Board of Directors

Mr. John “Jay” B. Adams, Jr.
A. Smith Bowman Distillery, Inc.
President and CEO

Mr. Lawrence Roberts “Larry”
Sorensen Director

Mrs. Dorcas Helfant-Browning
Coldwell Banker Professional Realtors
CEO, Managing Partner, Principal Broker

Mr. Martin Kent 
United Company
President & COO

Mr. Paul Lawrence 
Family Insight P.C.
Director of Operations

Ms. Esther Lee
Refraction
President and CEO

Mr. Danny Vargas
VARCom Solutions
President

Mr. Thomas “Tom” W. Minnick
National Consulting Group, Inc.
President & CEO

Mr. Jim Fraser 
262 Consulting
President

Ms. Nicole Barranco
Volkswagen Group of America
Senior Director of Government Relations

Mr. Benjamin Dessart
Universal Leaf Tobacco Company
Director, Corporate Affairs

Ms. Elizabeth Kersey
PRA Group 
Vice President, Communications and Public Policy

The Honorable Laura Novey 
McGuire Woods Consulting
Senior Vice President

Mr. Gary R. Thomson
Thomson Consulting

The Honorable Brian Moran
Moran Strategies

The Honorable Todd Haymore
Global Economic Development
Commerce & Government Relations

Mr. Bruce Jennings
Fairfax City Self Storage
Managing General Partner

Mr. Bryan Stephens
Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce
President and CEO

Bert Dodson Jr
Dodson Brothers Pest Control
President/CEO

Blue Jenkins
Washington Gas

Mr. Craig Parisot
ATA, LLC
President/CEO

Mr. Shep Miller
KITCO Fiber Optics
Chairman (Ret.)