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- ↑ Zoo Atlanta official website
- ↑ Chris Schroder, "Raymond King’s Moment in the doctor’s office led him to leave bank, lead Zoo Atlanta ", Saporta Report, March 4, 2013
- ↑ Shannon Wilder, "The Best and Brightest Young Georgians", Georgia Trend, October 2004
- ↑ "Zoo Atlanta CEO to give SPSU commencement address on August 3", Southern Polytechnic State University press release Archived 2014-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Maria Saporta, "Raymond King named Zoo Atlanta CEO", Atlanta Business Chronicle, May 13, 2010
- ↑ Raymond B. King, Georgia State University Economic Forecasting Center: August 2010 Conference Program