Mark Whitlock                        

-       Mark is the CEO of Central Educational Center (CEC).  CEC, Georgia’s “model program for seamless education,” is a joint venture among local business leaders, the Coweta County School System and West Central Technical College.  More than 450 groups from around Georgia, across the US, and from fifteen other nations have visited CEC to study this model for change in education.  CEC was recently designated one of 30 “replicable model” programs in the United States.  Mark is leading the CEC replication team to assist interested communities to begin their own local career academies.  Six other communities in Georgia have now replicated the model.

-       Mark received the B.S.Ed. and the M.Ed. from the University of Georgia. He received the MBA from Georgia State University.  For eighteen years, Mark worked with Bank of America.  During his final 15 years with the Bank, Mark built correspondent and commercial banking relationships, developed and managed new services in Global Investment Banking and helped to build the new Global Investment Bank resulting from the merger between NationsBank and the original Bank of America.