The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce has elected new officers and six new members to its 35-member volunteer board of directors.
New members are Bruce Ballentine, Ballentine Associates president; Linda Cohne, vice president of publishing at AICPA; Margot Lester, owner of The Word Factory; Gerald Ramoin, executive vice president and general manager of Performance Automall; Shannon Reaves, senior vice president at Harrington Bank; and Shawn Slome, owner of Twig.
New board officers are Barry Leffler, chair, CEO and managing partner at 1360 WCHL; Paige Zinn, vice chair, chief operating officer at Jennings; Chris Barnes, treasurer, vice president at First Citizens Bank; Bob Saunders, general counsel, partner at Brooks Pierce; Aaron Nelson, secretary, president and CEO of the chamber; and Marc Pons, immediate past chair, president at Chapel Hill Tire.
The board also reelected Fred Black, Black Star Strategies; Millie Chalk, Duke Energy; Chris Derby, the UPS Stores of Meadowmont and Fordham Boulevard; Mariana Fiorentino, Terra Nova Global Properties; Joel Levy, Joel I. Levy CPA, PA; Torin Martinez, UNC Hospitals; Roger Perry, East West Partners; and Reagan Pruitt, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina.