Egbert J. Perry
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Atlanta Life Financial Group
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The Integral Group, LLC
Egbert L. J. Perry is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Integral Group LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Perry is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he received both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Civil Engineering from the University's Towne School, and a Master of Business Administration degree with majors in Finance and Accounting from its Wharton School. In 1990, he was elected as the eleventh graduate in 250 years to be named to the "Gallery of Distinguished Engineering Alumni" of the University's Engineering School.
Upon completing his education at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Perry assumed a position in Washington, D. C. with a large national contractor. In 1980, he moved to Atlanta to assume a top executive position with an Atlanta-based real estate and construction firm, where he was largely responsible for the company's growth and its recognition, in 1992, as the third largest minority owned business in the United States, with annual revenues of approximately $200 million.
In January 1993, Mr. Perry founded The Integral Group LLC (Integral). Integral is an urban real estate development and investment management firm, with affiliates that provide construction management and property management services. Under his leadership, Integral has developed a reputation as an innovator in the field of urban infill mixed-use and mixed-income developments. In addition to Atlanta, the company has developed projects and made real estate investments in over twelve other metropolitan markets across the country.
Mr. Perry is active in a number of civic, corporate and community organizations. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Atlanta Life Financial Group, and the Board of Trustees of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the University of Pennsylvania, among others.
Roosevelt Giles
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
Atlanta Life Financial Group
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Information Management Systems
Roosevelt Giles is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Information Management Systems, Incorporated.
Founded in 1988, Information Management Systems, Inc. is a global provider of technology-based business solutions in selected industry sectors. Drawing upon extensive capabilities in Consulting, Training, Security, Project Management, IT and business process outsourcing, infrastructure and application services, and business and systems integration, IMS uses deep domain expertise to craft integrated solutions that meet each customer's current and long-term needs. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, IMS has locations throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
Mr. Giles has held management and engineering positions in telecommunications companies such as AT&T Bell Labs, BellSouth and in manufacturing with Milliken & Company. Mr. Giles has been responsible for the successful planning, design and implementation of enterprise technologies for domestic and international organizations.
Mr. Giles is an internationally known engineer, author, speaker and lecture on Information Technology and globalization. Mr. Giles is a frequent speaker at COMDEX, ICA, Computer Measurements Group, and NetWorld-INTEROP, and has authored articles on Internet security, UNIX integration, DLSw, ATM integration, VPNs, and electronic commerce for Solutions Integrator magazine.
Mr. Giles holds a BS Degree in Computer Science from Limestone College.
William A. Clement, CLU
President and Chief Executive Officer, Atlanta Life Financial Group
Chairman, Jackson Securities
Mr. Clement is the President & CEO of Atlanta Life Financial Group, Inc.
Mr. Clement is a third generational insurance professional, and is the former Chairman and co-founding stockholder of The Clement Insurance Group, Incorporated, a multi-line insurance agency. He was awarded the Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation by the American College of Chartered Life Underwriters in 1975. He is also a licensed insurance agent in the State of Georgia for Life, Accident & Health, and Property & Casualty insurance.
Mr. Clement also has extensive experience in the financial services industry. He was the former Vice President and Senior Loan Officer of Citizens Trust Bank in Atlanta, Georgia, and an institutional salesperson with The Robinson-Humphrey Company, Inc., a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange. He was also engaged by the City of Atlanta as a pension consultant to the City of Atlanta General Employees, Police and Fire pension funds.
Appointed by President Carter, Mr. Clement served as the Associate Administrator of the US Small Business Administration in Washington, D.C. during the Carter Administration.
He is a board member of two publicly-traded companies, Radiant Systems, Inc. and TRX, Inc. He is the Chairman of the board of DOBBS, RAM & Company, a systems integration company he founded in 1981.
Mr. Clement is Vice-Chair of the board of Opportunity Funding Corporation, a trustee of the Maynard Jackson Youth Foundation and a member of the Trustee Board of Antioch Baptist Church. Also, he currently serves on the board of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, The Commerce Club, Atlanta Committee for Progress, and the board of trustees of the Woodruff Arts Center.
Mr. Clement was the Chairman of the Board of the Atlanta Business League, and a former co-chair of the Atlanta Action Forum. He also served as Vice-Chairman of Atlanta Downtown Improvement District, Inc; and was a member of The Carter Center Board of Councilors. He was a charter member of the 100 Black Men of Atlanta.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Clement received his BA from Morehouse College and his MBA from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. As a member of the Society of International Business Fellows, he studied at the London School of Economics.
M. Alexis Scott
Publisher
Atlanta Daily World
M. Alexis Scott is publisher of the Atlanta Daily World, a newspaper founded by her grandfather in 1928. She has responsibility for the overall editorial content and general management of the paper, which targets the African American community in metro Atlanta. In 1932, the Atlanta Daily World, founded by W.A. Scott, II, became the nation's first black-owned daily newspaper. The paper now publishes once a week and can be accessed daily over the Internet at www.atlantadailyworld.com.
Ms. Scott joined the family business in 1997, following a 22-year career with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Cox Enterprises, Inc., where she worked her way up from reporter to vice president/community affairs at the Journal-Constitution and then director of diversity at Cox. Following a family/shareholders meeting in 1997, Ms. Scott and four other family members were elected to the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Daily World, Inc., and Ms. Scott was elected Chair of the Board, President and Publisher of the company.
In addition to her duties as publisher of the newspaper, Ms. Scott is a regularly featured commentator on "The Georgia Gang," a week-in-review program on politics broadcast on FOX 5 in Atlanta. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Life Financial Group
Ms. Scott is also active in nonprofit organizations. She is secretary of Kenny Leon's national theater company True Colors; a member of the boards of the High Museum of Art, the Historic South View Cemetery Preservation Foundation; the Atlanta History Center, the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau and Central Atlanta Progress. In 2003, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin appointed her to the board of the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency. She is also a member of the Atlanta Rotary Club and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust (originally appointed by Gov. Zell Miller).
Previously, Ms. Scott has chaired the boards of the Atlanta Children's Shelter, the Atlanta Communities in Schools program, the Atlanta NAACP Youth Achievement Academy, St. Jude's Recovery Center, and the Friends of Spelman. She has been an officer of the boards of the High Museum, the Center for the Visually Impaired and is president of the Dogwood City Chapter of the Links.
In addition to general community service, Ms. Scott has been active in nonprofit professional organizations. She served as chair of the Succession Planning Committee for the National Newspaper Publishers Association; was co-chair of the NNPA Editorial Committee; a past president of the Atlanta Press Club and the Atlanta Chapter of the National Association of Media Women; past vice-chair of the board of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education; and past treasurer of the Atlanta Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists. She also organized and chaired two diversity affinity groups -- one local and one national.
Ms. Scott has received many awards and honors, including being inducted into the 2007 Business Hall of Fame of the Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. She also received a 2007 Trailblazer Award In Honor of Coretta Scott King from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; the 2005 Millennium Pacesetter Award from the Atlanta Business League; a 2004 Georgia Press Association Award for Column writing; the 2004 Imperial Court Daughters of Isis Hall of Fame Award; the 2004 TD Jake's Megafest Phenomenal Woman Award; The Network Journal's 2004 Top 25 Influential Women in Business; an honorary doctor of humane letters from Argosy University in Atlanta in 2003; being named a 2003 Diva by Business-to-Business Magazine, receiving the 2002 Heritage Award from the Frank Ski Kids Foundation; 2001 Grimes Fellowship from the Cox Family Enterprise Center at Kennesaw State University; and the 2001 Citizen of the Year Award from Southwest Hospital and Medical Center.
She also was named among "20 Women Making a Mark on Atlanta" in 1998 by Atlanta Magazine, and the 1998 Pioneer Black Journalist by the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists. Ms. Scott is a member of the 1989 YWCA Academy of Women Achievers, a member of the 1986 Salute to America's Top 100 Black Business and Professional Women by Dollars and Sense Magazine; 1984 Bronze Woman of the Year in Professions by Iota Phi Lambda Sorority; local and co-winner of the 1983 Media Woman of the Year award by the National Association of Media Women; and 1983 winner of the commentary award by the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists.
On behalf of the Atlanta Daily World, Ms. Scott received the 2004 President's Award from the Atlanta Branch NAACP; the 2002 Atlanta Regional Minority Media Firm of the Year Award from the Minority Enterprise Development Agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the 2002 Media of the Year Award from the Georgia Conference of the NAACP, and the 2001 Media of the Year Award from the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus.
A native Atlantan, Ms. Scott is a graduate of Booker T. Washington High School, and attended Barnard College in New York City and Spelman College in Atlanta. She also attended the Columbia University School of Journalism as a summer participant in the 1974 Michelle Clark Fellowship Program. She is a 1992 graduate of the Regional Leadership Institute and a 1991 graduate of Leadership Atlanta.
She has two sons. She and her family are members of First Congregational Church, U.C.C., where Ms Scott served as presiding officer from 1982-1992, and was a member of the Sunday School staff for 30 years. She currently serves on the Board of Missions.
William J. Stanley, III, FAIA, NOMA
Principal
Stanley, Love-Stanley, P.C.
William J. Stanley, III, FAIA, NOMA, is the founder and principal for design for Stanley Love-Stanley, P.C. Mr. Stanley serves on the National Board of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) as the South Atlantic Regional Director for 2007-2009. Mr. Stanley is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), the Past President of AIA Georgia and the 1995 recipient of the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Citation as one of the Institute's highest honors to the country's most socially conscious architect. In 1999, AIA Georgia bestowed upon him the Bernard Rothschild medal- the state's highest award.
Mr. Stanley was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology and in 1972 became the first black graduate of its College of Architecture. Upon graduating, Mr. Stanley continued his internships in New York City and Detroit, Michigan. While interning with Welton Becket Associates and John Portman Associates, he was Senior Designer and Project Manager for several national and international projects. In 1975 he became the youngest African American ever to receive an architectural registration in the South. Since 1987, the Stanley, Love-Stanley, P.C. Scholarship/Internship Award of Excellence has been given to an undergraduate and a graduate student of African descent in the College of Architecture at GA Tech.
Mr. Stanley began his private architectural practice in 1977 with his wife Ivenue Love-Stanley, FAIA; over the years the firm has grown to become one of the largest African-American practices in the country concentrating in architecture, planning, program management, and interior design throughout the U.S. and abroad. Some of Mr. Stanley's 27 award-winning projects include: the Agricultural Sciences Building at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College; Lyke House - Catholic Center at Atlanta University Center; Centennial Place Elementary School; Ebenezer Baptist Church; Dobbs Plaza; Reynolds Cottage at Spelman College; United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta Youth Art Connection Gallery and Parking Deck; The Olympic Aquatic Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology; John Hope Hall Science Research Facility at Morehouse College; the Southwest Family Branch YMCA; Saint Paul's Episcopal Church; and the Herndon Tower at the First Congregational Church UCC. Additional projects include: Wilberforce Institute in Evanton, South Africa; Evans & Rosedale Business & Cultural District Redevelopment Project in Fort Worth, Texas; the Health & Physical Education Complex at Fort Valley State University, as well as the Nanotechnology Research Center at Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Stanley has lectured and served as a visiting critic and jury member throughout the U.S., Europe, and Africa. His work has been featured in numerous work and periodicals.
Mr. Stanley is past National President of the National Organization of Minority Architects; past President of 100 Black Men of Atlanta and AIA Georgia; past member of Architectural Record Magazine Advisory Board, Georgia Institute of Technology's National Advisory Board and its Alumni Association Board of Trustees; member of the National Board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Southwest YMCA Board, St. Paul A.M.E. Church Trustee and Steward's Board, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity's Kappa Boulé and Atlanta Life Financial Group Corporate Board, Secretary of the Morris Brown College Board of Trustees; Chairman of the Herndon Foundation Board; and numerous other affiliations.
