Lloyd graduated from Yorktown Senior High School in Arlington, VA (the same high school attended by Katie Couric of NBC's Today Show!) in 1965, and went on to study Architecture for 1-1/2 years at the newly-formed Northern Virginia Technical Institute (which later became Northern Virginia Community College). He left college to work as an Electro-mechanical design draftsman for two firms (General Kinetics, Inc. and Farrington Electronics, Inc.) over the next 3-1/2 years, then entered the insurance business in 1970 as an agent for John Hancock Mutual Insurance Co. In 1979, he accepted a promotion to Staff Manager in the Prince George's County District Agency of John Hancock. Lloyd earned his Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation in 1981, and his Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) designation in 1983.

In 1981, he left John Hancock to become a Life and Health Sales Specialist for Sentry Life Insurance Co. In 1984, he joined Great Southern Life Insurance Co. as a Field Vice President, and in 1985, he fulfilled a lifelong desire to enter association work as the National Insurance Specialist for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), where he worked as a consultant to state and local NAHB chapters throughout the nation on member insurance programs. In 1989, he helped to develop NAHB's national member insurance program. During this time, he also served as a two-term President of the NAHB Toastmasters Club, and during the liability crisis of 1985, served as co-chair of the Insurance Committee of ATRA (American Tort Reform Association).

In 1990, he joined the Home Owners Warranty Corporation (HOW) as Senior Corporate Account Executive, responsible for developing member benefit programs for HOW Builders.

Lloyd joined the AIA Potomac Valley Chapter as Executive Director on April 19, 1993 (Patriot's Day!), and also served as Executive Director of AIA Maryland until October of 1999. Of this move, he says, "I've always wanted to follow in my Dad's footsteps, as he had always found association work to be a worthwhile and rewarding experience. While I did a lot of 'job-hopping' in the insurance industry, I now feel I have found my destiny and a profession I can stick to until retirement."

Lloyd quickly settled into the job, setting up a local computer BBS (Bulletin Board Service) in order to make information available to members and the public about architecture in early 1993, and put the AIAPVC and MSAIA on the World Wide Web in September, 1995.

CACE Activities/Awards:
Lloyd quickly became known in CACE (the Council of Architectural Component Executives - the professional organization for Executives of staffed AIA Components) as "The Expert" on the Internet and Electronic Communications, and he got involved nationally in CACE by serving as a Resource Network Chairman in 1995 and 1996 and as the Chairman of the Electronic Communications Committee of CACE in 1997 and 1998. He has served as speaker at numerous CACE meetings on the topic, as well as on the topics of "A Website in 90 Minutes", "Non-dues Revenue Sources on the Web", "How to do an Effective Design Awards Program.", "Extracting and Using Data from TIMSS (the national membership database)", and "Flying Solo: Running an AIA Component by Yourself."

Lloyd was elected to the Executive Committee of CACE as a Director in 1999 and re-elected in 2000. He served as Chairman of the 2003-2006 CACE Annual Meeting Site Selection Committee in 2002. Lloyd was was named the "2002 CACE Executive of the Year" at the organizations' Annual Meeting in Park City, Utah, and was elected as Vice President of Resource Development for 2003. He received the 2004 CACE President's Award for his work in developing Archiwire, the AIA's online press release service for architects (now defunct, due to lack of member support).

AIA National Service/Awards:
Lloyd has also gotten involved nationally with AIA, serving on the 2000 Membership Systems Task Force and the 2002 EPIConnection project with Thom Lowther. He served on the AIA Board of Director's "2003-2005 Task Force on Scholarships", and as a juror for the "2003 Continuing Education Awards program."

In June of 2004, Lloyd received the honor of Honorary Membership in AIA, at the 2004 AIA Convention in Chicago. Also, Lloyd received the 2005 AIA National Service Award from Norman Koonce, FAIA, at the 2005 Grassroots meeting, for his work in conceiving and developing Archiwire.

Lloyd is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the East, and has been married to his wife, MaryLou, since May 3, 1969, and has three grown children: Jennifer Seay (a middle school math Professional Development Coordinator married to a high school world history teacher), living in Salisbury, MD; Erin Schaefer (a marketing/advertising specialist married to a civil engineer), living in Elburn, Illinois; and Timothy (a successful Aston Martin auto technician), living in Fairfax, VA with his wife Jan.

In his spare time, Lloyd enjoys golf, hiking, photography and web design, and serves as a volunteer webmaster for several non-profit websites.

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