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This Week's Speaker
Buzz Law, President, Creative Financial Group Ltd.

Grab your coffee or tea and the breakfast of your choice and join us this Friday morning at 7:30 a.m. on Zoom to hear Buzz Law, President of Creative Financial Group Ltd. and manager of the Dunwoody Rotary Charitable Fund investments give us an update on how our Charitable Fund is doing in the current times. You can join the Zoom meeting at https://zoom.us/j/99732258910 or, if you have the Zoom app by joining the meeting with Meeting ID: 997 3225 8910. You can connect using one tap mobile on your phone at +13126266799,,99732258910# US (Chicago) or +16465588656,,99732258910# US (New York).

Buzz was a Dunwoody Rotarian for 25+ years and spent many years as a Charitable Fund Trustee and championing our involvement in Junior Achievement. He left the club when his office moved and the journey from meetings to work added up to a two-hour commute.

Buzz founded Creative Financial Group where he has counseled affluent individuals and their families on comprehensive financial, estate, investment and tax planning matters since 1984. Creative Financial Group became a subsidiary of Synovus Corporation in February 2001.

Governor Nathan Deal appointed Buzz to the Technical College System of Georgia Board in 2014 and Buzz was reappointed in 2018. Buzz was previously appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to the State Board of Education in January 2007, where he served until February 2011. His first appointment by Governor Purdue in 2006 was to the Board of Corrections as the 6th Congressional District Representative. Buzz is currently serving on the Advisory Board for Smokey Powell School at the Academy for the Blind in Macon. Recently, Buzz was appointed by State Superintendent of Schools, Richard Woods, to Vice Chairman of the Georgia Foundation for Public Education.

Buzz serves or has served on the University of Georgia Alumni Board of Directors and the Advisory Board for the Dekalb County School Systems Academy of Finance. He is involved with the United Way Resource Development Committee, Atlanta Habitat for Humanity Advisory Committee and Financial Planning Association (FPA) since 1985.

Buzz was named to the Synovus Chairman’s Circle of Excellence for 2012-2019. The Atlanta Business Chronicle named Buzz as one of “Who’s Who in Banking and Finance” every year from 2005 through 2013. Buzz was included in the 2009-2013 issues of Atlanta Magazine’s “Best Personal Wealth Managers.” As announced by Atlanta Magazine, Buzz was named a Five Star Wealth Manager in 2013 through 2019. Additionally, he has been recognized or quoted by numerous financial publications including Bloomberg Wealth Manager, MONEY, Mutual Fund Magazine, Atlanta Business Chronicle, and Financial Planning. Buzz was appointed by Medical Economics as one of the Top 150 Financial Planners for doctors in November 2012, as well as in August 2000, December 2002, November 2004, November 2006, November 2008 and October 2009. In 2009-2014, Buzz was also recognized by the Consumer Research Council of America’s “Guide to Americas Top Financial Planners.”

Buzz and his wife Cathy live in Alpharetta and have four children, Rob (2015 Magna Cum Laude graduate of UGA in Finance, now working at CFG), Elliott (currently modeling and working in real estate in Los Angeles), Austin (2016 graduate of Alabama in Finance with specialization in Real Estate, working with Synovus) and Ansley (Senior, Kennesaw State). In addition, the family includes two dogs and two cats.

Buzz is a graduate of the University of Georgia.


Posted by Jackie Cuthbert
April 22, 2020

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