Dr. Mary Crowley McDonald is the Founder and CEO of MCD Partners, a national consulting company that provides a broad range of services for educational consulting and models for success. MCD Partners is a vehicle for providing education consulting, leadership mentoring, leadership retreats, Foundation training for grantee accountability, motivation
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Art Seessel is a founding member of the Society of Entrepreneurs, and he is someone who understands well the concept of entrepreneurship. “A true entrepreneur is simply one who has a vision and the tenacity to pursue that vision.” Art has embodied his own definition and has successfully turned Seessel’s Supermarkets into a beloved Memphis’
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Classic American Hardwoods was started in April of 2001 literally off of Bill Courtney’s couch. By June of 2001, it boomed in growth to 3 employees operating out of a front room in his home. Today, the company sits on a 43 acre site in North Memphis where the manufacturing and domestic sales offices operate and has additional sales offices in Sha
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Jack Soden is the CEO of Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. Jack grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and attended Regis University in Denver, Colorado. After graduation, he went to work in the investment banking industry. While working as Executive Director of a money management firm, he met a client, Priscilla Presley. Upon her request, he came to Me
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Duncan F. Williams is the Founder and Chairman of Duncan Williams Asset Management (DWAM) which was founded in 2015. DWAM is an investment advisory firm with over $2.5B in Assets-Under-Management that specializes in financial management for individual investors, businesses, and non-profit organizations. Mr. Williams also serves as President of
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Bob Wilson was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the second child of five in a world-renowned American Family. His father is the late Kemmons Wilson: The Father of Hospitality and America’s Innkeeper. Kemmons Wilson was the founder and Chairman of the Board of Holiday Inn hotels. Bob’s entire upbringing was i
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Ellen Rolfes is a philanthropy strategist who has used her entrepreneurial gift of out-of-the-box thinking to help institutions discover financial growth while creating sustainable societal change. Her work has been with academic and healthcare institutions, non-profits in social service and the arts. She began her career teaching “how to publ
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Jeff Webb knows something of the entrepreneurial “spirit” – he’s made a career of it. In the mid 70’s the former University of Oklahoma yell leader founded a company to conduct training camps for high school and college cheerleaders. Varsity Spirit has grown through the years to become the world’s largest
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In 2002, David Wedaman and a handful of employees started ReTrans. ReTrans is an intermodal marketing company that moves freight throughout the United States, with it’s primary focus on intermodal transportation. In less than seven years, David has grown his company to 32 offices and 250 employees with revenues exce
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Bill West is not just a physician, but also an entrepreneur. He is the founder of the nationally known West Clinic, now West Cancer Center in Memphis, Tennessee and though he no longer participates in active practice, it continues to bear his name as one of the most admired brands in the city. The West Cancer Center has grown to over 700 associates
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