Members of CEO Netweavers are a trusted and caring group seeking to “Pay-It-Forward” and give back to individuals who are genuinely seeking to help each other. We interact by getting to know each other and considering ways we may connect each other with colleagues who may be helpful, without any expectation of getting something in return. We think this is rare in the world today.
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The Pioneer’s Path is brought to you by the Terraform Group.
The Pioneer’s Path show is designed to share the stories of established Visionaries, including their triumphs and defeats in order to encourage that group of undiscovered Visionaries who have so much untapped potential to literally change an industry, create jobs, and impact their communities once they figure out who they are, and how they could create massive value for an organization once they do. The Pioneer’s Path is hosted by Tim O’Connor and brought to you by the TerraForm Group.
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A 6x business founder, Jeff Jahn has contributed to Inc Magazine, Forbes, Huffington Post and many others, and his businesses have been featured in national media including Fast Company, Adweek, Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal and many more. Jeff is a member of the Berry College Board of Visitors, as well as Kennesaw State University’s Executive Advisory Board for The Robin and Doug Shore Entrepreneurship Center. Jeff founded DynamiX in 2005 as a college sophomore. Since that time, the company has grown to become one of the most recognized and awarded (850+) website development companies in the world, with a client list that includes well known national, international and local brands. Jeff has a passion for digital storytelling, as well as for pushing the envelope of what can be achieved through technology.
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David Goulding is the owner and Visionary of ENSIGN Building Solutions, a 12-year-old company in Atlanta that utilizes the principles of Building Science to provide services related to moisture management, energy efficiency, and indoor air quality, with a focus on Environmental Design and High Performance Homes. Ensign believes that your home is your haven as well as your largest investment. You spend 8-12 hours a day inside your home, which means it should be comfortable and safe. But there could be problems with moisture or contaminants in your home that keep you from having the healthy environment that you expect and deserve, which is where Ensign comes in.
On this CEO Exclusive, we talk with Neil Stevens with Oconee State Bank and his long time client Larry Campbell with Corners Outreach on what’s happening in banking right now and trends in the financial market.
Neil Stevens is the new President and CEO of Oconee State Bank. He has 28 years of broad based banking experience. Over the years his main focus has been to lead financial institutions to obtain a high return on equity and return on assets by placing a high emphasis on building a remarkable culture within the organization. He believes that by hiring remarkable people and putting them in a remarkable culture it will yield remarkable results.
Neil began his career as a management trainee in 1989 with the Citizens and Southern (C&S) National Bank (later known as NationsBank and Bank of America). More recently, he spent ten years with KeyWorth Bank as the President and Chief Operating Officer and was a founding member and organizer of KeyWorth. He helped build a remarkable culture as KeyWorth grew to approximately $450 million in assets. He helped negotiate a profitable merger with Renasant Bank in March of 2016. Prior to KeyWorth, he spent nine years with IronStone Bank serving as the Area President for the Georgia Market. This included running 21 retail branches, the mortgage operation, private banking, business banking, residential construction and commercial banking.
He has served on the board for Emory Johns Creek Hospital, is a past board member and chair of the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce and the Johns Creek Economic Development Corporation, is a board member at the Perimeter Church Board of Elders, and has served as a board member and leader at Summit Counseling Center, Corners Outreach Ministry, Georgia Bankers Association, Supporting Amateur Athletics, and The Atlanta Athletic Club.
Stevens is a graduate of Mercer University and holds an executive banking certificate from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Connect with Neil on LinkedIn and follow Oconee State Bank on Twitter and Facebook.
While Larry Campbell grew up in poverty, he was always told he could do anything or be anything and that education would allow that to occur. Larry was able to have a successful business career due to his education and belief in working hard. He started Corners Outreach on that same belief.
Corners Outreach daily focus is on seven metrics, in addition to living out the Corners Outreach mission of being a catalyst for 100% of students to graduate high school and improve career opportunities for underemployed parents. Connect with Larry on LinkedIn, and follow Corners Outreach on Twitter and Facebook.
Supply Chain Now Radio brought to you by APICS Atlanta and TalentStream.
Scott Luton serves as Managing Partner for TalentStream and is a member of the ownership group. He brings more than 15 years of general management and business development experience to TalentStream. After graduating from the University of South Carolina in 2000, he began his career as a database analyst in the United States Air Force. Luton later joined EmployBridge, where he was named to the President’s Club in 2007 and 2008. He has held leadership roles including Vice President of Business Development for Definity Partners and Director of Sales for Clairon Metals Corporation. Scott currently serves as Executive Vice President of APICS Atlanta, is a member of APICS Southeast District Staff and currently serves on the 2018 Georgia Logistics Summit Executive Committee. A certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and an APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional, Luton also maintains active membership in the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, the Georgia Manufacturing Alliance, and the Transportation Club of Atlanta. Follow TalentStream on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Jack Allen is the Senior Director of Logistics at Cisco.
Matt Markham is the Director at the Center of Innovation for Logistics at the Georgia Department of Economic Development.
Elba Pareja-Gallagher is the founder of ShowMe50 and Chair of the APICS Atlanta Gender Gap Task Force. Follow ShowMe50 on Facebook and Twitter.
Dr. Steve Bistritz with SellXL.com has more than 40 years of high-tech sales and sales training experience. He is a published author and lecturer in the field of sales, sales management and selling to executives. Steve spent more than 27 years with IBM in sales, sales management and training management positions. Subsequently, while at OnTarget, he led the development of sales training programs delivered to tens of thousands of salespeople worldwide. He co-authored the best-selling sales book, Selling to the C- Suite, the 2nd edition of which was just published by McGraw-Hill and enthusiastically endorsed by Neil Rackham. Steve holds a doctorate in human resource development from Vanderbilt University and is currently president of his own sales training and consulting firm, based in Atlanta. Connect with Steve on LinkedIn.
Mr. Will Hall with HIPnation has been involved in health care in a variety of positions, from serving as lead Physical Therapist for the inaugural Cardiac Transplant Team at North Carolina Baptist Hospital to leading more than 150 clinics with more than 600 team members as Regional Vice President of a national healthcare provider. Mr. Hall received his Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Boston University and is twice Board Certified as a specialist in Orthopedic Physical Therapy. Follow HIPnation on Twitter.
Lucienne Ide is the Founder and Chairman of Rimidi. Rimidi represents a group of medical and business professionals dedicated to providing serious hope for solving healthcare’s most pressing problems. Rimidi enables personalized management of chronic health conditions. We’re committed to bringing the tools, insights, and analytics needed at the front lines of care to make chronic disease management a successful collaboration between providers and patients. Follow Rimidi on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Richard Nelli is an accomplished Senior Executive with twenty-four years of leadership in Healthcare Information Technology, and is the Advisor of Springboard Benefits. Follow Springboard Benefits on Twitter.
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Timothy A. Kiser, Owner and Founder of Colo Atl, is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in 35 states. With over 29 years of engineering experience, Mr. Kiser has served as the designer and engineer on over 70 telecommunications facilities. Mr. Kiser designed and constructed the fully-built Colo Atl colocation and Meet Me Room facility in November 2001 to serve as a carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection facility. As Owner, Designer and Engineer at the Colo Atl facility, Mr. Kiser was instrumental in achieving the prestigious SSAE 16 certification, an internationally recognized third-party assurance audit designed for service organizations. Colo Atl achieved the certification after a stringent audit of its internal business processes and IT controls, including physical security, environmental security, logical security, and network security. A premier industry expert on data centers/colocation, engineering, peering, and Software Defined Networking, Mr. Kiser is a distinguished speaker. Select speaking and moderating engagements include those from the following events: Bisnow Atlanta, CapRate Real Estate’s Data Center Summit Series, Fiber Network Owners Alliance (FNA), FISPA Live (Atlanta), IMN Forums on Financing, Investing & Real Estate Development for Data Centers, and Telecom Exchange (TEX) New York on the event’s CEO Roundtables. Mr. Kiser also operates the Georgia Technology Center (GTC) and the Southeast Network Access Point (SNAP), both of which are located in Colo Atl’s Atlanta, Georgia facility at 55 Marietta Street. The GTC is a live lab for network equipment vendors to highlight their optical and electrical hardware and operating systems; and SNAP is a next-generation Internet Exchange (IX) supporting IPv4, IPv6, OpenFlow, and Software Defined Networking (SDN). A Georgia Institute of Technology graduate, Mr. Kiser holds a degree in Electrical Engineering, and served as an Air Force B52 bomber pilot during Operation Desert Storm. In his spare time, Mr. Kiser enjoys traveling, spending time with close friends and business associates and recreational flying.
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Brian Dally is a co-founder and the CEO of Groundfloor, the first issuer qualified by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission to offer real estate based payment dependent notes that are available to non-accredited investors. Groundfloor has democratized investing for the 96% of people who have never been able to access this type of wealth – short-term, high-yield returns with a minimum investment of as little as $10. Brian’s 15-year career building disruptive technology startups spans stints in Silicon Valley, Boston, London and the North Carolina Triangle region. Previously, he led the launch of Republic Wireless to take on the big four cellphone carriers to international acclaim. As a result, millions more Americans can now afford a smartphone. Brian has a JD from Harvard Law School, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia. Connect with Brian further on Twitter.
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Dara Albright with Dara Albright Media is a recognized authority, thought provoker and frequent speaker on FinTech, crowd finance, next-gen IPOs & P2P, and retail alternatives. She is most known for her leading edge articles and acclaimed conferences that introduce rising crowd-centric asset classes to Wall Street.
Tom Szaky is founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a global leader in the collection and repurposing of complex waste streams. TerraCycle operates in 21 countries, working with some of the world’s largest brands and companies to create national platforms to recycle products and packaging that currently go to landfill or incineration. Through TerraCycle, Tom is pioneering new waste management processes to create circular solutions for materials such as cigarette butts, laboratory waste, coffee capsules, personal and oral care waste and even food packaging that otherwise have no path to be recycled. TerraCycle and Procter & Gamble produced the world’s first recyclable shampoo bottle made from plastic pulled from beaches and waterways. The first bottles went on shelves in France and Germany in 2017. Additional countries, along with new SKUs will follow in 2018. In 2017, TerraCycle acquired Air Cycle Corporation, giving TerraCycle its first foray into waste disposal mandated by federal regulations. Tom is the author of three books, “Revolution in a Bottle” (2009, Portfolio), “Outsmart Waste” (2014, Berrett-Koehler) and “Make Garbage Great” (2015, HarperCollins). A fourth is expected in Fall 2018. Tom created, produced and starred in TerraCycle’s reality show, “Human Resources” which aired on Pivot from 2014-2016. Tom and TerraCycle have received numerous social, environmental and business awards and recognition from a range of organizations including the United Nations, World Economic Forum, Inc. Magazine, Fortune Magazine and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Follow TerraCycle on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
