Dave Ballesteros
FAST Committee Chair
Dave has been a Director on the board since 2013. He and his family have volunteered with Second Chance for over 10 years. At home are seven four legged family members (all dogs), all of whom were Second Chance foster ‘failures’! Dave recently retired from GSK after 25 years in various marketing, finance, and business development roles.
Cathy Patton
Cathy first became involved with Second Chance as a participant in the Furry 5K with her daughter and grandpup Zaxby. With both daughters in college, she was excited to become more involved with helping such a great organization by joining the board in 2015. She shares her empty nest with her husband, Pat, and their 15 year old rescued cat, Fudgy. Cathy is a Senior Manager at Hughes, Pittman & Gupton, where she has worked since 2004.
Bonnie Millis
Bonnie started volunteering with Second Chance in 2008 as a dog foster. She has also fostered cats, and enjoys volunteering at the various events that help fund our important mission. She has 2 cats that she adopted from Second Chance (Bella and Bryson) and a feral cat that is learning to enjoy the inside (Cody), and several chickens.
Ellen Marth McKim
Ellen joined the Board at Second Chance in October of 2015 and has been an animal lover her entire life. She and her husband Bruce currently have 3 dog, all rescues, and have started fostering at Second Chance. When not helping out at Second Chance, Ellen works at BottleMixx, a craft beer and specialty wine store in North Raleigh that she and her husband own. Previous to opening BottleMixx, Ellen spent 25 years in sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry and most recently retired from at Salix Pharmaceuticals in 2010.
Linda Aidukas
Chair - Volunteer Committee
Linda knew she was an animal lover since before learning to walk. She somehow ended up working in IT rather than a vet‘s office but has made up for the (tragic) shortage of animals in her childhood by steadily growing her family to include 4 rescue dogs, 2 laid-back cats, one hysterically funny bird, and one typical teenager. Linda joined the board of Second Chance in 2011 and is proud to be part of such a caring and dedicated organization. She has previously held the roles of Secretary and Vice President and focuses her efforts now on growing and supporting Second Chance’s volunteer family. She is also a foster mom to dogs. When not working or volunteering with Second Chance, she likes to read, cook, walk with the dogs, and take on the occasional home improvement project.
Christian LeBron
Christian joined the board of directors in 2015. She has always been passionate about animals and is very excited to help them by working with Second Chance. Christian currently has 2 dogs, named Patsy and Bowie. She graduated from North Carolina State University and lives in Cary with her husband and daughter. Christian is a CPA with a public accounting firm in Raleigh.
Dave Overdier
Dave has worked with Second Chance since June 2015 initially assisting with website maintenance. He joined the Board of Directors in October 2015. Having nearly twenty years of building database driven websites he brings a valuable and unique set of skills to the Second Chance team.
Dave is a cat person and has 3 gray tabbies at home, all of whom were rescued as kittens from shelters or found as strays. Aubrey is still going strong at the ripe old age of 16. Maggie and Zeus (the only bachelor in the house) are the relative youngsters at 12.
