Governor Ken Solow joined the Columbia-Patuxent Rotary Club in September of 1996. He served as Club President in 2001-2002 and won the Donal Lee Chamberlin award for Best Club President. Ken has served District 7620 as Chair or member of the Leadership Training team since 2003. He has been a featured speaker at Chesapeake PETS and other District Conferences. He is a Paul Harris Fellow, a Paul Harris Society Member, and a Major Donor to the Rotary Foundation.
Ken is a founding partner of Pinnacle Advisory Group, Inc., a private wealth management firm serving clients in the Baltimore-Washington area and around the world. Ken currently serves as Chair of Pinnacle’s investment committee, which oversees the management of $1.5 billion of assets for more than 900 families. He is the author of the book, Buy and Hold is Dead (Again), the Case for Active Management in Dangerous Markets.
Ken is married to Linda and resides in Ellicott City, Md. They have a son and a daughter, Danny, who lives and works in Boston, Mass, and Carly recently graduated from U of MD with honors and will be attending grad school for physical therapy at Washington University St. Louis in the Fall.
The August 6, 2015, Potomac-Bethesda Rotary Club meeting featured Tausi Suedi, Co-founder and Country Team Leader of Childbirth Survival International (CSI). CSI’s work focuses on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health in hard-to-reach areas. Tausi holds an MPH from George Washington University (2005), speaks four languages, and is passionate about the health and well-being of women, newborns, children under five years old, adolescents/youth, and the elderly especially in marginalized communities. Special guests included District Governor Nominee Greg Wims, Potomac Rotary Club Past Presidents Janis Brose and Rev. Anne Benefield. [Below] Rotary Club President Bob Fuhrman presented Tausi with a Rotary Cookbook.
Here is a very easy way to help us with fundraising. If you are an Amazon shopper please bookmark this link http://pbrotary.org/Page/amazon in your browser and ask your friends and family to do the same. Whenever you start your Amazon shopping from this page the club gets a percentage. See the link above for details. You can also get to it from our website banner at http://pbrotary.org.
We now have a page which serves as a launching point to our club’s Foundation. Check it out at http://pbrotary.org/Page/our-foundation. You can get to it in three ways from our home page (www.pbrotary.org) : Look for “Foundation” located on the banner or under the menu choices “About Us” or “Services/Projects”. Besides evolving content and links to internal and external resources, on that page we can now accept online donations for everything we do.
If you shop at Amazon through this link http://smile.amazon.com/ch/52-1264058, Amazon will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases (millions of products) to the charitable foundation of our club. Thank You!
