SOCIAL - Key Persons
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- Director
- Director - Orlando, FL
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- Director
- Director - Orlando, FL
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- Director
- Director - Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
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- Vice Chairman of the Board & Secretary - Maitland, FL.
linked a very successful business career to an abiding commitment of service to his fellow man. George's career started with corporate giant P&G, but he moved back to Florida to became Managing Partner of a family business, one of the largest citrus operations in Florida. He later became President of Unique Electronics, a manufacturer of wiring for military aircraft and missiles. He was a founder of Premiere Communications, a very successful public company specializing in long distance debit cards. He has been a Director several private and public corporations. George continues to be active with business interests in farming and resort development.
George Mackay has been visibly involved in church, public and social service related activism in the Orlando area. Among his activities, George serves on the Board of Directors of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, the Haiti Fund, as Outreach Chairman for the Presbytery (PCUSA) of Central Florida, and the President of a private charitable foundation.
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- Chairman of the Board - Ponte Vedra Beach, Fl.
Tom is retired as President of The Trane Company, one of the world's largest industrial
companies. He also has held the position of Senior Vice President of American Standard Inc. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Trane, American
Standard, and Chairman and/or a Board Member of over a dozen public and private companies in the US and abroad. Currently, he is the Managing Partner of SEPTA Associates, a private investment and consulting firm and a General Partner of Rutledge Partners, II - a private equity firm.
He is an engineering graduate of Tulane University and completed his formal business education at Columbia University. He has been a Visiting Professor in Business at the Stetson University in Deland, Florida and currently serves on their summer faculty at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
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- Director
- Director - Atlanta, GA
Nicole Carlin joined CODEP in the fall of 2009. The Carlin's orientation period was hurriedly completed on January 12, 2010 by the terrible Haiti Earthquake (epicenter only a few miles from the CODEP organizational compound in L'acul). Mike and Nicole responded remarkably to the needs of CODEP as well as to the critical issues facing surrounding communities. Their accomplishments in pulling together all CODEP constituencies dealing with the earthquake issues while keeping CODEP on target in its community economic development has been remarkable.The Carlins are from Pittsburgh where Mike was in the construction business. Earlier he served a 9 year stint as Campus Minister for the Presbyterian Church at the University of Pittsburgh. Mike graduated from the Penn State with a BS in Biochemistry and spent a few years working at the university doing research. A graduate of Messiah College of Lancaster, PA in elementary education, Nicole is a commercial artist. She also served as Teaching Director for the Community Bible Study Program in the Pittsburgh. Mike and Nicole have 4 children.
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- Vice Chairman & Treasurer - Altamonte Springs, FL
An Aeronautics Engineer by profession, Paul is a graduate of Georgia Tech. He began his career in engineering and management working for several of our nation's largest defense and aerospace corporations. Later, Paul became owner, founder and
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- Director
- Director - Altamonte Springs, FL
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- Director
- Director & Chief Operating Officer HFD - Port - Au - Prince, Haiti
- Director of the Social Enterprise Fund, Inc.
Valentin Abe, Ph.d is a Director of the Social Enterprise Fund, Inc. and serves SEF as Chief Operating Officer of the Haiti Fish Development Project. A Fulbright scholar from the Ivory Coast, Dr. Abe received his Baccalaureate, Masters and PhD degrees from Auburn University's world renowned School of Aquaculture. Dr. Abe is a considered to be a world authority on tilapia growth and development. With experience in Africa, Asia and the USA, Dr. Abe married a Haitian and moved to Haiti. He is devoted to restoring Haiti to its rightful place as a commercial fish pr oducer in the Caribbean. Dr. Abe was named by TIME Magazine in May 2000 to the TIME 100 which honors the 100 most influential people in the world.