Charity Volman-Winn was appointed to serve as the President of TowneBank Norfolk in 2020. Charity joined Towne as the President of Corporate Banking in mid-2019 after a 29-year career at SunTrust Bank which culminated in a role as President of the Hampton Roads Region. Active in the community, she serves as Past President and current Executive Committee Member of the Greater Norfolk Corporation, Vice President for Edmarc Hospice for Children, Board Chair of the D’art Center, and is on the Board of Trustees for The Chrysler Museum. She previously served on the Board of Trustees of Eastern Virginia Medical School, the Board of the Old Dominion University Women’s Initiative Network and in 2020 served on the Campaign Cabinet for the United Way of South Hampton Roads. She was named by the YWCA as a Woman of Distinction for Finance in 2016, was recognized by LEAD Hampton Roads with the Julian Hirst Leadership Award in 2015, was recognized by Inside Business with a Women in Business Award in 2022, and was recognized by Volunteer Hampton Roads as the “Best of Board” Community Honoree in 2023. She was named to the Inside Business Power List for five consecutive years.

Charity graduated from Randolph Macon Women’s College with a BA in English and Psychology.

Mike was born in Norfolk, VA, and graduated from Maury High School. He received a Bachelor of Music Education (major in Voice and a minor in Piano and Theatre) from Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music (now known as Shenandoah University). He was accepted into the Honorary National Drama Fraternity. Accomplished in the performing arts, Mike held leading roles in the operas; Susannah and Orpheus in the Underworld as well as supporting roles in Fiddler on the Roof, 1776, Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta’s. He was chosen by the Martinsburg, WV, community theatre to be the Musical Director of Oliver his senior year of college. He also was on staff at St Paul’s Church in Norfolk as their Baritone soloist.

Professionally, Mike has been in the food service industry for 40 years. He started with Sandler Foods as a sales representative. After 4 years, he took a position as a seafood sales specialist and was promoted to Seafood Director and managed seafood production, sales, purchasing and the seafood retail store. US Foods purchased Sandler Foods, and he became the Seafood Marketing Manager for four distribution centers in the United States. In 2014, he became the head seafood buyer for US Foods nationwide in their seventy distribution centers.

Mike’s volunteer work has consisted of:

• Serving as Norfolk Collegiate School Head coach for their Middle School and JV Basketball teams and Assistant Varsity Coach for 12 years.
• Trustee chair and Church Council Chair for Epworth United Methodist Church.
• Currently, he is the Treasurer of Royster Church in Norfolk and is a soloist and choir member of the church.

Mike has been a patron and supporter of the d’Art Center for years, fondly remembering attending events when the center was in the Selden Arcade. He and his wife, Wendy, enjoy attending our events and exhibition openings.

As an experienced attorney specializing in corporate and securities law, corporate governance, and compliance, Tina has broad experience advising public and private company clients on a broad range of regulatory and transactional matters. After graduating from law school at the University of Virginia, Tina practiced as an in-house corporate and securities attorney at Norfolk Southern Corporation, a Fortune 400 NYSE company, until 2006. Tina then served as an adjunct professor of law at Regent University School of Law until joining the predecessor of Kaleo Legal. Tina brings strong interpersonal and communication skills to every relationship, allowing her to facilitate better results in communications between management, boards of directors, investors, and counterparties. She demonstrates an innate ability to quickly integrate into an organization and add immediate value.

Tina has extensive experience drafting regulatory disclosure documents, including Forms 10-K, Forms 10-0, proxy statements, Forms 8-K, Forms S-3, Forms S-8, Forms 4, and numerous other SEC disclosure documents.

Tina serves as the advisor for boards of directors of public companies, including serving as special advisor to the audit committee and as counsel to directors in their roles as board members and committee chairman of public companies.

Tina is responsible for NYSE and Nasdaq-listed company compliance. Tina has experience with all compliance and corporate governance areas, including drafting and implementing policies and education programs and conducting investigations and reviews. Tina is extremely well versed in investor relations, including management of proxy advisory firm recommendations and disclosures. Tina has extensive financing experience, including seed, angel, and follow-on rounds of private placements. Tina has acquired expertise in facilitating corporate structure and strategy decisions and counseling growing companies on financing and growth decisions. Tina has experience structuring and drafting executive compensation programs.

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Deborah A. Gill, CPA FSDA – Deborah has 40 years of experience in the architecture, engineering, and land surveying industries, working in large and small firms as well as a consultant to the industry. Deborah spent 21 years as the Controller at Clark Nexsen, a 500+ A/E multi-disciplined firm, establishing budgeting practices as well as KPI financial reporting. As a consultant/owner of Profit by Design, Ltd, she provided accounting and systems support for Deltek Vision products for more than 100 clients. She has established project management and financial systems in many companies to support the implementation of accounting software. She returned to the land surveying sector as CFO of Precision Measurements, Inc. implementing best practices to increase revenue, grow the firm, and transition the leadership to the next generation. She has now assumed the role of Chief Strategy Officer. Deborah developed the original “Handbook for Design Office Administration.” This material has served as a basis for both the SDA’s BizTrak all-day practice management workshop as well as the CDFA-You curriculum for their Certification in Design Firm Administration program. She provides BizTrak as well as deep dives into Ownership Transition, Project Management (finances}, and Financial Statements for non-finance types for many organizations, including SDA, SMPS, SHRM, AIA, IFMA, ACEC-V, and NSPS.

Deborah gives time back to her community and serves the A/E profession through the following organizations.

• 5 years D’Art Center Board of Directors
• 10 years Norfolk Women’s Forum & Foundation
• 6 years Women United Funding Council
• 2011 10 for 10 Women United member
• 22 years treasurer, national Canstruction® organization www.canstruction.org
• 20 years co-chair, Hampton Roads Canstruction® event
• 30 years of SDA Leadership – nationally and at the chapter level
• 17 years finance director, AIA – Hampton Roads Chapter

She has a B.A. in foreign service from the University of Mary Washington and is a licensed CPA in Virginia. www. precision measurements. com

Dr. Cheryl G. Cauthen has over 30 years of comprehensive ophthalmology experience in Norfolk, VA. Dr. Cauthen graduated from the College of Medicine at Howard University in Washington, D.C., followed by completing an internship in Internal Medicine at D. C. General Hospital and a residency in Ophthalmology at Howard University Hospital. She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of numerous eye diseases, including cataracts and glaucoma, and retinal diseases, including diabetic retinopathy. She has been an assistant professor for the Department of Ophthalmology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, since 1987 and currently oversees residents in the retina clinic at the Veterans Medical Center in Hampton, Virginia. In addition, she received her MBA from The College of William and Mary in 1996.

Dr. Cauthen is a member of the National Medical Association, American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, Virginia Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, and the Greater Norfolk Medical Society.

Dr. Cauthen also gives back to the community in many ways. She regularly provides free eye exams at the Park Place Medical Clinic through the Lions Club and has provided eye exams and glasses during mission trips to Haiti and Uganda. She is currently on the board of D’Art Center and previously served on the boards of Volunteers of America and The Young Audiences of Virginia. She helped found Ski Breeze of Hampton Roads as well as the Friends of Hampton Roads, Inc., who provides college scholarships for African-American high school seniors. She is an active participant of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and The Chums, Inc. She is a former member of the Junior League of Norfolk.

Retired from 43 years in commercial banking, Andy managed the Corporate Banking portfolio for BB&T (Truist) in eastern Virginia, covering Southside Hampton Roads, Western HR, Peninsula, Middle Peninsula, and Eastern Shore. His clients and prospects typically had $75 million in revenues or more. He possessed expertise in commercial and industrial companies, including ship repair, heavy construction, government contracting, distribution, auto dealers, and other heavy industries. Furthermore, he provided financing and financial services to health care, retirement communities, higher education, large non-profits, and other related industries. Andy provided clients with asset-based lending, commercial real estate finance, equipment finance, cash management, employee benefits, wealth management, and many other financial services and insurance products offered within BB&T.

Andy is active in the community. He is past president of the Great Bridge Jaycees and the Chesapeake Kiwanis Club. He has been active with the Rotary Club of Chesapeake, Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce, Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance, Virginia Ship Repair Association, and Virginia Maritime Association.

Andy grew up in Chesapeake, VA, and attended the University of Virginia, where he earned a BA in Economics. He earned his MBA from the University of Richmond. He has one son, Drew, who recently graduated from Radford University. Andy enjoys traveling, attending sports events, and golf in his spare time.

Since moving to Norfolk in 1997, I’ve seen the D’Art Center evolve as it has reinvented itself at four different locations. I’m so happy to feel the creative juices and positive energy flowing again at the Atlantic Permanent, and look forward to working with this dynamic group.

For the past forty years, I have dedicated my career to public betterment, both as a landscape architect and a public artist. I recently retired from my day job, but I value new opportunities to apply my experience and passions to organizations such as the D’Art Center, the Elizabeth River Trail, and the Norfolk Innovation Corridor.

Andrew Protogyrou is a top-rated attorney known throughout Virginia. He has tried hundreds of jury trials in Federal Court and every Hampton Roads jurisdiction. Sometimes his jury trials may last a day or two, others may last months. He spends most mornings in trial or motions in the General District and Circuit Courts and is known for handling the highest-profile cases in Hampton Roads that normally end up in the evening news or morning newspaper.

Mr. Protogyrou has handled hundreds of murder cases in Federal and State courts, including appeals and Habeas Corpus matters in the Virginia and United States Supreme Court. He has taught law internationally and been interviewed by CNN, local and national television, Russian, Italian, and Greek media outlets.

This committed attorney can often be found teaching legal seminars to fellow attorneys or speaking on a variety of legal topics. Mr. Protogyrou served as a substitute judge throughout Hampton Roads in the General District and Juvenile and Domestic Relations courts for five years. He has also served as a council member for the City of Norfolk for six years, garnering an insider’s knowledge of city government and its process.

Pamela calls Williamsburg, Virginia, her hometown. There, she graduated from high school at Walsingham Academy. She then attended college at Elon University, where she earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Computer Information Systems and a minor in Political Science.

Pamela is Vice President of Healthcare Business Banking at PNC. She is a specialized banker for the healthcare industry. She is dedicated to providing industry-specific solutions for private medical, dental, and veterinary practices to more efficiently manage their revenue cycle, as well as customized financing options for buy-ins, buy-outs, start-ups, expansions, equipment & acquisitions.

Serving the community is part of her DNA. She is a member of Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce; Virginia Beach Division of Board of Directors. She is Chair-Elect for 2021 and will be Chair of the Virginia Beach division in 2022. She is Treasurer and a member of Norfolk Sunrise Rotary Club. Pamela has been selected to serve as Assistant Governor for 2021-2022 for Rotary District 7600. She is a board member of the Hampton Roads Sports Commission. She also seeks to support Alzheimer’s/dementia patients, through political advocacy and has served as Treasurer of the Garner Foundation. Pamela was also selected as one of Inside Business’ Top 40 Under 40 in 2014.

Pamela currently resides in Virginia Beach, VA with her husband, and Schipperke named Elwood. She spends her downtime with family and friends, traveling, going to the beach, golfing and lots of sailing.