Meet Our Leadership

In February 2020, Teri Nestel was named interim president & chief executive officer of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. She has served the organization for more than 31 years in a variety of leadership and operational roles.

She has been chief administration officer for the past nine years overseeing the areas of strategic and annual planning; information technology; finance and accounting; legal; human resources; diversity, equity and inclusion.

Prior to becoming CAO, she held a variety of positions including chief operating officer of Children’s Miracle Network UK & Ireland where she lived and worked in London, England building partnerships with children’s hospitals, corporate and media partnerships across the UK & Ireland.

She was also senior vice president of development overseeing corporate and other fundraising partnerships in the U.S. and Canada for more than ten years. Over the years, she developed productive cause-corporate relationships with most of the organization’s largest corporate partners including Walmart and Sam’s Club.

She joined CMN Hospitals in 1989 as a regional marketing director working with 28 hospitals and many regional corporate partners across ten states in the southeast.

Prior to joining CMN Hospitals, she worked in development at Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation for six years and in marketing at Chilton Corporation/Credit Bureau Services for five years.

Teri attended the University of Arkansas where she studied business administration. She is a lifelong learner who has received several certificates including the CFRE designation in 2004, certified integral coach in 2010 and certified trainer in Crucial Conversations in 2017.

She lives in Cottonwood Heights, UT with her husband, Dan Nestel, and two very large and furry Great Pyrenees. They have two adult children and three grandchildren.

As the Chief Program Officer at Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, Maureen Carlson leads a team focused on delivering programs to raise significant funds for children’s hospitals and highlighting the social impact children’s hospitals have on local communities.

With two decades of corporate social responsibility, nonprofit executive management and agency leadership experience, Maureen is a veteran in the corporate partnership, corporate social responsibility and maximized fundraising spaces.

For more than a decade, Maureen has been a sought-after consultant helping nonprofits increase their fundraising and companies maximize their social good. For the bulk of her career, Maureen was President of Good Scout, a social good agency. In that capacity, Maureen created best practices in securing and maximizing corporate/cause partnerships that have ignited more than $150 million in incremental fundraising and billions of positive branding impressions for her nonprofit and corporate clients. Her experience working on some of the most prolific and innovative cause/corporate partnerships in the marketplace gives her invaluable experiences into the nuances of propelling social impact success.

Maureen also worked as the SVP, Strategic Partnerships at Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. In that capacity she oversaw more than $300 million in fundraising. She has held roles in corporate social responsibility leadership in the automotive industry and as the acting SVP, Marketing and Communications at City of Hope Cancer Center.

Maureen is a nationally recognized speaker on the topic of corporate/cause partnerships and corporate social responsibility, successful selling and more. Her work has been seen in Forbes, Fast Company, The Nonprofit Times, Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post and in the book, “Nonprofit Selling 101.”

As the Chief Experience Officer for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, Clark Sweat leads a team dedicated to providing an excellent customer experience for the organization’s partners, member hospitals and donors and advocates.

Clark has more than 26 years of experience building partnerships to support children’s charities. His strategy of focusing on fewer, bigger partnerships and the importance of being relational, not transactional, have led to long-term alliances with companies like Walmart, Target, Costco, Williams-Sonoma, Marriott, RE/MAX, Procter & Gamble, General Mills, Johnson & Johnson, CVS, Speedway, Walgreen’s and Delta Air Lines — resulting in more than $2.5 billion dollars raised for children’s hospitals and other charities focused on kids’ health.

Under his leadership since returning to CMN Hospitals in 2011, fundraising revenue has increased by 77% which equates to more than $400 million annually.

Clark’s experience includes founding and leading a cause marketing consultancy, Cause 4 Good, to assist nonprofits and corporations in developing innovative and effective cause marketing campaigns. He also served as senior vice president of corporate alliances at ALSAC/St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where he focused on international development and grew his division from $17 million annually in 2006 to $75 million in 2010.

Clark and his teams have earned accolades in the philanthropic sector, including receiving the Cause Marketing Forum’s Golden Halo Award, in 2007 and 2014 — the only person to receive the award twice.

As an industry thought leader, Clark speaks often about how charities should work together to solve social injustices rather than view each other as competitors focused only on dollars while giving lip service to impact.

Clark holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and an EMBA from the University of Memphis. He and his wife, Jennifer, live in Heber, Utah, with their four sons.