Atlanta’s 500 Most Highly effective Leaders in 2025: Enterprise

Todd Tautfest
Companion and Managing Director
Cresset

Todd Tautfest is a associate and managing director for Cresset’s Multi-Household workplace in Atlanta. Tautfest has 30 years of expertise in wealth administration targeted on the distinctive wants of high-net-worth households and people. Previous to Cresset, Tautfest was managing director, Southeast Area for Wilmington Belief, the place he labored with high-net-worth shoppers, enterprise house owners, foundations, and endowments. He’s a member of the Atlanta Property Planning Council and the advisory board for Open Hand Atlanta. He beforehand served on boards of the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Botanical Backyard and the Museum of Modern Artwork of Georgia.

EDUCATION The College of Oklahoma
HOMETOWN Weatherford, Oklahoma
FIRST JOB Sweeping the ground at Tautfest Furnishings & Equipment in Weatherford
FAVORITE GEORGIA PRO SPORTS TEAM Atlanta United FC
BEST ADVICE RECEIVED From my dad: “You spend your life constructing your status and you’ll destroy it in 5 minutes.”

INVESTMENT ADVISORS & FUNDS

Charles Andros
President and Chief Funding Officer
Bay Level Advisors

Charles Andros is a founding associate, president and chief funding officer of Bay Level Advisors, a number one hedge fund specializing in asset-based direct lending, which has deployed over $1.6 billion since its inception in 2012. In his roles, Andros focuses on advanced transactions and sectors of the financial system that mainstream lenders ignore, and below his management, Bay Level has expanded into leisure financing as Bay Level Media with the expansion of manufacturing amenities in metro Atlanta. In partnership with Trilith Studios, amongst pivotal tasks to return is the development and improvement of the US Soccer Federation’s new nationwide coaching middle and headquarters, now often known as the Arthur M. Clean U.S. Soccer Nationwide Coaching Heart, which is predicted to open in 2026. Moreover Bay Level, Trilith, and 4 Stones Actual Property partnered to kind the Trilith Land Fund to develop extra companions and tasks within the Fayetteville space. Andros started his profession working as a clerk on the ground on the Chicago Mercantile Trade for an S&P futures pit dealer.

EDUCATION College of Georgia
HOMETOWN Dalton, Georgia

Neal Aronson
Founder and Managing Companion
Roark Capital Group

Neal Aronson is founder and managing associate of Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based non-public fairness agency that focuses on client and enterprise service corporations, with a specialization in franchised and multiunit enterprise fashions within the restaurant, client and enterprise companies, and well being, wellness and health, and schooling and youth sectors. Roark manufacturers generate roughly $94 billion in annual system revenues from 107,500 places in 50 states and 118 nations. Previous to founding Roark, Aronson was cofounder and chief monetary officer of U.S. Franchise Methods. Beforehand, he was a principal of Odyssey Companions, a principal and normal associate at Acadia Companions (now Oak Hill Companions), and subsequently a managing director of a successor firm, Rosecliff. He started his profession within the company finance division at Drexel Burnham Lambert.

EDUCATION Lehigh College

Andy Berg
Chairman
Homrich Berg

In September 2023, Andy Berg introduced his transition from principal and CEO to chairman efficient January 1, 2024, with Thomas Carroll transferring from president to CEO. In 1989, Berg and David Homrich cofounded the wealth administration agency Homrich Berg with the assumption that high-net-worth people want entry to conflict-free monetary planning and funding recommendation. Right this moment, Homrich Berg manages over $14 billion for greater than 3,000 household relationships nationwide. A member of the Monetary Planning Affiliation, the North Atlanta Tax Council, the Georgia Deliberate Giving Council, the Atlanta Property Planning Council, and the board of the Atlanta Police Basis, Berg can be a contributor to monetary media and has been quoted within the Wall Road Journal, the New York Instances, and elsewhere.

EDUCATION Purdue College
HOMETOWN Milwaukee, Wisconsin
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Barron’s high unbiased advisor and Corridor of Fame advisor and Forbes Greatest-In-State Wealth Advisors for prime web value for Atlanta
HOBBY Golf

Deborah Cicatelli
Director of Strategic Initiatives — New Advisor Applications
Raymond James & Associates

As director of Strategic Initiatives–New Advisor Applications for Raymond James, Deborah Cicatelli is tasked with attracting and coaching new advisors. Previous to this place, Cicatelli was a regional director and offered strategic course and administration to department managers, monetary advisors, and department associates throughout Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia. She started her profession with Raymond James in December 2018 because the divisional gross sales supervisor of the Southern division. Cicatelli joined the monetary companies trade in 1995 by way of Morgan Stanley’s monetary advisor coaching program. After constructing a profitable solo observe in Southwest Florida, she transitioned to a administration function. Since then, she has held a wide range of management positions as district gross sales supervisor, department supervisor, regional gross sales supervisor, and nationwide strategic partnership director.

HOMETOWN Mount Vernon, New York
EDUCATION St. Thomas Aquinas Faculty, New York

Michael Fierman
Managing Companion and Co-CEO
Angel Oak Corporations

Michael Fierman is the managing associate and co-CEO of Angel Oak Corporations, a number one agency specializing in mortgage lending and asset administration. Below the Atlanta native’s management, Angel Oak has turn into one of many nation’s high nonbank wholesale and correspondent lender of non-qualified mortgage loans, working in 46 states and the District of Columbia. Angel Oak Capital Advisors, the agency’s asset administration division, manages over $17 billion in belongings and has securitized greater than $18 billion in non-qualified mortgages. With Fierman’s steerage, Angel Oak Capital Advisors launched a quickly rising ETF (exchange-traded fund) platform, which has amassed over $1 billion in belongings in below two years, with plans to surpass $2 billion by the top of 2025. Fierman additionally serves as a member of the UGA Terry Faculty of Enterprise Dean’s Advisory Council and the Buckhead Coalition.

EDUCATION College of Georgia
INSPIRING PERSON My mom
WHAT I’D TELL MY 18-YEAR-OLD SELF Don’t chase cash. Discover your ardour and encompass your self with the neatest folks you will discover. Good issues will occur.

Aziz Hashim
Founder and Managing Companion
NRD Capital

Aziz Hashim is the managing associate of NRD Capital, a non-public funding agency he based in 2014 that invests in corporations that provide compelling unit-level economics, in addition to in applied sciences that enhance the profitability of operators. Its portfolio consists of Experiential Manufacturers, Altitude Trampoline Parks, The Pickle Pad, Harri, and Qu POS.

EDUCATION College of California, Irvine
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS UCI Samueli College of Engineering Corridor of Fame (2020), Nation’s Restaurant Information Energy Checklist (2018), Restaurant Enterprise Journal Energy 20 (2018)
FIRST JOB Burger King
BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Assume past your present state of affairs and venture to the place you want to be.

Donte Miller
Cofounder and President
Village Micro Fund

Donte Miller is president of the nonprofit Village Micro Fund, which he based in 2014 with Nathan Jones and Robin McKinnie. The group presents help and courses to entrepreneurs in underserved communities and makes use of crowdfunding to spend money on small companies. VMF additionally created a Employee’s Fairness Fund that makes use of fairness investments to show small companies into worker-owned cooperatives by promoting shares again to workers. Beforehand, Miller has had work expertise at Goldman Sachs, Google, and the Atlanta Micro Fund, and he’s been featured on WABE and within the Bitter Southerner. In 2022, Miller was included on the Forbes 30 Below 30 record.

EDUCATION Morehouse Faculty
FIRST JOB My first unofficial job was sweeping up hair at a neighborhood barbershop within the mall. My first actual job was as an intern on the Federal Reserve Financial institution of San Francisco proper within the midst of Occupy Wall Road—so, a enjoyable time.

David Nicholas
CEO and Founder
Nicholas Wealth Administration

David Nicholas is the CEO and founding father of Nicholas Wealth Administration, a non-public wealth administration agency that helps shoppers—from households to companies—navigate the world of economic markets and economics. A sought-after commentator on monetary and financial issues, Nicholas has been featured on CNN, CNBC, Fox Enterprise, Fox & Pals, and CBS Information.

EDUCATION Kennesaw State College, College of Georgia (MS)
HOMETOWN Kennesaw
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Rang the Opening Bell on the New York Inventory Trade to rejoice the itemizing of our Nicholas Mounted Revenue Various ETF (NYSE: FIAX)
MOST INSPIRING PERSON My mom who was a single mother. She taught me that my greatest goals have been potential if you happen to work exhausting and belief God.

David Panton
Managing Companion
Navigation Capital Companions

David Panton is managing associate of Navigation Capital Companions’ SPAC Operations Group, which is concentrated on constructing a diversified portfolio of investments in special-purpose acquisitions corporations utilizing three methods: offering sponsor capital, main investments in SPAC preliminary public choices, and investing in and pricing non-public investments in public entities for SPACs. Panton can be a cofounder of Navigation Capital Companions and the chair of Panton Fairness Companions, a non-public household workplace he based in 2012. A former member of Jamaica’s Senate, Panton can be senior advisor–non-public fairness for CEA Group and an adjunct professor of finance at Emory College’s Goizueta Enterprise College.

EDUCATION Princeton College, Oxford College (PhD), Harvard Legislation College (JD)
HOMETOWN Mandeville, Jamaica
FAVORITE ATLANTA PLACE TO VISIT Chef Rob’s Caribbean Cafe & Upscale Lounge

John Wright II
CEO and Managing Companion
Northwestern Mutual Goodwin, Wright

John Wright II is CEO and managing associate of Northwestern Mutual Goodwin, Wright, which persistently ranks as a number one nationwide monetary planning agency targeted on mitigating threat and rising generational wealth. The agency’s dedication to service has catapulted it to the primary slot amongst life insurance coverage suppliers and quantity 9 amongst monetary planning and advisory corporations in Atlanta. Right this moment, Northwestern Mutual Goodwin, Wright has over $61 billion of life insurance coverage in drive and, below Wright’s management, belongings below administration have grown to greater than $8.5 billion. Most notably, he’s dedicated to a tradition of respect and has earned significant awards together with Most Admired CEO, Greatest Locations to Work, Atlanta’s Healthiest Employers, and nationwide and native variety and inclusion company champion awards. Working intently with key firm leaders, he’s efficiently altering the “face” of the monetary planning trade by way of his dedication to attracting various professionals to the profession.

PRIVATE COMPANIES

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Paul Brown
Cofounder and CEO
Encourage Manufacturers

Paul Brown is cofounder and CEO of Encourage Manufacturers, a multi-brand restaurant firm whose portfolio consists of greater than 32,600 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’ Donuts, Jimmy John’s, and Sonic places worldwide. In 2023, its manufacturers achieved greater than $32.5 billion in world system gross sales. Encourage is supported by greater than 675,000 firm and franchise group members.

EDUCATION Georgia Tech, Northwestern College Kellogg College of Administration (MBA), Northwestern College McCormick College of Engineering and Utilized Science (MA)
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Worldwide Foodservice Producers Affiliation Silver Plate Award (2018 ), Restaurant Enterprise Restaurant Chief of the Yr (2017), Ernst & Younger Entrepreneur of the Yr Award Southeast (2016)
CHARITIES Kids’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia Tech Basis, Metro Atlanta Chamber

Andrew T. Cathy
CEO
Chick-fil-A Inc.

Andrew T. Cathy grew to become the third CEO within the historical past of Chick-fil-A Inc. in 2021, following within the footsteps of his father, present chairman Dan T. Cathy, and his late grandfather, founder S. Truett Cathy. With intensive expertise working in Chick-fil-A eating places and serving in a number of help middle roles, Cathy is dedicated to making sure the way forward for Chick-fil-A as a wholesome, purpose-driven, world group devoted to creating a long-lasting, constructive affect on the folks and communities it serves. He’s a member of Management Atlanta’s class of 2020.

EDUCATION College of Georgia
MOST INSPIRING PERSON My highschool monitor coach. He made a major affect on many lives together with mine.
FAVORITE BOOK The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Enterprise of Life by Alice Schroeder

Susana Chavez
Government Vice President and Companion
Park Place

Susana Chavez is government vp and associate at Park Place, a nationwide transportation and actual property firm with a powerful presence in 18 markets throughout the US. At Park Place, which celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2024, Chavez spearheaded a company initiative to replace the know-how of the city markets and turn into an trade chief in progressive know-how. Her strategic method resulted in a 50 p.c enhance in revenues inside her sector. Previously, as normal supervisor of parking operations, Chavez managed groups of as much as 550 workers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport. Parking income is the one largest income generator on the airport. Over a 29-year interval, revenues elevated from $12 million to $112 million, with over 7 million annual transactions.

EDUCATION College of California, Berkeley
FAVORITE BOOK I’d Just like the World to Purchase a Coke: The Life and Management of Roberto Goizueta by David Greising
FAVORITE ATLANTA PLACE TO VISIT Freedom Park Path
FAVORITE GEORGIA COLLEGE SPORTS TEAM Georgia Bulldogs

René M. Diaz
President and CEO
Diaz Meals

René Diaz is president and CEO of Atlanta-based Diaz Meals, a specialty-foods distributor to eating places and grocers in 28 states, with over 400 workers and gross sales of $200 million. Diaz Meals was based in 1980 and is a privately owned firm. Diaz has served on the boards of Atlanta Ronald McDonald Home Charities, United Means of Better Atlanta, Management Atlanta, and Emory Heart for Ethics, amongst others. Born in Cuba, he got here to the U.S. at age six.

EDUCATION Georgia State College
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 50 Most Influential Latinos in Georgia (2018), Large Brothers Large Sisters of Metro Atlanta Legacy Award (2003), Management Atlanta class of 1994
FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Paris
HOBBIES Artwork accumulating
FEW PEOPLE KNOW I used to trip Harley-Davidson bikes.

Jim Hannan
President and CEO
Koch Industries Inc.

Jim Hannan was named president and CEO of Koch Industries Inc. in 2023. Hannan serves on the boards of Koch Industries and several other different Koch subsidiaries. Beforehand, Hannan served as government vp and CEO of Enterprises for Koch Industries, overseeing Georgia-Pacific, Infor, Molex, Koch Engineered Options and Koch Funding Group in addition to Koch Communications and Advertising and marketing, Koch Logistics and Koch Public Affairs. His profession with Koch started in 1998 in Koch Mineral Providers the place he was chief monetary officer previous to being named president of INVISTA Intermediates in 2004. He joined Georgia-Pacific in 2005 as chief administrative officer and was promoted to CEO and president in 2007. In that function, he led one of many world’s main producers and entrepreneurs of tissue, packaging, pulp, paper, cellulose, nonwovens, constructing merchandise and associated chemical substances.

EDUCATION California State College, East Bay
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS American Jewish Committee Nationwide Human Relations Award (2016), Technical Affiliation of the Pulp and Paper Business PIMA Government of the Yr Award (2015), Atlanta Enterprise Chronicle Most Admired CEOs (2014)

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Doug Hertz
Chairman and CEO
United Distributors

Doug Hertz has been CEO of United Distributors since 1984. Below his management, the beverage distribution enterprise has grown to be listed as one of many high 25 non-public corporations in Atlanta. Hertz has demonstrated his dedication to group, having served on many boards together with the boards of Atlantic Capital Financial institution, Camp Twin Lakes, Georgia Energy, Georgia Ports Authority, Holly Lane Basis, and the Marcus Basis. In 2022, Morehouse Faculty elected Hertz to its board of trustees. He has additionally served as chairman of Kids’s Healthcare of Atlanta and is a minority proprietor of the Atlanta Falcons. A local Atlantan, Hertz started his profession with KPMG in New Orleans, working within the accounting and consulting companies space.

EDUCATION Tulane College (MBA)
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Hertz is chairman of Camp Twin Lakes, a facility he based in 1989 for chronically in poor health and deprived youngsters. He additionally helped engineer the merger of Scottish Ceremony and Egleston pediatric hospitals to ascertain Kids’s Healthcare of Atlanta, now one of many largest pediatric healthcare programs within the nation.

Natalie Morhous
CEO
RaceTrac

Previously president of RaceTrac, Natalie Morhous, a third-generation chief in a 91-year-old family-owned enterprise, was named CEO in 2024. Based in 1934 by Morhous’s grandfather Carl Bolch Sr., RaceTrac is without doubt one of the largest family-owned and operated convenience-and-fuel retail companies within the South. Morhous joined the corporate in 2012, serving in a wide range of roles together with vp of vitality dispatch earlier than turning into president in 2019. Beforehand, she labored as a method and administration guide in Washington, D.C.

EDUCATION Connecticut Faculty, Wharton College of the College of Pennsylvania (MBA)
HOMETOWN Atlanta
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Comfort Retailer Merchandise Retail Chief of the Yr (2023)
FIRST JOB Camp counselor at Westminster Summer season Camps in Atlanta

Farooq B. Mughal
Chairman and Managing Companion
Mughal Methods International Companions
Consultant, District 105
Georgia Home of Representatives

As chairman and managing associate of Mughal Methods International Companions, Farooq Mughal focuses his observe on authorities relations, enterprise advisory, and public engagement. Since founding the agency in 2008, Mughal has constructed it right into a authorities relations powerhouse that has come to be thought to be one of many state’s greatest. Mughal has labored with shoppers in practically each sector of the financial system, creating and executing enterprise and authorities methods on a various vary of points together with worldwide commerce, agriculture, aviation, and know-how. In 2022, Mughal, who’s a member of Management Gwinnett’s class of 2021, was elected to characterize District 105 within the Georgia Home of Representatives. The primary Muslim man to be elected to the state Home, Mughal, who serves on the Georgia Chamber board of administrators, targeted on veterans, legislation enforcement and small enterprise house owners throughout his first legislative session from 2023 to 2024.

EDUCATION Mercer College

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Gregg Paradies
President and CEO
Paradies Lagardère

Gregg Paradies is president and CEO of Paradies Lagardère, a number one airport journey retailer and restaurateur in North America with 850 shops and 170 eating places and bars in additional than 100 airports. With experience in worldwide, nationwide, and native manufacturers, Paradies Lagardère works with airport, model, and provider companions to create memorable and constructive experiences for vacationers. Gregg Paradies is answerable for the corporate’s total enterprise and guaranteeing that it continues its sturdy custom of offering distinctive customer support, superior design, and award-winning retailer and restaurant operations and administration.

EDUCATION College of Texas at Austin
BEST ADVICE RECEIVED You can’t do fallacious by doing proper.
HOBBIES Out of doors sports activities

Donata Russell Ross
CEO
Concessions Worldwide

Donata Russell Ross is the CEO of Concessions Worldwide, a nationwide meals and beverage concessionaire that presently operates and manages amenities in eight main airports throughout the nation. Russell Ross has been an integral a part of Concessions Worldwide’s administration group for greater than 38 years and beforehand served as president. She’s additionally president of the Herman J. Russell Basis—a household basis named for Russell Ross’s father, the legendary Atlanta builder—which helps group initiatives and applications specializing in entrepreneurship, youth improvement, and mentoring. Russell Ross presently serves on the boards of Early Studying Property Administration, Russell Innovation Heart for Entrepreneurs (RICE), and H. J. Russell & Firm.

EDUCATION College of Pennsylvania
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT One in all a handful of African American ladies main a meals and beverage firm

Tyler Scriven
Cofounder and CEO
Saltbox

Tyler Scriven is cofounder and CEO of Saltbox, an end-to-end logistics enablement community for small companies. A few of Saltbox’s core choices embody a rising community of contemporary co-warehousing amenities and a broad vary of small to medium-sized enterprise pleasant logistics companies. Saltbox opened its first co-warehousing facility in December 2019 and now has 12 amenities throughout the nation. Previous to founding Saltbox, Scriven served because the founding managing director of Techstars Atlanta, a world early-stage enterprise capital funding fund and chief of employees at Palantir Applied sciences, a giant information analytics software program supplier. In 2024, the Atlanta Enterprise Chronicle acknowledged Scriven as a Most Admired CEO. Moreover, Scriven is a member of the board of administrators of the Serenbe Land Company.

EDUCATION College of Virginia
HOMETOWN Jacksonville, Florida
FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’m an newbie inside designer.

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Alexander C. Taylor
Chairman and CEO
Cox Enterprises

Alex Taylor is chairman and CEO of Cox Enterprises, an organization with 50,000 workers worldwide. Taylor is the great-grandson of former Ohio governor James M. Cox, who based the corporate in 1898. As Taylor is charged with guiding the corporate by way of a number of the most transformative occasions in its historical past, core companies Cox Communications and Cox Automotive lead within the communications and automotive industries. Moreover, Cox Enterprises is a number one funding platform with strategic positions in rising applied sciences driving the way forward for agriculture, renewable vitality, healthtech, and public sector software program. The non-public, family-owned firm has already invested greater than $2 billion in sustainable companies and applied sciences.

EDUCATION Vanderbilt College
FIRST JOB Reporter for the Grand Junction Each day Sentinel in Colorado

PUBLIC COMPANIES

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Mark Begor
CEO
Equifax

Mark Begor was named CEO of Equifax and a member of its board of administrators in April 2018. Throughout Begor’s tenure as CEO, annual income has grown from $3.4 billion in 2018 to $5.2 billion in 2023. Moreover, below his management, the corporate has invested over $1.5 billion to alter practically each aspect of its infrastructure, has turn into an trade chief in safety, is driving AI innovation, and is on monitor to turn into the one cloud-native information, analytics and know-how firm of its form. Begor served beforehand as a managing director within the industrial and enterprise companies group at Warburg Pincus, a $40 billion non-public fairness agency with greater than 120 portfolio corporations. Begor spent 35 years at GE, most not too long ago as president and CEO of its $8 billion vitality administration enterprise, and previous to that as president and CEO of GE Capital Actual Property.

EDUCATION Syracuse College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MBA)
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS NCR Atleos, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Heart, U.S. Ski & Snowboard Basis

Ted Decker
Chair, President, and CEO
The Dwelling Depot

Ted Decker is chair, president, and CEO of The Dwelling Depot, the world’s largest house enchancment retailer with greater than 2,300 shops and roughly 475,000 associates. He’s additionally a member of the corporate’s board of administrators. From 2020 to 2022, Decker served as president and chief working officer and was answerable for world retailer operations, world provide chain, outdoors gross sales and repair, and actual property, in addition to merchandising, advertising and marketing, and on-line technique. Whereas he was on this function, the corporate enhanced its capabilities to mix the net and in-store worlds. Decker joined The Dwelling Depot in 2000 as director of enterprise valuation and has held a number of strategic positions throughout the corporate. Beforehand, Decker labored in enterprise improvement, strategic planning, and finance at Kimberly-Clark Corp. and Scott Paper Co. and held varied company finance, lending, and credit score positions at PNC Financial institution. He has intensive worldwide expertise, having lived and labored in England and Australia. He presently sits on the Atlanta Committee for Progress board.

EDUCATION The Faculty of William and Mary, Carnegie Mellon College (MBA)

Paul Donahue
Government Chairman
Real Components Firm

Previously chairman and CEO of Real Components Firm (NYSE: GPC), Paul Donahue was named government chairman of the Fortune 200 world distributor of automotive and industrial components, efficient June 3, 2024. GPC serves its world prospects from an intensive community of greater than 10,700 places in 17 nations and generates annual revenues of roughly $20 billion. Donahue was named chairman in April 2019 after being elected CEO in Might 2016. He’s a greater than 20-year veteran of GPC and has held a number of key administration positions, together with government management roles at S. P. Richards Firm, Real Components Firm’s enterprise merchandise group, and the U.S. automotive components group. Moreover, he served because the 2023 chair Metro Atlanta Chamber.

EDUCATION College of Northern Iowa

Jennifer Mann
President, North America
The Coca-Cola Firm

In January 2023 Jennifer Mann grew to become the primary lady to function president of The Coca-Cola Firm’s North America working unit. In her function, Mann additionally serves as company senior vp. Mann previously served as president of International Ventures, answerable for globally scaling acquisitions and types, together with Costa Espresso and Coca-Cola’s funding in Monster Beverage Corp. Mann has held a wide range of management and operational roles, having joined Coca-Cola in 1997 as a supervisor within the Nationwide Buyer Help division of North America.

EDUCATION Georgia State College
HOMETOWN Atlanta
FIRST JOB Chick-fil-A
FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION The Bahamas
FAVORITE ATLANTA PLACE TO VISIT Fox Theatre

Chris Peterson
President and CEO
Newell Manufacturers

Chris Peterson is president and CEO of Newell Manufacturers and a member of its board of administrators. With an intensive background in company technique, monetary planning, and operations and administration, Peterson joined Newell in December 2018 as chief monetary officer. He was named CFO and president, Enterprise Operations in February 2020 and president and CFO in Might 2022. He assumed the place of president and CEO in Might 2023. Since becoming a member of Newell, Peterson has performed an integral function within the firm’s turnaround by strengthening monetary efficiency, constructing operational excellence and a tradition of productiveness, decreasing complexity and remodeling Newell’s provide chain capabilities.  Earlier than Newell, Peterson was the chief working officer of Operations at Revlon Inc. He additionally spent 4 years at Ralph Lauren as senior vp, CFO and president, International Manufacturers. Previous to Ralph Lauren, he spent 20 years at Procter & Gamble, the place he held varied roles. Peterson is a board member of BJ’s Wholesale Membership Inc. and chair of its audit committee.

Dimitris Psillakis
Head of Advertising and marketing and Gross sales North America and CEO
Mercedes-Benz USA

Dimitris Psillakis is head of selling and gross sales North America and CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA, headquartered in Atlanta. Psillakis has total duty for Mercedes-Benz Passenger Automobiles and Mercedes-Benz Vans in the US and leads over 1,600 workers all through the U.S. Beforehand, Psillakis was president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Canada, and earlier than that served as president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Korea. Below his management, the South Korean market grew to turn into the fifth largest market on the earth for Mercedes-Benz vehicles.

EDUCATION College of Kent at Canterbury, College of London (MBA)
HOMETOWN Athens, Greece
FAVORITE MOVIE Discovering Nemo
TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Coming to phrases with the truth that I’m not German after working at a German firm for over 30 years.

James Quincey
Chairman and CEO
The Coca-Cola Co.

James Quincey is chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Firm. Earlier than turning into CEO in 2017, he led the corporate’s worldwide working models as president and chief working officer. Beforehand, Quincey was president of Coca-Cola’s Europe Group, comprising 38 nations together with the EU, the European Free Commerce Affiliation nations, and the Balkans. The UK native additionally performed a number one function within the merger that fashioned Coca-Cola European Companions, now the world’s largest unbiased Coca-Cola bottler based mostly on web revenues.

EDUCATION College of Liverpool
HOBBIES I really like snowboarding. My household and I’ve been going to Colorado for over 25 years.
FAVORITE MOVIE The Matrix
FAVORITE ATLANTA PLACE TO VISIT Atlanta BeltLine

Jeffrey Sprecher
Chairman and CEO
Intercontinental Trade
Chairman
New York Inventory Trade

Jeff Sprecher is founder, chairman, and CEO of Intercontinental Trade (NYSE: ICE) and chairman of the New York Inventory Trade. Shaped in 2000, ICE is a Fortune 500 firm that designs, builds, and operates digital networks to attach folks to alternative. By ICE’s exchanges, together with the NYSE, and clearing homes, they assist folks make investments, increase capital, and handle threat. ICE’s complete fastened revenue information companies and execution capabilities present info, analytics, and platforms to assist prospects capitalize on alternatives and function extra effectively. Sprecher has served as CEO since 2000 and chairman since 2002 and continues to remodel, streamline, and automate industries. In 2005, ICE accomplished its preliminary public providing on the NYSE and right now has a market capitalization of over $75 billion.

EDUCATION College of Wisconsin-Madison, Pepperdine College (MBA)
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS Buckhead Coalition, Commerce Membership, Metro Atlanta Chamber government committee

Carol Tomé
CEO
UPS

Carol Tomé was named CEO of UPS in 2020, turning into the twelfth chief government within the firm’s century-plus historical past in addition to the primary lady to carry the highest job. Beforehand, Tomé was government vp and chief monetary officer of The Dwelling Depot, which she joined in 1995 as vp and treasurer. A local of Jackson, Wyoming, Tomé started her profession as a business lender with United Financial institution of Denver (now Wells Fargo) after which spent a number of years as director of banking for the Johns Manville company. In 2024, Governor Brian Kemp and the Georgia Historic Society inducted Tomé as a modern-day Georgia Trustee, the state’s highest honor recognizing Georgians whose accomplishments and group service replicate the beliefs of the founding physique of Trustees. The annual honor is related to the unique Georgia Trustees, a governing physique chartered and appointed by His Majesty King George II of England in 1732 to ascertain the colony of Georgia. Moreover, she serves on the boards of Grady Hospital, Atlanta Botanical Backyard, and different native organizations.

RETAIL

Ann Mashburn
Chief Inventive Officer
Mashburn

Ann Mashburn, chief artistic officer of Mashburn LLC, started her profession in New York in 1984 as an assistant to Vogue style editor and stylist Polly Mellen. She subsequently served as an editor and stylist for Glamour, then as a stylist for J.Crew—the place she met her husband, Sid. The couple moved to Atlanta in 2007 and opened the Sid Mashburn males’s store. Ann served as chief monetary officer and chief working officer in the course of the first three years, and in 2010 she opened the Ann Mashburn store as a ladies’s counterpoint. Ann and Sid retailers are additionally in Houston, Dallas, New York Metropolis, Washington, D.C., and Nashville.

EDUCATION College of Colorado Boulder

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Sid Mashburn
Government Chairman and Designer
Mashburn

Sid Mashburn serves as government chairman and designer of Mashburn LLC. He started his profession in New York as the primary males’s designer at J.Crew, and was subsequently recruited to Polo Ralph Lauren. Mashburn went on to function vp of design at Tommy Hilfiger and senior vp of design at Lands’ Finish. In 2007 Mashburn and his spouse, Ann, moved to Atlanta, the place they opened the boys’s store Sid Mashburn. In 2010, they expanded the enterprise with Ann Mashburn, a ladies’s line and store, adopted by the launch of e-commerce websites in 2011 to serve the model’s increasing buyer base outdoors of Atlanta. Ann and Sid retailers are additionally in Houston, Dallas, New York Metropolis, Washington, D.C., Nashville, and Los Angeles.

EDUCATION College of Mississippi

TECHNOLOGY

Kabir Barday
Founder, President, and CEO
OneTrust

Kabir Barday is the founder and CEO of OneTrust, a privateness, safety, and third-party threat know-how platform utilized by greater than 14,000 prospects across the globe. Headquartered in Atlanta, OneTrust employs over 2,300 folks in ten places of work all through the world. Barday, who based the corporate in 2016, oversees all elements of OneTrust’s product improvement, operations, and gross sales internationally. Since its founding, the corporate has been awarded over 300 patents and bought 9 corporations. In 2022, OneTrust was acknowledged in Forbes’s Cloud 100 record. Barday sits on the advisory boards for the Way forward for Privateness Discussion board, the Heart for Data Coverage Management, the Worldwide Affiliation of Privateness Professionals, and Georgia Tech. Moreover, Barday was named to the Aspen Institute’s 2023 class of Henry Crown Fellows.

EDUCATION Georgia Tech

Mark Buffington
CEO
BIP Capital
Managing Companion
BIP Ventures

Mark Buffington is the founder and CEO of BIP Capital and the managing associate of BIP Ventures. Since its founding in 2006, Buffington has led the enterprise capital agency to its place because the area’s most lively enterprise capital agency and one of the acknowledged manufacturers in enterprise capital outdoors of Silicon Valley. He has led funding rounds in additional than 80 corporations in quite a few industries: healthcare, digital media, ed tech, enterprise SaaS, fintech, and superior computing. Notable investments embody Vendormate, Ingenious Med, QA Symphony/Tricentis, PlayOn! Sports activities, Huddle Tickets, Tropical Smoothie Café, Cypress.io, ConnexPay, REACH Well being, Trella Well being, Shareholder InSite, and Aspirion Well being Assets.

EDUCATION Georgia Tech Scheller Faculty of Enterprise, Tulane College (MBA)
FIRST JOB Worldwide enterprise analyst for Whole System Providers

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Eddie Capel
President and CEO
Manhattan Associates

Eddie Capel serves as president and CEO of Manhattan Associates and is a member of its board of administrators. Previous to assuming his present function in 2013, Capel helped lead the corporate as president and chief working officer, and beforehand served as COO and government vp. Earlier than becoming a member of Manhattan Associates in 2000, he held varied positions at Actual Time Options, main groups that supported the availability chain methods of corporations resembling Walmart, Amazon, and J.C. Penney. In 2023, Capel was elected to function chair of the board of Skyline Champion Company.

FIRST JOB Pumping gasoline
TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Managing by way of the Covid-19 pandemic
INSPIRING PERSON Invoice Dixon, A former boss
BUCKET LIST Studying to pole-vault
WHO’D PLAY ME IN A BIOPIC Bruce Willis

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David Cummings
Companion
Atlanta Ventures

David Cummings is an Atlanta-based tech entrepreneur who has based 10 corporations collectively valued at practically $1 billion, together with Pardot, SalesLoft, and Terminus. He’s additionally the founding father of the Atlanta Tech Village—the U.S.’s fourth-largest tech hub—and the biggest investor in Calendly, the world’s hottest scheduling app. After promoting Pardot, he was named Ernst & Younger Entrepreneur of the Yr and one of many 100 Most Influential Atlantans by the Atlanta Enterprise Chronicle. Cummings is a associate in Atlanta Ventures, which invests in subscription corporations within the Southeast. In late 2023, Atlanta Ventures introduced the creation of SoDo Atlanta to revitalize South Downtown Atlanta, reimagining 55 buildings and 6 acres of parking heaps to create a secure, walkable, and livable neighborhood in time for the FIFA World Cup in Atlanta in 2026.

EDUCATION Duke College
HOMETOWN Tallahassee, Florida
FIRST JOB Mowing yards

Allyson Eman
CEO
Enterprise Atlanta

Allyson Eman has greater than 30 years of expertise in advertising and marketing, communications, gross sales management, and enterprise improvement. In 2007, she grew to become government director for the newly created Enterprise Atlanta annual convention, and was promoted to CEO in January 2020. Eman has labored with key enterprise leaders throughout the nation and founding organizations—the Metro Atlanta Chamber, the Atlanta CEO Council, and the Know-how Affiliation of Georgia—to construct Enterprise Atlanta, which is now the biggest enterprise capital convention within the Southeast, with over 1,500 attendees together with enterprise capitalists, entrepreneurs, and senior enterprise executives. Beforehand, Eman was senior vp of selling and communications for SouthStar Funding, an Atlanta-based wholesale mortgage lender.

EDUCATION College of Florida
FAVORITE MOVIE Legally Blonde
FAVORITE ATLANTA PLACE TO VISIT Ponce Metropolis Market

Justin Ferrero
President and Chief Monetary Officer
Sharecare

Atlanta native Justin Ferrero has led monetary operations at digital well being firm Sharecare since its founding in 2010. He’s answerable for know-how, finance, company improvement, and strategic partnerships. In 2021, he co-led the execution of the corporate’s public providing, leading to its Nasdaq debut with a valuation of practically $4 billion. For the previous 21 years, Ferrero has labored intently with serial entrepreneur Jeff Arnold, Sharecare’s former chairman and CEO and present government chairman, overseeing all issues associated to finance and company improvement for Arnold’s companies. Throughout that point, Ferrero raised an estimated $2 billion and has purchased, built-in, and constructed roughly 30 companies.

EDUCATION College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
FIRST JOB Dishwasher at OK Cafe
HOBBIES Spending time with my children, Finn and Banks
NONPROFIT Casa de Amoro, which helps these affected by little one abuse and neglect

JP James
Chairman
Hive Monetary Methods

JP James is the chairman of the monetary know-how firm Hive Monetary Methods. Since its founding in 2017, Hive has grown right into a medium-sized monetary establishment, managing over $120 million in its non-public credit score fund, with commitments of over $250 million. Hive gives stability sheet financing to 5 lenders throughout the nation, supporting the origination of over 150,000 prospects. James is a member of Management Atlanta’s class of 2024 and was appointed to The Carter Heart’s board of councilors in 2024.

EDUCATION Georgia Tech
FIRST JOB Laptop trainer at 12 years previous at Peters Township Public Library
HOMETOWN Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Paul Choose
Chairman and Managing Companion
Open Alternative Fund

Paul Choose is chairman and managing associate of Open Alternative Fund, a know-how enterprise capital agency targeted on investing in software program corporations based by excellent various entrepreneurs. A know-how entrepreneur and investor, Choose is cofounder and chairman of Pindrop, a supplier of voice safety for a number of the world’s largest banks and enterprises. He beforehand co-led Panoramic Ventures and TechSquare Labs. He has cofounded three corporations that have been acquired. He cofounded Purewire which was acquired by Barracuda Networks in 2008. Previous to this, he was the chief know-how officer at CipherTrust, which was acquired by Safe Computing in 2006.

EDUCATION Morehouse Faculty, Georgia Tech (MS, PhD)

Lynne Laube
Working Companion
Valor Ventures

Lynne Laube joined Valor Ventures as working associate in 2022. Valor is a rising enterprise capital agency supporting B2B SaaS companies. In her function, Laube focuses on advising enterprise founders, serving on portfolio firm boards, main Valor’s enterprise associate community, and attracting new expertise. Laube was the cofounder and director of Cardlytics, an promoting platform in banks’ digital channels. After taking the corporate public in 2018, Laube led Cardlytics by way of quite a few accomplishments, together with partnering with a number of the largest banks within the nation, rising the platform’s attain to over 150 million month-to-month lively customers, and bolstering the management group and board of administrators. Earlier than cofounding Cardlytics in 2008 with Scott Grimes, Laube held many positions with Capital One.

EDUCATION College of Cincinnati, College of Virginia Darden College of Enterprise
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Laube not too long ago earned honors from Enterprise Insider as one of many key executives driving the nation’s most promising start-ups and from Inc. as a top-10 venture-backed feminine founder.

Stephen Pair
Cofounder and CEO
BitPay

Stephen Pair is the CEO of BitPay, the world’s main supplier of bitcoin cost know-how. In 2011, Pair cofounded BitPay with Tony Gallippi as a result of he noticed bitcoin’s potential to remodel funds for companies and customers. As CEO, he directs the day-to-day operations in addition to the long-term imaginative and prescient of BitPay, from analysis and engineering to product improvement and data know-how. Pair has over 20 years of expertise constructing software program programs within the monetary and telecommunications industries. Earlier than founding BitPay, he held varied roles together with entrepreneur, architect, supervisor, group lead, and developer. He holds two patents within the area of streaming analytics.

EDUCATION Georgia Tech
HOMETOWN Cumming, Georgia
FIRST JOB Fry prepare dinner at Captain D’s
HIDDEN TALENT Wake-surfing
FAVORITE MOVIES Star Wars
FAVORITE ATLANTA PLACE TO VISIT Georgia Aquarium

Heather Rocker
President and CEO
Ladies in Know-how

Heather Rocker served because the group’s first government director from 2007 to 2011. Since then, she has served as CEO of Women Inc. of Better Atlanta, the place she considerably expanded volunteer recruitment and fundraising. She later transitioned to company management as managing principal at SEI-ATLANTA. And in 2019, she returned to the nonprofit sector as government director of the Drupal Affiliation. Most not too long ago, she served because the International Head of Operations for Amazon’s Alexa Prize program, an AI competitors for universities. She returned to WIT as president and CEO in 2023.

EDUCATION Georgia Tech
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Board president, Georgia FIRST Robotics; board member:Tech Affiliation of Georgia Range & Inclusion Council, TAG Schooling Collaborative, and Georgia Tech Alumni Affiliation; Management Atlanta Classof 2019; Inspirator Class Winner, Turknett Management Character Awards

Justin E. Samuels
Founder and CEO
Render-Atlanta

Justin E. Samuels is a technologist and influencer of all issues software program engineering and underrepresented teams in know-how. Having began one of many quickest rising multicultural conferences within the nation, Render-Atlanta (RenderATL), Samuels amplifies the presence of know-how within the southern United States whereas emphasizing tradition and inclusion. Launched in 2021, RenderATL is described as a software program engineering expertise that includes good vibes, nice music, and knowledgeable audio system on tech, management, inclusion, and accessibility. Samuels can be a full-time senior engineer and tech lead at Intuit Mailchimp, the place he helps empower small and medium-sized enterprises on their advertising and marketing platform.

EDUCATION Mississippi State College
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT In three years, RenderATL has turn into North America’s largest developer-focused know-how convention with over 5,000 annual attendees.
FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’m a first-generation immigrant by the use of my father who’s from Montego Bay, Jamaica.
FAVORITE BOOK Hustle Tougher, Hustle Smarter by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson

Sanjay Sehgal
Founder, Chairman, and CEO
MSys Applied sciences

Sanjay Sehgal is the founder, chairman and CEO of MSys Applied sciences—which designs, develops, and manages fashionable distributed programs and complicated ecosystem integrations. An entrepreneur, start-up adviser, and motivational speaker with greater than three a long time of tech expertise, Sehgal additionally cofounded Pramana, Scentric, iVivity, and bought tech corporations, together with Clogeny, Mobinius, and DigiFutura. In 2022 and 2023, Sehgal was acknowledged as a high CEO in Georgia Titan 100. Moreover, Sehgal, who’s a member of Forbes Enterprise Council, has acquired a TiE Atlanta High Entrepreneur Award.

EDUCATION College of Delhi
HOMETOWN New Delhi, India
HOBBIES Exploring nature and seashores
HIDDEN TALENT Being an artist—I get pleasure from singing and dancing.
FAVORITE BOOK Religious Anatomy, Meditation, Chakras, and the Journey to the Heart by Kamlesh D. Patel

Nashlie Sephus
Principal AI Tech Evangelist
Amazon

Nashlie Sephus is the tech evangelist for Amazon Synthetic Intelligence (AI) specializing in equity and figuring out biases at Amazon Internet Providers AI. She previously led the Amazon Visible Search group as an utilized scientist in Atlanta, which launched visible seek for alternative components on the Amazon purchasing app in June 2018. This know-how was a results of former Atlanta startup Partpic, for which she was the chief know-how officer, being acquired by Amazon. Previous to working at Partpic, she labored for Exponent, an engineering and scientific consulting agency, in New York Metropolis. Her core analysis areas have been digital sign processing, machine studying, and laptop engineering.

EDUCATION Mississippi State College, Georgia Tech (MS, PhD)
HOMETOWN Jackson, Mississippi
FIRST JOB Enjoying the piano for my church
FAVORITE ATLANTA PLACE TO VISIT Piedmont Park

Rania Succar
Chief Government Officer
Intuit Mailchimp

Rania Succar is Intuit Mailchimp’s chief government officer and senior vp of the QuickBooks Cash Platform. A strategic chief with a confirmed monitor file in driving progress, Succar got here to Intuit to construct and develop the QuickBooks Capital enterprise, main the profitable launch in November 2017. Right this moment, Succar leads a complete portfolio of cash motion companies at Intuit, together with QuickBooks Funds and Mailchimp. In 2021, Intuit acquired Mailchimp, and in 2022, Succar was named CEO after Mailchimp cofounder Ben Chestnut determined to step again from his function. Previous to becoming a member of Intuit, Succar oversaw product commercialization and go-to-market technique for YouTube’s multibillion-dollar promoting enterprise in North America. Succar started her profession as an funding banker with Merrill Lynch advising know-how corporations.

EDUCATION Harvard College (MBA, MPA)

Michael E. Tabb
Director, Actual Property Providers, Americas
Google

Tabb is answerable for Google’s actual property companies within the Americas. Earlier than Google, Tabb based Pink Rock International, making it one of the artistic and profitable full-service business actual property corporations in the US. Beforehand, Tabb served as director of actual property asset companies for The Coca-Cola Firm, the place he was answerable for the corporate’s actual property actions worldwide. Previous to getting into business actual property, Tabb proudly served the nation in the US Navy as a lieutenant commander in public affairs, and as a floor warfare officer. He deployed to the Mediterranean twice, supporting Operation Desert Storm and serving as an assault boat group commander.

EDUCATION United States Naval Academy, Wharton College of the College of Pennsylvania (MBA)
HOMETOWN Oxon Hill, Maryland
FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’m a Lake Charles- educated gumbo maker and lover

Daybreak Whaley
President and Chief Advertising and marketing Officer
Sharecare

Daybreak Whaley has been at digital well being firm Sharecare since its founding. She participates within the improvement of the general company technique and is instantly answerable for advertising and marketing, strategic partnerships, and enterprise improvement. In 2021, she helped take the corporate public at a valuation of practically $4 billion. Beforehand, Whaley was government vp of selling and strategic relationships for the web site HowStuffWorks, the place she helped handle operations and company improvement efforts, together with enterprise improvement and creation and execution of the advertising and marketing technique. Chosen as an Atlanta Enterprise Chronicle Ladies of Affect honoree in 2022, Whaley presently serves on the boards of Forbes Journey Information and the American Coronary heart Affiliation’s Metro Atlanta Division.

EDUCATION College of Georgia
TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Elevating my great daughter, Spencer
FAVORITE ATLANTA PLACES TO VISIT Atlanta BeltLine, Stone Mountain

Larry Williams
President and CEO
Know-how Affiliation of Georgia

Larry Williams is president and CEO of the Know-how Affiliation of Georgia, bringing to the job greater than 25 years of expertise in world branding, worldwide commerce and finance, public and industrial coverage, and administration and administration. In 2023, TAG launched its Bridge Builders program, a brand new coaching partnership designed to allow employers all through the state to entry a extra various pool of certified tech expertise. Moreover, the initiative additionally features a scholarship program aimed toward bridging profession alternative gaps for black professionals in Georgia’s fast-growing tech trade. As former president and CEO of the Beacon Council, Miami-Dade County’s official financial improvement partnership, Williams led the creation and execution of a brand new improvement framework to assist the realm develop and safe investments in right now’s innovation financial system, leading to $687 million in new funding, 119 firm relocations or expansions, and greater than 4,500 new jobs. From 2011 to 2014, Williams helped form Atlanta’s tech sector as vp of know-how improvement on the Metro Atlanta Chamber.

Joey Womack
Founder and CEO
Goodie Nation

Joey Womack is the founder and CEO of Goodie Nation, a nonprofit that accelerates relationships for social entrepreneurs and various founders, and the founder and CEO of Amplify 4 Good, a mission-driven company that helps giant corporations, nonprofits, and authorities companies create social affect. With a objective to positively have an effect on 1 billion folks by 2039, Womack has labored with shoppers together with Google, Coca-Cola, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport, and Ford Motor Co. He’s additionally the cofounder of the Atlanta Black Tech initiative, serving as colead for the start-ups and Okay-12 divisions. In 2023, Mayor Andre Dickens introduced Womack with the Group Icon Award from Google For Startups. The primary recipient of this award, he additionally acquired $100,000 to additional his work to help Atlanta’s group of entrepreneurs.

EDUCATION Florida A&M College (MBA)

Jason W. Younger
CEO
MindBlown Labs Innovation Companions

Jason W. Younger is the cofounder and CEO of MindBlown Labs, an Atlanta-based monetary wellness innovation lab whose mission is to empower People to make higher monetary choices and obtain enduring monetary wellness because of this. The corporate companions with monetary establishments to develop digital options that join with customers on an emotional stage, driving constructive saving and investing behaviors. Named the 2024 chair of the board of trustees of the Nationwide Endowment for Monetary Schooling, Younger was appointed by Barack Obama in 2014 to serve on the newly created President’s Advisory Council on Monetary Functionality for Younger People.

EDUCATION Harvard Faculty
HOMETOWN Inglewood, California

LEGENDS

Jeff Arnold
Arnold based WebMD and grew it right into a $1 billion income firm. Subsequent got here the Convex Group, a media and web funding group that acquired HowStuffWorks, then bought it to Discovery Communications, which helped launch his subsequent enterprise, Sharecare. In 2021, the corporate went public. Right this moment, he’s Sharecare’s government chairman and chairman of Forbes Journey Information. Brent Layton, previously of Centene Company, changed him as Sharecare CEO in 2024.

J. Veronica Biggins
Biggins is the managing associate of the Atlanta workplace of Diversified Search. Beforehand, she served as director of presidential personnel and assistant to President Invoice Clinton. She was additionally vice chair of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Convention on Ladies in Beijing.

Arthur Clean
The cofounder of Dwelling Depot has turn into an iconic determine in Atlanta since retiring in 2001. The Arthur M. Clean Household of Companies portfolio consists of the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United, the Mountain Sky Visitor Ranch, West Creek Ranch, and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. As well as, the Arthur Clean Basis, alongside together with his household’s private giving, has granted greater than $1 billion to charities, primarily in Georgia and Montana.

Dan T. Cathy
Now the chairman of Chick-fil-A Inc, Cathy was the corporate’s CEO from 2013 till 2021. The son of Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy, he cofounded the Identical Home Inc., which hosts the annual Beloved Profit in Atlanta to foster higher financial mobility in communities throughout Atlanta.

Michael J. Coles
After a profession within the clothes enterprise, Coles based the Nice American Cookie Co. with Arthur Karp in 1977. They grew an preliminary $8,000 funding into the nation’s largest cookie retailer franchise. He has chaired the Georgia Movie Fee and served on the College System of Georgia Board of Regents, the Kennesaw State College Basis Board, and the Walker College Board.

Lonnie G. Johnson
Johnson earned his grasp’s diploma in nuclear engineering from Tuskegee College and went on to work for the U.S. Air Drive and the NASA house program. Experimenting with high-powered water weapons, he invented the bestselling Tremendous Soaker.

Invoice Linginfelter
Previous to his retirement in 2024, Linginfelter was president of Areas Financial institution. Previous to becoming a member of Areas in 2008, the Saint Simons Island native served as Georgia CEO for Wachovia. He’s a previous chair of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and the Georgia Analysis Alliance.

Sig Mosley
As president of Imlay Investments after which managing associate of Mosley Ventures, Mosley has invested in 120 start-ups since 1990—making him considered one of Atlanta’s most lively angel buyers. He helped nurture town’s know-how trade.

Tripp Rackley
Rackley is an achieved know-how entrepreneur. He’s based a number of profitable corporations, together with nFront, Firethorn, Expertise, and Clutch Applied sciences. He has been inducted into the Financial institution Know-how Information Innovators Corridor of Fame, the Know-how Corridor of Fame of Georgia, and the Know-how Affiliation of Georgia’s FinTech Corridor of Fame.

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