Jimmy Bailey Jr., Forty Under 40 winner 2009

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Age: 33
Vice president of community services,
The Daniel Island Co.

• Serves as the chief conduit between the development company and the property owners of the Daniel Island. This role consists of managing the day-to-day activities of the Daniel Island Property Owners Association, the Daniel Island Community Fund and the Daniel Island Community
  Foundation.

Community involvement

• Vice chairman, S.C. Education Lottery Commission.
• Board of directors, YesCarolina.
• Administrator, Daniel Island Community Fund and Foundation.

Professional goal: To make Daniel Island the best community anywhere in America to live and work.

Personal mission statement: I try to live by the message of the serenity prayer: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Books on your nightstand: The Associate by John Grisham and The Great Neighborhood Book by Jay Walljasper.

Favorite music artist or musical genre: It varies. The album I seem to be playing the most lately is The Best of the Guess Who.

Favorite hour of the day and why: Whenever my daughter wakes up in the morning and gives me a hug. Ask any father of a little girl why.