Chamber Board Re-Elects Officers, Appoints New Board Members

(May 22, 2014, ANNAPOLIS, Md.) The Maryland Chamber’s board of directors re-elected its officers for a second one-year term and appointed several new members to the board. The Chamber’s officers include:

• Chairman: Thomas H. Graham of Pepco Holdings, Inc.
• Vice Chair: Sheela Murthy of Murthy Law Firm
• Secretary Treasurer: Nathan Beil, PE of KCI Technologies, Inc.
• Counsel: Elizabeth Torphy Donzella, Esq. of Shawe Rosenthal LLP
• President-Elect: Brien Poffenberger

Stephen J. Woerner, PE, President & COO of Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, was appointed to the Maryland Chamber’s Executive Committee to replace the retiring John McCormick of McCormick & Company. Woerner has been a member of the Chamber’s Board since 2010. He is the C0-Chair of the Maryland Chamber’s Baltimore City/Baltimore County Regional Council.

New appointments to the Chamber’s Board of Directors include:

• Michael Dl Torto, MD of Easton Dermatology Associates, Inc. representing the Talbot County Chamber.
• Sandy Fitzgerald-Angello of Pohanka Automotive Group, representing the Salisbury Area Chamber.
• Steve Forthuber of RadNet, Inc.
• Julie Garner of AstraZeneca, representing the Montgomery County Chamber.
• Brian Gaudet of Battelle National Biodefense Institute, representing the Frederick County Chamber.
• V. Stephen Hazan of Bank of America.
• Robert Malone of Volunteers of America, Chesapeake.
• Paul Nolan of McCormick & Company, Inc.
• Brian Regan of Capital One.
• Judith Schaefer of Express Connect, representing the Baltimore City Chamber.
• Emmitt Smith of Wells Fargo.
• Robin Sommer of Images of Sommer, representing the Harford County Chamber.
• William Scarafia of the St. Mary’s County Chamber, representing the Maryland Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives.