Susan Compton-Colonial Bank
Susan Compton is executive vice president and senior lender for Colonial Bank. As senior lender, Compton manages all corporate lending functions for the bank, including commercial and industrial, commercial real estate, healthcare and residential real estate lending for the Birmingham region which includes Tuscaloosa and Walker Counties. Prior to joining Colonial Bank, she was a commercial lender and subsequently the senior lender at a bank in Tuscaloosa for 17 years.

Compton has served on the Allocation committee for the United Way and as a Trustee for the Chamber for the last two years.

Colonial Bank is a full service bank with branches throughout Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and Nevada. For more information on Colonial Bank’s services, visit http://www.colonialbank.com. 

John Stivender-Doster Construction Company
As Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer for Doster Construction Company, John Stivender is responsible for all aspects of the company’s marketing program. He coordinates the strategic focus of Doster’s seven offices and is personally involved in sales with numerous major clients and prospects.

Stivender serves as a board member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties. He is a Community Board Member of Operation New Birmingham and is actively involved with the Economic Development Association of Alabama, Monday Morning Quarterback Club, and The Newcomen Society. He is a past member of the Leadership Class of the Multiple Sclerosis Society (1999).

For more information visit www.dosterconstruction.com. 

Bill Todd-O2ideas
Bill Todd is president of O2ideas Public Relations. He is responsible for strategic PR, account supervision, staff administration and business development. He has 22 years' experience in PR and television news. Todd's expertise includes media relations, labor and crisis communications, governmental relations, and media training. Before joining O2ideas, he spent a 14-year career at BellSouth as a spokesman and as a finance manager for BellSouth Business Systems. From 1983-1987, he was an editor/reporter/producer for WVTM-TV. He has a B.A. from the University of Alabama, an M.A. from UAB, an M.B.A. from Auburn University, and is Accredited in Public Relations (APR).

For more information on O2ideas Inc, visit www.O2ideas.com.

Bill Murray-Integral Hospitality Solutions
Bill Murray founded Integral Hospitality Solutions in February 2003. In less than three years, Integral has grown into a nationally recognized hotel management company, operating over thirty properties across the country.

Integral was selected to manage Birmingham’s Holiday Inn Airport in September of last year. This was followed three months later by the announcement that Integral would be part of a partnership that would purchase the renowned Tutwiler Hotel. Both hotels are critical hospitality assets for visitors to the Magic City and both will undergo complete renovations over the next few months.

A lifelong resident of Birmingham, Murray has a vested interest in making both hotels into the showplaces visitors expect them to be. For more information, visit www.integralhospitality.com. 

Darlene Rotch-Panorama Public Relations
A member of the Alabama business community since 1980, Darlene Rotch is president and CEO of Panorama Public Relations, a public relations consulting firm offering strategic communications planning for businesses and organizations, including crisis management, issues management and development of community relations programs. Rotch also founded Strategia Hispanic Marketing in 2000, the first consulting firm in Alabama to help companies market to the Hispanic community.

Rotch currently serves on the board of directors for the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind and Pathways, is co-chair of Pathways’ annual Sporting Clays Shoot, and is a Trustee for the Magic City Art Connection. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, including its Environmental Section, and Manufacture Alabama, serving on the Alabama Commission on Infrastructure and the Environmental Committee.

To learn more about Panorama Public Relations or Strategia Hispanic Marketing, call at (205) 328-9334 or visit www.prview.com.

Frances Smith of AAA-Alabama
AAA-Alabama’s Chairman, President and CEO, Frances M. Smith, has spent her life serving AAA-Alabama members. She served as executive secretary, executive vice president and for the past 21 years as president and CEO. In 2002, she was elected as Chair of the AAA-Alabama Board of Directors.

Smith is one of only five female AAA CEOs in the nation. She has left her mark on the national organization through her service on many workgroups and committees, including the prestigious AAA Strategic Business Committee, the AAA Club Publications Alliance and through her appointment as a delegate to the White House Conference on Tourism. Her participation and involvement on a national level brought an Alabama and southern viewpoint to many important issues over the past 20 years.

To learn more about AAA-Alabama, call (205) 978-7000 or visit the web at www.aaa.com.

Spencer Weitman of National Cement Company
Spencer Weitman is president of National Cement Company and CEO of Kirkpatrick Concrete, Inc. Founded in 1910, National Cement has been a major supplier of cement for the Southeast United States. Kirkpatrick, founded in 1892, delivers concrete to customers throughout Alabama. Both companies employ more than 450 individuals.

Weitman joined National Cement in 1989 as manager of development and was promoted to president in 1993. He has served as the Chairman of Blue Springs Nature Park as well as on the Boards of the Portland Cement Association, American Concrete Paving Association, Alabama Concrete Industries Association, American Concrete Paving Association – Alabama, Hoover Country Club and the Sporting Clay Advisory Committee for Pathways.

To learn more about National Cement or Kirkpatrick, call at (205) 423-2600.

Mac Moorer of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC
Mac M. Moorer is the managing member of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC, a 54 attorney litigation boutique concentrating on representing Fortune 500 companies in civil litigation throughout Alabama and adjacent states.

Moorer currently serves as Chairman of ONB, is a member of the Leadership Birmingham Class of 2001, immediate past president of the Kiwanis Club of Birmingham (the world’s largest Kiwanis Club), Chairman of the Civic Club Foundation Board, Chairman of the Mountain Brook Anti-Drug Coalition, and serves on the Summit Club and Mountain Brook Foundation Board of Directors.

In addition, Moorer is very active in the Birmingham Bar Association, serving as its 2005 secretary/treasurer, as well as its Executive Committee, Grievance Committee, Bar foundation Board of Directors, Legal Aid Society Board of Trustees, and is a member and past officer of the Birmingham Inns of Court.

For more information on Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC, please call (205) 581-0700 or visit their website at www.lfwlaw.com.

John Beard of Alacare Home Health & Hospice
Birmingham-based Alacare Home Health & Hospice began providing Alabama’s Medicare patients in-home nursing, therapy and personal care in February of 1972. John Beard joined Alacare in November of 1976 and currently serves as Alacare's Chairman and president.

In 2002, Beard was selected by the Birmingham Business Journal for its initial class of the “Birmingham Top 100 in HealthCare.” In 2004, Alacare was awarded the Chamber’s Small Business of the Year.

Beard serves on numerous boards including the Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation, Visitors of the Capstone College of Nursing at the University of Alabama, Counselors of the UAB Center for Aging, Counselors of the Auburn University School of Nursing and the Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama. He also serves on the Alabama Nurses’ Foundation and is an adjunct professor at UAB’s School of Health Related Professions. Beard is the 2005-2006 president of the Shades Valley Rotary Club.

For more information on Alacare Home Health & Hospice’s services and locations, visit www.alacare.com.

Joe McGee of Legacy Community Federal Credit Union
Joe McGee is president and CEO of Legacy Community Federal Credit Union located in Birmingham. McGee is active in the credit union industry where he serves on the Board of Directors as secretary for the Executive Committee and chairman of the Audit Committee for Birmingham-based, credit union owned data processing company EPL, Inc. He also sits on the Executive Committee of the Credit Union Managers Association of Alabama as its treasurer and serves as an at-large member of the Audit Committee for the Alabama Credit Union League.

McGee serves on the National Board of Representatives and on the regional Board of Trustees for the Alabama / Gulf Coast Chapter for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. He was also recently selected to serve on the Board of the Greater Alabama Council, Boy Scouts of America.

For more information on Joe McGee and Legacy Community Federal Credit Union, please call (205) 933-9933.