UNREVIEWED: Foy Shemwell joins Fleming & Riles Insurance

INSURANCE

Foy Shemwell has joined Fleming & Riles Insurance specializing in business and personal insurance. Shemwell spent the previous 12 years in sales roles within the building supply and communications industries.

He serves on The Anchorage and All-Star Football Officials boards and is a member of First United Methodist Church in Albany. Shemwell received his Bachelors in Management from Troy University. He is an Albany native and is married to Amanda Mathis Shemwell. They have two children, Mary William and Graydon.

INDUSTRY

Werhner Washington, plant manager at the Albany Procter & Gamble Company plant, and Albany Technical College Board Member, was featured as the May “Faces of Manufacturing in Georgia,” a segment produced by the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (GaMEP), a part of the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute.

In the feature, Washington cited Albany as the place where he received his first job and how he has now returned to Southwest Georgia where he started his family and launched his career. Eleven years after getting his start in Albany, Washington worked in another P&G plant in Pennsylvania and later, at P&G’s corporate headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Washington began service on the Albany Technical College Board of Directors in September of 2014. In his recently appointed role as plant manager for P&G Albany’s Global Family Care Business Unit/Product Supply, he leads a manufacturing plant with 1200-plus employees and contractors who produce Bounty Kitchen Towels and Charmin Bathroom Tissue.