Board of Directors  

Executive Committee

Chairman
Austin J. Slater, Jr.
President & CEO
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative

Vice Chairman
William T. Riley, Jr. CPA
Senior Principal
The Reznick Group

Secretary-Treasurer
Thomas H. Graham
President – Pepco Region
Pepco Holdings, Inc.

Immediate Past Chairman
Betty Buck
President
Buck Distributing Co., Inc.

President
Kathleen T. Snyder, CCE
President & CEO
Maryland Chamber of Commerce

General Counsel
Charles J. Morton, Esq.
Partner
Venable LLP

Members

Nathan Beil
President
KCI Technologies, Inc.

Drew Cobbs
Executive Director
Maryland Petroleum Council

Ralph W. Emerson, Jr.
Senior Vice President
M&T Bank

Laurie Freeman
Managing Partner
Opus8, Inc.

John G. McCormick
Vice President, Corporate Communications & Community Serv.
McCormick & Co., Inc.

John T. Menzies, III
Chairman
The Terminal Corporation

Directors

Thomas Brady
Chairman
Baltimore Gas & Electric

Darlene Breck *
President & CEO
Southern Maryland Business Centers

William R. Chambers
General Manager
The Show Place Arena

Gregory Cockerham
Executive Vice President & Chief Lending Officer
Community Bank of Tri-County

Ernie Colburn *
Senior Manager
Comcast Spotlight

James W. Dyke, Jr., Esq.
Partner
McGuireWoods, LLP

Mark Edward, CPA, FCA
Financial Services Partner
BDO Seidman, LLP

James Estepp
President & CEO
Greater Prince George’s Business Roundtable

Ellen R. Fish
Executive Vice President
CFG Community Bank

Jacob S. Frenkel, Esq.
Partner
Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A.

Shane Grady*
President
Boal and Associates, PC

Eric Grant
Vice President – Corproate Relations
Washington Gas

Carla Hargrove-McGill
President
Hargrove, Inc.

Corinne Hart ****
National Sales Manager
Loews Annapolis Hotel

Alvin L. Helfenbein, Jr. *
Owner
Helfenbein Insurance Agency, Inc.

Jack Hollerbach
President & CEO
HarVest Bank of Maryland

Frederick Hubbard
President & CEO
Choptank Electric Cooperative

J. Jeffrey Hutter, Sr. *
President
TWR Communications

Rob Jepson *
Associate Vice President, Government Affairs
Adventist Health

Del Karfonta *
Executive Vice President
The Columbia Bank

Alvin Katz, CPA
Chairman
KatzAbosch

William E. Kirwan, Ph.D.
Chancellor
University System of Maryland

James F. LaCalle, Ed.D. **
President
Harford Community College

Eugene T. Lauer
Project Executive/Business Consultant
Meridian Ventures, Inc.

Jeffrey A. Leavitt
Vice President, Airborne Surveillance
Northrop Grumman Corporation

David Libdan *
CEO
Applied Resources and Knowledge, LLC

Morris A. Little
President
B & W Solutions, Inc.

Thomas E. Lynch, III *
Principal
Miles & Stockbridge

Charles A. Lyons
CEO
Post Newsweek Media

Charles Mangold, Jr. *
Agent
Benson & Mangold

Kevin J. Manning, Ph.D.
President
Stevenson University

Ricardo Martinez
President
Project Enhancement Group

James McGill, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Administration
Johns Hopkins University

L. Nash McMahan *
Vice President, Business Development
Tri –Gas & Oil, Inc.

Bill Meagher
Owner
Lakeside Creamery

Jim Meyd
Vice President – Sales and Operations
Giant Food LLC

Christopher Motz *
President
Kaplan University-Hagerstown Campus

Stephen A. Mucchetti
Chief Operating Officer
USinternetworking, Inc.

Craig Muckle *
Public Affairs Manager, Eastern Div.
Safeway, Inc.

Sheela Murthy, Esq.
President
Murthy Law

Colleen Peterson
Exective Director
Greater Cumberland Committee

Lori Riordan
Vice President, Government Affairs
Comcast Beltway Region

William R. Roberts
Regional President
Verizon – Maryland/DC

Carol Sandberg *
Owner
Crystal Prints & Crystal Signs, LLC

Judith A. Schaefer *
President & CEO
ExpressConnect Conferencing

Stephen Spahr
Chief of Staff
Frostburg State University

William R. Teel, Jr.
CEO
1 Source Consulting, Inc. &
Energy Enterrpise Solutions, Inc.

Gregory TenEyck
Director of Public Affairs
Safeway, Inc.

James Thomas
President & CEO
George, Miles & Buhr, LLC

Marge Thomas
President
Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake

Frank K. Turner, Jr.
Executive Vice President
PNC Bank

L. Aldie Warnock
Vice President, External Affairs
Alleghany Energy

Y. Maria Welch ***
CEO
Respira Medical

W. Daniel White
Executive Vice President
Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., Inc.

Ex-Officio Members

Maryland Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives
Pam Klahr, CCE
President /CEO
Howard County Chamber of Commerce

Business Development Council
Deborah Stallings
President & CEO
HR Anew, Inc.

Comments
** Representative for MD Association Community Colleges - LaCalle

*** Representative, MD Hispanic Chamber
of Commerce - Welch

* Local Chamber Representatives
Breck – Charles Co.
Colburn – Salisbury Area
Grady – Garrett Co.
Helfenbein – Queen Anne’s Co.
Hutter – Allegany Co.
Jepson – Montgomery Co.
Karfonta – Howard Co.
Libdan – Carroll Co.
Lynch – Frederick C.
Mangold – Talbot Co
McMahan - Caroline Co.
Motz – Hagerstown/Washington Co.
Muckle – Prince George’s Co.
Sandberg – Dorchester Co.
Schaefer – Baltimore City

Updated: March 3, 2010