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Samir Abdullahi

Director, Select Fulton

Donald Beamer, Jr. 
Senior Technology Advisor to Mayor Andre Dickens, City of Atlanta

Balram "B" Bheodari

General Manager, Hartsfield Jackson International Airport

Greg Bluestein 

Politics/Government Reporter, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Darius Broughton

Vice President, HNTB

Angelyne Butler

Mayor, City of Forest Park

Ricky Clark

City Manager, City of Jonesboro

Cherry Collier, Ph.D.

Executive Coach, Personality Matters, Inc,

Andre Dickens

Mayor, City of Atlanta

 

Collie Greenwood

General Manager/Chief Executive Officer, MARTA

Glenn Halliday

Electric Transportation Program Manager, Georgia Power

Darryl Hicks

Board Chairman, Fayette County Development Authority

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Michael Hightower

Managing Partner, The Collaborative Firm

Shannon James

President/Chief Executive Officer, Aerotropolis Atlanta Alliance

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Tharon Johnson

Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Paramount Consulting Group 

  

Phil Kent

CEO, InsiderAdvantage Georgia/James Magazine

Colleen Kiernan

Senior Director of Government & Community Affairs, MARTA

Sarah-Elizabeth Langford

Executive Director, Development Authority of Fulton County

 

Rob LeBeau

Manager of Workforce Solutions, Atlanta Regional Commission

Georj Lewis, Ed.D.

President, Clayton State University 

 

Veronica Maldonado-Torres

President and CEO, Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 

 

 


 

Vida Mannings

Senior Director of Transportation Services, The Collaborative Firm

Gerald McDowell

Executive Director, ATL Airport CIDs

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Bianca Motley-Broom  

Mayor, City of College Park

Michael Paris

President/Chief Executive Officer, Council for Quality Growth       

Keith Parker

President/Chief Executive Officer. Goodwill of North Georgia

Chris Pumphrey

President, Elevate Douglas Economic Partnership

 

Anna Roach

Executive Director, Atlanta Regional Commission

Erica Rocker

Economic Development Officer, Clayton County Board of Commissioners

Terreta Rodgers

Head of Community Affairs, Atlanta Region Amazon 

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Christopher Saldana, Ph.D.

Ring Family Professor and Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Victoria Seals

President, Atlanta Technical College 

Doug Shipman

President, Atlanta City Council 

 

Nathaniel Smith

Founder and Chief Equity Officer, Partnership for Southern Equity 

 

T. Dallas Smith

Founder/Chief Executive Officer, T. Dallas Smith & Company

 

Michael D. Stinson, M.D.

Pastor, First Mallalieu United Methodist Church

Jeffrey E. Turner

Chairman, Clayton County Board of Commissioners

 

Roger C. Tutterow, Ph.D.

Director of Econometric Center, Kennesaw State University

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Larry Vincent

Executive Director, Invest Clayton

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Valencia Williamson

President/Chief Executive Officer, Clayton County Chamber of Commerce

 

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