Our Members
Valedictorian
Rob Barnhill
President & CEO, Barnhill Family Foundation
Charles Bowman
Market President for North Carolina & Charlotte, Bank of America
John Belk
President (Retired), Belk Inc.
Redge Hanes
Retired CEO
Wayne Holden
CEO, RTI International
Kelly King
CEO, Truist
Rick Redden
Carolinas CEO, Wells Fargo
Magna Cum Laude
Ann Goodnight
Director of Community Relations, SAS Institute, Inc.
Anna Spangler Nelson
Spangler Foundation
Tom Nelson
President & CEO, National Gypsum Company
Art Pope
Chairman & CEO, Variety Wholesalers, Inc.
Honors
Riley Fields
Director of Community Relations, Carolina Panthers
Nelle Hotchkiss
Senior VP of Corporate Relations, NC Electric Cooperatives
James Maynard
Chairman & CEO, Golden Corral Corporation
Allison Moss
President, Stephen L. Cornwell Foundation
Ward Nye
President & CEO, Martin Marietta
Ricardo Oberlander
President & CEO, Reynolds American
Chuck Purvis
President & CEO, Coastal Federal Credit Union
Pat Riley
President & CEO, Allen Tate Companies
Ed Weisiger, Jr.
President & CEO, Carolina CAT
Student Body President
Carl Armato
CEO, Novant Health System
Don Flow
CEO, Flow Automotive
Christopher Fox
Hanesbrands
Michael W. Lamach
Chairman & CEO, Trane Technologies, plc
John Replogle
CEO, One Better Ventures, LLC
Paul Wiles
Retired CEO, Novant Health System
Class President
Terry Akin
CEO, Cone Health
Amanda Barkus
VP of Application Development, MetLife
Peter Bristow
President, First Citizens Bank
Zach Clayton
CEO, Three Ships
Frank Daniels, Jr.
CEO (Retired), The News & Observer
Tom Darden
CEO, Cherokee Fund
Stephen De May
North Carolina President, Duke Energy
Thomas W. Dickson
Vice President, The Dickson Foundation
Ken Gill
President & CEO, CPI Security Systems
Jim Hansen
Regional President, PNC Financial
Leroy Lail
Chairman & CEO, Hickory Furniture
Gregg Lowe
CEO, Cree
Michael Marsicano
President & CEO, Foundation for the Carolinas
Walter McDowell
Chairman, BEST NC
DL McMichael, Jr.
CEO, McMichael Mills
David Neill
President, JST Group
Ed Pearce
President, Tencarva Machinery Company
Norman Samet
Retired CEO
Temple Sloan, Jr.
CEO, The Sloan Family Foundation
Temple Sloan, III
Trail Creek Investments
Tunde Sotunde
CEO, BCBSNC
John C. Whitaker, Jr.
Manager, INV, LLC
Teacher's Pet
Greg Alcorn
CEO, Global Contact Services
Joe Budd
CEO, The Budd Group
Chester H. Brown
President, Brown Investment Properties, Inc.
John Burress
Business Owner (Retired)
Don Curtis
CEO, Curtis Media Group
Hudnall Christopher
EVP (Retired), Reynolds Tobacco
Derick Close
CEO, Springs Creative
Paul Cormier
CEO, Red Hat, Inc.
Jack Hawn
CEO, Zenith Freight Lines
Dale Jenkins
Chairman & CEO, Curi
Douglas Kahn
Principal, Mistdoda Capital, LLC
James Mahan
Chairman & CEO, Live Oak Bank
Gray McCaskill
CEO, Senn Dunn
Jim Melvin
Chairman, Joseph M. Bryan Foundation
Julian "Bubba" Rawl
Owner, Preston Development
Robert Spilman, Jr.
CEO, Bassett Furniture Industries
Ben Sutton
Founder & Chairman, Teall Capital
Friends of BEST NC
Francisco Alvarado
President & CEO, Marand Builders
Jim Anthony
CEO, Colliers International
John Atkins
CEO, O'Brian Atkins
L.M. Baker
Retired CEO, Wachovia
Rye Barcott
Managing Director, Double Time Capital
Doug Bassett
Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company
Emma Battle
CEO, Market Vigor, LLC
Graham Bennett
CEO, Quality Oil Company
Erskine Bowles
BDT Capital Investments
Richard Brenner
Vice Chairman, Amarr
Sue Cole
Managing Partner, Sage
Rountree Collett, Jr.
President & COO, Bernhardt Furniture
Richard Daugherty
Retired CEO
John W. Davis
Managing Director, Deutsche Bank
Paul Fulton
Chairman, Bassett Furniture Industries
James Gibson
Executive Vice President & COO, RTI International
Clay Grubb
President, Grubb Properties
Dave Haines
Managing Director, Deloitte
Corey Hutcherson
Vice President of Operations, Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce
Burney Jennings
CEO, Biscuitville
Hal Kaplan
CEO, Kaplan Early Learning Company
Stan Kelly
Retired CEO, Wells Fargo
Phil Kirk
Director, Brady Energy Services
Al Lineberry, Jr.
President, Gainesberry, LLC
Dan McCready
Managing Director, Double Time Capital
Wendy Murphy
Murphy Family Ventures
Ed Pleasants
Retired CEO
Brian Reid
Triangle President, TowneBank
Arthur Samet
CEO, Samet Corporation
Malbert Smith
CEO, President & Co-Founder, MetaMetrics
Sean Patrick Tario
CEO & Catalyst, Open Spectrum
Thomas Vaidhyan
CEO, Aten, Inc.
Leslie Walden
Fidelity Investments
William Warden
Retired CEO
Richard "Stick" Williams
Retired, Duke Energy
Smedes York
Chairman, York Properties
Charlie Zeigler
Retired CEO