Andy Warlick

President and CEO, Parkdale, Inc. Chairman, National Council of Textile Organizations

Anderson D. Warlick, president and CEO of Parkdale, Inc. in Gastonia, NC, was elected chairman during NCTO’s fifth annual meeting in May 2008 in Washington, DC.

Warlick, who holds numerous business and civic positions, joined Parkdale Mills in 1984 and became president and CEO in 2001. He is a graduate of The Citadel, Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development and of the National Cotton Council’s Leadership Program. He also serves on the boards of The Citadel Development Foundation, Parkdale, Inc., Kent Manufacturing, Inman Mills, Gaston College Board of Directors for the Textile Technology Center, and the North Carolina Textile Foundation.