Thu, Aug 19
|Kermit E. White Center
Annual Awards & Kickoff Luncheon
Time & Location
Aug 19, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Kermit E. White Center, 1704 Weeksville Rd, Elizabeth City, NC 27909, USA
About the Event
Please join us as we celebrate our partners and community successes and kick off the promising year ahead! Lunch will be provided by Montero's, and dessert will be provided by Kathy's Kreations. Tickets are $15 per person.
We will also have a special guest speaker, Jim Owens, Chairman and CEO Emeritus of Caterpillar Inc. Get your tickets today!
GUEST SPEAKER:
Jim Owens
Chairman and CEO Emeritus, Caterpillar Inc.
JIM OWENS served as chairman and chief executive officer of Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria, Illinois from 2004 through June 2010. He was president of Solar Turbines in San Diego from 1990 to 1993 and corporate chief financial officer from 1993 to 1995. In 1995 he became a group president and member of Caterpillar’s executive office. While chairman, Owens served on the executive committee of the Business Roundtable, was chairman of the Business Council and an advisor to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He served on President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board from 2009 to 2010. Owens retired from the boards of IBM Corporation and Morgan Stanley and recently retired from Alcoa Inc. Owens was chairman of the executive committee for the Peterson Institute for International Economics and served on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a former chairman of the board of trustees for North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Owens is a native of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and graduated from North Carolina State University in 1973 with a Ph.D. in economics.