Executive Board
The EDPNC board of directors is comprised of corporate executives, family-owned business operators, entrepreneurs, and hospitality and economic development professionals.
Gene McLaurin
Chairman, EDPNC Board of Directors
President
Quality Oil Company
Rolf Blizzard
Managing Director
Turnpike Properties
Sam Bowles
Managing Director
New Republic Capital
Spence Broadhurst
President - Eastern North Carolina
First National Bank
Swadesh Chatterjee
CEO
Swadesh Chatterjee & Associates
Pam Cundiff
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Travel Consultants, Inc.
Joan Higginbotham
Director, Program Management
Collins Aerospace
Keith Holtsclaw
Consultant and Retired President/CEO
Blue Ridge Hospital
John Kane
Founder and CEO
Kane Realty Corporation
Vimal Kolappa
Entrepreneur and Founder
East Coast Hospitality
Sheila Knight, CCIM
Consultant
SK Strategies, LLC
Karen LeVert
CEO and Co-Founder
Ag TechInventures Inc.
Michelle Logan
Vice President and General Manager, Drug Product Division North America
Thermo Fisher Scientific
William P. Morgan, Jr., RFC
CEO
Capital Management Group, Inc.
Lee Nettles
Executive Director
Outer Banks Visitors Bureau
Machelle Sanders
Secretary of Commerce
N.C. Department of Commerce
Aaron Thomas
President & CEO
Metcon, Inc.
Jeffery Turner
Executive Vice President and COO
Murphy Family Ventures
