Founders

Board of Directors

  • Jeremy Perque

    Jeremy Perque is a partner and financial advisor at Altus Wealth Management, an independent wealth management firm that helps clients focus on making better financial decisions to grow, protect and transfer their wealth. He became aware of the rare disease designation when his best friend, Taylor Gravois, was diagnosed with an IMFT tumor in 2019. Jeremy is a native of Chackbay, LA and 2003 graduate of Nicholls State University. He lives in Baton Rouge with his wife, Lindsay and their two children, Lillian and Alexander. They are parishioners of St. George Catholic Church and their children attend the St. James Episcopal Day School and the Montessori School of Baton Rouge

  • Kellie D. Schmeeckle, M.D.

    Kellie D. Schmeeckle, M.D., is a medical oncologist with Louisiana Hematology Oncology Associates in Baton Rouge with offices at Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center on Essen Lane and in the Breast & Gyn Cancer Pavilion at Woman’s Hospital. She grew up in Lake Charles, LA, and attended Louisiana Tech where she received her B.S. in Biological Sciences. Kellie went to medical school at LSUHSC in New Orleans and graduated in 2001. She then completed her internal medicine residency at LSU-N.O. in 2004 followed by a hematology/oncology fellowship at Tulane in 2007. Kellie is a parishioner at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church and resides with her husband and two children.