From the Tallahassee Democrat
A fact-finding trip organized by the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce is bringing more than 80 public and private sector Tallahassee officials to Greenville, South Carolina.
The invitation-only, three-day trip, which begins Monday, is a chance to see a progressive city 400 miles away that’s maintained its charm, attracted manufacturing industries and made decades of investments that paid off when its textile economy crumbled.
Greenville is the third city visited by Chamber members in the last four years. In 2015, a delegation visited Boulder, Colorado, followed by a trip to Nashville, Tennessee, in 2017. Earlier Chamber trips took locals to Austin, Texas; Madison, Wisconsin; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
“Cities that are attractive for our leadership trips are those who are constantly innovating, reinventing, and investing in their future,” said Sue Dick, the Chamber’s president and CEO. “Greenville is the latest city that has grabbed our attention and fit these aspirations for our trip planning.”
Here’s who’s going to Greenville
- Terrie Ard — President and COO, Moore, Inc.
- Thomas Asbury, Jr. — Director, Premier Fine Homes
- John Bell — CEO, ColoneyBell
- Kathy Bell — COO, ColoneyBell
- Shelly Bell —Director, Lively Technical College
- Barbara Boone — Executive director, Leadership Tallahassee
- Reggie Bouthillier — Shareholder, Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A.
- Elaine Bryant — Tallahassee City Commissioner
- Van Champion — President, Childers Construction Company
- Rob Clarke — Shareholder, Ausley McMullen
- Jeremy Cohen — Business Development, Target Print & Mail
- Beth Corum — Executive vice president and Co-COO, Capital City Bank
- Betsy Couch — Executive Director, Knight Creative Communities Institute
- Berneice Cox — CEO, The Bacall Group
- John Dailey — Mayor, city of Tallahassee
- Richard Darabi — Project Manager, Moore Bass Consulting, Inc.
- Towanda Davila-Davis — Commissioner aide, city of Tallahassee
- Bryan Desloge — Leon County Commissioner
- Sammie Dixon — President and CEO, Prime Meridian Bank
- Blake Dowling — CEO, Aegis Business Technologies
- Kristin Dozier — Leon County Commissioner
- Elizabeth Emmanuel — Executive director, Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority
- Erin Ennis — President, Residential Elevators, LLC
- Steve Evans — IBM Executive/Retired
- Ted Frazee — President, Redwire/Sonitrol
- Shawnta Friday-Stroud — Dean, School of Business at Florida A&M University
- Jason Ghazvini — Vice president, Premier Fine Homes
- Steve Ghazvini — President, Premier Fine Homes
- Reese Goad — Tallahassee City Manager
- Kevin Graham — Executive director, FSU Real Estate Foundation
- Rick Grant — COO, Municipal Code Corporation
- Bart Gunter — President, Rogers, Gunter, Vaughn Insurance, a Hub International Company
- Iain Harnden — Principal, MLD Architects, LLC
- Chip Hartung — Broker/Owner, Coldwell Banker Hartung and Noblin, Inc.
- Nathan Higdon — SVP/Market President ,TallahasseeTC Federal Bank
- Lee Hinkle — Retired
- Elizabeth Hirst — Chief of Staff, Florida State University
- Winston Howell — Managing and Shareholder, Thomas Howell Ferguson P.A. CPAs
- Yuh-Mei Hutt — President, Golden Lighting
- Sha’Ron James — Partner, Berger Singerman
- Drew Jones — Managing Partner, VANCOREJONES Communications, Inc.
- Daniel Langston — Flightline Group, Inc.
- Rodney LewisVice — President, Architects Lewis + Whitlock
- Vincent Long — Leon County Administrator
- Jeremy Matlow — Tallahassee City Commissioner
- Emory Mayfield — Market President, Hancock Whitney
- Mark McNees — Founder/CEORedeye Coffee
- John McNeill — Commercial Advisor, NAI TALCOR
- Rick Minor — Leon County Commissioner
- Ed Moore — President, Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida
- Kimberly Moore — Vice President, Tallahassee Community College
- Jack Mozley — Sales Manager, Perdue Inc.
- E. Edward Murray — Principal, NAI TALCOR
- Slaton Murray — Commercial Advisor, NAI TALCOR
- Mark O’Bryant — President/CEO, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare
- Bill Oliver — President, OliverSperry Renovation and Construction
- Heidi Otway — President, SalterMitchell PR
- Cristina Parades — Director, Tallahassee- Leon County Office of Economic Vitality
- Gregg Patterson — CEO/Executive Director, IMS Business/Choose Tallahassee
- Ben Pingree — Director, PLACE (Planning, Land Management & Community Enhancement)
- Sean Pittman — CEO, Pittman Law Group
- David Pollard — Interim Director of Aviation, Tallahassee International Airport
- Kerri Post — Executive director, Leon County Tourism Development/Visit Tallahassee
- Shawn Roberts — COO, Mad Dog Construction
- Katrina Rolle — President/CEO United Way of the Big Bend, Inc.
- Alan Rosenzweig — Leon County Deputy Administrator
- Doug Saunders — Employee Benefits Specialist, Brown & Brown of Florida, Inc.
- Brian Sealey — Broker/Owner, Sealey Team – A Real Estate Company
- Darnell Smith — Market President, Florida Blue
- Jay Smith — Vice President, Ajax Building Corporation
- William Smith — VP Director of Business Banking, Capital City Bank
- Todd Sperry — CFO, OliverSperry Renovation and Construction
- Wayne Tedder — Tallahassee Assistant City Manager
- Jay Terry — Assistant Provost, Florida State University
- Mat Tharpe — President, Tharpe Construction & Remodeling, LLC
- Katrina Tuggerson — Chair, Capital City Chamber of Commerce
- Cynthia Tunnicliff — Pennington, P.A.
- Michelle Ubben — President, Sachs Media Group
- Melissa VanSickle — Partner, Nelson Mullins Broad and Cassel
- Daniel Wagnon — Principal, STRUCTURE Commercial Real Estate
- Thomas Whitley — Chief of Staff for Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey
- Dianne Williams-Cox — Tallahassee City Commissioner
- Gary Yordon — President, Zachary Group.
