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Joe Zanco is the Chief Financial Officer for publically-traded Home Bancorp, Inc., the $2.2 billion holding company for Home Bank, headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana. As CFO, he directs the accounting operations, financial reporting, treasury, investor relations, human resources and marketing functions of the company. In 2017, Junior Achievement of Acadiana named him Business Person of the Year for his professional accomplishments and commitment to community.

Joe served as the inaugural Chairman of the Board of Directors of One Acadiana, the region’s chamber of commerce and economic development organization serving nine parishes in south-central Louisiana. He remains active on its Board of Directors.

He serves on the Board of Trustees of Lafayette General Health, the region’s largest non-profit, community-owned health system. The system has over 4,000 employees serving south-central Louisiana.

In March 2018, Joe joined the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (“LABI”). LABI is the state’s largest business-led organization focused on representing the business community in the political, legislative, judicial and regulatory processes.

He is the founder of Lead the Change Now, a movement focused on inspiring personal responsibility and serving others (facebook.com/leadthechangenow). He is a highly-rated public speaker sought by business, civic and educational organizations to challenge and inspire their employees/members to greater effectiveness, influence and job satisfaction.

Joe serves the incarcerated through Innerfaith Prison Ministry. He developed and delivers a money management course to inmates focused not on math, but on the decision making that destroys the finances of many Americans.

In 2017, the premier national professional organization for CPAs, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“AICPA”), awarded Joe its National Public Service Award for the diversity of his public service and the selflessness he has shown in supporting his community.

Joe is a past president of the Acadiana Chapter of the Society of Louisiana CPAs (“LCPA”) and has served on the LCPA’s Board of Directors. In 2016, he was awarded the LCPA’s Distinguished Public Service Award. The award is the LCPA’s highest honor for public service leadership, impact, involvement and innovation.

He is a member of the AICPA and Institute for Internal Auditors. Joe graduated from Louisiana State University in 1992 with an Accounting degree. He is a graduate of Leadership Lafayette.

For the past 10 years, Dr. Shawn Wilson has served as Chief of Staff for the Department of Transportation and Development, a role he filled for three previous Secretaries and under the executive administration of two Governors. Prior to joining DOTD, Wilson also served as former Executive Director of the Louisiana Serve Commission and Deputy Legislative Director in the Blanco Administration.

A proud product of the New Orleans public schools, Wilson earned a B.A. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Louisiana, where he served as Student Government President and Member of the University of Louisiana System Board. He holds a Master of Public Administration degree and recently earned a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy/and Urban Affairs at Southern University.

Shawn’s community service covers a variety of personal and professional interests, including Scoutmaster for Troop 271 Boy Scouts of America in Lafayette, Evangeline Area Council of Boy Scouts Board, and American Associations of State Highway and Transportation Officials. His former Board memberships include Past President of the University of Louisiana Alumni Association, the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, United Way of Acadiana, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Shawn and his wife, Rocki, met and reside in Lafayette; together they have two children, college senior Shawn Denise (21) and Star Scout Joshua Bakari (13). The Wilsons are members of Progressive Baptist Church.

Greg Albrecht has been the Chief Economist of the Legislative Fiscal Office since 1991.

In this role he is responsible for forecasting the State’s major tax revenues, estimating the fiscal impact of tax legislation, as well as providing general economic, tax, and fiscal analysis to the legislature.

He received his undergraduate and masters degrees from the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge campus, and has been an adjunct instructor in the LSU Economics Department for over twenty-five years, teaching all of the principles courses offered by the Department; micro and macroeconomic principles, and most recently, money, banking, and monetary policy.

Greg is frequently interviewed by local and national newspapers as well as radio and TV stations concerning state revenue and fiscal matters.

He is married to Margaret Nabers, has two children, and has resided in Baton Rouge since 1977.

Born and raised in Plaquemine, Louisiana, Moon mixes common sense thinking with his own brand of Cajun flavor. He is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Monroe. An avid fisherman, Moon will travel anywhere to put a hook in the water. He and his wife Tonia live with their 4 children in Monroe.

I am a violin maker, restorer and player. My days are spent working with wood and hand tools, repairing and building instruments using traditional methods and designs. My work is very satisfying,  and blends my interests in craft, design, and music.

My formal training started at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, where I completed their violin making program.  From there I worked with a luthier in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and also at the Music Emporium in Arlington, MA.

In 2002, I started in a shop behind my home  about 30 minutes from Lafayette, LA.  In the fall of 2014, I opened a full-service violin shop, Sola Violins, in the heart of downtown Lafayette.   This move has allowed for the expansion of inventory and services, and greater accessibility to most of my clientele.

In addition to building and working with violins, I play the fiddle in two Grammy-nominated Cajun bands, Bonsoir Catin and the Magnolia Sisters. All instruments aside, I love spending time with my two young sons and my husband, enjoying the woods around our home on the Bayou Teche.

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