The President serves as the Chief Executive Officer and plans, directs, administers, and coordinates all activities of the Association, under the direction and guidance of the Board of Directors. The CEO/President maintains effective internal and external relationships with staff, the Board of Directors, the House of Delegates, committees, task forces, and AAHSA's state associations.

William L. (Larry) Minnix, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer

Larry Minnix is President and CEO of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, a position he has held since 2001.

Dr. Minnix has been in mental health and aging services fields for over 35 years. He was associated with the Wesley Woods Center of Emory University for 28 years, where he started as an administrative intern in 1972 and rose to the position of CEO, a position he held for 10 years until he joined AAHSA. Wesley Woods is a comprehensive aging services organization, with acute, outpatient, outreach, housing, and nursing home care within the academic context of Emory University.

Larry is a frequent speaker on long term care, quality, ethics, and policy. He has served on numerous commissions and boards. Larry earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Emory University. He received his Doctor of Ministry degree there and is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church.

Katrinka (Katie) Smith Sloan
Chief Operations Officer and Senior Vice President, Member Services

Katrinka (Katie) Smith Sloan is Chief Operations Officer and Senior Vice President, Member Services of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. In this position, she is the key leader for all of AAHSA's operations and membership-related initiatives and services.

Sloan is responsible for building stronger and more effective relationships among the association's key stakeholders, including state associations and their leadership, member organizations, and AAHSA partners. She leads the Association's Quality First initiative. She is also responsible for managing the operational aspects of the Association to enable the Association to grow and ensure its financial strength.

She joined AAHSA in April 2002, after having served in a number of key leadership positions at AARP. As a member of AARP's senior leadership team, Sloan was responsible for major social marketing initiatives to carry out the association's strategic priorities in health, economic security, and consumer protection.

Sloan has a strong commitment to the consumer movement, and serves as secretary-treasurer of the Consumer Federation of America. She has a master's degree from The George Washington University and a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College.

Tom Slemmer
AAHSA Board Chair

Tom Slemmer is the board chair of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.

Slemmer is president and CEO of National Church Residences (NCR) in Columbus, Ohio, an organization where he has served for more than 30 years. NCR provides affordable housing, health care and supportive services to modest-income seniors and their throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.

In addition to his involvement as board member, Slemmer has served on numerous AAHSA commissions and committees. Currently, he is chair of AAHSA’s long-term care financing steering committee and the co-chair of the association’s financing affordable housing cabinet. Slemmer has also served as vice president of the board of directors of the Ohio Association of Philanthropic Homes and Housing for the Aging (AOPHA) and past chair of AOPHA’s Housing Committee. He is a former Ohio Capital Corporation board member and is currently on the board of the National Affordable Housing Trust.

A passionate advocate, Slemmer regularly testifies before Congressional Committees about the need for affordable senior housing and other public policies that benefit America’s older adults.

He holds bachelor and master’s degrees in resource development and land use planning from The Ohio State University.

Suzanne Weiss
Senior Vice President, Advocacy

Suzanne Weiss is the Senior Vice President, Advocacy of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. In this role, she coordinates the association's public policy development and government relations efforts for housing, continuing care, assisted living, health care, and community-based services.

Before joining AAHSA more than 19 years ago, Weiss was a consultant to the US Department of Health and Human Services on health manpower issues before. She also practiced law in Colorado and Wisconsin.

Prior to assuming the post of Senior Vice President for Advocacy, she was Vice President for Public Policy and Counsel to the Policy Division.

Her bachelor's degree is from Viterbo College in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She has a master's from the Ohio State University and a law degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Robyn I. Stone, Dr.P.H.
Executive Director, Institute for the Future of Aging Services
Senior Vice President of Research

Robyn I. Stone, a noted researcher and leading international authority on aging and long-term care policy, joined AAHSA to establish and oversee the Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS).

Stone came to AAHSA from the International Longevity Center-USA in New York, NY, where she was executive director and chief operating officer. Previously, she worked for the Federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now known as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality). Stone also served the White House as deputy assistant secretary for disability, aging and long-term care policy and as acting assistant secretary for aging in the Department of Health and Human Services under the Clinton Administration. She was a senior researcher at the National Center for Health Services and at Project Hope's Center for Health Affairs. She was on the staff of the 1989 Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care and the 1993 Clinton Administration Task Force on Health Care Reform.

She holds a doctorate in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.

Zachary Sikes
Senior Vice President, Corporate Relations & Business Development

Zachary Sikes most recently worked as a consultant to Pfizer, Inc., where he was responsible for the company's Medical Society eCooperative. He also managed many of Pfizer's external partner relations, including CAST. Prior to joining Pfizer, Zachary worked as a vice president for Partners Consulting Services and has experience with a number of consulting firms, including IBM, Arthur D. Little and The IT Group. He also served as captain in the United States Air Force.

Zachary will be responsible for cultivating corporate America's interest in the mission of long-term care, which affects virtually all American families. He will identify, recommend and cultivate opportunities for AAHSA and its members to form partnerships within the corporate community and oversee this community's role in several AAHSA's programs, including group purchasing and shared services, sponsorships, fundraising and AAHSA's Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST).

Zachary received a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Military Academy and a Masters degree in National Security Studies with a focus on technology policy and competitive intelligence from Georgetown University.