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Marketing SuperHeroes Series Featuring Louis Gudema with revenue and associates

December 7, 2017 by angishields

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Marketing SuperHeroes Series Featuring Louis Gudema with revenue and associates

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Louis Gudema with revenue and associates has helped companies from startups to the Fortune 5 create and deploy effective marketing and revenue growth strategies. For a dozen years he headed his own marketing agency which had such clients as IBM, The Boston Globe, Cognos, Endeca, and dozens of schools and colleges. After a successful exit he was VP of Business Development for two other mid-sized agencies before returning to consulting directly with companies. In addition to speaking and blogging regularly on marketing and business matters, Louis mentors MIT startups and heads up Boston’s Sales & Marketing Innovators group.

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Emerging Enterprise Series Featuring Bernie Burgener with Greenhouse Accelerator

December 5, 2017 by angishields

AppZoro

Emerging Enterprise Series Featuring Bernie Burgener with Greenhouse Accelerator

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

Bernie Burgener is the executive director of the Greenhouse Accelerator. The objective of this non-profit is to help create sustainable jobs through the support of early-stage green startups. Early in his career Bernie helped fund and grow businesses in various countries and industries in South America in a financial as well as a consulting function, working for a private investment company out of Lima, Peru. He then worked for over twenty years with a water treatment company in Atlanta, leading its international business development, including strategic planning, identifying, negotiating and executing acquisitions, and managing key raw material contracts. Bernie is an economist by education and a sustainability consultant by avocation.

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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.

Dr. Bill Bogner and Melody Paris with Georgia State University, Taz Lake with Brightmill, Nathaniel Smith with Partnership for Southern Equity, and Tris Sicignano with Surge Television

December 5, 2017 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Dr. Bill Bogner and Melody Paris with Georgia State University, Taz Lake with Brightmill, Nathaniel Smith with Partnership for Southern Equity, and Tris Sicignano with Surge Television

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Dr. Bill Bogner is the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs and an Associate Professor in the Department of Managerial Sciences at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. His research primarily focuses on the dynamics of industry competition and in particular seeks to explain the past and current competitive postures of firms, groups of firms, and whole industries. Increasingly Dr. Bogner’s research has focused on global industries and the technological trajectories that drive industry evolution. He has published in leading journals including Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, International Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice Long Range Planning and Advances in Strategic Management. In addition, he has made numerous presentations at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, and the Strategic Management Society, as well as at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels. Several of his articles have appeared as book chapters and in proceedings publications. He has published two books on the pharmaceutical industry. At Georgia State University Dr. Bogner teaches courses on Strategic management in the MBA, PMBA, EMBA and PhD programs. He has also taught on the Masters level in International Business. In addition to service as the Assistant Dean for of the J. Mack Robinson College’s over 6000 Undergraduate degree students, he currently is very active on the University level in assessment, accreditation and continual improvement of programs on the graduate and undergraduate level. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management Studies, and the Journal of Management, as Treasurer of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, and as the Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer of the Strategy Research Foundation. Dr. Bogner is also an attorney and is licensed to practice law by the state of Illinois.

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Melody Paris is the Associate Director of the EMBA Program at Georgia State University. Connect with Melody on LinkedIn.

Taz Lake’s passion is making websites better. When his career began over two decades ago, he relied on a passion for web technologies to tear him away from medicine and science. Today, through Brightmill, he provides comprehensive health checks to measure and improve on-site web experience, leading to better outcomes from website investments. His company has provided website analysis and improvement solutions in multiple industries to companies of all sizes. Mr. Lake has also served in various technical and leadership roles in Fortune 500 companies, digital agencies and consultancies. He is a past Adjunct Professor at two Atlanta universities, serves on multiple professional association boards, and has been published in the Huffington Post, Advertising Week, CMS Wire, and more. His undergraduate degree is from Duke University and he holds an MA from Wheaton College and an MBA from Georgia State University.

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Nathaniel Smith serves as Founder and Chief Equity Officer (CEqO)/CEO of the Partnership for Southern Equity. Empowered by the unified vision and voices realized through its regional engagement efforts, PSE pushes for policies and actions that promote balanced growth and inclusive prosperity in metropolitan Atlanta and beyond. Among PSEs notable accomplishments where the creation the American Souths first equity mapping and framing tool the Metro Atlanta Equity Atlas (MAEA); The Atlanta Regional Commissions Equitable Target Areas (ETA) mapping index to promote and measure equitable land-use planning efforts; supporting the creation of the nations first Equitable Development Plan for a large scale neighborhood transformation project The Atlanta Beltline; convening the inaugural Equity Atlanta Forum on the equitable utilization of Federal Stimulus Funding in metro Atlanta as well as its supporting document, co-written by PolicyLink, Recovering Stronger: Building an Inclusive Metro Atlanta Economy. Mr. Smith is also the co-author of PSEs report, Moving to Opportunity: The Case for Transportation Equity in Metropolitan Atlanta and PSEs 2016 report Growing the Future: The Case for Economic Inclusion in Metropolitan Atlanta. In 2014 Partnership for Southern Equity led a coalition of diverse stakeholders and organizations to support the initiation and passage of a $13 million transit referendum that expands Atlantas metropolitan transit system (MARTA) into a new County (Clayton) for the first time in 45 years. Among his many acknowledgments, Nathaniel was selected for the National Congress for Community Economic Development (NCCED) 2000 Emerging Leaders Program; the Outstanding Young Person of Atlanta Award in 2003; Georgia Trend Magazines 40 under 40 list in 2006 (cover); The Atlanta Business Chronicles Up and Comers List in 2006; the 2007 Atlanta Housing Association of Neighborhood Based Developers (AHAND) 2007 Affordable Housing Champion Award; the 2014 designation in the Whos Who in Black Atlanta publication as a Champion of Diversity and Inclusion and honored in 2014 by the Atlanta Business League as a Man of Influence. Nathaniel was designated a Notable Georgian by Georgia Trend Magazine in 2016 and 2017. Nathaniel has served as an advisor to several local and national organizations and policymakers among them: The Annie E. Casey Foundation, PolicyLink, and the South Eastern Council of Foundations and Kellogg Foundation to name a few. Nathaniel serves on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership. Nathaniel was recently selected to engage in a delegations of international thought leaders convened to support the efforts of the German Marshall Fund, Bertelsmann Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Open Society Foundations to engage the Cities of Boston Massachusetts and Athens Greece in creating a economic resiliency strategy for their respective justifications. Nathaniel resides in the Summer Hill Community of Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Alyshia, an educator and their daughter Alexia.

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Tris Sicignano is a New Orleans native,who began her career in television at the age of 16 working for the local PBS station. Tris has worked for several major cable networks during her career. She has worked both behind the scenes and in front of the camera in the film and entertainment industry. After taking a break from the industry to pursue other career goals, Tris has returned to her original career choice to co-found Surge Television.

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Scott Dockter with PBD Worldwide and Jan Jones with Freight Scouts

December 5, 2017 by angishields

CEO Exclusive Radio

Scott Dockter with PBD Worldwide and Jan Jones with Freight Scouts

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Scott Dockter joined PBD Worldwide in 1993 and is responsible for the overall operations and management. Since being named CEO/President in 2000, PBD has expanded to become an international provider of superior distribution, customer care and accounting services to associations, non-profits, educational publishers and corporations. Scott’s strategic vision over the years has resulted in multiple new service offerings for PBD including promotional products, digital distribution, enhanced reporting solutions and printing and mailing services.

PBD has been recognized for numerous awards under Scott’s leadership including being named one of Atlanta’s Top Workplaces for seven consecutive years, a Best and Brightest Company to Work For for six years and one of Atlanta’s Healthiest Workplaces for five straight years. In 2017, Scott was recognized as one of the Highest Rated CEOs for U.S. Small & Medium Businesses (less than 1,000 employees) based on the voluntary reviews submitted by current and former PBD Worldwide employees on Glassdoor.

Scott earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia as well as his Logistics Certificate from Michigan State University’s Executive Education division and a Logistics Certificate from Georgia Tech University’s Executive Program. Scott is the past President of the University of Virginia’s Athletics Foundation and served as Chairman for the Atlanta Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships for 15 years. Connect with Scott on LinkedIn, and follow PBD on Twitter and Facebook.

Jan Jones joined the PBD team in 2007 and brings over seventeen years of experience in the transportation and logistics industry with a focus in business development, solution selling, project management and client relationship management. Jan heads PBD’s non-asset freight brokerage division, Freight Scouts, where she oversees strategic business growth and daily operations.

Prior to launching Freight Scouts in 2016, Jan served as Vice President of Sales for PBD where she was responsible for developing new channels of revenue within PBD’s focused markets of non-profits, associations and corporations and has successfully converted and welcomed over 25 new client programs to the PBD family of clients.

During her career at PBD, she has led teams and worked independently to develop partnerships that have helped PBD grow its client base and expand its service offerings. Specifically, Jan initiated a new client program that was the foothold for PBD’s printing and mailing services offering, PBD Ink.

Prior to joining the PBD team, Jan spent eight years with an Atlanta-based worldwide transportation company where she was responsible for managing teams of sales professionals focused on retaining and growing market share in North Georgia. She earned the Chairman’s Sales Excellence Award for exceeding business plan in consecutive years and was a top-ranked Sales Manager in business development results and employee satisfaction. Connect with Jan on LinkedIn and follow Freight Scouts on Twitter and Facebook.

Bill Piper with Two Roads

November 30, 2017 by angishields

High Velocity Radio

Bill Piper with Two Roads

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Bill Piper is a Partner at Two Roads – a remote bookkeeping company that serves entrepreneurs running service based businesses focused on scaling to 7 figures and beyond. Two Roads was recognized by Intuit as the very first “Firm of the Future” due to their ability to provide a bookkeeping service that actually takes work off an owners plate and frees up hours of their time every month. Bill lives in Memphis, TN, but they serve clients across the nation.

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Supply Chain Now Radio Episode 7

November 30, 2017 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Supply Chain Now Radio Episode 7

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Supply Chain Now Radio brought to you by APICS Atlanta

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 – a national specialty staffing provider based in Atlanta – 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. More recently, Luton founded Riverwood Associates in 2013, a leading process improvement consulting and training firm in the Southeast. He formerly served as President of APICS Atlanta and currently is a member of APICS Southeast District Staff. 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, the Transportation Club of Atlanta and SHRM Greenville. Follow TalentStream on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Greg White is the founder of Blue Ridge Global. Connect with Greg on LinkedIn.

Elba Pareja-Gallagher is the founder of ShowMe50 and Chair of the APICS Atlanta Gender Gap Task Force. Connect with Elba on LinkedIn. Follow ShowMe50 on Facebook and Twitter.

Albert Sorto is the Vice President of NMTA and is a member of the APICS Atlanta Executive Advisory Board. Connect with Albert on LinkedIn.

Cary Green, Everett Hill, and Greg Jungles with Twelve Oaks Advisors and Jennifer Levine Hartz with Corporate Hartz LLC

November 29, 2017 by angishields

High Velocity Radio

Cary Green, Everett Hill, and Greg Jungles with Twelve Oaks Advisors and Jennifer Levine Hartz with Corporate Hartz LLC

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Twelve Oaks Advisors was formed to help the leaders of small and mid-sized businesses grow by optimizing their organizations’ business performance. Our team (including Cary Green, Everett Hill, and Greg Jungles) of former Fortune 500 senior executives, all with over 30-years experience, have a passion for helping others succeed. We take a very pragmatic and straight-forward approach to helping our clients solve their most vexing business challenges and we do this without any of the gimmicks other consultants like to talk about. Our tools are integrity, experience, expertise and commitment to your success.

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Jennifer Levine Hartz’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) role at The Home Depot, time with McKinsey & Company, experience at iXL Enterprises, and lifelong civic engagement came together in 2000 with the establishment of Corporate Hartz. The firm has two lines of business: Strategic CSR & Sustainability, and Philanthropy Services for Donor Advised Funds & Family Foundations. In the former, she leads with her head; in the latter, she leads with her heart. Strategic CSR covers a wide range of issues and opportunities from supply chain to diversity & inclusion, from new markets and products to company brand elevation. Clients are a variety of sizes, geographies, and industries. The goal is ethical profit via lower costs and higher revenues. Philanthropy Services involves a heavy component of personal & professional coaching, group facilitation, and nonprofit insight. The goal is to enable families to use their wealth to improve their relationships, broaden their networks, and to have meaningful impact on the causes and charities they care about. Atlanta clients include Chick-fil-A, Mercedes Benz USA, Baker Donelson, Novelis, Turner Broadcasting, Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), PWC, Deloitte, PRGX, AGL Resources, and AT&T. She also serves some nonprofits, including Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Habitat for Humanity International, Atlanta Women’s Foundation, and the Clean Air Campaign. Hartz & Minds is the vehicle for Corporate Hartz’s research, opinions, and insights. Topics range from 6 Elements of a High-Value Volunteer Program, to The 7 Deadly Sins of CSR; from Garbology: Why Business Must Innovate to Reduce Waste, to Fast Food: A Community-Based Business Under Siege. Jennifer has a BA in industrial psychology from University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA, with a concentration in public policy from GA Tech. Though Jennifer serves clients around the world, she has been active in a number of nonprofits locally and nationally, including serving as the Advisory Council Chair for Hands On Atlanta. She lives with husband, Eric, and their four children between the ages of 16 and 20.

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Sarah Morrison with Shepherd Center and Executive Coach John Fenton

November 28, 2017 by angishields

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Sarah Morrison with Shepherd Center and Executive Coach John Fenton

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Sarah Morrison, PT, MBA, MHA, is president and CEO of Shepherd Center. Since 1984, Morrison has served in various leadership roles at Shepherd Center, including vice president of clinical services, director of the Spinal Cord Injury Program, director of the medical/surgical and ICU programs, manager of the spinal cord injury day program, a physical therapy supervisor and a physical therapist.

Morrison is well known in the healthcare community, having written more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, presented more than 40 invited lectures to professional organizations and actively participated in eight funded research studies. In 2013, Morrison received the award for Clinical Excellence in Neurology from the Neurological Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). Morrison’s career includes leadership roles as a surveyor of external rehabilitation hospitals for the Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities and chair of the APTA Special Interest Group for Spinal Cord Injury.

Morrison earned her bachelor’s degree in physical therapy from the University of Miami, where she graduated summa cum laude. She received master’s degrees in healthcare and business administration from Georgia State University, where she received the Max G. Holland scholarship for the highest grade point average in the graduate business program.

Morrison lives in Atlanta with her husband, Jeff, a visiting instructor at Emory University. Their son, Michael, lives in Houston, Texas, and works for Cigna Healthcare in process management. Their daughter, Susan, lives in Atlanta and works as an editor for an independent publishing company. Follow Shepherd Center on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

John Fenton helps CEOs and business leaders make better decisions, take bold actions and create meaningful results. He shows them how to lead more effectively, manage stress, energize their businesses, and improve their results through leadership self-mastery. John has worked with hundreds through one-to-one coaching, seminars and workshops to help them master the inner game and win the outer game in business and in life.

Formerly, John served as the Atlanta managing partner of one of the world’s largest accounting firms with 35+ years of experience working with small to mid-sized company CEOs and executives. He has led and been a part of successful teams in business and in athletics. Connect with John on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Sharon Macaluso with The University of Georgia SBDC, Casey Sanders with Jesus Spoken Here Ministries, Jackie Hutter with The Hutter Group, and Bryan Miles with BELAY

November 27, 2017 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Sharon Macaluso with The University of Georgia SBDC, Casey Sanders with Jesus Spoken Here Ministries, Jackie Hutter with The Hutter Group, and Bryan Miles with BELAY

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Sharon Macaluso is an Area Director for The University of Georgia Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in metro-Atlanta. Sharon has been providing consulting and training services for Georgia businesses through the UGA SBDC since 1994, and has consulted with over 2000 entrepreneurs and business owners. Her areas of specialization are in strategic planning, marketing and sales, customer service, business plans, and leadership development. Sharon comes from a corporate, as well as, entrepreneurial background. She held various management, marketing, training and customer service positions with Eastern Airlines and with IBM. She grew up in a family-owned business, working for her father and grandfather in a hosiery manufacturing plant in North Carolina, and she has run a small real estate business. Sharon holds a Master’s of Business Administration Degree with an emphasis in Marketing and has written several articles and publications on marketing and marketing research, brand development, customer service, leadership and strategic planning. She also holds a special interest in women-owned businesses and has led development of several conferences and other initiatives for female entrepreneurs, including GWEN (Georgia Women Entrepreneur Network) Conferences and annual Woman-Owned Business Expos.

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Since 1999, Casey Sanders has provided leadership to men throughout the Atlanta area in a discipling “1 on 1” relationship via Jesus Spoken Here Ministries. In the mid-nineties as a Pharmaceutical Sales Executive, Casey discovered his identity in Christ and began to share the joy that comes from walking in intimacy with Jesus. Leaving a paycheck from the corporate world to walk by faith in discipleship ministry has been the most fulfilling thing he and his wife, Christi have ever done. They are the the very blessed parents of of 3 amazing sons; Travis (aka “Teddy”), Troy, and T.J. Casey, a business school graduate of Florida State University, spent 15 years working in sales and marketing with Motorola, Nursefinders, Johnson & Johnson, and CIBA Vision. He helped grow CIBA Vision Ophthalmics from small start up to a $100 million company as its first National Sales Director. He is one of the founders of Jesus Spoken Here Ministries which ministers to men, couples, business owners, companies, and churches. Ultimately, the goal of Jesus Spoken Here is helping believers fall in love with the Person of Jesus Christ. Casey has led (ISI) Iron Sharpening Iron, a monthly Christian Business Owners Forum, of 45 men for 12 years.

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Jackie Hutter has been creating business value from IP for companies of all sizes at The Hutter Group since 2008. During this time, and probably not coincidentally, Jackie has been named by her peers as a top global IP Strategist. Prior to going out on her own, she was a senior IP lawyer at Georgia Pacific and a shareholder at an Atlanta IP law firm. She started her non-legal career as a research scientist at an innovative hair and skin care company. Jackie lives the Decatur area in a groovy Mid-Century house with her husband, daughters, and far too many pets.

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Bryan Miles is CEO & Co-founder of BELAY. Bryan (alongside his wife, Shannon) lead a US-based virtual solutions company that has over 550 people on payroll, all working from home, virtually. Prior to starting BELAY, Bryan worked for companies in the tech and construction industries. Bryan obtained his B.A. in Business from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Mount Vernon, OH, which is also where he met his wife, Shannon, who also co-founded BELAY.

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