Virginia A. Hepner is active in various corporate and community activities, following five years as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She currently serves as a Director of Cadence Bank (Audit Chair, Compensation), National Vision Holdings, Inc. (Nominating & Governance Chair, Audit) and Oxford Industries, Inc.(Nominating, Governance and Compensation). Virginia continues to serve on several non-profit boards with her main focus being revitalization of the historic Westside Atlanta neighborhood through the Westside Future Fund board and Chair of the Finance Committee. Other current civic advisory board service includes the GoAtl Investment Committee of the Community Foundation, Penn IUR and IWF Georgia.

In 2005, she retired from Wachovia Bank as an Executive Vice President after a 25-year career in corporate finance with the firm. Leadership roles included Managing Director of US Corporate Finance, head of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Trading and Atlanta Commercial Banking Director. She holds a bachelor's degree in finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and attended the J.L. Kellogg Graduate Business School of Management at Northwestern University.

Virginia is honored to be a Life Trustee of the Woodruff Arts Center, and is grateful to be a recipient of the City of Atlanta Phoenix Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the Governor's Award for arts leadership in Georgia, and the Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Award honoring exemplary corporate board service by a female director.

Virginia is married to Malcolm Barnes and they are fortunate to be the parents of Alec and Vanessa Barnes.