Leadership & Staff
Nathan Hatch
President of Wake Forest University
Ogden Phipps II
Co-founding Partner of Snow Phipps
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Trustee
Maya Angelou
An acclaimed American poet and autobiographer, Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri in 1928.
Steven S Reinemund
Retired executive chairman of PepsiCo; retired Dean of Business at Wake Forest University
John A Allison IV
President and CEO of the Cato Institute
Michael A J Farrell
Founder, Annaly Capital Management
Bobby Burchfield
Former Partner, King & Spaulding; Former Co-managing partner of McDermott Will & Emery LLP’s Washington, D.C., office
Board Members
Andrew J Schindler
Tobacco executive
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Trustee
Services & Transactions
FIA Card Services, N.A.
Formerly MBNA | Merged with Bank of America Corp in 2006
Michael Whatley
Former Partner, HBW Resources; became Republican National Committee chair in March 2024
Bobby Burchfield
Former Partner, King & Spaulding; Former Co-managing partner of McDermott Will & Emery LLP’s Washington, D.C., office
Neela Rajendra
Chief Inclusion Officer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jim Trusty
Lawyer
Wesley Barnett
Son of Carol Jenkins Barnett and Barney Barnett of Publix Supermarkets; Lakeland Hospitality Group
Tom Fetzer
Former Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party; former Mayor of Raleigh North Carolina
Laura Daniel-Davis
Biden Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, Department of Interior
Elliot Berke
Managing Partner, Berke Farah LLP; former partner McGuireWoods LLP
