Members
David P. Abney
- Chief Executive Officer
- UPS
- Atlanta, GA
Boyce Adams, Sr.
- President & Chief Executive Officer
- BankTEL Systems
- Columbus, MS
Richard C. Adkerson (Emeritus)
- President & Chief Executive Officer
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc.
- Phoenix, AZ
Marsha Blackburn
- Member of Congress
- Seventh District TN
- Franklin, TN
Stephen Buehler
- Founder, Astra Ventures
- Creator, Astra Insights
- Nashville, TN
Mary Childs
- President, CEO, COO and Vice Chairman
- The Peoples Bank
- Ripley, MS
James A. Coggin
- President and Chief Administrative Officer (Retired)
- SAKS Incorporated
- Jackson, MS
Cynthia Cooper
- President and CEO
- The CooperGroup, LLC
- Brandon, MS
Helen Currie
- Chief Economist
- ConocoPhillips
- Houston, TX
Thomas F. Darnell
- EVP Chief Sales Officer
- BancorpSouth
- Tupelo, MS
Larry Favreau
- Executive Vice President, CEO
- Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance
- Jackson, MS
Haley R. Fisackerly
- President and CEO
- Entergy Mississippi
- Jackson, MS
Jan L. Gwin
- Managing Director
- Raymond James
- Memphis, TN
John M. Hairston
- CEO and Chief Operating Officer
- Hancock Holding Company & Hancock Bank
- Gulfport, MS
John F. Hill
- CEO
- WealthPartners, LLP
- Madison, MS
Shawn Hunter
- CEO and Owner
- Industry Services Co., Inc.
- Mobile, AL
Joe Iupe, Jr.
- Owner
- J.S. Iupe’s, Inc.
- Madison, MS
Paul J. Karre
- Sr. VP – Human Resources & Communications-Retired
- International Paper
- Pawleys Island, SC
Lewis F. Mallory, Jr. (Emeritus)
- Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer-Retired
- Cadence Bank, N.A.
- Starkville, MS
Don Mason
- Vice President/External Affairs & Corporate Service-Retired
- Mississippi Power Company
- Gulfport, MS
Mike McIlwain
- CEO-Retired
- PSAV
- Kildeer, IL
Frank H. McWhorter, Jr.
- CPA
- Nicholson & Company, PLLC
- Hattiesburg, MS
Lee Miller
- President
- Miller Transporters Inc.
- Jackson, MS
Mickey Milligan
- Director Existing Industry & Business
- Mississippi Development Authority
- Jackson, MS
Roderick A. Moore
- Exec. VP & CEO-Retired
- Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co.
- Brandon, MS
Shirley Olson
- President
- Olson Consulting Group, LLC
- Jackson, MS
Joe G. Rice, Jr.
- Managing Director, Investments
- Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
- Ridgeland, MS
Ken B. Robinson
- Vice President, Global Internal Audit
- Procter and Gamble
- Cincinnati, OH
James “Jim” Rouse
- Vice President-Retired
- ExxonMobil Corporation
- Houston, TX
Kathy St. John
- Managing Director & Contracts Consultant (Retired)
- NAPA Healthcare Connection, Inc.
- Madison, MS
William A. “Lex” Taylor, III
- Chairman/CEO
- The Taylor Group of Companies
- Louisville, MS
Cyndi A. Tucker
- Director, Business Development-Retired
- ConocoPhillips
- Houston, TX
Jimmy L. Walden
- Real Estate Management
- Walden Group, LLC
- Jackson, MS
Loretta Walker
- Vice President – Human Resources
- W.W. Grainger
- Lake Forest, IL
M.L. Waters
- Secretary and Treasurer
- Waters International Trucks, Inc.
- Meridian, MS