About Brad

A successful business owner and graduate of the University of Michigan, Brad Host has been a resident of Birmingham for more than 47 years. He is known throughout Southeast Michigan for his decades of community service and civic leadership.

While raising his two children with his wife of 50 years Laura, Host served on the board of directors of the Birmingham YMCA, was vice president of the Quarton School P.T.A., coached Little League baseball and soccer, and was a director of Birmingham Youth Assistance.

Host was an elected trustee of the Birmingham Board of Education from 1989-1994, and was co-founder of the Birmingham Public Schools Foundation. A former board member of the Birmingham – Bloomfield Hills Task Force on Race Relations and Cultural Diversity, Host is a member of the advisory board of Horizons-Upward Bound, for which he served as co-chairman from 1995-1997 and chairman from 1997-2011.

Over his 35-year involvement with Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit, Host has served in multiple senior roles, including chairman of the board. He also was president of the board of the Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit Foundation. Host is a Life Member of the Economic Club of Detroit, where he has served on the Reception Committee Advisory Board. In 2000 he received a Distinguished Volunteer Award from the National Society of Fund Raising Executives.

Host was co-founder in 1988 of the Quarton Lakes Neighborhood Association. In 2015 he co-founded Birmingham Citizens for Responsible Government. BCRG led the opposition in 2015 to the proposed library bond, which was defeated 75% to 25%. And in 2019 the grassroots organization opposed the N.O.W. Public/Private partnership for a $57 million bond, which Birmingham voters rejected 68% to 32%. Host resigned his position with BCRG when he was elected to the City Commission in November 2019, receiving the highest vote total of the candidates on the ballot.