Advisory Committee
Chair
David Peele, Ph.D. , President, AVOCA, Inc.
Vice-Chair
H. L. (Steve) Stephenson, III, Attorney, Ward & Smith, P.A.
Immediate Past Chair
D. Jordan (Jordy) Whichard III
Full Committee
- Clyde L. Brooks Jr., Chief Medical Officer, UHS Physicians, University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina
- Steven (Steve) M. Casey, Vice President, Statewide Operations, North Carolina Biotechnology Center
- John D. Chaffee, President and CEO, North Carolina’s Eastern Region
- Bill Cooper, Manager, BioNetwork - Bioprocessing Center, Technology Enterprise Center
- John Gessaman, President & CEO, Carolinas Gateway Partnership
- Marty Hackney, Director, Entrepreneurial Initiative, East Carolina University
- Ron Heiniger, Ph.D., Associate Professor - Extension Corn Specialist, North Carolina State University
- Joanna Helms, President and COO, Wayne County Development Alliance, Inc.
- Phillip Hodges (Phil), President, Metrics Inc.
- Joe Landino, Joe Landino Farms
- Robert M. Lust Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of Physiology, East Carolina University
- Mark Phillips, Director, Eastern Office, North Carolina Biotechnology Center
- Vann Rogerson, President & CEO, North Carolina's Northeast Commission
- Thomas Schultz, Duke University – Marine Laboratory, Director, Marine Conservation Molecular Facility
- Edmund (Ed) Stellwag, Ph.D., Director, Genomics Core Facility & Associate Professor, Department of Biology, East Carolina University
Updated September 13, 2011
