Maurice Cooper ’01 named CMO of Wingstop Veteran marketing executive Maurice Cooper ’01 was recently named the chief marketing officer of Dallas-based Wingstop Restaurants, Inc. Previously, Cooper served as vice president for the Global Holiday Inn Brand Family at InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). At IHG, he was also vice president for Americas Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Resort, and Holiday Inn Club Vacations.
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Prior to IHG, Cooper worked at The Coca-Cola Co. in a variety of positions, including: general manager/venture leader, Venturing & Emerging Brands at Coca-Cola; senior brand manager, Coca-Cola Zero; brand manager, Sprite TM—Coca-Cola North America; associate brand manager, My Coke Rewards; and associate brand manager, Coca-Cola Classic. He has also worked at the Boston Consulting Group, as well as General Mills: Pillsbury. Cooper earned his MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and his bachelor’s degree in marketing from Morehouse.
Archie Jones ’93 Honored by Hub Magazine Hub Magazine has named Archie Jones ’93 to its Innovator and GameChanger in Financial Technology list for 2018. Jones, CFO of the NOWaccount Network Corp., earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School, and his B.A. in accounting from Morehouse. Jones directs the capital funding engine behind NOWaccount®—an innovative new payment system designed to replace the $1.2 trillion B2B and B2G trade credit that small businesses hold on their balance sheets with a simple transaction that pays the selling company within days, for a one-time flat fee of 3-3.5 percent, according to company officials. “NOWaccount helps small businesses completely eliminate the burden of carrying and managing accounts receivable so they can stop being a free bank to their customers and grow. NOW Corp. serves businesses across the United States. In Georgia alone, NOW Corp. clients have retained almost 3,000 jobs because they no longer have to wait to get paid.”
Dacari Middlebrooks ’06 Launches Debut Book Dacari J. Middlebrooks ’06 drew from his own battle with depression to write “The Depressed Millennial: Surviving Unmet Expectations,” published by CreateSpace in June 2018.
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The book takes readers on a journey through a battle with depression from a Millennial state of mind. Middlebrooks discusses, for example, how PTSD, severe depression, and significant losses exacerbate what he calls mental disruption—a loss of the capacity to believe and think positively about life. “It is the author's hope that those battling with depression, particularly Millennials, will find inspiration in his story, seek treatment, and survive the unmet expectations levied against them," Amazon says. After graduating from Morehouse in 2000, Middlebrooks earned a Master of Divinity degree from Vanderbilt University.
