Alliance Foundation Board

The Alliance SWLA Foundation Board represents the public and private leadership of our five-parish region. It meets along with the Chamber SWLA board throughout the year to monitor and direct the efforts of the Chamber and the Foundation. To maintain cohesion between the two boards, the executive committee for the both is the made up of the same business leaders.

2024 Chamber SWLA Board of Directors

2024 Executive Board 

• Chair Janie Fruge of West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
• Immediate Past Chair Jason Guillory of McElroy, Quirk & Burch
• Treasurer Kirk Pellerin of Sabine State Bank
• Legal Counsel Ross Raley of Stockwell Sievert Law Firm
• President/CEO George Swift
• Vice Chair, Business Development & Inclusion Velika Hurst-Trahan of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana
• Vice Chair, Economic Development Ken Francis of Lake Charles Coca-Cola Bottling
• Vice Chair, Education & Workforce Matt Koch of CSE Federal Credit Union
• Vice Chair, Governmental Affairs Ronnie Petree of The Bank
• Vice Chair, Growth & Development Matt Redd with the Alliance for Positive Growth
• Vice Chair, Industrial Development Mark Peters with LAIA
• Vice Chair, Quality of Life Jill Galmarini of the Community Foundation of SWLA

 Board at Large

• Brian Abshire of the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury
• Katie Armentor of the Cameron Parish Police Jury
• Ann Barilleaux of JD Bank
• Doug Boudreaux of Centerpoint Energy
• Ken Broussard of Broussard Group
• David Brosset of Brosset Architect, LLC
• Parker Cole of HGA
• Jeff Davis of B1 Bank
• Michael Flatt of Northrop Grumman
• Matt Fontenot of Allen Parish Police Jury
• Natalie Graham of CSRS
• Tyson Grenzebach of Landlocked Aviation Services
• Zach Hager of Entergy
• Mayor Henry Guinn of Jennings
• Mike Heinen of Jeff Davis Electric Co-Op
• Devon Hyde of Lake Charles Memorial Health System
• Bruce Kirkpatrick of Stream Companies
• Cameron Landry of Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District
• Mayor Hal McMillin of Westlake
• Chad Miller of Southwest Louisiana Credit Union
• Kim Montie of Cameron Parish Port
• Ryan Navarre of Navarre Auto Group
• Mayor Gene Paul of Oakdale
• Kristian Poncho of Coushatta Casino Resort
• Glenn Pumpelly of Pumpelly Oil, Inc.
• John Nichols of First National Bank of DeRidder (FNBD)
• Mayor Misty Roberts of DeRidder
• Creed Romano of Jeff Davis Economic Development
• Cody Stroud of Triad Electric
• Stevie Trahan of Cameron LNG / Sempra
• Sam Wilkinson of First Federal Bank of Louisiana