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
Vice President for
Government Relations
Virginia Commonwealth University
Jamelle S. Wilson, Ed.D.
SECRETARY
Dean of the University of
Richmond School of Professional and Continuing Studies
- Carrie Chenery, Secretary of Commerce and Trade (ex-officio)
- Mike Chinn, Partner, Endicott Capital
- David Doré, Chancellor, Virginia Community College System
- Regina Elbert, Dominion Energy
- Jason El Koubi, President and CEO, Virginia Economic Development Partnership
- Marvin Figueroa, Secretary of Health and Human Resources (ex-officio)
- 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
- Jeffery Smith, Secretary of Education (ex-officio)
- Dietra Trent, Virginia HBCU Alliance
- Sonya Waddell, Vice President and Economist, Regional and Community Analysis, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Chair Emeritus
- Richard Bynum, Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer (retired), The PNC Financial Services Group
- Thomas N. Chewning, Exec. VP & CFO (retired), Dominion Resources, Inc.
- Ben J. Davenport, Jr., Chairman, First Piedmont Corporation
- William R. Ermatinger, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer (retired), Huntington Ingalls Industries
- Robert Hurt, General Counsel, 4C Digital Health
- Reginald N. Jones, Williams Mullen (retired)
- Ned W. Massee, President, Croatan Advisors