Dr. Keith previously served as a partner with Stonington Partners, a private equity fund. Prior to being associated with Stonington Partners, he held the position of chairman and Chief Executive Officer (1995-1998) of Carson Products Company, a publicly traded company. Dr. Keith took Carson public on the New York Stock Exchange and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1996. Prior to assuming leadership of Carson Products, Dr. Keith was President of Morehouse College. Dr. Keith also held the position of Vice President of Policy and Planning at the University of Maryland, a five-campus system with an enrollment of 90,000 students and an operating budget of over more than $800 million. In 1975, Dr. Keith was appointed Chancellor of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, becoming the first African-American to hold such a position in American higher education. He served as Executive Vice President of University Policy for the University of Massachusetts system, as well as Associate Dean of College and Assistant Professor of Education at Dartmouth College. Dr. Keith is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. A 1961 graduate of Morehouse College, Dr. Keith holds masters and doctorate degrees from Indiana University. Dr. Keith has received several awards and honors. including an Honorary Doctor of Law degree conferred by Bowdoin College in May,1990 and Dartmouth College in May,1991.

Herschell Hamilton is Managing Partner of BLOC. In this capacity, he is responsible for establishing the strategic direction of the company, structuring program and project opportunities, and managing client engagements. As Vice President of New Market Ventures for Masada Resource Group, LLC (MRG), he was responsible for planning and managing capital market activities and development of new market ventures. Prior to joining MRG, Hamilton co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer of a media/technology company, I-Clique, where his responsibilities included day-to-day operations and administration, as well as strategic and financial analysis. He actively managed the closing of $2 million in equity investments in the company. Hamilton has seven years of investment banking experience in structuring public finance transactions with Raymond James Financial and Porter White and Company. He served in two high-level public administration posts with the Governor of the State of Alabama and the Mayor of the City of Birmingham, Alabama. He has an undergraduate degree in Zoology from Howard University, Washington, DC and a Masters in Public and Private Management from Birmingham Southern College. In addition to numerous licenses and certifications, Hamilton became a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) in 2010.

Mr. Carpenter is Executive Vice President of BLOC. In this capacity he manages client engagements involving development programming, program management, and project implementation. During his thirty (30) years of practice he has founded two construction and program management firms and one architectural firm which have been acquired by larger companies. He is a licensed architect in numerous states and nationally. As principal and founder of Carpenter Associates, a program management, construction management, and development services firm, he was involved in the design and implementation of major construction programs. In 1983, he founded the first construction program management firm in the State of Mississippi and has been a leader in educating the Region to the benefits to this project delivery method. His experience allowed him to participate in projects ranging from $3 million to $540 million. He has served on advisory boards for several university construction education programs and metropolitan development agencies. His undergraduate studies were in mechanical engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. In addition, he has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Mr. Williams is a construction manager with a Construction Engineering Technology degree from Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University. The Panama City, Florida native built up his expertise by working at several top general contracting and design-build firms prior to joining BLOC Global Services Group. Mr. Williams has demonstrated his effective management skills over a range of projects in the commercial, healthcare, education, and institutional sectors. As a project manager, Mr. Williams applied his ambition, persistence, communication and organizational skills to successfully guide numerous high-profile projects to completion. He used his leadership skills to manage more than $250 million worth of projects. As Division Manager at BLOC Global Services Group, Mr. Williams is responsible for providing strategic direction, aligning business, financial, service and operations initiatives with the company's goals; overseeing the management of projects and client relationships and leading marketing and work acquisition efforts throughout the United States.

A retired Army Colonel, Al Folcher is Senior Manager for Special Projects. With over forty years of experience in strategic planning, construction management, and economic development, Folcher also serves as President and CEO of SCA Planning & Construction Management Company. As the Executive Director of Auxillary Services at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he managed the University parking, housing, bookstore, food service, printing, bulk mail, mail and computer maintenance service operations, and increased revenues from $5million to $52million in a ten year period. As Executive VP, Sloss Real Estate Group and President of SCA, he was responsible for over 1,500,000 million square feet of office, commercial and retail space and he developed or redeveloped over 750,000 square feet of building space. New construction projects that he provided construction management services for included One Federal Place (315,000 square foot office building for the Bradley Arant Rose and White Law Firm) and the new Alabama Ballet Building. Folcher also served six years as the Director of Planning and Economic Development for the City of Vestavia Hills, Alabama. In that capacity he was directly responsible for significant new construction and during his tenure annual sales tax revenues increased twofold. He is a graduate of Washington & Lee University, has a Masters degree in International Relations from George Washington University and attended both the Army War College and the Navy War College. He is an active member of the Society of International Business Fellows.

Sandra Thomas manages the day to day operation of the BLOC office and provides administrative support to both principals. From 2001 to 2008, Thomas worked at Southern Progress Corporation, serving as an Office Manager for its Custom Publishing Division and Executive Administrative Assistant for Southern Living magazine. Prior to her work at Southern Progress, Thomas maintained day-to-day operations at the City of Birmingham Office of Public Information as an Office Manager and Administrative Assistant. In that capacity, Thomas provided information and referral services to citizens and visitors on City departments, services, and programs, as well as facts about Birmingham history, statistics, community service providers, meetings, and events. She has an undergraduate degree in Business Management and a Masters in Business Administration from Virginia College, Birmingham, Alabama.