The Board of Directors

Carlton is a resident of Hilton Head Island, SC after retiring from the Chevron Corporation, as Regional Marketing Director for 33 countries which comprised the $13 Billion in revenues, Africa/Middle East/Pakistan/Europe (AMEPE) Region headquartered in Cape Town South Africa. In this capacity, Carlton directed the functions of pricing, promotion and advertising, capital investment, mergers & acquisitions, strategic market entry/exits including a $750 million asset divestment program and was the Business Leader managing the deployment of SAP in southern Africa, the first “downstream” deployment outside the continental US. This deployment was a multi-million project with over 200 people assigned to the project.

Prior to the Cape Town assignment, Carlton was President/CEO for Chevron Eastern Caribbean, Ltd a $500 Million Chevron subsidiary of 17 countries/islands headquartered in Bridgetown Barbados.

During his international assignments, within a 3-year span Carlton helped lead the new AMEPE Region from its creation to 2nd most profitable out of 5 operating regions around the world. Carlton held operational responsibility for the sale and disposition of over $750 million in assets during a global rationalization campaign and while executing this divestiture won the Chairman’s Award from the Chevron Corporation for his work in “extracting” two Chevron employees held in a Congolese prison. A Congolese prison has no gym, TV, privacy, etc. not a good place!

Most importantly, Carlton started his career as a 3rd shift clerk in a station, with a career culminating with responsibility for assets on five continents, has moved 19 times in his career and has visited/lived in or managed assets in 71 countries.

In retirement, Carlton was recently named CEO of Phoenix Med LLC, an aesthetic and therapeutic  medical products company based in the U.S. and serves on the Board of Trustees, Business Partnership Foundation of the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business, the Beaufort County Economic Development Corporation, the Synovus Bank of South Carolna and the Beaufort County School District’s Citizen Led Oversight Committee(CLOC) which provides project management and financial oversight to the $345 million Bond Referendum.

Carlton attended the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and is a graduate of the University of Maryland with post graduate programs completed at the University of Chicago, UNC-CH Kenan Flagler School of Business, Cornell University, and the Center for Creative Leadership.