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Platinum Board of Advisers

• Dr. Jerry L. Spencer, former President of the 45,000-member Pastors' Conference of the Southern Baptist Convention (2001), has been a guest speaker in several hundred churches across the United States and around the world, and has made 35 missionary trips to India and many missionary trips to Uganda.  Dr. Spencer is a graduate of Union University of Jackson, Mississippi, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.  Dr. Spencer pastored churches across the nation, growing small congregations into large ones, is former Second Vice President of the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), and serves on the SBC Executive Committee.  Dr. Spencer has also served as Vice President of the Christian Light Foundation.  Jerry and his wife, Sue, have 9 children and 15 grandchildren.
• Donald "Don" A. Sepulveda is founder and president of Sepulveda Insurance Group--one of Georgia's largest and most prestigious independent insurance agencies affiliated with more than 3,000 agents.  Don has been a licensed insurance agent for nearly 30 years.  Forbes Magazine named The Sepulveda Insurance Group in its Top Ten insurance firms in January 2008.  Don is also an accomplished entertainer having performed on The Grand Ole Opry, the Las Vegas Strip, headlining at county fairs and churches, while enjoying numerous number 1 hits on the independent charts over the past 15 years.  Don jump-started his singing career by winning on Ed McMahon’s show, Star Search.  Don is married to Nora and has three daughters, Tabitha, Donna and Candice.
  
• Sue Palmer is the former Director of Operations of the world acclaimed and Europe’s most read author, Dr. John C. Maxwell (Leadership guru).  Sue worked as Director at Maxwell's capital stewardship company (the second largest in America with more than $3 billion in successful campaigns completed).  Sue brings substantial COO experience and wisdom to bear on the business and decisions of Platinum Business Group, Ltd and its subsidiaries.  Sue and her husband, Paul, have two children, Heather and David, and 7 grandchildren.
• Colonel Nimrod "Mac" McNair is the veteran of four wars, liaison between the Pentagon and NASA during the race to the moon, former candidate for Governor of Georgia, an accomplished author and speaker.  Mac has a broad range of experience in the career fields of military, science, education, religion, and business.  Mac was a professor at North Carolina State University, a director of the aerospace program at the Pentagon, an Air Force advisor to NASA, and combat commander in Vietnam.  Mac is a rated command pilot and navigator.  During combat in WWII and in Vietnam he flew more than 600 combat hours and 110 missions. He was shot down twice and survived four crashes.  He has been awarded the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross and numerous other distinctions.  Mac holds many degrees, is an accomplished businessman who has traveled to substantially more than 100 countries worldwide, and is a frequent keynote speaker domestically and abroad on business, management and ethics.
• Dr. Joe L. Ford was appointed Executive Director of International Prayer Ministries in September 2008.  Joe served on the board of directors of Sammy Tippit Ministries of San Antonio, Texas.  Joe has served with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) for about 12 years in a number of executive positions related to the Evangelism Section.  During the course of his 40-plus year ministry Joe served in a variety of pastoral roles in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Georgia including one of the SBC's largest churches--The North Phoenix Baptist Church.  Joe is father-in-law to internationally acclaimed country music sensation, Josh Turner.  Josh is a multi-Platinum MCA recording artist who has won numerous awards and is one of the youngest members of The Grand Ole Opry.  Joe and his wife, Charlotte, have two children, Jennifer and Brandon.Brandon is married to Stephanie Lauren Ford.  They have one son and another on the way!  Also, Josh and Jennifer have one son and another on the way!
• Jeffrey "Jeff" R. Chambers, founder and President of Chambers Ministry Group of Knoxville, Tennessee, is a gifted agent and promoter of Christian speakers and entertainers.  Jeff is co-creator of Launch Ministries with its Integrity Ministry Guide, and a vigorous advocate of health and nutrition.  Jeff made national news after losing more than 100 pounds and climbing Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the Continental United States.
• Dr. Cesar A. Brooks, founder and President of Maranatha Fellowship Church Ministries, Inc of Augusta, Georgia, has pastored for many years, planting three successful churches and launching over 40 pastors and preachers into the ministry.  Bishop Brooks and his wife founded an orphanage in Nicaragua in the early 1990s that has rescued hundreds of children from the doom of homelessness and survival of a life on the streets.  Cesar participated in Evangel Fellowship International that has built thousands of churches in the former Soviet Union and its satellite states and South America.  Cesar is a gifted businessman and business adviser.  Cesar and his wife, Sherry, have one son, Taylor.

·         Marijean Stallings, Chairman and CEO (see below for biography)

·         Robyn S. Rogers, Vice Chairman (see below for biography)

President and CEO

• Marijean Stallings is founder, President and CEO of Platinum Business Group,Ltd and its Platinum Entertainment and Church Ministry and Finance International divisions.  Marijean received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Oral Roberts University, graduating with honors and as the Outstanding Female Athlete of the University in 1981.  Marijean continued her education at Mary Hardin Baylor University in Texas.  As a ranked tennis professional and licensed teacher, Marijean became heavily involved in working with large state and national charities (ultimately leading to four years working with the White House).  Through her college and professional sports, event organization experiences at the White House, numerous athletic and professional speaking appearances, and incredible relationships in government, corporate America, Hollywood, churches, and hospitality, Marijean set out to build a business that drew from these remarkable relationships.  The outcome is the successful juggernaut mortgage and equity funding business Platinum Business Group, Ltd that has more than $2 billion in commercial funding requests at any given time.   

• Timothy "Tim" V.Robinson
• Phillip E. Saxton, II
  

• Stephen "Steve" P. Coleman, Esquire (The Coleman Firm)