Mr. Anthony Boddie
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Anthony has been a resident of Fort Mill for 15 years. He and his wife, Kathy have been married since 2007. They have a 10-year-old daughter, Addison, who attends Fort Mill Elementary School as fifth grader.
He is known in the community for his charity work. He founded the Community of Hearts Project, which is a service project created and coordinated to serve local underserved communities. Multiple times a month, Anthony leads groups of volunteers and pick up non-perishables, furniture items, clothing, home goods, etc, to distribute to the underserved communities. Anthony, also serves with Community Café, the Diversity & Inclusion Committee for Anne Springs Close Greenway, and the Community of the Hearts Project. He is a member of the Fort Mill Rotary Club and attends Forest Hill Church
Currently, Anthony works as a Senior Account Executive for a global technology organization named RICOH-USA. He works closely daily with municipalities, public and private companies in designing strategic plans around efficiencies.
Prior to Ricoh, his professional career revolved around creating memories for millions of theme park and zoological visitors in North America. He worked almost 30 years in the entertainment industry, beginning as a 16-year-old, front-line employee. Over the years, Anthony has developed a unique blend of skills in fiscal responsibility, leadership, vision, and knowledge. He’s served as Senior VP, VP, Regional Director, Director, and other management positions over that period.
Anthony oversaw many theme parks, zoos and other entertainment venues in the U.S and Canada. He managed leadership positions and was indirectly responsible for more than 2,000 team members. Also, he has managed more than $100M portfolio in revenues, facilitated trainings and trained more than 10,000 employees, and hired more than 5,000 full-time and seasonal employees over a 20-year period.
Anthony was a communications/liberal arts major at the College of Lake County located in Grayslake, Illinois. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the campus newspaper, The Chronicle. Under his team’s leadership, The Chronicle earned a Pacemaker Finalist Award as one of the best college publications in the country. The Pacemaker Award is the highest honor and unofficially known as the “Pulitzer Prize” of college student journalism. While at the College of Lake County, he also represented the student body with professors and administration on a search committee for the next President of the College.