Board Of Directors

Learn more about WFAE's Board of Directors and see the Board meeting schedule. All regular, special, and annual meetings of the boards of WFAE (legally listed as the University Radio Foundation Inc.) are open to the public. Meetings may move into closed session for specific, limited purposes.

BOARD OFFICERS

Matthew Socha, Chair

Riaz H. Bhamani, Vice Chair

Chris Cicoletti, Treasurer

Laura Meyer Wellman, Secretary

Ju-Don Marshall, President & CEO (Ex-Officio)

FULL BOARD

The year each member joined WFAE’s Board of Directors is denoted in parenthesis.

Jennifer Beightley, PhD Student Research Assistant at UNC Charlotte (2022)
Committee Assignment: Development

Riaz H. Bhamani, Bank of America (2021)
Committee Assignment: Executive, Nominations

Ann Caulkins, Retired Publisher Charlotte Observer & Retired President of Novant Health Foundation (2023)
Committee Assignment: Nominations

Chris Cicoletti, U.S. Bank (2020)
Committee Assignment: Executive, Finance (Chair)

Rev. John Cleghorn, Caldwell Presbyterian (2022)
Committee Assignment: Community Advisory Board Liaison

Kevin Condon, Bank of America (2025)
Committee Assignment: Finance, Nominations

Gray Dyer, Dyer & Co. LLC (2022)
Committee Assignment: Development (Chair), Executive, Finance

Mark Ethridge (2015)
Committee Assignment: Development, Equity and Fairness, Finance

Eric Frazier, The Duke Endowment (2024)
Committee Assignment: Equity and Fairness

Alicia Young Hall, City of Charlotte (2025)
Committee Assignment: Nominations

Richard Lancaster (2015)
Committee Assignment: Equity and Fairness, Finance

Nichelle Levy, NASCAR Digital Media LLC (2022)
Committee Assignment: Governance

Ju-Don Marshall, WFAE
Committee Assignment: Development, Equity and Fairness, Executive, Finance, Governance, Nominations

Elizabeth McKee, Leadership Charlotte (2024)
Committee Assignment: Executive, Nominations (Chair)

Laura Meyer Wellman (2023)
Committee Assignment: Development, Executive

Geoff Peters, Former President & CEO Wikoff Color Corporation (2025)
Committee Assignment: Finance, Equity and Fairness, Nominations

Kathleen Price, Ally Financial (2020)
Committee Assignment: Equity and Fairness, Finance

Diana Quarry, Morrison Foerster LLP (2021)
Committee Assignment: Governance

Robyn Roof (2025)
Committee Assignment: Development and Finance

Rabbi Judy Schindler, Queens University of Charlotte (2022)
Committee Assignment: Equity and Fairness (Chair), Executive

Kris Shepard, Advocate Health (2022)
Committee Assignment: Executive, Governance (Chair)

Matthew Socha, Cherry Bekaert (2021)
Committee Assignment: Executive (Chair), Finance

Glenn Stewart (2014)
Committee Assignment: Finance, Nominations

Jennifer Ames Stuart, UNC Charlotte (2023)
Committee Assignment: Nominations