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	Richard M. Stormont The Stormont Companies, LLC dstormont@bellsouth.net
Dick Stormont is the principal of The Stormont Companies, LLC which provides leadership services to many boards of not-for-profit organizations on which he serves. He is Past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Lenbrook Square Foundation, a Continuing Care Retirement Community in Buckhead. He is one of the founders and serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Atlanta St. Patrick’s Day Foundation. Recently, he retired from active corporate life. After the merger of interests, Dick was Managing Director of Stormont Noble Development, the industry leading development arm of Noble Investment Group specializing in fine hotels, conference centers, and resorts. The company is the successor to Stormont Hospitality, which was the development arm of Stormont Trice Corporation an interest of The Stormont Companies, Inc. A recognized leader in the hospitality industry and a corporate Marriott veteran of 22 years service, Dick Stormont has had extensive experience in the development, operation, franchising and financing of all types of hotels, conference centers, and resorts throughout the United States. In 1984 he left Marriott to form The Stormont Companies, Inc. and served as Chairman until March 2000 when the Stormont Trice Corporation interest sold its hotel management division to Crestline Capital Corporation. Dedicated to community service, Dick Stormont has held a number of significant leadership positions in the hospitality industry, including serving as Chairman of the Tourism Division for the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism; as a Director and Regional Vice President of the Cornell Society of Hotelmen and President of the Georgia Chapter; as a Director, President and Chairman of the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau; as a Director, President, and Founder of the Georgia Hospitality and Travel Association; and as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Hotel and Motel Association. In 1999, he was named “Most Valuable Volunteer” (state of Georgia) by the American Hotel and Lodging Association and was presented a plaque by President George Herbert Walker Bush. In the year 2000, he was inducted as a member of the Georgia Hospitality and Travel Association’s Hall of Fame. Dick Stormont is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. He participated as a representative for the Cornell Hotel Society Southeast Region Alumni Showcase held in Ithaca, New York. Dick was recognized by the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration as the 2006 Southeastern Hotelier of the Year. An additional honor was bestowed on Dick being inducted as a member of the “Atlanta Hospitality Hall of Fame”. He is the Past President and serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rotary Club of Atlanta. He will serve his term through June of 2009. Dick and his wife, Lou, reside in the Buckhead community of Atlanta. They have two sons, John , Rich and his wife Lauren, .a daughter Stacy, and her husband Reid Freeman. The Stormont’s have four grandchildren.
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