Leadership

Our Board of Trustees

David Head

Board Chair

Dante Anderson

Mayor Pro Tem, District 1, Charlotte City Council

Matt Bank

Partner, Deputy CIO, Global Endowment Management

Brad Bender

SEVP, Chief Risk Officer, Truist

Tariq Bokhari

Charlotte City Council Member

Dena R. Diorio

Mecklenburg County Manager

Tom Eiselt
Facilities Chair

Retired, EY

Jami Farris

President, 3 Keys, Inc.

John Giannuzzi

Past Chair

Senior Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Megan Greuling

VP, SEO & Corporate Communications, LendingTree 

Paul Hennigan

Senior Consultant, The Hill

Donna Julian

Executive VP & Spectrum Center General Manager, Hornets Sports & Entertainment

Abbe McCracken

Education Chair

Owner, Abbe McCracken Photography

Tricia McDermott-Spikes

Talent Development & Retention Chair

Chief Legal Officer, Purple Innovation, Inc.  

Jaime Monday

Managing Director, Risk and Control Executive, Wells Fargo

Onyeka Nchege

Executive VP, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Novant Health

Richard L. Nichols, Jr.

Retired - Bank of America - Private Bank 

John Nurkin

Retired—SPX Technologies, Inc.

Susanna Parker

Senior Counsel, Assistant VP Govrnment Relations at Verisk, Data Driven Safety

Donna Perkins

SVP, Corporate and Institutional Banking, PNC

Derek Raghavan

Governance Chair

Pat Rodgers

Board Secretary

CEO, Rodgers Builders, Inc.

Emily Sheldon

Managing Director-Strategy & Consulting, Accenture

Rasu Shrestha, MD

Strategy and Innovation Chair

Chief Innovation & Commercialization Officer and Executive Vice President, Advocate Health

Elizabeth Sterling

Treasurer, Finance Chair

Head of Talent Governance

Marisa Thalberg

Marketing & Community Relations Chair

Executive Vice Preseident, Chief Customer and Marketing Officer at Catalyst Brands

Evan M. Turtz

SVP and General Counsel, Trane Technologies

Jeanine Wilson

SVP, Human Resource Executive, Bank of America

Angela Yochem

Global Chief Information/Technology Officer, Krispy Kreme