Chair: David Peele, Ph.D., President, AVOCA, Inc., Merry Hill
Vice-Chair: H. L. (Steve) Stephenson, III, Attorney, Ward & Smith, P.A., Greenville
Immediate Past Chair: D. Jordan (Jordy) Whichard III, Publisher, Cox North Carolina Publications, Greenville
- Darren Armstrong, President, Black Land Farmers, Belhaven
- Steven (Steve) M. Casey, Vice President, Statewide Operations, North Carolina Biotechnology Center, Research Triangle Park
- John D. Chaffee, President & CEO, North Carolina's Eastern Region, Kinston
- Bill Cooper, Manager, BioNetwork - Bioprocessing Center, Technology Enterprise Center, Greenville
- Duncan W. Dawkins, Marine Science Coordinator, Carteret County Economic Development Council, Morehead City
- Al Delia, Office of the Governor, Policy Director, Raleigh
- Jayfus Doswell, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology, Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City
- John Gessaman, President & CEO, Carolinas Gateway Partnership, Rocky Mount
- Marty Hackney, Director, Entrepreneurial Initiative, East Carolina University, Greenville
- Ron Heiniger, Ph.D., Associate Professor - Extension Corn Specialist, North Carolina State University, Plymouth
- Joanna Helms, President and COO, Wayne County Development Alliance, Goldsboro
- Phillip (Phil) Hodges, President, Metrics, Inc., Greenville
- Rob Mayo, President, Carolina Classics Catfish, Ayden
- Rick Niswander, Ph.D., Dean, College of Business, East Carolina University, Greenville
- Paul Phibbs, Ph.D., (Retired) Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Asheville
- Mark A. Phillips, Director, Eastern Regional Office, North Carolina Biotechnology Center, Greenville
- Bill Richardson, WSR, Inc., Poplar Branch
- Vann Rogerson, President & CEO, North Carolina's Northeast Commission, Edenton
- Thomas Schultz, Director, Marine Conservation Molecular Facility, Duke University, Beaufort
- Edmund (Ed) Stellwag, Ph.D., Director, Genomics Core Facility & Associate Professor, Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville