Tom Leonard, president of Leonard Strategic Advantage (LSA), has forty years of successful business experience. LSA, founded in 2009, has facilitated a dozen Strategic Plans in the Charleston metropolitan area, including C.T. Lowndes & Co., the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, the Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy and Joint Base Charleston, Charleston’s number one and number three top employers respectively.
expanded bioKirk King is owner, president and CEO of CSS, one of the South’s fastest growing and highly respected technology consulting companies. CSS specializes in the implementation and support of Oracle software systems.
expanded bioJames T. H. Buxton is the founder of Buxton Legal Group, LLC, a boutique corporate law firm focusing on serving as outside general counsel to clients on a wide range of transactional matters with a particular emphasis on small and medium-sized businesses.
expanded bioMayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. is widely considered one of the most visionary and highly effective governmental leaders in America. First elected Mayor in December 1975, Mayor Riley is serving an unprecedented eighth term.
expanded bioStephen M. Lanier, Ph.D. was appointed Associate Provost for Research and Professor of Pharmacology at the Medical University of South Carolina in December 2006. Dr. Lanier has been continually supported by the National Institutes of Health since 1985 and is the recipient of numerous awards including a Research Scholar Award from the Yamanouchi Foundation, and an appointment as a Fellow of the American Heart Association.
expanded bioMr. Grier Allen is the President and Co-Founder of BoomTown, a real estate software as a service (SaaS) company based in Charleston, SC. Allen has over ten years of experience in both the real estate industry and software development, as well as an in-depth knowledge of the nuances of forming and growing technology-based businesses.
expanded bioJonathan Butler was one of the founding members of Automated Trading Desk (ATD). He joined the company in 1988 and, as the first employee of ATD, Butler was a critical player in the development of ATD's proprietary limit-order trading system, creating the initial software architecture based on mathematical algorithms.
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