AAEI Leadership

AAEI’s Board of Governors includes executives from small and large U.S. companies engaged in international trade.

Executive OFFICERS

Meet the executive leaders of AAEI’s Executive Committee of the Board of Directors.

Kari Finch

General Mills, Chair

Matthew Varner

Aritzia, Vice-Chair

Kathleen Neal

Johnson Controls, Treasurer

Aaron Gothelf

The Walt Disney Company

Eugene Laney

President & CEO, AAEI

Board of Governors

Gilles Armstrong
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. 

Michael Cerny
Charter Brokerage, LLC

Nancy Chinander
Catalent Pharma Solutions

Colleen Clarke
Roanoke Insurance Group

Jerry Cook
Hanesbrands Inc

Lenny Feldman
Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg P.A.

Kari Finch
General Mills

Michelle Forte
H.B Fuller

Aaron Gothelf
The Walt Disney Company

Vince Iacopella
Alba Wheels Up International Inc.

Heather Litman
Grunfeld, Desiderio, et al

Karen Lobdell
Thomson Reuters

Amy Morgan
Altana

Kathleen Neal
Johnson Controls

Phillip Poland
Illuminate USA

Susan Kohn Ross
Mitchell Silberg & Knupp LLP

Ted Sherman
Hasbro, Inc. 

Michele Snider
Buckland 

Matthew Varner
Aritizia

Heidi Woods
Medtronic, Inc.