Executive Leadership Team

Clarence Sylvester an Oilfield Veteran with over 35 Years in the Oil Industry. Clarence's career afforded him to lead a drilling team worldwide: Brazil, Chad Africa, South Korea, Saudi Arabia , Kuwait, Canada, and Mexico. This afforded him a great understanding of different Cultures. Clarence experience includes Supervisor, responsible for drilling million of barrels of oil and millions of dollars of revenues. 

Clarence was one of the first African American in the Oil Industry to manage a team on a Hi-Tech Drilling Ship. His Passion is to Enhance Workforce Development and Expand On The Job Training, which provided him with the opportunity to grow his Career Path. Clarence followed the Holy Spirit and relocated his family to Georgia. Clarence is the Quiet Storm by praying for and supporting his wife Melinda in GGBCC. His book will be published soon. 

Lisa Ann Landry will tell you the technical and management expertise gained during her 14-year career at IBM was like earning a Ph.D.  She holds master’s degree in management, from the Indiana Wesleyan University and completed post-graduate work at Walden University in Management and Decision Sciences.

Other experiences that serve her well today come from being a senior leadership consultant and certified executive coach. She has over 30 years of experience as world-class learning and development professional working with training companies as a master trainer delivering programs that ignite, inspire, and transform frontline personnel and executive leadership.

Linda and David Gunter are the founders of Love Him Love Them. They started as a non-profit in 1998 in the 5th worst crime ridden neighborhood in America. Vine City, Atlanta. As real estate investors at that time they had homelessness, drugs and prostitution thrown in their face on a daily basis. They wanted to make a difference. Then one day a homeless woman who had all of her belongings in a grocery cart came up to on the porch of their rental properties while the Gunter’s were inside working on the property. She wanted to know if she could stay in the house. After trying to get her into every one of the current homeless shelters in Atlanta only to learn there were no openings. The Gunter’s took that actual property the lady had come to and turned it into a homeless shelter.

Clara Sylvester is The Visionary of The Greater Georgia Black Chamber of Commerce and A Thought Leader who collaborates with GGBCC President/ CEO. Clara graduated from Louisiana State University. she received her bachelor’s Degree in Sociology. Clara teaches English abroad, bringing her Global Experience to GGBCC. 

Clara’s Passion is to Expand Education Experiences in the Underserved Communities and Build Bridges Amongst Different Cultures.

Clara is also leading an initiative to Engage her Peers who lives and work overseas to continue to Vote even though they are abroad. The initiative is: “ It’s Your Business To Vote!"

Clara is a former employee of Grady Medical Systems.

Dave is a Risk Advisor for Sterling Seacrest Pritchard. He provides risk management and insurance solutions for clients in the sectors of healthcare, professional services, construction contracting, and private  risk. His background in law also provides him with extensive knowledge in contract  review and coverage interpretation. 

Prior to joining Sterling Seacrest Partners, Dave worked at Regions Insurance Group and McGriff Insurance Services. He began his career in insurance defense litigation with Swift, Currie McGhee & Heirs and State Farm before serving as  General Counsel for Resurgens Risk Management. 

Dave is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Washington University School of Law.

Karlene Gordon is the Diversity and Inclusion officer for Ameris Bank. She has over 20 years of human resource experience and most recently served as a senior human resources business partner since joining Ameris Bank in 2018.

Prior to joining Ameris Bank, Gordon was a human resources business partner for Live Person. She has held a variety of human resources roles throughout her career, supporting the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and HR Dynamics among other businesses. As a graduate of Queens College of New York, Gordon holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a concentration in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

Mr. Jalen Scott Uboh is the Chairman, President and Founder of J.S.  Uboh Companies and its affiliated companies—All American Contracting Solutions, Inc. , J.S. Uboh Real Estate Development Corporation, 

Premier Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Company, Ellis & Whitmore, and Premier 100 Foundation Inc. -- with the paramount mission of "Building an Exceptional Future, Together."

Mr. Jalen S. Uboh has established himself as a force to reckon with as a business leader, leading a multi-million dollar empire that includes a government affairs consulting firm, a real estate development and civil construction, an environmental engineering consulting company, a biomedical, pharmaceutical and medical equipment distribution company, a small business lending firm and insurance group, and a national business development and workforce development program.