Board of Directors

Camp Blue Skies Foundation
Founder, Charlotte

Charitable and leadership roles: InReach, Former President Board of Directors; The Horizons School, Birmingham, Former Chairman; Disabilities Council of United Way Charlotte, Former Chairman.

Commercial Real Estate Broker
RED Partners, Charlotte

Charitable and leadership roles: Camp Blue Skies, volunteer and founding member of Camp Blue Skies Boosters; Bruce Irons Camp Fund.

Retired Senior Vice President
Bank of America, Charlotte

Charitable and leadership roles: U.S. Air Force, Honorary Commander; NCR for Global Self-Service, Advisory Board; Special Olympics, Coach.

Physical Therapist
OrthoCarolina-Hickory

Charitable and leadership roles: Camp Blue Skies, longtime volunteer; Huntersville ARP Church, member and volunteer.

Emergency Physician
Atrium Health-Carolinas Medical Center

Owner and CEO
Patrick W. Baker Law, LLC 
Charlotte, NC

Associate Professor
University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Charitable and leadership roles: Executive Director, American Therapeutic Recreation Association; Camp Blue Skies volunteer, Public Address announcer for Winston Salem Christian School, Board member for the Southeast Recreational Therapy Symposium.

Director of Information Management
The Leon Levine Foundation, Charlotte

Charitable and leadership roles: Humane Society of Charlotte, Volunteer; former Sustain Charlotte, Executive Committee Member & Chair of External Affairs; former HEART Math Tutoring, Tutor & Young Professionals Member; former Special Olympics, Assistant Coach – Swimming.

Charlotte Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Retired Gastroenterologist
Charlotte, NC

Charitable and leadership roles: Presbyterian Hospital, Previous Chief of Staff; Charlotte Community Health Clinic, Volunteer; Camp Blue Skies, Volunteer; Participant in multiple medical mission trips to South America.

Managing Director of PNFP Capital Markets, a subsidiary of Pinnacle Bank
Charlotte, NC

Charitable and leadership roles: Philips Academy, Current Board Chair; Charlotte Latin School, former Board Member; UMAR Services, Inc., former Board President; Davidson College (former Chair, Board of Visitors, former member Board of Trustees); Davidson Athletic Foundation, former Board Chairman; YMCA Camp Thunderbird, former Board member.

Catawba Lands Conservancy, retired Land Stewardship Associate,
Charlotte, NC

Charitable and leadership roles: Anne Springs Close Greenway, Board Member; YMCA Camp Thunderbird and Camp Harrison, Former Executive Director; NC MDA hosted at Camp Thunderbird, Volunteer; Down Syndrome Camp hosted at Camp Harrison, Volunteer.

Attorney and Community Volunteer, Charlotte

Charitable leadership roles: Children’s Scholarship Fund Charlotte, Founding Board Chair; Women’s Leadership Council at UNC Chapel Hill, Board member; Teach for America, Board member; Charlotte Ballet, Board member; Wing Haven, former Board President; Dancing with Stars of Charlotte for Breast Cancer.

Former President & CEO
Domtar, Fort Mill

Charitable and leadership roles: Domtar, Board of Directors; Owens Corning, Board of Directors; Form Technologies, Inc., Board of Directors; Stern Center for Sustainable Business at New York University, Chairman; Palisade’s Episcopal School, Board of Directors.

Cansler Collaborative Resources
Senior Consultant
Concord, NC

Charitable and leadership roles: Camp Blue Skies, Former Chief Operations Officer at Monarch, Chief Executive Officer of UMAR Services, Inc., Director of I/DD Network Development at Vaya Health and Director of I/DD Care Coordination at Cardinal Innovations Healthcare. 

Faison
President & CEO
Charlotte, NC

Williams Syndrome Association
Executive Director, Retired

Charitable and Leadership roles: Steps to HOPE, grant writer, volunteer; Berkshire Hills Music Academy, Professional Advisory Board member; Williams Syndrome Association, Former President, Board of Trustees, FAR Conservatory of Therapeutic & Performing Arts, Former Board of Trustees & Board Treasurer; VSA Arts-Michigan, Former Board of Directors & Board Treasurer

Bank of America, 
Private Client Advisor, Senior Vice President
Charlotte, NC

Charitable and Leadership roles: Salem Academy and College Board Member, the Charlotte chapter of the Financial Planning Association Board Member, the US National Whitewater Center Board of Directors, Charlotte Junior Soccer, and the 24 Foundation. She is a member of the Women’s Impact Fund and Women Executives/WINGS.

President & CEO
Cox & Company, Charlotte

Charitable and leadership roles: Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, Former Chair; Charlotte City Council, Former Member; Mint Museum of Art, Former Chair; Sugar Creek, Camp Blue Skies house band, Lead Singer.

President & Founder
Mallard Creek Capital Partners, Charlotte

Charitable and leadership roles: University of North Carolina Medical Foundation, Chapel Hill, Chairman; Creative Learning Center, Dallas, Former Chairman; Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC, Board Member.

Senior Advisor
former President and CEO
Faison Enterprises, Charlotte

Charitable and leadership roles: Opera Carolina, Former Board Chair; Washington and Lee University, Former Rector (chair) of the Board of Trustees; Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Former Director; Pacolet Milliken Enterprises and MAA, Director.