Meet our board of directors
Van Murray, President
Van is Managing Partner of Aeolus - Powered by AppDirect. He has extensive experience in the Information Technology industry having founded AppSmart (now AppDirect) as well as held executive roles at NeoCloud, NeoNova Network Services and Cherokee Investment Partners. He has also worked with the NC Department of Public Instruction Implementation Services Division in Raleigh, NC and Glaxo Wellcome International Standards and Systems. Van earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University and has achieved multiple technical certifications from Cisco and Google. He is an outdoor enthusiast, currently serving for the NC BASS Federation Nation and has competed in many bass fishing tournaments on Jordan Lake. In 2017, Van received the Top 40 Under 40 Leadership Award from the Triangle Business Journal.
JOE FLEMing, Treasurer
Joe is an accountant by trade working for Cisco Systems. He currently manages a team within the Corporate Revenue department. Joe is a CPA and has his MBA from Clemson University. He has worked in various accounting and finance positions for more than 20 years. His passions include the environment and sustainability. Joe serves as a Pillar Lead for the local Cisco Green Team Chapter. He also serves as lead of Cisco's Finance Volunteer Leadership Group and on the recruitment team of the Eastern NC Red Cross. Joe’s hobbies include playing soccer and reading history books, especially from the revolutionary period.
Kim Brewczak, SECRETARY
Kim has been in North Carolina for over 30 years now and moved to Chatham County 16 years ago. She loves the outdoors and living very close to the lake has had adventures enjoying the lake via kayak and pontoon boats. And if you ask where her favorite fishing spot is, she will tell you “it’s a secret”. Seeing what can happen to the lake on her adventures, she decided to sign up and become part of the cleanup efforts during the year. This is her first year serving on the board and hopes to make a great impact in the efforts to Clean Jordan Lake. Her work background is sales with an Associate Degree in Business Administration.
Carl fisher
Carl has lived in Chatham County since 1995 and is a Research Programmer Analyst at Research Triangle Institute in RTP. He loves the outdoors and is passionate about the environment, having participated on Jordan Lake and Haw River cleanups since the 1990s. Since joining the Board, Carl has taken a leadership role in organizing our semi-annual trash cleanup events. He takes long walks along the shoreline to the select sites months ahead, posts the event at our meetup.com site, recruits Track Captains to lead volunteers and walks the sites again to flag the routes and mark Trash Treasure Hunt items just ahead of the cleanup. He and his wife enjoy kayaking the many rivers and creeks that feed Jordan Lake, and are likely to return with their boats full of trash that happened to find its way aboard.
Jan Sherwin
Jan is an IT managed services industry executive with 25 years of expertise in commercial business development/sales, strategic account service delivery and technical operations and enterprise transformation program implementations across Fortune Global 1000 industries and markets. She has proven success accelerating revenue growth and improving profit contribution through the implementation of business-led and technology-enabled solutions. She volunteers with ASPCA, STEM program mentoring, Women Giving Back, Habitat for Humanity, US Humane Society Founders, and United Way. Jan lives just 1 mile away from Jordan Lake and appreciates its beauty and tranquility every day.
John Gallagher
John lives in Carrboro with his wife Deb and heads APTUS Management, an environmental firm that specializes in cleanup and restoration of old industrial sites, called brownfields. He is a Professional Engineer and earlier in his career, John served in the U.S. EPA Superfund Hazardous Waste Cleanup Program and with Eastman Kodak. John loves the outdoors – windsurfing, mountain biking and skiing, and recently standup paddle boarding not only on Jordan Lake but throughout the world no matter the season of the year! He walks the talk of his profession and sees Clean Jordan Lake as great way to preserve a clean shoreline for all to enjoy.
johngallagher@cleanjordanlake.org
Erin Carter
Erin is Clean Jordan Lake's volunteer events coordinator, also assisting with social media engagement. She has lived in Chatham County since 2009 and is a Program Manager for Cisco's Workplace Resources team, where she specializes in corporate communications. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which she holds degrees in Communications and a Master of Information Science. She also volunteers with the UNC School of Information and Library Science Alumni Association and the Goathouse Refuge animal sanctuary. She loves the beautiful beaches at Jordan Lake and keeping them clean.
JORDAN HART-WHITE
Jordan is a resident of Durham county. Originally from California, she moved to North Carolina to attend graduate school at Duke and never left. Jordan is an Energy & Sustainability Manager for Cisco’s Workplace Resources team and runs the Research Triangle Park’s Sustainability Committee. She loves engaging with individuals on how to improve the sustainability of their home and workplace. Jordan loves being active and tries to go on at least one new walk/hike a weekend but her new favorite activity is kayaking around Jordan Lake.
Daphne Vogelsang
Daphne lives next to Jordan Lake enjoying the trails, paddleboarding and beaches with her family. She has been a member and track captain of CJL since 2010. She also volunteers for the Friends of Lower Haw River. Before NC, she lived near the ocean her entire life. Clean beaches, stormwater quality, conservation and protecting wildlife are her passion. She has participated in events since a teenager with non-profit organizations such as Sea Turtle Patrol and Surfrider Foundation. She has a BS degree in Environmental Systems, specializing in storm water pollution prevention from UCSD. Her environmental work experience consists of raising funds for Sierra Club and Greenpeace. She worked for the Navy Environmental Department as project manager of active soil remediation. Then continued to be in the field as civilian site inspector for the San Diego Navy bases.
Allison Andrews
Allison is a North Carolina native with a passion for supporting clean water projects. She has worked on the marketing and communication side of the water infrastructure engineering industry for more than a decade and has participated in clean-up events at Jordan Lake since 2018. Allison received her bachelor’s degree in Literature/Creative Writing from UNC Asheville and was thrilled to publish her first children’s book in 2020. She also serves as a volunteer coach for Miracle League of the Triangle, helping children and young adults with special needs play baseball. When she’s not writing proposals, daydreaming about books, or running a dugout, you will often find her exploring nearby greenways, trails, and waterways with her husband, Travis, and their two silly dogs.
Riana Ackley
Riana is passionate about sustainability and environmental initiatives and has spent several years working in the clean energy industry. She has expertise in driving organizational change programs, building strategic partnerships, and event planning. She loves the outdoors and values the efforts to build a community to keep Jordan Lake clean!
YOU…
Interested to apply to join our board… please email vanmurray@cleanjordanlake.org
