The Baton Rouge Area Chamber (BRAC) Board of Directors provides guidance and counsel at the highest level towards achieving our mission and goals.
Executive Committee: officers
Helena Cunningham
CEO, National
Housing Consulting Services
Chair
Adam Knapp
Baton Rouge
Area Chamber
President & CEO
Ralph Bender
CFO,
Manship Media/WBRZ
Past Chair
Eric Dexter
Director of Business Development,
Civil Solutions Consulting Group, Inc.
Second Chair-Elect
John Everett
EVP & Market President, Baton Rouge
IBERIABANK/ First Horizon Bank
Investor Development Council Chair
Chelsey Laborde Blankenship
Owner & CEO, CLB Consulting, LLC /
SoSis Boutique
Treasurer
David Mullens
SVP of Commercial Banking,
Capital One
First Chair-Elect
Raedtha (Rae) Vasquez
Partner,
Jones Walker
General Counsel
Executive Committee: Vice Chairs
Janet Britton | At-Large Member | REV Business |
Mark Drennen | Director | Capital Area Finance Authority |
Flynn Foster | Business Development Advisory Council | Guaranty Broadcasting Co. |
John Patrick Galloway, Jr. | Director | Cumulus Media |
Eduardo Jimenez | Director | Entergy |
Klein Kirby | Quality of Place Council Chair | A. Wilbert's Sons, LLC |
Jeff Koonce | At-Large Member | Bernhard Capital |
Jerold Lebold | Diversity and Inclusion Council Chair | BASF Corporation |
Stephanie Manson | Director | Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center |
Erin Monroe Wesley | Advocacy/Legislative Council Chair | Cox Communications |
Craig Netterville | Director | IBERIABANK |
David Oldreive | Director | ExxonMobil |
Nial Patel | At-Large Member | Cornerstone Government Affairs |
Eric Thomas | At-Large Member | WGMB/WVLA/WBRL/KZUP/Brproud.com |
Board of Directors
Bob Barton | Taylor Porter |
Ray Belton (Michael Stubblefield) | Southern University and A&M College System |
Sheldon Dennis Blunt | Phelps Dunbar LLP |
Trent Bondy | LUBA |
Rex Cabaniss | WHLC Architecture |
Jim Carlson | River Parishes Community College (RPCC) |
Paul Cleckner | Woman’s Hospital |
Charles Daigle | Ochsner Baton Rouge/Lake Charles |
Nicholas Daigle | R.J. Daigle & Sons |
Arthur Ewing | Ewing's of False River, LLC |
Chad Foster | Gator Millworks |
Kevin Foster | First Guaranty Bank |
Stacey Gautreau | The Dow |
Kathryn Graves | Regions Bank |
Kevin Hall | The Advocate |
Susanne Hall | Baton Rouge Coca-Cola Bottling Co., West Region Headquarters |
Bobby Hamilton | JPMorgan Chase |
Michelle Hardy | Turner Industries |
Darylene Harris | Shell Catalysts & Technologies, LP |
Brian Haymon | Loadstar Product Handling Services, LLC |
Anthony Kimble | Kimble Properties |
Michelle Lanoix | Excel Group |
Aimee Lavespere | iHeartMedia |
Tyler Litt / Forum 225 | New Schools for Baton Rouge |
Meg Mahoney | Methanex USA, LLC |
Johnny Milazzo | Lard Oil Company, Inc. |
Mike Nizzo | b1BANK |
Dai Nguyen | Shell |
Ross Reilly | The Lamar Corporation |
Evon Roquemore | Brightside Social Services LA |
Mike Sanchez | PACTEC |
Shane Sandefer | Kean Miller |
Joe Sciortino | WAFB/WBXH |
William ("Bill") Shea | Adams and Reese |
Ed Silvey | The Baton Rouge Clinic |
Willie Smith | Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC) |
Jennifer Strong | Olin |
Robert Stuart, III | Hancock Whitney |
Edgardo Tenreiro | Baton Rouge General Medical Center |
Steven Udvarhelyi | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana |