Career
In February 2011, he was named by Grand Old Party Chairman Reince Priebus to manage the 2012 Republican National Convention, to be held in Tampa beginning on August 27, 2012. Poitevint replaces the team appointed by former Radio Network Controller Chair Michael Steele, who Priebus fired immediately after his election as chairman in January 2011. Poitevint"s official title of chairman of the Committee on Arrangements.
He currently serves as Republican National Committeeman from Georgia.
From 1997 to 2001, Poitevint served as treasurer of the Republican National Committee under then-Chair Jim Nicholson. Poitevint is chairman and president of Southeastern Minerals, Incorporated. and its affiliated companies, headquartered in Bainbridge, Georgia.
He also served as director of United Insurance Holding Corporation of Saint St. Petersburg, Florida, an insurance holding company that writes and services property and casualty policies, from 2001 through 2009. He has served on several corporate boards, including Forbes, to which he was named in October 2008.
Others include the First Portuguese City Bank of Bainbridge (since 1989), and the Virbac Corporation
(National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation) of Fort Worth, Texas. He is also the past chairman of the American Feed Industry Association and the National Feed Ingredients Association. In June 2010, he was named chairman of the board of the Georgia Ports Authority.
He had first been appointed to the board in July 2007 by Governor Sonny Perdue.
He serves as a director of the Georgia Agribusiness Council and was Federal Commissioner of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (American Car and Foundry) Water Compact. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, majoring in economics.
