Troy University alumnus Todd Mote has joined the ranks of the Troy University Alumni Association’s Board of Directors.
Mote, a Mortgage Loan Officer with Guild Mortgage and owner of Mote’s Body Works, Inc. in Geneva, earned both his bachelor’s degree in general management in 2002 and his Master of Business Administration in 2003 from TROY. He is also a graduate of The Graduate School of Banking at LSU.
Mote said he was excited for the opportunity to give back to his university in this way.
“It means the world to me. TROY has given me so many things through my life from lifelong friends to professional opportunities,” he said. “It truly has been the experience of a lifetime for me, so having this opportunity to give back in this way means everything in the world to me.”
During his time at TROY, Mote was a member of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity and was selected for Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges in 2000-2001. He was also active in the Student Government Association and served as a student worker and later graduate assistant in the Office of Alumni Affairs.
For Mote, TROY just felt like the right choice.
“It was phenomenal,” he said. “TROY felt like a better fit to me. I had some friends from Geneva that were already here, and I just plugged in immediately.”
Mote credited professors such as Dr. Hank Findley, Dr. Earl Ingram and the late Dr. Gordon Amsler for having tremendous impacts on his educational experience.
“Dr. Amsler was my first advisor,” Mote said. “Back then, we had the catalogue book because it wasn’t online at that time. My father had said he wasn’t paying for any classes I didn’t need, so Dr. Amsler got a catalogue, and we sat down and mapped out my path. I saw Dr. Amsler at a Kiwanis Club meeting in Montgomery later after I graduated, and we both remembered and laughed about that moment.”
Mote has continued to be “plugged in” with TROY since graduation. He is a lifetime member of the TROY Alumni Association and was a member of the TROY Young Alumni Council from 2009-2011. He was an active part of TROY’s Montgomery Metro Alumni Chapter, serving as chapter president from 2005-2007 and as a chapter board member from 2005-2019.
Mote has always been dedicated to community service. He currently serves as a Board Member for the Friends of Emma Knox Kenan Public Library in Geneva, is the 2023-2024 President of the Geneva Rotary Club, is President of the Geneva Festival on the Rivers and is a Deacon at First Baptist Church of Geneva. He previously was a member of the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery, served as the 2020 President of the Alabama National Fair and was a member of the 2010 Torchbearers Leadership Class of Emerge Montgomery.
“College to me was so much more than just the lectures and books,” he said. “Probably one of the biggest things I got out of my time at TROY was how to become a young adult – how to take care of yourself and make things happen. Pretty much everything I’ve accomplished I can trace back to a connection at TROY. From my first job to getting into the banking industry, pretty much everything has been able to dial back to a relationship from TROY.”
Mote and his wife Katy, a 2002 TROY graduate, and their son Allen return to TROY often in support of athletic and academic events.
