Evan Webster
Chairman - Board of Directors

Evan Webster started his career, in Charlotte as a CPA with the international accounting firm Haskins & Sells, where he worked from 1969 to 1983. In 1984, he started his own accounting firm and today serves as its president. Webster graduated from Duke University in 1969 with a degree in accounting and served in the U.S. Navy for four years. While in Charlotte, he was president of the Dilworth Community Development Association and Mecklenburg Duke Alumni Club, a steering committee member of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Citizens Forum and a member of the Charlotte Zoning Board of Adjustment. Since moving to Davidson in 1990, he has been chairman of the Planning Board. Webster currently serves as a board member on the Davidson Board of Commissioners.

Webster and his wife, Marcia, have four children.

Joe Cullen
Board of Directors

Joseph R. Cullen’s more than 15 years in the radio and television industry includes sales and management of broadcast and cable television operations. In 2003, he and his wife, Jennifer, started Race City Management, a business consulting firm specializing in sales, marketing and business process. Cullen has a bachelor’s degree in radio and television communications-management, marketing and sales from Arkansas State University. He is currently pursuing a Master’s of Divinity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte, N.C. Cullen is active in a number of community organizations, including First Baptist Church-Mooresville, the Mooresville Beautification Committee, Race City Civitan Club and Community Housing Development Corporation of Mooresville/South Iredell. He is a past chairman and co-chair of the Mooresville Relay for Life benefiting the American Cancer Society and co-chair of the Stop Forced North Carolina School Consolidation Coalition.

The Cullens have four daughters – Lauren, Ashley, Allison and Taylor, all of whom attend the Mooresville Graded School District.

Ken Essex
Board of Directors

Kenneth F. Essex is a founding member of the law firm of Essex Richards, P.A. For more than 35 years his practice has centered on the representation of business entities. Essex grew up in Winston-Salem and received his undergraduate degree from Davidson College. After serving as an Army officer in Vietnam, he returned to North Carolina and earned his law degree from UNC. He has been active in numerous professional and civic organizations, including service as a member of the board of managers of the Dowd YMCA, member of the board of directors of the Mecklenburg County Literacy Council, member of the board of directors of Friendship Trays, member of the executive committee of the Mecklenburg Country Bar, chair of the Bar's Nominating Committee, and chair of the Bar's Legal Services for the Elderly Committee.

Essex and his wife, Faye, live in Davidson and have five adult children.

John Kasberger
Board of Directors

John L. Kasberger is senior vice president and general merchandising manager for Lowe’s Companies, Inc., where he has led the company to the number two position of national retailers in appliance sales. He is also a voting member of the Lowe’s Brand Development Board and a board director of Lowe’s Global Sourcing Company. In a retail career spanning more than 30 years, he has served in senior positions at Best Products Company, a national catalog and jewelry retailer, and Present Company, a smaller regional northeast retailer. His areas of expertise include venture capital funding and international commerce regulations.  As a Lowe’s representative, Kasberger has been active in the Whirlpool/Lowe’s Habitat for Humanity, United Way and Home Safety Council.

He is a graduate of the University of Kansas. Kasberger and his wife, Susan, have three sons and live in Mooresville.

Steven A. Miller
Media and Advertising Consultant

Steve Miller is general manager and partner in Retherford-Miller & Associates in Charlotte, N.C., a strategic multi-media consulting firm focusing on revenue growth for television, radio, sports marketing, interactive, online and emerging technology companies. RMA, founded in 1999, specializes in corporate strategy, advertising, marketing and business development.

Miller’s strategic vision, knowledge and influence, backed by two decades of media industry experience, have helped organizations – from start-ups to Fortune 100 status – meet the complex challenges of today's marketplace. He spent 18 years with Time Warner Cable Inc. and AOL in California and the Mid-Atlantic Region as vice president of ad sales. He also developed and launched two North Carolina cable TV news networks, as well as C-SET, the Bobcats’ basketball sports and entertainment cable TV network. Miller holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern California.

Supervising “Kid Vote” activities for Cornelius Elementary School is part of this busy executive’s involvement in the community. His spare-time interests are family, fly fishing, boating, automobiles and aircraft.

Miller and his wife, Susan, are both native Southern Californians who moved to Cornelius, N.C., in 2002. They have two children – Holly, 12, and Bryce, 8.

Ronald Steen
Board of Directors

Ron Steen currently serves as executive vice president of Charlotte-based Lincoln Harris, a firm specializing in real estate and property/facilities management. He graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Arts & Science degree and currently holds active broker licenses in Arizona, Georgia and Oklahoma and is past president of the Tulsa Chapter of NAIOP (National Association of Industrial and Office Properties). His responsibilities include the supervision of the CSG portfolio consisting of approximately 40 core corporate clients with services ranging from project and facility management, development and finance, to transaction management. Steen is also responsible for new business development, client relations and has been involved in strategic planning, portfolio modeling, and net occupancy cost overviews for several clients such as HCA, Piedmont Natural Gas, and Carolinas HealthCare System.

Steen and his wife, Carol, have three children and live in Davidson.

James R. Miller, Jr.
General Manager

James R. Miller, Jr., general manager of MI-Connection, has extensive operations management experience in the telecommunications realm, including field operations, construction and maintenance of outside facilities, and installation activities. Prior to joining MI-Connection, Miller was operations/project manager at Edwards Telecommunications, Inc. based in Columbia, S.C., and served as technical/operations manager and plant manager with Charter Communications. Over a career spanning more than two decades, he has built on his experience as an installer, technician, construction coordinator and installation supervisor to successfully manage multi-million-dollar telecommunications expansions.

Miller has completed installer technician and chief technician courses with the National Cable Television Institute, the Telecable Special Training Program-Part I with the Cleveland Institute of Electronics, and “Continuous Improvement” telecable management training.

Miller and his wife, Meleia, have two grown children. He may be contacted at info@MI-Connection.com.

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