CHAIR
William K. Atkinson II, Ph.D.
WakeMed Health & Hospitals
CHAIR ELECT
Sepideh Asefnia
SEPI Engineering Group, Inc.
IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR
Frank B. Holding Jr.
First Citizens Bank
PAST CHAIRS
Ronald G. Wainwright Jr.
Dixon Hughes PLLC
Fred N. Day IV
TREASURER
Clarence Newsome, Ph.D.
Shaw University
GENERAL COUNSEL
Larry Robbins
Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP
VICE CHAIRS
Communications
Diane Kuehn
VisionPoint Marketing
Economic Development
Jimmy Barnes
NAI Carolantic Realty, Inc.
Education
Rick Guirlinger
General Parts/CARQUEST
Government Affairs
Gary Salamido
GlaxoSmithKline
Membership Development
Chris Young
First Citizens Bank
Membership Services
Jody Hatley
Excel Moving & Storage, Inc. - Allied Van Lines
Small Business
Valerie Fields
V.K. Fields & Co.
AT LARGE MEMBERS
Jim Captain
Credit Suisse
Steve Jones
RBC Bank
David Weaver
Branch Banking & Trust Co.
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Harvey Schmitt, CCE, President/CEO
Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
DIRECTORS
Tom Adams
Time Warner Cable East Carolina Division
Thomas J. Anhut
Toll Brothers
Andrea Bazan
Triangle Community Foundation
Mary Bell
Caterpillar
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
Joe Bryan
Wake County Board of Commissioners
Kim Copney
Costco
Jeff Corbett
Progress Energy
Bo Dempster Jr.
Poyner Spruill LLP
Jeff Denny
Liaison Design Group
Debra Derr
AT&T North Carolina
Melissa Essary
Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
Campbell University, Inc.
Phil Freelon
The Freelon Group, Inc.
Rosa Gill
Wake County Board of Education
Ardie Gregory
WRAL-FM/MIX 101.5
Felicia Gressette
The News & Observer Publishing Co.
Don Haile
Fidelity Investments
Trish Hanchette
KB Home
Bob Hatley
Paragon Commercial Bank
H. Gray Hutchison Jr.
Aon Consulting
Dale Jenkins
Medical Mutual Insurance Company of North Carolina
Robert Jones
SunTrust Bank
John Kane
Kane Realty Corp.
Megan Montgomery
Universal Printing & Publishing
Barry Leffler
WNCN-NBC-17
Tom Looney
Lenovo
Charles Meeker
City of Raleigh
Ward Nye
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.
James Oblinger, Ph.D.
North Carolina State University
Dean Ogan
Rocky Top Hospitality
Doyle Parrish
Summit Hospitality Group, LTD
Christine Peterson
Risk Management Associates
Donna Preiss
The Preiss Company
Stephen C. Scott, Ed.D.
Wake Technical Community College
Kimberlee Sipe
Wachovia Securities
Judy Smith
Smith Seal of North Carolina, Inc.
David Strong
Rex Healthcare
Dianne Boardley Suber, Ph.D.
Saint Augustine's College
Soberina Traywick
Mechanics & Farmers Bank
Kirsten Weeks
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Tina Wilson
IBM Corporation
Phil Zachary
Curtis Media Group