Meet the Team
Vernon Stafford, Jr.
Sr. EVP/Chief Audit Executive First Horizon National Corporation
Shirley Ford
CFO City of Memphi
Rene Bustamante
Staff Vice President & Assistant Treasurer FedEx
Jean Morton
Senior VP & Manager, Not For Profit and Government Truist Bank
Kandace Stewart
Vice President, Business Operations & External Affairs Memphis Grizzlies
Marvin White
Manager, FedEx.com Planning, Analysis, and Innovation FedEx TechConnect
Dr. Paul Haught
Vice President for Academics Christian Brothers University
Marlinee Iverson
County Attorney Shelby County Government
Belinda Anderson
Community Volunteer
Joanna Crangle
Market President/Publisher Memphis Business Journal
Ginger Pilgrim
Principal Price Waterhouse Cooper
Percie Strong-Jenkins
SVP, Senior Treasury Officer Bank of America
Ted Townsend
Chief Economic Development Officer Greater Memphis Chamber
Nikia Bell
VP of Operations Regional One Health
Williams Brack
Manager Business Development CBIZ MHM, LLC
Shunji Brown-Woods
Vice President, Integration Management and Corporate Development Smith & Nephew
Sarah Colley
Sr. Vice President & Chief Human Resource Officer Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
Jim Crone
Government & Corporate Relations Crone Consulting
Edmund Ford, Jr.
Commissioner, District 9 Shelby County Commission
Tabitha Glenn
Chief Executive Officer Peer Power Foundation
James Kirkwood
Executive Director Memphis Christian Pastor's Network
Justin Merrick
Executive Director Center for Transforming Communities, Inc.
Kimmie McNeil Vaulx
System Director of Corporate Communications Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
Valerie Morris Bearup
President/CEO Morris Marketing Group
Patrice Robinson
Council Member, District 3 Memphis City Council
Linda Sawyer
CAO/CFO Memphis Tourism
Steve Swain
SVP, Community Lending Manager Pinnacle Financial Partners
Sylvester Tate
Owner Tate Computer Systems
Chuck Utterback
Vice President, Network Management Cigna Healthcare
Dan Weddle
SVP, Community Lending Manager Pinnacle Financial Partners
Our Mission
We prepare and mobilize leaders to work together for the good of the whole community.