Our People

Our Leadership

Beautiful Gate Center™ is guided by a highly skilled and passionate Board whose members have extensive experience in Applied Behavior Analysis, Speech and Language Pathology, Pediatrics, Healthcare Architecture, Construction, Engineering, Design & Marketing, and Business. The Board of Directors oversees the Center’s work and ensures that it is executing its mission.

Officers

CHAIRMAN

ANGELA MUIRHEAD

Co-Founder & Executive Director
Beautiful Gate Center

Angela M. Muirhead was elected Chair, and Executive Director, of the Beautiful Gate Center™ in September, 2015. As an accomplished business professional, she presents a thirty year foundation and proven track record of achievements in business within the real estate, banking and legal industries. Her family recently moved to the Charleston area in the summer of 2014.

Angela was President and Co-Founder of Emerald Mortgagee Assistance Company, a private company providing support services to the secondary mortgage market for mortgage-backed securities sold on Wall Street and led the company to become a multi-million dollar company providing collateral supports to the largest banks, mortgage servicers and federal servicing agencies in the country. She sold the company 5 years later to a $6 billion dollar publicly traded company based in California. After the sale in 2000, she founded her second company, Paragon Property Services, a private Colorado real estate brokerage and consulting firm for clients in both the commercial and residential markets.

Angela has another experience in life that is very dear to heart and has driven her passion in the non-profit sector over the past ten years. She is the mother, educational advocate and medical case manager for her special needs son who has a brain disorder resulting in intellectual disability, inability to speak, sensory processing disorder and various other symptoms. Through this experience she has gained extensive knowledge with a broad understanding of her son’s developmental and educational needs and what it takes to be part of a thriving special needs community to support families embraced with disability.

Her service in the non-profit include business advisor to several private Christian schools; School Board of Director for Silver State Christian School, a Christian school of 50 years; former member and co-organizer of the Joshua School Parents Association, a Colorado Department of Education / private school for children with Autism and Developmental Disabilities; and Director of Bridges, a special needs ministry of Red Rocks Baptist Church. Since her move to Charleston, she enjoys volunteering and accompanying her daughter in service at other non-profit organizations. She is also an active member of East Cooper Baptist Church.

Ms. Muirhead holds a BS in Finance with an emphasis in Real Estate and Accounting from Metropolitan State University, Denver, Colorado. After acquiring her BS degree, she earned her Real Estate Brokerage license.

Angela is married to David Muirhead, Co-Founder of Beautiful Gate Center™. They have two children.

TREASURER

Tom Esposito

Retired
Oil Industry Executive

Tom Esposito has been a Charleston area resident for 1 ½ years, having just moved into a new home in Mt Pleasant. Now retired, he had a 45 year career in the oil industry, working in all phases (financial, operations, planning, marketing, international negotiations) of the business both domestically and internationally. His last assignment was as President of Delta Petroleum Group – a small oil shipping, distribution and marketing company based in the British Virgin Islands.

Tom and his wife Kathy joined Grace Cathedral in Charleston and are both active in their outreach ministries. He has had a long history of associations with charitable organizations including tutoring students in Harlem, Habitat for Humanity, Lunch Break, United Way, Reach Work Camps for teens and Family Promise of Monmouth County (NJ).

Prior to joining the Board at Beautiful Gate Center, Tom volunteered with BGC assisting with facilities maintenance and payroll processing.

 

At Large

(alphabetical by first name)

MINHHY "MJ" LE

Owner
Hyle Creative, LLC

Minhhy Le is an accomplished graphic designer and the owner of Hyle Creative, a Charleston, SC based graphic design studio. Minh offers graphic design, website design, print production, and marketing and advertising strategy.

Originally from Vietnam, Minh moved to the U.S. in 2011. She earned a Bachelor in Business Administration as an International Business Major from the University of Economics at Ho Chi Minh City (UEH), Vietnam in 2010 and a Commercial Graphics Degree from Trident Technical College in Charleston, SC in 2014. Prior to starting her freelance business, she held a number of positions at firms such as SIFE, KPMG, American Airlines, Charleston Magazine, VIP Marketing & Advertising and Craft Creative. In 2017, she ran a creative agency named Hyle Creative which is located in Summerville, SC. In addition to serving on Beautiful Gate Center™’s board, Minh is a business mentor with the Charleston chapter of SCORE, the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors. She is also the Chief Inspiration Officer at BHUUMI – The Infinite Portal website and the Ride share BHUUMI Ride which are founded in Summerville, SC. Minh resides in North Charleston with her husband, Bo, dog Hanzel, along with her cats, Layla and Lola. She loves fishing, playing pools table and listening to music in her spares time with her husband, Bo.

Advisors

VICE CHAIRMAN

WILLIAM H. “BILLY” EDWARDS, MS, BCBA​

Director of Center for Behavior Analysis
Youth Learning Institute
Clemson University​

Billy has been directly involved in service delivery to persons with disabilities for over 20 years. He has practiced as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst since 2000 and is an active member of The Association for Behavior Analysis International and The Texas Association for Behavior Analysis (TxABA). Following his tenure as President he assumed the role of Annual Conference Coordinator and Chairman.

During his tenure as Executive Director of Behavioral Innovations, the company expanded it’s operations to include seven service locations throughout Texas and it became widely regarded as an industry leader as a result of its services and efforts to work with insurance companies and families throughout the state of Texas. Billy is now the Director of the Clemson University Youth Learning Institute Center for Behavior Analysis where he is creating an online educational program in Behavior Analysis, an International Outreach program in Behavior Analysis, and working with multiple state organizations to improve the quality of services for those with Developmental Disabilities.

DAVID S. MUIRHEAD

Co-Founder
Beautiful Gate Center
Principal
Blue River Systems Group, LLC

Dave Muirhead is Co-Founder of Beautiful Gate Center™ and a Principal of Blue River Systems Group, LLC, a successful Denver, CO based technology and management consulting firm. Dave has a 30-year track record of successfully delivering custom software and technology solutions to organizations in a wide variety of business verticals. He holds a B.S. in Finance and a M.S. in Information Systems, and also has a background in commercial banking and lending.

As the father of an 11-year old, significantly-impacted special needs child, Dave has a passion for raising the bar in special education and improving the long-term quality of life for children with disabilities and their families.

Prior to moving to South Carolina, Dave and his wife Angela founded, organized and served as Director of the Bridges Special Needs Ministry at Red Rocks Baptist Church for several years. Dave is a member of East Cooper Baptist Church and enjoys a variety of outdoor activities including fly fishing, mountain biking, boating, skiing and snow boarding.

Dave founded Beautiful Gate Center™ with his wife Angela, the Executive Director of BGC.