Sunday, October 11, 2009, Buffalo, NY

Bills Players Meet Buffalo's Business, Civic and Political Community Leaders

ESP's Everett Glenn and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown discuss the ESP/Buffalo Initiative

ESP Managing Partner Everett Glenn and Sheila Gilmore, Managing Director, Marketing, joined a host of Buffalo 's Black business and professional community leaders at the beautiful Orchard Park home of Kimberly Trent, following the game between the Cleveland Browns and the Buffalo Bills. Ms. Trent is the owner of Trent Communications, a public relation firm whose media relations work has proven invaluable for organizations like the Family Voices Network, Millard Fillmore College, Sheehan Health Network and the DENT Neurological Institute for which she has coordinated national television coverage.

Meet & Greet host Kimberly Trent and Everett Glenn enjoy the Bills/Browns game from the luxury boxes

The purpose of the Meet and Greet was to personally connect ESP client Ashlee Palmer and Jarius Byrd, son of former ESP client Gill Byrd (Chargers Hall of Fame) with the leaders of the Buffalo business, civic and political community. At ESP we believe that one of the best ways to ensure that our clients are not among the 8 in 10 NFL players who are bankrupt, divorced and/or unemployed within 2 years of retirement is to expose them to and surround them with successful people who have the resources and are willing to make the personal investment in their success. The Meet & Greet represents the first step in the ESP/Buffalo Initiative designed to help Buffalo Bills clients of ESP leverage their athletic talent for real life success while at the top of their games by connecting them to the business, civic and political leaders of their NFL home city to develop community involvement, marketing, public relations and post-career opportunities. We also took the opportunity to roll out the ESP Teen Summit, a personal development and leadership training program which will involve ESP clients and other Bills with students from the Buffalo Public School system.

LP Ciminelli's Tyra Johnson and SLR Contracting Inc.'s Sundra Ryce connect at the Meet & Greet

Byron Brown, Mayor of the City of Buffalo; Thomas Beauford, Jr., First Vice President, HSBC Bank, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world; Herbert Bellamy, Jr., the founder and CEO of 1490 Enterprises, Inc., a community organization that sponsors the annual (37 th in 2009) Black Achievers in Industry Awards Banquet and provides social services to seniors; Donald Boswell, President  & CEO, WNED Public Broadcasting, which serves a bi-national region of 3.1 million households with high-quality programming and services that enlighten, inspire, entertain, and educate the Western New York and Southern Ontario communities; Carlton Brock, Vice President, St. Jude Medical, a global medical technology and services firm with revenues of over $4 billion; Honorable Kevin M. Carter, Erie County Family Court Judge and leader of the campaign which lead to the creation of  the Buffalo chapter of the 100 Black Men; Jericka Duncan, Reporter, WIVP TV, Buffalo; John Elmore, a partner and Managing Attorney at Brown, Chiari, and relationship partner for the Buffalo City School District for the District's Phase III $100,000,000 reconstruction project which involves the reconstruction or additions to 9 City schools, a district-wide technology project and an energy performance contract; Albert Erni, Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch; Tyra Johnson, an engineer and Project Manager, Diversity and Neighborhood Redevelopment with LP Ciminelli, Upstate New York's largest construction firm; Nicki Mayo, Reporter, YNN-TV, a 24-hour commercial cable news station in Buffalo, New York which is carried on Time Warner Cable channel 9 in all of Western New York; Brett McNeil , a lifelong resident of Buffalo and Sales Manager at West Herr, the largest auto dealership in the State of New York; Hal D. Payne, Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs at Buffalo State College, the largest 4-year college in the State University of New York system; Crystal Peoples, Assemblywoman, who represents the 141st Assembly District, which includes part of the city of Buffalo in Erie County; Rhonda Ricks, President of Inclusion Development Associates, Inc., which has monitored more than $250 million in construction contracts throughout the Western New York