Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University is comprised of 13 individuals chosen as follows: eight elected by the UNC Board of Governors, four appointed by the governor and the president of the N.C. A&T Student Government Association (ex-officio). The term of office of all trustees, except the ex-officio member is four years.
The duties of the N.C. A&T Board of Trustees are to promote the sound development of the university with the functions prescribed for it, helping it to serve the people of the state in a way that will complement the activities of the other institutions and enable it to perform at a high level of excellence in every area of endeavor. The board serves as advisor to the UNC Board of Governors on matters pertaining to the university and shall also serve as advisor to the chancellor concerning the management and development of the university.
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Members
Updated October 20, 2011
Willie A. Deese
Chair
Elected 2007; term ends 2015
MMD 3 W31
2 Merck Drive
Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889-0200
Email: wdeese@ncat.edu
Deese is executive vice president and president of the Merck Manufacturing Division, with responsibility for Merck’s worldwide manufacturing operations. He oversees 85 manufacturing and distribution sites in over 25 countries around the world with 26,000 people reporting to him and with an operating budget of $9 billion. He is also responsible for Merck’s global procurement organization, and he serves as a member of Merck’s Executive Committee. He joined Merck as senior vice president of global procurement in 2004, after establishing a track record of success as an executive and manager for several pharmaceutical, health care and high technology companies, including GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals PLC, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals PLC, Kaiser Permanente, and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Deese is a graduate of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University where he received a B.S. degree in business administration (1977). He also has an M.B.A. from Western New England College (1983). He and his wife Carol live in Doylestown, PENN.
Patricia Miller Zollar
Vice Chair
Elected 2011; term ends 2015
605 Third Avenue, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10158
Email: pzollar@ncat.edu
Miller Zollar is a managing director of Neuberger Berman, an independent asset management firm with approximately $170 billion of assets under management, where she is a principal of the NB Alternative Funds of Funds team. Before joining private equity, Zollar co-founded and co-headed the Lehman Brothers Partnership Solutions Group (PSG), a Wall Street business focused on developing strategic opportunities with women- and minority-owned financial services firms. Before rejoining Lehman Brothers in 2004, she spent 8 years in asset management. Most of that time was with Goldman Sachs, where she was a vice president of institutional marketing.
Miller Zollar received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and her B.S., with highest distinction, from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Executive Leadership Council.
Albert Shuler “Al” Lineberry Jr.
Secretary
Elected 2009; term ends 2013
536 Woodland Drive
Greensboro, NC 27408
Email: alineber@ncat.edu
Lineberry is a leading member of the Hanes Lineberry Funeral Home. He has been president of the International Order of Golden Rule Funeral Directors, OGR Re-Insurance Corporation, Greensboro Rotary Club, and Greensboro Jaycees. He also has chaired several local, state and national organizations, and he is currently the chair of the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Comprehensive Cancer Center Regional Advisory Board and honorary chair of the Memory Walk for Alzheimers.
Lineberry is married to the former Virginia Shenck and they have two daughters, Helen Lineberry Houser and Virginia Schenck Lineberry (deceased). He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Wake Forest University, is a certified funeral services practitioner (Academy of Certified Funeral Service Practitioners) and a graduate of the National Foundation of Funeral Service School of Management.
Stanley L. Allen, D.D.S.
Elected 2009; term ends 2013
P.O. Box 21754
Greensboro, NC 27420-1754
Email: slallen1@ncat.edu
Allen has been practicing dentistry in the Greensboro area for 30 years. He is a member of several professional organizations including the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, the North Carolina Dental Society, Old North State Dental Society, American Society of Dental Anesthesiology, Academy of General Dentistry, N.C. Implant Associates Study Club, Guilford County Dental Society, American Society of Dental Anesthesiology and Greensboro Medical Society. He also has served two three-year terms on the N.C. State Board of Dental Examiners.
The Brooklyn, N.Y., native holds a B.S. degree from North Carolina Central University and a D.D.S. degree from Howard University College of Dentistry. He enjoys aerobics, tennis, scuba diving and writing, and has published two books, African-American Prosperity: You’ll See It When You Believe It and Assassination of Passion. Allen and his wife Yvonne have three children.
Spence H. Broadhurst
Elected 2011; term ends 2015
3911 Hazel Lane
Greensboro, NC 27408
Email: sbroadhu@ncat.edu
Broadhurst is an executive vice president and special projects manager for NewBridge Bank in Greensboro. He began his career as a loan officer in Wake Forest, N.C. He is also a former mayor Wilmington, N.C. (2003-06), where he served as a director of several community boards. Currently, he is a director of the Piedmont Triad Partnership, the Greensboro Partnership Economic Development Alliance and Welfare Reform Liaison Project Inc., and is a member of First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro.
A native of Wilson, N.C., Broadhurst is married to the former Kimberly Poole and they have three children. He holds a B.S. degree in industrial relations and a B.A. degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also attended the Graduate School of Banking of the South at Louisiana State University.
Pamela M. Buncum
Elected 2011; term ends 2015
2609 Horizon Boulevard
Rogers, AR 72758
Email: pbuncum@ncat.edu
After working as an accountant and financial internal auditor for 12 years, Buncum switched her focus to community and public school volunteer service. Since 1993, she has volunteered with various PTAs/PTOs, school councils, community and civic organizations in North Carolina, Maryland, Florida and Georgia. These experiences prepared her for a 2008 campaign for DeKalb County School Board At-Large District 8 and appointment to (2007) and chairing the NC A&T Board of Trustees (2009–2011). One of her greatest honors came in 2007 when she accepted the National Charter School of the Year award for Chamblee Charter High School – where she held several offices as a parent volunteer including co-president of the PTSA – from the Center for Education Reform in a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol.
The Mt. Holly, N.C., native is a 1981 graduate of North Carolina A&T State University with a B.S. degree in accounting. She resides in Rogers, Ar., with her husband Kelvin, and they have two sons, Omari and Bakari.
Karen J. Collins
Elected 2011; term ends 2015
7223 Kingery Highway
Willowbrook, IL 60527
Email: kcollins@ncat.edu
While leading Fortune 500 senior management initiatives and serving as a board member of noted organizations across the nation, Karen J. Collins has been a driving force in creating collaborative, dynamic business cultures and focused corporate oversight as president of Collins Collaboration. Collins launched Collins Collaboration, LLC to offer her nationally recognized planning, management and corporate administration skills directly to organizations looking to shape long-term strategies, define/realize shared goals and maximize sustainable growth
She is a recipient of the National Eagle Leadership Institute’s CareerFOCUS Eagle Award which is presented annually to a select group of nationally recognized executives who embody excellence in both corporate and community leadership.
Prior to Collins Collaboration, Collins served as president and chairman of The First American Homeownership Foundation and Corelogic Foundation, leading the Foundation’s nationwide objectives to promote financial literacy, foreclosure prevention, homebuyer education and neighborhood revitalization.
Collins has a bachelor's degree in business administration from North Carolina A&T State University and she has completed executive education curriculum at the University of Chicago. She frequently speaks on leadership panels around the country and serves on the Social Compact Board of Directors and the American Stroke Association Advisory Committee. She is a recipient of the National Eagle Leadership Institute’s CareerFOCUS Eagle Award.
Emerson U. Fullwood
Elected 2009; term ends 2013
4 Kingsfield Drive
Pittsford, NY 14534
Email: fullwood@ncat.edu
Fullwood is a retired corporate vice president of Xerox Corporation. He began his career as an account representative and has held several executive and general management leadership positions within the company, including executive chief of staff and marketing officer for Xerox North America, president of the Xerox Worldwide Channels Group, president of Latin America, executive chief staff officer of Developing Markets, and president of Worldwide Customer Services. He currently serves as a director of Amerigroup Corporation, Vanguard Group, Vanguard Funds, United Way of Rochester, Rochester Boy Scouts of America, Monroe Community College Foundation, Urban League, SPX and Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School. He also served as Rochester Institute of Technology's Minett Professor and worked with the E. Philip Saunders College of Business during 2009–10.
A native of North Carolina, Fullwood holds a B.A. degree in economics from North Carolina State University and an M.B.A. in marketing from Columbia University.
Janice Bryant Howroyd
Elected 2009; term ends 2013
1999 W. 190th Street
Torrance, CA 90504
Email: jhowroyd@ncat.edu
Howroyd is chairman and CEO of the Act•1 Group, a global leader in the staffing and human resources industry that has provided more than 30 years of service to companies in the Fortune 1000. The Act•1 Group consists of: Agile•1 Workforce Solutions, AppleOne Staffing, and Business Services Solutions.
The North Carolina native left her hometown in 1976 armed with $700. She has dedicated her efforts to building an organization committed to keeping the humanity in human resources, and her work has been recognized by BET network, Black Enterprise magazine and The Oprah Winfrey Show, to name a few. Howroyd advocates balance of education and entrepreneurship in the workforce and is the author of The Art of Work: How to Make Work Work for You!, in which she distills over 30 years of experience into a work/life balance guide for individuals wishing to further their personal and professional success.
Tim Rice
Elected 2011; term ends 2015
Cone Health System
1200 N. Elm Street
Greensboro, NC 27401
Email: rtrice@ncat.edu
Tim Rice was appointed president and chief executive officer of Cone Health, one of the North Carolina Piedmont Triad region’s largest and most comprehensive health networks, in August 2004. He has had a progressive career with Cone Health since 1978, when he worked as a pharmacist at Cone Health’s Moses Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro. In 1992, he was promoted to executive vice president of the Health Services Division; in 1997, he became executive vice president of Moses Cone Memorial Hospital; and in 2001, he served as chief operating officer of Cone Health.
The Washington native attended Washington State University, graduating with a degree in pharmacy and later a residency in clinical pharmacy. Rice pursued a graduate degree in health administration at Duke University. He is very active in professional, civic and church efforts. He and his wife Carolynn live in Greensboro, and they have two children and two grandchildren.
Allahquan L. Tate
Ex-officio
Elected 2012; term ends 2013
NC A&T State University
Greensboro, NC 27411
Email: altate@ncat.edu
Allahquan Tate is a senior, attending North Carolina A&T State University where his major focus is in architectural engineering with a minor focus in applied mathematics. Tate is a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina. Since his enrollment at the university, he has remained actively involved in numerous campus activities. Tate served as freshman class president on the university’s Student Government Association and then two terms as a senator for the College of Engineering. In his current role as Student Government president, Tate is the university’s leading voice of advocacy, governance and action and serves as the chief liaison between the students and the university’s administration.
Throughout his matriculation at North Carolina A&T State University, Tate has served the Aggie community as an Aggie Student Ambassador, Orientation Student Leader and a member of AmeriCorps. He also holds memberships in the College Democrats of America and the National Society of Black Engineers. Upon graduation, he plans to attend graduate school and obtain his masters level degree in architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Bertram E. Walls, M.D., M.B.A.
Elected 2009; term ends 2013
10766 Black Hawk Street
Plantation, FL 33324
Email: bewalls@ncat.edu
Walls is a physician and executive business and healthcare consultant with over 30 years of experience in the clinical and management side of medicine. After a successful private Ob/Gyn medical practice career, he focused his career on the “business of medicine.” He has held senior executive positions in multiple healthcare enterprises, and his entrepreneurial spirit has led to the ownership of several companies including a healthcare advisory and consultancy company. Currently, he is president and medical director of Phoenix Obstetrics/Gynecology LLC and Premiere Ob/Gyn Associates, PA, with offices in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Durham, N.C.
Walls received his B.S. degree in professional biology from North Carolina A&T State University in 1973, his medical degree from Duke University in 1976, and his M.B.A. from the Duke Fuqua School of Business in 1995. He is an assistant clinical consulting professor in the Department of Ob/Gyn at Duke Medical Center.
Faye Tate Williams
Elected 2009; term ends 2013
412 Old Buggy Trail
Hillsborough, NC 27278-7881
Email: ftwillia@ncat.edu
Williams is a registered nurse at The Durham Veterans Administration (VA) in Durham, N.C., where she has been employed for 30 years as staff nurse, assistant head nurse and nurse manager. She currently works in the mental health/primary care clinic as a patient care coordinator nurse. Her community involvement includes Diamond Life Member of the Durham Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., vice president of the Durham Links, Inc., a member of National Smart Set, Inc., and chair of the advisory board of the African American Health Improvement Project (AAHIP).
Williams is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, with a B.S.N. degree in nursing (1978), and North Carolina Central University, with an M.A. degree in agency counseling (1988). She is married to Quan Williams, and they reside in Hillsborough N.C.
