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J. Mac Holladay, CCE
Chief Executive Officer

Market Street Services, Inc.
245 Peachtree Center Avenue
Suite 2105
Atlanta, GA 30303
Voice: (404) 880-7244
Fax: (404) 880-7246
Email: mholladay@marketstreetservices.com

J. Mac Holladay is the founder and CEO of Market Street Services, Inc., a community and economic development consulting firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1997 to help cities, counties, states, regions, chambers of commerce, corporations and other clients proactively shape their own future. Market Street's comprehensive development strategies take into account every dimension of economic opportunity and quality of life. In each project, the firm advises its clients about how to manage and influence the community and economic development process to affect real and positive change. Market Street's clients are as diverse as Austin, Texas; Bluefield, West Virginia; and Greensboro, North Carolina. In the past six years the firm has worked in over forty communities in Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Georgia, Indiana, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, and Alabama. In addition, the firm has led major state level projects in Indiana, West Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Wyoming and North Carolina. Two international projects in the states of Western Australia and Victoria, Australia round out Market Street's client list.

Previously, Mr. Holladay served as Chief Operating Officer for the Governor's Development Council of Georgia from June 1993 to July 1997. Prior to 1993, Mr. Holladay served as the State Director for both the Mississippi Department of Economic and Community Development (1988-1992) and the South Carolina Development Board (1985-1988). Since 1972, he has been involved in community and economic development in five states and has served local Chambers of Commerce in Columbus, Indiana; Memphis, Tennessee; and Charleston, South Carolina.

His professional honors include being named a certified chamber executive (CCE) in 1981 and serving as president of both the Indiana and South Carolina Chamber of Commerce Executives. Mr. Holladay was a member of the Commission of the Future of the South from 1986 to 1992 and was the Chairman of the Board of Regents of Leadership South Carolina from 1984 to 1988. He was selected as a member of the 1986 class of the International Business Fellows and has served on the Board and Executive Committee of the Society of International Business Fellows. He was Co-Chairman of the Southern Technology Council of the Southern Growth Policies Board in 1991.

Mr. Holladay currently serves as a member of Southern Growth Policies Board's Council on the Southern Community; the Boards of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative (AETC); and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Multi-State Taxation and Incentives. Mr. Holladay speaks across the country on the topics of community and economic development and has been quoted in a wide variety of publications including Business Week, Fortune, The New York Times, The Atlanta Journal Constitution and many local newspapers.

Mr. Holladay is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and is a former U.S. Navy aviator. He has been named the outstanding faculty presenter at the Basic Economic Development Courses at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Universities of North Carolina and Kentucky. He has two daughters, Sarah and Jennifer.

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