HW&W Ep 13: Whats Going On In Tucson; Families, Jobs?
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GUESTS:
Cindy Sheller, President
Caring Senior Service
6842 E. Tanque Verde Road, Suite D
Tucson, AZ 85715
520-428-0143
Csheller@caringinc.com
www.caringseniorservice.com/tucson
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | LinkedIn |
Cindy Sheller is a recognized expert in navigating the healthcare system and has more than 25 years’ experience. She has worked in the hospital system, Assisted Living, Memory Care, and Hospice and is a Reiki Master and public speaker.
In 2015 she left the corporate world to become an entrepreneur and bring Caring Senior Service to the Tucson and Southern Arizona communities. Caring Senior Service is a non-medical home health care agency serving the Tucson and surrounding area communities. Caring Senior Service uses the GreatCare method which ensures seniors receive the very best senior home care.
As the owner of Caring Senior Service, it’s Cindy’s goal to give seniors the control needed to live safely at home and to provide their families peace of mind. Cindy believes every senior should be able to remain Healthy. Happy. Home. Caring Senior Service works with community partners to ensure the health and safety of their clients. There are times when home care is no longer and option and her team facilitates the changes needed to keep her clients safe. She and her team, work hard to provide great care to every senior they serve. The Tucson office also provides staffing services to Assisted Living, Memory Care, Skilled Nursing facilities and hospitals in Southern Arizona.
Senior care is Cindy’s passion, more than a career it’s a heart-centered calling. She is an active leader in the business and healthcare community as well as an advocate and volunteer supporting adults who wish to age in place.
She is also the Vice President of Events for NAWBO in Tucson and a member of Insights on Aging – A panel of Healthcare Professionals dedicated to providing Education for our Community on the Continuum of Care for those facing aging or chronic healthcare needs.
Janelle L. Curry, Realtor
Tierra Antigua Realty
1650 E River Rd. Ste 202
Tucson, AZ 85718
520-248-0599
janelle@livewellintucson.com
WWW.livewellintucson.com
Janelle has lived in Tucson since 1985.
Small Business owner of a design and exhibit company called ProVision, Inc.
Real Estate Developer of the largest privately-owned art studio complex in Tucson. Converted Adobe warehouse and a Quonset hut. 16 art studios.
Real estate consultant for 20 years, investment, commercial and residential. Specializing in how to plan and make the most out of your property. Interior design consultant and renovator.
Special interest in housing options for retiring people.
BA in Cultural Anthropology with an art minor
MS in Urban Planning
Interests are road cycling, healthy cooking, travel, and scuba diving
About the Host
Karen M. Fisher
Senior Loan Officer
NMLS ID# 180167 – AZ MLO Lic# 0911886
Summit Funding, Inc.
5151 E. Broadway Blvd., Ste. 700
Tucson, AZ 85711
Branch NMLS ID# 1464335 – Summit Funding, Inc NMLS ID#3199
AZ Lic# 0925837 – Equal Housing Opportunity 
(520) 447-2279 Direct Phone
Karen.Fisher@SummitFunding.net
www.OurNeighborsOurHeroes.com
As a Senior Loan Officer, I originate residential home loans (1-4 Units) for purchase or refinance transactions for owner-occupied, second homes or investment properties. I am licensed in the State of Arizona; however, I can connect you to great mortgage loan officers anywhere in the United States or Canada. I have been a loan officer for just over 20 years. In the prior 17 years, I was a Realtor, an Associate Broker, Branch Manager, and Designated Broker. My beloved husband Scott and I have been married for over 37 years, we have an awesome daughter Allison who is engaged to her Gonzaga University sweetheart, Enrique. I love to read, travel, hike, golf, camp, entrepreneurial ideas, inventions, animals and children. My key to success is to focus on excellence, not perfection and being growth-minded.
FITBOJI EP#1, Inaugural Show Talk Tucson w/Sabrina Regus
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Guest, Sabria Regus
Jennifer English
JENNIFER SAWYER ENGLISH
520-302-2566 | spiritskitchen@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Jennifer is a multi-award-winning broadcaster, writer, and culinarian who is the founder and host of the Food & Wine Radio Network. Her in-depth interviews and intellectual musings on the craft, history, and culture of all areas of food and drink have earned Jennifer the prestigious Gracie Allen Award from The Foundation of American Women in Radio & Television and The James Beard Foundation Award for Best Radio Show.
Jennifer serves on the Board of the New Orleans Culinary & Cultural Preservation Society and was proud to participate in the very first Seminar Panel at Tales of the Cocktail. Jennifer is a co-founder of the World Margarita Championships. For over 8 seasons, Jennifer launched and hosted the weekly Let’s Make A Meal segments for NBC affiliate KVOA TV-4. and the “Bottoms Up Radio Hour”, and R.S.V.P. Radio Show. Boston born Jennifer delights in sharing the delicious and bountiful flavors, colors, smells and sips of the Desert Southwest and the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Jennifer brings the conviviality of our contemporary culinary community to life. As a versatile radio anchor, Jennifer brings 20 years in broadcasting with experience in news, talk, variety, and non-scripted formats. Poised and confident with a strong speaking voice and a talent for on-air interviewing.
SKILLS
Broadcast journalism Field production Television and print journalism Project management
Pitch expert Valid passport Deadline-driven
EP Budgeting Strong graphic and visual sense
Works well under pressure Leadership Social media Collaborative
Skilled multi-tasker
WORK HISTORY
May 2018-Current
Blau + Associates
Hospitality Management Marketing Consultant| Blau + Associates/BA Restaurant Holdings/The PARQ Vancouver | Vancouver, British Columbia + Las Vegas, Nevada
Through collaboration with the Blau+ Associates team, Jennifer has played an integral part in BA Holdings tactical marketing and PR operations; furthering the Elizabeth Blau, PARQ and Honey Salt brands by spearheading local, regional and national promotional efforts, including the successful facilitation of multiple awards, accolades, and coverage.
Successful generation of media opportunities, increased direct revenue, speaking engagements, and print, digital and social media coverage. Additional recent media coverage in the Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province and the cover feature of Food & Beverage Magazine, which resulted in the media, marketing and PR department of BA Restaurant Holdings to a new level.
JANUARY 2017-JANUARY 2018
Producer & Co-host | Fong on Food: The Radio Show, Roundhouse Radio 98.3 FM | Vancouver, British Columbia
Fong on Food: The Radio Show is hosted by Vancouver-born and raised Nathan Fong He travels all over town and around the world discovering and sharing the bountiful goodness and delicious complexities of the modern Vancouver Culinary landscape. Each week the most interesting, inspiring and influential tastemakers in Vancouver will join Nathan and his co-host, James Beard Award winner Jennifer English, for conversations and culinary postcards, recipes, food news and all good things to sip. From Sea to Table and from Farm to Fork, Jennifer & Nathan bring their encyclopedic knowledge, passion, generosity connoisseurship and connectedness to every episode of Fong on Food: The Radio Show, making it the most irresistible hour of authentic Vancouver flavors and voices. DECEMBER 1999-CURRENT
Founder President | The Food & Wine Radio Network | Tucson, AZ
JANUARY 1994-FEBRUARY 1997
Account Director | Cone Communications | Boston, MA Oversaw team of strategic marketing and public relations professionals creating and implementing innovative strategic marketing communications campaigns for Fortune 100 Brand
accounts including Bausch & Lomb, Pepperidge Farm, Nestle, Perrier, Member of the core strategic launch development team for Cause-Related Marketing, an innovative marketing discipline launch proving effectiveness. of strategic philanthropy
FEBRUARY 2016-CURRENT
Contributing Editor Tea Journey Magazine | Tucson Tea Journey is a digital magazine for those thirsting for authentic knowledge about fine tea. The publication’s website and mobile app is a bridge connecting those who craft handmade teas in 35 countries to the growing number of premium consumers globally. The magazine is a collaborative venture, self-financed by editors, writers, tea consultants, tea educators, and tea experts globally. Tea Journey educates readers not only in the selection and preparation of artisan tea but also in the manufacture of teaware and authentic utensils designed to enhance the tea experience.
EDUCATION
1982
High School Diploma: Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Newton, MA
1987
Bachelor of Science: Business Management Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University, Boston, MA
1989-91
Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA
1993
MBA: Marketing & Entrepreneurship
Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Forty-Niner Golf & CC – Tucson’s Hidden Jewel
Roxana Shershin with Digital Additive, K.P. Reddy with Shadow Ventures and Chris Weissman with TopRight
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Roxana Shershin is Co-Founder & President of Digital Additive. In a world of one-size-fits-all email, Digital Additive delivers on the promise of one-to-one.
Founded in 2012, Digital Additive specializes in eCRM Planning, Email Marketing Services, Data Integration, Creative, and Campaign Optimization services to Fortune 1000 companies including The Home Depot, FleetCor, ApartmentGuide, Oldcastle and Carters, Inc. An agency partner of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Digital Additive helps clients go beyond email to foster authentic conversation with their customers.
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To know K.P. Reddy, Founder of Shadow Ventures, is to experience boundless enthusiasm for creating new ventures. Reddy’s multidisciplinary career spans the innovation continuum. Over 25+ years, he has been a technologist, subject matter expert, founder, CEO, advisor, investor, professor, author and coach.
K.P. effortlessly combines expertise in advanced technologies with critical, in-the-trenches experience as an entrepreneur. He is a globally recognized authority in AEC environments, artificial intelligence, robotics and automation, collaborative communication, mobile applications and cloud computing. His passion is in launching game-changing startups, raising substantial investments, and leading organizations to meaningful acquisition and IPO exits.
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Chris Weissman brings over 25 years of marketing and leadership experience for leading consumer and B2C companies. Prior to joining TopRight, Chris served as CMO for The Honey Baked Ham Company where he delivered strong e-commerce and retail growth.
Chris was also an integral member of the NuCO2 leadership team – driving over 20% growth in revenue resulting in the sale of the company for ten times revenue. Prior to NuCO2 Chris spent 10 years consulting driving growth for clients across an array of industries. Project work included brand development, innovation, portfolio optimization, “go-to-market” strategy, and marketing training. Clients included Coca-Cola, Heineken, Walmart, Dow Chemical, Alcoa and Con Agra Foods.
Chris also spent 10 years at Kraft Foods and The Pillsbury Company in a variety of product and brand management roles. Chris holds an MBA from Babson College in Boston and a BBA from Southern Methodist University where he was an All American swimmer and member of the United States National Swim Team.
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About Your Host
Joey Kline is a Vice President at JLL, specializing in office brokerage and tenant representation. As an Atlanta native, he has a deep passion for promoting the economic growth and continued competitiveness of communities in and around Atlanta, as well as the Southeast as a whole. He has completed transactions in every major submarket of metro Atlanta, and works primarily with start-ups, advertising/marketing agencies, and publicly-traded companies. With a healthy mix of tenacious drive and analytical insights, Joey is a skilled negotiator who advises clients on a myriad of complex real estate matters.
With a strategy and business development background, Joey is first and foremost a pragmatic advisor to his clients. Most recently, he was the Director of Business Development for American Fueling Systems, an Atlanta-based alternative energy company. While at JLL, he has become a member of the Million Dollar Club, and has built a reputation as an expert on the intersection of transit-accessibility and urban real estate. With intimate involvement in site selection and planning/zoning concerns, Joey approaches real estate from the perspective of the end user, and thus possesses a unique lens through which to serve his clients.
Joey holds a Master of Business Administration from Emory University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a founder, board member, and the treasurer of Advance Atlanta, and also sits on the Selection Committee for the Association for Corporate Growth’s Fast 40 event. In addition, he is a member of CoreNet and the Urban Land Institute. Finally, he is part of LEAD Atlanta’s Class of 2019.
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TMBS E24: Cetera Financial Jon Anderson Headshot
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Jon Anderson Director, Retirement Plan Solutions
Jon Anderson is the director of Retirement Plan Solutions at Cetera Financial Group and a member of Cetera’s Advisor Growth leadership team. In this role, Jon leads the strategic expansion of the group’s qualified retirement plan offerings to support retirement‐plan focused advisors.
Prior to joining Cetera, Jon was vice president for institutional sales at BrightScope, an innovative independent provider of software, analytics, and data to the financial services industry, headquartered in San Diego, California. There, he was responsible for expanding the firm’s offering to leading broker‐dealers, DCIO asset managers and record‐keepers, while gaining invaluable knowledge specific to data unique to the retirement‐plan industry. Previously, he served as west region manager of the Retirement Partners division for LPL Financial, where he worked closely with some of the leading financial advisors, service providers and other professionals in the retirement plan industry to help create LPL’s comprehensive offering. Jon also brings to Cetera his extensive experience with strategic planning and a unique perspective through his roles as a wealth manager for Colorado Financial Partners (LPL Financial) and financial advisor for AIG Retirement.
Jon earned his B.A., cum laude, in economics from the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is also co-founder and director of the Jeffrey J. Anderson Business Leader’s Scholarship offered at Franciscan University. He holds the Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF)© designation, the Professional Plan Consultant (PPC) designation, and the Certified 401(k) Professional (C(k)P) designation at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management Executive Education. He lives in San Diego with his wife and three sons.
Franchise Marketing Radio: Ricky Richardson and Mike McClure with Eggs Up Grill
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Eggs Up Grill is home to the whole neighborhood, serving smiles from sunup thru lunch. The aromas of freshly brewed coffee, savory bacon and hand-cracked, farm-fresh eggs on the griddle and warm, attentive team members will make you feel right at home. We are “neighbors serving neighbors” daily from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Originally founded in Pawleys Island, S.C. in 1997 by restaurateur Chris Skodras, Eggs Up Grill has grown to more than 35 locations across the Southeast and is headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C. With strong AUVs and consistent comp sales momentum, it’s no wonder existing franchisees are reinvesting in the brand, accounting for half of its projected 40% growth in 2019.
In 2018, private equity firm WJ Partners acquired Eggs Up Grill, building the team and priming the brand to rapidly grow in more communities across the US with plans underway to reach the 100-location mark by 2022. For more information, visit https://www.eggsupgrill.com/franchise.
Ricky Richardson was tapped to lead the breakfast, brunch and lunch concept in July 2018 after private investment firm WJ Partners acquired the brand. Under Richardson’s leadership, the brand has since grown to 36 open locations, six more set to open before year-end and 18 locations slated to open in 2020. Richardson has primed Eggs Up Grill for growth with plans underway for the concept to reach the 100-location mark by mid-2022.
Richardson has over 30 years of industry experience across multi-unit and franchise operations. Prior to joining Eggs Up Grill, Richardson served as U.S. president and chief operating officer of Dallas-based TGI Fridays. Richardson’s background includes more than 20 years with TGI Fridays in both the US and International businesses. He also headed operations when Fridays’ then-parent Carlson Restaurant Group Worldwide acquired the California-based Pick Up Stix.
At Eggs Up Grill, Richardson led the development of the first company-owned and operated restaurant which opened in July 2019. It is the brand’s Training Center and innovation lab. The restaurant features a new prototype design aimed at enhancing the guest experience while testing revenue generating concepts including a coffee bar and a grab-and-go counter to drive incremental sales results. These efforts will enhance the guest experience, grow topline sales and improve franchisees’ business results. Richardson recognizes that in the restaurant business, it is always the quality of the guest experience that matters most and it takes the right team and right culture to make that happen. Eggs Up Grill is also fully focused on investing in the right resources and business insight to support franchisees and help them grow top-line sales and profitability at the local level.
Mike McClure, former IHOP executive and owner of the Roswell and Alpharetta Eggs Up Grill restaurants is coming up on his 5th anniversary with the brand – and the success he’s had that is fueling the company’s plans to add an additional 15 Eggs Up Grill restaurants in the greater Atlanta area in the next 5-10 years.
Mike and his wife, Judy, opened their Alpharetta location (near the intersection of Crabapple Road and Rucker Road) in November of 2014 and their Roswell location (not far, near the intersection of Johnson Ferry Road and Shallowford Road) in December of 2016. After graduating from Western Carolina University, Mike moved to Atlanta and started working in the restaurant business as a bartender and a bouncer. After marrying Judy, he worked with IHOP corporate serving as liaison between corporate and the franchise team and eventually overseeing 7 IHOP locations. Mike had always dreamed of owning his own breakfast restaurant and found the opportunity by leaving IHOP to become a franchisee and realize that dream with Eggs Up Grill five years ago.
Now, on the heels of acquisition by private equity and a year after Eggs Up Grill CEO Ricky Richardson took on leadership of the brand after serving as President of TGI Friday’s for years, the company is planning to build on the success Mike and Judy have driven with a plan to open 15 more Eggs Up Grill locations in the next 5-10 years.
Franchise Marketing Radio: Justin Beatty with Cheba Hut
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Justin Beatty comes from a music and entertainment-meets-law background and currently operates as beverage manager for Fifth Group restaurants, the pinnacle of hospitality groups in Atlanta.
Josh Burdick is a hospitality industry veteran who has most recently spent time in the bar tending space. Their shared love of restaurant culture and genuine desire to facilitate meaningful and memorable experiences to guests through food, beverage, ambience, and service is what drove them to Cheba Hut.
The two plan to leverage their respective connections to Atlanta’s music and brewery scenes to turn their Cheba Hut locations into go-to spots that not only bring guests in for the comfort food, but keep them lounging in a comfortable-cool atmosphere.
Tech of the Town: David McKenna with Axway, Patrick Gilbert with Compendia
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David McKenna
David McKenna is SVP R&D at Axway. Axway empowers customers to compete and thrive in dynamic marketplaces using hybrid integration solutions to better connect their people, systems, businesses and digital ecosystems. Axway’s hybrid integration platform, AMPLIFY™, enables enterprise power users, IT specialists, developers and partners to accelerate their digital transformation, create captivating customer experiences and unleash data to innovate new business services. AMPLIFY speeds the discovery, use and deployment of integrations by combining traditional integration patterns – B2B Integration, Managed File Transfer and Content Collaboration – with API Management and Application Integration (providing over 150 prebuilt API connectors). More than 11,000 organizations in 100 countries rely on Axway to solve their data integration challenges. Axway employs over 1,800 people in 18 countries.
A senior executive, manager and architect with 20+ years of experience in the software industry leading a variety of security, integration and governance software technologies for Cloud and on-premise enterprise customers, David McKenna began his career in 1996 as a software engineer developing Telecom Network Management systems. In 2001 David joined Vordel where he grew to be VP Engineering responsible for the design and delivery of Vordel’s API product line. In 2012 Axway acquired Vordel, and David has continued to work in a technical capacity leading the R&D activity for architecture and delivery of AMPLIFY platform. David is responsible for R&D locally in Phoenix and in Europe (Dublin, Ireland and Sofia, Bulgaria). He works closely with enterprise architects, CIOs and security professionals, providing best-practice architecture for engaging with the API economy, including API design, API security strategy and full life cycle API management.
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Patrick Gilbert
Patrick Gilbert is Founder & Chief Innovator at Compendia, a custom software development and integration firm, specialized in complex mobile/cloud and IoT products. Compendia delivers custom software solutions, including design, development, integration and deployment services.
Patrick has more than 25 years of experience in innovation and product development in IT, Mobile Technology, Apps & Services, and in Telecommunications, as a Senior Executive or an entrepreneur. Prior to founding Compendia, he was CTO of Railway Technologies (dba Juuice) where he oversaw the development of a mobile & cloud marketplace platform designed to improve the online discovery of products and services offered by small retailers, and using IoT to aggregate customer analytics, and improve transactions. Prior to that Patrick founded Presence IT, a custom software, system integration and IT solutions company that developed and deployed many innovative custom products in various fields including online videoconferencing, remote process monitoring, solar system design, cloud migration tools, and interactive Media & TV. He also spun off a mobile & Enterprise hosting company, 4SmartPhone, which invented in 2004 a new method pertaining to the ordering and provisioning of services on mobile devices from the mobile itself, for which Patrick was granted 2 patents.
Prior to that, Patrick was executive vice president of Isaac Newton Technologies, for which he raised more than $4 million, and under his watch opened sales offices across the US and released its first wireless software radio product in 2000. Prior to INT, Patrick was the senior vice president and CTO for the WAVO Corporation, where he spearheaded the partnership of WAVO and Virgin Entertainment Corporation to develop VirginJamCast, a unique Internet-based secure digital music distribution system and e-commerce service. As V-P Business Development of WAVO, Patrick also established key strategic partnerships and technology licensing agreements with Microsoft, Compaq, PBS and Intel, some including multi-million dollars investments. Patrick is also credited with the development of WaveTop, the first nationwide data broadcasting consumer product included in Windows 98 Operating System.
Prior to WAVO Corporation, Patrick co-founded BleuMont Telecom, which pioneered PC-based data broadcasting, before he sold it to WAVO. Prior to BleuMont Telecom, Patrick was project manager for DTI Telecom, an Engineering consulting firm based in Montreal, QC. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the École Polytechnique, University of Montreal.
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