Board of Trustees

General Meeting Dates/Locations for 2024:

  • March 4, 2024/Boar’s Head Inn, Charlottesville → Minutes
  • March 8, 2024/Boar’s Head Inn, Charlottesville → Agenda; Minutes
  • June 11, 2024/Virtual Meeting via Teams → Agenda; Minutes
  • June 14, 2024/Boar’s Head Inn, Charlottesville → Agenda; Minutes
  • September 20, 2024→ Agenda
  • December 6, 2024/TBD

General Meeting Dates/Locations for 2023:

  • January 31, 2023/GENEDGE Headquarter Office, Martinsville → Agenda; Minutes
  • March 1, 2023/Virtual Meeting via Teams → Agenda; Minutes
  • March 17, 2023/Boar’s Head Inn, Charlottesville → AgendaMinutes
  • June 16, 2023/Patrick Henry Building, Richmond → Agenda; Minutes
  • June 6, 2023/Virtual Meeting via Teams → Agenda; Minutes
  • September 15, 2023/Hotel 24 South, Staunton → Agenda; Minutes
  • November 20, 2023/Finance Committee Meeting → Agenda;
  • December 1, 2023/Boar’s Head Inn, Charlottesville → Agenda; Minutes

General Meeting Dates/Locations for 2022:

  • December 2, 2022/Boar’s Head Inn, Charlottesville → Agenda; Minutes
  • September 16, 2022/Boar’s Head Inn, Charlottesville → Agenda; Minutes
  • June 10, 2022/Boar’s Head Inn, Charlottesville → Agenda; Minutes
  • March 18, 2022/Boar’s Head Inn, Charlottesville → Agenda; Minutes

Past General Meeting Dates and Minutes:


Board of Trustees

Chair and Vice Chair

Gabriel LaMois, Chair
Chief Executive Officer, Technology Advancement Group (TAG)

Wesley Reid, Vice Chair
Director of Operations, Integrity Windows and Doors

Board Members

  • Dr. Makola M. Abdullah, President, Virginia State University
  • Dr. Marcia Conston, President, Tidewater Community College
  • Dennis S. McDermott, Sr. Vice President, ITAC  
  • Dr. Eileen Van Aken, Professor and Department Head, VT Grado School of Industrial Engineering
  • Jeff Jaycox, President & Owner, Tabet Manufacturing Company
  • Matthew Clarke, President & Founder, Clarke Precision Machine
  • Richard J. Gagliano, President & CEO, AccuTec Blades, Inc.
  • The Honorable Aimee Rogstad Guidera, Secretary of Education
  • Alexander Marcus, President & CEO, ESI Total Fuel Management
  • Abdelkarim Moharram, Innovation Portfolio Director, Bechtel Corporation
  • Lisa Papini, President, Dante Valve Co.
  • The Honorable G. Bryan Slater, Secretary of Labor
  • Karen D. Sorber, CEO & Co-Founder, Micronic Technologies, Inc.
  • Dr. Wayne P. Stilwell, CEO, Stilwell Technology and Robotics LLC
  • VIPC Names Joe Benevento as President & CEO,  Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Trade / Interim President, Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation
  • Kaushik Vashee, P.E., VP Engineering & Process Development, Circ Earth
  • Dr. Tracy Fitzsimmons – President, Shenandoah University
  • Dr. John Gaskins – President / Founder, Laser Thermal
  • Dr. Quentin Johnson – President, Southside Community College
  • Ms. Cathy Roberts – Director of Operations at Capewell