IntraHealth Advisory Council

The purpose of the Global Health Advisory Committee is to provide support to IntraHealth International's mission and to guide and steer its overall fundraising efforts with individuals.  The Advisory Committee is composed of business leaders, philanthropists and community leaders from North Carolina's Research Triangle and beyond who have a demonstrated interest in and commitment to global health.

IntraHealth Advisory Council Member Biographies

  • Marcia Angle

    Marcia Angle served as IntraHealth's clinical officer from 1987 to 2004, overseeing the quality of training provided by IntraHealth in dozens of developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Through IntraHealth and WHO, she helped develop the international . . . »Read more

  • Holly Baddour

    Holly Baddour has over 16 years of experience in nonprofit management and has served numerous organizations in the Triangle dedicated to HIV, women’s issues, and health education and advocacy. She has held positions from volunteer coordinator  . . . »Read more

  • Preston Brown

    Most recently, Preston Brown has served as vice president of software engineering for Bronto Software, a Durham, NC-based e-mail marketing and analytics firm. Brown leads the Bronto teams in charge of production systems and new software development.  »Read more

  • Michael Cotter

    Michael Cotter is a retired career Foreign Service officer. During a 32-year career Cotter served in seven overseas posts, primarily in the developing world (Bolivia, Ecuador, Zaire, Vietnam), as well as assignments at the State Department. In 1995 he was confirmed . . . »Read more

  • Fred Hutchison

    As the founder of Hutchison Law Group, Fred Hutchison’s practice focuses on venture capital, securities, and mergers and acquisitions. Hutchison has represented more than 300 entrepreneurial companies over the years and has worked with some of the . . . »Read more

  • Bob Ingram

    Bob Ingram is General Partner in the firm Hatteras Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage life science companies in the southeast United States. Ingram began his career in the pharmaceutical . . . »Read more

  • Rich Katz

    Rich Katz has served as executive vice president, finance and corporate development, and chief financial officer of Icagen, a Research Triangle Park-based biotechnology company, since 2001. Prior to joining Icagen, Katz was a vice president in the healthcare . . . »Read more

  • Linda Kornberg

    Linda Kornberg carried out her undergraduate studies in Canada, prior to moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1961 and then to Durham in 1965, where she quickly established herself as a member of the Duke University community. In 1972, she founded . . . »Read more

  • David Lindquist

    David Lindquist came to graduate school at Duke University, quickly finding political science great fun, but restoring old houses and buying and selling antiques even more fun.  While researching his dissertation in Bonn, West Germany, he continually . . . »Read more

  • Cheri Lovell (member, IntraHealth Board of Directors)

    Cheri Lovell, a strategic marketing consultant, has spent much of her career serving the not-for-profit community. As executive vice president of the US Committee for the United Nations Population Fund in New York, Lovell worked to increase the UN agency's . . .  »Read more

  • Patricia McCarthy

    Patricia McCarthy has spent the majority of her career in the publishing industry where she has led a number of business units to new levels of profitability and market success.  For most of the last 15 years, McCarthy served in senior leadership positions . . .  »Read more

  • Brenda Brown Schoonover

    Brenda Schoonover is a retired career Foreign Service Officer. In 1997 she was nominated as the United States Ambassador to Togo, where she served for three years. Her last overseas assignment before retiring to Chapel Hill in 2004 was Deputy Chief . . . »Read more

  • Bill Shore

    In his role as Director of US Community Partnerships with GlaxoSmithKline, Bill Shore is responsible for building relationships with key US external stakeholders and developing GSK’s reputation and commitment as an intelligent and responsible corporate . . . »Read more

  • Bryan Skelton

    Bryan Skelton is an intellectual property attorney in the Raleigh office of Aston & Bird. He has over nine years experience working in the intellectual property field. Skelton's law practice focuses on strategic intellectual property counseling for clients primarily . . . »Read more

  • Dhiren Thakker

    Dhiren Thakker is the Ferguson distinguished professor and associate dean for economic development and international partnerships at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as the associate dean for research and graduate education . . . »Read more