PARI is governed by an active Board of Directors. The Directors are:

Jo Cline, Chairwoman and Treasurer

     Philanthropist

Don Cline, President

     Retired Business Owner and Philanthropist

Ken Jacobson, Secretary

     General Counsel and CFO for Reynolds, Smith and Hills – Architects, Engineers and Planners

Wayne Christiansen, PhD

     Retired Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UNC Chapel Hill

Rita Fuller, PhD

     Associate Director, Pre-College Program, NC-MSEN, University of North Carolina

Janet Parks

     Businesswoman

Robert McMahan, PhD

     Dean, Kimmel School of Engineering, Western Carolina University

PARI has a fulltime salaried staff, several part time staff, a network of consultants and an active roster of several dozen volunteers.  The staff today includes:

• Don Cline, President
• David Clavier, PhD, Vice President of Administration and Development
• Michael Castelaz, PhD, Science Director
• Christi Whitworth, Education Director
• Lamar Owen, Chief Information Officer
• Ben Goldsmith, Site Support Engineer
• Ann Daves, Accountant and Assistant Treasurer
• Thad McCall, Facilities Manager
• Donne Curto, Facilities
• Brad McCall, Facilities
• Bob Hayward, PhD, Astronomer/Educator
• John Avant, Director of Communications
• Thurburn Barker, Director of the Astronomical Photographic Digital Archive
• Joe Phillips, Director of Public Outreach
• John Boehme, Director of Applied Engineering
• John Halsey, Director of the Remote Sensing and Atmospheric Science Laboratory
• Derek Dennis, Cisco/PARI Kenan Fellow