Applied Research
Kaylee South, Ph.D.
Virginia Tech Assistant Professor of Controlled Environment Agriculture
Full Bio
Board of Trustees
Mr. David Bennett
Vice President of Operations, Intertape Polymer Group
Mr. Ben Davenport
Chairman, First Piedmont Corporation and Davenport Energy
Mr. Mario Ferruzzi
Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Tech
Mr. Don Gibson
Chair of the Board of Trustees; Director, Shenandoah Telecommunications, Inc.
Dr. Greg Hodges
President, Patrick & Henry Community College
Mr. Mark Holland
Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees; Vice-President & Trust Advisor, Atlantic Union Bank
Dr. Cornelius Johnson
President, Danville Community College
Ms. Emma Maddux Kozlowski
Community Volunteer
Mr. Charles H. Majors
Retired Bank Board Chair & CEO, Business Advisor
Ms. Leslie Mantiply
President of the IALR Foundation Board; Senior Associate, Assistant Business Unit Manager, Dewberry
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The Honorable Donald Merricks
Retired Banker, Politician & Small Business Owner
Ms. Connie Nyholm
Owner and CEO, VIRginia International Raceway (VIR)
Mr. Kunal Patel
Vice President of the IALR Foundation Board; Compliance Manager, Caesars Virginia
Ms. Christine Pennington
Co-Founder, Resilient Pathways
Dr. Thomas Powell
President, Averett University
Foundation Board
Mr. Tad Deriso
President & CEO, Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation
Mr. Christopher Eastwood
Financial Advisor, Edward Jones
Dr. Betty Jo Foster
Retired Professor/Vice-President, Danville Community College
Mr. Don Gibson
Chair of the Board of Trustees; Director, Shenandoah Telecommunications, Inc.
Ms. Rhonda Hodges
President, Hodges Workwise, LLC
Mr. Mark Holland
Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees; Vice-President & Trust Advisor, Atlantic Union Bank
Ms. Leslie Mantiply
President of the IALR Foundation Board; Senior Associate, Assistant Business Unit Manager, Dewberry
Full Bio
The Honorable Donald Merricks
Retired Banker, Politician & Small Business Owner
Mr. Kunal Patel
Vice President of the IALR Foundation Board; Compliance Manager, Caesars Virginia
Manufacturing Advancement
Joshua Sims
Vice President, Partnerships
Meredith Gregory
Assistant Director, Technology and Programs
Lleyton Barber
Contracts & Financial Reporting Specialist
Cassidy Edwards
Executive Assistant, Manufacturing Advancement
Brandon Dabbs
CNC Machinist II
Jonathan Hankins
CNC Machinist II
Trey Jones
CMA Applications Engineer
Michael Kemerer
CMA Quality Assurance Specialist
Patrick McCorkle
Machine Learning Engineer
Darryl Murphy
CNC Machining Lead
Trent Oswald
CNC Machining Lead
Corven Owens
CMA Quality Manager
Devin Jones
NASAM Instructor
Erin Hayes
ATDM Admissions Advisor
Trina Holiness-Morris
ATDM Admissions Advisor
Tia Yancey
ATDM Student Success & Compliance Advisor
Andrew Anderson
ATDM Precision Manufacturing Lab Technician
William Anderson
ATDM Welding Technician
Dylan Buchanan
ATDM Welding Technician
Gavin Burton
ATDM Precision Manufacturing Lab Technician
Steven Duncan
ATDM Welding Fabrication Technician
Tyler Gauldin
ATDM CNC Instructor
Nathaniel Gillespie
ATDM NDT Lab Technician
Matthew Hawkins
ATDM Welding Technician
Colby King
ATDM Welding Instructor
Kennedy King
ATDM Fabrication Welding Instructor
Holly Lyle
ATDM Metrology Instructor
Bobby Moran
ATDM CNC Instructor
Tyler Morris
ATDM CNC Floating Instructor
James Perry
ATDM Welding Instructor
Austyn Roten
Equipment Service Technician
Joshua Wolf
ATDM CNC Instructor
Brandon Furgurson
Instructor of Integrated Machine Technology Career & Technical Education, Danville Community College
