Phillip Jones, CEO, Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau

Phillip Jones joined the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau (Dallas CVB) as President and CEO in 2003, moving from Louisiana where he served as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.

Under Phillip’s direction, the bureau established additional sales forces in Austin, New York and the west coast to complement others in Chicago and Washington, D.C. In fiscal year 2013-14, the Dallas CVB booked a record 1,524,557 definite room nights for future years, including 32 citywide meetings.

Dallas is now the #1 visitor destination in the state, #6 convention city nationwide and hosted 23.6 million visitors in 2013 resulting in $4 billion in direct economic impact. In 2014, the industry’s Resonance Report selected Dallas as #3 in its Top 50 US Destinations report and the only Texas City listed in the top 10.

Bill Sandbrook, CEO, U.S. Concrete

William J. (Bill) Sandbrook joined U.S. Concrete, Inc. from Oldcastle Products and Distribution, where he also served as Chief Executive Officer. In August 2011, Bill was chosen to be the President and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Concrete, Inc.

Through it’s operating companies, U.S. Concrete serves major construction markets in the United States in two business segments: ready-mixed concrete and aggregate products. The Company provides its products and services from its operating companies in over 100 ready-mixed plants and seven aggregate operations in California, New York, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington, D.C.

Bill is a 1979 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. While teaching at West Point, Bill also served as a social aide to President Ronald Reagan and earned his Professional Engineer’s License (PE) in Industrial Engineering.

Bill Sandbrook, Host, Steve A Klein, Phillip Jones

On the February 13th edition of PlayMakers Talk Show, our guests were:

Dustin Gadberry – CEO, Gadberry Construction Company

Morgan Hare – President & Co-Founder, eraclea Skincare

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Dustin Gadberry, CEO, Gadberry Construction Company

Gadberry Construction CEO Dustin Gadberry started his company in 2000. But, in 2009, he found himself forced to lay off employees from his construction company and look for handyman jobs to survive the economic downturn.

Today, Gadberry Construction Co. is thriving, having increased its revenue from a low of $250,000 in 2010 to $3.6 million last year and it has since collectively earned over $7 million. The company is recognized in the industry for completing jobs a third of the time ahead of schedule without compromising on the quality of the work.

Inc. Magazine has recognized Gadberry Construction as one of the fastest-growing private U.S. companies. The company was ranked 374th on the Inc. 5000 list. It was ranked 12th among construction companies.

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Morgan Hare, President & Co-Founder, eraclea Skincare

Dallas-based Hylaco LLC is the parent company of eraclea®. Launched in March 2011, eraclea is the company’s revolutionary new line of skin care products featuring the patented HylaSponge®System with its ultra-penetrating, moisture-retaining properties.

The story of eraclea began nearly four decades ago with Dr. Janet Denlinger, at that time a member of the Columbia University medical faculty and later the cofounder of a biotech research company, and her close friend Morgan Hare, a medical and cosmetic marketing executive. Unhappy with the superficial skin care products they found on the market, the two friends began a quest to find a better, deeper way to fortify and refresh the skin’s youthfulness.

Morgan brings with her more than 30 years of experience in the cosmetics and skin care industries, and she has held executive marketing and product development positions at numerous national, blue chip consumer product and retail companies.

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