PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Eugene W. Grant is the Mayor of Seat Pleasant: A City of Excellence, in Prince George’s County Maryland. Grant provides his city government and constituents with superior leadership skills bringing a wealth of talent in management, training, budgeting, strategic planning, organizational development and community organizing.
Leading a multi-million dollar budget Grant has consistently ended each fiscal year with a surplus while improving the delivery of services to his constituents. Known for his keen ability to foster relationships and build coalitions; Grant has improved the infrastructure by repaving streets, upgrading sidewalks, and installing new storm drainage systems and has been instrumental in guiding the City of Seat Pleasant in reducing its expenses, increasing it revenues by 25% and ending the year with an over $1 million dollar surplus in his first year. Moreover, under Mayor Grants leadership he has tripled the police department, moved to secure a twenty acre site as a Brownfield opening it up for a multimillion dollar development, worked to complete an over fifteen year pending Storm Drain Project, spearheaded an effort to close trucking company that created blight to the community in an unprecedented two year period.
Board of Directors
Vonda Alston, Acting Chair
Verizon
Hon. Jonh T. Henderson, Jr., Immediate Past Chair
Maryland Administrative Judge
Alexander Ojo, Comptroller
Lackson Accounting Services
Hon. Eugene W. Grant, President/CEO
Mayor of Seat Pleasant, Maryland
Mayor Grant’s vision to improve the community led him to establish the Mayor’s Office of Nuisance Abatement which has had an over 70% success rate in abating citizen complaints in reference to quality of life. Grant is leading his city in the area of economic development. Currently, there are numerous development projects in the planning stages with a projected combined value of over US$300 million.
He has received numerous awards such as the Who’s Who Among Global Business Leaders, Who’s Who Among Entrepreneurs, Distinguished Business Leader Award from then-Congressman Robert Ehrlich, Jr., and the prestigious Phoenix Award from Mayor Shirley Franklin of Atlanta.
Mr. Grant is a staunch activist on behalf of youth issues. As founder and president of Global Developmental Services for Youth, Inc., an international non-profit he started almost 25 years ago in Seat Pleasant, Grant has affected the lives of thousands of youth worldwide. An accomplished strategist and visionary in youth development, Grant offers a rare blend of creative and operational strength. He has worked with Governors, Congressmen and Presidents, both foreign and domestic, to improve the lives of youth in the United States, the Caribbean and in Africa, particularly.
www.gdsy.org
Phone: 301-520-5989 | Post Office Box 3951 |Seat Pleasant, MD 20791
