UNC Kenan-Flagler Board

George Alexander is executive director of Muthoot Finance, the largest gold finance company in India. He takes care of operations in the States of Karnataka, Goa and south of Telangana. He also has the responsibility of the global operations of The Muthoot Group in U.S. He serves on the board of other group companies namely Muthoot Insurance Brokers, Belstar Finance & Investments, Asia Asset Finance and Muthoot Securities. Muthoot Finance is the flagship institution of The Muthoot Group. It was listed in 2011 and is traded in BSE & NSE. Apart from Muthoot Finance, The Muthoot Group has 16 other divisions, including hospitality, healthcare, education and insurance broking. Prior to joining his family business, Alexander worked for ING & Kotak Mahindra Bank in India

He was the chapter chair of Confederation of Indian Industries – Young Indians Bangalore Chapter in 2015. He also served on the board of Entrepreneur’s Organisation Bangalore as finance chair from 2016 to 2018. He was one among 10 Indians chosen to represent India for AIYD (Australia India Youth Dialogue) at Sydney and Melbourne in 2013.

Alexander earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from University of Kerala TKM College of Engineering and his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Nathan Andrews is a partner with Deloitte. He is the U.S. and global practice leader for Deloitte’s Tax Management Consulting practice and serves as lead client service partner for UNC-Chapel Hill.

Andrews received both his BSBA and MAC from UNC Kenan-Flagler. He and his wife, Karrie, live in Hillsborough.

Kathryn Black is consulting as an executive in residence for the Eshelman Institute for Innovation at UNC to establish a hub in Charlotte that accelerates venture-backable digital health startup companies.

She is a 28-year veteran in financial services across a variety of roles, including strategy, product management, brand, sales, data and analytics. In addition, she has over 20 years of nonprofit board service at the executive committee level across multiple organizations leading finance and audit, endowment, marketing and transformation initiatives.

In her most recent position as strategic initiatives executive at Bank of America, Black spearheaded corporate-wide strategies aimed at accelerating business collaboration, philanthropic investments, brand enhancement and social impact.

In previous roles she led marketing data and analytics that delivered incremental revenue from targeted marketing campaigns. At prior financial institutions she led senior product managers responsible for high-yield savings, CDs, bank IRAs and mass affluent premium checking products with total balances of $235B.  She led a team of strategy, sales, training, and marketing professionals supporting consumer deposits.

Black received a her BA from Queens University of Charlotte and her MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler. She serves on the boards of UNC Kenan-Flagler, Road To Hire and myFutureNC. She lives in Charlotte.

Sam Bowles is a managing director at New Republic Capital and a member of the board of directors of New Republic Partners. Sam brings extensive expertise and experience in the areas of private equity, investment management, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions.

His prior experience includes roles as a managing director of Threadridge Investment Partners, a fully integrated single family office and holding company, and as a principal at Carousel Capital where he sourced and executed private equity transactions and monitored portfolio companies. Bowles also worked at Morgan Stanley in the mergers & acquisitions group in New York.

He earned BSBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Bowles serves on the boards of the UNC Healthcare System where he serves as chairman of the finance committee, Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust, Endowment for the Mint Museum where he serves as chairman, endowment of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church where he serves as chairman of the investment committee and UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Kit Fisher Bredrup is a founding member of the 100 Women Initiative,  a group of UNC Kenan-Flagler alumnae focused on enhancing the enrollment and our culture with strong, ambitious and collaborative female students. Their initial goal is to increase the number of full-time female MBA students through focused engagement.

Bedrup has been a Tar Heel from the very beginning. She was born in Chapel Hill while her father was a resident at UNC Medical School. She grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in economics. After graduating from UNC, she joined First Citizens Bank where she worked in the credit analysis department and later joined their private banking group. She returned to UNC Kenan-Flagler for her MBA. Upon graduation she joined Mercer Management Consulting where she specialized in strategy and operational consulting. In 1997, she changed careers and moved to New York to joined the Highland Search Group where she specialized in financial service recruiting.

Soon after moving to New York, she met her husband, Turner Bredrup. They live in Richmond, Virginia, and are the proud parents of Turner ’23 and Fisher.

Allison Bubar joined White Cap in December 2025 as senior vice president, enterprise operations. She leads environmental health and safety and branch operations support for hundreds of branches across the U.S. and Canada, driving operational excellence and safety initiatives.

Prior to White Cap, Bubar spent 15 years at Advance Auto Parts in a variety of leadership roles, most recently as senior VP of supply chain transformation and transportation. Her experience spans both field and functional leadership, including regional VP, general manager of DieHard, and senior roles in marketing, store operations support, real estate, strategy and transformation, and integration.

Before Advance, she worked at Stanley Black & Decker in field sales and marketing roles, including territory manager for the Greater Chicagoland area.

She chairs the biomedical committee for the Greater Triangle Chapter of the American Red Cross and lives in Raleigh with her husband, Dan, their two sons and their two dogs, Wrigley and Bear.

Bubar earned dual bachelor’s degrees in business administration and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was captain of the varsity track team. She holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Brent Callinicos is an experienced financial and technology executive.

He was most recently COO and CFO at Virgin Hyperloop One and prior to that:CFO at Uber Technologies. Callinicos also served as VP, treasurer and chief accountant at Google, where he was also responsible for tax, internal audit and M&A finance. He also ran Google’s Green Energy investing and Google Financial Services.

From 1992–2007, Callinicos served in a variety of increasingly senior roles at Microsoft, where he was corporate vice president and divisional CFO for Microsoft’s Platforms and Services Division. He also ran worldwide licensing and pricing and Microsoft financing. He was Microsoft’s treasurer from 2000–2004. While at Microsoft, he sat on the Council of Economic Advisors for two Washington State Governors.

Callinicos is on the board of three public companies: PVH (member of the audit committee and the corporate responsibility committee), Baidu (chair of the audit committee), Rubicon (chair of the audit committee).He also serves on the board of  one private company: Acorns.

He earned his BSBA and MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler, which awarded him the MBA Alumni Merit Award in 2004. He is a CPA.

Eric Campbell is the managing partner at Value Investment Group, a private family office focused on influencer-backed private equity and value investing. He has deployed over $50 million in capital and invested in over 30 companies with seven exits to date including Draftkings, Coinbase, Airbnb and others. Campbell was recognized by Forbes as a 2020 30 Under 30 recipient in venture capital.

Prior to VC, he worked at Google and then Uber. At Uber, he was responsible for regional operations and strategy for the Middle East and Africa.

Campbell received his BSBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and resides in Atlanta. He is a board member of Eustress Inc.

Allison Carroll is SVP of customer success at Avalara, a $1 billion global tax-compliance software company whose mission is to make customers’ lives easier by simplifying and automating taxes.  Specifically, Carroll leads all post-sales functions including onboarding, professional services, technical support, customer account management and renewals. She manages an $800 million P&L with 700+ technical and sales experts in five countries supporting 30,000 customers globally. She joined Avalara 2020 after 20 years with IBM where she was vice president of customer success for IBM Cloud.

Carroll earned her MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler in the Weekend Executive MBA program.  She earned her undergraduate degree from Meredith College. She is a North Carolina native and lives in Raleigh.

Susan Cates is the managing partner of Leeds Illuminate, a growth equity firm that invests in the education and workforce development sectors.  She brings 23 years of experience in the sector, across operating executive roles and investing and advisory roles.

Cates previously served as CEO of ACUE, COO of 2U, president of UNC Executive Development and founding executive director of MBA@UNC.

Prior to her operating roles, Cates was a partner and led global acquisitions at Best Associates, a private equity firm with investments primarily in the education sector.  She was part of the founding team and principal of ThinkEquity Partners, an investment banking boutique, where she led the education investment banking practice.  She previously worked in investment banking at Merrill Lynch and corporate banking at Wachovia Bank.

Cates earned her MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler, where she received a Tiger Fellowship and was a Dean’s Scholar.  She earned her BA from Duke University where she was a B.N. Duke Scholar.

She serves on the boards of Primo Water Corporation (NYSE: PRMW), Eruditus, Mursion, Product School and ACUE.  She lives in Chapel Hill with her husband, Scott Warren, and their child Cade.

Michael Chen is a senior managing director and head of capital raising for GEM Realty Capital. His primary responsibility is to develop and execute GEM’s capital raising strategy and serve as a liaison with the investor community. He also serves on the investment committee where he is involved in setting firm-wide investment strategy.

Prior to joining GEM, Chen was a managing director and global head of capital markets at Madison International Realty, where he oversaw global capital raising and investor relations, and served on the investment and risk committees of the firm.

He served as co-head of the capital markets group at the Paramount Group and as an executive director in J.P. Morgan’s real estate investment banking Group, working in both New York and London. He held various positions with Marriott International and Crestline Capital.

Chen serves on the UNC Kenan-Flagler board. He is an active member of various global real estate organizations and serves on the membership committee of the Pension Real Estate Association.

He received his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and his BA from the University of Michigan.

Jan Davis is a retired CEO and active board member and advisor of companies in software, analytics, direct and interactive marketing, and technology-enabled services. She provides strategic and marketing expertise, corporate financial oversight, CEO coaching and introductions to potential partners, customers, suppliers and investors.

She is a member of the board of directors of Couplet Care and serves on the boards of advisors for multiple startup companies. She is a co-founder and member of the board of managers for the RTP Angel Fund and vice chair of Triangle Angel Partners II.

At UNC Kenan-Flagler, she serves on the board and is a professor of the practice of strategy and entrepreneurship. She has been active on the Alumni Council.

Davis previously served as vice chair and chair of the audit committee of Showingtime prior to its 2021 acquisition by Zillow. Her experience with other private company boards of directors includes Megalytics, Chicago-based provider of commercial real estate risk assessment solutions; GSP Retail, a leading provider of software and printing to the convenience store industry; ShopperTrak RCT, the global leader in pedestrian traffic counting; RCT Analytics Ltd., ShopperTrak’s minority-owned European subsidiary; and Truelink, majority-owned TransUnion subsidiary providing personal information to consumers.

She was previously an entrepreneur in residence for the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network and the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship at the UNC-Chapel Hill, as well as on the screening committee for the Carolina Angel Fund.

Davis has also been active on the boards of directors of the Chicago Finance Exchange and the Illinois Technology Association.

Davis brings more than 25 years of business leadership to a company’s board of directors. Her most recent operational role was as president and CEO of ShopperTrak. During her four years there, revenues doubled and the company became profitable. ShopperTrak expanded its international footprint significantly, including forming a wholly foreign-owned subsidiary in China.

Before joining ShopperTrak, she spent more than 15 years in direct and interactive marketing, including eight years with TransUnion, the international credit reporting giant, where she rose to be an executive vice president and business unit president.

She relocated from the Chicago area to Cary, North Carolina, in 2010.

Davis holds BA and MBA degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ajit Dayal graduated from UNC Kenan-Flagler in 1983. He earned his BA in economics from Bombay University in 1981. He has over 25 years of experience in the investment management industry.

In 1990 Dayal founded Quantum Advisors; an India-focused investment manager and advisor. Between 1992 and 1995, Quantum had a partnership with Jardine Fleming which was one of Asia’s largest financial firms before its eventual purchase by J.P. Morgan. From 1997 and 2003, Quantum had a partnership with Hansberger Global Investors working with the late Tom Hansberger, co-founder of Templeton, Galbraith, & Hansberger, now known as Franklin Templeton. In 2006, Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings – via its affiliates and associates – took a significant minority equity stake and became a long-term strategic investor in Quantum. Dayal is a board member of Pacific Pension Institute.

Dayal and his partners helped create two charity efforts: Natural Streets for Performing Arts – to get music and the arts back in public spaces in urban India, and HelpYourNGO, a database that allows donors to better evaluate charities before making donations; HYNGO also provides the listed charities with tools and assistance to help them improve their efficiency and increase their capacity for doing more good. In addition to www.NSPA.in and www.HelpYourNGO.com Dayal was instrumental in the creation of the Pay It Forward India Fellowship in 2013 in honor of Professor Jack Behrman, who influenced Dayal with his discourses on ethics in business. Though Professor Behrman passed on on August 19, 2016, Dayal hopes his legacy and teachings will continue to inspire future generations of business leaders.

Scott DeRue is CEO of The IRONMAN Group, the world’s largest organizer of mass-participation sports with a portfolio of events, communities and digital platforms across more than 50 countries in triathlon, running, trail running, road cycling and mountain biking. He is a member of the company’s board of directors.

Throughout his career, DeRue has been dedicated to creating life-changing experiences that help people discover and maximize their potential, whether through education, health and fitness or sport. He is an accomplished endurance athlete and mountaineer.

DeRue served as president of Equinox, the global leader in luxury fitness and high-performance living with over 100 fitness clubs, a connected fitness platform and digital commerce and media properties in North America and Europe. He led the company through significant rebuilding and growth with a focus on the consumer experience and innovation, which fueled record-level operating performance and engagement with its community of members and subscribers. Before his appointment as president, he served as an independent director on the Equinox board.

DeRue also served as the dean of the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business, where he was recognized among the 50 most influential business school professors in the world.

He is a member of the Young President’s Organization and the Explorer’s Club, a trustee of the Conference Board and previously served as chairman of the William Davidson Institute. He has consulted for Fortune 100 companies, startups, championship-winning sports teams and government agencies.

DeRue received his BSBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler, where he serves on the School’s board, and his PhD in management from Michigan State University.

Alex Dickey is a professor of the practice of strategy and entrepreneurship and led the consulting curriculum at UNC Kenan-Flagler for many years after a 28-year career in financial services consulting.

He began his career at Andersen Consulting/Accenture after graduating from UNC Kenan-Flagler in 1987. He spent 21 years defining, developing and implementing innovative solutions for the world’s leading financial institutions.

In 2009, Dickey joined Carlisle and Gallagher Consulting Group as the COO and chief strategy officer. He was charged with significantly expanding the firm’s offerings and defining a strategy to grow the firm into and industry leader. The firm grew to over 1,200 consultants and $150 million in revenue while winning many industry awards and was acquired by NTT Data in 2015.

In addition to his Board role at UNC Kenan-Flagler, Dickey is very passionate about the Big Brothers and Big Sisters program. His passion for the program began as a BIG at UNC. He serves on the board of advisors of BBBS of Greater Charlotte after being on the board for 13 years. He also serves as a Big Brother in the program.

Dickey and his wife Christa (BSBA ’89) have a son who is a Graduate Student in Chiropractic School in Atlanta and a daughter, a December 2021 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate with a degree in psychology and member of the Tar Heel Women’s soccer team, who was drafted to drafted to play in the NWSL for the OL Reign in Seattle.

Rob Edwards co-founded and is a managing partner at Ridgemont Equity Partners,, a middle-market private equity firm in Charlotte.

Prior to Ridgemont, he was a managing director at Banc of America Capital Investors (predecessor to Ridgemont), a management consultant at McKinsey & Co., Inc., a vice president at Allied Capital and an investment banker at Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co, Inc.

Edwards received a BA in economics with highest distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989 and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1995.

He serves on UNC’s Art and Sciences Foundation board of directors and on the UNC Kenan-Flagler Board. Previously he served on UNC’s Board of Visitors, where he was chair of the student recruitment committee; the chancellor’s global leadership council and private asset gift strategy committee; and the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship advisory board.

Edwards is married to Leigh Barnhill Edwards (BA ’90) and they have four children: Robert (BSBA ’20), Jake (BA ’22), Elizabeth and Austin.

Meredith Friga is an assurance partner with Ernst & Young LLP based in Raleigh. She has over 23 years of experience serving clients primarily in the life science, consumer products and not-for-profit industries and has extensive experience leading audit teams and providing assurance services to clients across various transactions.

Outside of client service, Friga is the executive sponsor EY’s diversity, equity and inclusion networks in the Raleigh office. Additionally, she leads the firm’s recruiting efforts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Friga graduated from the Undergraduate Business Program and Master of Accounting Program at UNC Kenan-Flagler. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants.

Additionally, she serves as the vice chair, audit committee chair and treasurer for the NC Biotechnology Center.

In addition to serving on the board at UNC Kenan-Flagler, she also serves of the board of 100 Women.

Meredith lives in Durham with her husband, Paul Friga, and their son.

RD Gauss is a principal at Global Infrastructure Partners, an independent fund manager that makes equity investments in high quality infrastructure assets in the energy, transportation and water/waste sectors. Previously, he served as a managing director in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division providing advisory and capital raising service to clients in the utility, power and renewable energy sectors.

Gauss received a BA in economics and history from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Barry Gonder has over 35 years of experience building and managing investment companies and programs. He advises several private equity, venture capital and hedge fund groups.

He retired from GroveStreet, a venture capital and private equity investment firm, where he was a founder and managing partner for 20 years. He was previously head of alternative investments at CalPERS where he founded the program and built the portfolio to $19 billion. Earlier in his career Gonder was vice president at Travelers Insurance where he invested in private equity and mezzanine debt deals and was director of research for the common stock portfolio.

Gonder started his career working as an assistant economist for Paul Volker at the Federal Reserve. He earned his MBA at UNC Kenan-Flagler and and his AB from Vassar College where he majored in economics and minored in science, technology and society.

He is an advisor to UNC’s Entrepreneurship Center and Innovation Advisory Committee and has served as a judge for 18 years at UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Venture Capital Investment Competition. He also serves on the President’s Advisory Council at Vassar College and is a founding member of the Pacific Pension Institute.

Mike Griffin is a partner with Griffin Brothers Companies (GBC), which was founded in 1961 by his father, Larry Griffin Sr. GBC has grown into a $80 million enterprise that includes a diversified portfolio of businesses. GBC owns or has partnerships in waste management (Greenway Waste Solutions), property development and management (Griffin Brothers Acquisitions), Evergreen Private Equity (ZoomUp Investments) and hospitality management (Pine Island Country Club, Chillfire Bar & Grill, Charlotte Skyline Terrace, Royal Bliss Brewing Company).

Griffin’s duties include corporate treasurer, managing partner of Greenway Waste Solutions, managing partner of ZoomUp Investments, managing partner in urban and mixed-use real estate development, and director of civic and government relations. The newest GBC division is ZoomUp Investments, which invest in next generation leaders known as Zoomers.  Zoomers affiliate with GBC to acquire, partner or start businesses that have high growth potential due to generational declines in talent going into these industries.

Griffin earned his BSBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and is a mentor to many as he serves on numerous non-profit boards including UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School Board of Advisors, UNC Family Enterprise Center Board of Advisors and UNC Entrepreneurship Leadership Council. He was awarded the 2018 Lake Norman Chamber Businessperson of the Year and UNC’s Adams Apprenticeship 2020 Pioneer Award. If you don’t see Griffin in the professional setting, he’s most likely in Chapel Hill with his family, playing golf or hanging out on Lake Norman zooming around on a fly board. He lives in Cornelius, North Carolina, with his wife and their two teenage children.

Jeff Hoffman is a senior managing director focused on medical technology at Guggenheim Partners. He has more than 30 years experience in the full range of investment banking activities including financial advisory services, mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, and venture capital investments. His execution focus is on life sciences and medical technology clients.

Hoffman received a BS in psychology and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Rolf Hoffmann is one of the most respected operations executives in big pharma and biotech, having achieved  remarkable results in significant countries around the world.

Hoffmann headed Eli Lilly operations in Germany, Sub-Sahara and South Africa as well as Latin America, before moving to Amgen to take on international operations in Europe and subsequently the U.S. operations out of U.S. headquarters.

Since retiring from Amgen in July 2016, he has served on the board of STADA (Germany’s largest independent Generics/OTC enterprise), Danish Genmab (Europe’s largest Biotech company), Trigemina Inc. (a U.S. biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of targeted neurological drug therapies), EUSA Pharma (a European specialty pharmaceutical company focused on oncology and oncology supportive care), Shield Therapeutics (a European pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of late-stage, hospital-focused pharmaceuticals), Paratek (a U.S. based biopharmaceutical company focused on drugs that target infectious disease and other difficult to treat conditions) and WADA (World Anti-Doping Association), and is chairman of the board of directors at Biotest (a German-based global provider of plasma proteins and biological drugs). He consults with U.S. and European biotech companies.

Hoffmann also acts as a member and VP of external affairs for the German-American Heritage Foundation and serves as an adjunct professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at UNC Kenan-Flagler.

In his leadership roles, he has created large new businesses, grown or turned around existing businesses, and managed them through all kinds of crisis to deliver hyper-growth. He is a master of the entire instrumentarium of growth levers, including organic growth, acquisition, partnerships and licensing.

In addition, he has been successful on both sides of the table in analyzing, buying and selling biotech products and company opportunities.

Erik Johnson is co-founder and partner at White Point, a real estate investment firm that specializes in the acquisition and development of mixed-use, office, retail and multifamily properties across the Southeastern U.S. He is responsible for the firm’s capital market strategies, risk and asset management and day-to-day firm operations. He is a member of the investment Committee, and along with his partner leads the strategic direction of the firm.

Johnson previously served as SVP of finance for a publicly traded student housing REIT. He also worked in J.P. Morgan’s real estate and lodging investment banking group where he advised clients on M&A transactions and raised nearly $7 billion of debt and equity capital. He began his career at Wells Fargo as a commercial real estate lender.

Johnson received his BSBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and his MBA from The University of Texas at Austin.

He is a member of ULI and serves on the advisory board of the McCombs School of Business real estate investment fund and the executive council of the Texas Real Estate Center.

Harry Jones is the managing partner of Edge Capital and serves on the portfolio management team of the Blue Current dividend equity strategies.  Before co-founding Edge, Jones spent his entire professional career in the investment advisory business at Credit Suisse in Atlanta, Morgan Stanley in Atlanta and New York, and as an analyst for the Excelsior Value & Restructuring Fund in New York.

Jones earned a BA in history and economics with distinction (Omicron Delta Epsilon) from Hampden-Sydney College, where he was a captain of the lacrosse team. He also graduated with an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler, which presented him with its Young Alumni Award in 2009.

He is active with his community endeavors, including his time as a youth lacrosse coach and being awarded the 2011 Man of the Year for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Georgia chapter. He is also a member of YPO and serves on the Advisory Council of Pershing Advisory Solutions and the Board of Visitors of UNC Kenan-Flagler. He is married with three children and lives in Atlanta.

Peter Keane is president and chief investment officer of Keane Capital Management, Inc. He began his investment career with T. Rowe Price and in 1987 joined Interstate/Johnson Lane (IJL) as an equity analyst and was later promoted to director of the firm’s equity strategy group.  In 1997 he was named director of IJL Capital Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Interstate/Johnson Lane. In 1999, Peter Keane founded Keane Capital Management, where he manages an investment partnership. He is a member of the North Carolina Society of Financial Analysts and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.  He was also previously employed with the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia – this prior to earning his MBA.

He graduated from Guilford College with a BA in accounting and his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.

He has two daughters and a son.

Keane is on the Board of Visitors for the University of North Carolina, the Board of Visitors at UNC Kenan-Flagler, a member of the board of the ClearPath Foundation and president of the Alpha Omega Foundation.

Christopher Keber joined Hines in 2012. He serves as senior managing director in Hines’ New York office where he has global responsibilities within the capital markets group for structuring and capitalizing the firm’s investment vehicles.

Prior to Hines, Keber was a partner and director of global capital raising at Starwood Capital Group, a private equity firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Previously, Keber worked in the New York office of Credit Suisse in the real estate private funds group, a leading adviser to private equity firms dedicated to real estate.

He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Pension Real Estate Association.

He holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MBA in real estate from UNC Kenan-Flagler, where he served as chair of the Alumni Council.

Frank Kenan is the co-founder and portfolio manager of KD Capital Management LLC, an investment partnership which he launched in 2014. Prior to founding KD Capital, he was an analyst for Boulderado Group, a concentrated value-oriented investment fund based in Boston from 2011-2014. Prior to obtaining his MBA, Kenan was a development analyst at Edens.

Kenan serves as a member of the board of directors of Boston Omaha Corporation, a NYSE listed company, Flagler Systems Inc., a private hospitality and real estate company, The William R Kenan Funds, and is on the Board of Advisors for the Family Enterprise Center at Kenan-Flagler and The Rams Club.

He earned a BS in Anthropology from the College of Charleston and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Donald J. Kilbride is a senior managing director, partner and equity portfolio manager at Wellington Management Company LLC.

As an equity portfolio manager, he manages Wellington’s dividend growth approaches including the Vanguard Dividend Growth Fund.

Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2002, Kilbride was a senior investment analyst and director of non-technology research at Greenberg-Summit Partners. He was previously the director of U.S. equity research at The Boston Company Asset Management.

Kilbride received his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and his BA from the College of the Holy Cross.

Matt Laycock is a partner at Aurora Capital Partners, a leading Los Angeles-based private equity firm focused principally on control investments in middle-market companies with leading market positions, stable industry dynamics and attractive business model characteristics. He joined Aurora in 2004 and then rejoined the firm after earning an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Previously, Laycock was in the investment banking division at J.P. Morgan where he was a member of the industrials group in New York. He also served as a senior associate at Castle Harlan, a middle-market private equity firm based in New York.

Laycock received his BSBA with distinction from UNC Kenan-Flagler. In addition to serving on the Board of Advisors at UNC Kenan-Flagler, he serves on  the board of advisors for The Rams Club at UNC. He previously served on the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Visitors from 2015-19.

He serves on the board of directors of Curtis Bay, Premier Roofing, PSC Group and VLS Environmental Solutions.

Lynn Lewis retired after more than a 35-year career in the biopharmaceutical industry. Her last role was chief commercial officer (CCO) for Emmes, a leading clinical contract research organization supporting both private and public clinical research. In this role, she is responsible for directing all commercial activities globally including sales, marketing, communications and customer engagement. Lewis brought extensive knowledge in both science and business to the company through her successful career in pharmaceuticals, and leadership roles within sales and operations in the contract research organization (CRO) industry.

Prior to joining Emmes, Lewis was CCO for Envigo, a large non-clinical CRO. And before that, she was group vice president of business development for Covance. During her 15-year career with Covance, she also led the global sales organizations for Covance’s nonclinical and central laboratory businesses, and also served as the general manager of Covance’s drug discovery and development campus in Greenfield, Indiana.

Lewis worked for Eli Lilly and Company for 16 years before Covance, leading cross-functional development teams to bring new medicines to market. She held various positions in sales, marketing, strategic planning and general management. Her last position was product team leader for two of Lilly’s osteoporosis compounds. In this position, she led a team of scientific and commercial professionals through submission and approval of Forteo in the U.S. and Europe. She spent two years abroad as general manager for its Danish affiliate.

Lewis’ background includes a MBA from UNC Kenna-Flagler and a BS in biology from Bucknell University. She has served on several community boards, including BioCrossroads’ external advisory board, Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association external advisory committee, Bucknell University’s alumni board of directors, and UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Board and the Center for the Business of Health Board of Advisors. She also has taught a drug development course for MBA students at UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Jason Liberty is president and CEO for Royal Caribbean Group, which consists of three global cruise brands – Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Silversea Cruises – as well as TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, of which it is a 50% owner in a joint venture. The company’s 64 ships carry more than 7.5 million guests a year to ports on all seven continents.

Since joining the company in 2005, Liberty has had many roles, most recently as executive vice president and chief financial officer. In his former role, Liberty was responsible for finance, strategy, shared service operations, legal, technology, Silversea Cruises and the TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Joint Venture.

Before joining Royal Caribbean Group, he was a senior manager with the accounting firm KPMG LLP.

Liberty earned his MBA UNC Kenan-Flagler, where he serves on the Board of Advisors. He also holds degrees in accounting and finance from the University of Miami School of Business and Indiana University, Bloomington, Kelley School of Business, respectively.

He also serves on the board of directors of WNS Limited, a business process management public company.

Eric Livingston is Americas Financial Services Business Consulting co-lead principal with EY in Charlotte. With over 30 years of experience, he has demonstrated ability collaborating with global financial services companies to develop strategy and provide large-scale, globally diverse programs in technology and business.

His experience spans strategy development to drive customer experience and efficiency, executive level portfolio planning, outcome-based business capability prioritization, complex and global program/project management, post-merger integration leadership, and management and enterprise change management leadership.

Livingston received an MBA and a BA in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also attended Yale University’s Chief Executive Officer Institute.

He is married with two daughters.

Xan Moore is the founder and CIO of XM Capital Partners,  an investment firm that invests in public and private equity, within energy transition/renewables/biofuels, agriculture, chemicals and niche commodity sectors through single-asset funds. Leveraging experience in these sectors, XMCP manages a credit fund specializing in renewable energy project development lending.  In addition, it manages a carbon credit fund which is an extension of the firm’s research within the energy transition/renewables/biofuels markets.

Before founding XM Capital Partners, Moore acted as portfolio manager at Carlson Capital (2010-2020) in equity relative value and event-driven strategies. Within equity relative value, he specialized in the basic materials sector with a particular focus on agriculture, chemicals, bioenergy/renewables and sustainability. In the event-driven strategy, he analyzed publicly announced mergers and special situations such as spin-offs, carve-outs and reverse morris trusts.

Prior to joining Carlson Capital, Moore was an analyst at Brookline Avenue Partners (2006-2009), a multi-strategy hedge fund specializing in merger arbitrage. He began his career in institutional equity sales in the global emerging markets research group at JP Morgan (1999-2003).

Moore graduated with a BA in economics and Spanish from the University of the South and received an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Michael Peterson is retired from a 25-year career in financial services with Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo.

He received his BSBA in 1981 and MBA in 1987 from UNC Kenan-Flagler, where he has established a scholarship fund to provide funding for students to obtain international study opportunities. He is a former member of our Alumni Council.

He lives in Charlotte and currently serves as a volunteer construction supervisor for Habitat for Humanity. He has served on the boards of Friendship Trays, Friendship Gardens and Slow Food.

James Pirouz serves on the executive leadership team for Truist’s corporate and investment banking division and as head of capital markets and syndicate for Truist Securities.

His teams are responsible for providing investment banking and product-specific idea generation in coordination with banking coverage teams to provide client-centric, industry-focused advice.

Previously, Pirouz served as head of consumer, retail and healthcare investment banking, where he successfully grew the groups to leading practices on Wall Street, serving both corporate and financial sponsor clients in strategic advisory and acquisition financing.

Prior to these roles, Pirouz served as a managing director in healthcare investment banking where he was responsible for coverage of the benefits management, for-profit acute care and distribution sectors where he originated and executed mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt transactions. He joined SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in March 2009.

He previously was a principal in Banc of America Securities’ global corporate and investment banking leveraged finance group focused on healthcare mergers and acquisitions, LBO and other capital markets transactions.

He serves on the board for UNC Kenan-Flagler and on the advisory board for the Center for the Business of Health at UNC Kenan-Flagler, as well the board of directors for the United Way of Greater Atlanta.

He holds a BS in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.

He is married with three children and lives in Atlanta.

Cami Rice is a managing director at Morgan Stanley and global head of human capital management for the institutional securities group (ISG) and international. She serves on the Human Capital Management and ISG operating committees.

With 24 years on Wall Street, Rice is a seasoned, diversely skilled senior executive with extensive experience in global business areas, including markets, client strategy, research, management and human capital. She leads human capital management globally for ISG and Morgan Stanley’s international businesses.

She is a trusted and valued partner to business leaders worldwide, creating and implementing strategies to grow revenues in a cost-effective way while managing risk. Her exceptional track record of achievements showcases her solution-focused approach to execution as well as her versatility and ability to integrate, structure, influence and motivate teams.

Previously Rice served as the global chief administration officer for ISG. She was responsible for operational efficiency and strategic execution, delivering an integrated investment bank offering to clients.

She also held the position of the global COO of Morgan Stanley’s research department. Within this role, she demonstrated resourcefulness and tenacity for new challenges, notably when she was asked to head up the department’s street leading digital transformation program.

Rice joined Morgan Stanley in 2003, working in sales trading within the institutional equities division and later held various roles across distribution and strategy.

Before joining Morgan Stanley, she worked as a trader at Bramwell Capital Management from 1997-2001.

Rice earned her MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler, where she serves on the board. She received her her bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware, and traces her deeply rooted competitive spirit to her time as captain of its Division I Women’s Basketball team.

She, her husband Tim and their twins live in New York.

Lansdon Robbins graduated from UNC in 1987 with a BSBA.  He began his career at General Electric where he completed the financial management program in 1989 and served in several marketing, business development and management roles.

In 1992 he graduated from Northwestern University’s JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management and in 1994 he left GE to start his first of many entrepreneurial ventures, including ACCENT Marketing, Service Net Solutions and Azalea Stables. Lansdon’s companies include PetFirst Healthcare, which markets and administers pet insurance for cats and dogs, and Simply Waste, a commercial waste brokerage entity.

A native of Nashville, Lansdon resides in Louisville, with his wife Diana and three children.  His hobbies include reading, fitness, travel and thoroughbred horses.

Mary Shelton Rose leads the PwC Trust Leadership Institute which is a strategic initiative to provide immersive experiences to apply trust to businesses and societies biggest challenges.

Rose previously served as the client service for east eegion of the United States at PwC, where she was responsible for the development of committed relationships between clients and our firm for a broad range of assurance, tax, and advisory services.  She also served as the leader of the PwC US Brexit response office. In this role, she led a team of professionals focused on helping U.S.-based clients navigate the risks and opportunities around Brexit. Rose also serves on the global priority account leadership team and the global key talent advisory board. She is a recurring faculty member of PwC Reinvent the Future program.

In her more than 30 years of professional experience at PwC, Rose has served key clients across a variety of industries in the areas of  technology, consumer markets, entertainment, media and telecommunications industries. Over the course of her career, she has led consulting engagements involving financial and operational due diligence, design and implementation of governance structures and target operating models, human capital organizational design and deployment, profitability analyses, industry/market research, financial modeling and forecasting, statistical analyses, valuations, contract management and forensic investigations.

She holds a BSBA and a Master of Accounting from UNC Kenan-Flagler and is a licensed CPA in California and North Carolina.

As a proud graduate, Rose was the keynote speaker for the 2017 MAC commencement and the 2018 Carolina Women in Business Conference.

Brent Tollison is chief people and public affairs officer at Coca-Cola Consolidated, the nation’s largest Coca-Cola bottler, based in Charlotte.

He began his career at Coca-Cola Consolidated, later moving to Coca-Cola Enterprises and Coca-Cola Refreshments in roles of increasing responsibility. He is an accomplished sales, marketing and operations executive whose roles have included director of sales, VP of convenience retail and market unit VP, region sales, for New York and Virginia. He also served as VP, sales operations northeast, where he developed, engaged and empowered four operating markets.

In 2014, he moved from the Coca-Cola System to Grainger Industrial Supply, as VP of commercial sales, managing a $1.5 billion portfolio. He returned to the Coca-Cola System in 2021 as senior VP at Coca-Cola Consolidated.

Tollison is a highly engaged community leader with a passion for developing the next generation of civic leaders. Starting in Atlanta, he served on the workforce development board for Fulton County. While in the New York area, he served on the boards of the Harlem YMCA and the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club. In Chicago, he served on the board for the One Million Degrees organization, which helps community college students pursue career pathways to greater economic mobility. He also has served on the board of the National Sales Network.

He serves as a board member for the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance and the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Board. He is an active brother of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.

Tollison is a North Carolina native and a proud Carolina graduate, earning undergraduate degrees in chemistry and industrial relations. He attended UNC as a Pogue Scholar and was selected as a North Carolina Leadership Fellow.

He is most proud of his title as husband to Swanda and father to their daughter and son.

Patrick Trask is president of Wood Partners, currently responsible for overseeing the company’s development and construction divisions and for developing new equity and debt capital relationships. Prior to his role as president, he served as regional development director for Wood Partners’ Central Region, which consists of Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada and Chicago. He serves on Wood’s board of directors and heads its investment committee. Trask joined Wood Partners in 2001 and opened the Texas offices for Wood Partners. Before joining Wood Partners, he served as a development associate in Trammell Crow Residential’s North Florida division, where he was active in their developments in Orlando and Tampa. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a foreign exchange interest rate trader with CS First Boston and Morgan Stanley in their New York and London offices.

Trask received his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Davidson College in 1993. He grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, and lives in Houston with his wife, Cathy, and three children.

Matt White co-heads the Energy, Power and Infrastructure Group. He has worked on mergers, acquisitions and capital raising transactions for companies providing products and services to a variety of segments within the energy, power and infrastructure industry including industrial and infrastructure; electric power, natural gas and water utilities; telecom; and environmental.

Prior to joining Harris Williams, White worked in the equity capital markets group at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. Previous experience also includes work in the capital finance group at Wachovia Securities (now Wells Fargo) where he focused on providing acquisition and growth capital to middle market companies as well as workout situations.

White earned an MBA from Emory University and a BSBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler. He lives in Richmond with his wife and their four children.

Michael Wilson is a chief executive officer and board director with a nearly 35-year track record of building and transforming global specialty chemicals and materials businesses.

He serves on the board of Tsubaki Nakashima Co., Ltd. and on the advisory board of Knowde. He previously served on the boards of Vulcan Materials Company, Ingevity Corporation, Vibrantz Technologies and Prince International.

From 2022 to 2025, Wilson served as president and CEO of Vibrantz Technologies (American Securities), a global specialty chemicals company formed from the combination of Prince International, Chromaflo Technologies and Ferro Corporation.

Prior to that, Wilson served as president and CEO of Ingevity Corporation, leading its spin-off from WestRock Company in 2016. He also has held senior executive roles at Albemarle Corporation and FMC Corporation.

Wilson is engaged in the Charleston area through the Wilson Family Fund, supporting the South Carolina Aquarium’s plastic-free waters initiative, the Conservancy of the Sea Islands, Reading Partners SC and hunger relief organizations across the Lowcountry Food Bank whose mission is to reduce food insecurity across the South Carolina Lowcountry.

Wilson earned his BS in chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill and his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

He lives on Kiawah Island, South Carolina.

Brandt Carr is a director in the industrials group at Harris Williams, an investment bank specializing in M&A advisory services. During his time at Harris Williams Brandt has advised a diverse group of publicly-traded and privately-held companies on mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory assignments across a variety of industries, including packaging, specialty distribution, and advanced manufacturing, among others.

Prior to joining Harris Williams, Carr was an investment banking analyst in the equity capital markets group at Citigroup, where he coordinated efforts across teams and banks in the structuring, marketing and pricing of common equity and convertible debt offerings.

Carr joined Harris Williams following the completion of his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler, where he was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Business Society. He earned his BA in political economy from the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University. He lives in Richmond with his wife, Elizabeth, son and his English Bulldog, Chunk.

Tarik Dalton joined Kennedy Lewis in 2023 and is a managing director on the firm’s investment team.

Dalton previously was a managing director and head of leveraged finance desk research at Goldman Sachs. He also served as managing director and head of business development for Silverback Asset Management, an alternative investment manager based in Chapel Hill. Prior to joining Silverback, Dalton founded Price Cameron Woods, which provided advisory services to investment managers.

From 2012 to 2018, he was senior advisor to the CIO and director of multi-strategy investments at the North Carolina Department of the Treasury, where he was responsible for an approximately $3 billion portfolio of diverse alternative investments. He served as one of the four members of the $100 billion pension’s investment committee, as well as on the asset and liability steering committee.

From 2005 to 2012, Dalton was a director at Credit Suisse in the leveraged finance group, where he was a distressed credit analyst performing fundamental analysis on stressed and distressed corporate credits with a focus on autos and industrials, lodging, leisure and gaming.

Dalton began his career as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He holds a BA in economics-philosophy from Columbia University and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler,  where he serves on the Next Generation Advisory Board.

Stephanie Headley is the vice president of Global OLAY Skin Care with in for Procter & Gamble’s skin and personal care business, a position she has held since July 2019.  In this role, she leads product and commercial innovation planning for Olay_® Skin Care.

Her responsibilities include translating consumer trends, breakthrough technology and industry insight into long range planning to grow OLAY globally empowering women to be fearless to face anything.

Prior to her current role, Headley spent 17 years at P&G working in a range of brand management and retail facing assignments in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Charlotte, North Carolina, on iconic brands including Febreze, Herbal Essences and OLAY.  She was recognized as a Top Woman in Beauty, Wellness and Health in 2019.

She is most proud of her work that reflects a more inclusive definition of leadership and beauty. OLAY launched a brand new platform behind Face Anything in September 2019 featuring nine fearless women who represented the broad definition of empowerment and beauty in September Vogue.

Diversity and inclusion are also a passion area for Headley, who is a leader of P&G’s African ancestry affinity organization for brand builders supporting diverse talent to deliver breakthrough results.  She also serves on the board of the Cincinnati YWCA and was appointed to the UNC Kenan-Flagler Next Gen Board of Advisors in 2020. She is an active member of her Crossroads Community Church.

As a member of JLL’s tenant representation team, Torrey Littlejohn is responsible for representing local and national corporate office clients in facility and site acquisition and disposition. She focuses on strategic real estate planning and works closely with each client and the JLL team to identify optimal financial and operational solutions. Littlejohn has a full understanding of the real estate, financial accounting, tax and market conditions that surround client objectives and decisions. As a dedicated team member, she delivers an unprecedented level of service and support to her clients. Her goal is to save the JLL clients’ time and money.

Littlejohn has 17 years of experience in the Dallas/Fort Worth market. In addition to her MBA in finance and real estate knowledge, she brings significant experience in strategy and analytics from her tenure in corporate finance at a Fortune 500 company. Her corporate experience and background brings a skill set to the table that is always beneficial in complex real estate transactions.

She earned her BSBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

She has been recognized numerous times in her professional career including: Dallas Business Journal’s 2017 40 under 40, 2014-16 D CEO Power Broker, Eclipse Magazine’s “Women Who Mean Business”, JLL Club Award, JLL Top Gun and JLL Wolf Pack Award.

Littlejohn is passionate about providing all students access to a quality education. She serves on the inaugural board of Step Up Dallas, a non profit that propels girls from under-resourced communities to fufill their personal and educational potential. She is also an advisory board member for UNCF, a national non-profit which enhances the quality of education by providing financial assistance to students, colleges and universities. In her spare time, Littlejohn enjoys reading, traveling and spending quality time with her husband and two children.

Ben Matthews is vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Leonard USA, a leading full-service retailer of truck accessories and outdoor products across the Southeast.

Prior to joining Leonard, Matthews served as a vice president in Jefferies investment banking division advising consumer and retail companies and at First Horizon in their Mid-Atlantic corporate banking group.

He received his BA and MBA from Carolina. He and his wife Melanie live in Charlotte with their son.

Raj Merchant is a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young LLP (EY) based in Charlotte. He works in the firm’s Financial Services AI & Data practice, advising EY’s insurance clients on digital transformation, data modernization, and AI initiatives.

Merchant holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.  He is passionate about supporting Charlotte’s nonprofit and entrepreneurial ecosystems.  He serves on the boards of Crisis Assistance Ministry, Nourish Up Foundation, and The Bulb and he advises startup founders in the RevTech Labs accelerator program.

Merchant lives in Charlotte with his wife, Leigh Ann, and their son.

Louise Woltz Smith is a managing director at PA Capital, a Richmond-based alternative investment management firm specializing in private and public markets strategies across the U.S. low mid-market. She focuses on the firm’s private equity strategies, and is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and monitoring fund commitments and equity co-investments across the firm’s multi-manager product and separately managed accounts. She serves as a member of PA’s private equity investment committee and is an active advisory board member for various underlying private equity funds.  She also co-manages the firm’s diversity, equity and inclusion focused private equity program.

Smith was a financial analyst at Harris Williams & Co., where she executed sell-side mergers and acquisitions across a variety of industries. She was responsible for all aspects of process execution including financial analysis, marketing, industry research, and client and process management.

A North Carolina native, Smith earned her BSBA and MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.  She lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her husband, Charles, and three sons, Reddin, Webb and Elliott.

Parker’s career began in retail and manufacturing through family business and eventually morphed into marketing and operations for both enterprise level organizations and early stage start-ups. Upon finishing her MBA at Kenan-Flagler, she worked on the operations teams at lululemon athletica in Vancouver, BC. Her focus areas included customer experience, brand consistency, and operational streamlining for all brick and mortar locations in North America.

From there, she launched a career in brand and ops consulting, and growth strategy for early stage start-ups. Today, she’s an investor in early-stage CPG companies that are mission-driven and focused on sustainability. As a Product Director, she leads product development and strategy for her clients at Dualboot Partners, a software and business development organization headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. Committed to helping her community, she’s a board member of Wilmington Chamber of Commerce and involved in Wilmington-based nonprofits including Communities in Schools and Young Life.

Parker received her MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Molly (King) Zmuda leads the product team, development and execution of Vizient’s data and digital product strategy for new markets, including suppliers, distributers, service firms, non-governmental organizations, employers and payers. With internal and external partners, she advances and aligns its comprehensive product portfolio to industry needs and opportunities, managed services, and customer goals and objectives.

Zmuda led a team focused on the strategic alignment of spend management services with health-system and supplier strategies through all areas of non-labor expense across the entire healthcare supply chain. Her scope included programs focused specifically on sustainability, supply assurance, price assurance and insights/intelligence.

Through Vizient Member Networks, she was responsible for connecting over 320 provider organizations, including system-level executives and clinical leaders in supply chain and its integrated-delivery-network supply network, representing 20-25 of largest health systems in the U.S. and more than 500 acute-care facilities, to share leading practices and data, and develop high-value solutions.

Her work in strategy and operations included leveraging analytics and sourcing strategies to deliver an average of $27 million in recognized annual value to three healthcare organizations within the supply chain network she was responsible for. She also established the network’s clinical leadership council, comprised of chief medical officers and supply chain executives, enabling collaboration of 40 physician leaders in clinical variation reduction.

In the provider sector, Zmuda was responsible for developing a network of clinically integrated, enterprise-wide service line advancing full-continuum trauma/injury care across 900-plus locations. She was a co-investigator on a mild traumatic brain injury clinical research study in partnership with clinical research teams and launched an original cross-continuum program evaluation strategy to demonstrate a positive impact on clinical process and outcome metrics through clinical guidelines. Her efforts inspired a North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services research initiative. She also developed trauma outreach strategies, including an mTBI feature during Super Bowl XLVII.

She earned her BSBA from the Undergraduate Business Program, minoring in English, and her Master of Healthcare Administration at Carolina.

She serves on the Next Generation Committee of the Board is and a member of 100 Women.