Past Speakers for March & April 2017

MAR 01	Open Mic
	Testimonies by luncheon attendees.

MAR 08	Open Mic
	Testimonies by luncheon attendees.

MAR 15	Brant Frost, IV
	President, First Liberty Building and Loan,
	in Newnan, Georgia. Prior to his 20+ years lending career, Brant was active in real estate sales and won awards such as Transaction of the Year and Million Dollar Roundtable. He started out in real estate to pay his way through college, and sold $1 million worth of property by the age of 23. Brant is very active in conservative politics, and has served on or led major donor efforts for such candidates as Judge Roy Moore, Governor Mike Huckabee and Senator Ted Cruz. He led the statewide campaign for John Knox for Senate '92 and the Georgia Presidential campaigns of Pat Robertson '88, Pat Buchanan '92, Alan Keyes '96, and Gary Bauer 2000. Brant has always served the conservative underdog and enthusiastically enjoys doing so.

MAR 22	Brian McGowan,
	Sales Associate for Building Restoration Products,
	a distributor of building products that provide solutions to restore and waterproof buildings. Some current projects are Park Place on Peachtree and The Clermont Hotel. The company is also a distributor of Sto Corp and other exterior claddings that specialize in lightweight replica products that simulate limestone, brick and garnet. These alternatives eliminate significant structural costs. Previously, Brian represented Dryvit and Senergy Wall Systems. He has been with Building Restoration Products since 2016 and in the industry since 1997. Brian currently serves on the Helping Hands Committee for the Community Association Institute.

MAR 29	Russ West, Sr.
	Account Executive, Pivotal,
	a software and services company based in San Francisco and Palo Alto, California, with several other offices. Pivotal helps companies build and run Cloud Native Applications. Prior to his position with Pivotal, Russ was the Regional Sales Manager for webMethods/Software AG and has been in enterprise software sales for over 22 years after eight years in the residential mortgage industry. Except for his four years at Davidson College in the early 80's, Russ has resided in the Roswell/Alpharetta area for the past 45 years.

APR 05	Open Mic
	Testimonies by luncheon attendees.

APR 12	Clyde L. Strickland,
	Founder and CEO, Metro Waterproofing.
	Clyde founded Metro Waterproofing in 1972 and in 40 years it has grown from 4 employees to 240, and is now the largest restoration and waterproofing corporation in the southeast. Prior to his current company, he started out at Glenoit Textile Mills in North Carolina as a technical machine mechanic, was transferred to Wamsutta Knitting Industries and then transferred to Borg Manufacturing Co. in Rossville, Georgia. After various other jobs he went to work for Holbrook Waterproofing Company in Charlotte, NC, transferred to Georgia to start another company for them, and that is when Clyde and his family moved to Gwinnett County. Clyde is the author of a book “What Can I Do? Simple Advice to Change You and Your World”, and he and his wife, Sandra, are Executive Producers of the film, “American Made Movie”, a documentary examining the factors contributing to the decline of the American manufacturing workforce and the integral role consumerism plays in getting the economy back on track. He is very active in his community and serves on the Board of Directors for the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation, is a board member of the Hope Clinic in Lawrenceville, and received the Gwinnett Magazine 2010 Man of the Year Award.

APR 19	Marc Griffiths,
	Business Consultant and Inspirational Ventriloquist,
	who gives keys to help businesses and individuals "get out of their box" and get happy, get healthy, and get profitable! Marc grew up in London and has won multiple national awards for his work in Great Britain including Wales Young Entrepreneur National Award, Welsh Factor Winner for Best Specialty Act in Wales, and appeared on Britain's Got Talent. He also received the Mustard Seed GOLD National Award Winner and New Media Best Children's TV Program Winner in 2012.

APR 26	Open Mic
	Testimonies by luncheon attendees.

MAY 03	Open Mic
	Testimonies by luncheon attendees.