On today’s episode we’re talking with Deontée (Deon) Gordon whose passion for entrepreneurship, technology, the built environment and culture of the city is a contributing force to Building Birmingham Together! Deon Gordon serves as CEO & President of TechBirmingham, the regional technology council for the seven-county Birmingham metro area, representing hundreds of companies and approximately 30,000 IT professionals. As part of his function, he also serves as the Executive Director for TechBirmingham’s affiliated 501(c)(3), TechAlabama, which recently launched their signature project where he now serves as Advisor, the Education Farm, a coding initiative designed to equip students and teachers across 13 district schools, as well as regional adult learners, with the equipment, curriculum, and resources needed to create viable employment and entrepreneurial pathways for program participants. Prior to joining TechBirmingham in December 2017, he led as the Director of Business Growth for REV Birmingham, an economic development agency partnered with City of Birmingham to focus on place-based revitalization and small business growth. He proudly serves on the boards of the Southern Research advisory body, Alabama Futures Fund, Innovation Depot, TECNA (the Technology Councils of North America), Birmingham Bound Leadership Council, and the Birmingham Business Alliance among others. Gordon was named by the Birmingham Business Journal as a “Top 40 Under 40 for the decade” in 2019 and was selected as one of “Birmingham’s Power 60: The Magic City’s Most Influential Executives” in 2020. He is also a graduate of the 2019 class of Leadership Birmingham as well as the 2019 class of YALP at Harvard Business School.
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Other Mentions:
Ed Farm
Birmingham Bound
Deon’s Recommendations:
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
The One Thing by Gary Keller
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Great by Choice by Jim Collins
Masters of Scale Podcast hosted by Reid Hoffman
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