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Date: 1 Feb 2021
Time: 12:30pm-1:20pm
Remote BlueJeans delivery: (recommend joining at least 5 mins early, to take care of any technical problems) https://bluejeans.com/987636040
Speaker: Meade Sutterfield
Speaker’s Work Address: meade@sutterfield.net
Seminar Title: Purpose, Decisions & People
Abstract of Talk:
Engineering school teaches critical thinking for technical subjects. Missing from this experience is understanding the other important factors to your success and happiness, which is understanding yourself, your decision process and relationships with others. This interactive discussion introduces a listener to some concepts and tools to further understand your inner self.
Biographical Sketch of the Speaker:
C. Meade Sutterfield is an angel and private equity investor primarily in emerging telecommunications and health care IT entities with 37 investments over his career. He currently serves on advisory boards for Council Capital and Antares Capital, as well as a director on the boards of three companies among those in which he currently is an investor. He is and has been very involved in the start-up ecosystem in Atlanta.
From 1985-1993 he was concurrently a founder and President of PowerFone, Inc., Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) carrier in the major markets in Michigan and Ohio, and Johnson Communications Corporation, an SMR carrier in the southeastern United States. These companies were merged into the rollup which created Nextel Communications as a nationwide company. He was previously President of AllianceWall Corporation in 1984 and at Kimberly-Clark, where from 1980-1984 he had held several positions leading to Vice-President and General Manager of the Service and Industrial Division. His initial career was Scientific-Atlanta, where he held many sales, marketing, operations and general management positions in Europe and America during his tenure from 1974-1980.
Meade's education includes a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1972 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1974, both with honors. He attended Georgia Tech on a football scholarship.
Meade is a past Chair of the Alumni Association of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He currently serves on the Institute's Foundation Board, the Advisory Boards for the Electrical Engineering School and the Flashpoint at Georgia Tech Incubator. He was also President of the Harvard Business School (Alumni) Club of Atlanta. He is a Director of the Sandy Springs Arts Foundation, currently serving as Treasurer.
He is a past Chair of the Society of International Business Fellows (SIBF) and a Past Chair of the Global Network Foundation (GNF) of SIBF. In 2002, he was one of the founders of the Central Eurasian Leadership Alliance (CELA) and has participated in all 14 academies and attended almost every reunion, resulting in travel to every country in the region. He was also extensively involved in the founding of the related Middle East Leadership Academy (MELA) and the Southeast Asia Leadership Academy (SEALA) and has served many times facilitator.
He is married to Susan and they have four married children and nine grandchildren ranging from 2-16 years. Meade has a passion for tennis and plays singles many times a week.
