Meet Our Team
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Carla Anderson
Co-Founder and CEO
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Carla is a native of Shreveport and part of Elite’s founding team. She has been around the healthcare industry most of her life and oversees the growth and direction of Elite. Her passion remains grounded in helping people. Providing care for the elderly is a near and dear part of who she is. “If I had one lesson for caregivers in the trenches of caring for their loved ones, it would simply be to embrace the blessing of time.”
After graduating from Louisiana Tech, Carla received her master’s from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2006, where she interned at a children’s hospital in Fort Worth. She is an avid music fan and enjoys traveling, basketball, and being on the back patio with her family. She is married and mom to two beautiful daughters.
Joanna King
Co-Founder and COO
A native of Shreveport and part of Elite’s founding team, Joanna’s strong work ethic and value system have played a vital part in growing Elite into what it is today. With over 20 years of experience in the staffing industry, Joanna has helped create a business of helping people by staffing quality professionals in medical facilities as well as in-home care settings.
Prior to opening Elite, Joanna graduated from LSUS with a degree in marketing. She worked as a branch manager for a corporate medical staffing company where she and Carla met. She is as dedicated as they come, and her leadership abilities help Elite’s team stay focused on providing the best care for clients. She is humbled by the opportunity to serve so many in the community. She is married, has two children, and is a country girl at heart.
Rapunzel Adams
Staffing Coordinator
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Rapunzel joined Elite’s team in 2022 as a Staffing Coordinator for the medical division. She has a background in mental health and business development and has over 20 years of experience as a local musician. Rapunzel’s primary goal is to ensure that our Elite employees have a variety of facilities to choose from and can find jobs. She also works with our facilities to make sure they are fully staffed in their time of need. She has one son whom she loves dearly, and she loves working at Elite!
Sandy Simon
Staffing Coordinator – Professional & Clerical Division
Elite’s Placement Specialist is Sandy Simon, a veteran Recruiter who enjoyed a career with a staffing firm in the Shreveport area. Sandy has hit the ground running and spends her busy days recruiting, interviewing, and (hopefully) placing skilled applicants with our incredibly valuable client companies. Carla and Joanna invited Sandy to join the Elite Team as she neared the end of a contract position in Shreveport, and Sandy gladly said YES!! Our team is on its way to amazing SUCCESS!
Sandy Hawn
Staffing Coordinator
Shawn joined Elite as a caregiving staffing coordinator in 2024. She has quickly taken over many responsibilities for helping our aging population. Outside of work she enjoys traveling and spending time with her family.
Jennifer Boyter
Payroll and AP Manager
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Jennifer joined Elite’s team in 2021 in the Payroll and Accounts Payable department. She is responsible for processing payroll, ensuring that employees are paid correctly and on schedule, as well as providing many other financial duties for our company.
Prior to joining Elite, Jennifer received a degree in applied science from Bossier Parish Community College and has over 10+ years of experience in payroll and accounting. She is married and a proud mother of six children.
Audrey Garza
Invoicing and AR
Audrey joined Elite’s team in 2023 with over 20 years of accounting experience. She is in the Invoicing/Accounts Receivable department. She is responsible for preparing invoices, ensuring invoices are billed correctly, and payments are received in a timely manner.
Outside of work, Audrey enjoys spending time with family and friends.
Courtney West
Human Resources and Compliance
Originally from Biloxi, Mississippi, Courtney joined Elite in 2021 as a recruiter and quickly advanced into a Human Resources and compliance role. She was named HR Director in late 2022. She has been a military spouse for 15 years and moved with her family to Knoxville, Tennessee, where she continues to work remotely. Academically speaking, she has a bachelor’s degree in business administration, an associate degree in business, and, most recently, completed her HR certificate from the University of Tennessee. Her life motto is: “We should never stop learning and trying to better ourselves.”
Prior to working for Elite, she worked in various industries, such as banking, accounting, and office operations. Human resources has become her passion because people are the most important asset of an organization.
Jessica Hobby
Recruitment
Jessica joined the Elite team in 2022 as an on-call coordinator and client relations representative. Her main focus is helping customers, applicants, and active employees with their needs. Before joining Elite, she worked as an optician for four years. She genuinely enjoys the challenge of helping others and wants nothing more than for those she helps to be seen and heard. People are her ultimate passion, and you will feel that immensely when working with her! Outside work, she is a wife and mama to two sweet babies!
Cheryl Anderson
On Call
Cheryl has been with Elite since its conception in 2008. She oversees on-call most weekends and nights. She is a VITAL part of our organization and assists families and facilities with caregiving services, staffing needs and other matters that come up.
During the week, Cheryl also manages a career in law enforcement, where she has served for 10 years. Her ability to handle the stress of what we do each day is simply amazing, and we are very grateful for all she does. She is the mom of two children and has two sweet grandbabies.
Shannon Parker
On Call
Born and raised in Washington state, Shannon moved to Shreveport in 2012. Since that time, she has worked full time in the dental industry for over 13 years. She works with Elite at night and on the weekends as our on-call coordinator, where she assists clients and employees as needed. In addition, she is currently putting herself through nursing school. She is the proud wife and mom of 6 sweet kids. Just like her favorite color, glitter, she likes to put a little sparkle in her patient care.
Patti Grace
Staffing Coordinator
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana