Tuesday, November 22, 2011
WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY
Lunch Begins at Noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m.
Meet Gary Chartrand
Gary Chartrand is the Executive Chairman of
Acosta. Acosta is a leading full-service
sales and marketing agency, providing outsourced sales, merchandising,
marketing and promotional services to manufacturers in the consumer packaged
goods (CPG) industry. The Company
employs over 18,000 associates and operates 64 offices in the U.S. and Canada. He
has been the pivotal force behind quadrupling the company's geographic
coverage, transforming Acosta into a leading full-service sales and marketing
company in the U.S. and Canada.
Gary received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
Award for the State of Florida in May 2001, and has been an extraordinary
leader in his industry and his community.
From 2003 to 2009 Mr. Chartrand was recognized as one of the 50 most
powerful leaders in the grocery industry by Supermarket
News.
Mr. Chartrand also has a passion for educating the children
of Duval County.
In April 2007, he led a community effort to bring Teach for America to
Jacksonville beginning in 2008.
Jacksonville was the second city in Florida to have attracted Teach for
America to its community. Without Mr.
Chartrand’s leadership, coordination with the Superintendent of schools, and
his gift of a million dollars, this program would not be a reality for
Jacksonville. In June of 2009 Gary and Nancy made a pledge gift of $1Million
dollars to KIPP schools of Jacksonville. The first KIPP School in Florida opened
in August of 2010.
Gary currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Tom
Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation; St. Vincent’s Hospital and is Chairman of the
Jacksonville Public Education Fund, and a director on the board of the KIPP
schools in Jacksonville, FL. In May of
2011 Governor Rick Scott appointed Gary
to the Florida state board of education .He previously served as a member of
the Board of Directors for the I. M. Sulzbacher Homeless Center in
Jacksonville. He is also an
enthusiastic supporter of the Catholic Charities, Guardian of Dreams, Catholic
schools and the Diocese of St. Augustine.
Gary is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire. He resides in Ponte Vedra
Beach with his wife,
Nancy. They have two children, Jeffrey
and Meredith.
Gary R. Chartrand is a native of Bedford, New Hampshire and
a graduate of the University of New Hampshire. After college, he began his
career in the consumer products industry with the Carnation Company, where he
served in various capacities that culminated in a year term as Assistant
District Manager for the State of Florida. He joined Acosta in 1983 as a
Business Manager, and subsequently was promoted to Vice President, Regional
Vice President of Florida, President, and in January 1996, President and CEO.
Under the leadership of Mr. Chartrand, Acosta merged with PMI-Eisenhart in July
of 1998 and he became Chairman and CEO Acosta Sales and Marketing Company (one
of the largest privately held companies in Jacksonville, Florida) represents
1300 Consumer Package Goods companies in America with annual billings in excess
of $60 billion dollars.
Mr. Chartrand has been
extremely active in supporting areas of critical need both as CEO of Acosta and
personally through The Chartrand Foundation. For twenty years Acosta has
implemented a cause marketing campaign that has raised over $70 million dollars
for the support of MDA. In 2004 Acosta embarked on a similar campaign to raise
money for Americas Second Harvest, the nation's largest food bank network. In
2006 St. Vincent’s Hospital named the Gary and Nancy Chartrand Heart and
Vascular Center after receiving the lead gift from Gary and Nancy. The Chartrand
Foundation was established to support innovative approaches to education with a
focus on the underserved. Gary and his wife Nancy have two children Jeffrey and
Meredith and reside in Ponte Vedra , Florida.
Corporate sponsorships available - please contact Jason
Burnett at 904-596-0284.
An invitation from our guest speaker last week, Chris Veal, to the Women’s
Heart Health Program. The web sit for the program:
Rotary News
The
Nonprofit Times, a leading resource for nonprofits, annually lists the top 100
nonprofits in the country according to revenue. The Rotary Foundation of
Rotary International is number 54 with 2010 total revenue of $275,377,951.
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