Our Leadership

Board Chair
Brent Barkin
President, Shoe Station, Inc,

Vice Chair/Campaign Chair
Christian White
Market Executive, Regions Financial

Secretary/Governance Chair
Robert Matthews
Partner, Burr & Forman, LLP

Finance Chair
Erin S. Jones
CPA, Wilkins Miller, LLC

Community Impact Chair
Glyn Agnew
Regional Director, AT&T

Labor Chair
Rick Lambert
Southwest Alabama Labor Council

Immediate Past Chair
J. Guy Helmsing
Senior Vice President & Market President, Hancock Whitney Bank

Mahesh Batavia
Southeast Asian Store Owners Association

Guillermo Belloso
Director of Operations, BLP Mobile Paint

Walter Brand
Senior Vice President, ServisFirst Bank

Mark J. Burnett, Jr.
Training Coordinator & President, UA Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 119

Joe Calagaz
President, Calagaz Printing

Melissa Cross
President, McAleer’s Office Furniture 

Bob Grip
Community Volunteer 

Dr. Ritesh Gupta
President, Rihner Gupta and Grosz Cardiology

Audra Harper
Operations Administrator, Harper Technologies, LLC

Nick Harrell
Executive Director & CIDO, Choctaw County Chamber of Commerce

Michelle Hurdle
Director of Economic & Community Development, Airbus Americas, Inc. 

Dr. Leida Javier-Ferrell
CEO, Javier Calametti, LLC

Bo Keahey
Partner, Williams & Keahey, LLC

Dr. Andi M. Kent
Interm Provost and SVPAA

Bo Mattei
President
Thames Batre Insurance

Sharon Moffatt
Regional Manager, Spire Gulf & Spire Mississippi, Spire, Inc.

H. Rudd Schultze
Division Marketing Manager, Alabama Power

Jessica Odom
Executive Director, The Arc of Southwest Alabama

Bubba O’Gwynn
Senior Vice President & Market President, Truist

Jeff St. Clair
President, Springhill Medical Center

Michael Strickler
Director of Sales, WALA Fox 10

Michael Toomey
Division Superintendent, Thompson Gas

Kelly C. Woodford
Associate Dean of Mitchell College of Business, University of South Alabama

Sarah L. Damson
Tom Hinds
G. Russell Ladd, III

Ronald B. Melton
James T. Robson
Robert J. Williams