Buies Creek, N.C.–Angier businessman Stuart Surles, president of Stuart Surles Insurance, Inc., has been elected to Campbell University’s Presidential Board of Advisors.A self-made entrepreneur, Surles put himself through Campbell University by farming five acres of his own tobacco and working part time jobs. He graduated in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and was the owner and CEO of his own insurance company by 1988. Although highly successful, Surles is recognized for his service and outreach to small farmers. Two of his awards, the Outstanding Service Award from the National Crop Insurance Service and the Platinum Sales Award from the Rural Community Insurance Services organization, acknowledged this service. Surles is the most recent recipient of Campbell University’s Adam Smith Club Free Enterprise award given to individuals who best exemplify one of history’s most influential moral and political thinkers, Adam Smith.Invested in his community, Surles is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Department of Social Services for Harnett County and was charter president of the Angier Rotary Club. He is a member of Trinity Baptist Church in Angier and a former deacon at North Hickory Church in Angier.Surles attributes his professional success to the principles of honesty, hard work, dedication and perseverance he learned at Campbell. Photo Copy: Stuart Surles receives the Adam Smith Free Enterprise award from Campbell University. From left, Andrew Lupton, president of the Adam Smith Club, Stuart Surles and professor of business and Lundy Scholar Dr. Derek Yonai.
Angier businessman elected to Campbell board