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Is it time to get that new office or renegotiate your office space lease? Are you not sure if you have the best deal you can get and feel stuck? Our experts reveal the secrets on what’s available & how to get the best deal. (08/24/2010 Show)

August 24, 2010 by dawn ely

Michael Bull, Founder Bull Realty

Michael Bull, CCIM is the founder of Bull Realty, a commercial real estate brokerage firm providing companies tenant representation, site selection and buyer brokerage. The company has three office locations, 32 brokers and is headquartered here in Atlanta. Michael Bull has been successful in the commercial real estate business for 30 years. He started managing apartments in 1977 and starting selling investment properties in 1979. Michael has been involved in over 2.5 billion dollars of sales and leases. He and his firm have extensive experience helping clients and lenders in past down cycles. Among other management, leasing and advisory recovery services BullRealty is currently selling notes and foreclosed commercial properties for 74 lenders and servicers.

Ryan Wiedmayer, Founder Wiedmayer & Co.

Ryan Wiedmayer, Founder, directs all aspects of Wiedmayer + Co.’s real estate services. As an experienced leader in the commercial real estate industry, Ryan brings Wiedmayer + Co. a focused approach to strategic development planning, strong systems and quality operations, and personnel development. Ryan has 12 years of real estate experience. Prior to forming Wiedmayer + Co., Ryan served as an auditor with Deloitte and Touché and earned his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Carter Stout, Founding Member Stout Atwood, LLC

Carter is one of the founding members of Stout Atwood LLC and heads up the firm’s real estate practice.He has practiced in the areas of commercial real estate and corporate law for almost 25 years.is one of the founding members of Stout Atwood LLC and heads up the firm’s real estate practice. He has practiced in the areas of commercial real estate and corporate law for almost 25 years. He served as Chair of the Real Estate Section of the Atlanta Bar Association and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Bar Association, Inc. He has been awarded an AV-rating by the legal publication Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating that the company awards. Carter is a native Atlanta. He has his B.A. From Emory. He graduated from Mercer University School of Law and earned his LLM in taxation from Emory University School of Law.

If Your Company is Stressed, How Stressed Are Your Employees? Are You Getting the Most Out of Them When You Need it Most? (08/03/10 Show)

August 17, 2010 by dawn ely

Dawn Ely interviews these experts and executives to learn more about how employees are being affected by the stresses going on in their employers. How to identify when your employees are stressed, what the impact to the organization is and how to turn it around and keep your employees functioning at the highest levels to keep your organization performing at its highest levels.

Barry A. Boyles, Co-Founder Carciba Business Services, Inc.

Barry Boyles is Co-Founder of Carciba Business Services, Inc., an outsourced provider of human resources services for small cap companies since 2001. He focuses his main attention to the business objectives of clients and how to incorporate human resource strategies into these objectives. Mr. Boyles has been working in human resources for over twenty years, working in both Fortune 100 companies as well as small start ups in both B2B and B2C industries. His background covers all apsects of human resources with a heavy emphasis on organizational development and employee relations.

Linda Brenner, Co-Founder Designs on Talent, LLC

Prior to starting Designs on Talent, Linda Brenner was co-founder and Managing Partner of inTalent Consulting for five years. Both firms focus on talent acquisition and talent management optimization for Fortune 1000 companies; clients included top brands such as Chick-fil-A, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Equifax, TJX, Toys R Us and Microsoft. Prior to consulting, Linda spent her professional career in human resources at leading retail and restaurant companies. As Director of Retail Staffing at The Home Depot, Linda led the effort to centralize the staffing function for the first time in the Fortune 25 company’s history. She oversaw the hiring of over 100,000 field hourly and management employees annually. As part of that effort, Linda built nationwide hiring partnerships with the US Departments of Defense and Labor, as well as with AARP. Prior to joining The Home Depot, Linda worked for The HoneyBaked Ham Company as Director of Staffing, OD and Internal Communications, overseeing the performance review and succession planning processes, as well as leadership, operational and product training development and implementation. Prior to that, , where she ran training and management development for Pizza Hut’s Southeast Divisionwhen the restaurants where part of the Pepsi organization.

Atlanta’s Companies Are Leading the Innovations in the Telecom Industry (08/10/10 Show)

August 11, 2010 by dawn ely

The telecom industry has been transformed by software in terms of available applications, functionality of traditional hard-wired technology and being able to combine all different technologies and modalities. Listen to this interview to learn what is currently available in the industry, where the industry is going and how the infrastructure and hardware suppliers are moving to keep up. Below are the experts who educated us.

Randy Berlin, President

DiscountCall.com, Inc.

www.discountcall.com

The founder and president of DiscountCall.com, Inc., Berlin has been building relationships since 1996. In his role, Berlin oversees the sales, marketing and delivery of telecommunications services to all of DiscountCall’s Atlanta and national business customers, an organization of employees, agents, contractors and vendors reaching most cities in the continental U.S. Berlin is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a degree in Sports Management.

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Mike Beaton, CEO and Founder

unicomconnect ^TM

www.unicomconnect.com

Mike is CEO and Founder of unicomconnect™. He has 30 plus years experience in domestic and international communications and consulting services and has served as VP & GM for Network Enable at Unisys Corporation, EVP of Network Services for GE Capital Technology Management Group; and SVP Global Sales and Business Development for Masergy Communications, as well as Managing Director of Masergy International. Mike was born in South Africa where he attained a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Wits University. He is now a U.S. citizen.

unicomconnect™ provides secure, simple, scalable and affordable communications interoperability application solutions on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis to allow business enterprises and government agencies to communicate effectively with 24 x 7 x 365 service and always available technical and operational support for every day planned or unplanned events and emergencies. These services save lives and protect property. Interoperability is provided between any connected voice devices like radios, with any other connected voice, phone or cellular devices, together with any data, video or satellite devices. No new or upgrade equipment is required, regardless of device make, model, manufacturer or frequency. Interoperable applications are tailored to specific client requirements.

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Andrea Busse

Intela Text

www.intelatext.com

Andrea Busse is CEO of IntelaText, Inc., is Chairman of the Board for the Safe Text Seal and is a sought-after speaker nationwide for her knowledge and success as the industry leader for image-based texting. Prior to IntelaText, Andrea Busse was mostly recognized for her patented achievements with MyCustomDay.com (Virtual Concierge Service) and Direct Success (Advertising Distribution). Mrs. Busse has worked in New York, Boston, Chicago and Florida but calls Atlanta home, where she resides with her husband and children.

Image-Based Texting (even Video Texting) your message to new customers as well as re-engaging existing customers gives you the edge over large corporations with multi-million dollar budgets and drives that same traffic to your business more effectively and more often.

Is Your Company in Distress? How Do You Know and How Do You Successfully Maneuver Out of Distress? (08/17/10 Show)

August 4, 2010 by dawn ely

Host Dawn Ely interviews Atlanta’s C-suite business executive in the city’s small and mid-size companies to uncover what works and what doesn’t in today’s challenging environment. On today’s show she interviewed Jonathan Freedberg, Greg Charleston, CPA & Betty Reed CPA.

Jonathan Freedberg

Aberdeen Funding, Inc.

www.aberdeenfunding.com

Born in Cape Town, South Africa 61 years ago, Jonathan Freedberg moved to the United States in 1985 with his wife and two children, after a career in Finance and Accounting and some years in Education in South Africa and London. Freedberg earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1970 from the University of Cape Town and a post-graduate professional qualification as a Chartered Accountant (South Africa) in 1972 (The “Chartered Accountant” designation is used to describe what we call a CPA in the United States). In 1972, he moved to London where he worked as Chief Accountant for Colibri Lighters. Since then, he has held several senior positions including Financial Director of a private hospital, Financial Director of a chain of bookstores, owner and operator of an Accounting college, and teacher of Post-Graduate Taxation and under-graduate Accounting and Auditing at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town. Freedberg moved to the US to take a position with the National Firm of Public Accountants in Dallas, Texas in their Bankruptcy and Forensic Accounting practice. He moved to Atlanta in 1988 as Executive VP for Soft Warehouse, Inc the first computer super-store was CFO for a Shoe Manufacturing and Design Company and currently lives in Atlanta running the accounts receivable finance company he began in 1994, Aberdeen Funding.

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Greg Charleston, CPA, Sr. Managing Director

Conway MacKenzie and Certified Turnaround Professional

www.conwaymackenzie.com

Greg Charleston is senior managing director of Conway MacKenzie and leads the firm’s Atlanta office. He draws more than 19 years of experience in turnaround consulting, financial crisis management, mergers and acquisitions, and business valuation. Greg is a Certified Turnaround Professional, Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Before joining Conway MacKenzie, he was vice president of finance with, Thomson Gale, a major publishing firm. Prior to that, he was with Ernst & Young where he provided consulting services in the areas of corporate restructuring and reorganization, mergers and acquisitions, and business and asset valuation.

Greg is the secretary and serves on the board of directors of the Atlanta Turnaround Management Association and is also a member of the Atlanta Metro Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the CFA Institute.

He has a Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

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Betty Reed, CPA, Certified Management Accountant, Principal

Abraxas Business Services

www.abraxas.biz

Betty E. Reed is a Principal at Abraxas Business Services, to which she brings over 20 years of experience in banking, business operations and financial management.

Betty has worked in a wide variety of capacities and industries during her career. She was most recently the COO/CFO of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Florida; before assuming that role, was a Board Member for Harbor Branch and Chair of its Audit Committee. Prior to Harbor Branch, she spent six years with Resources Global Services, a spin-off from Deloitte. Resources is an international professional services firm serving Fortune 1000 clients through internal audit, information management, human resources and supply chain services. Betty helped build Resources Atlanta office and started, de novo, the company’s first Tennessee office in Nashville.

Earlier in her career, Betty spent ten years with NationsBank, now Bank of America, in various roles. When she left the Bank, she was a Senior Vice President in Global Corporate Finance. During her time with the Bank, Betty provided a wide range of financing products from commercial loans to securitizations; her customers were diverse, from Fortune 500 companies to start-up enterprises, and served varied industries.

Betty holds two master degrees: a masters in taxation (MTX) and a masters in business administration (MBA) from Georgia State University in Atlanta and Nante, France. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) (currently inactive) and a Certified Management Accountant (CMA).