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)
- Carrie Chenery, Secretary of Commerce and Trade (ex-officio)
- 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
- Regina Elbert, Dominion Energy
- 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)
- Marvin Figueroa, Secretary of Health and Human Resources (ex-officio)
- Robert Hurt, General Counsel, 4C Digital Health (Chair Emeritus)
- Reginald N. Jones, Chair Emeritus
- 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
- 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