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Elmon Grady Terry Jr. (Better known as Gray Terry) is an American Business Director with Philips Healthcare North America and Legal Mediator and Arbitrator with the State of Georgia.

Gray was born in Florence Alabama to Elmon G Terry Sr and Carolyn Terry. Elmon Sr. was both and Navy and Army Military and served in WWII and Korea and retired as Lt. Colonel. Carolyn was a 30 year High Educator and assisted in opening Bradshaw High School in 1966. Gray graduated from Bradshaw High School in 1978 while at Bradshaw, Gray played Football and Baseball and was a 3 year letterman in both sports. In addition Gray was Senior Class President and was Managing Editor of the Orange and Brown Award Winning Newspaper in the State of Alabama. Gray attended and Graduated from the University of Alabama from 1978-1982, and was President of his Fraternity Delta Chi and served the University as Media Planning Board, which was the oversight Board to all Student Publications. After graduation, Gray married the former Sharon Harwell, and began his career in Birmingham with AmSouth Bank. He became the youngest Branch Manager and Assistant Vice President in 1984, eventually becoming Vice President in 1987. During this time Gray obtained his Masters of Business Administration from Samford University and First Union National Bank in North Carolina, reached out and Gray became Vice President with the growing National Bank Company and transferred to both Raleigh NC and eventually Atlanta Georgia in 1989. In 1991, Gray joined Wachovia Bank as Vice President and began a 6 year career which included Atlanta's most historic sports history with the 1995 Atlanta Braves World Championship and 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Gray served on the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Arts and Sports Council during this time. In addition Gray was Vice-President in Governmental and Private Banking and worked with local government counties in the leasing of emergency equipment to support Emergency needs. With the financial turmoil during late 90's, Gray envisioned, the concept of offering efficient lower cost Alternative Dispute Resolution and became Registered and Certified with the State of Georgia. Gray started his practice and to date, has mediated over 1000 cases with each case offering the opportunity to resolve the dispute collaboratively. While developing this practice, joined Philips Healthcare as Customer Service Manager in 2004 and is now Service Program Manager with the company while obtaining his Global Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, IAPP Privacy Certification, and with these skills provided a knowledge base to influence the direction of Medical Care.