Our volunteer Board of Directors and Officers

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Brigadier General Pete Green retired after a 41 year military career with the Air Force/Air National Guard and moved with his family to Carolina Beach in 2020.  Pete and Kathy are enjoying their new Carolina Beach lifestyle and friends. He became interested in finding ways to serve his new community, so as a Veteran, he began volunteering with the American Legion Post 129, where he now serves as the Post Commander, as well as volunteering at events with The Island Men.  He volunteers as an Executive Coach with The Honor Foundation, assisting Marine Special Operations Command Marines who are transitioning from active duty to the private sector. He previously served on the Carolina Beach Police Advocacy Committee. During his full and part-time military career, he served in several leadership roles in Security Forces, Mission Support, Aircraft Maintenance, Wing Command, and at the Headquarters organization.  In addition to his military career, he also had a successful corporate career spanning various leadership roles in human resources and organizational management, brand management, advertising, marketing, and communications. He is currently the Founder and President of PTG Strategies, LLC, a consulting practice dedicated to helping organizations and people improve their leadership effectiveness and results. Pete is also on the Board of Directors, of Skyline Nav AI, Inc,. Skyline Nav AI delivers precise geolocation capabilities for ground vehicles, drones, boats and aircraft by leveraging advanced computer vision algorithms and reference datasets to navigate and position without relying on GPS, cellular networks, or Wi-Fi.

Wayne is a local Realtor and has lived in Carolina Beach for the last  twenty years.  Prior to moving to Carolina Beach, he spent over two decades in the medical device industry. Wayne served in numerous executive management roles with multinational companies before forming his own surgical device distribution company, specializing in orthopedic spine, trauma and biological implants. Wayne currently serves as the chairman of Carolina Beach Planning and Zoning commission and has served the commission for seven years. Wayne also leads a local nonprofit Crawl for Paws, dedicated to serving rescue animals 

Vince and his wife Kim have been full time residents of Carolina Beach for the past 5 years.  Vince retired after an over 30 year career as a Corporate Controller of a multinational consumer packaged goods company in 2019, consulted for a year and worked at 3 start-up organizations thereafter.  Vince and Kim have now opened their own Tax and Accounting business called ATAX - Masonboro Commons.  He is also a board member of the Carolina Beach Mural Project and a member of the town’s Centennial Committee.  Vince and Kim both love the beauty that is Carolina Beach. 

John Coleman has lived in Carolina Beach with his family for the past 15 years and loves his beach community. He began his career as an Assistant District Attorney for the State of North Carolina in New Hanover County and is currently a partner at Whitley Coleman Attorneys. John is former Chairman of the Carolina Beach Police Advisory Committee.

Deputy Chief Mitch Cunningham (ret.) has been a police officer for 37 years, most  recently as Deputy Chief for the Wilmington North Carolina Police Department. Prior to that he was a police officer for the Montgomery County Department of Police, in Maryland. There he started a number of crime fighting initiatives including the first Career Criminal Unit, the first regional auto theft team and started the regional data sharing system NCR LInX, in the National Capitol Region which connects hundreds of police agencies, leading to countless arrests and supporting anti-terrorism efforts in the wake of 9-11.

As Deputy Chief for Support Services and later Patrol Bureau at WPD, he started a number of successful efforts to drive down gang violence plaguing the city. He also started the agency’s first Peer Support team, a college scholarship fundraiser Send a Cop to College to assist with the professionalization of its future leaders and implemented the second program in North Carolina that outfitted WPD officers with naloxone. He also began the LEAD program, a pre-arrest diversion program and helped to create the Quick Response Team for the region to help reduce opioid addiction.

He is a certified training instructor who worked as a law enforcement training coordinator for Cape Fear Community College as well as teaching for the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and Louisiana State University. He is currently the Chief Law Enforcement Advisor for the National Sheriffs Association.

He was previously a member of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of the National Capitol Region and is currently the Vice Chairman of the Board for Soaring as Eagles a community outreach non profit serving families of Title 1 schools.

 John Query has lived in the Wilmington area since 2001 majoring in Finance and Marketing at UNCW. He and his wife have two grammar aged children. He has spent the majority of his work life in banking, and a corporate finance position in a pharmaceutical development startup.  He started his life career in 2018 with Edward Jones Investments, and opened his financial advising office in Carolina Beach in 2021 and later obtained his CFP®️ designation.  He’s been a member of several charitable organizations in Carolina Beach for many years. 

Jim Scandura and family have lived in Carolina Beach since 2001. He is from a military background having served in the US Navy Submarine Force as well as a diverse business background including senior management roles in the Pharmaceutical Industry ranging from large project management to business unit general management. He is now co-founder of TriRx Pharmaceutical Services based in Norwalk CT. His hobbies include boating and travel from home in Federal Point Yacht Club.

Lary Ellis is originally from northern California and was raised on military bases until the 8th grade when he met his future wife Cory. After High School, he went to work for an Armored Car company.  He was recruited into the California Department of Correction as a Law Enforcement Officer, where he worked at several of the Level 4 prisons in California.  He spent most of his career serving at Folsom State Prison.  He has also been a serial entrepreneur all of his life, mainly focused on real estate. He has owned commercial and residential properties, as well as launched a construction company specializing in roofing, windows, HVAC, and solar. 

Around 2017-2018, Lary and Cory came to Carolina Beach to do a TV show for HGTV called The Bargain Beach Hunt. They purchased their first home in Kure Beach and then they started to build their forever home in Carolina Beach.  They live there today with their 2 French Bull Dogs and 2 cats.

Lary and Cory launched Salty Shorts Real Estate in North Carolina, along with a cleaning company and property management company.