Entrepreneurship Advisory Board

The Connolly Center for Entrepreneurship receives support from a group of dedicated Washington and Lee alumni who have years of experience creating, building and selling successful companies.

Executive Committee

Johnson Professor of Entrepreneurship (vacant)
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA

John Stump '91 (Chairperson)
Weller Advisory
Raleigh, NC

Keith Calhoun '79 (Vice-Chairperson)
Sea Island, GA

Elizabeth Yarbrough '92 (Secretary)
Wofford College
Greenville, SC

Tim Lavelle '79 (Member-at-Large, Past Chair)
Hawthorne Capital Partners
Raleigh, NC

Larry Connolly '79 (Member-at-Large)
Connolly Family Foundation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA

Carol O'Kelley '91 (Member-at-Large)
PRGX
Dunwoody, GA

Non-Voting Advisory Members

Cory Allison '94
KelCor and The JumpFund
Chattanooga, TN

Greg Barrow '87
General Capital Partners, LLC
Denver, CO

Lang Craighill '76*
Wilmington, NC

Drew Denbo '95*
Skillz Inc.
San Francisco, CA

Mary Drennen '02*
Nourish Foods
Mountain Brook, AL

Tom Dunlap '99L
Dunlap Bennett Ludwig PLLC
Round Hill, VA

Kelly Dyer '98
SourceFuse LLC
Atlantic Beach, FL

Ted Elliott '94*
Copado
Tiburon, CA

Tom Faulkner '74*
Tom Faulkner Productions Inc.
Highland Village, TX

Blair Garrou '94
Mercury Fund
Houston, TX

Alan Gibson '70*
Potluck, LLC
Shepherdstown, WV

Bebe Goodrich '07
Royal Cup Coffee
Mountain Brook, AL

Erika Hagberg '97
Google Inc.
Rumson, NJ

Jack Huffard '90
Tenable Network Security
McLean, VA

Abhinav Kapur '08
Bikky Inc.
Flushing, NY

Matt Langan '10
Stuccco.com
Louisville, KY

Marc Ottinger '80
CryoMaryland, LLC & RecoverMD, LLC
Baltimore, MD

Doug Panzer '98
Caesar Rivise Bernstein Cohen & Pokotilow
Wynnewood, PA

McGowin Patrick '86
Terra Oilfield Services
Houston, TX

Tom Pearce '85
MAX Exchange LLC
Atlanta, GA

Eric Pelnik '15
CommonStock
San Francisco, CA

Sam Perkins '80, '83L*
PHI Technologies, LLC
Nashville, TN

Eli Polanco Aquino '09*
NIVELO
Brooklyn, NY

Christian von Hassell '16
Common Energy
New York, NY