Members of the ECU Health Foundation Board of Trustees began their new tenure earlier this year and welcomed new members and officers.
“We are so fortunate to have such outstanding individuals on our board,” said Scott Senatore, president of ECU Health Foundation. “We are in a great position to continue to philanthropically support ECU Health and set the course for continued success.”
The ECU Health Foundation board members include: Myra Bowen, chair; Bill Mitchum, vice-chair; Drew Covert, secretary; Spence Cosby, treasurer; Bob Barbour; Tom Bradshaw; John Cooke, Jr.; Charles Gaskins, Jr.; George Griffin, III; J. Loyd Horton, III; Mitch Jones; Thomasine Kennedy; Dr. Brian Kuszyk; Dr. Jim Morris; Danette Pugh; Dr. Paul Shackelford; Ann Taylor; Dr. Michael Waldrum, Regional representatives include Tess Judge, Kenny Parker and Jeff Stalls.
The six new members recently added to this board are Mark Gentner, Marcy Shavender Morgan, Tom Kulikowski, J. Freeman Paylor, Wade Scales and Dorson White.
Mark Gentner is the recently retired vice-president and general manager of WITN. Gentner was with Gray Television and WITN for 12 years. A native of Ottowa, Kansas, Gentner has over 27 years of experience in television, advertising and marketing. He currently serves on the board of the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber, Greenville Museum of Art, Oakwood School, and North Carolina Association of Broadcasting.
Marcy Shavender Morgan was born, raised and is a lifelong resident of Pantego, NC. Morgan currently serves as the Head of School at Pungo Christian Academy (PCA) in Belhaven where she will begin her 21st year in this position this fall. She received two undergraduate degrees from Campbell University, one in Government with a concentration in Public Administration and one in Psychology.
Tom Kulikowski is the president and CEO of Penco Products, Inc., which was recognized by the Pitt County Development Commission as the 2017-2018 Pitt County Industry of the Year. He has championed numerous initiatives such as an inmate work release program, mentoring of at-risk youth in alternative schools, sponsoring the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office summer camp, selecting and recognizing an annual Penco Humanitarian Award winner and founding the Eastern Carolina Executive Roundtable. Kulikowski is an engineering graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and performed his graduate studies in business at Widener University.
Freeman Paylor recently joined PNC Bank as a Commercial Banker and senior vice president in the Greenville, North Carolina office, where he works to grow PNC’s reach and presence in the Greenville and eastern North Carolina markets. Freeman brings 37 years of banking experience in a variety of roles, most recently as Capital Bank’s (formerly First Tennessee) Greenville market president for the past 12 years. Freeman is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Wade Scales graduated from Woodberry Forest in 2003 and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007. He spent a year in Charlotte learning the fixed life, disability, and long-term care brokerage business with a job as junior regional director with Bysis Insurance. Scales looks forward to expanding the Sound Partners’ product offerings with his licenses and interest in securities and his affiliation with AXA Advisors.
Media contact: Beth Anne Atkins, director, communications and donor relations, ECU Health Foundation, 252-847-7695 or [email protected]
