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Attorney Richard Manson is the president of SourceMark, LLC, a premier provider of innovative products, services and solutions to the healthcare and retail pharmacy industry. Additionally, Manson is of counsel with Manson, Johnson and Conner, LLP, Attorneys at Law, a full-service law firm with a diverse practice encompassing broad areas of the law. His distinguished legal career spans over 31 years, managing a private law practice that includes multi-business collaborations, extensive work nationally and internationally with media conglomerates representing high-profile clients, a successful publisher and author, and university professor. His accomplishments in private practice, along with his broad experience in corporate law, civil rights, mergers and acquisitions, litigation management and complex, strategic business planning, makes him an enviable speaker and conference leader. Previously, he served as general counsel for several prominent institutions, banks, sports enterprises, marketing, entertainment and media holding companies.

He has traveled extensively, and recently became a member of the Society of International Business Fellows, an organization focusing on international commerce and culture. Board affiliations include the TriState Minority Supplier Development Council (TSMSDC), TMSDC Education Foundation, Healthcare Supplier Diversity Alliance, Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association, Nashville General Hospital at Meharry, and the Ethics Committee Chairman of USATF (USA Track and Field). He is the board chairman of Citizens Savings Bank & Trust Company, the only continuous operating minority financial institution in the country, and serves as the Interim Chairman of the TSMSDC Board of Directors. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fisk University, and a Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University Law School.

Attorney Manson is a graduate of the Business Executive Management Programs at Amos Tuck at Dartmouth School of Business, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He represented TSMSDC in West and South Africa during a trade mission of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, the New York headquarters of the 23 Supplier Development Councils nationwide.