
FY 2024 SAFEchild Board of Directors
Officers
Heather Ashe, President
Managing Partner/Attorney, Underwood & Roberts PLLC
Anne Sena, President-Elect
Director of Technology, St. David’s School
Chuck Burnside, Treasurer
Vice President Corporate Finance, Wolfspeed
Hope Carmichael, Secretary
Partner/Attorney, Jordan Price Wall Gray Jones & Carlton PLLC
Marie Ambroise Thigpen, MD
Medical Director of Neonatology, UNC Rex Healthcare
Amber Barnes, PhD
Executive Director Head of Global Medical Writing Data Disclosure & Transparency, UCB
Jennifer Bordeaux
Director of Public Relations, New Direction Family Law
Kristen Brown Smalley
Chief Development Officer, Children’s Home Society of North Carolina
Marisa Bryant
Director Strategic Partnerships, Public School Forum of North Carolina
Christina Coffey
Vice President, Lee & Associates
Jacques Gilbert
Mayor of Apex, NC
Jennifer Gottsegen
Assistant General Counsel, GSK
Beverly Huang, MD
Physician/Practice Medical Director, Duke Urgent Care
Ron Kopplin
President East Division, Martin Marietta
Lisa Lowe-Hall
President & Chief Executive Officer, Triangle Family Services
Eric Mansfield, MD
Physician, Cape Fear Otolaryngology
Susan McKeown
Owner, Essential Learning
Mary Paige Phillips
Community Volunteer
Rebecca Pickens
National Sales Manager and Author
Suzanne Plunket
Partner/Attorney, Underwood & Roberts PLLC
Will Roberts
Customer Success Manager, Net Friends
Katie Schottmiller
Director North American Independent Business Monitoring, GSK
Ken Smith
Anchor/Reporter, WRAL
James Voltz
Co-owner, The Raleigh Wine Shop
Melissa Webb
Controller, Grubb Ventures
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
General Counsel, North Carolina Department of Commerce