Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Milton Kirby Elected Chairman

As the chairman of the Transportation & Logistics Industry Group (TLG), Milton Kirby wants to increase the visibility, capacity, capability and sustainability of the group members.

Kirby, president and CEO of Allied Logistics, Inc., takes the helm of TLG as his industry faces one of its most challenging years.

The GMSDC is a non-profit organization established in 1975 as a regional office of the National Minority Supplier Development Council. The GMSDC is one of the largest of 39 Councils nationwide. The GMSDC has the largest number of certified and ethnically mixed MBEs in the Southeast region, it is comprised of a network of corporate members and certified minority business enterprises.

“We exist to educate and provide shared opportunities amongst ourselves as suppliers to one another or as partners to users of our services”. Our success will be measured by how well we perform in three key performance areas. 1) Providing a good educational component offered either by a member addressing us, or a guest speaker either from industry or related significant interested party. 2) Providing access to and assistance with business opportunities. 3) Sharing of opportunities which would be of interest to others regardless of whether the person bringing the opportunity can participate, Kirby said.

At the end of the day, our goal is to educate, support, and assist others and ourselves by jointly sharing knowledge and best practices.

Source: http://www.prlog.org/10531592-milton-kirby-elected-chairman.html

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