami local twice, and co-President of the SAG-AFTRA Miami local when they merged, and has always been actively involved in supporting his colleagues through various committees and board positions. He is proficient in both English and Spanish, with the majority of his work being VO commercials for the Hispanic market. He has dubbed Mel Gibson, John Travolta, and Kenneth Branagh in Spanish and has voiced over 3,000 characters. Always traveling with his recording equipment, his family has learned to accept that he may miss a meal or two on vacations. He has taught seminars for SAG-AFTRA, VO Atlanta, One Voice, and VO Conferences in Colombia and Mexico.
Jennifer Greenfield
Executive Secretary
Jen is a music theatre actor by trade, and uses her singing and acting experience to capture your audience’s attention, inspire them, and motivate them into action. Clients love working with Jen because she is fast, flexible, and fun. She loves collaborating on projects and working with the client to ensure their vision is complete.She has two teens, a Great Dane rescue, a Miniature Poodle, and a stray cat from Grand Cayman. Hands and heart full.
MIKE MCGONEGAL
VP of Membership
Mike McGonegal is a full-time voice actor living in the bucolic puckerbrush of Southern New Hampshire and is proud to serve as the Vice President of Membership for the World-Voices Organization®. A voice actor since 2008, Mike has used his IT and Engineering background to find a home in the e-learning genre. Mike has voiced projects for companies the world over on topics ranging from how various contrast agents work in CT scans to teaching kids how to figure the length of a parabola and just about every topic in between. Prior to joining the Board, Mike was part of the WoVO membership committee for a number of years. Outside of WoVO®, Mike is busy being an Assistant Scout Master for the local Boy Scout Troop, being a part of the local economic development committee, and finishing up his new booth so that he can move on to the next project – rebuilding a 98 Impreza L Coupe with his son with an aim to fit a 22b kit to it.
GEORGE WASHINGTON III
Member-at-large
George Washington III came to voiceover in 2003 after hosting corporate videos for a large multi-state bank in Charlotte, NC. Since then, he has grown into almost all areas of voiceover, including commercials, promo, video games, audiobooks, telephony, e-learning, and more. His proudest achievement is as the voice of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, DC. George graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in music, and performed with Opera Carolina in Charlotte for 10 years. He also spent 20+ years in Information Technology in large financial corporations. He is an event emcee, and currently is a fill-in traffic host at Fox 46 Charlotte, and Campus Director at the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, Charlotte Campus. He has one son and three daughters.
KARYN O'BRYANT
Member-at-large
Karyn O’Bryant entered the world of voiceover from an acting background. She has been performing for nearly 30 years, the last several in voiceover. She is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and has studied Improvisation Technique extensively. Karyn has voiced e-learning, documentary, imaging, commercial, telephony, radio, satire, and animation. She’s also an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. A proud “Founding 500” member of World-Voices Organization, Karyn is a “Member-at-Large” on WoVO’s® Executive Board, as well as former co-chair of the Outreach Committee and a member of the WoVOCon committee. She strives to bring awareness of WoVO® to the industry (especially to folks who hire voice talents), and to provide helpful resources to the WoVO® membership. She currently lives in Oregon, where she can also be seen onstage doing live vintage radio theatre.
JOE DAVIS
Member-at-large
Joe Davis graduated summa cum laude from the University at Buffalo with a degree in Media and Web Development. Joe has over 18 years of experience working in digital marketing, SEO and web development and has spent the last 8 years focused on the world of voice over. He has worked with numerous voice talent, agents, production companies and other VO professionals. When he isn’t working, Joe serves on the board of several non-profits, dances (salsa, swing and international folk dancing) and finds extremely cheap airfares to fly around the world.
Dustin Ebaugh
Founding Member and President Emeritus (2012-2015)
Dustin Ebaugh is a full-time voice actor living and working in Las Vegas, Nevada. He enjoys working with clients all over the globe to help grow their businesses. On April 19, 2012 he had the pleasure of founding World-Voices Organization, Inc. along with Dave Courvoisier, Dan Lenard and Chris Mezzolesta. Dustin served as the first president of the organization for just over three years (2012-2015). He also produced the first three annual conventions, known as WoVOCon. Dustin continues to be a proud supporter of World-Voices Organization, Inc. and serves on the Mentorship and Nominating Committees. He is married to his best friend, Kirissa Shipp, and someday will finish his To-Do List.
DAVE COURVOISIER
Founding Member and President Emeritus (2015-2018)
Dave Courvoisier is an Emmy-award winning TV journalist, a published author, and a full-time voice actor. Dave was the news anchor of the 5, 6, & 11 o’clock newscasts at the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas, NV until 2017. For over a decade, Dave has also developed his freelance voice-acting career, joined SAG-AFTRA, and enjoys success as one of the top voiceover bloggers in the business. His social media acumen, coupled with an industry-standard book titled: “More Than Just a Voice; The REAL Secret to VoiceOver Success” has garnered Dave acceptance as a thought-influencer in the community of voice actors. President of the World-Voices Organization Executive Board from May 2015-May 2018, Dave oversaw the day-to-day operations of the all-volunteer board, and is currently co-chair of the Outreach Committee.
PETER BISHOP
President Emeritus (2018-2020)
Peter Bishop proudly served as President of the World-Voices Organization from 2018-2020. He believes that the unity provided by such an organization empowers the membership and gives them a strong voice in the industry. Peter moved from London to New York in the mid-nineties and has been working as a full-time voice actor for the past ten years. Prior to that, his career in the IT & Corporate world provided experience and accreditation in training (Institute of Training & Development), project management (Project Management Institute) and presenting to diverse audiences. Peter’s career in a large multi-national corporation brings an appreciation of global issues to World-Voices Organization. Peter grew up listening to the BBC and has always maintained a love of high-quality audio productions. On occasion, he has been heard to say, “The pictures on the radio were always so much better than those on the television!”
KATHERIN
VASILOPOULOS
President Emeritus (2020-2021)
Katherin Vasilopoulos is a full-time professional voice talent and business owner at KVox Consulting, located in Montreal, Canada. Since 2009, she has offered professional voiceover, writing, and translation services in English and French Canadian to businesses and organizations around the world. With her background in molecular biology, journalism and voice training, and her ability to speak 4 languages (English, French, Greek, Spanish), she has held professional positions as a medical writer, editor, producer, narrator, and national advisory board consultant. She specializes in corporate and educational voiceovers for a variety of industries, with a focus on medical/pharmaceutical and aviation/aerospace programs. Katherin is the recipient of the 2009 Corus Entertainment Scholarship for Women in Audio Engineering at the Banff Center, in Alberta, Canada.
Katherin was also the previous Secretary (2014-2018) and Executive Vice-President (2018-2020) on the Executive Board of the World-Voices Organization®, where she proudly offered her organizational and documentation skills, and her strategic planning and big picture thinking to the collective effort of this volunteer organization, whose continued focus is to help establish worldwide technical and ethical business standards for the voiceover community.
