Board of Directors

Candis Parker

Balfour Beatty Construction

Candis has spent the past 15 years in the design and construction industry. Her journey to become a construction industry leader was anything but typical. Candis, began working with an international Construction Management firm as an intern, and spent the next 12 years excelling within the industry. She cut her teeth in preconstruction which is a relationship-oriented role and worked to drive deep engagement with clients and trade partners. Having a passion for seeing the project from start to finish, she migrated toward design integration which allowed her to provide project value from cradle to grave.

Candis most recently joined the Cumming Group which is an international project and cost consultancy that are experts in construction project and cost management services. Cumming has over 1,000 team members and has completed project in more than 35 countries and has a portfolio that includes work across a broad range of sectors.

Candis enjoys working in the community both professionally and personally and spends a lot of time paying it forward through public service. She is passionate about creating a safe and equitable environment for her community and really enjoys partaking in activities that allow her to make a positive impact.

Candis and her husband have 3 kids and reside in Raleigh. Candis really wants a new dog.

Candis Parker

Balfour Beatty Construction

Candis has spent the past 15 years in the design and construction industry. Her journey to become a construction industry leader was anything but typical. Candis, began working with an international Construction Management firm as an intern, and spent the next 12 years excelling within the industry. She cut her teeth in preconstruction which is a relationship-oriented role and worked to drive deep engagement with clients and trade partners. Having a passion for seeing the project from start to finish, she migrated toward design integration which allowed her to provide project value from cradle to grave.

Candis most recently joined the Cumming Group which is an international project and cost consultancy that are experts in construction project and cost management services. Cumming has over 1,000 team members and has completed project in more than 35 countries and has a portfolio that includes work across a broad range of sectors.

Candis enjoys working in the community both professionally and personally and spends a lot of time paying it forward through public service. She is passionate about creating a safe and equitable environment for her community and really enjoys partaking in activities that allow her to make a positive impact.

Candis and her husband have 3 kids and reside in Raleigh. Candis really wants a new dog.

Charlie Houchin

CEO, Swimmingly, LLC

A Raleigh NC native, Charlie graduated from the University of Michigan and blazed a trail from Southern California to
Florida on his path towards making his first Olympic Team. Charlie trained with world-class coaches and individuals in
both California and Florida, representing Team USA as a member of the National Team from 2009-2014.

After earning a gold medal at the London Olympics in the 4×200 Freestyle Relay, Charlie temporarily stepped away from
the pool at the end of 2012 to lay much of the foundation for Swimmingly.

Charlie’s favorite part of the sport is the youth & parents involved in summer club swimming: Swimmingly’s mission.
Charlie believes that the parent volunteers and swimmers are the heroes of summer swimming–without them, the meets
would not happen!

While training full-time as well as building the Swimmingly team, Charlie traveled to Barcelona as a member of the 2013
World Championships. Representing Team USA, Houchin capped a successful post-Olympic year by winning gold in the 4×200
Freestyle Relay with Conor Dwyer, Ryan Lochte, and Ricky Berens. The quartet of men extended Team USA’s dominance in the
event to 10 consecutive years; the first victory in that stretch without Michael Phelps.

Swimmingly saw one of its first victories in 2013 when the business attracted long-time Entrepreneur Mike Curran. Mike
and Charlie’s complimenting areas of knowledge and expertise successfully brought the partnership to fruition. However,
it is both men’s passion for serving the youth in the sport of swimming that made Swimmingly a natural fit.

Jeff Hensley

CFRE, Senior Generosity Strategist

Jeff Hensley has over 20 years of experience building the fiscal capacity of nonprofits and educational institutions.
His fundraising expertise encompasses nearly all development activities including annual and planned giving, strategic
planning, major gifts solicitation, corporate/foundation relations, international fundraising, crowdfunding initiatives
and social media fundraising, proposal writing, and capital campaign planning and implementation.

From 2010-15, Hensley served as the development director of the Internet Society, an international nonprofit of 100
employees with a $40 million annual budget. Over a five-year period, he grew annual fundraising from $300,000 to over
$10 million and helped conceive, implement, and manage the Internet Society’s first-ever $50 million capital campaign.

Prior to working for the Internet Society, Hensley ran a development consultancy where he managed 13 consultants and
worked with 64 higher education, K12, healthcare, and nonprofit clients. As a consultant, he specializes in development
assessments, staff and leadership coaching, strategic planning, and capital campaign management, including conducting
feasibility studies. He has served as fundraising counsel for a variety of campaigns from $1 million to $300 million.

Hensley completed his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (IL) and his graduate studies at Yale. Prior to becoming
a development professional, Hensley taught theology/religious studies for nearly a decade at both the university
(Baylor) and seminary (Virginia Theological Seminary) levels. He served as a fellow at that Erasmus Institute at the
University of Notre Dame and has held fellowships from the Pew Charitable Trust, the Lilly Endowment, and the Wabash
Center for Religion and Theology. He is a member of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the
Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), and currently serves on two nonprofit boards. He is also a Certified
Fundraising Executive.

Jonah Turner

Regional Mgr., Cardinal Health

Jonah Turner is from Raleigh, NC where he grew up swimming year round and also swam for Sanderson High School where he
graduated from in 1997. After high school, he continued his swimming career in college at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a distance swimmer specializing in the 1650yd Freestyle, 1000yd Freestyle, 500yd
Freestyle, and 200yd Butterfly.

After graduating from Carolina in 2001, Jonah became the Head Coach of the Cardinal Gibbons High School Swim Team where
he has built one of the most successful high school programs in NC. He just finished his 17th season as the head coach
and has had the good fortune of coaching over 21 High School All-American swimmers and won 17 State Championship titles
during his tenure at Cardinal Gibbons. Jonah enjoy working with his fellow coaches to help swimmers improve, learn and
achieve the valuable life lessons that swimming brings in and out of the water.

Outside of coaching Cardinal Gibbons, Jonah works for Cardinal Health as a Region Director of Core Account Management
for the Acute market with responsibility for 8 sales reps covering SC/NC/VA. He also enjoys spending time and traveling
with his wife Stephanie and hanging out with their 2.5yr old boy Jackson and 5yr old girl Brooklyn, who you will often
find on the pool deck yelling Go Gibbons. He also loves playing with his dog Zoey (French Bulldog).

Kevin Chignell

Past Chair

Kevin Chignell has a long history in Wake County. He was born in Washington, D.C. but his family moved to Cary in the
1970’s. After graduating from Apex High School, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UNC School of Law, Kevin joined the firm of Parker
Poe Adams & Bernstein in Raleigh where he has practiced law for over 20 years. He has focused his work on product
liability matters, industrial accidents, and commercial motor vehicle litigation. Kevin also served as the firm’s
Raleigh Office Managing Partner from 2012 until 2017 and led the design and construction efforts when the Raleigh office
relocated to the PNC Plaza in 2014.

He currently serves on the Board of Advisors for Camp Sea Gull & Camp Seafarer and the Board of Directors of the
Trucking Industry Defense Association. Kevin previously served on TAC’s Aquatics Advisory Board from 2015-2016.

Kevin’s wife, Jeannine, is originally from New York, but decided to stay in the South after graduating from Wake Forest
University and earning a Master’s degree at Clemson University. She works in Human Resources for Blue Cross NC, and they
have two swimmers competing for the TAC Titans.

Kevin is a USA Swimming official who regularly volunteers at swim meets as a deck referee, starter, and stroke & turn
judge.Away from the pool deck, Kevin enjoys mountain biking and running, and he completed the Beach2Battleship half-iron
distance triathlon in 2011 and 2012. Recently, he started working towards earning his private pilot’s license.

Kristin Curran Pake

Secretary

Kristin Curran was born in Greensboro, NC in 1985 and grew up in Apex / Cary, NC. Kristin graduated from Cary Academy
High School in 2003 and went on to Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN where she graduated in 2007 with a B.A. in
religious studies and history.

Mike Curran

Founder, Triangle Aquatic Center

Michael founded the Michael G. Curran Family Foundation (Foundation), a private 501(c)(3) family Foundation in 2003 and
retired from the Principal Financial Group in 2005 to pursue the Foundation’s mission, “to positively impact the lives
of children and young adults.” The first project of the Foundation was to lead and fund the construction of the Triangle
Aquatic Center (TAC), a nonprofit public aquatic facility in Cary, N.C.. The first TAC facility opened to the public
October 28, 2007 and is now actively pursuing its health, safety and competition aquatic programming mission throughout
the Triangle, N.C. Region.

Nick Paleocrassas

Treasurer

Nick is a Senior Manager at CAPTRUST Financial Advisors, one of the top investment advisory firms in the nation with
over $250 billion in assets under advisement. He specializes in financing strategies for Nonqualified Deferred
Compensation Plans and has been in the Nonqualified Executive Benefit industry for 22 years.

Nick started his professional career working for a small local Nonqualified Plan record keeping firm where he
contributed to the growth and sale of the organization to the Principal Financial Group, a Fortune 500 company. He
continued his professional development with the Principal for 10 years before he joined CAPTRUST in April of 2010. At
CAPTRUST, Nick offers centralized consulting support to the national advisor force and their institutional clients in a
areas such as benefit design, liability financing, vendor benchmarking, investment lineup analysis and participant
education.

Nick spent 10 years of his childhood living in Athens, Greece where he attended Greek public school in grades 3 through
9 and then attended grades 10 through 12 at a private American high school. During his 10 years in Greece he was a
competitive swimmer at a local swim club where he still owns club records in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle events. He
is a 3-time Greek National champion in the 50m freestyle (89, 90 & 92) and a 2-time runner up in the 100m freestyle (89
& 91). In 1992, Nick broke the Greek National record in the 50m freestyle and represented Greece in the Barcelona, Spain
1992 Olympics.

In 1991, Nick received his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from North Carolina State University. While at NC
State he was a two-time All American as a swimmer and was team captain his senior year. In 1996 Nick earned his MBA in
Business Administration from Southern Illinois University and in 2015 he received his Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU®)
designation from The American College.

Nick is a passionate sports fan supporting the NC State Wolfpack in all sports as well as the Minnesota Vikings and
Carolina Hurricanes.

Nick lives in Raleigh, is married and has two daughters and a son.

Robbie Bell

Partner, BNK, Inc.

Robbie is a Civil Engineer and a Partner and President of Bass, Nixon & Kennedy, Inc., a consulting engineering firm in
Raleigh. Robbie holds a BS & PR degree in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University.

He and his wife, Margaret, live in Wake County with their two children, Thomas and Victoria. Both children have been
involved in year-round swimming since elementary school.

Van Fletcher

Chairman of the Board

Lisa Honaker

Lisa Honaker has spent the last 23 years in Raleigh. She has lived all over the country – from Los Angeles to St. Louis and New York City. She grew with swimming and soccer, and passed swimming along to her kids. She graduated from the University of Missouri and got her MBA from the University of Richmond. She has continued her love of learning through various Executive Education programs at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Cornell and Northwestern.

Lisa took a huge leap in 2022, and transitioned from a 29 year career at FedEx to a Seattle based SaaS start up. At FedEx, she was a Managing Director and led an organization of $110M and 150 sales people and leaders. She was the architect of the largest sales organization transformation the organization had built. Currently, Lisa is a Senior Director at Highspot, a sales enablement platform. It is a Series E funded startup with plans for an IPO exit. She is a seasoned, passionate leader focusing on developing high performing teams. driven towards one common goal through creating a shared vision and an inspiring pathway to success.

Outside of work Lisa spends her time with her kids, Olivia and Matthew. Both club swimmers since they were 9, she has been part of that club’s parent led organizations, most recently serving as the TITAN Leadership Council’s President. Olivia is currently swimming Club Swim at NC State and Matthew is wrapping up his Senior year with the TITANS. Lisa also has spent the last four years serving with the Young Men’s Service League, which is a mother-son organization committed to working together to serve our communities’ needs.

Jordan Todd

Jordan is a native of Boone, NC, where he grew up and attended high school. He completed his undergraduate studies at UNC Chapel Hill, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. He attended graduate school at Appalachian State University, earning a Master of Arts in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management.

Jordan has over 13 years of human resources experience, including both the private and public sectors. He is currently the Associate Director of Human Resources for the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at UNC Chapel Hill. He specializes in Employee Management Relations, International Employment, and Postdoctoral Human Resources.

Jordan lives with his wife, Bryttany and daughter, Hailey in both Apex, NC, and Johnson City, TN. In his free time, he enjoys golf, playing soccer, and volunteering in his local communities.

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