Leadership
IBX Stem Leadership
Meet Our Board of Directors
The professional diversity and life experiences of our officers is one of the many strengths of our organization. To ensure program continuity, all instructions follow a proprietary standardized syllabus developed by IBX STEM.
The program classroom staff consists of one Lead Instructor per teaching module who is a subject matter expert and, in many cases, an experienced teacher. The Lead Instructor is supported by one or two Assistant Instructors.
We will also utilize student Teaching Assistants from East Carolina University (ECU) or Beaufort County Community College (BCCC) under the STEM-Corps East collaboration agreement to help in the classroom.
Evan Lewis
Board Chair
Attorney
Washington, NC
Dr. David Loope
Board Vice-Chair, Executive Committee
President, Beaufort County Community College
Washington, NC
Kelly Shanafelt
Government Grants Manager Solar United Neighbors
Washington, NC
Stacy Drakeford
Executive Committee Chair
Public Safety Director/Asst City Manager
Washington, NC
Dr. Priscilla Johnson
Executive Committee
Principal Managing Partner, Priska Consulting
Miami, FL
Scott Smith
District Pro and Services Support Manager Lowes Home Improvement Center, Pilot
Mooresville, NC
Dr. Tarek M. Abdel-Salem
Associate Dean-Research and Graduate Studies College of Engineering East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
Victoria Bell Hamill
Director of Career Technical Education (CTE), Workforce Innovation & STEM Beaufort County Schools
Washington, NC
Dr. Carl Person
Director-Aerospace Research and Career Development (Retired) Office of Education National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Washington, DC
Larry E. Carpenter
Board Financial Liaison
CPA, Chief Finance Officer River City Construction (Retired)
Washington, NC
Matthew OBrien
Architect. AIA
Havelock, NC
Gary Robitaille
Treasurer
CW5, US Army (Retired); Detachment Commander, Instructor Pilot
Washington, NC
Dr. Renee Douglas
Professor and White Collar Investigator for the State of Virginia
Washington, NC
Omar Bell
Vice-Chancellor Fayetteville State University
Fayetteville, NC
Ute Kavanaugh
Secretary
Senior Chief Petty Officer, U.S. Coast Guard; Senior Technology Consultant-Hewlett Packard (retired)
New Bern, NC
Our Dedicated Helpers
Meet Our Advisory Board
Michele Oros
School Administrator and Educator (Retired)
Washington, NC
Dr. George Spurlock
Proctor and Gamble Executive (retired)
Chocowinity, NC
Scott Gardner
CEO InterMarket Technology
Washington, NC
Dr. Edna Reid
FBI Counterterrorism Intelligence Analyst (retired) Asst. Professor, John Madison University, (retired)
Harrisonburg, VA
Dr. Matthew Cheeseman
School Superintendent Beaufort County Schools
Washington, NC
Chris Mickey
Airline Pilot-Captain
Jacksonville, NC
Joyce O’Neal
Educator, Beaufort County Schools (Retired) President, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Secretary, Beaufort County NAACP
Washington, NC
Our Dedicated Helpers
Meet Our Staff
Alvin Powell
President and Community Outreach Coordinator
Chief-FBI Counterterrorism Unit (Retired), Certified Airplane Flight Instructor, Commercial Drone Pilot, Police Instructor, Staff Officer-US Coast Guard Auxiliary
Washington, NC
Vacant
Vice-President
Jessica Sutton
Website and Social Media Coordinator
Mathematics Educator
Greenville, NC
Melissa Jarvis
Financial Liaison Officer
Retail Loan Officer-First Bank
Washington, NC
Michael Cobb
Oversight and Compliance Officer
Chemist
Goldsboro, NC
Saydee Marie Bocanegra
Office Manager and Marketing Coordinator
Graphic Arts Instructor
Greenville, NC
Our Dedicated Helpers
Meet Our Team
Peter Johnson
Drone Program Coordinator and Afterschool Support team
Mechanical Engineer/advanced manufacturing technology (Retired)
Chocowinity, NC
William Tyson
Drone Program Coordinator
Drone Technology and Computer Science Instructor-high school
Washington, NC
Ray Midgett
Drone Program Instructor
Science Educator (Retired), Commercial Drone Pilot, Coast Guard Auxiliary Member, IT Director for City of Washington (Retired)
Washington, NC
Collin Barefoot
Drone Program Instructor
Commercial Drone Pilot, Student
Chocowinity, NC
Eugene Wells
Donna Howard
Donald Henderson
