Charles Willis "Chip" Pickering Jr. (born August 10, 1963) is an American businessman and former politician who has served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Incompas since 2014.

[4] Pickering graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Mississippi where he was a legacy member of the Eta chapter of Sigma Chi.

[5][6] Pickering served as a Southern Baptist missionary in Hungary, after the Hungarian government ceased its persecution of religious believers.

[citation needed] In 1989, President George H. W. Bush appointed Pickering as a Department of Agriculture liaison to the former European Communist countries.

[8] He defeated eight other Republicans in the primary and won the general election over Democrat John Arthur Eaves Jr. with 61 percent of the vote.

[2] Pickering serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Mississippi's Department of Public Leadership Policy, where he teaches a bi-monthly seminar class, PPL 211: Political Campaigns.