Board of Directors
Thomas Bornemann
Board Chair
Retired Partner
EY (Ernst & Young)
Craig Alden
Senior Vice President & Area Manager
Pinnacle Financial Partners
Jonathan Allen
Community Connector, Winston-Salem
Technology Experience Analyst, Allegacy Federal Credit Union
Alice Chen Anderson, Esq.
Co-Proprietor
The Caviste Wine Bar/Shop
Geraldine (Gerri) Barker
Associate General Counsel
ITG Brands, LLC
Sandra Broadway
Community Advocate
Dr. Malcolm McDougal Brown
Chair, Education Taskforce
Retired Physician
Matthew Bryant, Esq.
Partner, Hendrick Bryant Nerhood & Sanders, LLP
Pam Cash
Retired from Inmar Intelligence
William F. Clingman, III
Retired R.J. Reynolds Executive
J. Wesley Davis IV
Partner
Adi Dassler International Family Office
Arthur DeBaugh, Esq.
Chair, Human Resources & Governance Committee
Attorney at Law
Allman Spry Leggett Crumpler & Horn, P.A.
Edward Hanes, Jr.
Manager/Lobbyist
Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton, LLC
The Hanes Group Government Affairs
Susan L. Henderson
Chair, Nominating Committee
Executive Director
Face to Face Speaker Forum
Wake Forest University
Dr. Derek Hicks
Associate Professor & Founding Director, Center for Research, Engagement, and Collaboration in African American Life (RECALL), Wake Forest University School of Divinity
Ms. Laurie Hopkins Jamison
Director of Business Deposits
Piedmont Federal Bank
Steve Karr
Retired Employment Attorney
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Joe Mount
Ex officio
Orchestra Committee Chair
Hornist, Winston-Salem Symphony
Chris Leak
Senior Vice President–Wealth Management,
Global Sports and Entertainment Director,
Family Wealth Advisor,
Senior Vice President,
Financial Advisor, Morgan Stanley
Dr. David B. Levy
Chair, Artistic Taskforce
Professor Emeritus
Wake Forest University
Michael P. Lischke, PhD
Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education
Richard Janeway MD Distinguished Director,
Northwest Area Health Education Center
Associate Professor of Family & Community Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Eileen Major Harding
Chair, Philanthropy Committee
Michelle Merrill
Ex officio
Music Director
Winston-Salem Symphony
Will Munster
Chair, LEGAATO (Chorus) Council
CFO, AM Erectors
Amanda Norman
Ex officio
President & CEO
Winston-Salem Symphony
Carol Polk
Retired Executive Director
Ali Fenno Poplin
Associate
Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton, LLP
Ryan M. Prescott, Esq.
Attorney
James (Jimmy) E. Quander, Jr.
Attorney
Womble Bond Dickenson (US), LLP
Jay Reed
Immediate Past Board Chair
Chair, Strategic Planning Taskforce
Partner
Broadstreet Partners
Ms. Carol Reeve
President & Creative Director
Girl on the Roof
Alan Ruley, Esq.
Partner
Bell, Davis & Pitt, P.A.
Lew Saphar, Jr.
Treasurer
Chair, Finance & Audit Committee
Retired Web Systems Engineer
Wells Fargo
Benjamin Sayers
President
Forsyth Emergency Services PA
Mrs. Inge Smith
Communications Director
Verger Capital Management
Jamarkus Swinson
Assistant Vice President & Business Banking Analyst,
Branch Manager,
Piedmont Federal Savings & Loan
Deborah Wesley-Farrington
Secretary
Associate Director, Institutional Review Board
Human Research Protection Program
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
78 Years of Symphony Association Board Chairs
Winston-Salem Symphony
Founded and managed by Salem College 1946 – 1948
Dr. Charles G. Vardell, Jr., Dean, School of Music
Clifford E. Bair, Voice Professor and Head of Voice and Opera Dramatics Departments
The Winston-Salem Symphony expresses its sincere gratitude to the following civic leaders who have served the Winston-Salem Symphony Association as Board Presidents or Chairpersons:
Paul Kolb, 1947-1948
Charles Vardell, Jr., 1949-1950
Anne Strickland, 1963-1965
Wade Gallant, 1965-1966
George Mountcastle, 1970-1971
Gene Lucas, 1978-1979
Madeleine Van Metre, 1981-1982
George Lautemann, 1982-1984
John Willingham, 1984-1985
Ms. Nancy Dunn, 1985-1988
Paul Wiles, 1988-1990
John Anderson, 1990-1992
Nick Daves, 1992-1993
Dick Deem, 1993-1994
Jim Fowler, 1994-1995
Gerry Gunzenhauser, 1995-1997
J.D. Wilson, 1997-1999
Lee Martin, 1999-2000
Kim Whitaker, 2000-2001
William R. Watson, 2001-2003
James Dossinger, 2003-2005
Dr. Michael Lischke, 2005-2007
Ray McKinney, 2007–2009
Roger Bear, 2009-2011
Michael L. Rogers, 2011 – 2013
Joia M. Johnson, 2013-2015
Steve Karr, 2015-2017
Dr. Frank M. James, III, 2017-2019
Ann Fritchman Merkel, 2019-2021
Carol Reeve, 2021-2023
Jay Reed, 2023-2025
Thomas Bornemann, 2025-2027
We also salute the following former Symphony Association Board Presidents whose terms of service are unclear from archival records:
James Gibson
Nelson Grice
Hon. Ham Horton
Martin Sokoloff
David Watson