E.F. Chip Walsh ’89, President
Chip is in his second term as a representative on the Executive Committee and is the president of the Alumni Association for the 2023-2024 school year.
He is the founder and principal of Mercier Street, LLC, a commercial real estate development consulting firm. He also is a founding partner and the managing member of Sustainable Development Partners of Kansas City, a development company that has been recognized locally and nationally for its adaptive-reuse projects. Chip is a second-generation Pembroke Hill alumnus, holds a BA in political science from the University of Redlands, holds a law degree from University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and actively practiced for several years before pursuing his interests in commercial real estate development.

Caroline Hogan '15
Communications Committee Chair
Caroline is a news reporter for KSHB 41 News. She started her career after college at News-Press NOW in St. Joseph, MO as a weekday primetime anchor, then moved to Green Bay, WI to join NBC 26 as a reporter and anchor. Caroline earned her bachelor's degrees in journalism and fashion media from Southern Methodist University. Other relatives who graduated from Pembroke Hill include her brother Henry Hogan '18, her mother Christina Hogan '85 and her uncle West Valentine '89.

Mike Nixon '96,
Development Committee Chair, PHS Fund Alumni Chair
Mike has spent the last two decades in the housing industry as well as fundraising for his alma mater, Princeton University, and he is elated to bring both those skillsets home to Kansas City and Pembroke Hill. Mike currently works in residential real estate at ReeceNichols, on a team with his mother, Ann Nixon, and is also doing special projects consulting work and state lobbying with the Kansas City Regional Association of Realtors. Prior to that, Mike was in Washington, DC where he ran Federal mortgage policy for Wells Fargo. Prior to that Mike worked for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as a Senior Policy Advisor where he drafted a number of Dodd-Frank regulations, tackled legislative reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and shaped mortgage policy that ensured continued access to homeownership and sustainable mortgages for all creditworthy borrowers. Prior to that, Mike was at the investment bank, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., where he specialized in mortgage- and asset-backed securities. Mike holds an A.B. from Princeton University, where he has been Class Agent leading the Class of 2000 Annual Giving fundraising efforts since graduation. He also holds an MBA from The George Washington University Executive Program and is a proud class member of the Pembroke Hill School’s Class of 1996.

Foster Honeck ’11
Events Committee Chair
Foster is the Chief Operating Officer at Troutwine Ventures, where he works with companies in video game publishing, film and television production, early childhood education, brewing, and computer coding bootcamps. A lifelong Kansas City resident, Foster graduated from Pembroke Hill in 2011, and received bachelor's degrees from the University of Missouri in economics and political science.

Kimberly Firestone Cho ’96
Kim teaches chemistry and physics at Pembroke Hill and is the head coach of the Upper School Science Olympiad team. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Rice University and master’s and doctoral degrees in physical chemistry from the University of Washington. She is a parent of a preschooler in the Early Childhood School.