For Second Vice President:
Bash Turay, DTM
Region VII
Home Club/District: Paul D Stackpole Service Club / D31
Job Title/Employer: President/CEO, Highland View Properties, LLC; Turay Foundation; Keynote Speaker/Seminar Leader
Relevant Work Experience: Twenty years of corporate management and training experience, including the Winning Ways of Leadership Forum. He has served on several non-profit boards, including as Chairman. This affords him valuable, applicable, and relevant experience in leadership, fiscal management, and policy development and implementation. Bash has excellent training and speaking skills that would serve him well as a Toastmasters International officer.
Education: BS in Electrical Engineering; Corporate Executive Development Program
Hobbies and Interests:
- Tennis, bicycling, rollerblading, Scrabble
- Serving organizations and causes focused on ameliorating the lives and challenges of young people
Volunteer Experience: Board of Directors of the YMCA of Central Massachusetts (5 years) and current chairman of the International Committee; Chairman of African Community Education (ACE), a non-profit that provides remedial education services to the children of African refugees; and social services to their families; former board member of Big Brother/Big Sister of Greater Lowell (Mass); former Big Brother, former "Choices" presenter to 8th graders.
Honors/Recognition Outside Toastmasters:
- 2002 Verizon/YMCA Minority Achiever
- 2005 Outstanding Vendor (Premcom Networks, Inc., Shrewsbury, Massachusetts)
- 2006 YMCA Central Branch Volunteer of the Year
- 2007 Corporate Partner (Bonds Development, Worcester, Massachusetts)
Qualifications for Service:
- 20 years of corporate management and training experience
- Entrepreneurial experience, including starting a non-profit committed to building orphanages around the world and other businesses
- Service on boards of several organizations affords him valuable, applicable experience in leadership, fiscal management, and policy development and implementation.
What Toastmasters has done for me: βToastmasters has given me the skills and confidence to live as our founder Dr. Ralph Smedley envisioned when he said βLet us share the benefits we have gained for ourselves with others.β I continually apply my skills to serve others within and outside of Toastmasters. Of particular interest to me are opportunities for speaking for and on behalf of young people, especially those in crisis, and dispossessed children around the world.β
Contact Information: www.Bash4SecondVP.com