North Carolina Chamber - A force for business

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Chair Cynthia Marshall is President, AT&T North Carolina, and responsible for the company’s regulatory, legislative and community affairs activities in the state. Cynthia has 28 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, joining Pacific Bell in July 1981. Since then she has held a variety of management positions in operations, human resources, network engineering and planning, and regulatory/external affairs. Nationally, she serves on the Board of Governors of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and is a vice chair of the National Utilities Diversity Council. She serves on the General Assembly’s Committee on Dropout Prevention, the Board of Trustees of UNC-Wilmington and on the Board of Directors for numerous organizations including the New Schools Project and the North Carolina Children’s Home Society. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where she attained degrees in business administration and human resources management. She is married to Kenneth Marshall. They have three children.

Vice Chair Stan Kelly is the executive vice president, and regional president of Carolina's Community Banking for Wachovia. He has over 29 years of experience in this field and has been with the company since 1980. He has held his current position since the beginning of 2009, and previous positions with Wachovia include: President of Wealth Management, Head of Regional Banking, Head of Consumer Financial Services, and Branch Manager. He earned his B.A. in Business Management degree at North Carolina State University. Currently he serves as a member of the Winston-Salem Alliance, Financial Services Roundtable, and the NC Bankers Association.

Second Vice Chair Frank Holding, Jr. is First Citizens BancShares, Inc. Chairman and CEO. This is a multi-billion-dollar statewide financial institution. Holding has held many roles in First Citizens Bank before becoming president, including area vice president for Mecklenburg and Gaston counties. Holding currently serves on the Board of Directors for numerous organizations, including: Triangle Fellowship of Christian Athletes; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce; Baptist Retirement Homes of NC, Inc.; Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc.; Institute for Defense & Business; Mount Olive Pickle Company; and Research Triangle Regional Partnership. He graduated from the University of North Carolina with a bachelor's degree in business, and received a MBA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Treasurer Anne Lloyd is Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for Martin Marietta Materials. Ms. Lloyd joined Martin Marietta Materials in 1998 as Vice President and Controller and was promoted to Chief Accounting Officer in 1999. Before joining Martin Marietta Materials, she was with Ernst & Young, LLP, an international public accounting firm. Ms. Lloyd is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and is a Certified Public Accountant. Ms. Lloyd is active in various business, education and civic organizations. She also currently serves as Treasurer, member of the Executive Committee and Board Member of the National Stone Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA). Additionally, she serves on the SAFETEA-LU Reauthorization Committee of the NSSGA and the Blue Ribbon Panel of Transportation Experts for the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission. She is also a Member of the NC Chamber Infrastructure and Economic Development Policy Committee.

Immediate Past Chair Robert Stolz serves as the chief executive officer of the Wurth Group, a division of Wurth International which is a holding company that distributes cabinetry supplies and assembly materials worldwide. Previously, he served as CEO of The Hardwood Group in Charlotte for 12 years before merging the company with the Wurth Group International. Before his career in the distribution industry, Stolz served as vice president of Southern Bank Group in Atlanta, Georgia, and as legislative affairs director for former Mayor Andrew Young. Stolz was a gubernatorial appointee of both Governor Jim Hunt and Governor Mike Easley to the North Carolina State Economic Development Board from 1999 to 2005, and served as chairman from 2002 to 2005. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a degree in political science and lives in Charlotte with his wife, Anne and two children, Robert Jr., and Mary Gray.

President and CEO, Lew Ebert became President and CEO of the North Carolina Chamber in 2006. The North Carolina Chamber is a non-partisan business advocacy organization that works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that North Carolina is a leading place in the world to do business. The North Carolina Chamber has a long and rich history as the leading advocate for businesses of all sizes and sectors in North Carolina. The state Chamber’s advocacy mission centers on three priority areas: 1) education and workforce development, 2) infrastructure, and 3) competitiveness, or the cost of doing business. In addition to being the state affiliate of the US Chamber of Commerce, the North Carolina Chamber is also North Carolina’s official manufacturers’ association. Before coming to North Carolina to head the North Carolina Chamber, Lew served as President and CEO of the Kansas Chamber. Prior to that he worked his way up over two decades through a number of progressively responsible posts at the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce – eventually heading one of the Chamber’s for-profit subsidiaries.