MPCC Veteran Business Community Connect

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Are you a Veteran Owned Business?

Please join us for the upcoming quarterly meeting! 

Speaker: Joe Waring, CEO of Veterans Help Group

Veterans Disability Advocates - Veterans Help Group

Joe Waring is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of EP Group, where he leads the firm in acquiring and building out new platforms.  He directly oversees the company’s investment in Veterans Help Group, a leading team of accredited advocates representing veterans in the disability compensation process.

Waring previously served as the Chief Financial Officer for Evening Post Industries until its restructuring in 2021. While at Evening Post Industries, he worked on numerous acquisitions and divestitures in broadcast television, hospice care, marketing services and disability advocacy.  The most notable deals were the sale of 15 broadcast T.V. stations by Cordillera Communications to E.W. Scripps for $521 million in 2019 and the sale of 16 hospice locations under the Heart of Hospice brand to LHC Group in 2021.

Before joining Evening Post Industries in 2013, Waring spent 8 years at HSBC Group in Chicago, New York, and London working in corporate strategy roles.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Waring also holds a Juris Doctorate and an International Masters of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.

Waring has the pleasure of serving on various non-profit boards.  He is Chairman of Be A Mentor, is past Chairman of the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired S.C., is on the Board of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, and on the Board of Society of International Business (SIBF) Fellows.  He previously served on the Board of the Charleston Animal Society and was a previous Treasurer of the Post and Courier Foundation  He is a proud Liberty Fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Waring is a native Charlestonian.  He and his wife, Silvia, are devoted to their three children.

Veteran Spotlighted Business: 
Thomas Perez, a retired Naval Officer, is the founder and lead financial advisor at Indian Bayou
Financial, a Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management practice. A graduate of the Citadel, Tom
runs his financial practice in Charleston SC, with clients across the country, where he focuses on
financial planning for families, military veterans, and small to mid-sized businesses primarily in
the tech and defense sectors. Tom and his wife Ullas are also motivational speakers where they
help people to live a life of abundance.

Tom actively volunteers his time in many organizations including his church, the Citadel Corps
of Cadet Leadership Mentor program, and volunteering with veteran’s organizations like
WarriorWod.

In his military career, Tom served 28 years of combined active and reserve military service. He
began his career on active duty as a Radioman and Navy diver in the U.S. Navy submarine
service before transitioning to the Navy Reserve, where he attended The Citadel on his G.I. Bill
and earned his commission. Tom retired a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy Reserve in the
Information Warfare Community, which handles the cyber-warfare, space, and intel workload
for the Navy. Tom completed multiple overseas missions and deployments, including his final
deployment in 2017-2018 when he was deployed to Afghanistan in support of both the U.S.
Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and the NATO Operation Resolute Support.

Thomas and his wife Ullas, originally from India, live in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina with
their two daughters, Ava (14) and Julianna (9).