Program Chairs:
Kriner Cash, Superintendent, Memphis City Schools; Chair
PeopleFirst!
Bill Gibbons, Shelby County District Attorney General; Chair Operation Safe Community
Tom Schmitt, President & CEO, FedEx Global Supply Chain Services; Chair MemphisED
Committee Members
Joyce Avery, Chairman, Shelby County Commission
Martha Perine-Beard, Sr. Memphis Branch Executive, Federal Reserve Bank
of St. Louis
Charles Burkett, President, First Tennessee Bank
Harold Collins, Chairman, Memphis City Council
Sharon Goldsworthy, Mayor, City of Germantown
Charles Gulotta, Executive Director, Memphis/Shelby County Office of
Economic Development
Pitt Hyde, Chairman, The Hyde Family Foundations
G.A. Hardaway, TN State Representative, Chair of Shelby
County Legislative Delegation
Robert Lipscomb, Director, City of Memphis
Division of Housing & Community
Development
Keith McDonald, Mayor, City of Bartlett
Joe Pepe, President & Publisher, The Commercial Appeal
Steve Reynolds, President & CEO, Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp.
Bill Rhodes, Chairman, President & CEO, Autozone
Blair Taylor, President, Memphis Tomorrow
Phil Trenary, President & CEO, Pinnacle Airlines