Our Team

Gary Thomson

CHAIRMAN

Managing Partner of
Thomson Consulting

Edmond E. Hughes

VICE CHAIRMAN

Executive Vice President and
Chief Human Resources Officer of
Huntington Ingalls Industries

Alexis Ehrhardt, ED.D.

TREASURER

Executive Director of State Government Relations and
Special Assistant to the President of
the University of Virginia

Jamelle S. Wilson, Ed.D.

SECRETARY

Dean of the University of
Richmond School of Professional and Continuing Studies

  • Richard Bynum, Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer, The PNC Financial Services Group (Chair Emeritus)
  • Thomas N. Chewning, Exec. VP & CFO (retired), Dominion Resources, Inc. (Chair Emeritus)
  • Mike Chinn, Partner, Endicott Capital
  • Ben J. Davenport, Jr., Chairman, First Piedmont Corporation (Chair Emeritus)
  • David Doré, Chancellor, Virginia Community College System
  • Jason El Koubi, President and CEO, Virginia Economic Development Partnership
  • William R. Ermatinger, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer (retired), Huntington Ingalls Industries (Chair Emeritus)
  • Aimee Rogstad Guidera, Secretary of Education, Commonwealth of Virginia (ex-officio)
  • Robert Hurt, General Counsel, 4C Digital Health (Chair Emeritus)
  • Reginald N. Jones, Chair Emeritus
  • Janet Kelly, Secretary of Health and Human Resources, Commonwealth of Virginia (ex-officio)
  • Ned W. Massee, President, Croatan Advisors (Chair Emeritus)
  • Paula Masters, Chief Health Disparities Officer, Ballad Health
  • Bergen Nelson, American Academy of Pediatrics (ex-officio)
  • Xavier Richardson, Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Mary Washington Healthcare
  • Sonya Waddell, Vice President and Economist, Regional and Community Analysis, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond