Brian has been married for the past 27 years to Kay and they have two children; Haley and Coleman.

Brian earned a BA in Business Administration from the University of Kentucky and a MA from Webster University while working fulltime in the convenience store and petroleum industry. His career started by working in his parent’s franchised convenience stores and at age 18 he was offer a position as a store supervisor for the franchise parent company. This began a 21 year career in the convenience store and later the petroleum industry. Brian served in marketing, operations, gasoline purchasing and human resources during his stint with three different organizations. His final role was a VP/COO for Chestatee Oil Corp and their Country Cupboard Food Marts division.

In 1996 Brian started Absolute Activewear a uniform manufacturing company providing services to the convenience store, petroleum and quick serve restaurant industries. After selling this venture in late 1999 Brian began his career as an executive recruiter and started Executive Leadership Solutions which is primarily a contingency search firm. ELS presently has 16 Executive Recruiters, 3 Research Assistants and 1 Administrative Assistant and specializes in the upstream and downstream oil industry, supermarket industry, health care, banking, quick serve restaurant and consumer product goods (CPG) industries. In 2005, Brian founded Coleman Haley & Wright a retained only search firm that focuses on C & V level searches. C H & W has 3 Executive Recruiters with shared support services from ELS.

Brian’s also serves his recruiting niche by sitting on the "Supplier Board" for the "National Association of Convenience Stores" and the "Education Committee" for the "Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America".