Amanda Albrecht
Amanda graduated from Lehigh University with a joint degree in Computer Science & Business. She has worked in the lighting control and cybersecurity industries and is...
Board of Directors
Robert Brookshire
Robert is a Senior Associate and the Environmental Department Manager at Terracon in Charlotte, a full-service engineering consulting firm. As a native North Carolinian a...
Blair Boggs
Blair Boggs moved to Charlotte in 2018, after living and working in some of the world’s great cities across the US, Europe, and China. He spent his career in the automoti...
Bill G. Staton, MBA, CFA®
Bill graduated from UNC’s Kenan-Flagler School in 1969 with a BS in Business Administration. From there, he earned an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School at the Univer...
Vaama Joshi
Vaama is a licensed architect at Gresham Smith with nine years of experience across a wide range of architectural services and project types. She specializes in sustainab...
Betsy Chew Bodien | Secretary
Betsy Bodien joined Bank of America in 2005. She provides enterprise-wide legal advice and subject matter expertise on U.S. bank regulatory matters. Betsy graduated from ...
Hannah O’Connor
Hannah O’Connor is a Principal Consultant for Slalom Consulting, where she helps people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. D...
Nicholas Sanford-Vu | Committee Chair – External Affairs
Nicholas is a CPA at Grant Thornton where he assists clients with tax matters related to mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcy and debt workouts, and other major corporate li...
Michael Gander | Committee Chair – Governance
Michael Gander is a Vice President and Commercial Market Manager with Carter Bank & Trust, a regional community bank with local operations on Morehead Street, where h...
Jolaine Elien | Committee Chair – Internal Affairs
Jolaine Elien is principal at Blueprint 4 Good. Formerly, Jolaine was chief financial officer of YWCA of Central Carolinas, where she oversaw all financial, administrativ...
Joni Emry | Chair
Joni is a civic leader who retired from Bank of America as a vice president in 2024. She worked as a program manager in Global Risk, where she supported program strategy ...