Trey Brownfield is a husband and father of two. He obtained an associates’ degree in business administration. He currently owns two real estate holding companies and is the general manager of Northshore Ace Hardware.

Trey has spent his life serving others. Starting at a young age, he was involved in many ministries in his church. He started his outreach, not only through his church, but in his community through his time spent volunteering at Ohana Pier. In this time he helped many teens who were struggling with self-harm, bullying, and family issues. After his time volunteering at Ohana Pier ended, you could find Trey Brownfield ministering to teens at the local tennis courts.

His love for his community grew and he became a Rotarian. He was elected chair of Public Relations in his first year with the organization. He then went on to join the Heritage Festival board where he served as the public relations and sponsorship chair. In 2020 Trey then became the chairman of the Slidell Heritage Festival and continues to serve in this capacity today.

During the height of Covid, Trey, along with a few other men, founded the philanthropic organization, Men of Steel. This is an organization of men who meet and select a charity to donate a sum of $12,500 to four times a year.

Trey is a graduate of Leadership Northshore. During his time in the program, Trey was a founding member of Project Lead the Way, which was a mentorship program in Slidell High. Upon his graduation of Leadership Northshore, he was voted by his class to represent them on the Leadership Northshore Alumni Association. He served as Vice President, President and now Ex-Officio of the Alumni Association.

Trey Brownfield was the Keep Slidell Beautiful director where, during his two years as director, he was awarded by the state, Director of the Year. During his time as KSB Director, Trey also brought Christmas lights back to Front Street. He then resigned from his director position to run for City Councilman for District F. He was overwhelmingly elected to the position, making him the youngest councilman elected in the history of Slidell. Trey continued to serve as a board member for Keep Slidell Beautiful for some time after resigning from the director
position.

In 2024, Trey Brownfield spearheaded efforts to install a Safe Haven Baby Box in the Slidell Fire Station. This is one of, if not the first, in the state of Louisiana. The same year, Trey founded and organized an annual widows’ dinner, serving approximately 100 local widows each year. And if that was not enough, when he saw an article in The Slidell Independent about a local widow who was living in a dilapidated home, he could not help but get involved. He has worked for months, and has successfully secured her a safe home.

Trey also served on the Olde Towne Main Street Association. He is a former advisor to One Way Love and to the Safe Haven Park project through Rotary. He currently sits on the Keesler Federal Credit Union Community Impact Board. Most recently, he joined the East St Tammany Business Alliance as a board member and often volunteers time at events for the Hospice House, Friends of Slidell Police Association, Community Christian Concern, The United Way, Habitat for Humanity, and STARC. Trey spends some of his time giving speeches to many
organizations such as Junior Auxiliary, JAG classes, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and many schools. In addition to donating his time, Trey often makes monetary donations to further the work of these organizations.

Acknowledgements and Awards:
Extraordinary Neighbor in Slidell Magazine
Forty Under 40 by the Northshore Media Group
Pearl Williams Superior Leadership Award by Slidell Republican Women’s Club
Civic Leader of the Year for St Tammany Parish by Alliance for Good Government
Former Duke and King Samaritan 73 for the Slidell Women’s Civic Club
Centennial Under 40 Impact Award from the National League of Cities

Miranda Lindsay is the CEO at the Hospice Foundation of the South and the Hospice House. She has been with the foundation since starting as the Administrative Assistant in July of 2013. Miranda is a 2017 graduate of Pearl River Community College; receiving her Associates of Art with a focus on business and marketing, graduating on the Dean’s List. She graduated from Mississippi State University in December 2020 with a Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies; majoring in Business, Social Work, and Psychology.

Through her job and in her personal time, she enjoys supporting several organizations. She was awarded the "Pearl Award" for community stewardship from the Leadership Slidell Northshore Alumni Association in June 2022. Miranda was also recognized in December 2020 as Edge of the Lake Magazine's "40 Under 40" and was honored to be selected as the East St. Tammany Young Athena Leadership Award Recipient in November 2019. She currently serves as Vice President of the East St. Tammany Business Alliance and Rotary Club Slidell Northshore. Alliance. Miranda is a current cohort member of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program.

Miranda previously was the President of the Camellia City Kiwanis Club and Leadership Northshore Alumni Association. Miranda is a volunteer for multiple Non Profits in our area, and a Leadership Northshore class of 2018 graduate and a Leadership St. Tammany class of 2023 graduate. She was also the co-founder of LOSS Love, a project that supplied care packages for child survivors of suicide in St. Tammany Parish.

Victoria Paz is a resident of Slidell, LA and is the General Manager at The Harbor Center. Victoria graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a Bachelor of Industrial Design in 2008 and moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2009 and spent almost 16 years at Silver Slipper Casino Hotel handling the property’s marketing and advertising.

Throughout her professional career, Victoria has been an active member of the community in St. Tammany Parish. Victoria is the current Treasurer for the East St. Tammany Business Alliance and a board member for the St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce. She was a founder of Bring It Home Northshore in 2013 and served in a variety of leadership roles for the organization through 2020. She was a graduate of Leadership Northshore Class of 2014, a board member for Hospice House from 2016 - 2019, a board member of the East St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors from 2011 until 2019 - including Chairwoman in 2018, and a St. Tammany ChamberPAC board member for 2020-2021, among other organizations. Victoria was named one of Edge of the Lake’s Forty Under 40 in 2020 as well as one of the Best Volunteers in Slidell by The Slidell Independent newspaper in 2018, and was the recipient of the 2023 Athena Young Professional Award.

In addition to her passion for giving back to her community, Victoria enjoys spending time with family and friends as often as possible. Victoria enjoys traveling or spending time out on the water with her husband, David, and his two boys Zavier (15) and Zayden (14). Victoria believes that family and community are the most important things in life and she works daily to give of herself to both.

Joseph Montelepre lives in Slidell with his wife Karen, a retired critical care nurse. Joseph is a career commercial banker and real estate lender by profession. He is Dad of five, Grandfather of six, and a hippie musician at heart.

Joseph has been very active in the business and nonprofit community for decades. He is on the board of the East St. Tammany Business Alliance, and has been on the advisory board of the St. Tammany Parish Chamber of Commerce. He is also current board Chairman of the Friends of the Harbor Center 501c3 nonprofit organization. He is past treasurer of the Northshore Court Foundation, which supports the St. Tammany and Washington Parish specialty courts, with a special interest in veterans; and a past treasurer of the Women’s Council of Realtors.

He helped to form the local Louisiana Prison Re-Entry Initiative in attempting to find jobs for returning inmates; Joseph was chairman of the first LA-PRI employment committee in St. Tammany Parish. He has addressed prison groups on subjects including how to start your own business, and how to interview for employment upon re-entry.

Joseph and Karen Montelepre are also small business owners. He has a great love for the East St. Tammany business and entrepreneurial community, and is proud to represent the East St. Tammany Business Alliance.

Larry Gillio Jr. is a local business owner who has worked in numerous capacities in the hardware and home center industry for 32 years. He proudly is entering his 18th year as an Ace hardware owner in Slidell where he has resided for 21 years. A native of Louisiana, Larry previously worked as a District Manager for Ace hardware though out Southern Louisiana. He has been recognized for several awards in both capacities as a business owner and corporate leader.

Larry’s passion is serving the community he lives in. This passion for service began while serving in high school civic clubs, and continued into various fraternal organizations in college and eventually in his proud home of Slidell. Here, he serves on numerous committees, non-profit boards, and city/parish commissions.

Larry is a founding board member of the East St. Tammany business Alliance and had served on executive Board since from its formation through 2025 where he served the role of President.

He is a graduate of the University of New Orleans with a BS in Marketing. Larry is the proud father of two children and believes in serving and collaborating with business, Government and civic/non-profit organizations to make Slidell a place where people want to visit, have career opportunities, open business and proudly call home.

DON SHEA is Director of Business Services at Tri-Parish Works, the workforce development agency serving St. Tammany, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. Prior to that he served as CEO of the East St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce, after having been Director of Economic Development for St. Tammany Parish. He had been serving the Jacksonville (FL) Civic Council as its first Executive Director. In addition, Don served as transition staff director for newly-elected Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown during June and July of 2011, and subsequently as an executive-on-loan to Mayor Brown to redesign the economic development delivery system for downtown Jacksonville and the consolidated City of Jacksonville/Duval County government.

Prior to that, Don served as Executive Director of the Shreveport (LA) Downtown Development District, and served for nearly seven years at the St. Petersburg (FL) Downtown Partnership, as President & CEO. Previously, he served as President of the management company for the downtown Business Improvement District in Jackson, MS. Earlier, Don was CEO of the New Orleans Downtown Development District, the first downtown management BID in the United States. Don has served for many years on the Board of Directors of the International Downtown Association (IDA), and was Chairman of IDA during 2004-2005.

A Massachusetts native, Mr. Shea began his career in public service at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, working there in a variety of assignments. Following that, he was Director of Area Planning and Development at Medical Area Service Corp. (MASCO), a consortium of Harvard Medical School, its teaching hospitals, and other higher education institutions in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston. Don has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and a Master of City Planning degree from Harvard University in Cambridge.

Danny is a devoted husband and father of three children—two teenage young men and a four-year-old—and a committed Christian who is faithful to his church and actively involved in various ministries. He has a true love and passion for people and values strong relationships wherever he goes. Danny also enjoys supporting fellow small business owners, whether through connection, collaboration, or offering support in any way possible.

Danny is a Slidell-based business owner with over 10 years of experience in professional lawn maintenance and the past 3 years specializing in pressure and soft washing for high-end residential and commercial properties. He is known for his attention to detail, professionalism, and integrity, delivering dependable, long-lasting results.

In addition to his business work, Danny has helped with the local Louisiana Prison Re-Entry Initiative, assisting returning inmates with job placement and addressing prison groups on topics such as starting a business and interviewing for employment upon re-entry. He is excited to represent the East St. Tammany Business Alliance (ESTBA).

Rene Arcemont is a lifelong community servant, small business owner, and healthcare leader proudly calling Slidell home since 2004.

From serving as Director of Medical Legal Services with Paradigm Health System and Sterling Surgical to previously leading East St. Tammany Habitat for Humanity as Executive Director/ CEO, Rene has dedicated his career to helping people and strengthening communities.

A graduate of Leadership St. Tammany and Leadership Northshore, previously Commander of the USCG Auxiliary and currently Board Member for FBI Citizens Academy Alumni, Rene continues to serve on numerous nonprofit boards, civic organizations, and city/parish commissions always focused on service, trust, and unity.

Above all, Rene believes leadership means showing up, listening, and helping whenever you’re needed.

Angel Beers is a local, born and raised member of the Slidell community who is proud to serve on the board of the East St. Tammany Business Alliance. She and her husband, Richard, have been married for 25 years and together have 2 daughters. She is an insurance agent with All Phase Insurance Agency, where she focuses on helping individuals and businesses protect what matters most.

She is actively involved in the community as a member of the Lakeshore & Pearl River Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, the Slidell Chapter of the American Business Women's Alliance, serves as Secretary of the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 374, and Program Chair of the East St. Tammany Republican Women's chapter.

In her free time, Angel enjoys spending time with family and friends and cheering on her youngest as she competes in taekwondo.

Tina is humbly honored to serve on the Board of the East St. Tammany Business Alliance and help our local business community grow and thrive. Tina is the founder and Managing Member of Pinnacle Law, LLC. She recently celebrated a milestone in her legal career – 30 years of helping others get ahead of their legal problems, before those legal problems get ahead of them! Her law firm is specialized, and focuses on serving as Trusted Advisor to businesses as their Outside General Counsel, solving the legal
needs of businesses and governmental agencies in her Business Law and Litigation practice, and addressing the specialized needs of construction industry clients – owners, contractors,
subcontractors, design professionals and project managers – in her Construction Law and Litigation practice. The only area of personal law she handles is that in which she has developed particularized experience – Legal Estate Planning. Her 30 years of practicing law in
these areas have given her a depth and breadth of experience that is unparalleled.

Before founding Pinnacle Law, Tina spent nearly 25 years with a top New Orleans law firm, a position she considers herself blessed to have earned after excelling at Tulane Law School, attending on scholarship and graduating with multiple honors, serving as Law Clerk to Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Walter Marcus, and beginning her professional career as a CPA for five years with Ernst & Young (after earning her undergraduate degree in Accounting with honors from Loyola University).

She considers being a Mama to her two daughters her most important job. She has navigated the challenges of single parenthood with a goal to raising two human beings who are kind,
respectful, make sound decisions, and value giving back as much as she does.

Community Service has always been a core value for Tina, and started at a young age. The Young Leadership Council recognized her as Volunteer of the Year; she has volunteered for Habitat for Humanity for many years, first in New Orleans, and now in East St. Tammany; she has served as Board Member and in various leadership capacities with the Louisiana Bar Foundation, which dedicates the majority of its funding to providing free legal aid to the underprivileged; she led the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Community Action Committee; she served her Church, Our Lady of Lourdes, on its Pastoral Council, on its Finance Council, and
before that on its Rebuilding Finance Council, helping the Church and School rebuild after Katrina; she is a Founding Member and Board Member of The Steel Mimosas, which blesses qualified East St. Tammany nonprofits with donations approximating $10,000 quarterly; she is a proud Rosie, and 2026 will be her fifth year volunteering in that program, helping EST Habitat for Humanity construct homes for those in need; and she proudly serves on the Board of the East St. Tammany Business Alliance, promoting and supporting the growth and development of East St. Tammany businesses. She is honored to continue her service.

Michelle Fadely is excited to step into the role of Part Time Program Administrator with the East St. Tammany Business Alliance, supporting the Board with day to day operations, member communication, social media, recruiting, and sharing what makes ESTBA such a valuable organization for local business owners.

She is also a local Realtor with Engel & Völkers, specializing in working with Veterans and military families buy, sell, and manage property while making informed, strategic real estate decisions. As a certified Military Relocation Professional and MILESTATE member, Michelle brings extensive training and firsthand experience supporting service members and their families through relocations.

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Michelle met her husband in 2006 and spent the next 12 years moving across the country as a military family. In 2018, they relocated to Slidell, where they were immediately welcomed by the East St. Tammany community. After her husband retired from the U.S. Coast Guard in 2024, their family officially set down roots, proudly calling Slidell their forever home.

Michelle is a proud mom of three boys (Ages from 23 to 11) and deeply committed to service, community, and giving back. She has received awards for her volunteerism as a Coast Guard Ombudsman, was nominated in 2018 for Armed Forces Military Spouse of the Year, and in 2015 organized and led a Relay for Life team made up of military members and spouses. That same year, after her oldest son fought cancer, she became a strong advocate for childhood cancer awareness and funding.

She has volunteered extensively with organizations including Coast Guard Tactical Law Enforcement Association, Make-A-Wish, and Habitat for Humanity as a Rosie, along with supporting many local initiatives. Michelle was also featured in Social Northshore in 2022 as a Real Estate Rockstar and is a member of Steel Mimosas, where she enjoys learning about and supporting local nonprofits.

Supporting local businesses, serving the community, and giving back is what fuels Michelle. She is honored to be part of ESTBA and excited to help support and grow an organization that truly makes a difference for business owners and the community it serves.