The Elon College Board of Trustees elected 4 new members to serve four-year phrases: Patricia Chadwick P’16, Kelli Palmer ’98, John Replogle P’18, P’25, and Lee Williams.
Patricia Chadwick P’16
From Greenwich, Connecticut, Chadwick is the founder and president of Ravengate Companions LLC, a consulting agency that gives schooling and recommendation on monetary markets and the worldwide financial system. Earlier than founding the agency in 1999, Chadwick spent greater than 25 years within the funding administration trade, ultimately retiring as a worldwide associate at Invesco. Chadwick can also be CEO and Co-Founding father of the Anchor Well being Initiative, which gives medical providers to the Stamford and New Haven, Connecticut communities, with a selected give attention to take care of LGBT adolescents and adults.
A Boston College alumnus, Chadwick has served on the board of administrators of AMICA Mutual Insurance coverage Co. since 1992. She can also be a director of Voya Mutual Funds, Voya Monetary and The Royce Funds. Chadwick was beforehand a director of Wisconsin Vitality Company, Wisconsin Electrical Energy Firm and Wisconsin Fuel LLC, SoundView Know-how Group, and Nuclear Electrical Insurance coverage Restricted.
Patricia and her husband, John, are the dad and mom of Jim Chadwick ’16, who earned his BA in economics from Elon and is now pursuing his MBA at Fordham College’s Gabelli College of Enterprise, with a date of anticipated commencement in 2023. Patricia Chadwick joined the Martha and Spencer Love College of Enterprise Advisory Board in 2014 and supplied strategic management as board chair.
kelli palmer ’98
Primarily based in Charlottesville, Virginia, Palmer is the Director of Range for WillowTree, a market-leading digital merchandise consultancy serving the world’s most admired manufacturers. In his position, Palmer works to assist and develop WillowTree’s current commitments to variety, fairness and inclusion, and social impression. His work helps WillowTree’s company, social and environmental governance, and is concerned in ongoing efforts to drive variety and fairness in its workforce demographics.
Palmer graduated from Elon in 1998 with a bachelor’s diploma in elementary schooling. As a pupil, she acquired the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Scholarship and was an Honors Scholar. She was energetic in Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and held numerous management positions with Residence Life and the Pupil Authorities Affiliation. After leaving, Elon Palmer earned his grasp’s diploma in counselor schooling from Wake Forest College and his doctorate in larger schooling administration from the College of Virginia and went on to check at Harvard Enterprise College and Boston Faculty.
An impressive and dedicated Elon alumnus, Palmer was named Younger Alumnus of the Yr in 2007 and Distinguished Alumnus of the Yr in 2016 and, as 2010 Alumni Board President, delivered the graduation tackle to that yr’s graduating class at Elon. She has served on Elon’s Black Life Advisory Council since 2017, volunteers with Alumni 360, and has been a member of the Elon Mentor Community since 2010.
John Replogle P’18, P’25
Replogle is the founder and member of One Higher Ventures, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based purpose-built enterprise fund launched in 2007 to spend money on well being and wellness corporations. He beforehand served as CEO of main client manufacturers Seventh Era and Burt’s Bees, in addition to Chairman of Unilever’s skincare enterprise and Chairman of Guinness Bass Import Co.
A graduate of Dartmouth Faculty who earned his MBA from Harvard College, Replogle serves on the boards of a number of private and non-private corporations, together with Wolfspeed (NYSE: WOLF), Grove Collaborative (NYSE: GROV), Carolina-based Gaia Herbs North and toy maker Melissa & Doug. He additionally serves as Chairman of the Boards of Sakara Life and Leesa Sleep. Amongst his most up-to-date endeavors is serving as a founding associate of Take Your Seat, an organization created to offer a neighborhood {of professional} networks to construct various boardrooms throughout the nation.
John and his spouse, Kristin, are the dad and mom of Elon alumnus Tate Replogle ’18, who was a Periclean Fellow at Elon, graduated with a level in non secular research, and served within the Peace Corps in Albania. John and Kristin served on the Elon Dad or mum Council from 2015-2018, together with serving as co-chairs in the course of the 2017-18 educational yr. John presently serves as a member and previous chair of the Engineering Advisory Board. They’ve 4 nieces and nephews who attend Elon, in addition to an “adopted” daughter from Albania who’s an engineering pupil.
lee williams
Williams is Co-Founder and Vice President of Stay Oak Financial institution, a cloud-based monetary establishment serving small companies with deposit and lending providers in all 50 states. Earlier than launching Stay Oak Financial institution, Williams spent almost 20 years in company banking at Wachovia and labored for 14 years at Vine Road Monetary. A resident of Wilmington, NC, he serves on the boards of the New Hanover Airport Authority, Voyage of Wilmington. He beforehand served on the boards of administrators for St. James Parish and Davis Well being Care Heart. He graduated from the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration.
Williams is the son of two proud Elon alumni: the late William “Invoice” Williams ’50 and Jo Watts Williams ’55, who handed away in 2021. Jo Watts Williams served as a public faculty instructor earlier than returning to her alma mater in 1969 to affix the school of the Division of Schooling and Psychology. She would serve the college in a variety of management roles for many years to return, together with affiliate dean for educational affairs, director of the educational useful resource heart, vice chairman of improvement, and particular assistant to the president. A legendary educator and administrator, she was named Distinguished Alumnus of the Yr in 1995 and acquired the Elon Medallion, the college’s highest honor, in 1998. A residence in The Oaks neighborhood was named in her honor in 2013 and in 2021, the The college introduced the newly renamed Dr. Jo Watts Williams College of Schooling in recognition of his contributions to the establishment and the college.