Board Members
Executive Committee
Chair
Ms. Sherri Thomas
Truliant Federal Credit Union
Chief Administrative Officer
Mr. Ivan Canada
NC Center for Nonprofits
President & CEO
Ms. Jada Monica Drew
Social Designs LLC
CEO
Mr. David Edwards
First National Bank
Regional Market Executive/President Piedmont Region
Ms. Beth Fischer
UNC Greensboro
Vice Chancellor of University Advancement
Mr. Preston Hammock
Cone Health
SVP
Ms. Nancy King Quaintance (vice chair, Member Engagement)
Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants & Hotels
Vice President
Mr. C.C. Lamberth
C2Contractors
President
Ms. Wanda Lea
The P&G Manufacturing Co.
Director of Supply Network Operations-Oral Care
Ms. Mindy Oakley
The Edward M. Armfield, Sr. Foundation
Executive Director
Ms. Kim Reed
ITG Brands
President and CEO
Mr. Clifford Thompson (vice chair, Economic Development)
Thompson Traders, Inc.
President
Mr. Stafford Thompson (secretary-treasurer)
Lincoln Financial Group
SVP Life Product Management
Ex- Officio
Mr. Michael Halford
Guilford County
County Manager
2024 Board of Directors
Chair
Ms. Sherri Thomas
Truliant Federal Credit Union
Chief Administrative Officer
Mr. Jimmy Adams
Brooks Pierce
Partner
Ms. Suzy Adkins, SHRM-SCP, SPHR
Honda Aircraft Company
Division Director, Human Resources
Ms. Mame Annan-Brown
Kontoor Brands, Inc.
Executive Vice President
Ford Bowers
Truist
Market President/ SVP
Mr. Danny Brown
United Maintenance Group
President and Owner
Mr. Ivan Canada
NC Center for Nonprofits
President & CEO
Ms. Dawn Chaney
Chaney Properties
Owner
Dr. Tony Clarke
Guilford Technical Community College
President
Mr. Bill Collins
HAECO Americas
President, HAECO Americas
Mr. Greg Cox
Bank of America
Triad President
Ms. Jada Monica Drew
Social Designs LLC
CEO
Ms. Ursula Dudley Oglesby
Dudley Beauty Corp, LLC
CEO
Mr. David Edwards
First National Bank
Regional Market Executive /President Piedmont Region
Ms. Beth Fischer
UNC Greensboro
Vice Chancellor of University Advancement
Mr. Geoff Foster
Core Technology Molding Corporation
President & CEO
Dr. Stacey A. Greene
Dr. Stacey Greene, DDS
Mr. Preston Hammock
Cone Health
President, Moses Cone Hospital
SVP, Cone Health
Mr. Brent Hampton
Century Products
CEO/President
Mr. Jarvis T. Harris
Law offices of James Scott Farrin
Attorney
Mr. Doug Hassman
VF Corporation
Vice President, Global Tax
Hank Henning
Duke Energy
Local Government & Community Relations Manager
Ms. Rhonda Joyce
American National Bank & Trust Co.
EVP/Regional President
Ms. Ashleigh Johnson
Nexsen Pruet LLC
Associate
Ms. Nancy King Quaintance
Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants & Hotels
Vice President
Mr. Curt Ladig
Delta Dental of North Carolina
President and CEO
Mr. CC Lamberth
C2Contractors LLC
President
Ms. Wanda Lea
The P&G Manufacturing Co.
Director of Supply Network Operations-Oral Care
Ms. April Mason
Toyota Battery Manufacturing-NC
General Manager of Plant Services
Ms. Sara Millard
Arch MI
General Counsel & EVP
Ms. Marta Mitchell
Marta Mitchell Interior Design
President/ Partner
Ms. Mindy Oakley
The Edward M. Armfield, Sr. Foundation
Executive Director
Dr. Whitney Oakley
Guilford County Schools
Superintendent
Ms. Laura Pratt
First Citizens Bank
Senior Vice President
Ms. Kim Reed
ITG Brands
President and CEO
Ms. Mary Rice
Toyota of Greensboro
Dealer Principal
Mr. Karl Robinson
R&R Transportation
President & CEO
Ms. Kiley Schiffman Storrs
Schiffman’s Jewelers
Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Tonya Smith-Jackson
N.C. A&T State University
Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Ms. Susan Schwartz
The Cemala Foundation
Executive Director
Mr. Clifford Thompson
Thompson Traders, Inc.
President
Mr. Stafford Thompson (Secretary-Treasurer & Finance Committee chair)
Lincoln Financial Group
SVP Life Product Management
Mr. Brian Vannoy
Allegacy Federal Credit Union
EVP/ Chief Credit & Risk Officer
Ms. Suzanne Walsh
Bennett College
President
Mr. Andy Zimmerman
AZ Development
Owner
Ex Officio
The Honorable Skip Alston
Guilford County Board of Commissioners
Chairman
Mr. Michael Halford
Guilford County
County Manager
City of Greensboro
City Manager
Ms. Carolann Tucciarone (synerG Chair)
Senior Executive Assistant
Arch Mortgage Insurance Company
Chamber Staff
Mr. Brent Christensen
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Joey Cheek
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
EVP, Launch Greensboro
Ms. Tracy Myers
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
EVP, Member and Investor Engagement
Mr. Marvin J. Price
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
EVP, Economic Development
Ms. Cecelia Thompson
Action Greensboro
Executive Director
Ms. Joyce Gorham-Worsley
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
VP, Other Voices Diversity Leadership Programming
Ms. Porsha Graves
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
Executive Assistant
Action Greensboro Advisory Board
Chair
Mindy Oakley
The Edward M. Armfield, Sr. Foundation, Executive Director
Susan Shumaker
Cone Health Foundation, President
Karl Anderson
Frank Family Foundation
Erica Hall Shields
The Phillips Foundation, Managing Director
Barry Frank
Frank Family Foundation, President/Founder of National Proteins & Oils, Inc
J. Edward Kitchen (Ed)
Joseph M. Bryan Foundation of Greater GSO, VP & COO
Robert O. Klepfer, Jr. (Bob)
Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation, Executive Director
Jim Melvin
Joseph M. Bryan Foundation of Greater GSO, President
H. Walker Sanders
Community Foundation of Greater GSO, President
Susan Schwartz
The Cemala Foundation, Executive Director
Finance Committee
Chair, Treasurer
Sherri Thomas
Truliant Federal Credit Union, Chief Administrative Officer
Mr. Ivan Canada
NCCJ of the Piedmont Triad, Executive Director
Ashleigh Greene
Nexsen Pruet, PLLC
Phillip Petros
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Partner
Stafford Thompson
Lincoln Financial Group, SVP Life Product Management
Chamber Staff
Brent Christensen
President & CEO
Sandy Post
Controller
Government Affairs Committee
Chair
Mr. Ryan Blackledge
Cone Health, Director of Governmental Affairs
Mr. Andrew Cagle (ex-officio)
University of North Carolina Greensboro, Director of State and External Affairs
Dr. Tony Clarke (ex-officio)
Guilford Technical Community College, President
Mr. Doug Copeland (past chair)
Mr. Bill Collins
HAECO Americas, President
Ms. LaToya Caesar-Crawford (ex-officio)
City of Greensboro, Intergovernmental Relations Manager
Mr. Jay Dakoriya – (ex-officio for Bill Collins)
HAECO Americas LLC, Director of Tax
Mr. Eric Eley
Johnson Controls, Inc., Regional Strategic Account Executive
Mr. Hank Henning
Duke Energy, Local Government & Community Relations Manager
Jason Jones (ex-officio)
Guilford County, Assistant County Manager
Dr. Rebecca Kaye (ex-officio)
Guilford County Schools, Chief of Staff
Mr. Rob Overman
Downtown Greensboro Incorporated, Director of Strategic Initiatives
Mr. Mark Prince
Guilford Merchants Association/ FirstPoint, President & CEO
Mr. Atticus Simpson
Truliant Federal Credit Union, Director of Community Engagement & Government Affairs
Dr. Oliver Thomas (ex-officio)
NC A&T State University, Interim Director of External Affairs
Mr. Michael Walker
AT&T North Carolina, Regional Director – External Affairs
Mr. Jon Lowder (Governmental Affairs Liaison)
TREBIC, President
Chamber Staff
Brent Christensen
President & CEO
GROW Oversight Committee
Clifford Thompson (chair)
Thompson Traders
Larry Audas
WFMY News 2
Jenni Broyles
Kontoor Brands
Pete Callahan
JP Morgan Chase
Dawn Chaney
Chaney Properties
Brett Danby
LabCorp
Larry Davis (ex-officio)
City of Greensboro
Heather Deichler
Lincoln Financial
Chris Dunbar
Blue Ridge Properties
Will Graham
Graham Personnel Services
Alex Hale
Windsor Commercial Development
Michael Halford (ex-officio)
Guilford County
Doug Hassman
VF Corporation
Rhonda Joyce
American National Bank
Jeff Lail
Syngenta
CC Lamberth
C2Contractors
John Martin
Fourth Elm Construction
Zack Matheny (ex-officio)
Downtown Greensboro, Inc.
Philip Mohr
Womble Bond Dickinson
Brian Pearce
Nexsen Pruet
Laura Pratt
First Citizens Bank
Nancy King Quaintance
Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants & Hotels
Mac Sims
East Greensboro NOW
Robert Smith
Allen Tate Realtors
John Vestal
First Bank
Chamber Staff
Brent Christensen
President & CEO
Marvin J. Price
EVP, Economic Development
Launch Greensboro Advisory Board
Tara Darnley
Darlyng & Co., CEO
Glenn Gonzales
Jet It
Ramsey Hamadi
Triad Business Bank, CEO
T.J. Jones
Ember Tribe
Jonathan Lee Kelly
Asymmetric Holdings
Alyssa Martina
Elon University Doherty Center for CreativityChair
Sherine Obare
Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering of NC A&T & UNCG, Dean
Niral Patel
Solus LED
David Sar
Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard, LLP
Sam Seyedin
Launch UNCG
Todd Starcevich
GM Reima – North America
BrightStar Care of Greensboro
Sapna Tejpal
Bank of America
Alejandra Thompson
Thompson Traders, VP Marketing & Sales/ESTAS Beauty, Co-founder
Chamber Staff
Brent Christensen
President & CEO
Lou Anne Flanders-Stec
EVP, Entrepreneurship
Megan Mabry
VP, Marketing & Communications
Kaitlin Conover
Assistant Director, Launch Greensboro
Member Engagement Advisory Board
Ms. Iris Austin
Volvo Trucks NA
HR Director, Talent Competence &
Development
Mr. Phil Barnhill
East Greensboro NOW
Executive Vice President
Ms. Jada Monica Drew
Social Designs LLC
CEO
Ms. Kathy Eichlin
Syngenta North America Crop Protection
Head, Internal Communications
Mr. Larry Fairley
Marketing Resource Solutions
President/CEO
Mr. Damien Gorham
M&F Bank
VP, Senior Commercial Loan Officer
Ms. Kasey Hayes
Bank of America
VP, Commercial Associate III
Mr. Chris Murray
Chief Member Experience Officer
Truliant Federal Credit Union
Ms. Nancy King Quaintance (vice chair, Exec Comm & chair, Member Engagement)
Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants & Hotels
Vice President
Ms. Sarah Nabors
Center for Creative Leadership
Chief Marketing Officer
Ms. Michelle Schneider
Cone Health
VP & Chief Philanthropy Officer
Ms. Kim Simon
Carter Bank & Trust
VP, CRA and Fair Lending Program Manager
Mr. Steve Swetoha
Greensboro Swarm
Team President
Dr. David Zaas
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
President
Ex-Officio
Ms. Nancy Hoffmann
District 4 Council Member
City of Greensboro
Staff
Mr. Brent Christensen
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ms. Tracy Myers
EVP, Member & Investor Engagement
Ms. India Murrain-Allen
System Manager
Ms. Porsha Graves
Executive Assistant
Ms. Ainsley Heffinger
Director, Events
Ms. Laura Lorenz
Director, Leadership Greensboro
Mr. Russell Parmele
Member Engagement Specialist
Ms. Kate Phillips
Director, Accelerate Greensboro
Ms. Katrina Ross
Membership Manager
Ms. Seny Tatum
Member Engagement Specialist
Ms. Joyce Gorham-Worsley
VP, Other Voices Diversity Engagement