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The Friendly Breakfast Club

January 24, 2024

This Week's Speaker
Robert “Buzz” Law, CFP ® President

Join us this Friday at the AC Hotel as we welcome Buzz Law to speak about the Dunwoody Rotary Charitable Fund and the financial markets outlook. Buzz is an Honorary Member of the Rotary Club of Dunwoody and was active from 1994 until his office moved a few years ago just a little too far away to join us for breakfast.

Robert W. “Buzz” Law, a Certified Financial Planner™ practitioner is President of Creative Financial Group Ltd., a premier planning firm in Atlanta where he counsels affluent individuals and their families on comprehensive financial, estate, investment, and tax planning matters since 1984. Buzz is the founder of Creative Financial Group, which became a subsidiary of Synovus Corporation in February 2001. Creative Financial Group is an approved provider of Executive Financial Planning services for several of these companies (AT&T, Southern Company, CSX, Emory University, and others).

Governor Nathan Deal appointed Buzz to the Technical College System of Georgia Board in 2014. Buzz has been reappointed since 2014 through 2027. He is currently representing the 7th Congressional District and has been appointed as the Vice Chairman for 2024. Buzz was previously appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to the State Board of Education in January 2007, where he served until February 2011. His first appointment by Governor Perdue in 2006 was to the Board of Corrections as the 6th Congressional District Representative. Buzz is currently serving on the Advisory Board for Smokey Powell School at the Academy for the Blind in Macon. Recently, Buzz was appointed by State Superintendent of Schools, Richard Woods, to Vice Chairman of the Georgia Foundation for Public Education (GFPE).

Since 2006, Buzz has been honored to be accepted in the elite company of the Atlanta Estate Planning Council. In 2005, as a Charter member, Buzz completed the certification for Kingdom Advisors previously the Christian Financial Professionals Network (CFPN), as well, and was a charter member. Robb Report Worth magazine named Buzz as “one of the Nation’s 100 most exclusive Wealth Advisors.”

MEETINGS

January is Vocational Service Month

1/26 General Meeting - Buzz Law, Creative Financial Group
2/2 General Meeting - Dana Rickman, President, Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education
2/9 General Meeting - Jennie Stipick, Dunwoody Rotary Foundation Chair
3/1 General Meeting - Mary M. Cohen, Anchor Place Respite
3/8 General Meeting - Chris Clark, Georgia Chamber
3/29 General Meeting - Jennifer Long, Create Dunwoody
4/5 General Meeting - Dan Phillips, Alzheimer’s Association
4/12 General Meeting - Kyle Wingfield, Georgia Public Policy Foundation

BIRTHDAYS

1/27 Robert Hall
1/29 Kobelah Svensen Bennah
1/30 Anita Augello
2/4 Laura Kann
2/5 Jay Brackman
2/6 Meghan Berry
2/7 Buzz Law
2/7 Peter Sherman
2/9 Dr. John E. Carr
2/10 Eleni Bafas
2/13 Griff Ransom
2/13 Mark Galvin
2/21 Marie Crean

WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

2/2 John Vinyard (16)
2/14 Erich Schuetz (47)

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Dunwoody

Fridays, 7:15 am
Maggiano's - Perimeter Mall
4400 Ashford Dunwoody Rd, Dunwoody, GA 30338
Atlanta, GA , GA 30338

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LEADERSHIP

President Jack Sparks, Jr.
President-Elect Louise Barden
President Nominee Matthew Johnson
Immediate PP Jennifer Shumway
Vice President Louise Barden
Treasurer Carter Stout
Secretary Dave Burr