Mike Abb / Runway Group / Abboriginal
Mike Abb is focused primarily on economic and cultural stimulus in Northwest Arkansas, which includes corporate outreach, civic engagement, public art installation, event production, multimedia creation, volunteerism, urban planning, non-profit consultation and biking advocacy.
Justin’s guest is Cybersecurity expert, Steve Weisman, of Scamicide. Steve returns to detail what happened with ransomware attack, Wannacry and also how to protect yourself in the future with best practices.
Armir Harris / Shofur
CEO
Armir Harris is founder and CEO of Shofur. Albanian-born, Harris moved to the United States as a teenager, where he started working at his uncle’s cab service and learned the internal operations of the business, including filing paperwork, developing the company website, booking reservations, and managing drivers. Then in 2013, Harris founded Shofur with $800 and a vision to transform the transportation business. Today, Shofur’s platform has gained access to more than 5,000 buses, is currently available in more than 100 cities, has serviced more than 1,000,000 customers, and logged more than 5,000,000 miles of travel, all with 0 accidents. Harris remains highly involved in day-to-day operations of the company and its growth plan.
Justin’s guest is Professor Olivier Oullier, neuroscientist and strategist, Fortune Magazine – Your Brain on Business.
Karly Venuto / WeWork
VP of Events
As WeWork’s director of events, Karly Giaramita’s main goal is to encourage connection among company members and staff through memorable live experiences. Based in New York, Giaramita has overseen events for the company since 2012, when she was hired to plan its first summer conference, known as the WeWork Summer Camp. The remote event turned into an annual conference, which in 2015 brought more than 2,000 members and staff to Raquette Lake Camps in the Adirondacks for three days of classic camp activities combined with networking events, educational sessions, and festival-style concerts from acts including The Weeknd.
Matt Ethington / ChronicCareIQ
CEO
Matt Ethington is a successful serial entrepreneur and seasoned professional with nearly two decades of experience in the healthcare and IT space. Prior to ChronicCareIQ, he founded and led the award-winning simplifyMD, which grew from concept to managing more than 45 Million electronic medical records for doctors on two continents, including the largest hospital in the Southern Hemisphere.
Darrell Tyler / Steller Creative
Digital Marketing Strategist
Darrell Tyler is a dedicated entrepreneur born and raised in New York, NY. He became obsessed with entrepreneurship after taking a class on it the very last semester of his senior year in high school. From that moment on he became hyper-focused on educating himself on business fundamentals, marketing, and sales. His first day out of high school was spent going door to door selling kitchen products. A few months later, his would-be business partner introduced him to internet marketing. Since then, Darrell has gone on to create massive success for himself in e-commerce and now helps other businesses do the same.
Darrell’s favorite hobbies include reading, meditating, and socializing. Although he spends a lot of time on social media, he is passionate about getting people to connect organically, in real life. His current interests include bio hacking and the saxophone, which will probably change in 6 months because he gets bored easily.
Imen Ben / Fashino, LLC
Founder and Fashion Designer
Imen Ben is the Founder of Fashino. Born in Canada, Imen graduated from ESMOD Paris, one of the most reputable academies of fashion design in the world, with a degree in Fashion Design. She then pursued further studies at the University of Quebec where she received a Masters in Arts and Graphic Design.
In 2004, Imen started her own fashion and graphic design studio, Fashino.net, where she has successfully delivered high end 3D clothing lines for customers all over the world. With Fashino.net, Imen was able to fulfill her dream of showcasing her design skills.
In September 2015, Imen started crafting and developing her first clothing line “Relentless by Fashino”. It was two years of hard work, perseverance, and commitment to creating unique styles and ideas for her new clothing line. Relentless by Fashino is a clothing line comprised of creative and limited edition styles made with high quality performance fabric that was designed for athletes and gym goers.
Alex Pollak / ParaDocs Worldwide
CEO
Alex Pollak has been a paramedic since 1998 and worked for 911 throughout his undergrad and graduate studies. He received an MBA in Finance in 2008, and after he left his job at a hedge fund, he began working for a national ME company in their finance department. It was there that he saw a niche market for event medical services. Most festivals at the time would call to have ambulances stationed at the event, but never any proper on-site services.
Alex Pollak, created his company about 5 years ago and will hit about $3 million in revenue in 2017.
Elizabeth Crook / Orchard Advisors
CEO, Founder and Author
Elizabeth Crook is the author of LIVE LARGE: The Achiever’s Guide to What’s Next. As the CEO of Orchard Advisors for the past twenty-plus years, Elizabeth has helped CEOs and entrepreneurs think and act strategically to grow their companies and find greater personal satisfaction. She has shown countless individuals of all generations how to invent and reinvent themselves. Crook knows how to inspire people to gain a fresh sense of what they can accomplish in their lives, think about themselves with compassion, develop a sense of humor about their challenges, and ultimately take action.
Elizabeth holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MS from Tennessee State University. She lives on Music Row in Nashville.
Justin’s guest is Greg Fulton, Industry and Public Policy Lead, Philips Wellcentive discussing Public Policy & Best Practices to Navigate Healthcare.
Wilson Tomala / Paul Davis Restoration
President/Owner
Wilson Tomala moved to Atlanta from New York in 1998. He studied engineering at Stony Brook University of New York where he received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. He proceeded to attend NYU where he received his masters in Management Technology.
With a passion for sales, marketing and engineering he later joined the team at Heatcraft as the Director of Marketing and Strategic Planning. With encouragement and support from his closest friends and family he decided to go into business for himself and joined the Paul Davis team by purchasing a franchise location in North Atlanta. He began this journey nearly 15 years ago and has enjoyed all of the new challenges that being a business owner have brought him.
He is very passionate about his business and has instilled some of his values into the company’s culture. The four main values of the company are authenticity, continuous improvement, perseverance and empathy.
When he is not at the office he enjoys playing tennis and golf but most of all he enjoys watching his 3 boys play soccer.
Brad Grimes / Paul Davis Restoration
Busines Development Manager
Brad Grimes graduate from Kennesaw State University with a degree in Business Management and a passion for Marketing, New Technology, Music, TV and Film Production. Brad is considered resourceful, creative, professional and, above all, a team player. He is a self starter with a passion for helping others.
