Darrell S. Freeman, Sr. is the chairman and majority owner of S3 Recycling Solutions, an information technology recycling firm. He is also executive managing director of Zycron, a division of BG Staffing, Inc. Zycron is an IT services firm he founded in 1991 in Nashville, Tenn., and sold for $20 million in 2017. He was the 2019 Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee Nashville Business Hall of Fame Laureate, and he most recently became a Board Member at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.

Darrell has helped take two companies public on the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. As co-founder and co-organizer of Tennessee-based Reliant Bank (Commerce Union Bank (NASDAQ)), Freeman serves on the Board of Directors.

Darrell’s other entrepreneurial efforts include: co-founder and chairman of Pinnacle Construction Partners which provides a full range of preconstruction planning and construction management services for the public and private sector; and owner of DC Partners, a real-estate development firm.

Darrell has a long-standing commitment to the community. He served two terms as chairman of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and as former chairman of the 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee, he led the organization to achieve chapter of the year in 2005. Other organizations for which Freeman serves or has served on the board are: Cross Country Healthcare, Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees, Nashville Health Care Council, Tennessee Board of Regents, Centennial Medical Center, Stone Crest Medical Center, Nashville Community Foundation, the Nashville Downtown Rotary Club, the Federal Reserve Advisory Board, the African American Museum of Music Art and Culture, and the Nashville Broadband Task Force.