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Phil Smith III, Board Member at Roc Solid Foundation

Phil Smith III

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Phil Smith is a Senior Vice President and Commercial Loan Officer at TowneBank where he has been employed since 2007. He currently resides in Chesapeake, Va. but was born and raised in Portsmouth, Va. and lived in Madrid, Spain for five years during grade school. Phil earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business with a concentration in Finance from Christopher Newport University and is also a graduate of the Vann H. Lefcoe Leadership Development program.

Phil served as Chairman of the City of Portsmouth’s Retirement Board and Investment Committee, as well as the Blue Ribbon Commission established by City Council. He is a former Inside Business Top 40 Under 40 Honoree. Phil has two amazing daughters, Madelynn and Bellamy, and wife Ginny.

He has been on the Roc Solid Board since early 2013, and his favorite thing about the organization is the community involvement and the way everyone selflessly pulls together to impact the lives of children fighting cancer.

Phil’s favorite activities as a child were playing sports, riding bikes and playing with friends.

John McCormick

John McCormick

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John McCormick is passionate about inspiring hope in children and families impacted by cancer. He lost his dad to cancer when he was a child and his sister was diagnosed and survived cancer during college. He hates cancer and wants to see Roc Solid continue to grow so that more children and families can experience hope.

John is an attorney and founder of McCormick Law & Consulting, a boutique business and real estate law firm with offices in Norfolk, Virginia and Raleigh, North Carolina. He graduated from Regent University School of Law in 2010 and has since gained experience representing investors, developers, builders, banks, and lenders. His business practice ranges from advising entrepreneurs to assisting established business owners in mergers, acquisitions, contracts, litigation and dispute resolution.

In his free time, he enjoys the outdoors and loves spending time with his wife, three children, and two yellow labs.

As a kid, John loved to fish, catch critters and shoot hoops in the driveway.

Happy child on swing

Lia

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Lia is 3 years old and fighting leukemia.

Lia was just 2 years old when her family heard the news that she was diagnosed with leukemia. 

In 2020, Lia received the first ever Roc Solid On Demand playset!

“HUGE thanks to the amazing organization Roc Solid Foundation for this incredible new playset. It is perfect timing for Lia to have a safe (and germ free) place to play outside in the sunshine…”

Play can change the way a family fights pediatric cancer. We believe that every child fighting cancer should have a safe place to play in their own backyard!

“Roc Solid has been amazing to work with and we are forever grateful for your generosity to our
family…as your motto goes…this is what hope looks like!”