Special Episode: Justin’s Policy Update show. Tune in to hear him talk about best practices and strategies to thrive in Healthcare today.
Culinary Atlanta Series Featuring Seth Gragg with Thrasher Coffee, Steve and Cyndi Weinbaum with We Sell Restaurants and Paul McKeon with Team Building with Taste
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Seth Gragg is VP of Business Development with Thrasher Coffee Co. and has an extensive background in sales and operational management. Seth has been instrumental in the growth of Thrasher Coffee Co. Learn more on their website, and follow them on Twitter and Facebook.
Steve and Cyndi Weinbaum are restaurant brokers with We Sell Restaurants. Steve is a licensed real estate salesperson and Certified Business Broker. He has over 25 years of experience working with retail, dining, and financial industry leaders with a focus on Marketing, Business Analysis, and Relationship Management. The importance of establishing open and honest rapport with all his clients is, and will continue to be, paramount.
Steve has the ability to quickly and accurately review and evaluate financial data. This skill enables him to provide sound valuation feedback and business guidance. He has years of experience negotiating complex business to business contracts. Steve worked with most of the major Casual Dining and Quick Serve Franchise brands to help grow sales and customer engagement.
As a Certified Restaurant Broker, Steve is closing an average of two businesses per month and is skilled in complex lease negotiations.
Cyndi is a licensed Real Estate Agent who has been representing Buyers and Sellers for over a decade. And while her experience has been primarily in the residential market, both resells and new construction, her ability to negotiate complex contracts and perform valuation analysis also serves the commercial real estate and business community.
She is a certified negotiation specialist and has attended many workshops and seminars on sales and marketing and is a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Club. She has also received instruction and testing leading to designation as a Certified Restaurant Broker.
Cyndi sharpened her negotiating and business analysis skills as a buyer for Macy’s where she collaborated on multifaceted deals in order to maximize return and further developing her ability to quickly and accurately review financial data to evaluate value and drive sales.
As a Restaurant Broker, Cyndi is now working with restaurant owners to accurately value, market and sell their restaurants for maximum value. She is also helping buyers identify the right business opportunity based on their financial goals and objectives. You can follow them both on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Paul McKeon is CEO of Team Building with Taste, a hospitality company he co-founded in 2012. McKeon and his team have merged their love of food with their business experience building and running high performance sales and marketing teams. With custom team building kitchens in Atlanta and Dallas, Team Building with Taste has become the preeminent culinary team building program in the U.S. To learn more about Team Building with Taste, you can visit their website. You can also follow them on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Biz Radio U Featuring Brent Parkinson with Imbera Foodservice
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Hosted by Adam Wozniak and Darren Parkinson
Brent Parkinson / Imbera Foodservice
Commercial Director
Brent Parkinson started as a simple farmer’s son in Zimbabwe. He survived two civil wars, and has traveled to more than 150 countries. Brent is now the Commercial Director for Imbera Foodservice. Imbera provides commercial refrigeration around the world.
Workplace Culture
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UHY Advisors, Inc. is one of the nation’s largest professional services firms in the U.S., delivering financial, tax and business consulting services to companies ranging from mid-sized to the Fortune 500. The firm’s innovative Management & Technology Consulting practice provides a one-stop solution for a company’s financial and operational functions, with a full suite of services to transform a company’s performance and profitability.
Frank Fenello is managing director of the UHY Atlanta office, and leads the national management consulting practice. He has more than 20 years of experience in management and professional consulting in the finance, audit and accounting professional services industries. Follow Frank on LinkedIn
Kevin Sharpton is a Staff Consultant with UHY Advisors’ Accounting Automation group, providing a wide range of process optimization and finance transformation solutions for UHY clients. He joined UHY in February 2016, and focuses on business process improvement, strategy, project management, and the implementation and optimization of BlackLine software. Follow Kevin on LinkedIn.
Chad Creasman is a Staff Consultant with UHY Advisors’ Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance group, providing a wide range of IT and accounting controls-related auditing and consulting services. His primary focus is providing clients with service organization controls (SOC) attestations, SOX IT compliance over internal controls related to financial reporting, cybersecurity risk management and PCI compliance. Follow Chad on LinkedIn.
June Choi is a Manager with UHY Advisors’ Accounting Automation group, providing a wide range of process optimization and finance transformation solutions for UHY clients. She joined UHY in June 2008, and focuses on business process improvement, strategy, project management, and the implementation and optimization of BlackLine software. As a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), she serves clients nationwide, bringing expertise in financial and business consulting. Follow June on LinkedIn.
Cheerag Jani is a Manager with UHY Advisors’ Management & Technology Consulting group, providing portfolio, program, and project management; digital transformation services; and operational and financial process optimization. He joined UHY in June 2015, and has seven years of project management and professional consulting experience in various industries. Follow Cheerag on LinkedIn.
Musician and Author Landry Tientcheu
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Landry Tientcheu was born in Châtenay Malabry, a town in the Paris suburb of Hauts-de-Seine. He lived there until the age of 4 years and then moved to Douala, Cameroon where he spent his childhood and adolescence. Later, as a young adult, he immigrated to the United States where he graduated as an engineer.
Today he lives in Northern California and serves passionately through engineering design, songwriting and literature. Find out more about Landry on his website. You can also download his music on iTunes, or follow him on Facebook.
WIT Connect 2017
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WIT Connect is one of Atlanta’s most engaging and interactive events for STEM leaders! For the past 20+ years we’ve auctioned off some of Atlanta’s most highly visible technology executives and raised over $2 million to support the development of young girls and the advancement of women in STEM. WIT Connect is one of the premier fundraising and networking events of the year with over 600 top level executives in the technology field. In addition to our highly anticipated executive auction, it is also an evening where we focus on the mission of WIT. At this event, we highlight our WIT Girls and WIT Campus young women, along with the impact WIT programs has had on their advancement in STEM, which includes scholarship awards.
Vicki Hamilton and Danielle Joiner McPherson
Madison Kenney
Rachel Alston and Keith Sciulli
Jamila Cowan-Wideman and Etienne Batiste
Tim Fraher and David Rodriguez
Linda Hoopes with Resilience Alliance
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Linda Hoopes / Resilience Alliance
President
Dr. Linda Hoopes is the Founder and President of Resilience Alliance, an Atlanta-based company that helps leaders increase the resilience and change-readiness of their organizations. She is a licensed industrial-organizational psychologist, and is the author of two books: “Managing Change with Personal Resilience” and the newly-published “Prosilience: Building Your Resilience for a Turbulent World“.
In her spare time she is a musician, sailor, and photographer.
Greice Murphy and Jim Murphy with Advanced Care Pediatrics
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Greice Murphy / Advanced Care Pediatrics
Co-Founder and CEO
Greice Murphy moved to the USA in 2003 to work as a currency trader for a major regional finance firm in Atlanta. She received her BA in Radiology from Ulbra, Brazil and has her Masters in International Business from FGV, Brazil. After working in the finance sector, Greice was asked to help a major retailer navigate its post-recession future working directly with the company’s CEO and CFO. Upon project completion in the retail space, Greice decided to start ACP. Greice, along with two other like-minded partners, founded ACP in 2010 and focused on changing the underserved medically fragile children’s community in Georgia. Passionate about the business and its mission, Greice has led ACP to be the fastest growing Private Home Care company in Georgia, making the INC 5000 list for the first time in 2016. A member of the Entrepreneur Organization (EO), she loves learning and enjoys developing new relationships.
Greice has been married to another entrepreneur and CEO for almost 10 years, and is mom to two beautiful young boys. Greice likes to spend her free time with her family, working out, and traveling around the world, especially back to her roots in Brazil.
Jim Murphy / Advanced Care Pediatrics
Co-Founder
