Business Plan Advisor Corps

Catherine Wheeler McClain is Executive Director for the Kenan Institute in Charlotte and has over ten years of experience working with domestic and internationally focused not-for-profit organizations. Catherine is familiar with working to enhance the entrepreneurial activities and business strategies of small businesses and not-for profit organizations. In her current role, she has help design and implement a Civic Entrepreneurship Program designed to assist not-for-profit organizations in identifying entrepreneurial and revenue-generating activities, and a Global Diversity Initiative, focused on export training for minority and women-owned business.

Catherine holds an International MBA from the University of South Carolina and the Wirtschaftuniversitaet Wien,. She earned Bachelor degrees from the University of Georgia in political science and social science education with minors in global studies and French. She has lived, worked and studied extensively through Western and Eastern Europe and the South Pacific and is active in her local community.

Catherine Wheeler McClain
5904 Lakeshore Drive
Columbia, SC 29206

Office: (704) 366-1866 | Fax: (704) 366-1850
c_mcclain@bellsouth.net

Pamela Santos is a Senior Business Consultant with the Urban Investment Strategies Center in the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She works with non-profit organizations and communities to develop income-generating strategies to become more sustainable and competitive in today's knowledge-based economy. She has also worked as a marketing specialist in the telecommunications industry for Ericcson Mobile Phone Systems Latin America and Nortel Networks. She worked in marketing and finance at the Latino Community Credit Union in Durham, NC. In the Peace Corps in Santiago, Dominican Republic, she served as a consultant for not-for-profit organizations focused on women and minority issues, developing and implementing revenue-generating models to decrease dependency on outside grants and fundraising, as well as developing marketing strategies to increase support and strengthen brand identity.

Pamela has an MBA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She earned a bachelor's degree in Management and Marketing from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She completed a one-year exchange program studying export marketing and international economics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. She has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Latin America, and is fluent in Spanish.

Pamela Santos
Senior Business Consultant
Urban Investment Strategies Center
Kenan Institute, CB# 3440
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3440
Phone: (919) 962-8837 | Fax: (919) 962-8202
Email: Pamela_Santos@unc.edu