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Anthony Reed, CPA, PMP is a polymath. He excelled as a Fortune 500 technology executive, two-time national distance running hall of fame inductee, and forty-time award winning documentary director and director.  He's also one of eight recipients of the 2022 President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition Hero Award for his contribution to the sport of distance running. This includes 25 years in project management and executive positions for companies, such as Texas Instruments, Motel 6, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He’s been featured in the business, IT, travel, and sports sections of major media entities across the country. This includes the PMI Today, NPR statons, CNN, Dallas Morning News, Runner’s World, Southern Living, Ebony, ESPN, and the Journal of Accountancy.

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He holds two graduate degrees (management and accounting) and two undergraduate degrees (management and mathematics). He’s also taught collegiate project management, information technology, accounting, and business management courses. He’s also a certified Supply Chain Manager.

He served on the Board of Directors for the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), the Dallas White Rock Marathon, Running USA, software firms, and various local and international not-for-profit organizations.

He’s led multi-million dollar, international projects for some of the largest Fortune 500 companies. He has spoken at national and international project management, accounting, IT, and software quality assurance conferences. He has five books and over fifty articles published. The articles have appeared in ComputerWorld, Datamation, Career Focus, and Runner’s World magazines. His latest 208-page book is Running to Leadership: What Finishing 100+ Marathons On All Seven Continents Teaches Us About Success (second edition, November 2014).

This certified running coach was inducted into the RRCA (2022) and NBMA (2017) National Distance Running Hall of Fame for his athletic and organizational accomplishments. He was also the first distance runner included into the Texas Black Sports Hall of Fame (2026). He's one of about sixty people in the world, who completed the 26.2-mile marathon “hat trick.” This consists of finishing at least (1) 100 marathons (2) in all 50 States, and (3) all seven continents, this included the frigid Antarctica, Kenya’s dangerous Lewa SafriCom, and China’s Great Wall Marathons. Fewer than 225 people in the world had accomplished the seven continents feat. Anthony's the first Black in the world to achieve the seven continents goal. Subsequently, his journeys were chronicled in his book, Running Shoes Are Cheaper Than Insulin: Marathon Adventures On All Seven Continents. A three-hour video of his life story is in a special US Library of Congress collection and the running clothes from his seventh continent marathon are with the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.

He wrote and directed the feature-length documentaries, Breaking Three Hours and We ARE Distance Runners and the documentary short, She Quietly Ran Into History. The documentaries won forty awards in over thirty film festivals in the US, Canada, India, and Sweden. The award categories include