Anthony Reed

Anthony Reed

CPA,MBA,MS,PMP

TX, US
Former Fortune 500 business executive and world renown marathoner with over 100 finishes on all seven continents, including Antarctica.

Mr. Reed is a CPA, PMP, and IT professional with twenty-five years in management and executive positions for various Fortune 500 companies and large consulting firms. The responsibilities included managing multi-million dollar departmental budgets and staffing blends of international, multi-generational, multi-cultural employees and consultants.

As an adjunct professor, he taught project management, accounting, income tax, business management, and information technology courses. He also developed and taught accounting classes to small business owners and consulting firms.

He's been interviewed on radio and webcast programs and featured in the business, travel, and sports sections of major newspapers and publications across the country. This includes the PMI Today, Dallas Morning News, Runner's World, Southern Living, Ebony, and the Journal of Accountancy. He holds two graduate degrees and two undergraduate degrees. He's served on the Board of Directors for the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), Ft. Worth's Jubilee Theatre, the Dallas White Rock Marathon, and various local and international not-for-profit organizations.

He has spoken at national and international accounting, project management, and IT conferences. He has four books and over 50 articles published. The articles have appeared in ComputerWorld, Datamation, Career Focus, and Runner's World magazines. His book, entitled Finding the I in TEAM: Better Team Building Through Individual Building, focuses on building stronger team members.

He's completed over one hundred 26.2-mile marathons around the world and in over thirty States. This included the fridge Antarctica, Kenya's dangerous Lewa SafriCom, and China's Great Wall Marathons. In completing marathons on all 7 continents, he made history by becoming the first Black in the world to accomplish this feat. Fewer than 225 people in the world had achieved this goal. (By comparison, over 2,500 people have reached Mt. Everest's summit, including over 500 in one year.) Subsequently, his journeys were chronicled in his book, Running Shoes Are Cheaper Than Insulin: Marathon Adventures On All Seven Continents.

Mr. Reed is a CPA, PMP, and IT professional with twenty-five years in management and executive positions for various Fortune 500 companies and large consulting firms. The responsibilities included managing multi-million dollar departmental budgets and staffing blends of international, multi-generational, multi-cultural employees and consultants.

As an adjunct professor, he taught project management, accounting, income tax, business management, and information technology courses. He also developed and taught accounting classes to small business owners and consulting firms.

He's been interviewed on radio and webcast programs and featured in the business, travel, and sports sections of major newspapers and publications across the country. This includes the PMI Today, Dallas Morning News, Runner's World, Southern Living, Ebony, and the Journal of Accountancy. He holds two graduate degrees and two undergraduate degrees. He's served on the Board of Directors for the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), Ft. Worth's Jubilee Theatre, the Dallas White Rock Marathon, and various local and international not-for-profit organizations.

He has spoken at national and international accounting, project management, and IT conferences. He has four books and over 50 articles published. The articles have appeared in ComputerWorld, Datamation, Career Focus, and Runner's World magazines. His book, entitled Finding the I in TEAM: Better Team Building Through Individual Building, focuses on building stronger team members.

He's completed over one hundred 26.2-mile marathons around the world and in over thirty States. This included the fridge Antarctica, Kenya's dangerous Lewa SafriCom, and China's Great Wall Marathons. In completing marathons on all 7 continents, he made history by becoming the first Black in the world to accomplish this feat. Fewer than 225 people in the world had achieved this goal. (By comparison, over 2,500 people have reached Mt. Everest's summit, including over 500 in one year.) Subsequently, his journeys were chronicled in his book, Running Shoes Are Cheaper Than Insulin: Marathon Adventures On All Seven Continents.