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 |
| John Blount | Blount Contractors LLC |
| Sheldon Dennis Blunt | Phelps Dunbar LLP |
| Trent Bondy | LUBA |
| Michael Buturla | Domain Architecture |
| Rex Cabaniss | WHLC Architecture |
| Charles Daigle | Ochsner Baton Rouge/Lake Charles |
| Nicholas Daigle | R.J. Daigle & Sons |
| William ("Bill") Dawson | AP Council |
| Arthur Ewing | Ewing's of False River, LLC |
| Chad Foster | Gator Millworks |
| Kevin Foster | First Guaranty Bank |
| Stacey Gautreau | The Dow |
| Kevin Hall | The Advocate |
| Bobby Hamilton | JPMorgan Chase |
| Michelle Hardy | Turner Industries |
| 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 |
| Scott McCallister | Baton Rouge Coca-Cola Bottling Co. |
| Johnny Milazzo | Lard Oil Company, Inc. |
| Mike Nizzo | b1BANK |
| Dai Nguyen | Shell Chemical Company |
| Darylene Pugh | Shell Catalysts & Technologies, LP |
| Rene Ragas | Woman's Hospital Foundation |
| 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 |
| Dennis Shields | Southern University and A&M College System |
| Ed Silvey | The Baton Rouge Clinic |
| Willie Smith | Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC) |
| Jennifer Strong | Olin |
| Robert Stuart, III | Hancock Whitney |
| Quintin Taylor | River Parishes Community College (RPCC) |
| Edgardo Tenreiro | Baton Rouge General Medical Center |
| Steven Udvarhelyi | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana |