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Pensacola Business Radio: Spotlight Episode-Jerry Shannon/Pensacola Opera, Chris Prefontaine-Smart Real Estate Coach
Jerry Shannon/Pensacola Opera
The Pensacola Opera is pleased to launch our new corporate partnership program for our 35th Anniversary Season. Pensacola Opera produces an informative, full color, and 80+ pages program book that is distributed to our patrons at each performance throughout the season— offering an ideal vehicle to reach our sophisticated audience. Share your message with an audience of over 6,000 members from the greater Pensacola area and beyond. The community finds Pensacola Opera’s mainstage productions an exceptional entertainment experience rivaling those of larger markets. By purchasing your advertisement and supporting Pensacola Opera, your company receives brand awareness and loyal patronage from our audience. We invite your firm to join us to increase your visibility while you realize your philanthropic goals.
Why Pensacola Opera?
- Increase your recognition in our community
- Showcase to your employees and clients that you support local arts & culture
- Receive unique recognition and Opera related entertainment benefits
Each year, our mission is to enrich the culture of Northwest Florida and without sponsorships from corporations and individuals like you, this would not be possible. Donations and sponsorships help sustain our organization and benefit the community which we serve. Additionally, if you reserve your space by July 31st you will receive an early bird discount rate on your advertisement.
Chris Prefontaine has had multiple careers within the real estate industry over more than 25 years. During the 1990s, he built more than a hundred single-family homes. From 1994-2000, he owned a Realty Executives franchise in Massachusetts, before selling his real estate brokerage to Coldwell Banker. In the past, Chris, his wife, Kim, and their business partners have converted numerous multifamily homes into condominiums, and converted single family ranch homes into colonials in growth neighborhoods. Chris has a passion for continuous education and helping others grow to their full potential. He has coached more than 30,000 people throughout the United States and Canada since the year 2000. The family business in Newport, Rhode Island, buys four to ten properties per month, mostly via lease-purchases and owner financing, and has engineered more than 75-million dollars of real estate transactions. The company also coaches and helps negotiate deals with Joint-Venture Partners around the country. Chris’s achieved Best Selling Author with his book Real Estate on Your Terms – Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit.
Emily Walton with The Excalibur Group
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Emily Walton is Vice President and Co-Owner of The Excalibur Group. Emily is an expert business development specialist and highly skilled in growth strategies, having supported a broad array of nonprofit, as well as private and public sector initiatives. Clients such as EPA’s Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, have commended her on creative problem solving, and exceptional quality of work. She successfully served as the Program Manager of Communications for the then third largest charity in the United States, Gifts In Kind International, as well as Director of Development for the Nature Generation and the National Association for Olmsted Parks. Her experience is broad and community-based. Ms. Walton has had the honor of being invited to serve on two of the congress mandated and funded Corporation for National and Community Service peer review teams; advising on program funding for the Learn and Serve America Youth Engagement Zone and the AmeriCorps State and National Review.
With a passion for innovative solutions, professionalism, and creativity, Emily directs Excalibur’s business development. Her experience is broad and community-based. She is a nominated member of the DC’s Chancellor’s Parent Cabinet advising on city-wide education policies and programs and is active in local HUBZone advocacy. Emily’s leadership style inspires those she works with to reach beyond the compartmentalized framework of success in order to set goals and achieve desired outcomes in all aspects of life. From managing a household to multi-million dollar projects; managing a concept to a company, she demonstrates the power of balance and the importance of always recognizing and working towards meaningful outcomes. Follow Emily and The Excalibur Group on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Social Entrepreneur Series Featuring Plywood People
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Callie Murray is the Community Manager at Plywood People, a non-profit in Atlanta that leads a community of start-ups doing good. Plywood offers an online collaborative training course, as well as retreats and monthly meet-ups for social entrepreneurs, and Plywood hosts an annual social impact conference, happening this summer at Atlanta Symphony Hall, called Plywood Presents. Prior to her time with Plywood People, Callie founded and ran a marketing company called The Big Fake Wedding, which she sold in 2016. Connect with Plywood People on Twitter and Facebook.
Kristi Porter is Founder of Signify, and helps small nonprofits and for-profits with a social mission get noticed and grow through effective marketing and communications. Connect with Kristi on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Andrew Kraft is the Founder and Executive Director of Dwell. Prior to launching Dwell in 2012, Andrew worked for the consumer products company Kimberly-Clark in various operations, human resources and strategic project roles. Andrew lives in Decatur Georgia with his fantastic wife Colleen, three filthy boys and one glorious dog.
Larry Witherspoon is a Co-Founder and the Executive Director of the Automotive Training Center. Larry has held multiple leadership positions in the U. S. Navy and with Frito-Lay, a Fortune 100 company. He also has 5+ years of sales experience with Cintas, a Fortune 500 company.
In addition to his business experience, Larry grew up watching his father mentor young men. His father was a high-school teacher, coached multiple sports, and worked part-time at a juvenile detention facility. Larry grew up understanding the difficulties all young men face becoming adults especially those that come from challenging circumstances. ATC is a place where both of his passions can thrive. He has taken those experiences growing up and combined them with his passion for vehicles to start the Automotive Training Center. Follow Automotive Training Center on Facebook.
Scott Snider with Exit Planning Institute
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Scott Snider is the Vice President of the Exit Planning Institute (EPI) and the Operating Partner of Snider Premier Growth, a small family office. At EPI, Scott is responsible for the strategic direction of the organization along with overseeing the company’s operations and chapter development. When Scott took over leadership of EPI in 2013, the organization grew at a pace of 30%, four new chapters were established in the United States, and CEPA expanded into its seventh country (Poland). In 2015, Scott led EPI through record breaking growth, emerging with 12 chapters, new programs, Owners Forums, and rapid double credentialed membership growth. He leads his EPI Global team from the Cleveland headquarters office.
Scott is a nationally recognized young entrepreneur. At the age of 29, he has a wealth of experience as an owner, advisor, and educator, and he understands what it takes to make an impact. He started his first business at the age of 17, which he operated for eight years and successfully exited and sold to a strategic buyer in 2010. At that time, he and Chris Snider established a family office owning stake in eight companies, Snider Premier Growth, which Scott oversees as the Operating Partner. Scott Snider has been featured nationally on ABC News Now, is a recipient of the Crain’s Cleveland Business 40 Under 40 Award, the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA) 40 Under Forty Award and more. Find out more about Scott and Exit Planning Institute on their website, and follow them on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Pensacola Business Radio: Spotlight Episode-Tech AV
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Brent Shavnore & Dave Sands
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Pensacola Business Radio: Guests Doug Stanford and Zachary Sahin
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Doug Stanford/Doug Stanford Post + Production
Since 2005 Doug has worked as a Producer, DP, and Post-specialist. His career began in Virginia as a producer and creative director for several ABC affiliates before taking a position with the full service production house, DIGICO Shoot | Post | Design. In 2014 he left DIGICO to pursue freelance work beginning with a four month contract post-producing political ads for the mid-term election cycle at MeanGreen Media. Doug’s work has been seen on numerous local, regional and national broadcast networks. In August, 2016 he relocated to Pensacola, Florida. Past clients include CNN International, Travel Channel, Animal Planet, Petfinder.com, The Andrews Institute, Sprint, Boeing, Rosetta Stone, Visit Pensacola, PBS, James Madison University, Extra Life/Children’s Miracle Network, Trex Company, and many others.
Zachary Sahin
Florida FBLA State President
FBLA is an American career and technical student organization that has its headquarters in Reston, Virginia. Established in 1940, FBLA-PBL is a non-profit organization of high school (“FBLA”), middle school (“Middle Level”), and college (“PBL”) students, as well as professional members (“Professional Division”), who primarily help students transition to the business world. FBLA-PBL is one of the largest student-run organizations in the United States of America[citation needed], with 253,365 members, and the largest career student organization in the world. Local FBLA-PBL chapters are often connected to their school’s business education department, and most advisers are business education teachers. It is one of the top 10 organizations listed by the U.S. Department of Education.[2] FBLA’s national charity partner is the March of Dimes, and the March of Dimes provides grants of $1,000 for local chapters and $2,500 for state chapters to promote their goals.
Andrea Olson with Prag’madik
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The author of “No Disruptions: The New Future For Mid-Market Manufacturing”, Andrea Olson is inspiring and educating industrial business leaders on how to transform their outlook and approach to Marketing, Technology and Communications to operate more efficiently and increase profitability.
Andrea’s 19-year, field-tested background provides unique, applicable approaches to creating leaner, more effective, technology-driven, customer-facing operations. A 4-time ADDY® award-winner, she began her career at a tech startup, and led the strategic marketing efforts at two global industrial manufacturers. Andrea is the CEO of Prag’madik, an Operational Strategy Consultancy, and also the Director of the Midwest Manufacturing Business Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of mid-market manufacturing in the US.
Andrea’s most recent book, “No Disruptions”, provides manufacturing leaders an easy, educational read on how to increase revenue generation through marketing, branding, and effective technology implementation.
In addition to writing, consulting and coaching, Andrea speaks to leaders and industry organizations around the world on operational strategies to discover new sources of revenues and savings. Contact Andrea to access information on her book, workshops, keynote speeches or consulting. More information is also available on www.pragmadik.com and www.nodisruptions.com. You can also connect with Andrea on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Emerging Enterprise Series: Featuring Tarby Bryant
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The Emerging Enterprise Series is brought to you by AppZoro and hosted by Sam Agarwal and Marianna Velozo
Tarby Bryant is the Chairman and CEO of Sweetwater Capital Corporation and the founder of The Gathering of Angels. GOA is a 20 year Angel Forum that matches like Shark Tank, Entrepreneurs looking for seed and early stage capital meet with Accredited Angel Investors, VCs and Investment Bankers. He currently holds monthly GOA investor meeting in Atlanta. GOA has found capital now for 394+ young companies since 1996 from 20k to 39MM.
Bryant started his first entrepreneurial venture at age 7 with his backyard firecracker business. This business was destroyed in a lightning induced inventory fire that almost burned the entire Peachtree Battle neighborhood and the local elementary school.
Bryant has a BA degree from Davidson College in Economics and an MBA from GA State University with high honors. He served in Vietnam in 1966 as a US Army Intelligence Officer. He was Chairman and CEO of the National Auto Association and developer of 8 Hotels and Inns from 19 to the 500 room Hyatt Regency Hotel in Nashville TN. He crafted and created 3 of these hotels in Atlanta to include the Four Seasons Atlanta in Midtown.
He served as the CEO of the Atlanta Economic Development Corporation in the mid-80s with Mayor Andrew Young as Chairman and was selected as one of Atlanta’s Five Outstanding Young Men. He recently completed his first book on Angel Investing published by Deeds Publishing of Athens, GA and has lectured across the country on entrepreneurial finance, valuation, and Hotel finance.
Bryant lives currently in Big Canoe, a gated mountain community just north of Atlanta and is active in Buckhead Rotary and is the immediate past Chair of the Finance Committee of the Big Canoe Chapel. He is married to the former Vivian Deems Ellis of Dalton, GA and combined, they have 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
Potential presenters and angel investors can find more information at www.gatheringofangels.com.
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.
