Larry Reno has been actively involved with BetterInvesting since September 1982 when he and three co-workers started his first investment club. He was recently elected as the Treasurer to the NAIC's BetterInvesting Board of Directors.
Larry graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Accounting from Mississippi State University in 1968 and immediately went to work for the Department of the Army as a civilian Internal Auditor. After assignments throughout the United States, Europe, England and North Africa he settled in the Atlanta, Georgia area where he met his wife, Cindy who was a Protocol Officer for Third US Army. They have four children and four grandchildren.
In 1986 Larry volunteered as a founding Director of the Atlanta Council (now Chapter) of BetterInvesting where he has served in many management positions. In 1995 he was elected as an Associate Director and in 2000 as a full Director to the BetterInvesting National Volunteer Board of Directors where he has served in a mirror of assignments from an instructor at the National Convention to the Chairman of the Board.
In 2001 he retired from Civil Service as a Financial Manager to fulfill one of his and his wife’s life long passions to travel in their recreation vehicle (RV). Larry says that two of his more memorable excursions were a twelve week trip from Atlanta thru the Rockies of Western Canada to Alaska. He goes on to say, “but that doesn’t hold a candle to last year’s trip to Mexico. Our RV was strapped onto a train’s flatcar and we traveled from the top of the Copper Canyon, Mexico’s equivalent of the Grand Canyon, down to the Gulf of California”.
Larry has been seen in many national and local television programs and publications. He has contributed to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution Investment Quarterly since 1996 and other local publications such as Georgia Trends. He has been interviewed for NBC’s Nightly News as well as CNN’s Moneyline.
Larry is excited about the opportunity to serve as an officer on the new Board. He said, “it is refreshing to see how this new Board is striving for openness, clarity and the recognition of the value of the Volunteer field force.”