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Amy Treece’s relationship with Pardee is deeply rooted, as it goes back to the day she was born at Pardee Hospital. Many years later in her tenure with a local bank, she began looking for ways to give back to the community she loves and her philanthropic spirit brought her to the Pardee Hospital Foundation as a Women Helping Women committee volunteer, Foundation Board member and Board chairman.
Over the years, Amy fell in love with the mission of the hospital and the Foundation and knew that was where she wanted to spend more of her time. She eventually joined the hospital staff as Community & Government Affairs Officer, and it was a natural transition in 2022 to move from that role into Executive Director for the Foundation.
Amy and her husband Stan live in Hendersonville with their hound dog, Buddy. When she is not advocating for the Foundation, Amy is happiest spending time with her husband and tending to anything that grows outdoors.
Combining an empathetic nature, logical mindset, and general love of philanthropy, Matthew Kemper proudly joined the Pardee Hospital Foundation in December 2023. The mission at Pardee matches his appreciation of what community can do and respect for what healthcare offers everyone. Matthew looks forward to being a caring conduit of connecting people and philanthropy. This desire to make meaningful impact matches his volunteer work with multiple non-profits and excitement to what we can accomplish together.
Professionally, Matthew has worked in multiple industries, including orthopedics, automotive, and IT. Using those experiences, a B.S. from Indiana State, and M.P.M from Western Carolina University, he finds good ways to translate it to his non-profit work each day. Add on his love of his two children, Jenna and John, fiancé, Kay, and family and Matthew finds motivation caring for them and the WNC community.
Carey Barnett is a mission-driven financial and operations professional with over 20 years of experience supporting nonprofit organizations, foundations, and healthcare services. Carey brings a detail-oriented, service-first approach to fund and grant management, audit preparation, and donor relations.
Her career spans leadership roles in nonprofit financial operations, including 14 years with The Ivey Memory Wellness Day Center, where she served as Business Support Manager and Certified Care Manager. In this dual role, she provided compassionate guidance to families navigating dementia and Parkinson’s care, while also managing accounting systems, donor administration, and compliance functions.
Carey began her career with NationsBank/Bank of America, where she steadily advanced over 14 years in roles that sharpened her skills in process management and customer service.
She holds a Master of Health Administration from Queens University. Carey is also a nationally Certified Care Manager (CMC), combining her financial acumen with deep empathy for mission-based work.
Christine Gordon brings more than two decades of experience in healthcare marketing and public relations to her role as Marketing and Communications Manager for Pardee Hospital Foundation. She is passionate about sharing stories that inspire generosity and build meaningful connections between donors, patients, and the communities they serve.
Christine’s career has focused on helping healthcare organizations strengthen trust and deepen community engagement. Prior to joining Pardee Hospital Foundation, she served in leadership roles with Erlanger in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she guided communications and marketing strategies that highlighted the impact of physicians, patient care and philanthropy.
A graduate of the College of Charleston with a degree in Communications, Christine and her husband are grateful to be closer to family in Western North Carolina. Outside of work, she enjoys time with her husband and their three daughters, whether on the soccer field, out on the water or together on the family farm. She is honored to support Pardee Hospital Foundation’s mission and to celebrate the donors, the hospital, and the communities in Western North Carolina the Foundation proudly serves.
