The Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina at Greenville announced the appointment of seven new members to its regional council.

The Greenville food bank, at 497 W. Ninth St., is a branch of the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina in Raleigh. The role of the council is to primarily generate and develop funding and other resources within the council itself and the community at large for the mission of the food bank. The Greenville branch serves Carteret, Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow, Pamlico and Pitt counties. Edgecombe and Wilson counties are shared with the Raleigh branch.

New council members are:

Steve Jones: joined the council as chairman in September. He is executive vice president of First American Financial Management Co.. A 1991 graduate of East Carolina University, Jones has primarily worked in the banking industry. He is a member of the ECU board of trustees and has served on the food bank’s executive committee, the Great Raleigh Chamber of Commerce executive committee and as past chairman of the YMCA of Greater Fayetteville.

Don Fisher: vice president and general manager of WCTI News Channel 12. A graduate of Elon College, has worked with FOX and ABC stations and became general manager of WCTI in 2008.

Philip Rogers: served as executive assistant to the chancellor at East Carolina University since September 2008. He has degrees from Wake Forest University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Nick Crabtree: owner of Crabworks, a food manufacture and distribution company in Greenville specializing in global distribution of a variety of frozen food products. Prior to starting Crabworks, Crabtree worked in advertising and marketing. He is a 1999 graduate of ECU and a two-year letter winner for the Pirate football team.

Joanna Rose: part of the Commercial Real Estate division at RBC Bank. She has been in the financial services industry for 15 years. Rose has been involved in various community development opportunities, including the IRS VITA tax program.

John Tipton: a third-generation custom home builder from Greenville. His family’s company, Tipton Builders Inc., has been in business for close to 40 years in eastern North Carolina.

Greg Weatherford: vice president of sales for Sysco in Raleigh. He has 29 years in the food service industry. Weatherford serves on the East Carolina School of Human Ecology advisory board and on the N.C. Hospitality Education Foundation board.

Other new council members include Stacy Hill, who resides in Greenville.

The Greenville Food Bank also had several returning council members:

Becky Stasavich: retired after three different careers — high school English teacher for six years, associate dean of students on two college campuses for 13 years, and 23 years as a church administrator.

Ann Harrison: retired professor from ECU, where she taught gifted and special education. For 10 years, she has directed the food pantry at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

Cliff Harvell: pastor of Brooks Frizzelle Memorial United Methodist Church in Maury and Mount Herman United Methodist Church in Lizzie for the past seven years. He also is founder and coordinator of the Greene County Interfaith Food Pantry.