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
Stacy Drakeford
Executive Committee Chair
Public Safety Director/Asst City Manager
Washington, NC
Dr. Priscilla Johnson
Executive Committee
Engineer, Founder and CEO of Coco Shoals
Paris, France
Gary Robitaille
Treasurer
CW5, US Army (Retired); Detachment Commander, Instructor Pilot
Washington, NC
Scott Smith
District 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
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
New Bern, 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
Chris Mickey
Executive Committee
Airline Pilot-Captain
Jacksonville, NC
Victoria Bell Hamill
Director of Career Technical Education (CTE), Workforce Innovation & STEM Beaufort County Schools
Washington, NC
Our Dedicated Helpers
Meet Our Officers
Alvin Powell
President
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
IT Management Officer
Mathematics Educator
Greenville, NC
Melissa Jarvis
Financial Liaison Officer
Retail Loan Officer-First Bank
Washington, 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
Dr. Walter Johnson
University Math/Computer Science Dept. Chair and Professor (retired)
Fayetteville, 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
Jessica Sutton
Asst Summer Camp Coordinator, Drone Program Coordinator, Summer Camp Instructor
Mathematics Educator
Greenville, NC
Peter Johnson
Drone Program Coordinator and Afterschool Support team
Mechanical Engineer/advanced manufacturing technology (Retired)
Chocowinity, NC
Kamailah Ransom
Asst Summer Camp Coordinator; Lead STEM Educator-Middle-school
Educator
Washington, NC
Crystal Price
Summer Program Student Food Services and Transportation Coordinator
Educator
Washington, NC
Anna Harrell
Asst Summer Camp Coordinator
School Counselor-K-6th grade
Washington, NC
William Tyson
Drone Program Coordinator
Drone Technology and Computer Science Instructor-high school
Washington, NC
Eugene Wells
Donna Howard
Donald Henderson
