G. Edward Story

Eddie Story serves as executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of RTI International and is a member of the executive leadership team. In addition to overseeing RTI’s legal affairs, his responsibilities include ethics, enterprise risk, regulatory compliance and privacy. He also leads the Technology Advancement and Commercialization and the Discovery Sciences business units.

Before undertaking the role of general counsel in 2008, he served as assistant general counsel and assistant corporate secretary and previously had varying levels of responsibility for the contracting and procurement organizations within RTI. Before joining RTI in 1990, Story was a private practice attorney in Wilmington, North Carolina.  

Story is a member of various professional associations, including the Association of Corporate Counsel and the North Carolina and Wake County Bar Associations. He currently serves on the NCBA Corporate Counsel Section Council. He has been named among Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite, a list of the state’s top lawyers in business-related categories by Business North Carolina magazine for multiple years. He also received a Triangle Business Journal’s Corporate Counsel of the Year Award.

Story is a member of the Advisory Board for the North Carolina Science Festival, an initiative of Morehead Planetarium and Science Center. He previously served on the boards of the WakeMed Foundation and the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, including serving as board chair of the Food Bank of CENC. He is also a recipient of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of North Carolina’s highest honors awarded to individuals for significant contributions to the state and their communities through their exemplary service and exceptional accomplishments.