Business / Entrepeneur
This SMA Hall of Fame web page is a living list, which currently shows just a few of the more renown SMA alumni…
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BUSINESS / ENTREPENEUR | BIOS | ||
1879 | Charles W. Johnston | President, Johnston Mills Co.; “Titan among textile industrialists.” | |
1940 | Matthew Mezzanotte | Developer, President and Director of Albergo Cuore, Inc. (Washington, DC and Florida) | |
1941 | William H. Blount | Blount Brothers Corp.; President, Southeastern Sand and Gravel Company | |
1941 | William W. Thompson | President of Thompson Oil Co. | |
1945 | Robert M. Bennett | Broadcasting Pioneer and Legend | |
1946 | Hunter W. Henry, Jr. | Director, Executive VP Dow Chemical Corp.; President, Dow USA | |
1946 | Guy P. McSweeney | President, Resco, Inc.; Board of Directors, RAM Technologies, Inc. | |
1946 | Guy P. McSweeney | President, Resco, Inc.; Board of Directors, RAM Technologies, Inc. | |
1949 | Harold Paul “Herk” Wolfe | President and Chairman BoD Wyandot Dolomite, Inc.; Chairman of the Ohio Aggregates Association, NSA, Flexible Pavements of Ohio | |
1959 | Samuel M. Camp | Founder and Chairman of the Board, PAMLAB | |
1960 | John W. Rollins | Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Rollins Truck Rentals, Inc. | |
1960 | James D. Vance | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of vance & Engles Aircraft Brokers | |
1961 | Al Van Ness | CEO Cunard Cruise Lines | |
1963 | Monroe “Jack” Best | President-CEO, Best Distributing Company | |
1964 | Thomas T. Byrd | President, Rockingham Publishing Co. | |
1965 | Fred A. Hazlewood | President, John Bull Group; Awarded Order of St. Michael & St. George | |
1973 | D. Brooks Holstein | Founder & Senior Managing Member of COMVEST Properties, LLC, and its affiliate development company, Net Lease Developers, LLC | |