An Atlanta-based executive, Samuel Brice Hall is the director of investor relations at Piedmont Private Equity. He is also a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) where he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. While attending UNC, Samuel Brice Hall was a member of the Order of the Bell Tower, a social organization focused on preserving UNC’s unique traditions. The Order of the Bell Tower was the first organization established by the university’s General Alumni Association (GAA) to help foster relationships between past, current, and future students. The organization hosts events throughout the year for alumni and students to attend, including University Day and on football game days. Every year, the Order of the Bell Tower hosts Shadow Day. This is a day where high school juniors interested in attending UNC can shadow a mentor from the organization. High school students follow their respective mentors to and from their classes, and they can mingle with other prospective students and current Tar Heels during lunch. Shadow Day also includes information sessions where students can learn more about life on campus and paying for college.
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Samuel Brice Hall is the director of investor relations at Piedmont Private Equity, LLC, in Atlanta, Georgia, where he manages the tax mitigation and conservation strategy team. An avid reader, Samuel Brice Hall counts To Kill a Mockingbird as his favorite book and enjoys re-reading it every few years. Alabama native Harper Lee is the writer of the enduring classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Much like Mockingbird’s main character Scout, Lee grew up a tomboy in a small town and, like Scout’s father Atticus, her father was an attorney. She was also close childhood friends with Truman Capote. After high school, Lee attended the University of Alabama, where she contributed to the school newspaper and humor magazine. She was accepted into law school, but ultimately dropped out in order to pursue a writing career. She moved to New York City where she befriended a Broadway composer and his wife, Michele Martin Brown and his wife Joy, who supported her for a year so that she could focus on her writing. They also helped her find an agent. To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize the following year and was successfully adapted to film in 1962. Since then, the book has been translated into more than 40 languages and sells more than a million copies each year. Drawing upon more than 18 years of experience in the financial sector, Samuel Brice Hall manages the tax mitigation and conservation strategy projects team at Georgia-based Piedmont Private Equity. Outside of work, Samuel Brice Hall enjoys following the University of North Carolina (UNC) Tar Heels men's basketball team. After suffering a disappointing second-round loss in the 2018 NCAA Tournament, the Tar Heels will return for the 2018-19 season with several returning players, poised for a better result. Rather than declare for the upcoming NBA draft, third-team All-American Luke Maye decided to return to Chapel Hill for his senior season. The Huntersville, North Carolina, native enjoyed a breakout campaign as starter last season as he averaged a career-high 16.9 points and 10.1 rebounds per game to go along with an impressive 43 percent three-point shooting percentage. Maye will be joined by fellow seniors Kenny Williams and Cameron Johnson, who both excel at shooting from three-point range. Meanwhile, returning juniors Shea Rush, Brandon Robinson, and Seventh Woods are expected to improve upon their respective performances last season. Woods, in particular, will be under pressure as the team's presumed starting point guard after two injury-riddled seasons. The Tar Heels roster is also composed of five sophomores as well as incoming freshmen Rechon Black, Coby White, and Nassir Little, who was the MVP of the McDonald's All-American Game. Samuel Brice Hall works at Piedmont Private Equity, LLC, and has served the firm as its director of investor relations since 2011. Samuel Brice Hall enjoys reading in his spare time, and his favorite book is Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, which he has reread many times since first reading it in 1986. While not the narrator of the book, Atticus Finch serves as one of the moral centers of To Kill a Mockingbird, and has become an icon of literature and cinema. He plays two major roles in the story, one as a lawyer defending an African-American man against a prejudicial justice system, and one as the father of the book's narrator. In both cases, Atticus seeks to show the world to others in a different light, challenging their preconceived notions and pressing them on inconsistencies or injustices. He likewise works hard to understand others and meet them with kindness and compassion, in spite of being threatened or spat upon. Even when he does not personally like a task, he is shown to be willing to step up and do what's right, displaying a straightforward, evenhanded, and consistent sense of justice. Based in Atlanta, Samuel Brice Hall serves as Piedmont Private Equity director of investor relations. Community focused, Samuel Brice Hall takes advantage of Atlanta’s vibrant cultural offerings, including Piedmont Park, which encompasses 189 acres and was opened to the public in the late 19th century. Roughly triangular in shape, Piedmont Park initially served as a racetrack and driving grounds for the Gentlemen's Driving Club, and it was selected as the site for the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895. The architect of New York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., was consulted for the project’s landscape design, though he was not able to see the project through to its completion. A major prevailing belief influencing the final design, which was completed by his sons, was that urban parks should provide a positive influence on the health, fitness, and morals of members of society. Today’s Piedmont Park reflects that legacy through its abundant green space, as well as recreational facilities such as tennis courts, a baseball field, swimming pool, and picnic areas. One of the historic highlights for residents is the stone stairways fronted by large stone urns that bring visitors to various levels of the park. Cultural offerings include the Music Midtown Concert series and the annual Dogwood Festival, which has been running for eight decades. As director of investor relations for Piedmont Private Equity in Atlanta, Samuel Brice Hall oversees tax mitigation as well as conservation strategy project teams. In his spare time, Samuel Brice Hall enjoys listening to various musicians, including the late jazz singer, Ella Fitzgerald. Born in 1917, Fitzgerald entered the music scene by winning a 1934 amateur contest at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. She soon joined Chick Webb’s band and performed often at another venue, the Savoy. In 1938, the singer had her first hit, A-Tisket, A-Tasket. The following year, after Webb’s death, she took over the band. A rising star in the 1940s, Fitzgerald toured with Dizzy Gillespie. Around this time, her singing style evolved to include scat singing. The 1950s and 1960s saw her achieve tremendous commercial success. She made a series of albums based on the songs of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and Irving Berlin. At the first Grammy awards in 1958, Fitzgerald won two Grammies, becoming the first African-American woman to achieve that honor. Fitzgerald’s work with Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong enhanced her fame. In addition, her rendition of Mack the Knife was a popular hit. Into the 1970s, she continued to perform in concerts globally. Poor health sidelined her in her later years. Fitzgerald made her last recording in 1989 and her final appearance in 1991. She passed away in 1996. Samuel Brice Hall serves as the director of investor relations at Piedmont Private Equity in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Hall's work centers on tax mitigation strategies, including land donation for conservation purposes. Outside of his work, Samuel Brice Hall supports conservation efforts through the Southeastern Trust for Parks and Land (STPAL). A nonprofit organization, STPAL is supported by community donations and publicly funded grants. Cobb County, Georgia's local Land Trust Alliance member, STPAL works to protect and preserve the region's undeveloped land for the enjoyment of humans and animals alike. A key STPAL goal is maintaining wildlife habitats. Alongside work in wetlands and other ecologically valuable regions, STPAL operates the Pollinator Project to support local bee and butterfly populations. To help rebuild the numbers of bees and monarch butterflies in the Cobb County region, STPAL partners with local schools and organizations to build pollinator gardens. The spaces are planted with milkweeds, wildflowers, and other flora that appeal to bees and monarch butterflies. Local students also help build shelters for the insects as part of their contribution to the gardens. Brice Hall has been the director of investor relations for Piedmont Private Equity, LLC in Atlanta, Georgia since 2011. A fan of jazz music, Brice Hall enjoys listening to Ella Fitzgerald. Born in a small town in Virginia in 1917, Ella Fitzgerald’s father left her mother shortly after her birth. Her mother then took Ella to Yonkers, New York where they lived together with her new boyfriend. Financial difficulties colored her childhood and Ella had to take odd jobs, such as working as a messenger and “running numbers”, to help support her family. When Ella was 15 years old, her mother passed away. After her mother’s death Ella moved in with her aunt, but she struggled in school and was frequently truant. She ultimately ended up in reform school. By the age of 17, Ella’s dream of being a star in show business led her to enter a singing contest at Harlem's Apollo Theater. Her rendition of Hoagy Carmichael’s “June” and "The Object of My Affection" won her the $25 first prize, and helped launch her singing career. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies and a master’s degree in accounting, Samuel Brice Hall serves as the director of investor relations at Piedmont Private Equity, LLC. In his leisure time, Samuel Brice Hall enjoys following the University of North Carolina Tar Heels basketball team. Honored as the collegiate National Player of the Year in 1998, former Tar Heel Antawn Jamison was recently announced as a member of the 2017 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Basketball Legends class. Presented by New York Life, the 2017 ACC Legends class includes 15 former collegiate basketball players and one national championship coach. Jamison was also named the National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional Most Valuable Player, ACC Tournament MVP, and 1998 ACC Player of the Year, becoming only the second UNC player and the third in the history of the ACC to accomplish these feats. Voted as the ACC Male Athlete of the Year in the same season, Jamison was the second player in the school’s history to average double digits in points (22.2) and rebounds (10.5). A 16-year veteran of the league, Jamison was voted to play for two National Basketball Association All-Star teams (in 2005 and 2008), and he scored 20,042 points during his career. A well-established financial executive, Samuel Brice Hall holds a position with Atlanta-based Piedmont Private Equity as director of investor relations. An outdoors enthusiast, Samuel Brice Hall is active with the Southeastern Trust for Parks and Land and enjoys the gardening opportunities that the region offers. One of the most common ornamental shrubs throughout the South, the gardenia is known for its abundant foliage. Challenging to care for, the plant is particularly sensitive to cold and can die during cold winters. This makes it ideal as a potted plant that can be moved indoors as required. When outdoors, gardenias prefer partial shade and an acidic soil that contains abundant organic material and is well-drained. Once flowering has occurred, the bush should be pruned back to encourage compact growth. The plant should also be regularly watered, even after the flowering is finished. A concern for growing gardenias indoors is ensuring that they have sufficient light and humidity. This is particularly problematic during the short, dry winter months. If keeping the plants in south windows does not provide enough light, consider using grow lights. And if the plant is suffering from a lack of moisture in the air, the use of a humidifier can help. Alternatively, plants can be grown together on trays arranged with pebbles kept wet. |
AuthorIn 2011, Mr. Hall relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, and accepted an appointment as the director of investor relations at Piedmont Private Equity, where he remains. ArchivesCategories
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