Our Team

Advisory and Fiduciary Board

Bill Antholis, Director, The Miller Center

Rachel Baker, Cofounder, The Spread

Paul Beckert, Accountant, White, Beckert & Associates

Rick Beyer, Founder, R.L. Beyer Custom Homes

Marland Buckner, Cofounder, MB2 Solutions

Pete Caramanis, Cofounder, Royer Caramanis PLC

Marc Cheatham, Founder, The Cheats Movement

Jim Cheng, Cofounder, CAV Angels

Greg Graham, Proprietor, Edgehill Farm

Ginger Graham, Community Volunteer

Mark Hahn, Founder, Harvest Moon Catering

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Blake Hurt, President, Capital Real Estate

J.E. “Chip” Harding, Former Sheriff, Albemarle County

Deb McMahon, Founder, Scitent

Jason Ness, The Building Management Company

Susan Payne, Founder, Blue Ridge Group

Brendan Richardson, Cofounder, Astraea

David Touve, Director, i.Lab at UVA

Mary Weiner, Former CTO Reddit, Founding Engineer Pinterest

Devin Welch, Cofounder, Sun Tribe Solar

Travis Wilburn, Founder, Stay Charlottesville

Kate Bryne, Senior Strategic Growth Advisor, Goodlight Capital

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Host Committee: Downtown Mall Block Party

Mike Rodi, Rapture

Scott Hamler, Forezee Marketing & Black CVille

Stephen Kelley, Champion Hospitality Group

Joe Kalkstein, Blue Ridge Event Production

Andrea Whitsett, Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce 

John Borgquist, Millis at Second

Patrick McClure, Lucky Blues

Emily Morrison, The Front Porch

Anna Harrison, CVILLE Weekly

Michael Caplin, Friends of Downtown

Martize Tolbert, The Fountain Fund

Ty Cooper, Lifeview Marketing

Melody Smith, Violet Crown

James Barton, Vault Virginia

Host Committee: Dance Series

Amanda Guerra 

Annie Temmink 

Zikki Munyao 

Tunji Soroye 

Eze Amos

Alicia Henry

Alisa Foytik

Annie Drury

Beatrix Ost

Brendan Wypich

Dominique Cocuzza

Huda Aziz

James Barton

​John Spagnolo

Justus Kelley

Kaity Yang

Karolina Mclean

Lauren Thomas

Logan Hall

Mark Hahn

Megan Hook

Zack Decker

Past Board

Brevy Cannon (2014 - 2015) — UVA Media Relations

Emma Terry (2014 - 2021) — UVA Arts

Kirby Farrell (2014 - 2015) — BroadAxe Care Coordination

Celia Castleman (2017 - 2021) — The Drop

Mary Coleman (2019 - 2021) — City of Promise

Michael Mallory (2016 - 2019) — Ron Brown Scholars

Michael Prichard (2015 - 2017) — Metis Machine

Philippe Sommer (2013 - 2016) — UVA Darden School of Business

Rick Hamilton (2014 - 2015) — IBM

Sharon Krueger (2014 - 2016) — UVA Licensing & Ventures Group

Todd Wickersty (2016 - 2022) — Storyware

Scott Ukrop (2018 - 2021) — New Richmond Ventures