Hala Moddelmog became the first female president and CEO of the Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC) in January 2014 following a career in the corporate and non-profit sectors. Moddelmog has 19 years of career experience in president and CEO roles. Her areas of expertise are strategic planning, marketing, brand and product development, and assembling and managing high performance teams and brand revitalization.
Dennis R. Washington is an American billionaire industrialist who owns, or co-owns controlling interests in, a large consortium of privately held companies collectively known as the Washington Companies and, in Canada, another collection of companies known as the Seaspan Marine Corporation.
Linda Alvarado is President and Chief Executive Officer of Alvarado Construction, Inc., a large commercial and industrial general contracting/site management and design/build firm in Denver, Colorado. She is also President of Palo Alto, Inc., co-owner of the Colorado Rockies baseball team, and currently a member of the board of 3M.
John William Rollins was an American businessman and politician from Greenville, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, and served as the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware.
Xernona Clayton Brady is an American civil rights leader and broadcasting executive. During the Civil Rights Movement, she worked for the National Urban League and Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where she became involved in the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Later, Clayton went into television, where she became the first African American from the southern United States to host a daily prime time talk show. She became corporate vice president for urban affairs for Turner Broadcasting.
Ekaterini Panagiotou Sycara is Edward Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University internationally known for her research in artificial intelligence, particularly in the fields of negotiation, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. She directs the Advanced Agent-Robotics Technology Lab at Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. She also serves as academic advisor for PhD students at both Robotics Institute and Tepper School of Business.
PITT OHIO is a privately owned transportation and supply chain management company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded as PITT OHIO EXPRESS, LLC in 1979 and issued a DBA for PITT OHIO in 2011. PITT OHIO is owned by Charles L. Hammel.
Sara Del Carmen Jofre González was the President and CEO of the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (1996–2008) and founder of the Hispanic American Center for Economic Development (2001) in Atlanta.
Bonnie "Boni" Blackstone is a retired American professional wrestling announcer, commentator, model, television and radio producer. She was a popular on-air personality in regional territories of the Southern United States during the 1980s, as part of the announcing team in the Global Wrestling Federation and briefly the World Wrestling Federation, as well as the longtime co-host of Superstars of Wrestling with husband Joe Pedicino and Gordon Solie from 1986 to 1992. She was one of the earliest, if not the first, female announcers in professional wrestling and has been praised by fellow women in the industry, such as Missy Hyatt, for portraying a more serious and intelligent personality in contrast to the typical wrestling valet.
Michael Jackson is the retired Chief Executive Officer and former Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of AutoNation, Inc. Under his guidance the organization became the largest automotive retailer in the United States, using a more customer-focused, transparent and contemporary business model.
Susan L. Taylor is an American editor, writer, and journalist. She served as editor-in-chief of Essence from 1981 through 2000. In 1994, American Libraries referred to Taylor as "the most influential black woman in journalism today".
Alan B. Miller is an American businessman who is the founder of Universal Health Services, and currently serves as the company's chairman and chief executive officer (CEO). Miller founded the company in 1979 and it has grown to become a large provider of hospital and healthcare services in the United states. His company has annual revenues of more than $11.37 billion. In September 2020, UHS announced that consistent with the company's long-standing succession plan, Alan B. Miller would step down as CEO.
Robert H. Dedman Sr. (1926–2002) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder and past chairman of ClubCorp.
James Si-Cheng Chao is a Chinese-American businessman. He is the founder of the Foremost Group, a New York-based shipping, trading, and finance enterprise. He is Elaine Chao's father, and Senator Mitch McConnell's father-in-law. The James S.C. Chao Scholarship is named after him.
Roehl Transport is an American trucking company based in Marshfield, Wisconsin. The company provides national transportation and logistics services and is one of the safest and largest trucking companies in North America, as ranked by Transport Topics, American Journal of Transportation"", and CCJ.
Don Daseke is an American businessman, and the CEO, chairman and founder of the transportation company, Daseke Inc. Since the foundation of Daseke, Inc. he has helped to grow the company from $30 million in revenue in 2009 to an over $1.6 billion in 2018. In February 2017 Daseke became publicly listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the ticker symbol DSKE.
Catherine Evans Whitener was a rural artisan credited with reviving and expanding the tufted textile industry in northwest Georgia. In 2001 she was named a Georgia Woman of Achievement.
Mary C. Crowley, was the founder and CEO of the Texas-based Home Interiors and Gifts, Inc., which became one of the largest direct sales home furnishing operations in America. She was considered to be one of the leading businesswomen in the United States in the 1970s. Crowley was also a published author of works on women in business, and on self-improvement for women.
Herman Jerome Russell was an entrepreneur and influential figure in Atlanta, Georgia.
Marianne Harrison is a Canadian-born financial services executive. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Western Ontario and a diploma in accounting from Wilfrid Laurier University. She is a Chartered Professional Accountant and a Fellow of Chartered Professional Accountants (FCPA). In 2017, she was appointed as President and CEO of John Hancock Financial after having served as President of Manulife Canada since 2012.
