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.

2025 Chamber SWLA Board of Directors

2025 Executive Board 

• Chair Janie Fruge of West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
• Treasurer Kirk Pellerin of Sabine State Bank
• Legal Counsel Jacob "Jay" Caldwell of Stockwell Sievert Law Firm
• President/CEO Scott Walker
• Vice Chair, Business Development & Inclusion Velika Hurst-Trahan of Louisiana Blue
• 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 of Redd Properties
• Vice Chair, Industrial Development Mark Peters with Westlake Chemical
• 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 Delta Utilities
• Ken Broussard of Broussard Group
• David Brossett of Brossett Architect, LLC
• Parker Cole of HGA
• Damon Cooley of Beauregard Parish Police Jury
• Jeff Davis of B1 Bank
• 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 The Port of Lake Charles
• Acting Mayor Randy Larken of DeRidder
• Mayor Hal McMillin of Westlake
• Chad Miller of Southwest Louisiana Credit Union
• Kim Montie of Cameron Parish Port
• Ryan Navarre of Navarre Auto Group
• John Nichols of First National Bank of DeRidder
• Kristian Poncho of Coushatta Casino Resort
• Glenn Pumpelly of Pumpelly Tire
• Cody Stroud of Triad Electric
• Keith Thompson of Northrop Grumman
• Stevie Trahan of Cameron LNG / Sempra
• Mayor David Vidrine of Oakdale
• Sam Wilkinson of First Federal Bank