On the June 16th edition of PlayMakers Talk Show, our guests were:

Evelyn Costolo  – CEO of Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer (WOKC)

Michael Gibbons –  Former FBI Chief of Computer Investigations, Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal and speaker at The America’s Future Series: CYBER SECURITY SUMMIT

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Evelyn Costolo, CEO – Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer (WOKC)

Evelyn Costolo is CEO of Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer (WOKC), a Dallas-based nonprofit organization dedicated to raising funding and awareness for childhood cancer research.  Founded in 1980, Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer has raised over $4 million in the crusade against childhood cancer and spent over 30 years funding programs to not only fight childhood cancer, but to also provide hope and support to kids and families battling cancer.

Costolo has a strong track record in leadership positions including highly successful fund-raising roles for several Dallas non-profit groups.  She held multiple positions with Junior League of Dallas from 1999 through 2010:  Financial Vice President, Development Vice President (where her team exceeded goal and netted more than $1 million), Community Volunteer Fair chair, and Research and Development Chair (where she led a 45 person committee that allocated $1 million and 1,500 volunteers to the Dallas community.

Costolo was a member of the Texas Ballet Theater’s Council of Patrons, and a past member of the board of directors of Community Partners of Dallas and of Victims Outreach.  She served on the Ways and Means Committee of University Park Elementary, and currently serves on the Advisory Board of SMU’s Kappa Kappa Gamma, and was the 2009 chair of the Expanding Worlds luncheon. She lives with her husband and two children in University Park.

For more information about Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer, visit wokc.org.