Mission Statement
To create a vibrant, growing community where a high quality of life is supported by robust commercial and industrial growth.
Board Members
V. Kelly Bennett
John Hurt -Secretary/Treasurer
Stephen Boyle, MD - Chairman
Bennett is a highly qualified and success-driven professional with broad-based skills and 13+ years of experience in business operations management, project management, financial planning, and performance evaluation.
A strategist and executor, Bennett is skilled in designing and delivering customized business solutions to improve profitability, ROI, and efficiency. .
Stephen Boyle, MD - Chairman
John Hurt -Secretary/Treasurer
Stephen Boyle, MD - Chairman
Dr. Boyle is general surgeon with 40 years of experience living outside Atlanta, Georgia. He has been Chief of Staff at a local hospital as well as Chief of Surgery. He is a Medical Director of a large EMS and a local Fire Department. He was elected Rockdale's Coroner for 4 times.
In addition to serving on this board, Dr. Boyle also serves on the Board of Directors of our local Chamber of Commerce.
John Hurt -Secretary/Treasurer
John Hurt -Secretary/Treasurer
John Hurt -Secretary/Treasurer
Hurt is a franchise owner and operator of 10+ McDonald’s restaurants in Southeast Atlanta, which serves approximately 3.6 million customers annually and is comprised of 445 employees. Hurt is also the CEO & president of the Marriott Springhill Suites hotel in Lithia Springs, Ga.
Hurt holds a BBA in Accounting and MBA of Business Administration from Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia.
Craig Johnson
Donald K. Murphy - Vice Chairman
John Hurt -Secretary/Treasurer
A veteran businessperson, Johnson is the owner and an instructor at a local Kumon Learning Center. These learning centers specialize in afterschool math and reading programs for students in preschool through 12th grade.
Jaquacer Middlebrooks
Donald K. Murphy - Vice Chairman
Donald K. Murphy - Vice Chairman
Middlebrooks helps companies by designing, developing and manufacturing custom corrugated packaging solutions.
Middlebrooks is a packaging expert with over 30 years of serving Fortune 500 companies in the Health and Beauty, Food and Beverage and Logistics business sectors.
Donald K. Murphy - Vice Chairman
Donald K. Murphy - Vice Chairman
Donald K. Murphy - Vice Chairman
Murphy is the CEO and Managing Associate of The Wesley Peachtree Group, CPAs and Business Strategists. He is a certified public accountant, forensic certified public accountant, certified fraud examiner, certified government financial manager and chartered global management accountant.
Mr. Murphy has over 35 years of hands-on experience in higher education, governmental accounting and auditing and nonprofit organizations.
Mr. Murphy serves on the Board of Directors of several nonprofit organizations in the local community of Rockdale County.
Doug Sanders
Doug Sanders
Doug Sanders
Sanders has been the CEO of Sanders Holdings, LLC in 2009.
Sanders also founded the Doug Sanders Foundation in 2008.