Board of Directors
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Pamela Sarsfield Fox
President/Chief Executive Officer
Brent Conklin
Chief Financial Officer
Graduated from Appalachian State University in 1999 with a BSBA degree in Accounting. Received his CPA Certificate in 2003. He has over seventeen years’ experience in accounting which includes eight years in public practice auditing various CCRC’s, Not-For-Profits, Manufacturing companies and Auto Dealerships all over the US. Most recently, the past 9 years working in private industry for large multi-national manufacturing companies in various finance leadership roles. Member of the American Institute of Certified Accountants, North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants and is a Chartered Global Management Accountant. Brent also serves as the treasurer of his church in Gibsonville, NC and has served on several Not-For-Profit boards in Gibsonville and Chapel Hill, NC.
Vernetta Bridges
Impact Alamance Board of Directors (Equity Committee Chair & Operations Committee); Catalyst in Education for thirty plus years prior to retirement as former director of Student Support Services, Alamance-Burlington School System; School Counselor, Assistant Director of Admissions, St. Andrews Presbyterian College; Director of Development, Knoxville College & Regional Director of Ten Million Dollar Major Missions Fund Raising Campaign for the United Presbyterian Church. Member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority/Pi Omicron Omega Chapter (Current Local Archives Chair); American School Counselor Association, National Association of College Admissions Counselors, National Association of School Counselor Advocacy.
Jackie S. Cole
Chair
BHS, Duke University, Vice President and Secretary of Coleco Inc.; Alamance County Extension Advisory Board; Chair, Lutheran Retirement Ministries Board; Chair, Alamance Community College Foundation Board; Woodlawn Community Board Member; Registered Instructor and Program Director, North Carolina Therapeutic Riding Center; Former Chair, Alamance County Board of Education; member of Alamance Lutheran Church and serves as coordinator of Meals on Wheels.
Doug Brook
Research scholar and visiting professor of public policy, Duke University; professor emeritus, US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California. 10-year resident of Twin Lakes. BA and MPA, University of Michigan; Ph.D. George Mason University. Has held four senior presidential appointments in financial management and human resources. Member of chancel choir at Front Street United Methodist Church, semi-competitive runner.
Kyle Corum
Partner with BRC and is the leader of the Firm’s Advisory Services practice, Appalachian State University – Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants (NCACPA), Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), Triad Chapter of the ACFE, Community Associations Institute (CAI), Leadership Greensboro – 2011, Summit House – Former Board Member.
Jill Gerringer
DPT University of New England, MSPT/BSPT Thomas Jefferson University; Member of Alamance Lutheran Church, member of Via de Cristo Secretariat board.
Sherry S. Hunt
Private Wealth Advisor, Fiduciam Financial, a Private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Service, LLC. Former member, boards for the Women’s Resource Center of Greensboro and Professional Women’s Network Greensboro; volunteer for Coastal Conservation Association Piedmont Chapter and Second Harvest Foodbank; various leadership roles within Ameriprise Financial Services, including on the Ameriprise Women’s Empowerment Network Board of Directors and Mentor, Elite Growth Forum NC/VA; Quantum Leap 3 organization of top 100 Ameriprise practices, 2021-2024 Ameriprise Client Service Award; 2022-2024 Forbes Best-In-State Women Wealth Advisor
Joy Isley
Lutheran Retirement Ministries Board; Treasurer, NC Palomino Exhibitors Association; member of Frieden’s Lutheran Church
David Koester
Elon University Institutional Review Board, Community Member; member of Alamance Lutheran Church where he has served several terms as congregational president and finance committee chair for over 10 years.
Reed LaPlante
Member of FNB Corporation Diversity Council; Past Board Chair for Alamance Chamber of Commerce; Elon Love School of Business Graduate Programs Board Member; Elon Phoenix Club Board Member; Treasurer for Macedonia Lutheran Church Endowment Fund; Member of Graham Rotary Club; 2022 Gala Dancer for Little Pink Houses of Hope; Member of Macedonia Lutheran Church.
Alexis Moore
Taught in NY and Elon; serving both as interim chair; Assistant Professor and inaugural faculty member for Elon’s PA Program; Attended Brooklyn College, SUNY Downstate, and Columbia University; Doctorate in Medical Science to be completed in 2022; Physician Assistant Education Association, Presenter; Elon University’s Daniels-Daneiley Award for Excellence in Teaching, nominee; and Heartbeats of the World, former Board Member
T. Bruce Moore
Oil & Natural Gas Sector, US Environmental Protection Agency; Graduate of Texas A&M University (Chemical Engineering); Graduate of Sam Houston State University (Chemistry); served in the US Navy; past Registered Emergency Paramedic (Texas); Committee Chair since 2003, Boy Scouts of America Troop 39; Ruritan National past Club President and Zone Governor; current Chair, Board of Directors, Coble Estates Homeowners’ Association; member of Macedonia Evangelical Lutheran Church since 2000, where he has served as Congregation President, Church Council, on the Executive Committee, and as Capital Fund Treasurer since 2009.
Michael Menz
Attended University of Buffalo, University of Virginia (medical school) Kansas University- Wichita; Practiced in Tennessee and currently in Burlington (Kernodle Clinic) for 12+ years; Alamance/ Caswell Medical Society, Member; NC Medical Society, Member; and American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Member
Nikki Ratliff
Chief Operating Officer, Burlington Housing Authority; Alamance Chamber, board member and past chair, Alamance Partnership for Children, board member and past chair; Impact Alamance, board member; Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc; Greater Alamance Woman’s Club. Past board chair; Hospice of Alamance-Caswell, United Way of Alamance County, The Exchange Club’s Family Center of the Central Piedmont, Alamance Regional Charitable Foundation; General Federation of Women’s Clubs of North Carolina. Past Third Vice President/Director of Junior Clubs and Leadership Chair; Alamance Chamber’s Leadership Alamance (c/o 2011); Past Alamance County Guardian ad Litem
Sam Sink
Retired college instructor (French, Spanish, history, college study skills, and supervisory skills) at two community colleges in NC; teacher for adult faith formation classes, council president, chair of campus ministry and internship committees at Grace Lutheran in Boone, NC; chair of NC Lutheran Synod Campus Ministry Committee; court representative and vice chair of Residents Council, Auxiliary Board, presenter at Twin Lakes; coordinator of training programs through Region D Council of Governments.
Matthew Swaim
Retired Procurement Lead, Hafele America Co.; Director of Music, Alamance Lutheran Church; Small Business Owner; BS degree in Horticultural Science and Plant Biology, NC State University; MBA, UNC Greensboro; Treasurer, Grace Lutheran Church, Liberty; Lifelong Lutheran
Jerry R. "Jay" Tolley, Jr.
Head of Anatomic Pathology and Digital Pathology at LabCorp; BS, US Naval Academy and MBA, Harvard Business School; Veteran, US Navy; member of Macedonia Lutheran Church, currently serving as Finance Committee Chair and member of the Visioning Committee.
Alison Upton
Managing Director at KPMG LLP in their Higher Education, Research, and Other Not-For-Profit audit practice; Chair, Elon University Accounting and Advisory Board; Olde Forest Racquet Club Board Member
Danny Van Fleet
Treasurer
Certified Public Accountant, City of Burlington Tax Collector, Treasurer and Chair of the Audit Committee of Lutheran Retirement Ministries of Alamance County, General Fund Treasurer and a board member of Macedonia Evangelical Lutheran Church, Former member of Alamance Burlington Kiwanis Club, Olde Forest Racquet Club Tennis Committee member.
Garry Vogelpohl
Chair, Mutual Ministry Committee; Leader, Corrections Ministry; Developer, Community Juvenile Justice Program; Pastor, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Nashville, TN, Trinity Lutheran Church, Tullahoma, TN, and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Elizabeth City, NC; Member, Candidacy Committee of the NC Synod; Certified by American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and American Association of Pastoral Counselors; Training completed under the Upper Room of the United Methodist Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Nashville, TN
Matrice Williams
Durham County Asst. Public Defender; earned a BA, UCLA and JD, Southwestern University School of Law; Founder and former owner/franchisee of Mathnasium of Burlington; serves on the City Gate Dream Center Board of Directors; member of City Gate Church; member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
