The Jekyll Island Company, LLC has announced three new board members have joined the organization.
Georgia Music Hall of Fame keyboardist Chuck Leavell, College of Charleston President P. George Benson and Anne O. Faulk, chairman and CEO of Swingvote, LLC have agreed to serve on the development
organization’s board. The Jekyll Island Company is organized to compete for the opportunity to redevelop
state-owned Jekyll Island.
Chuck Leavell not only has been pleasing the ears of music fans for more than 30 years, his strong environmental
activities led The New York Times to call him “a man who can see the forest for the trees and helps
nurture it.”
His piano and keyboard work is found on the works of Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, The Black Crowes, George Harrison, the Allman Brothers Band, Indigo Girls, Blues Traveler, and others. Over the past 22
years, Chuck has been a member of the Rolling Stones and is currently on a summer tour with them in
Europe. In 2001, Leavell published Forever Green: The History and Hope of the American Forest. Using his
Charlane Plantation as inspiration, the book touches on the history of the American forests, types of forests,
the idea of urban forests, and the direction of conservation.
On February 1, 2007, P. George Benson became the 21st president of the College of Charleston. A native of
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, President Benson received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Bucknell
University in 1968, did graduate work in operations research in the engineering school of New York University,
and received a Ph.D. in decision sciences from the University of Florida in 1977. From 1998 to 2007, he
was the dean of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. From 1993 to 1998, he served as
the dean of the Rutgers Business School at Rutgers University. In 1996, Business News New Jersey named
Dr. Benson one of the “Top 100 Business People in New Jersey.”
Anne Faulk founded Swingvote, LLC, a full-service outsource provider of proxy delivery and voting services
for banks, brokerage firms and institutional investors. Before founding Swingvote, Ms. Faulk was Chairman
and CEO of Faulk & Co., which provided proxy research, analysis and voting services for institutional investors
and the plan sponsor communities.
Ms. Faulk is an expert in corporate governance analysis and voting, as well as many innovations in the proxy
services industry, ranging from the concept of electronic delivery of proxy analysis and recommendations and
electronic proxy voting systems in 1989 to Swingvote’s patented Electronic Solicitation. She received a Bachelor
of Business Administration from the University of Georgia.
“These individuals add tremendous depth, experience and a diversity of skills to our organization,” said
E. Wade Shealy, Jr., managing member of The Jekyll Island Company. “We are extremely fortunate to have
them on our team.”
As members of the board, these individuals will help The Jekyll Island Company principals expand its
eco-friendly coastal development expertise to projects like the redevelopment of Jekyll Island. The organization
has extensive experience in environmentally sensitive development of Coastal Communities.
