Our Team

We’re together for one reason—to transform the adoption process to ensure every child achieves belonging through family.

Every day we work as social workers, technologists, researchers, data analysts, family and program coordinators. But we’ve united for the sake of every stakeholder in a singular promise: We make connections, fast. At Adoption-Share, we’ve brought together the best strategic and empathetic minds to design something powerful—and we witness its impact every single day.

Meet our experienced, driven team—people from all over the globe who take families, children, and agency work to heart. Together, we’re crafting compassionate, streamlined, data-driven solutions that will change the lives of children and families everywhere.

Thea Ramirez

Founder + CEO

Lorin Sholander

Chief Operating Officer

Amy Simpson

Director of Program Delivery | Florida

Dr. Gian Gonzaga

Senior Consultant of Research and Data Analytics

Heather Setrakian

Senior Consultant of Research and Data Analytics

Dr. Vince Slaugh

Research Associate

Kristine Persaud

Agency Coordinator

Libby Sobkowiak

Family Coordinator | Florida

Kristina Mongillo

Family Coordinator | Georgia

Stephen Moxon

Lead Developer

Michelle Giordano

Director, Program Delivery for Florida

Eufayba Turnage

Executive Assistant

Jennifer Edson

Family-Match Family Coordinator, Virginia

Anna Tyson

Family-Match Director, Virginia

Elizabeth Flieg

Quality Assurance

Our Board of Directors

Dr. Gian Gonzaga

Stephen Mucchetti

Carlos Garcia

Shelby Patrice

Parker Lavin

Thea Ramirez

Jason Dandridge

Jason Dandridge

Senior Vice President and Head of Operations, Fannie Mae

Jason Dandridge is Fannie Mae’s Senior Vice President of Operations, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer. He leads all Operations for the enterprise focused on enabling value creation to meet the needs of investors, lenders, servicers, homeowners, and renters. Jason is a key leader driving the company’s efforts to digitally transform customer experience and the way work is executed. He is driving improvements in effectiveness and efficiency through automation, advanced analytics, data transformation, Product Management, Agile delivery, and Lean methods, and talent transformation. Jason also serves as Executive Sponsor for Psychological Safety and other cultural imperatives across the enterprise.

Prior to joining Fannie Mae in 2021, Jason was Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, reporting to the Head of Technology, Operations, and Firm Resilience. During his tenure, Jason served in multiple roles including Deputy Head of Technology and Operations Risk (cybersecurity, cyber resilience, fraud prevention, technology, data security, and operations risk management), Head of Strategy and Business Management for Technology and Operations (financial management, Agile, Platform, Cloud, workforce, and automation strategies / business management), Global Head of Fraud Prevention, and Head of the Baltimore People Center (institutional and wealth management operations, cyber, fraud, compliance, and finance. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Jason spent more than fifteen years at Capital One, most recently serving as Managing Vice President and Head of Risk Operations for the Retail Bank. In this capacity, he led risk analytics, fraud, claims, collections, recoveries, lending, customer advocacy, and debit operations. He was an instrumental leader in the rollout of Lean, Agile, and Platform for the Retail Bank. Early in his career, Jason was a management consultant with Kearney, focused on supply chain and operations strategy, and a technology consultant with American Management Systems focused on financial services software design and development.

Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Commerce from the University of Virginia (Management of Information Systems) and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (Strategy and Operations).