George Vincent West is Vice Chairman of the Board, Director of Floor Decor. Mr. West served as our Chief Executive Officer from 2000 to 2002, as CoChief Executive Officer from 2008 to 2010 and as Chief Executive Officer from 2010 through 2012. Mr. West began his business career starting a successful retail glassware business in Atlanta. He was eventually recruited to work for his family building materials business, West Building Materials, which operated in five southeastern states, and eventually became its President. Mr. West also developed and sold a multistate billboard company and has developed several real estate projects across the state of Georgia, the most recent being Utana Bluffs, a boutique mountain home community in the north Georgia Mountains. Mr. West graduated from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia in 1977.