PHILLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Principal / Senior Executive Consultant / Vice President Community Relations, TM Public Relations and Governmental Affairs
Addy Matney is a consultant with 20 years of experience in community relations, nonprofit board governance, collective impact, facilitation, and project planning. Addy is currently the Senior Executive Consultant/Vice President of Community Relations for TM Public Relations and Governmental Affairs (TMPR). She is also currently serving as the Interim Executive Director of the Piedmont Health Foundation.
Active in numerous nonprofit organizations, Addy was the 2014-2015 board chair of The Children's Museum of the Upstate. She served as the board chair of Piedmont Health Foundation in 2015. In January of 2016, the Greenville County Legislative Delegation appointed her to serve on the board of the Greenville Transit Authority - the governing body that oversees the county's public transit system, Greenlink. She currently serves as vice chair and has served as its chair and as its treasurer. In 2019, Addy was recognized by the Transportation Association of South Carolina as Urban Board Member of the Year.
R. Arthur "Art" Seaver, Jr., is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Southern First Bank and its holding company Southern First Bancshares. Southern First opened in 1999 and now operates in 12 locations in the Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston markets of South Carolina as well as the Charlotte, Triangle and Triad regions of North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia with approximately $3.3 billion in total assets. Mr. Seaver is a 1986 graduate of Clemson University with a bachelor's degree in financial management and a 1999 graduate of the BAI Graduate School of Community Bank Management.
Job Titles:
- Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management and Dean of Admission, Furman University
Brad Pochard has served as Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management and Dean of Admission at Furman University since 2008. Prior to arriving in South Carolina, he served as Director of Admission at his alma mater, Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH, for seven years.
Debra currently works in the M&A space where she is responsible for mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
Debra has held various management positions throughout her career, with increased responsibility in each role. She recently served as the Board President for the Greenville Literacy Association, where she led the organization during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Debra previously served as a Human Resources Business Partner for ADUSA Distribution, LLC, where she led a team of dynamic HR professionals that oversee the center's employee life cycle. She played an intricate part in substantially increasing the wages for new and existing associates to attract and retain talent. She was also a vital part of "standing up the business" for ADUSA's location in Mauldin, SC, by staffing the center and creating guidelines that align with company policy and organizational objectives.
Job Titles:
- Owner, Industrial Project Innovation
As one of the Owners of IPI, Dennis provides leadership and operating experience to IPI. Dennis' experience, built over four decades of project work in many industries and countries, adds credibility to the services IPI delivers.
Eugene, who is affectionately known as "Zip," has been working and volunteering with Phillis Wheatley Community Center for more than 13 years. In his role as Facilities Manager, he helps maintain the building and the grounds of the Center.
Zip came to the Center when he was a young man. He had 5 siblings and his mother was a single, working parent supporting the family. He says the Center gave him a place to come and engage in activities. To quote Zip: " The Center first loved me, so now I love the Center by giving back."
Prior to becoming a Financial Advisor, James was an entrepreneur and business owner. This background led him to join Raymond James as a Financial Advisor due to the firm's core values of client-first, conservatism, independence, and integrity, making it the premier alternative to Wall Street.
Active in the community, James has been involved with the Greenville Rotary, Metropolitan Arts Council, United Ministries, Habitat for Humanity, United Way Young Philanthropists, and his church. A graduate of North Greenville University in Marketing, he received Clemson University's Arthur M. Spiro Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship when he attended Clemson. He also received the South Carolina Collegiate Entrepreneur Award, was a national runner-up for the North American Collegiate Entrepreneur, and was an award finalist for the InnoVision Technology Awards.
Job Titles:
- Operations Manager
- Operations Manager for Phillis Wheatley Community Center and Has Been
Kristi Inglis serves as the Operations Manager for Phillis Wheatley Community Center and has been with the organization since 2019. She is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day happenings at the Center and enjoys growing the PWCC campus through additions such as the Senior Fitness and Recreation Park.
A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Kristi lives in the Upstate with her husband and two sons. An enthusiastic reader, her favorite spot in the Center is the recently re-established library.
Job Titles:
- Ex - Officio Board Member
Nancy Callahan is the Recreation Division Director for Greenville County Parks, Recreation, and Tourism. She oversees a variety of county programming efforts including after-school programs, summer day camps, special events, therapeutic recreation, athletic programs, sports tourism, and Pleasant Ridge Camp and Retreat Center. A graduate of Clemson University's Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Department, she has been in the business of helping people make the most of their leisure time for over 38 years.
Pam is a longtime volunteer in the community and has worked with nonprofit organizations for more than 30 years. She founded her own nonprofit Respect-Ya-Self CDC, Inc. in 2009 and established partnerships with Walmart, St. Matthews Community Church, Belk and other partners to provide a range of supplies and other donations to Title 1 schools.
As an alumni of Phillis Wheatley Community Center and a business owner, Randy is uniquely qualified to be the executive director of the organization. Randy joined the Center in May 2019 and has been responsible for improvements to the Center's facilities programming and services during his tenure. He added emergency food services to the Center during the COVID-19 pandemic and offered other programming in a virtual format so participants can stay healthy and engaged.
Randy is president of First Merchant Services LLC based in Greenville, a company that provides personalized processing solutions to businesses across North America, with products designed to process many types of payments including debit and credit cards, as well as check guarantee services, payment gateway services and others.
He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and lives in Greenville.
Job Titles:
- Founder and President of Marketplace Professional Staffing, Inc
Ray Lattimore is the founder and president of Marketplace Professional Staffing, Inc., a staffing and employment company headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. He was born and raised in Greenville, and he is an alumni of Phillis Wheatley Community Center.
Ray worked as a business systems analyst for the Information Technology department of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Greenville. In addition to managing several wide-reaching projects for MetLife, Ray taught computer science as an adjunct professor of Information Technology at Greenville Technical College.
Job Titles:
- Owner, People and Culture, Industrial Project Innovation
Russ has a 15+ year career in the engineering and construction industry, beginning with Global Performance and continuing with Industrial Project Innovation, a company that Russ and his business partners founded in 2016 to perform project/program management services in the industrial sector. Industrial Project Innovation is a company focused on working with industrial clients to plan and deliver their capital programs and projects, and Russ serves as the Operations Manager for the company, as well as supporting and overseeing key client accounts.
Russ is a graduate of the Clemson University Construction Science & Management program and enjoys spending time away from the office with his children, friends and family. Hobbies include listening to live music, cooking/grilling, and following the Clemson Tigers and Atlanta Braves.
Sheria Clarke is a prosecutor with experience in complex whistleblower cases. An experienced investigative and government policy attorney, she has served as the Staff Director for the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the United States House of Representatives, one of the largest and most powerful House Committees. She also served as Majority Counsel for the House Committee on Ethics, Counsel for the Select Committee on Events in Benghazi, Libya, and was an investigator on the House Ethics Committee. She worked closely with House Leadership, the Chairpersons of both Ethics and Oversight and Government Reform, and her work on House Ethics was bipartisan. She provided both legal and investigative work on scores of congressional hearings, interviewing witnesses, developing investigative strategies.
Steve Nail is currently the Dean, College of Business, at Anderson University. He is a labor and employment attorney who began his career with the National Labor Relations Board. Thereafter, he served as Assistant General Counsel for Michelin, including two stints in France, where he worked on the structuring of the European Economic Community and served in the HR and Legal Departments. Later he served as the Vice President of Labor and Employee Relations before moving on to Hubbell where he served as the Vice President of Human Resources.
With more than 26 years progressive experience in senior executive management and business advisory services, Ted Kelly has supervised solutions-oriented business plans, developed quality assurance measures, and managed client satisfaction programs for small companies to international manufacturing giants. As President and CEO of Interserv, Ted leads growth and strategic direction for the company as it targets the Hospitality, Government, Restaurant, and Retail sectors by providing oversight in all key business areas while positioning Interserv for steady sales growth.
Job Titles:
- Associate Vice President for Executive Affairs at Greenville Technical College
Wendy Walden is the Associate Vice President for Executive Affairs at Greenville Technical College. In her role, she is a member of the president's cabinet, serves as the chief diversity officer, and oversees executive communications for the college. Her work has resulted in strategic partnerships with leaders across business sectors to create initiatives to meet changes in academic programs and workforce needs in business and industry. Under her leadership, the college has been nationally recognized in consecutive years for its impact on diversity and helped position Greenville Technical College as a premier two-year technical college statewide, regionally and nationally.