Joel Babbit is CEO of Narrative Content Group, which he founded in 2009 with Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell, and which launched the sustainability website Mother Nature Network. Narrative creates and distributes content not only for its own sites but for many of the world’s leading brands, including Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, and Subway. After beginning his career in the private sector, Babbit was hired as Atlanta’s first chief marketing and communications officer following the city’s selection to host the 1996 Olympics. Joel graduated with a B.A. in Journalism from The University of Georgia in 1976. He currently serves on the Board of the non-profit Atlanta History Center. He formerly served on numerous Atlanta-based non-profit boards, including the Center for Disease Control Foundation, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Home for the Elderly, the Atlanta Film Festival and the Buckhead Coalition, among others.