The following advisory board members were elected at the January 2008 meeting of the Virginia Business Excellence Consortium:

Susanna Chait, Plant Manager/Controller - MCG Advanced Polymers

David Crawford, Senior Manager, Business Process Excellence - Boehringer Ingelheim Chemicals

Gary Larson, Managing Director, Manufacturing - Ukrops

Shani Tyler Jones, RCI Engineering Manager - Hill Phoenix

Randy Mahnke (Chair), Manager, Process Excellence Strategy - Northrop Grumman

Jeff Vales, Senior Manager, Process Engineering - Capital One

Aimee McCarthy, Account Manager, Virginia's Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership

Julie Johnson, Director, VBEC