Chair
L. Allison Dukes
Chief Financial Officer
SunTrust Bank

Treasurer
Tom Hawkins
Managing Partner
Forté Ventures

President & CEO
John Hancock
Junior Achievement
of Georgia

Immediate Past Chair
B. Lynn Chastain
Chief Legal Officer
Chick-fil-A, Inc.

Margaret Anderson
SVP, SAP HANA
Enterprise Cloud
Partner Management &
Launch Advisor Team
SAP America

Ken Bernhardt
Regents Professor of
Marketing/Emeritus
Georgia State University

Richard Carrano
Chief Executive Officer
Purchasing Power

Steve Cook
Retired
PulteGroup, Inc.

Dwight Duke
Retired
Cisco Systems

Scott Hill
Chief Financial Officer
InterContinental Exchange

Tad Hutcheson
VP, Community Affairs
Delta Air Lines

Shane Jackson
President
Jackson Healthcare

Helene Lollis
President & CEO
Pathbuilders

Alison Rand
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
Primerica

Jill Ratliff
President & CEO
Empowerhouse
Leadership Consultancy

Joe Reinkemeyer
Professor
Georgia State University

Cyril Turner
President
Year Up

Mark Adams
Regional Director/
Managing Director
Chase Private Client
& Chase Investments

Neda Barqawi
Founder
Knovalytics

Alba Baylin
VP, Community &
Stakeholder Relations
North America
The Coca-Cola Company

Jeff Beckham
Managing Director
Jamestown, L.P.

Justin Berman
Chief Executive Officer
Berman Capital Advisors, LLC

David Brand
Managing Director
Protiviti

Russ Brockelbank
Project Executive
Balfour Beatty Construction

Ruben J. Brooks
Regional Center Director,
Multifamily, SE Region
U. S. Department of Housing
& Urban Development

Dallas Clement
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
Cox Enterprises, Inc.

Sue Costello
Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Jay Curran
Sr. Managing Director
Crescent Communities

Jeff Durr
Senior Partner
Korn Ferry

Monte Edwards
EVP/Partner
SRS, Inc.

Dan Eldridge
Partner
KPMG

Jane Elliott
CHRO
Deluxe Corporation

Dan Erling
President & CEO
Accountants One

Ed Fisher
Managing Partner
SouthPointe Ventures, LLC.

Andrea Freeman
Owner
The Consulting Collective

Joe Gagen
Sr. Director, Corporate
Development Integration
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Edwin Garcia
Chief People Officer
PPC Partners, Inc.

Stephen Green
Superintendent & CEO
DeKalb County School District

Chad Gregory
Regional President,
Greater Georgia Region
Wells Fargo

Randy Gregson
Partner
Ernst & Young

Chris Gruehn
Senior Vice President
Cobb Market President
Renasant Bank

Louis Gump
SVP
Cox Media

Garrett Hale
SVP, Operations
Assurant Specialty Property

Guy Harris
Head of Merchant Services
Bank of America

Mona Harty
Managing Director,
Program/Project Delivery
Q&A Testing
Delta Air Lines

Valerie Hendrickson
VP, Corporate Communications
Georgia Power

Ned Hill
Managing Director -
Venture Banking Group
Signature Bank

Chris Hodgdon
Chief of Staff,
Commercial & Technology
InterContinental Hotels Group

Jack Hyland
Director, Account Mgmt
Georgia Region
Kaiser Permanente

Jason Jones
Principal
Cresa Atlanta

Jeff Kammerer
Retired
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Rimas Kapeskas
Partner
Cambridge Capital

Kent Kelley

Ken LaManna
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Craig Lee
Partner
King & Spalding

Ellen Dracos Lemming
Founder & CEO
Dracos~Lemming Consulting

Wonya Lucas
President & CEO
Public Broadcasting Atlanta

Stephanie Mains
President & CEO EP
Industrial Solutions ABB

Shawn Meade
Partner, Wealth Manager
Redwood Wealth
Management, LLC

Addison Meriwether
Executive Director
Cushman & Wakefield

Joe Myers
EVP & GM USA
Elavon

Carlos Navarro
Executive Director
JP Morgan Chase

Jon Neff
Chief Financial Officer
Hire Dynamics

Ray Padrón
Managing Partner
Brightworth, LLC

Nataraj Rao
VP, Business
Operations & Strategy
Cricket Wireless

Grant Rivera
Superintendent
Marietta City Schools

Ayanna Robinson
Executive Vice President
Porter Novelli

Jeff Rose

David Rubinger
Market President & Publisher
Atlanta Business Chronicle

Mark Scalese
Partner
Deloitte & Touche LLP

Steve Scherger
EVP & CFO
Graphic Packaging
International, Inc.

Melanie Shook
DVP/GM, Benefits
ADP

Debbie Smith
CEO
Georgia United Credit Union

Steve Smith
SVP & Chief Financial Officer
Veritiv Corporation

Jay Sutton
SVP, Operation Services
Southern Company Gas

Jim Teel
Regional VP
Goodwyn Mills Cawood

Brannigan Thompson
SVP, Corporate Development
Voya Financial

Jamie Tiernan
VP & Chief Financial Officer
Gas South

Lance Tracy
Managing Director
Accenture

Mike Voynich
Partner
Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Elliott Wallace
VP & General Manager, Life Insurance
LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Frank Warren, Jr.
SVP & General Manager
Merchandising Displays
WestRock Company

David Wilkinson
SVP & General Manager
NCR

Harris Winsberg
Partner
Troutman Sanders

Ken Zeff
Executive Director
Learn4Life

Board Chair
Harriette Stokes
North Georgia E.M.C.

Board Treasurer
Julius Weyman
Federal Reserve
Bank of Atlanta

Ex Officio
Dixie Kinard
Norris Little
Dottie Boring Shaw
Joe Yarborough

Members
Adina Anderson
Anderson Family
Foundation

George Barnett
Whitfield Education
Foundation

Angela D. Bell
Mohawk Industries

Buddy Bennett
Wells Fargo

Bill Blackwood
Coldwell Banker/Kinard Realty

Garen Evans
Dalton State College

Lisa Goode
Dalton Public Schools

Bryan Griffin
Georgia Power Company

Jim Halverson
Regions Financial Corporation

Jason Hopkins
Hamilton Healthcare System

Jon Jewell
Shaw Industries

LaRuthie Mason
Shaw Industries

Ruth Mathews
Starr Mathews Agency

Ginger Mathis
Georgia Northwestern
Technical College

Charlie Morrow
Dalton Utilities

Phenna Petty
Murray County Schools

Jason Sitton
Georgia United Credit Union

David Thacker
Whitfield County Schools

Trace Vaughn
Gordon County Schools

Jim Welch
Retired

William Young
Engineered Floors

President
Abit Massey
Emirates Georgia
Poultry Federation

Carole Ann Daniel
Carol Daniel Construction

Darla Eden
Hall County Tax Commissioner

Jim Walters
Walters Management

John Addison
Addison Leadership Group

Chair
Dr. Randy Shearouse
Effingham Co Schools

Vice Chair
Kaye Dowell
Wells Fargo, Retired

Ex Officio
Edwin Byck
Weiner, Shearouse

Ryan Chandler
Colonial Oil

Shawn Kachmar
Hunter Maclean

Eula Parker
South State Bank

Members
Mark Bennett
Gulfstream

Michael Butler
Seacrest Partners

Leia Dedic
Savannah Economic
Development Authority

Ryan Dew
Brasseler USA

Larry Evans
Oliver Maner LLP

Kara Ford
The Ford Agency

Rick Hamilton
International Paper

Ben Johnson
Synovus

Stephanie Johnson
SunTrust Banks

Becky Keightley
Memorial Health

Scott Knudsen
National Distributing Co.

Dr. Ann Levett
Savannah Chatham
County Public Schools

Miranda Marchant
March Marketing

Denise Marsh
Georgia Pacific

Tony Martin
Martin Financial
Services

James McCurry
Georgia Ports
Authority

Ron McGee
Comcast

Jackie Ogden
Chatham County
Extension Service

David Pence
Allstate

Steve Pound
St. Joseph’s
Candler Hospitals

Ryan Price
JE Dunn Construction
Co., Inc.

David Rea
Bank of America/US Trust

Ken Sellers
Colonial Oil

David Slatinsky
USI Insurance

Rob Sparks
First Citizens Bank

Bob Thomas
International Paper