Annual Meeting 2012

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Join us as we welcome our new SSPC Board of Directors and Introduce all of our Board of Directors and award a SSPC Member of the Year and a SSPC Board Member of the Year. Our keynote speaker for our annual meeting will be one of the founding partners of Perdue Partners, Sonny Perdue, former governor of Georgia, and now International Businessman served as Georgia’s 81st Governor and is the owner of a successful commodity trading company and logistics company in the southeast. On October 26, 2010 Governing Magazine named Governor Perdue a Public Official of the Year for his outstanding leadership. Reason Foundation’s 2009 Innovators in Action Magazine recognized Governor Perdue as a leader who “aggressively pursued new strategies to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of government and deliver better value at less cost to taxpayers”. And in 2008 the Pew Center on the States ranked Georgia among the best managed states in the nation emphasizing the value and impact of improvements made by Governor Perdue’s Commission for a New Georgia.

Prior to becoming Governor, Perdue served as a state senator for 11 years and was recognized as a leading authority on numerous issues including agriculture, transportation, emerging technologies and economic development. After earning a doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Georgia and serving as a Captain in the United States Air Force, Perdue became a successful business owner, concentrating in agribusiness and transportation logistics.

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