Tucson Business Radio: EMPOWER U Episode 1

November 18, 2018 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

Tucson Business Radio: EMPOWER U Episode 1

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The Rising Effect
3561 E Sunrise Dr Suite 131
520-271-7918
stephanie@therisingeffect.com

A business coach,author, and owner of The Rising Effect , Stephanie Rising has helped over 100 small business owners achieve greater leadership proficiency, profitability, and sanity. She specializes in the complexities of partnerships and family-owned companies, including personnel dynamics, strategic planning, operations, and marketing. Her book, DISC: Leverage Your Nature, Increase Your Sales, is available on Amazon.

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Arbonne International
3520 N Prescott Pl
Tucson, AZ 85750
520-370-3177
kyuska@comcast.net

Kasia Yuska is an independent consultant with Arbonne International, the number one global brand for healthy living inside and out. She is a global entrepreneur and marketing professional who is dedicated to showing others how to live a pure, healthy lifestyle. She has been happily married to her husband Howard Kessler for 25 years.

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The Divine Sophia, LLC
520-409-2988
tabitha@thedivinesophia.com

Tabitha Danloe is a Professional Certified Coach and a Certified Professional Integrative Coach. She specializes in Business & Life Coaching and loves helping entrepreneurs to make more money and to help everyone to be more authentically courageous! While her friends say that she’s always been a Coach, she has been a Professional Coach now for over 3 years. She has over 13 years of experience in the world of entrepreneurship, business strategy, leadership, and sales. She works with a wide range of clients including startups to multimillion dollar brands and 15 year olds to 75.

She lives in Tucson Arizona with her husband Jared and her two fur babies Shadow and Scooby. She has written one book called Business Launch: How to build a business in 13 weeks and is working on her second book titled Serendipity where she takes us with her through her life changing adventures in Africa. When she isn’t busy helping entrepreneurs and empowering others, she can be found cooking, baking, hiking, napping, net-flixing, and African dancing.

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About Your Host

The Hopman Group, LLC
3561 E. Sunrise Drive
#131
Tucson, AZ 85718
(520) 326-1625

As a financial advisor with more than 20 years of experience, Pam Hopman, Founder and President of The Hopman Group, LLC, creates and grows wealth for her clients throughout the United States. On the personal financial planning side, she had created The Money Profile, a financial behavior analysis tool. With it and her planning process called “The Natural Financial Solution”, she creates conscious personalized financial solutions for every personality.

For businesses, she has a process called Take Flight that addresses the financial missteps made by a business that can, if not addressed and corrected, kill a business. She says “My team and I can’t help ourselves when we see something that can be made better, we have to speak.”

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NFTC: The Growing Aerospace and Defense Industry Ep 1

November 18, 2018 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

NFTC: The Growing Aerospace and Defense Industry Ep 1

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Tucson Metro Chamber
465 W. St. Mary’s Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85701
520-792-1212

A native Tucsonan, Michael Guymon’s twenty-one-year professional career has primarily centered on political strategy, business development and advocacy, and organizational management. As Vice President for the Tucson Metro Chamber, Michael is responsible for developing and implementing the Chamber’s local public policy and workforce development/attraction programs and initiatives.

Michael’s previous positions include: Vice President of Regional Partnerships for Sun Corridor Inc.; Executive Director of Metropolitan Pima Alliance; Chief-of-Staff to Tucson City Council Member Fred Ronstadt; Asst. Vice President for Governmental Affairs for the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce; and political consultant to The Bridges, a 360-acre mixed-use, infill development that will include Tech Parks Arizona, GEICO’s regional headquarters, housing, and an 111-acre commercial development.

Michael holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Arizona.

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AGM Container Controls
3526 E. Fort Lowell Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85716

Howard Stewart is President/CEO of AGM Container Controls (AGM), a Tucson manufacturing company with 115 employees. AGM manufactures environmental control hardware for missiles and other sensitive equipment. AGM also manufactures world’s premier vertical wheelchair lift, which provides access to elevation changes in public facilities and residences for individuals with disabilities.

Howard serves as the 2019 Co-Chair of the Heart and Stroke Ball, American Heart Association – Tucson Chapter, as well as on the board for the Tucson Metro Chamber of Commerce (2012-2020). He currently serves as a member of the President’s Council for San Miguel High School (2017-2018).

In addition, Howard continues to serve as the Tocqueville Society Chair (2015-2018) for the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona (UWTSA), and as a board member (2015-2018). In 2014/2015, Howard served as UWTSA’s Campaign Chair for Southern Arizona. In 2015/2016, he served as UWTSA’s Board Chair. AGM has run 21 consecutive UWSTA fund raising campaigns at the Gold award level. Since 1970, AGM has raised close to $2 million for the Greater Tucson community through UWTSA alone.

In 2017, Howard proposed a new initiative, “FlyTucsonFirst”. The initiative’s purpose is to get Tucsonans to understand the vital economic impact that will occur if we fly in and out of our own Tucson International Airport. In 2018, he helped launch this initiative at the Governor’s State of the State event, with the full support of the Tucson Metro Chamber.

In 2009, AGM was recognized as “America’s Small Business of the Year” by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In 2002, Howard was recognized as Tucson’s Small Business Leader of the Year.

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University of Arizona
PO Box 210066
Administration Building, Room 601
Tucson, AZ 85721-0066

Stephen Fleming is a highly successful senior executive with leadership experience in startups, multinationals, private equity, and university-based economic development. Recognized as thought leader for innovation and entrepreneurship (including selection as one of the first Principal Investigators for the NSF I-Corps program). Most recently, led economic development and entrepreneurship initiatives at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Former general partner of $260 million early-stage venture capital firm; responsible for 18 investments, 16 board seats, and thirteen successful exits. Previously, led introduction of residential broadband products (ADSL and cable modems) at Nortel Networks. Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at LICOM (venture-funded startup). Started career as bench scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Active angel investor, community leader, and mentor to local entrepreneurs.

Currently the Vice President of Strategic Business Initiatives for the University of Arizona. With activities ranging from convening senior corporate visits, to jointly developing proposals with industry, to ensuring that more UA graduates can find challenging jobs without leaving the state of Arizona, Stephen’s focus is to connect, coordinate, and communicate with units across campus to customize meaningful collaborative relationships with corporate partners.

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About Your Host

Tucson Metro Chamber
465 W. St. Mary’s Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85701
520-792-1212

Amber Smith is the president and CEO of the Tucson Metro Chamber. In her role, she leads the Tucson Metro Chamber in implementing the goals and visions of the Chamber’s Board of Directors to champion an environment where business thrives and the Tucson community prospers. Focusing on growing business through workforce development, talent attraction, and public policy, the Tucson Metro Chamber is a strong community partner focused on making Tucson the ideal destination for business success. Amber’s goal is to lower the amount of poverty in Tucson by growing businesses.

A government relations professional by trade, Amber’s strength is building relationships between the public and private sector, while identifying ways to collaborate and partner to achieve mutually beneficial goals. Amber began her career working for Senator McCain where she became adept at retaining professionalism and decorum while navigating difficult and controversial policy matters.

Amber represented the real estate and land use industry on policy matters first as a lobbyist for homebuilders and developers and then for Metropolitan Pima Alliance (MPA). MPA’s foundation is creating balanced land use policies that stimulate economic development and reasonably preserves our natural environment. Amber has continued that philosophy of finding common ground through her work at the Tucson Metro Chamber.

A Texas native, Amber moved to Tucson to attend the University of Arizona and graduated with a degree in Political Science and a Master’s in Public Administration from Eller College. Married to a second-generation Tucsonan, Amber’s husband Robert is a Tucson Fire Department Captain, who also owns a small business. Amber and Robert have three young sons, 11 goats, four dogs, three donkeys and some chickens and they enjoy the quiet life on their small ranch.

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ITEN WIRED RADIO- 2018 ITEN WIRED SUMMIT Wrap Up Show

November 16, 2018 by angishields

ITEN Wired Radio

ITEN WIRED RADIO- 2018 ITEN WIRED SUMMIT Wrap Up Show

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Jim Rhodes/Michelle Gadson/Jay Smith
Planning Committee Memebers

The ITEN WIRED Team

ITEN WIRED is a conference hosted by IT Gulf Coast and Florida West Economic Development Alliance. The annual summit provides networking and learning opportunities for executives, entrepreneurs, technology professionals and academia to foster local economic development efforts surrounding innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.

The ITEN WIRED planning team is composed of volunteers from IT Gulf Coast, Florida West Economic Development Alliance, and other members of our local IT community.

Innovation. Technology. Entrepreneurship. Network.

ITEN Wired is a conference hosted by IT Gulf Coast and Florida West Economic Development Alliance.

The ITEN WIRED Summit comes back to the Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front on October 2nd-4th as a bigger, better, three-day conference.

The annual summit provides networking and learning opportunities for executives, entrepreneurs, technology professionals and academia to foster local economic development efforts surrounding innovation, technology and entrepreneurship.

The ITEN Wired planning team is composed of volunteers from IT Gulf Coast, Florida West Economic Development Alliance, and other members of our local IT community.

Brian Regienczuk with Agency Spotter

November 15, 2018 by angishields

ATDC Radio

Brian Regienczuk with Agency Spotter

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Brian Regienczuk, Co-Founder/CEO at Agency Spotter, has worked on both sides of the agency-client relationship and is passionate about solving this vertical, greasing the wheels of the trillion dollar marketing services marketplace.

Former Group Director of Global Design at The Coca-Cola Company, he has overseen multi-million dollar budgets and worked with top brands for more than 20 years including Bacardi, Minute Maid, Philips, Sprite, GM, The Home Depot, WebMD and many more.

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Corbett Gilliam with ATDC

November 15, 2018 by angishields

ATDC Radio

Corbett Gilliam with ATDC

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Corbett Gilliam, Corporate Development Manager at ATDC, is a visionary leader with expertise in business operations, digital/social strategy execution, brand strategy, and content marketing. He has a proven track record of achieving exceptional results within the FinTech, mobile, livestreaming, and SaaS sectors. Corbett has a history of transforming a companies core business model and marketing strategy to achieve objectives in revenue growth and profitability.

Corbett is a graduate of the University of Georgia where he obtained a bachelor’s degree economics. He also earned his master’s degree in business administration from Mercer University’s Stetson School of Business and Economics.

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Matt Reilly with Mogean and Amari Ruff with Sudu

November 15, 2018 by angishields

ATDC Radio

Matt Reilly with Mogean and Amari Ruff with Sudu

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As CEO of Mogean, Matt Reilly draws from 20+ years of experience in executive roles in business services and technology companies. Most recently, he served as division CEO and one of four named executive officers at a NYSE-listed business services company. Prior to that, Matt spent 11 years at Accenture and an acquired firm where he held various senior roles including leading Accenture’s consulting business in North America. He also served on the Executive Leadership Teams for Accenture’s global Management Consulting and Strategy & Technology businesses. His client work included leading one of Accenture’s strategic alliances focused on building businesses in the Industrial Internet. Matt has published extensive thought leadership on a range of strategic topics in the Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek and had several live in-studio appearances on Fox Business News TV and on air at CNN radio. He also co-led a yearlong strategic initiative with the World Economic Forum/Davos on the impact of the Industrial Internet. Matt earned his MBA in Finance from Emory University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona. He lives in Atlanta with his wife of 21 years and their three children.

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Amari Ruff started Sudu Logistics in 2015 after realizing the challenges diverse (minority, women, and veteran owned) carriers had competing and obtaining large contract opportunities from large corporations. Amari most recently was CEO and founder of Global Optic Telco, a residential and commercial telecommunications services provider for Comcast, Charter, Time Warner, Cox, and Southern Link among other large corporations. Amari started Global Optic with one technician truck and scaled it to 200+ trucks and five offices across the US in 3.5 years at which point it was acquired. Amari articulates the Sudu vision and leads business development as he excels at acquiring large contract opportunities and providing high service standards. An avid sports fan, Amari brings a competitive and positive attitude always finding win-win solutions for everyone.

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JapanFest 2018

November 14, 2018 by angishields

The appearance of Business RadioX® at JapanFest 2018 was made possible by our sponsor, Fujiyama Wealth Management. To learn more about Fujiyama Wealth Management, connect with them on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Albert Ikeda, Fukuoka Organization

Andrea Spohn, Personal Banker – SunTrust Bank

Brian Cook, Corporate Trainer for Aflac

Carrie Woodcock, International Charter Academy of Georgia

Chris Harrison, Technology Consultant – Horizon River Tech

Deigratia Daniels, Project Manager – Futurus

Fisher London, Murakami Consulting

Greg Dilaura, Tombow USA

Jessica Cork, YKK Corporation of America

Jessica Darensbourg, IT Manager for Carter’s

Joneh Marhefk, Grad Student

Kimberly McCormick, CDC Intl. Budget Coordinator

Leyan Luke, Operations manager – Novis Creative

Maki Kuraoka, Kuraoka Clinic

Masae Okura, Taylor English Duma LLP

Michael Brookhart, Internal Auditor

Nathanael Porter, ARS Hvac, Media StudiesStudent

Paige Becquet, Flight Attendant for Delta

Quinton Pratt, IT Solutions

Roderick Thornton, Global Project Manager

Ruhani White, Artist

Wanda Smith, former healthcare worker

Yoshiro Yajima, Yajima Chiropractic

Finn Findley with Quest Renewables and Terry Bray with GTRC

November 14, 2018 by angishields

ATDC Radio

Finn Findley with Quest Renewables and Terry Bray with GTRC

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Finn Findley serves Quest Renewables as CEO. Finn has more than 20 years of commercialization and brand expertise, principally at The Coca-Cola Company. In his career, he has worked in brand development, field management, channel strategy and key account management. Finn’s passion to bring environmental sustainability technology from the lab to the world around him led him to found Quest Renewables with Will Arnold and Beau Baldock.

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Terry Bray is the Director of Licensing at Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC). An entrepreneurial professional with a broad technical background as well as 25 years combined experience in the creation, management, and commercialization of innovative technologies. Experienced in executive management, leading or working in multidisciplinary project teams, due diligence, project management, business development, research and development, product development, technology transfer, and legal agreements. Excels at analyzing technologies and business opportunities, and efficiently utilizing resources to accomplish tasks. Skilled in negotiating contracts, intellectual property (IP) protection, and licensing. Effective communicator with all stakeholders in an organization, adept at fostering new client relationships, and creating new business opportunities.

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Cannon Carr with CornerCap Investment Counsel

November 13, 2018 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Cannon Carr with CornerCap Investment Counsel

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Cannon Carr is CornerCap’s Chief Investment Officer. He leads the firm’s investment committee and oversees the firm’s investment strategies and process, stock and asset class research, and portfolio management. He also comanages the three CornerCap mutual funds (Small Cap Value, Large Cap Value, and Balanced). He joined CornerCap in June 2007, after being a client for over seven years. Prior to joining CornerCap, Cannon was a senior equity analyst at CIBC World Markets (formerly Oppenheimer), covering IT business services (2006-07), wireless services (2001-05), and emerging telecom (1998-05). Cannon has provided commentary on CNBC, CNN, Lou Dobbs MoneyLine, and Bloomberg News. He has also been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Fortune, among other publications. He was rated a five-star analyst by Zachs Research in 2006. Cannon has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Princeton University in Political Economy. Public service is important to Cannon. He heads the investment committee for the Wesleyan College endowment, serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Ethics at Emory University, is a Board member with the Technical College System of Georgia Foundation, is an officer at the Atlanta Rotary Club, and serves as Chair of the Georgia Tennis Foundation, among other nonprofit endeavors.

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