Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people. Today's episode features an interview with Mark Boone, the President of Fesival In The Park in Charlotte, NC. Boone talks to Ben Kinney about his career journey from journalism to where he is today, as well as Festival In The Park ..read more

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people. Today's episode features an interview with Bridget Foster, senior news director of Spectrum News 1 North Carolina. She oversees the cable company's news operation across the state and discusses how Spectrum emphasizes balance in its statewide news coverage. She previously worked in local TV news in Florida, Indiana and Ohio and Indiana. Based in Raleigh, Foster has a bachelor's degree and MBA from the University of Flor ..read more

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people. Today's episode features an interview with Joanna Helms and Dr.Patricia Mitchell, from NCEDA. They talk to Ben Kinney about their roles and the very important work they're doing at NCEDA. The NCEDA Foundation was created in 2020 to advance the economic development profession, enhance the knowledge and skills of economic developers, and strengthen the broad, statewide economic development community in North Carolina through f ..read more

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people. Today's episode features an interview with Baker Glasgow, President of Clancy & Theys. Glasgow talks to Kevin Ellis about his professional journey so far, the challenges in construction in 2024, construction as a career for the younger generation, and more ..read more

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people. Today's episode features an interview with Carrie McCament, CEO of the Chernoff Newman marketing company in Charlotte. For many years, she was an executive with advertising agencies based in New York and Philadelphia, commuting from her Queen City home to work on campaigns for Bank of America, Samsung and other major companies. She joined Charlotte’s Wray Ward agency as executive of client engagement in 2018, then moved to Cherno ..read more

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people.   Today's episode features an interview with Kevin O’Brien. O'Brien serves as president of North America for Merz Therapeutics, where he leads commercial strategy and execution, including field sales, managed markets, medical affairs, marketing and operations, across the U.S. and Canada. Since joining Merz in 2017, he has overseen the U.S. FDA approval of Merz’s neuromodulator for the treatment of sialorrhea (excessive drool ..read more

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people.   Today's episode features an interview with Chris Hare, the CEO of PRTI. Hare talks to Ben Kinney about his professional journey so far, the wonderful work they do at PRTI disposing of used tires properly, and more.  ..read more

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people.   Today's episode features an interview with Sharon Bryson, who retired Jan. 31 after leading the 12,500-member N.C. Association of CPAs since 2016. The graduate of UNC Chapel Hill worked for the CPA group for 39 years as its staff and membership more than tripled. She is a past president of the Association Executives of North Carolina.     https://www.ncacpa.org/about/staff-directory/staff-member/sharon-bryson ..read more

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people. Today's episode features an interview with Skip Smart, Partner at Parker Poe. Smart leads Parker Poe's business law department. He provides transactional advice and corporate counseling to both private and public companies. He has an extensive mergers and acquisitions practice, and he regularly advises clients in auction-type acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, leveraged acquisitions and related financings, and roll-up ..read more

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people. Today's episode features an interview with Stafford L. Thompson, Jr. As Senior Vice President of Life and Executive Benefits Business Management, Stafford drives the continued expansion, diversification and enhancement of Lincoln’s industry-leading portfolio of Life Insurance products to meet the needs of new clients in Lincoln’s core and emerging markets. His key responsibilities include product development and management f ..read more