The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillManagement Academy for Public Health
Gillings School of Global Public HealthFlagler Business School

Faculty

Catherine Wheeler McClain

Business Plan Advisor
Executive Director, Kenan Institute
14715 Peridot Ct.
Pineville, NC 28134
Office: 704-293-7730 | Fax: 704-366-1850
c_mcclain@bellsouth.net

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.