2007-2008 Board of Directors
Virginia Parker (pictured)
Chair, Board of Directors
Market Development Officer
Paragon Commercial Bank
Christopher Bell, RBC Centura
Mathias Bishop, Community Leader
Kenneth A. Black, First Citizens Bank
Ed Bonner, Community Leader
E. Gordon Brown Jr., Alfred Williams & Company *
A.J. (Del) Burns, Wake County Public School System
A. Marty Clayton, Progress Energy *
Beth Cochran, Wake County Public School System
David C. Cooke, Wake County Government
Robin P. Costello, Action for Children N.C. *
Andi Curtis, Time Warner Cable *
Paige Elliot, Wake County Public School System
Don Esposito, Rex Healthcare
Patti Gillenwater, Elinvar
Benjamin S. Goldstein, The Advisory Group, LLC
Gary Greene, Greene Resources
Sharon D. Gupton, Community Leader
Robert Holmes, Nortel Networks
Susan Jackson, WakeMed
Sean Kerns, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Russell Killen, Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein, LLP *
Deborah O. Lucas, DocSite
James McClure, The News & Observer
Caroline McCullen, SAS
John McKinney, AT&T - North Carolina *
Jeff Merritt, Clancy & Theys Construction Company *
Kathryn (Kay) Moore, N.C. State University
Michael Olander, Apple Gold Group *
Virginia Parker, Paragon Commercial Bank * - Chair
Katherine Peele, LS3P Associates
Brooks Raiford, Balfour Beatty Construction *
Diogenes Ruiz, Devmir
Walter (Walt) Sherlin, Sherlin & Associates LLC
Hayden J. (Jay) Silver III, Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP * - Chair-Elect
Tom Skelton, Community Leader *
Cindy Smith, Wake County PTA Council
Leah G. Tyler, The Umstead Hotel and Spa
Richard Urquhart, Investors Management Corporation
Robert (Rob) Weaver, Bank of America
Rod Webb, Crescent State Bank
Amy White, Garner Chamber of Commerce
Randall Williams, M.D, Physician
Jay Wisse, Wisse, Hollmann & Co.
Marco A. Zárate, N.C. Society of Hispanic Professionals
* Denotes a member of the Executive Committee