Vice President, External Affairs, Tanner Health System
Executive Director, Tanner Foundation

Brian is currently the Vice President of External Affairs for Tanner Health System and the Executive Director of the Tanner Medical Foundation in Carrollton. Prior to joining Tanner, Brian spent 17 years in corporate and industrial business development and recruitment as an economic development senior executive in several Georgia communities as well as the Chief Operating Officer for the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. Prior to that he served as a Federal and State Lobbyist for the Georgia Farm Bureau.

Brian currently serves as President of the University of Georgia Alumni Association, an ex-officio member of the University of Georgia Athletic Association Board, an ex-officio member of the University of Georgia Foundation Board and on the Board of Governor’s for the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. He is also an appointed member of the Georgia Telecommunications Commission. A 2013 member of Leadership Georgia, Brian has served on their Board of Trustees and is a J.W. Fanning Fellow. He is a member of the Carrollton Dawnbreakers Rotary Club and his family attends First Baptist Church of Carrollton.

 

A native of Irwin County, Brian is a 1994 graduate of the University of Georgia with a degree in Political Science and a 2019 graduate of UGA’s Executive MBA program. Brian began his career in government affairs and economic development as a volunteer on Senator Saxby Chambliss’ first campaign for Congress in 1994.

Brian is married to Carmen, the Culinary Arts Teacher for Carrollton High School and a 1995 graduate of UGA. They have one son Mason who is a Senior at Carrollton High School. The Dills currently reside in Carrollton, Georgia.

 

Mary Saravia Busby

Director of Development

As Director of Development, Mary manages the Foundation team and directs the Foundation’s fundraising efforts to secure corporate and individual major, annual and planned gifts as well as grants and sponsorships. She also oversees Tanner Foundation's black tie event, The Magnolia Ball, which has become a venerated local tradition welcoming 600+ guests for a evening of dining, dancing and auction in support of a key hospital project.

Mary advances Tanner Foundation's mission via web, print, social media and video communications. She builds community relationships, crafts proposals, structures programs and supports donors in developing multi-year fund and endowment agreements to champion the patients and services of Tanner Health System.     

She leverages more than a decade of experience in strategic sales and communication from her early career in the cable industry, serving as Director of Sales Strategy for The Weather Channel and representing cable product marketing for Cox Communications. She has developed and directed integrated marketing campaigns with teams from Disney and ESPN, AMC Networks, NBC Universal and other cable industry leaders.

Mary is a graduate of Binghamton University, a top-rated public research center in New York, and was inducted into Mensa in 2002. She has earned certificates in Major Gifts (2016) and Annual Giving (2012) from the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy Madison Institute and graduated the Tanner Leadership Institute Director's Cohort (2017.)