Board of Directors

Cynthia is a B2B marketing and communications consultant with 25+ years leading and executing effective strategies for products and services in multi-billion-dollar business units, medium-sized businesses and startups in the technology sector. She spent 15 years of her career in France, working with international companies such as IBM as well as French- and UK-based startups, and the last eight years in Charleston working remotely with clients in the technology and recruitment process outsourcing industries.

Her education and career have allowed her to live in leading cultural centers such as New Orleans, Madrid, New York, Paris, and Normandy, where she regularly attended opera, musicals and live theatre productions. She and her husband Stephen are raising their teenage son Perry in Mt. Pleasant, along with their two French basset hounds, Louis and Albert.

Cynthia received an undergraduate degree from Tulane University in New Orleans and a master’s degree from NYU in Madrid. She and her family are dual French American citizens.

Dr. Ellen Lockhart is an obstetric anesthesiologist who has spent many years caring for women with high-risk pregnancies.  Her research focused on sleep disorders in pregnancy and treatment interventions and their impact on adverse maternal and fetal outcomes. Dr. Lockhart earned a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and a medical degree from the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School. After completing an anesthesiology residency at Barnes Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis, she completed a fellowship in obstetric anesthesiology at Duke University. She is an elected member of the Association of University Anesthesiologists. Prior to her career in academic leadership recruitment, Dr. Lockhart served in progressive leadership roles at Vanderbilt University and most recently at Washington University in St. Louis where she served as Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Anesthesiology.

Jay Millard has worked professionally in television production since he was eighteen years old. Starting out at an educational television station in Hartford, CT and then moving to New York City in 1975, Jay worked on his first nationally televised commercial network program The Edge of Night on ABC, for which he won his first Emmy Award along with the crew for Technical Excellence. Since then, Jay has won three additional Emmy Awards, as well as a Directors Guild of America and a Peabody Award for shows to which he has contributed. Since 1979, Jay has had the Metropolitan Opera as a client, working on live and taped performance broadcasts as a Cameraman and as an Associate Director.

Realizing the joy that opera and classical music has given to Jay, he was honored to be asked to be on the Board of Directors for HALO in 2021. He would like to bring this musical genre to as many people in the Lowcountry as possible.