WACC Board of Directors 2025
Mike McNamara – Chair of the Board
Partner
GreerWalker (Ret.)
Rajnish Bharadwaj – Immediate Past Chair of the Board
COO, American Express National Bank
David Jones – Treasurer
Partner
GreerWalker
Jake Burns
SVP, Chief Strategy & Development Officer
Tepper Sports & Entertainment
Dr. David Callaway
Chief, Crisis Operations and Sustainability
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Atrium Health
Dr. Claudio Carpano
Honorary Consul of Italy to North Carolina (Ret.)
Founder and President, Management inSites
Armando Chardiet
President
Atrium Health Foundation
Hon. Wayne Cooper – Immediate Past Chair
Ex-Officio
Honorary Consul of Mexico
President, Arcon Manufacturing Inc.
Oscar Cranz III
Truist
Joël Gallegos
Associate Provost for International Programs
UNC Charlotte
George Johnson
Senior Vice President; Market Executive
Global Commercial Banking; Middle Market – Carolinas West
Global Banking and Markets
Steve Hunting
Partner
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein (Ret.)
Neeraj Khanna
Executive Vice President, Head of Global Service Delivery
Truist
Dr. Jane Mangan
John and Ruth McGee Director of the Dean Rusk International Studies Program
Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History and Latin American Studies
Davidson College
John Lassiter
President
Carolina Legal Staffing LLC
Dr. Marie-Claire Marroum
Pathologist
Carolinas Pathology Group (Ret.)
Liz Murphy
Partner
FORVIS MAZARS
Laura Meyer Wellman
President & CEO, E4E Relief (Ret.)
Honorary Consul of France to Charlotte (Ret.)
Mike McNamara
Partner
GreerWalker (Ret.)
Rohan Paul
Client Relationship Executive
Deloitte
Firoz Peera
District Governor, Rotary International
Business Consultant, IBM Technology (Ret.)
Ms. Geneviève Piché
Managing Director
Head of Sustainable Finance & Advisory
Wells Fargo
Dr. Derek Raghavan
President, Levine Cancer Institute
Atrium Health (Ret.)
Cecilia Ramirez
Vice President
Nova Digital Systems, Inc. (Ret.)
Scott Tozier
Former EVP and CFO
Albemarle Corporation
Kent Walker
Partner
McGuireWoods