The Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce announces its 2008-09 board of directors for the year, which begins Oct. 1. The board of directors and the Chamber's executive committee are elected from the Chamber membership to set Chamber policies and priorities.
The 2008-09 board of directors includes:
Tom Adams
President, Time Warner Cable East Carolina Division
Tom Anhut
President, Toll Brothers
Andrea Bazan
President, Triangle Community Foundation
Mary Bell
Vice President of Building Construction Products Division, Caterpillar
Patty Briguglio
President, MMI Associates, Inc.
Joe Bryan
Chair, Wake County Board of Commissioners
Kelly Castor
Founding Partner, Practical Lessons
Kim Copney
Marketing Manager, Costco
Jeff Corbett
Senior Vice President of Energy Delivery Carolinas, Progress Energy
Bo Dempster
Managing Partner, Poyner & Spruill LLP Attorneys-at-Law
Jeff Denny
Business Development, Liaison Design Group
Debra Derr
Director of Government Affairs, AT&T North Carolina
Melissa Essary
Dean, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University, Inc.
Phil Freelon, FAIA, LEED AP
President, The Freelon Group, Inc.
Rosa Gill
Chair, Wake County Board of Education
Ardie Gregory
General Manager, WRAL-FM/MIX 101.5
Felicia Gressette
Vice President of Marketing, The News & Observer Publishing Co.
Don Haile
Venture Partner, Fidelity Investments
Trish Hanchette
President, KB Home
Bob Hatley
President and CEO, Paragon Commercial Bank
Gray Hutchison
Senior Vice President, Aon Consulting
Dale Jenkins
CEO, Medical Mutual Insurance Company of NC
Robert Jones
Executive Vice President Carolinas Region, SunTrust Bank
John Kane
CEO, KANE Realty Corp.
Megan Montgomery
Account Executive/Team Leader, Universal Printing & Publishing
Barry Leffler
General Manager, WNCN-NBC-17
Tom Looney
Vice President and General Manager of Lenovo North America, Lenovo
Charles Meeker
Mayor, City of Raleigh
Ward Nye
President and COO, Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.
James Oblinger, Ph.D.
Chancellor, North Carolina State University
Dean Ogan
Owner, Rocky Top Hospitality
Doyle Parrish
President, Summit Hospitality Group, LTD
Christine Peterson
Vice President, Risk Management Associates
Donna Preiss
President, The Preiss Company
Stephen Scott, Ed.D.
President, Wake Technical Community College
Judy Smith
President, Smith Seal of North Carolina, Inc.
David Strong
President, Rex Healthcare
Dianne Boardley Suber, Ph.D.
President, Saint Augustine's College
Soberina Traywick
Senior Vice President/City Executive, Mechanics & Farmers Bank
Kirsten Weeks
Community Relations Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Tina Wilson
Corporate Community Relations Program Manager, IBM Corporation
Phil Zachary
President and COO, Curtis Media Group
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About the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
The Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce is the Triangle's largest not-for-profit business membership organization made up of more than 2,700 member firms representing two-thirds of the private sector employment in Wake County. The Chamber has represented the interests of the Raleigh area business community since 1888.
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Aug. 29, 2010 - (By: Gary Tomlinson) "Learning from the school of hard knocks can be very informing, but often the tuition is too high! We should learn from other people's experiences." The purpose of this column is to share great business wisdom from the experiences of authors like Jim Collins, Michael Gerber, Gary Harpst, Michael LeBoeuf, Ron Willingham, Randy Pennington and others. Because when you combine great business education with your own business experiences the outcome you'll receive is far greater than the sum of its parts.