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corporate counsel to start up business and small to medium size companies.

He is also actively involved in his community, having served as an area manager for Gwinnett county elections since 2014, on the board of Gwinnett County Habitat for Humanity from 2014 through to 2019, on the board of the Georgia Habitat for Humanity since 2021, on the Gwinnett Police Citizen Advisory Board from 2021 through 2022, on the AJ Cultural and Education Board since 2021 and as the founder and Chairman of the African American Culture and Arts Festival, Inc. He has a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a Juris Doctorate Degree from New York University School of Law.
He is also a graduate of the Empire State Military Academy. Andy resides in Atlanta with his family.

She earned a bachelor’s in public relations at the University of Florida and a master’s in organizational communication at Barry University in Miami Florida. While in graduate school, she conducted research on intercultural communication issues for Black women in corporate America and on the motivating factors for employees in the profit and nonprofit sectors using organizational communication paradigms. In 2017, Dr. Garrett earned her Doctorate from Barry University. Her current areas of research for publication include strategies for creating shared identity spaces on university campuses and implementing culturally responsive pedagogies within foundational communication courses.
Prior to joining GSU, Dr. Garrett served as the Dean of Academic Affairs for Miami Dade College, (MDC) which is the largest institution of higher education in the country offering more than 300 educational pathways to a career for over 165,000 students.
Dr. Garrett is also a proud member of The Links, Incorporated and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. She and her husband reside in Atlanta.

the humanitarian plight of developing countries, Ditchfield speaks widely on how to inspire change and promote empowerment among cultures and individuals.

Having established a branch of the Sports for Peace Foundation, Ditchfield works with orphans of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and promotes the efforts of the SonRise School. He also works with the international Nobel Laureate group PeaceJam, and is a consultant to the Born To Be Free Foundation and the Mandela Soccer Academy in Ghana. Additionally, Ditchfield serves as advisor to The Aspire Group, a global sports and entertainment firm that provides strategic expertise and resources to individuals, business, and sports teams. Ditchfield was instrumental to incorporating sports into Project Mercy’s work in Ethiopia, and served as President of the Sixteenth of May Foundation, which helped rebuild villages in South Sudan. Additionally, he participated in the Save Darfur campaign, speaking at the Olympic torch ceremony as the Team Darfur representative for athletes worldwide. Ditchfield graduated from the University of Bradford before he relocated to the United States, completing graduate coursework while coaching at Pennsylvania State University. He resides in Denver, Colorado, where he served as Board President of the Colorado Coalition for Genocide Awareness and Action. Ditchfield remains dedicated to transforming lives by advocating for human dignity and decency across the globe.

Georgia World Congress Center, and later as Director of Sales for The Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Realizing the abundance of opportunity for a responsible developer in the metropolitan Atlanta area, Mr. Vari entered the commercial real estate sector in 1987.  Using the interpersonal and negotiation skills honed in his previous career, Mr. Vari has skillfully balanced development negotiations among neighborhoods, planning and zoning boards, task forces, attorneys and governmental bodies, to assure the best outcome for all parties in difficult developmental and approval processes.

He joined Jacoby Development, Inc. in 1991, where he has been directly instrumental in the development of more than twenty Super Wal*Marts and shadow-anchored centers in both metropolitan Atlanta and the state of Georgia.  In addition, he has developed centers anchored by Kroger, Publix, Ingles, Food Lion, Sams Club, Lowe’s and Kohl’s.  He was a key member of the team that acquired, remediated, and redeveloped Jacoby’s nationally acclaimed Atlantic Station, a former steel mill.

Mr. Vari’s most recent projects have involved the redevelopment of under-utilized or closed industrial sites in the metro Atlanta area.  Mr. Vari was instrumental in the development of a plan that culminated in Jacoby’s acquisition of the shuttered Ford Assembly plant adjacent to the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International.  Redevelopment of the site into a mixed-use “Aerotropolis” is underway, spearheaded by its centerpiece, Porsche’s North American Headquarters and Customer Experience Center which opened in early 2015. Planned future additions to the site include hotel and retail properties as well as Class A office space.

Currently, Mr. Vari is a Principal in the development of Celebration Village, Forsyth, and the Reserve at Celebration Village, an age in place community featuring independent, assisted, and memory care apartment living plus a gated 75 home community for active adult living. The development also features a retail component anchored by a Lidl Supermarket.

In addition to development, Mr. Vari navigated the assemblage and selling of one of the largest residential transactions in North Metro Atlanta in 2013.

Mr. Vari was a key member of the team which developed Atlanta’s International Rugby Venue.  The complex, located on I-285, hosts International and National fixtures leading up to the 2020 Olympic Games.

Mr. Vari is active in numerous organizations, including the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Florida State University Alumni Association, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Alumni Association, Atlanta Seminole Boosters and Leadership Atlanta.  He serves on the governing boards of the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, The Atlanta Rugby Foundation, Inc. the Atlanta Old White Rugby Club, and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.