Over General Manager Mr. Ward\u2019s 40 year career, the company has been either the outright owner or managing partner of four 100+ acre commercial and mixed use developments resulting in the purchase, retention or resale of over 200 land parcels. Some of the more notable transactions included therein are: McDonalds, Sonic, Burger King, Bojangles, Hwy 55, Taco Bell, The Pantry, Pizza Hut, Little Caesar\u2019s, Moore\u2019s BBQ\u2014Eckerd, CVS, Rite Aid, Royal Farms, Wawa — Food Lion, Lowes Home Improvement, Fed-Ex, US Cellular, AMC Theatres, Auto Zone, Mattress Firm, Comfort Inn—Wells Fargo, Bank of America, BB&T, First Citizens Bank, Chase Bank, First National Bank, AG Edwards, Trillium, The City of Greenville, County of Pitt, and ECU Health.<\/p>\n

Jim Ward<\/strong>
\nA 1974 graduate of ECU who did post graduate studies in accounting and finance at ECU and the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Wharton School, Mr. Ward also had a 23 year outside corporate career leaving it behind in 1996 as Company SVP-CFO to focus solely on the Development Company.<\/p>\n

Having served on numerous corporate boards and commissions over the years, he currently serves on the ECU School of Business Advisory Board and various bank and civic boards.<\/p>\n

Mary Katharine Ward Harris<\/strong>
\nAn Honors ECU Business and MBA graduate, Mary Katharine serves as the company\u2019s marketing director, controller and director of site acquisition in the Raleigh\/Triangle-Triad market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over General Manager Mr. Ward\u2019s 40 year career, the company has been either the outright owner or managing partner of four 100+ acre commercial and mixed use developments resulting in the purchase, retention or resale of over 200 land parcels. Some of the more notable transactions included therein are: McDonalds, Sonic, Burger King, Bojangles, Hwy… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-about.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wardholdingsllc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wardholdingsllc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wardholdingsllc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wardholdingsllc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wardholdingsllc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.wardholdingsllc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.wardholdingsllc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wardholdingsllc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}