Hunter Ewing with Ewing and Company, Ted Davis with Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton, and Daniel Shub with SignStream.net

November 13, 2017 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Hunter Ewing with Ewing and Company, Ted Davis with Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton, and Daniel Shub with SignStream.net

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Hunter Ewing, President of Ewing & Company, has devoted a long and respected career to serving high-net-worth individuals and family offices, specializing in insurance strategies for owners and executives of privately and publicly held businesses. He has extensive experience in estate and charitable planning, non-qualified benefit and compensation plans, along with key-person and buy-sell agreement funding. Hunter began his career in the life insurance industry with Northwestern Mutual in 1994.

An active participant in industry organizations, Hunter is a committee chair of the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting in Washington, D.C., and a board member of the Atlanta Estate Planning Council. His civic involvement includes the Friends of Woodruff and fundraising for The McCallie School in Chattanooga, TN. He is a popular speaker who is often invited to address numerous conferences, and authors’ articles that appear in a variety of industry and related journals.

Hunter holds a B.A. in English from the University of the South and an M.B.A. with emphasis in finance from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. His certifications include the CLU and ChFC designations awarded by the American College.

A native Atlantan, Hunter is married to Lisa and has three children, Hunter III, Peter and Annabelle. He loves to hunt, fish, go camping, split wood, play golf and snow ski. The Ewings attend The Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta. Follow Ewing & Company on LinkedIn.

Ted Davis is a partner in the Atlanta, Georgia office of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, where he has practiced trademark, copyright, false advertising, and unfair competition law since 1990. Outside the office, he has taught as an adjunct professor at the Emory University, University of Georgia, and John Marshall law schools and has testified before Congress on trademark and Internet issues.

Ted is a past chair of the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law and a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Trademark Association, both of which he has represented in amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the bar in Georgia, New York, and the District of Columbia. Follow them on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Daniel K. Shub, Co-Owner of SignStream.net, is a creative marketer that is making it easy and exciting for businesses to communicate on TV screens and in the digital world. Follow SignStream on LinkedIn.

Pensacola Business Radio:FoodieLife Series-Guests: Stelios “Manoly” Vatsolakis, USMC, Shoreline Foods Store Inc. ,Yiayia’s Imports LLC.

November 11, 2017 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio:FoodieLife Series-Guests: Stelios "Manoly" Vatsolakis, USMC, Shoreline Foods Store Inc. ,Yiayia’s Imports LLC.

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Stelios “Manoly” Vatsolakis USMC

Shoreline Foods Store Inc.

Yiayia’s Imports LLC.

Our Family

In 1998, my parents, Stylianos (Steve) and Alice Vatsolakis, moved myself and my two sisters, Chrissoula and Katerina, to Pensacola, from Crete, Greece, to purchase Shoreline Foods from Mike Gavallas. My father, Steve, is a FAA Authorized Inspector by trade and is now the Aircraft Maintenance Officer for the Civil Air Patrol while my mother, Alice, retired from the U.S. Navy as a Senior Chief Petty Officer and, upon retirement, supported my father’s decision in purchasing Shoreline Foods by handling all the business’ finances and books. In 2000 they started importing our Shoreline EVOO and it quickly became a product you could find in most kitchens of Pensacola and the surrounding area. Since then, my father has introduced countless products from Europe and the Middle East.

In 2002, I joined the Marine Corps and was stationed in San Diego, CA where I met the love of my life, Maia. In 2006 and 2008 she blessed me with our two gorgeous girls, Lucianna and Ellynne and after five years in the Corps and three tours to Iraq I ended my enlistment. We decided to stay in San Diego for another seven years, at which time we were presented with the opportunity to take over the amazing business Mr. Mike and my father created. In 2014, Maia and I moved our family to Pensacola and started the transition. It took almost 2 years for us to feel ready to take over and in July, 2016 we purchased the business from my father and made it official.

Since moving here, in 2014, my father and I have introduced many new items, including the Greek olive bar, our own brand of wines from Crete, Greece, a great selection of craft beers, and others. Now that my wife and I have taken ownership we plan on improving even more and are very excited about sharing our improvements with all of you.

My parents worked very hard to take care of each and every customer and his/her needs. We plan on working even harder to not only accomplish the same, but also to bring out all the potential this business has, so it can be even more enjoyable for everyone.

We appreciate all of your support and hope to continue being the local grocery/import store you’ve come to love.

Women in Technology (WIT) Special Edition

November 10, 2017 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Women in Technology (WIT) Special Edition

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The work of Women in Technology has an incredible impact.
Since 1992, Women in Technology has had a mission dedicated to promoting the advancement of women in Georgia’s technology community. Through the WIT COMMUNITY, WIT also educates and encourages girls and young women to pursue careers in STEM.

Jim Palumbo is Founder and Chief Employment Officer, and Liddie Miller Palumbo is a Presenter of College and Corporate programs at PIVITU.

About PIVITU – “If you can dream it, you can achieve it. You can have everything in life you want… if you will just help other people get what they want”.

Dedicated to fulfilling the career aspirations of thousands of college students, veterans and athletes. The PIVIT team navigates the current career landscape through the optics of Start-Up entrepreneurs, cultivated by experience building four early stage Private Equity funded investments that pioneered new technologies. The PIVIT Team brings a collective passion for disrupting the job search status quo with a customized blueprint combined with a transformational delivery model that defines success with only one metric – OUTCOMES. A career versus a job.

Specializing in hands on programs targeting veterans, athletes and college students to execute their career search. Live on site initiative using 20+ years sales experience in business as the springboard & acceleration to employment. Using unconventional methods to empower the candidate’s ability to sell themselves. Doing the work WITH the veteran/athlete/student during a highly competitive boot camp, small group or one on one to prepare and elevate their personal brand. Delivering outcomes faster with higher incomes. Follow PIVITU on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Pat Hurston is WIT’s Resource Development Director. Connect with Pat on LinkedIn and with WIT on Twitter.

Pensacola Business Radio: Women In Leadership Series with Guest: Nancy Bullock-Prevot CEO and Founder, brought to you by Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast

November 10, 2017 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: Women In Leadership Series with Guest: Nancy Bullock-Prevot CEO and Founder, brought to you by Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast

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Nancy Bullock-Prevot
CEO and Founder

USN, CPO Ret.

The H.E.R. Foundation, INC

P.O. Box 29

Milton, Fl 32572

On Facebook @ Honor HER of Northwest Florida

HONOR
EMPOWER
REBUILD SISTERS IN ARMS

Nancy Bullock-Prevot retired from the Navy after 21 years as a Chief Petty Officer, in Cryptologic Technician Collection (CTRC). Her last command was the USS SOMERSET (LPD-25), named after flight 93, which was the last of the 9/11 ships. As a plank owner and first Chief CTRC onboard the USS SOMERSET (LPD-25), she assisted in the building of the Operations Department and OT Division. As the first Chief for the OT Division she served as principle advisor to USS SOMERSET’s Commanding Officer and the Operations Officer on their security programs and cryptologic matters.

As a retired United States Navy veteran with over 20 years of service Chief Prevot wanted to continue serving her country. As a woman veteran, she believes that women veterans are the ones who are often forgotten. “People forget that women served just like their male counterparts and fall on their luck in the same way”. Prevot wanted to do something to help women veterans that are struggling with varieties of obstacles that have led them to homelessness, knowing that could have easily been her.

In August of 2016, Prevot founded The H.E.R. (Honor, Empower, and Rebuild) Foundation, which she formed to help homeless female veterans who are single. HER is ready to help the homeless female veterans by providing affordable housing and other services that may lead them to establishing successful futures.

Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast

Kolleen Edwards Chesley has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and spent the majority of her career as a financial advisor. In that role, Kolleen was responsible for finding her own clients and quickly learned the value of networking, networking, and even more networking. It was in 2004 and during her sales career that she, along with two other professional business women met for lunch with the purpose of helping to motivate each other after Hurricane Ivan had blown through our area and changed not only the physical landscape of the area, but also impacted the business landscape as well. Out of that lunch was born what is now a thriving not-for-profit organization for business women.

Kolleen currently serves full-time as the Founding Director of what was originally called Women’s Business Lunch and is now known as Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast. The organization advocates a culture of confidence building, lifelong learning, collaboration, empowering others and a spirit of charitable giving.

The mission of Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is to promote, advance and improve women in business and the organization accomplishes these in a number of different ways.

– Monthly networking meetings in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze. These are open to all women and are free to attend. We run a structured meeting with open networking, an educational segment, a sponsor presentation, an opportunity to hear about the businesses of all attendees, and a whole lot of fun. We frequently hear from attendees that these meeting are chock full of value and a great way to build new relationships to help support their businesses. The Pensacola meetings include lunch paid for by our sponsors.

– Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast Magazine. We are in our third year of production of the magazine and our goal is for this to be a quarterly publication. For 2017, we will only produce one edition. Each edition features interviewees of local successful leaders in business who share their honest thoughts on leadership, success, obstacles, and inspiration as it relates to women in business. We also include other articles on leadership, networking, and other skill development. It is geared for anyone in business or looking for business motivation and tips.

– Annual Pursue Your Passion Women’s conference. To help celebrate National Business Women’s Week, we hold a full day conference during the third week of October along with several other events leading up to the conference. We feature a national keynote speaker, several local successful leaders in business, along with Speed Networking, an Experience Hall, structured and unstructured networking exercises and plenty of laughter, relationship building and excitement. Our attendees are not only motivated by the conference but they leave with tangible tips they can take back and implement in their businesses to lead them to success. For 2017, our conference will be held on Thursday, October 19th at Sanders Beach.

– Power Up Challenge is a 12 week educational series where we hold classes once a week for two hours. Classes focused around four main areas of business: Networking, Marketing, Business Efficiency, and Sales Skills. Open to men and women and all classmates receive the full audio recording of each class along with class notes, expanded notes, and extra resources. Remote classes also available. Classes are affordable and attendees are elated with the amount and quality of the information that is shared.

– Women in Leadership radio podcast show – sponsored by Pensacola Business Radio X. We hold monthly shows featuring local community leaders and other men and women in business. We engage our guests in conversational style in-depth interviews. They share their advice on topics such as mentoring, keys to success, time management tools, personal mantras and favorite inspirations, and what men can do to help support women in business.

– Membership in Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is also available.

Contact kolleen@powerfulwomengulfcoast.com for more information or visit our website at www.powerfulwomengulfcoast.com or Facebook at “Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast” for all of our meeting information.

Jed Fearon with ProviDyn

November 8, 2017 by angishields

High Velocity Radio

Jed Fearon with ProviDyn

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Jed Fearon is a Solution Advisor for ProviDyn, an Inc. 5000 ranked Managed IT Services provider who helps small and midsized organizations improve performance and reduce business risk. As a 14 year managed services veteran Jed has developed a keen interest in cybersecurity and maintains an active speaking schedule delivering Employee Cyber Security Awareness Training to groups all over the greater Atlanta area. He holds a BA in English from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA with a concentration in Marketing from American University in Washington D.C.

Connect with Jed on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Emerging Enterprise Series Featuring Justice Nicole Miranda with OurErrands and Rupen Patel with Influence Health

November 8, 2017 by angishields

AppZoro

Emerging Enterprise Series Featuring Justice Nicole Miranda with OurErrands and Rupen Patel with Influence Health

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The Emerging Enterprise Series is brought to you by AppZoro and hosted by Sam Agarwal and Marianna Velozo

Rupen Patel joined Influence Health in 2017 as Chief Technology Officer. He’s responsible for driving product development and technology innovation efforts. With over 15 years in assembling and directing fast-paced software engineering teams, Rupen specializes in strategy and roadmaps to help businesses drive growth and innovation. He’s passionate about creating software that addresses healthcare’s need for better consumer engagement solutions.

Connect with Rupen on Twitter and LinkedIn. Follow Influence Health on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Justice Nicole with OurErrands was born on the summer day of May 22nd, 1994 in Ventura California; to her amazing parents Thelma and Daniel. When Justice was 11 years old she had her first personal assisting job helping a local artist in California schedule and set up his showcases. Fast forward 12 years and she is a graduate of the illustrious Clark Atlanta University where she earned her dual-degree in Business Management and Supply Chain; and now owns the first on-demand personal assisting company. Quick services like lyft, instacart, and postmates encouraged herself and her cousin to think smarter not harder, and create something that will disrupt start-up tech companies not just in Atlanta, in the nation. OurErrands is a platform that focuses on OUR Assistants, OUR Clients, and both of their experiences. We have created a platform where college-educated individuals can showcase their skillsets to work for a small business owner or entrepreneur that is already in their desired field. Stop working retail jobs in college and come gain cross-functional work experience with OurErrands.

Connect with Justice on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Sam Agarwal is an Innovative Applications Developer. Sam is the founder and CEO of AppZoro Technologies, Inc. – an experienced team of full-stack mobile app developers and web designers. He holds a BS in Computer Science and is working on his Master’s at Georgia Tech. Sam is an Advisor of Mobile App Technology for the Atlanta Tech Village, one of the U.S. leading co-working space entities located in Atlanta, Georgia.

From concept to market-ready digital product, AppZoro is your single-source for everything from complex programming and database development to payment integrations and front-end design. With AppZoro’s in-house team of Agile Coders and Inventive Designers, you’ll get consistent high-quality work at a startup-friendly price.

Sam is also an experienced businessman. In addition to the work he does with AppZoro, he is Vice President of Sara Hospitality – an international, family-owned furniture manufacturer based in India, serving the US hospitality industry. He has been materially involved since he was 18 and is responsible for procurement, marketing, sales, customer service and finance for the business. In this role, he has learned the key elements of “grind” to build a successful startup.

Through Atlanta Tech Village, and as a private consultant, Sam helps business owners develop sound digital strategies that leverage both current and emerging technologies to increase revenues, streamline productivity, attract investors, and nurture customer relationships. Learn more about Sam and AppZoro on their website, and follow them on Twitter and Facebook.

Steven Carse and Diego Torres with King of Pops

November 7, 2017 by angishields

CEO Exclusive Radio

Steven Carse and Diego Torres with King of Pops

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In true Founder fashion Steven Carse has never walked into King of Pops without a new idea and a pat on the back for the crew. His mind never stops moving, producing on average 100 ideas per week, and though most of them are beyond our possibilities, the 1% that make the cut are true gold. Steven loves his community, his KoP family, and he truly couldn’t envision a different life.

Steven Carse is one-of-a-kind; he has a really big heart and his employees are proud to have an owner who cares about their well-being as much as he does.

Diego Torres is simultaneously the most stylish and saucy employee at King of Pops, wearing exclusively black or rose gold. He is our resident Marketing Coordinator and is a man of many talents. He runs our social media accounts and wears the hat of in-house publicist. Even though he’s new to the Kingdom, he’s taken to it like a fish to water, diving right into the deep end of KoP shenanigans.

Diego is a founding member of the KoP Running Club, which is a great way to burn off all the Cookies n’ Cream pops he eats throughout the day. Diego wears the shirt and it reads, “Fearless.”

Tree Elves Song

Follow King of Pops on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Culinary Atlanta Series Featuring Andrei Caciula with The Palm Atlanta

November 7, 2017 by angishields

Culinary Atlanta

Culinary Atlanta Series Featuring Andrei Caciula with The Palm Atlanta

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Andrei Caciula moved to the United States in 2003 and began his long-standing career with The Palm Restaurant Group in 2004 at the age of 21. Starting out as a server’s assistant and bar back in addition to numerous kitchen positions, Andrei quickly worked his way up to Manager of The Palm Atlanta.

After spending a few years in his managerial position, Andrei transferred to New York where he took on the role of Assistant General Manager at The Palm West Side. Today Andrei oversees all operations and staff at The Palm Atlanta where he says every day is his favorite day on the job.

Since Atlanta is constantly growing with an eclectic mix of locals, Andrei caters to professionals in industries such as music, television, sports, legal and real estate to name a few. He goes above and beyond to make every diner’s experience memorable and reminds his staff that every guest wants to be treated like a celebrity and every celebrity wants to be treated like a regular guest; a philosophy that has earned The Palm top ranking in Atlanta’s restaurant scene.

As the General Manager, he encourages all guests to stop by the bar and ask for a “Pinky;” an exclusive cocktail unique to The Palm Atlanta and a local favorite. Cheers!

Follow The Palm Atlanta on Twitter and Facebook.

Erik Balkan with Synergy Business Consulting and Ronnie Agami with Universal Diamonds

November 6, 2017 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Erik Balkan with Synergy Business Consulting and Ronnie Agami with Universal Diamonds

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Erik Balkan, Director of Market Operations with Synergy Business Consulting, is a staffing management executive with profit and loss responsibility, as well as extensive experience in all facets of business strategy, operational excellence, sales planning, brand management, channel development, key accounts, product management and market share growth. He has 25 years of staffing experience; everything from starting a staffing company to working for the largest staffing company in the world.

He currently lives in Atlanta with his wife and daughter. Follow Synergy Business Consulting on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Ronnie Agami is Owner/Principal of Universal Diamonds.

For over 35 years, Universal Diamond has solidified its legacy as Atlanta’s most trusted engagement ring and diamond jewelry store. Located in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood, we are Atlanta’s most respected buyer and seller of engagement rings, diamonds, diamond jewelry, loose diamonds and estate jewelry. Follow Universal Diamonds on Twitter and Facebook.