Our LPBC Team
When it comes to everything we do in the community, the LPBC is a team effort! The engagement from our partners, community leaders, and thousands of "friends," helps shape and steer the LPBC and makes ALL we do possible. When it comes to managing the organization and all of our events, media, and efforts, below is the team responsible. Since the LPBC is owned by Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance, LLC, you'll find that we all have dual roles.
Jeremy C. Park
President
As President of the Lipscomb Pitts Breakfast Club, Park directs the LPBC team of more than 75 businesses, including some of the world’s largest employers, like FedEx, AutoZone, ServiceMaster, and Smith & Nephew, that host an array of media and more than 150 events each year to enrich and impact the community.
Under his leadership, the LPBC quickly transformed from a small, simple business networking group, hosting only a handful of events, into a powerful team of businesses now recognized internationally as an innovator in corporate philanthropy, social entrepreneurialism, and collective impact.
Park is the author of the "Giving Back" column, which he launched in 2010 and is published each Sunday in The Commercial Appeal. He is author of the books, Giving Back with Purpose: fueling growth through community involvement, released by Main Street Books in December 2013; and Giving for Growth: Achieving Success Through Giving Back, released by Main Street Books in November 2015. Proceeds from both books benefit youth literacy programs in the Mid-South. Park executive produces and hosts the Lipscomb Pitts Breakfast Club Radio Show, which airs each Saturdays from 5-6 PM and Sundays from 9-10 AM on News Radio 600 WREC, and also executive produces and hosts the monthly television series, The SPARK, which can be seen the third Friday of each month at 7:30 PM on PBS's WKNO/Channel 10. He also hosts the TV series, "A Conversation With," and executive produces and hosts the annual televised awards show, The SPARK Awards, as well as the ChangeMakers Podcast. As a guest speaker, Park regularly keynotes events, leads panel discussions, and talks to groups about our LPBC model, shifts in corporate philanthropy, how giving leads to growth, cause marketing, and personal branding.
Park is also a Member of the LLC with Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance, LLC. He was recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 in 2010 and has been profiled in Inside Memphis Business Magazine's Power Players, which spotlights the top 400 business and community leaders in various industries, each year from its inception in 2010 to 2015. Park has been featured in a number of national publications, such as Forbes Magazine, Fortune Magazine, and Leader's Edge, and author Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy, featured Park in his 2015 national release, The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High Character Employees. He and his wife, Meredith, have two sons, Cooper and Cayson. Park is heavily engaged in the community, serving on a number of nonprofit boards and committees, and is focused on making the Mid-South a place all of our children are proud to call home!
Johnny Pitts
Founder
Johnny Pitts and his partner, Mat Lipscomb, III, are the majority owners of the largest, privately held insurance agency in the Mid-South, Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance, LLC. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Pitts attained the rank of Eagle Scout in 1973, graduated high school from Memphis University School in 1976, graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1980 with an insurance major from the University of Tennessee where he was also on the track and cross-county teams. In 1992, Johnny and Mat Lipscomb, III, purchased Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance from their fathers, John Pitts and Mat Lipscomb, Jr., who founded the company in 1954.
Professionally, Johnny has his CIC designation and serves on the Board of Directors of Assurex Global and the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers. In the commmunity, he serves in a number of leadership positions, including Board Member and past chair of Youth Villages, Board Member of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Board Member of the Boy Scouts of America, Chickasaw Council, and a member of the President's Club at the University of Tennessee. He is also an officer and deacon at Independent Presbyterian Church and serves on several committees.
Johnny and his wife, Kim, have been married since 1984 and have 3 children. As founder of the LPBC, Johnny personally pulled together the resources and original team of businesses and leaders who established the LPBC in Memphis back in 2005. His vision and leadership not only helped create our organization, but continues to shape and steer tour efforts today. Johnny remains heavily engaged and is even personally leading some of the efforts aimed at working with local, regional, and national government to help create change for the Mid-South.
Allison Carson
Communications Director
As Communications Director for the Lipscomb Pitts Breakfast Club and Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance, Allison Carson has been an instrumental part of the team since 2010.
Carson helps direct the team of LPBC business partners, helps with all of the coordination and management the various events and efforts that are hosted by the organization, and helps manage the websites, marketing, and branding for both the LPBC and the insurance agency.
She is a lifelong Memphian, married to an entrepreneur, and grew up helping run her family's business, so she is quite used to juggling the many different projects, efforts, media, and events spearheaded by our organization.
Allison and her husband, Blake Carson, are dog lovers and heavily engaged in the community.
Andrew Bartolotta
Communications Manager
Andrew Bartolotta is a digital media professional who has connected passion with purpose through technology for several years. As Communications Manager for Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance, LLC and the LPBC, he manages all of our our social media and digital outreach for both entities. If that isn't enough, he assists with all of our events, research and development projects, graphic arts, and GOODworks videos, too!
Equipped with both design and marketing skills, Andrew enjoys using his network to empower community problem solvers and to ignite change through digital media. During his college years, he volunteered over 1,000 hours of pro-bono skills based work to local small businesses and nonprofits to expand their visual communications. Andrew has used that experience to bolster impact at his previous job as Senior Communications at Leadership Memphis and his role as Board Chair for Let's Innovate Through Education.
In 2014, Andrew was invited to the White House twice as a digital media innovator by the Office of Digital Strategy to learn from their team and collaborate with the office on expanding existing content to new digital platforms.
Eager to share his talents and resources with others, Andrew has spoken at various organizations and conferences, including the most recent 2015 Points of Light National Conference on Volunteering and Service, to strengthen the awareness of social good by way of social media.
In his spare time, he enjoys visiting the local farmers markets, traveling, and attending Memphis-centric events with friends. He is an alum of Leadership Memphis and an emerging philanthropist through GiVE 365.
