MPAEF Celebrity Roast
Mississippi Power CEO Anthony Topazi is the honoree for the 2008 Celebrity Roast to benefit the Mississippi Press Association Education Foundation.
Previously, Topazi was executive vice president at Southern Company Generation & Energy Marketing, responsible for Southern Company’s energy trading and wholesale marketing. He began his career with Alabama Power in 1969 as a cooperative education student engineer.
Topazi has served as chairman of the Infrastructure Committee of the Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal and also as chairman of Momentum Mississippi, a public-private partnership appointed by the Governor to enhance the State’s economic development future. He previously served on the steering committee of Blueprint Mississippi and co-chaired its economic development work group. Topazi has served as a member of the Mississippi Economic Council’s board of directors; vice chairman of the Mississippi Partnership for Economic Development and chair of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce.
Perspective Editor Sid Salter, a past MPA president and one-time roast honoree, will once again service as roastmaster.
Other past honorees include Gov. Haley Barbour, Sen. Trent Lott and Ole Miss Chancellor Robert Khayat.
Tickets are $80 and tables of eight are $575. Both are available by calling the MPA, 601-981-3060.
MPAEF, founded in 1983, provides grants, scholarships and internships to educate aspiring print journalists in the state.
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