DeLisa Alexander
Executive Coach and Board Director
Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
Board of Advisors
The Kenan Institute Board of Advisors offers their expertise and guidance to the institute’s faculty and staff. The board meets biannually to review the institute’s operations and programming. Members represents a wide range of constituencies from business, entrepreneurship, government, university, investor, research communities, as well as the public.
Board of Advisors Chair
Board of Advisors
Meredith Archie
Senior Vice President of External Affairs, NC Chamber; President, NC Chamber Foundation;
Board of Advisors Member, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
Steve Armstrong
President, William R. Kenan, Jr. Funds; President, Kenan Management, Inc.
Jennifer Blouin
Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Anita R. Brown-Graham
Gladys Hall Coates Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Government, UNC School of Government; Director, ncIMPACT Initiative
David Carroll
Principal, Carroll Family Holdings LLC
Allen Chan
Managing Director, Diversified Search Group
Chris Chung
CEO, Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina
Mary Moore Hamrick
CEO, Political Quotient Advisors, LLC; Adjunct Professor, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, College of Charleston School of Business, The Citadel
John Hardin
Executive Director of the Office of Science, Technology & Innovation, North Carolina Department of Commerce
Patrick G. Hartley
Fellow, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
James W. Dean Jr.
Former Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chuck Lovelace
Former Executive Director, Morehead-Cain Foundation
Hilda Pinnix-Ragland
Vice President-Corporate Public Affairs, Duke Energy
Karen A. Popp
Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
David Robinson
The James and Gail Vander Weide Professor of Finance, Duke University Fuqua School of Business; Research Director, Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative
Amit Singh
Co-founder, President & CEO, Spectraforce Technologies
Thomas Stith
Senior Director, NC Economic Forecasting; Professor of the Practice, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Jeff Swearingen
Retired, Global Senior Vice President, PepsiCo; Executive Coach