Richard West, the new chair of the board for the Council of Entrepreneurial Development, will be joined by a host of new board members as the CED sets its leadership for 2016-17.
One of its first tasks will be finding a new CEO.
Joan Siefert Rose, the CED’s leader for the past eight years, announced her plans to step down at the end of the year.
West, who is the CEO of Baebies, Inc., succeeds David Spitz, CEO of ChannelAdvisor, who served as board chair for the past two years.
“I want to thank David Spitz for his leadership and express my appreciation to those Board members who are completing their terms for their time and effort. I’m impressed with the talent and experience of the incoming Board and expect we will be able to build upon the momentum and success of the past few years,” West said in a statement.
New members elected to two-year terms were:
- Tony Atti, president and CEO, Phononic
- Bill Brown, CEO, 8 Rivers Capital, LLC
- Kimberly Campbell, head of consumer engagement and wellness solutions, Mosaic Health Solutions
- Brian Carney, general partner, Harbert Venture Partners
- Heather Dean, partner, Hughes Pittman & Gupton LLP
- Joy Parr Drach, president and CEO, Advanced Animal Diagnostics
- Scott Duda, partner, Cherry Bekaert LLP
- Patrick Dunnigan, principal, River Cities Capital Funds
- Melvin Hines, CEO and co-founder, Upswing
- Justyn Kasierski , partner, Hutchison PLLC
- Don Rainey, general partner, Grotech Ventures
- Christy Shaffer, general partner, Hatteras Venture Partners
- Carolyn Sparano, general manager and vice president, Bronto Software
- Courtney Tellefsen, founder & CEO, The Produce Box
- Matt Tormollen, executive vice president and general manager, Avalara;
- Garret Tripp, senior manager, PwC.
Directors re-elected to another two-year term:
Glen Caplan, shareholder, Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson; Stephen Fraser, co-founder, Spoonflower; John Glushik, partner, Intersouth Partners; Gary Hayes, COO, Scale Finance; Nick Jordan, CEO, Smashing Boxes; Chris Matton, general counsel, Bandwidth; Spence McClelland, principal, Noro-Moseley Partners; Giles Shih, CEO, BioResource International; Adam Smith, chief revenue officer, Automated Insights; Rik Vandevenne, director, River Cities Capital Funds; Scott E. Weiner, partner, Pappas Ventures; and, Jeff Williams, CEO, Clinipace Worldwide.
Incumbent directors who will serve through 2016:
DeLisa Alexander, EVP & chief people officer, Red Hat; June S. Almenoff; James Avery, CEO and founder, Adzerk; Elaine D. Bolle, president, RTP Capital Associates; Doug Bowers; Richard Brown, SVP, PNC Bank; Ken Eheman, partner, Wyrick Robbins; Meredith S. Friga, partner, EY; Matt Godwin, vice president, Wells Fargo; Ranya Hahn, director, HR, VIF International Education; Dave Haines, partner, Deloitte; Galen Hatfield, VP, commercial programs, RTI International; Aaron W. Houghton, CEO, BoostSuite; Moise Khayrallah, CEO, QuatroBio LLC; Karen LeVert, president and CEO, Southeast TechInventures Inc.; Sanjay Pal, vice president, Cisco; Kim Phillips, SVP, private client advisor, US Trust, Bank of America; Kevin Prakke, partner, Manning Fulton; Anastasia Pucci, talent acquisition leader, GSK; David Rhode, managing partner, Vaco Raleigh; Michael Saber, partner, Smith Anderson; Joe Schachle, COO, Parion Sciences; Brad Schomber, CFO, MaxPoint Interactive; Mark Self, CEO, Entigral Systems; Jack Sheffield, managing director, DB Securities; Oliver Sherrill, senior VP, regional marketing director, Alexandria Real Estate Equities; William R. Spruill, managing partner, Global Data Consortium; John Stewart, partner, Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP; Chris Stoecker, vice president, Silicon Valley Bank; Kenneth Tindall, SVP, science & business development, North Carolina Biotechnology Center; Jennifer Wege, grant committee member, Wege Foundation; Allen West, CEO, Railinc; Deb Woods, VP product management, SciQuest; and Ted Zoller, director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Officers
Haines as Treasurer and Saber as Secretary were elected to serve as officers along with West.
Executive committee members are: Alexander, Atti, Fraser, Matton, Shih, Vandevenne and Williams.
