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Keith Roberson, MBA, Director, Results-Based Conferencing, Forrest Hills Resort Keith Roberson serves as director of Forrest Hills Resort's Results-Based Conferencing Division, helping corporations and other groups achieve their strategic meeting goals in Forrest Hills' natural setting situated on 140 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Georgia. He brings almost 30 years' experience in management at leading global companies such as AT&T, CB Richard Ellis, Metromedia Company, and Johnson Controls. While at AT&T, Mr. Roberson oversaw AT&T's property acquisitions, manufacturing development and divestures, and held multiple positions in North America, South America and Europe. He was part of AT&T's Management Development Program, serving as both an executive trainer and as a member of the AT&T Baldrige Team, helping the Company win the coveted Baldrige National Quality Award in 1992. He is applying the same Baldrige process-driven concepts to Forrest Hills' Results-Based Conferencing, working with small corporate groups to help them achieve measurable, breakthrough results from their meetings. At Johnson Controls, Mr. Roberson served as real estate vice president for the Company's Building Efficiency Group, with oversight of all of JCI's portfolio/asset services in Asia, including facilitating the building of two LEED-certified buildings. He is a Six-Sigma Greenbelt and established the Johnson Controls Knowledge Center in the Philippines in 2005. Besides serving other global clients, JCI's Knowledge Center supported T-Mobile, to systemize 25,000 leases with six-sigma accuracy, making it the only center with this capability in the world. His work in Asia has extended to the non-profit realm, to oversee the Asian Orphanage Fund, dedicated to supporting the welfare of less privileged children in Asia. He was awarded United Nations Consultancy Status in 2001. Mr. Roberson has an MBA from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He completed a leadership program at Oxford University in 1998.

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Leigh Ann Johnston, Conferencing Director, Forrest Hills Resort Leigh Ann Johnston has been named Director of Forrest Hills Resort's Results-Based Conferencing Division. She joined the resort in June 2008, after a successful career in academia and management consulting and training. At Forrest Hills, she leads the resort's corporate consultancy strategy efforts and represents Forrest Hills with key meeting planning groups in the business community. In the private sector, Ms. Johnston worked in the Washington D.C. change management headquarters for global assurance and tax advisory firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. As a change management and organizational development senior consultant, she served a diverse range of clients, including the Security and Exchange Commission, the Department of Education, the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy, Royal Mail and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. Besides performing strategic business and training need analyses of organizational processes, she facilitated change by having clients focus on their 'go-to-market' strategy and identify crucial gaps. In addition, Ms. Johnston has taught speech communications courses at colleges throughout the Southeast and in Austria. She earned her Master of Science degree in corporate communications with a focus on organizational development from Radford University in Virginia and a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communications from Louisiana State University.

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Jeff Kraft, Group Sales Director, Forrest Hills Resort Jeff Kraft is Group Sales Manager for Forrest Hills Resort's Results-Based Conferencing Division, playing a key role in helping Forrest Hills target and market effectively to corporate groups. Kraft has worked in various operational roles at Forrest Hills Resort for the past five years, including providing key maintenance services to the resort and its guests. Kraft completed his B.S. degree in BBA from North Georgia College and State University in August 2008. During his undergraduate studies, he served in key leadership roles for his fraternity, Sigma Nu, including vice president, treasurer, chaplain and head of the fraternity's philanthropy efforts-- roles that required frequent communication and interaction with school officials and the campus community. Kraft also was active in Students in Free Enterprise, an international organization that mobilizes university students around the world to make a difference in their communities while developing skills to become socially responsible business leaders.