Board Roster 2023 – 2024Board Roster 2023 –2024
Current Members Officer
Term of Office
Appointment Expiration
Girard Newkirk
Co-Founder &CEO
Genesis Block
–July 1,2019 September 1,2023
Lydia Newman
Executive Vice President and
Chief Administrative Officer
Community Care of North
Carolina
–July 1,2019 September 1,2023
Joe Finley
Co-Founder
CastleBranch
July 1,2019 September 1,2023
Parker Wilson
Director of Client
Development
Dualboot Partners
July 1,2023 July 1,2026
Dinesh Apte
Chief Commercial Officer
Wellth
–July 1,2019 June 30,2024
Charrise Hart
CEO
Ready for School,Ready for
Life
Vice Chair July 1,2019 June 30,2024
Kate Groat
Director of Corporate
Philanthropy
Live Oak Bank
Chair First:July 1,2019
Second:July 1,2022
June 30,2022
June 30,2025
Sharm Brantley
Address
910-352-5782
Treasurer July 1,2022 June 30,2025
Chris Prentice
621 Tanbridge Rd
Wilmington,NC 28405
949-400-4811
Secretary July 1,2022 June 30,2025
Meaghan Dennison (ex-officio)
215 Kenwood Ave.
Wilmington,NC 28405
919-607-2417
–For duration of time as CEO