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Alex Taylor is president and chief executive officer of Cox Enterprises, a leading communications, media and automotive services company with $21 billion in annual revenues and more than 55,000 employees worldwide. He is responsible for the company and its three major subsidiaries: Cox Communications, Cox Automotive and Cox Media Group, as well as the Cox Family Office and corporate functions including financial operations, human resources and administration. Taylor serves on Cox Enterprises’ board of directors and is the great-grandson of James M. Cox, who founded the company in 1898. During his 19-year career at Cox, Taylor has held numerous positions within the company. Taylor previously served as chief operating officer of Cox Enterprises, where he had oversight of the company’s three subsidiaries, as well as its long-term growth and investment plans. He also served as senior vice president of field operations for Cox Communications, the company’s broadband and cable division. As executive vice president of Cox Media Group, he oversaw its largest television, radio, newspaper and digital properties, and led the creation of the company’s first cross-platform newsroom. Taylor began his career as a reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel in Colorado. Taylor is a board member of Food Well Alliance and PATH Foundation, and former board chair of American Rivers. He received his bachelor's degree in human and organizational development from Vanderbilt University, where he now serves on the board of trust. An avid outdoorsman and conservationist, he is the author of “The Longest Cast: The Fly-Fishing Journey of a Lifetime.” He donated the royalties from the book to the International Game Fishing Association for the preservation of endangered fishing sanctuaries.

Jay Timmons is a Chairman at Manufacturing Institute/The, President/CEO at Natl Assn of Manufacturers, and Board Member at U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform and is based in Washington, D.C.. He has worked as Chief of Staff Governor George Allen at Virginia Department Of Motor Vehicles, Communications Advisor at Republican National Committee, and Senior VP:Policy & Government Relations at Natl Assn of Manufacturers. Jay works or has worked as BOARD MEMBER at Humane Rescue Alliance and MEMBER at BIPAC. He attended Logan Elm High School between 1977 and 1980 and The Ohio State University between 1980 and 1983.

James W. Horne Jr. is a President and Chief Executive Officer at United Way of Greater Union County and is based in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He has worked as Somerset County Chair at The Citizens Campaign, Principal Partner at MP Associates Inc, and Ad-junct Professor at Rutger University. James attended Springfield College between 2003 and 2005.