Board of Directors 2024-2025

Rajnish Bharadwaj – Chair
COO, American Express National Bank

Hon. Wayne Cooper – Immediate Past Chair
Ex-Officio
Honorary Consul of Mexico
President, Arcon Manufacturing Inc.

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

Oscar Cranz III
Truist

Joël Gallegos
Associate Provost for International Programs
UNC Charlotte

Michael Gwyn
President – Federal, Healthcare & Energy Group
Haskell (Ret.)

George Johnson
Senior Vice President; Market Executive
Global Commercial Banking; Middle Market – Carolinas West
Global Banking and Markets

David Jones
Partner
GreerWalker

Steve Hunting
Partner
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, LLP

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.)

Jared Mobley
Managing Partner
K&L Gates

Liz Murphy
Partner
‎FORVIS

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.)

Dr. Derek Raghavan
President, Levine Cancer Institute
Atrium Health (Ret.)

Cecilia Ramirez
Vice President
Nova Digital Systems, Inc. (Ret.)

Geneviève Piché
Head of Sustainable Finance and Advisory, Corporate & Investment Banking
Wells Fargo

Scott Tozier
Former EVP and CFO
Albemarle Corporation

Kent Walker
Partner
McGuireWoods