Executive Team

FoundCare Executive Team

Yolette Bonnet, Chief Executive Officer
Yolette Bonnet has an MBA from Dowling College in NY, is a skilled administrator and advocate for healthcare services. Ms. Bonnet has 20 years of experience in leading healthcare teams and joined FoundCare in 2001 as one the organization’s founding members (FoundCare received its articles of incorporation in 2002). Her leadership in administration at the Executive Management level helps to further the FQHC mission here in Palm Beach County as well as nationally from a model perspective. She received a Community Health Leadership award from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2007. Ms. Bonnet is a leader for the Executive Women of The Palm Beaches, the Palm Beach Medical Society and sits on several healthcare alliance ‘think-tanks’ and committees throughout Palm Beach County.

Larry Leed, Chief Operating Officer
Larry Leed attended Ricker College of the Northeast, Houlton Maine, and has also completed two years operations training at the American Institute of Banking in New York City. Mr. Leed joined the Bank of New York in 1972. In 1978 he joined the Mitsui Bank Ltd. in New York where he became the first American officer of the bank, and left the bank in 1990 as a Senior Vice President prior to moving to Florida and joining the Comprehensive AIDS Program (CAP) in 1991. In his years at CAP he has held positions as Administrative and Finance Manager, CFO, and Interim Executive Director. Presently at CAP for nearly 20 years he is the Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operations Officer. He responsible for all agency operations, development and personnel administration. He also assists the Chief Executive Officer in all agency activities.

Dr. Rik Pavlescak, Chief Program Officer
Dr. Pavlescak joined Comprehensive AIDS Program (CAP) in 1989 as a volunteer. In 2003 he became a HIV Prevention Manager at CAP and then in 2007 was promoted to Chief Program Officer. He has provided technical assistance, training, consultation and program evaluation to numerous government and non-profit programs for more than 20 years. He currently manages 26 different programs through sister agencies that reach 2000 people living with HIV/AIDS and more than 10,000 people annually with outreach and prevention services. Dr. Pavlescak has served on numerous planning groups and committees including the Florida HIV/AIDS Community Planning Group serving as the Chair of the Prevention Section, the local HIV/AIDS Community Planning Partnership serving as Chair and Co-Chair, and the Florida HIV Prevention Evaluation Consortium. Prior to coming to CAP, Dr. Pavlescak worked in the substance abuse field as an Ohio Licensed Social Worker and Certified Prevention Consultant.

Marcia Howard, Chief Financial Officer
Marcia Howard is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and attended the University of the West Indies where she graduated with a honors degree in accounting and economics. In 1988 Mrs. Howard migrated to New York from Jamaica, West Indies where she worked at Mitchell Titus and Co., CPAs and later Buchbinder Tunick & Co., CPAs. It was there that her journey into nonprofit accounting began. In 1994 she was the Controller/ Director of Finance and Administration at a Long Island, New York nonprofit agency. She became directly involved in the management of the agency that served homeless, underprivileged individuals and worked with individuals with the HIV/AIDS virus. After seven years of service in the Long Island community, Mrs. Howard relocated with her family to Wellington, Florida. She worked at the Lighthouse for the Blind as the Chief Financial Officer until March 2006 when she joined the staff at FoundCare as Chief Financial Officer.

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