Board of Directors

Make-A-Wish of Eastern North Carolina Board of Directors helps chart the Foundation’s course. They contribute a vast array of experience and skills that help maintain our status as the nation’s largest wish-granting organization.

As a whole, the board determines the Foundation’s mission and vision. It selects, evaluates and supports the president and chief executive officer. The board also protects the Foundation’s assets, enhances its public standing, ensures accountability, maintains legal integrity and assesses its own performance.

John J. Elmo
Doe & Ingalls Management LLC
President & CEO (Retired)
Executive – Chair (FY11-FY13)

Rick Deckelbaum
Deckelbaum & Associates, LLC
President & CEO
Executive – Chair Elect (FY13)

Kim Bell
Kimberley Bell Interiors
Owner and Designer

Ben Brookhart
Power Home Technologies
CEO

Dr. Brad Collins
Duke University Medical Center
Surgeon

Louise Collis
Branch Banking and Trust Company
Contract Management

Erin Engler
Ferguson Waterworks Inc.
Operations Manager

Tom Fagley
Hughes, Pittman & Gupton, LLP
Audit Manager

Frank Gozzo
Noverant, Inc.
President & CEO

Sue Haberberger
Community Leader

Rebecca Joyner
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Attorney

Jim Kitchen
JimKitchen.org
President

Hunter Marshall
Merrill Lynch
Financial Advisor

Billie Redmond
Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties
Founder & CEO

Hal Routh
Balfour Beatty Construction
Director of Business Development

Dr. Hope Seidel
Cary Pediatrics
Physician & Partner

Katherine Thomas
M*Modal
Chief of Staff: Office of the CEO/Chairman