Who We Are

Parrish, Brumfield & Associates is a team of people who value the core belief that "only the best can be achieved if the only best are achieveing!"  We pride ourselves in taking a team approach to all client projects.

Gilbert E. Parrish

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Gil Parrish is one of the nation's leading advocates for children, public education and what he calls "smarter administrative uses of technology.”  For over three decades, he has helped corporate, educational and professional organizations integrate effective and innovative technology programs into everyday communications with constituent audiences.  His cutting-edge disciplines have helped school administrators and school boards to meet the challenges of governing a local school system in trying economic times and periods of public pressure to improve student achievement.  He believes that today’s public school governing authorities must be forward thinking and embrace the very best “out-of-the-box” thinking for moving school systems forward.  From budgeting and facilities management to personnel and classroom initiatives, Gil believes that children deserve our best efforts and planning to insure America’s continued future leadership in global markets. 

Prior to moving into the education governance arena, Gil served education as a “loaned executive” from BellSouth Corporation.  During a fifteen-year career with BellSouth, Gil served in a variety of management and executive positions including Director of Public Affairs, Media Relations Manager, and Director of Advertising.  In every BellSouth position, Gil maintained close ties and leadership roles with the education communities where he served 

After leaving BellSouth, Gil served as Vice President for two national and international public relations firms.  In 1992, he was selected as the first Assistant Executive Director of the Georgia School Superintendents Association.  In 1995, he was asked to serve as the first Deputy Executive Director of the Georgia School Boards Association, representing all 180 local public school systems in Georgia.  Gil held that position until December of 2004 when he rejoined his own company to focus more specifically on helping smaller and mid-sized entities do “more with less” and achieve the “success they deserve.”  His company, Parrish, Brumfield & Associates, is located in Atlanta and New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Melinda P. Brumfield
Executive Vice President and Lead Business Consultant
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Michael S. Parrish

Executive Vice President Commercial Accounts

Archie B. Williams, III

Chief Counsel Bio Medics Division

Robert Kaplan

Chief Design Consultant

Glenn Paist

Manager Events Services

Glenn has been working with us as one of our meeting event producers for many years now.  His 20 years of diverse experience in the production of corporate events has given him the essential knowledge and management/people skills to ensure that each stage of the project is smoothly orchestrated, remains on budget and accomplishes the intended goals and objectives.  Glenn has produced and directed meeting events for many fortune 1000 companies throughout his career.  Some of his most recent projects include:

• Bellsouth
• GEAC
• Delta Air Lines
• Financial Planners Association
• Liberty National Life Insurance Company
• Ethicon (a Johnson & Johnson Company)
• Cordis Cardiovascular (a Johnson & Johnson Company)
• IBM
• S1
• AFLAC
• Cordis Endovascular (a Johnson & Johnson Company)
• Navartis Pharmaceutical