Elizabeth Ives has been an instrumental part of the growth of Midtown Alliance since 2001, providing financial management and budgetary planning, as well as administrative oversight, for all Midtown Alliance and Midtown Community Improvement District (MID) programs. She helped to devise the financial framework for the MID and now directs the budgetary implementation of Blueprint Midtown, the Alliance's master development plan. In addition, Elizabeth manages the Alliance's Human Resources division.

Elizabeth has more than two decades of experience in accounting and management, including 18 years in the non-profit sector. She served as Vice President of Finance & Operations with the Georgia Chapter of The Arthritis Foundation, where she was responsible for financial management, human resources, planned giving and grant-writing. During her tenure there, Elizabeth was one of a select group chosen from a national pool to participate in the Arthritis Foundation's Leadership Development Program. Elizabeth also worked as the Director of Finance & Administration for the Arts Festival of Atlanta. In addition to managing the festival’s financial operations, she was responsible for bidding, contracting and supervising festival concessions, and she wrote and administered government and private grants.

A native of Michigan, Elizabeth attended college in Florida and is a veteran of the United States Navy, where she worked in communications, database management and quality control until being honorably discharged in 1981. Elizabeth has been a resident of Atlanta for 18 years. Her son and twin daughters are currently enrolled at Georgia universities.