Jeff Beals, vice president of Coldwell Banker Commercial World Group, is scheduled as the featured speaker at the 2008 Small Business Awards Breakfast on Tuesday at 8 a.m. at the City Hotel and Bistro.
The Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce and the Pitt Community College Small Business Center will present the 2007 Small Business Leader of the Year Award. Mary Parsons of Parsons & Robinson Insurance was honored last year.
The 2007 First Citizens Bank Customer Service Award will be presented as well. S.G. Wilkerson & Sons Funeral Home was honored a year ago.
Beals is a radio talk show host, newspaper columnist and part-time college professor. He has published more than 200 articles in periodicals on a national and local level, and writes a biweekly column called "T-Squares & I-Beams."
Beals has a master of arts degree in political science and a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He served as dean of student services and director of enrollment management at Clarkson College before entering real estate.
