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John Dwyer serves as president of Cricket Wireless, where he is responsible for overseeing the efforts of the company’s nationwide team.

Prior to this role, Dwyer was Senior Vice President of Customer Service at AT&T, where he was responsible for retail sales operations and customer care. He has previously held key customer service, sales and operations roles at AT&T, Cingular Wireless and Pacific Bell Mobile Services.

Outside the office, Dwyer is passionate about youth development and leadership programs. He is the chairman of Junior Achievement of Georgia and serves on the board of directors for Boy Scouts of Georgia.

A resident of Atlanta, Dwyer earned a bachelor's degree in marketing at the University of Wisconsin and a master's degree in finance at the University of Chicago.

In this episode, Terry students Caroline Lee and Caleb Stevens sit down with NFL Tight End and former UGA football player, Benjamin Watson. They discuss the importance of leadership, focus, and balancing football and family.

In this episode, Terry students Caroline Lee and Caleb Stevens sit down with Karole LLoyd — Vice Chair and Southeast Managing Parter of EY. They discuss the challenges and opportunities that come with navigating your career with excellence.

Dennis Lockhart stepped down from his role as the 14th President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in February. In that role, he oversaw all the bank's activity, including monetary policy, bank supervision and regulation, and payment services. Prior to that, he was on faculty at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Affairs and was an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He has also served as a managing partner for a boutique investment firm and as president of Heller International Group, among other positions.

Currently, Lockhart is a director/trustee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Research Alliance and the Commerce Club. He sits on the advisory board of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and chairs the Emory Brain Health Center advisory council. A California native, he served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, and holds degrees from Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University.

Lee Thomas is the deputy commissioner of the Georgia Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Office, a division of the Georgia Department of Economic Development. She previously served as film division director and location specialist for the Georgia Film and Videotape Office, working with movies such as “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “The Blind Side,” “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” “Footloose,” “Fast 5,” “The Conspirator” and “Zombieland.” A native of Atlanta, she has worked for the Brooklyn Arts Council and earned a bachelor of art degree from UGA and an MFA in film studies from Georgia State University.

Derreck Kayongo, CEO of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, was born in Kampala, Uganda, just before Idi Amin Dada seized power in a military coup. As violence spread through the country and civil war erupted, Kayongo and his family became refugees in Kenya. He later immigrated to America and attended college.

Though best known as a 2011 CNN Hero and founder of the Global Soap Project, Kayongo is a renowned expert in environmental sustainability and global health. In 2016, the Georgia State Senate passed a resolution recognizing Kayongo's incredible journey from refugee to CEO.

Ron Rogowski serves as chairman of the Atlanta Sports Council. In addition, he is vice president of global brand at UPS, where he oversees the development of global strategies that create new ways for businesses and consumers to access UPS services.

Rogowski joined UPS in 1985 and has held various positions in sales and marketing. Prior to his current role, he was in charge of development and execution of UPS’s global brand strategy and sponsorship strategy. Before that, he worked on UPS’s market strategy for aligning the multiple sales organizations resulting from acquisitions the company made since becoming listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1999.

A native of Detroit, Rogowski earned his undergraduate degree from Wayne State University and an MBA from the University of Detroit.

Alana Shepherd presented her thoughts on “Seeing Beyond Injury” at the October 20th Terry Third Thursday event in Atlanta. Shepherd co-founded the Shepherd Center in Atlanta in 1975 to treat spinal cord injury. Since then, she’s overseen its growth from a six-bed unit to a world-renowned, 152-bed rehabilitation hospital specializing in medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury, brain injury and other neurological conditions. She has served as the center’s chief fundraiser and prime mover-volunteer, and continues to work as secretary of the board of directors.

In her presentation, she shared the story of her son’s injury, which lead to the creation of the Shepherd Center and chronicled the center’s growth and success throughout the years. She also discussed the rehabilitation strategy of the center which focuses on ensuring that patients get out of their hospital beds and live a normal life.

After founding the center with her husband, Harold, and son James, Alana Shepherd realized that treating patients wasn’t enough. She needed to change society to be more accepting of these individuals. Her advocacy resulted in the addition of lifts to Atlanta’s MARTA bus system and in making Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport one of the country’s most accessible airports.

Among her many awards, Alana received an honorary doctorate from the University of Georgia, the 2012 J.W. Fanning Award from Leadership Georgia and the Georgia Hospital Association’s 2009 Lifetime Heroic Achievement Award. In 1989, she became the first woman elected to be a member of the Buckhead Coalition and, in 2003, she was the first woman elected as chairman of the coalition. She is also the first woman elected to boards of Genuine Parts and Wachovia Bank of Georgia.

Karole F. Lloyd is Vice Chair and Southeast Regional Managing Partner for Ernst & Young. For the last seven years, she has also served as a member of the U.S. Executive Board, Americas Operating Executive and the Global Practice Group at EY. Since taking the southeast regional leadership role in 2009, she has augmented the business with full-scale advisory and transaction consulting services. Under her leadership, the region doubled its annual revenue to exceed $1.3 billion.

Lloyd also serves as the senior advisory partner for Delta Air Lines, WestRock and the Coca-Cola Company. Within the Atlanta community, Lloyd serves on the board of trustees and executive committee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; the United Way of Greater Atlanta and The Rotary Club of Atlanta. She supports many colleges and universities, including serving on the president’s advisory council and the board of visitors at the University of Alabama.

Have you ever wondered how to get more involved in Terry? With so many ways to get plugged in beyond the classroom, how can you explore all that Terry has to offer? Terry seniors Caroline Lee, Savannah Phinney, and Caleb Stevens discuss some of the ways they have gotten involved with Terry and helpful ways to explore all of the opportunities that Terry has to offer.