Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce DEC. 2014 - JAN. 2015 the

Meet the Chamber’s 2015 Board of Directors The Next From Idea to Marketplace – Generation USA’s Technology Transfer Follows in the Family Footsteps [ 2015 Board of Directors ]

Rhett Ross Scott Rothermel William B. Sisson Beth Stafford Ross is president and Rothermel is operations Sisson is president and Stafford is president a member of the manager, Southeast CEO of the Mobile Area and owner of Stafford board of directors of Division of Performance Chamber of Commerce. & Associates Inc. Continental Motors Contractors Inc. A He earned a master’s She graduated from Inc. Ross holds a graduate of Louisiana degree in business Auburn University master’s degree in State University with administration from The with a bachelor’s mechanical engineering a bachelor’s degree University of , degree in journalism. and a bachelor’s degree in nuclear in construction management, he has and a bachelor’s degree from James She has served in a variety of offices engineering from the University of Florida. been with Performance Contractors for Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. for nonprofits, community and civic His 25 - year career encompasses a 26 years, and has been in his present He also holds a diploma from the Institutes organizations. She is a member of wide range of management experience position for the past 16 years. Rothermel for Organization Management and is the Rotary Club of Mobile and is a in basic research, product development serves on the board of Partners for a graduate of Leadership Mobile and Paul Harris Fellow. She is a member and manufacturing operations in the Environmental Progress, is a member of Leadership Alabama. Sisson is a member of of the Public Relations Council nuclear power, industrial gases, fuel cell the Chamber’s board of advisors and the the International Economic Development of Alabama, the Southern Public and general aviation market sectors. He Associated Builders and Contractors. Council, Economic Development Association Relations Federation and the American is a member of the Chamber’s board of of Alabama, Southern Economic Advertising Federation. advisors. Development Council, and Rotary International. Sisson also serves on the boards of the UMS-Wright Preparatory School, Alabama School of Math and Science and the USA Real Estate Advisory Board. George Vann Jr. * Michael “Mick” Wallis Lee Walters Oliver Washington III * Vann is vice president and Wallis is CEO of Walters is a professional Washington is the site manager of BASF Outokumpu Stainless wetland scientist and president and founder Corp. in McIntosh. He USA. He has 30 years regional vice president of Shore Acres Plant graduated from Georgia of general management with Goodwyn, Mills Farm in Theodore. Tech with a bachelor’s experience in the and Cawood. Prior to He is a graduate of degree in mechanical stainless steel and 2010, he served as the Auburn Agricultural and engineering and served aluminum industries director of environmental at Mechanical University four years in the U.S. Army. He has held across Europe and North America. Wallis the firm’s Montgomery office. Walters with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s several positions at BASF including began his career with British Steel. received a bachelor’s degree in wildlife degree in ornamental horticulture from maintenance supervisor, business Shifting to the aluminum industry in sciences from Auburn University. He is a the University of Florida. Washington is manager, program manager and global 1986, his career spanned aerospace, can member of the Society of Wetland Scientists currently on the board of advisors for the business director. Most recently he sheet and automotive products for clients and is one of only 11 current Professional Alabama Kidney Foundation, and has served as vice president of indirect including Airbus, Boeing, Ford, GM and Wetland Scientists in Alabama. He recently served as a board member for procurement for North America. Vann Coca-Cola. Most recently, he managed currently serves on the board for Alabama Bay Bank Holding Co., Ronald McDonald currently serves on the board of directors the profit and loss for Alcoa’s $6 billion Coastal Foundation, the Alabama Clean House, Mobile Botanical Gardens, for Manufacture Alabama, Washington aluminum rolling business across three Water Partnership steering committee, Alabama A&M University, County Economic Development Initiative, continents. He is a member of the the Chamber’s board of advisors and the Volunteer Fire Department, Mobile and is a member of the Chamber’s board Chamber’s board of advisors. National Estuary Program Catholic School District and St. Monica of advisors. project implementation committee. Catholic School.

Jay Watkins * Roger Wehner * Brian R. Willman Watkins is a shareholder Wehner is executive Willman is executive in the Mobile office of director of the Mobile vice president and the law firm Maynard Airport Authority. He South Alabama and Cooper & Gale PC. He earned a bachelor’s Florida Panhandle area is a member of the degree in political president for Regions firm’s general corporate, science from Troy Bank. Prior to assuming commercial lending, real University, a master’s his current position in estate and estate planning practice groups. degree in Latin American studies, 2012, Willman served as community Watkins earned a bachelor’s degree from international business from The University banking executive for the Georgia and Vanderbilt University in 1989 and a law of Alabama, and is studying for a South Carolina markets for Regions. degree from The University of Alabama in doctorate in strategic management and Willman received his bachelor’s degree 1992. He is admitted to practice in marketing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in finance from the University of North Alabama, and is a member of the Mobile and State University. Before joining the Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a member of Bar and the American Bar Associations. Airport Authority, he was vice president of the Chamber’s board of advisors. Watkins currently serves on the city of business development at Safran USA. Mobile Planning Commission and has Prior to Safran, he was the director of extensive experience with planning and international economic development for zoning matters before various planning Alabama Power in Birmingham. Wehner commissions and boards of adjustment is a member of the Chamber’s board of in Mobile and Baldwin counties. He is a advisors. member of the Chamber’s board of advisors. the business view DECEMBER 2014/ JANUARY 2015 21 Believe in the Future 2013-2017 As of Nov. 1, 2014

The following companies have invested in the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce’s aggressive and successful economic development program of work, called Partners for Growth – Believe in the Future.

Adams and Reese LLP Cintas Corp. iSAM North America Corp. Premier Medical Management Inc. Airbus Americas Inc. City of Mobile Jim Barnes Enterprises Inc. d/b/a Providence Hospital Aker Solutions Coastal Bank and Trust McDonald’s Restaurants Red Square Agency Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals LLC Community Bank J.L. Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Alabama AGC Continental Motors Inc. Joe Bullard Automotive Companies Remington College Alabama Media Group Cooper/T. Smith Corp. Johnstone Adams Bailey Gordon Robert J. Baggett Inc. and Harris LLC Alabama Orthopaedic Clinic PC Crow Shields Bailey PC Roberts Brothers Inc. Jones Walker LLP Alabama Power DailyAccess Corp. Russell Thompson Butler & KBR Alabama State Port Authority Delaney Development Inc. Houston LLP Keith Air Conditioning Inc. AltaPointe Health Systems Inc. DEX Imaging Safe Archives LLC Kimberly-Clark Corp. The American Equity Underwriters Inc. DuPont Crop Protection Scotch and Gulf Lumber LLC Lawrence & Lawrence PC AM/NS Calvert Evonik Industries Seabulk Towing Leavell Investment Management Inc. APM Terminals Mobile LLC ExxonMobil Shell Chemical LP/Shell Mobile Site Lewis Communications Inc. Arcadis U.S. First Community Bank Signal International LLC Life + Legacy Benefits Arkema Inc. Franklin Primary Health Center Inc. Smith Dukes LLB & B Inc. Real Estate Armbrecht Jackson LLP G.A. West & Co. Inc. Southern Earth Sciences Long’s Human Resource Services ASF Logistics Inc. Global Resettlement Services LLC Southern Light Lyon Fry Cadden Insurance AT&T Goodwyn Mills & Cawood Inc. Springdale Travel Agency Inc. Austal USA Grandbridge Real Estate Capital LLC Springhill Medical Center Maynard Cooper & Gale PC BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards Gulf City Body & Trailer Works Inc. Springhill Toyota/Lexus of Mobile McDowell Knight Roedder & Alabama SSAB Gulf Coast Truck & Equipment Sledge LLC BancorpSouth Co. Inc. The SSI Group Inc. Merchants Transfer Co. BASF Corp. Gulf Distributing Holdings LLC Star Aviation Mississippi Export Railroad Co. BB&T Gulf Electric Co. Inc. of Mobile T.A. Hall Contractors Inc. Mitsubishi Polysilicon BBVA Compass Bank Gulf States Engineering Taylor-Wharton Cryogenics Mitternight Inc. Beard Equipment Co. Gwin’s Commercial Printing Tensaw Land & Timber Co. Inc. Mobile Airport Authority Ben M. Radcliff Contractor Inc. H. O. Weaver & Sons Inc. Thames Batré Insurance Mobile Area Water and Sewer Bender Real Estate Group Hancock Bank System Thompson Engineering Inc. Berg Spiral Pipe Corp. Hand Arendall LLC Mobile County Thompson Tractor Co. Inc. Block USA Hargrove Engineers + Constructors Mobile Gas, a Sempra Co. Trustmark National Bank Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Helmsing, Leach, Herlong, Newman NAI Mobile U-J Chevrolet Co. Inc. Alabama & Rouse National Community Development University of South Alabama Blue Rents Inc. Heritage Homes of Mobile Inc. Services Vickers Riis Murray and Curran LLC BMW of Mobile The Hiller Companies Norton Lilly International Volkert Inc. Briskman & Binion PC Hoar Program Management Offshore Inland Marine & Oilfield VT MAE Budweiser-Busch Distributing Co. Inc. Holcim (US) Inc. Services Inc. Ward International Trucks LLC Buffalo Rock-Pepsi Horizon Shipbuilding Inc. Olin Corp. Wells Fargo Burr & Forman LLP iBERIABANK The Orthopaedic Group PC White-Spunner Construction Inc. Burton Property Group Industrial Development Authority Outokumpu Stainless USA White-Spunner Realty Inc. of Mobile County C Spire Page & Jones Inc. Wilkins Miller LLC Industrial Development Board Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Performance Contractors Inc. Willis of Alabama Inc. Dumas & O’Neal of the City of Mobile Phelps Dunbar LLP World Omni Financial Corp. Cardiology Associates Infirmary Health PNC Bank Zieman, Speegle, Jackson Information Transport Solutions Inc. China Doll Rice & Bean / Dixie Praxair Inc. & Hoffman LLC Lily Foods International Shipholding Corp. Precision IBC Inc.

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