 Mr. David G. Latimore
David G. Latimore, President and CEO for the
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, brings a wealth of business
and community experience to the position. With more than fifteen
years of success in business and community development, he has a
background well suited to advance ICIC’s mission of transforming
inner city communities through private sector engagement and
business-led economic development. David then held a series of increasingly senior positions in the pension management field, serving as Vice President and Group Manager of Sales and Marketing for the Mercantile Bancorporation, Marketing Executive for The Vanguard Group, Director of Research and Sales at Hartford Life, and Managing Vice President of the ICMA Retirement Corporation. In 1996, the St. Louis Business Journal named him as one of the “Top 40 Business Leaders Under 40”. Throughout his business career, David was dedicated to economic development and community activities. He served as Executive Assistant to the Mayor, and later Consultant for the St. Louis Development Corporation. He was Senior Pastor for a 200-member congregation at the Southern Union Baptist Church, and a volunteer in the St. Louis Public School system. Recently, Mr. Latimore earned his Master’s in Divinity from the Duke University Divinity School. As part of his training, he served as the interim Senior Pastor for a 500-member congregation at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Gainesville, Florida. In this role, he was responsible for a 100 unit low-income housing development, a life skills training program, and strategic partnerships with Santa Fe Community College and the City of Gainesville. Mr. Latimore and his wife Tammy are in the process of moving to Massachusetts with their five children.
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