Congratulations to CPGA Operators Committee Chair, Brandon McCurley, who was elected as the 2025 Young Professional of the Year for the Easley Chamber of Commerce. Read more below.
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Our Young Professional of the Year Award honors an emerging leader who strives to meet the highest levels of personal and professional accomplishment, who devotes time and energy to their community, and who serves as a role model for other young leaders and professionals.
This young professional is a true entrepreneur, hard worker, team player, community servant, business owner, and dedicated father & husband. Prior to starting his career with Fort Hill Natural Gas, he served in the United States Air Force until 2011. While in service, he was deployed to Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.
Upon his return, he started his career as a crewman at FHNG where he later advanced to Gas Controller & Industrial Representative. From the beginning, he has shown the drive to learn, to grow, and to be involved. He has mastered his knowledge and skill in gas control and is always looking for ways to improve and be more efficient. To continue advancing in the industry, in 2023, he received his associate’s degree in business from Spartanburg Methodist College.
Currently, he serves as SC Chair of the Carolina Public Gas Association Operators Committee where he plays a key role in industry standards.
He is the co-chair of the Easley Chamber’s Young Professionals Steering Committee where he has been an integral part of growing and improving the events hosted for Young Professionals. He saw the need to enhance the events by highlighting a non-profit at the events to encourage learning and volunteering opportunities. His leadership, mentorship, and dedication to professional growth is inspiring to the young professionals and encourages them to also engage and grow in their careers and community. This has allowed attendance to grow from 5 attendees on average to now over 20, with new faces showing up constantly.
He graduated from the Leadership Pickens County program last year where he played an instrumental role in the class’s community service project. With his dedication, the class raised over $30,000 to complete their community service project with Family Promise of Pickens County, he would also dedicate a lot of sweat hours after work and on weekends. He could be spotted building a patio, digging holes, and fixing areas inside and outside of the project building. He ensured there were volunteers to finish the job! With his diligence and leadership, the project was completed a few weeks prior to the project deadline.
Upon graduation, he was invited to be part of the Board of Regents where he leads and organizes LPC classes, as well as explores ways to enhance the program. He was also invited to serve on the Family Promise Board as their Member and Maintenance Chair.
On top of this, he is a veteran business owner of McCurley Leatherworks, where he handcrafts and customizes leather wallets, belts, phone holders, and much more. He also engraves on wood! If that wasn’t enough, he also co-owns Cascades Head Spa in Downtown Easley with his wife.
As an avid fisherman, he loves to support Fishing 4 Heroes.
Of all of his accomplishments, he is most proud of being a dedicated husband and father of two.