PHOTOS: Wilmington's Most Intriguing People

Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel "Are you veteran friendly? Or are you veteran ready? There's a difference." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Jason Wheeler, Pathfinder Wealth Consulting, CEO speaks at The Greater Wilmington Business JournalþÄôs Power Breakfast series Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018 at the Wilmington Convention Center. The event featured Wilmington's Most Intriguing People, Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director; Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel; Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director; Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council; and Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation. [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director, "We just borrow the water for a couple of days here. And that's that one water. It becomes our drinking water for awhile. It becomes our wastewater. And then it's back in the river for our recreation and navigation and all the people who are downstream of us who use the water." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Rob Kaiser, Greater Wilmington Buisness Journal, Publisher speaks at The Greater Wilmington Business JournalþÄôs Power Breakfast series continued Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018 at the Wilmington Convention Center. The event featured Wilmington's Most Intriguing People, Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director; Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel; Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director; Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council; and Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation. [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director, "We believe that with expanding opportunities, the sky is the limit for 2019 and beyond." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation, On the limitations of artificial intelligence: "AI can determine whether or not you have cancer just using algorithms. The problem is they still can't tell the difference between a chihuahua and a blueberry muffin. This is absolutely true. This is an actual research study. So that's the kind of good news for the people who are scared of AI." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director, On upcoming renovations: "The passenger terminal is the first and last impression of any community." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

The Greater Wilmington Business JournalþÄôs Power Breakfast series continued Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018 at the Wilmington Convention Center. The event featured Wilmington's Most Intriguing People, Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director; Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel; Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director; Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council; and Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation. [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council, "Let me give you a little perspective on just the daily life of that type of an intentional divide. How many of you woke up this morning thinking about the color of your skin? Probably not many of you. Unfortunately, the color of your skin is a constant consideration for most blacks." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director, On continuing to find new emerging contaminants: "We know they're there, but we can't determine what level they are. That's like knowing there's gas in the tank of your car, but without a gauge you don't know how much."[KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel "Did you know that of our nation's 325.7 million people, only 0.04 percent had served in the active military? That used to be 2 percent in Vietnam and 9 percent in World War II." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation, "What we do know, or what we believe, is that health systems that are not AI and not virtual or not digitally enabled are going to be ultimately replaced by health systems that are." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

The Greater Wilmington Business JournalþÄôs Power Breakfast series continued Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018 at the Wilmington Convention Center. The event featured Wilmington's Most Intriguing People, Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director; Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel; Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director; Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council; and Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation. [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

The Greater Wilmington Business JournalþÄôs Power Breakfast series continued Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018 at the Wilmington Convention Center. The event featured Wilmington's Most Intriguing People, Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director; Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel; Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director; Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council; and Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation. [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council, "Help me create a Wilmington where it's not so difficult to be black and raise a family." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel, On attracting veterans to a company: "This is the stuff that attracts us in the military. The challenge. 'Do you have what it takes?' 'The few, the proud.' ... I promise that every organization represented in here today has a cause. But you're just not talking about it." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Gary Greene, Greene Resources, President & CEO speaks at The Greater Wilmington Business JournalþÄôs Power Breakfast series Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018 at the Wilmington Convention Center. The event featured Wilmington's Most Intriguing People, Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director; Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel; Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director; Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council; and Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation. [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director, "I can tell you, with 20 days to go in the year, we are very confident that we will have another record (number of passengers) this year. We will exceed 900,000 passengers served in the year." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director, "When you think of water, it's easy to put a label on it. Groundwater. Wastewater. Drinking water. Sparkling water. The list goes on. But when we label water, it becomes just a little bit too easy to distance ourselves from that water ... But in the end, there's only one water." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

The Greater Wilmington Business JournalþÄôs Power Breakfast series continued Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018 at the Wilmington Convention Center. The event featured Wilmington's Most Intriguing People, Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director; Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel; Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director; Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council; and Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation. [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council, On the 1898 massacre and coup: "It was the year I personally call the year of the intentional divide. It was the darkest period in Wilmington's history. The ramifications of this type of an intentional divide do not go away with the passage of time or because we don't talk about it." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation, "We used to think that health care revolved around hospitals and health professionals. But now we realize that it actually revolves around the patient or the person or the employee." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

The Greater Wilmington Business JournalþÄôs Power Breakfast series continued Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018 at the Wilmington Convention Center. The event featured Wilmington's Most Intriguing People, Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director; Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel; Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director; Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council; and Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation. [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director, "Thanksgiving of 2018 was the best Thanksgiving on record. We served over 20,000 passengers in one week." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director, On spending up to $46 million on plant upgrades to address contaminants: "I'm sure if we had an extra $46 million around in our community, we could build a county park, a school, expand the airport, a lot of things we could do collectively with $46 million besides adding treatment to our plant for something that somebody else is putting into our water." [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel, "Here's the best part. You get this right, you're going to attract more than veterans. You're going to attract people of all kinds. And isn't that the point?" [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation, On technological advancement: "Things move very, very rapidly. Someone said, 'Things will never, ever be as slow as they are today.'" [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

The Greater Wilmington Business JournalþÄôs Power Breakfast series continued Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018 at the Wilmington Convention Center. The event featured Wilmington's Most Intriguing People, Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director; Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel; Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director; Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council; and Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation. [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]

The Greater Wilmington Business JournalþÄôs Power Breakfast series continued Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018 at the Wilmington Convention Center. The event featured Wilmington's Most Intriguing People, Julie Wilsey, ILM Airport Director; Rob Campbell, retired US Army Colonel; Jim Flechtner, Cape Fear Public Utility executive director; Tracey Jackson, chair of Wilmington Chamber's African American Business Council; and Chris Hillier, NHRMC's Director of Innovation. [KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS]