Age: 33

Associate, Industrial Services, Grubb & Ellis Barkley Fraser

Adjunct professor of economics and international business, Charleston Southern University

Adjunct professor of economics, American College of the Building Arts

Founder and president, MicroCapital A.C. (www.mimude.org)

Advisory board member and shareholder, iMallsGlobal Inc.

Community involvement

In 2006, founded MicroCapital, a nonprofit microfinance bank that offers credit and savings to businesswomen in Iquitos, Peru, who subsist on less than $2 a day per family member. MicroCapital currently has more than 1,000 loans out to the Amazon’s poorest businesswomen. He returns to Peru every six months to supervise operations.

• Director of Missions, Medical Missions Inc.
• Member, Charleston Breakfast Rotary Club.
• Weekly Rotary Reader volunteer at Sanders-Clyde Elementary.
• Board member, Medical Missions Inc.
• Mentor with The Citadel’s Mentor Program.
• Member, Charleston County Board of Assessment Appeals.
• Active member at First Scots Presbyterian Church, serving on the Missions Committee.

What is the best career advice you’ve ever been given? I was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and Col. Donald C. Morse chose me to command a tank platoon on our second tour to Iraq. In my send-off, he said, “Don’t screw it up.” By that, he meant for me to achieve the mission we were called for and to take care of the young Marines in my charge. His words have been a motivator for me to focus not on myself, but on our mission and our loved ones.

Person you would like to meet: Gen. David Petraeus.