2021 Board of Directors

Charles is a Member in Stoll Keenon Ogden's Lexington office and has been a member since 1994. He serves as chair of the firm's Immigration Practive Group. He represents clients before various immigration-related government agencies to obtain work visas for engineers, scientists, professors, doctors, business managers and equine workers.  He represents companies based outside of the United States in obtaining investor visa status to facilitate nvestment and transfer of personnel to US markets.

Charles is a Board member of the World Trade Center Kentucky and the Japan America Society of Kentucky. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Kentucky and American Bar associations. He is the past chair of the Midsouth Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Walter “Wally” Ferrier is Professor of Management in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Maryland, an M.A. in International Commerce from the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky, and a B.S. in Economics also from the University of Kentucky. 

Wally has international work experience in Germany as a sales representative for a New Hampshire-based industrial computer terminal manufacturer, in Austria as a market research intern with IBM-Vienna, and in the U.S. with PNC Bank as an international banking officer. He has strategic planning/consulting experience for a variety of manufacturing and service firms, as well as some non-profit organizations.