Chatter with BNC | Tarik Woods - Policy and Program Manager at NC State Institute for Emerging Issues
Release Date: 02/12/2025
Chatter with BNC | Cecilia Holden - President and CEO, myFutureNC
Chatter with BNC
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. features an Interview with Cecilia Holden, the President and CEO for myFutureNC, a statewide initiative focused on the state’s educational attainment goal. Among other public service, she served as the Chief of Staff for the North Carolina Department of Commerce and Director of Government and Community Affairs for the State Board of Education. Her private sector experience includes a career with IBM, as well as a Registered...
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Chatter with BNC | Joe Paradise - Managing Partner, KPMG
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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. features Joe Paradise, the Managing Partner for KPMG’s Carolinas, Florida, and Puerto Rico region, leading over 2,500 professionals. With 30+ years of experience, he advises companies on transformations, IPOs, M\&A, and operational growth. Joe is also the firm’s Partner-in-Charge of Alumni, driving initiatives like the BRITE board readiness program. Based in Charlotte, he’s a passionate advocate for innovation,...
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Chatter with BNC | Mary-Ann Baldwin - former Mayor of Raleigh
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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. features the former Mayor of Raleigh, Mary-Ann Baldwin. She is now busy as the Executive Director of the Cooper Charitable Foundation, a Raleigh-based organization that partners with local nonprofits to provide housing stability grants for those in need; in tandem with her role as VP of Community Relations for Raleigh-based construction company Cooper Tacia.
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Chatter with BNC | Jamie Baker and Moss Withers - Lee & Associates
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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. features Triangle real estate executives Jamie Baker and Moss Withers, who discuss the recent merger of Lundy Management Group with Lee & Associates. The combined firm manages more than 13 million square feet of property, including retail stores, office towers and cancer centers. Withers has been among the state's most active commercial real estate brokers at Lee and previously NAI Carolantic. Baker helped build Lundy into a...
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Chatter with BNC | Mike Gillis - Partner and Co-CEO at DMJPS
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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 Mike Gillis, Partner and Co-CEO at DMJPS CPAs + Advisors. He helps privately-held businesses and their owners achieve their long-term financial goals with proactive planning. He is a frequent presenter on tax matters and works extensively in the area of succession and exit planning strategies for businesses. Mike is originally from Pennsylvania. He attended Thiel College in Pennsylvania...
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Chatter with BNC | Dr. Mary Jo Cagle - CEO, Cone Health
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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 Dr. Mary Jo Cagle, CEO of Cone Health since June 2021. She will be retiring on May 31, 2025, after about 14 years at the Greensboro health system. She talks about the importance of community relationships in healthcare, Cone Health's advantages of partnering with Kaiser Permanente's Risant Health last year and throws in a little Alabama football.
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Chatter with BNC | Kathryn Atkinson - AENC President
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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 Kathryn Atkinson, Director of CME and Events for the NC Academy of Family Physicians. Kathryn is also President of the Association Executives of North Carolina. She speaks with BNC Publisher Ben Kinney about her professional journey, AENC"s upcoming 7oth Anniversary and her love of '90s country music.
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Chatter with BNC | Mollie Ruf - Marketing and Communications Manager, Rowan County EDC
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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 Mollie Ruf, the Marketing and Communications Manager at Rowan County EDC. Originally from a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, Ruf relocated to Salisbury, North Carolina the summer of 2009 after graduating from Florida Southern College. Ruf has in this community for various organizations over the past decade. In this episode, Ruf talks to Ben Kinney about what's new at Rowan County EDC,...
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Chatter with BNC | Winn Maddrey - President, Blue Nine Partners
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Chatter with BNC | Greg Lowe - president of HCA Healthcare and CEO of Asheville's Mission Health
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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 Greg Lowe is President of HCA Healthcare North Carolina Division, the state’s sixth largest health system based in Western North Carolina and CEO of Asheville's Mission Health. Lowe had previously served as chief executive officer of HCA Healthcare’s Chippenham and Johnston-Willis (CJW) hospitals, a two-campus system in Richmond, Va., since 2016. Lowe studied healthcare...
info_outlineWelcome 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 Tarik Woods, the Policy and Program Manager at NC State Institute for Emerging Issues. He leads research and stakeholder engagement to frame issues and identify major programmatic themes, including synthesizing data to identify and recommend best practices and determining opportunities for policy and practice developments at the state and regional levels. Tarik is from Salisbury, North Carolina. He received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy, focusing in Economics, from UNC Chapel Hill.