Business Community

The following twenty individuals represent business opportunities in the State of Georgia:

• Valencia Adams - Atlanta, GA
  Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for BellSouth Corporation

• Frank Barron - Rome, GA
  President of Echota Realty and Shorter Realty

• Joyce B. Blevins - Thomson, GA
  Director of East Central Georgia Workforce Development. Member of the Thomson-McDuffie Chamber of Commerce and the McDuffie County Board of Education Foundation Board

• Tony E. Calloway - Columbus, GA
  Regional vice president of Primerica Financial Services, Calloway and Associates, a subsidiary of Citigroup

• Kenneth W. Cannestra - Sandy Springs, GA
  Private consultant to the aeronautic, aerospace and electronic industries

• Bruce C. Coles - Duluth, GA
  Chairman, president and CEO of MACTEC, Inc, and president of MACTEC Engineering and Consulting

• Ann W. Cramer - Atlanta, GA
  Director of corporate community relations and public affairs for IBM North America

• Oliver “Wendell” Dallas, Jr. - Snellville, GA
  General manager of Atlanta Gas Light Operations

• Michael D. Garrett - Atlanta, GA
  President and Chief Executive Officer of Georgia Power

• Stephen M. “Mike” Harrison - Albany, GA
  President and co-owner of Technical Associates, an Albany-based engineering firm that provides services to large industrial customers
• Timothy S. Mescon, PhD. - Kennesaw, GA
  Dean of the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University, as well as the Tony and Jack Dinos Eminent Scholar

• Robert “Rob” C. Mitchell - Greensboro, GA
  President and chief operating officer of Reynolds Plantation

• Mark D. Musick - Atlanta, GA
  Retired director and former president of the Southern Regional Education Board

• Allen C. Rice - Vidalia, GA
  President of Savannah Luggage Work

• Diethart Lindner - LaGrange, GA

• Anna Cablik - Marietta, GA

• Charlene P. Sizemore - Augusta, GA
  President and chief executive officer of Sizemore Inc., a total service contract business

• Charles E. “Gus” Whalen, Jr. - Gainesville, GA
  Chairman of The Warren Featherbone Company and director of The Warren Featherbone Foundation

• Elizabeth P. Brock  - Atlanta, GA

The following four individuals represent local government:

• Edward P. "Phil" Best, Sr.  - Dublin, GA
  Mayor of Dublin

• John Fretti - Valdosta, GA
  Mayor of Valdosta and owner/operator of All States Moving and Storage, Inc., a local agent of United Van Lines

• G. Melvin Davis - Watkinsville, GA
  Chairman of the Oconee County Commission

• Bebe Heiskell - Chickamauga, GA
  Sole Commissioner of Walker County, Georgia

The following four individuals represent youth activities, service delivery, and labor:

• Bo Ryles, Ed.D - Athens, GA
  State leader and director of 4-H and a senior public service faculty member at the University of Georgia

• Jackie Rohosky - Atlanta, GA
  Director of Georgia Quick Start, an economic development division of the Department of Technical and Adult Education

• Richard A. Ray - Jonesboro, GA
  President of the Georgia AFL-CIO