Who We Are

Joe Waring, Chair
Chief Financial Officer, Evening Post Industries
Kristen Gayeski Tinkler, OD, Vice Chair
Optometrist at MUSC Storm Eye Institute
Samuel R. Clawson, Jr., Secretary
Partner and Co-Founder, Clawson, Fargnoli & Utsey, LLC
Thomas M. Smythe, Treasurer
Financial Planner, Jacobs, Coolidge & Company, LLC
Robert M. Baldwin, CPA, Immediate Past Chair
Managing Member, Baldwin and Associates, LLC
Kari Arnold
Teacher for the Visually Impaired, Greenville County Schools
Hon. Karl L. Brady, Jr.
Charleston City Councilmember, District 5
R. Griffin Brame, Jr., MD
Ophthalmologist, Carolina EyeCare Physicians, LLC
Nancy L. Buchanan
State Administration State Government (Retired)
Ronald L. Coleman, MSW
Retired Director of Community Services for Maryland DDA Region (Developmental Disability Administration)
Edward M. Gilbreth, MD
MUSC Internal Medicine (Retired)
Lane Legare Harper
Managing Member, Timberland Capital Investments, LLC
James F. Hill III, OD, FAAO
Optometrist, MUSC Storm Eye Institute
Paul M. Keating, Jr.
CEO, Elite Brands, LLC
John C. Kulze III, MD
Ophthalmologist, Eye Center of Charleston
Tricia Leyte-Vidal
Training Manager, Everstream Analytics
Marshall G. McClure
Vice President, Tax, E. I., du Pont de Nemours and Company, Retired
Everett J. “Chett” McCubrey IV
Controller, The Bank of South Carolina
Elizabeth M. McKown
Director of Vision Services, SC School for the Deaf and the Blind (Retired)
Suzanne Swaffield
Coordinator, SC Department of Education
Sean M. Wilson
Attorney, Law Office of Sean M. Wilson, LLC
Col. B. Karl Jantzen, Member Emeritus
Retired US Army Major and Asset Manager