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| As AEN’s executive director, Glen Paul Freedman will become the organization’s ‘eyes
and ears,’ President Bonnie Barton says.
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By: STEPHEN SINGERMAN
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Nearly a year after the Atlanta Executive Network began its search to locate
its first-ever executive director, the gay business group announced Glen Paul
Freedman will take over the position later this month.
Freedman, a member of the professional and business networking organization
for 10 years, called his appointment a “dream come true.”
“I really believe in AEN’s mission statement and in everything
they do,” Freedman says. “It’s a perfect fit for me — the
professional networking is exactly what I like to do.”
In addition to extensive work with local and national nonprofit organizations
including the Atlanta Pride Committee, Georgia Equality and the Human Rights
Campaign, Freedman has held administrative positions for both Worldspan Technologies
and Delta Airlines.
He says his work on “both sides of the aisle” will afford him
unique insight in his new position.
“I’ve been board chair of some large organizations, gay and straight,
and I’ve certainly been a volunteer in a lot of groups,” Freedman
says. “Now, as a staff member, I’ll be able to see both sides and
set some direction by helping people be more focused on what exactly our mission
is.”
AEN President Bonnie Barton says Freedman is “someone who will help
us grow.”
“Being an all-volunteer board — which many people I think sometimes
forget — we’re just limited in the amount of work we can do,” Barton
says. “Glen Paul is going to become the eyes and ears for the organization
as ED and give us more hands for meeting our mission statement and for meeting
our goals.”
Freedman says he intends to take AEN to the “next-highest level.”
“When you have a fulltime ED whose job is solely to focus on strengthening
the organization, you can move to a higher plane,” he says.
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