President and the CEO of the Kidder Group, Inc.

Gary has a BA from Furman University in Business Administration and an MBA from Clemson University and was admitted to the Ph.D. program in Industrial Management at Clemson University. He served as a Deacon at First Presbyterian Church in Greenville for six years and as Chairman of the Board for Piedmont Women's Center (www.piedmontwomenscenter.org), a Christian-based Crisis Pregnancy Center, for 2003 and 2004, and he was also treasurer from 1999 to 2003.  In addition, he was on the Board of Directors for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and was Local Chair for SME in 2004 and Program Chair for SME in 2007. In 2005, he was inducted into The President’s Circle for SME. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for APICS and served as Newsletter-Chair of the Chapter in 2007 and local Chairman for 2008, since 2009 he has been the Vice President of Careers. He served from 1999 to 2003 on the Board of Directors for the Council of Logistics Management and has also worked with the Publicity Committee for the Greenville Society of Human Resource Management.  He currently serves on the Membership Committee for GSHRM.   In 2005, Gary served as the Chairperson of the judging committee for the Silver Crescent Small Manufacturing Award (www.salutetomanufacturing.com). In 2010, he joined the Board of Directors of www.innovisionawards.org/about_board.php     Gary specializes in recruiting in the fields of Executive Management, Manufacturing Management, Engineering, Quality,  Finance, Accounting, and Supply Chain Management.

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