News Release: 11/2/2020 NCBIO names new communications director

NCBIO has named David Etchison as its new communications director. Etchison has more than 25 years of experience in communications, public relations and marketing. He served as director of communications for the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 15 years and most recently ran email marketing for UNC-TV. 

Etchison succeeds Brenda Summers, Ed.D., who has served as NCBIO’s director of communications since 2004. Summers will have a new role with NCBIO as director of workforce programs where she will continue her work with the NCBIO Biotech Manufacturers Forum and other member companies on workforce issues facing the industry.