Tonni Bennett/Terminus
Director of Sales
Tonni Bennett is the Director of Sales at Terminus, a fast-growing startup in Buckhead, Atlanta. Tonni comes from a background in Marketing and Sales Technology. She was in sales positions with both Pardot, and SalesLoft before joining Terminus to lead the revenue-generation team.
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Jim Hall / Triatek Holdings, LLC
Mr. Hall is an experienced executive with a proven track record of increasing sales, developing organizations, and exceeding objectives in Fortune 500 companies, start-up ventures, and privately held organizations. Beginning his career with Pitney Bowes, he was promoted to Branch Manager at age 23 and relocated to Rochester NY to take over an office performing at 70% of Quota. Within 2 years the office finished #3 out of 300 offices and Mr. Hall received the PaceMaker award. From there, Mr. Hall’s career has been focused on leading organizations by driving revenue growth and profitability.
Career Milestones:
US Surgical Corporation (acquired by Tyco):
#1 Percentage increase in Sales- 1995
#1 New Product Sales Award- 1998, 1999, 2000
Division Director of the Year- 1999, 2000
2001- Wrote and Executed Business Plan for successful company launch of ViaCirq, providing novel surgical therapy for patients with end stage cancer. Product continues to be successfully used throughout US.
2002- Chief Operating Office for Prism, Inc- doubled sales in 3 years, led negotiation for successful sale to Danaher, Inc. (Fortune 100 Company)
2005- Led San Diego based Medical Device Company to triple sales in three years
2008- Purchased assets of Triatek from Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Liquidation Auction, successfully turned company into multi-million dollar international leader in airflow controls for critical room environments.
2011- Managing Member of Pure Wireless leading growth of 8X in three years. Pure Wireless was recognized as #79 of the fastest growing 100 companies in Metro Atlanta in 2013 and presented with the Pacesetter Award.
2014- Named Business Person of the Year awarded by Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
Jim lives in Roswell GA and is celebrating 25 years of marriage with Sue in 2015. They have 4 children and when not involved in their activities Jim enjoys golf, tennis, and disc golf. Jim can be seen around Atlanta as bassist for Wild Honey (www.gigsalad.com/wild_honey_atlanta) and Union Jack, and in Boston on rare occasions with TRM.
John Taylor / Triatek Holdings, LLC
John Taylor joined Triatek in 2006 and serves as the Director of Product Development. He has more than 25 years of product development experience, and led the team that brought the innovative FMS and HMS 1650 and 1655 series of room pressure and fume hood controllers to the market. John’s designs are known for their user-friendly touchscreens, intuitive graphical user interfaces, and Safety Halo™ edge lighting.
Prior to joining Triatek, John owned and operated an engineering consulting business, bringing new technology products to market for numerous controls manufacturers. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, and earned his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. John is also an active member of ASHRAE. During his leisure time, John enjoys practicing martial arts and spending time with his family.
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George Kyriakis/Freshbooks
Director Business Development
My specialty is in Channel, Sales and Marketing leadership,
My passion is working with innovative companies that are growing and have a need to mature their sales, marketing and partner businesses. The work environment has to be positive and fun. Life’s too short for bureaucracy.
Successes have included developing partner strategy, revenue growth, customer satisfaction and strategic approaches to various sectors, including the Corporate, Consumer, Education and Healthcare industries.
People I work with have called me an excellent communicator with a focus on people, and getting results (see recommendations).
Specialties: Building Channels of Distribution and Strategic Alliances, Marketing Strategy, Direct and Indirect Sales Leadership, Developing teams and individuals, Media Relations, Public Speaking
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Boris Petrov/Freshbooks
Support Rockstar
Easily approachable about anything, Boris is always available to goal coach, chat about life, sports, music, food, nerding out and a myriad of other things. Using his business acumen developed through a marketing diploma and his current pursuit of a management degree, he looks forward to bringing an entrepreneurial and futuristic mindset to the support team.
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Nancy Castor Sprattlin w/ Castor Sprattlin Law Group, LLC
Nancy Castor Sprattlin has more than 15 years of experience litigating employment cases and advising employers about their workplace obligations. Nancy spent several years as a defense litigator at prominent firms in New York and Georgia, including Greenberg Traurig LLP and Epstein Becker & Greene LLP where she gained invaluable litigation and trial experience representing various Fortune 500 companies. After more than 10 years at those prominent firms, Nancy joined three colleagues to form a partnership. Wanting to expand her practice, Nancy recently launched a new firm, Castor Sprattlin Law Group, LLC with offices in Georgia and New York, focusing on employment law and estate planning.
Nancy has handled and litigated a broad spectrum of legal employment law issues and cases. Nancy is currently legal counselor and advisor to a diverse group of clients from small sized local companies to large national and international companies. She advises business owners, Human Resource professionals, and managers regarding employment law issues and best practices. She reviews and drafts policies and procedures, employee handbooks, employment contracts, severance agreements and other employment related agreements. Nancy also assists business owners, professionals and their families with their estate planning needs.
Nancy was selected by Super Lawyers Magazine as a Rising Star in 2011 and was recently named a Super Lawyer in the 2015 Edition.
Tiffany Coleman w/ Coleman & Walton, LLP.
Tiffany Coleman is one of the managing partners of Coleman & Walton. Tiffany is a native of Pittsburgh, PA, and received her undergraduate degree in Government from Oral Roberts University. After college, she worked as a social worker for the Department of Family & Children Services for 4 years. Due to the injustices she saw within the juvenile court system, she decided to become an attorney. While still employed as a social worker, she enrolled into John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, GA. During her time at John Marshall, she gained invaluable work experience at Atlanta Legal Aid, Fulton Juvenile Court, and the Family Division of Fulton Superior Court. After graduating from law school in 2008, she established her own practice and now handles bankruptcy cases and creditor defense work against creditors.
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Josie Harris-Walton w/ Coleman & Walton, LLC.
Josie Harris-Walton is one of the managing partners of Coleman & Walton. Josie is a native of the state of Alabama. While completing her Business Administration degree from the University of West Alabama, she served in the United States Army Reserve. She attended law school at Samford University, Cumberland School of Law. She also earned her legal Masters in Taxation from DePaul University College of Law. During her time at DePaul, Josie volunteered as an attorney at the Tax Care Clinic, a non-profit organization focused on helping low-income taxpayers with disputes against taxing authorities. She also worked at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). After graduating from DePaul, Josie gained invaluable work experience as a tax attorney at Deming Parker law firm and as a senior tax consultant at Strategic Tax Advisors. She now specializes in strategic tax planning and tax defense. Josie is licensed to practice in the state of Georgia and the state of Alabama.
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Benjamin Gerber w/ The Law Offices of Benjamin Y. Gerber, LLC.
Benjamin Gerber, is a trial lawyer, focusing his practice on helping those who have been injured on the job.
Ben created his law office in 2010 determined to provide superior representation for those who were injured on the job and need assistance in understanding the workers compensation system. In 2012 Ben expanded his practice and added a second attorney, Matthew Jordan, to the firm.
Ben graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia, where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. He earned his Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School. While in law school, it was at the Consumer Affairs Clinic where he first began to assist individuals against big corporations. Ben also had legal internships at the Department of Justice and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Ben moved to Georgia in 2001 and began his career working for insurance defense firms. Ben learned what the strategies and motivations of insurance companies were while trying cases on their behalf. In 2004, Ben was recruited to a firm that represented plaintiffs in personal injury and workers’ compensation cases.
Ben has achieved the highest attorney rating of 10.0/10.0 Superb from AVVO. In addition, he has been named to the list of Rising Stars by Georgia Super Lawyers Magazine for 5 consecutive years, an honor reserved for less than 3% of the qualifying attorneys in the state. Ben is an active member of the WCCL, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Atlanta Bar Association. He is also a Junior Board Member for the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation.
Ben is husband and a father to three children and is active in coaching his children in youth league sports.
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On August 20, 2015, co-hosts Mike Sammond, Steven Julian and Trey Odum were at the Gwinnett Center, broadcasting live at the Gwinnett Chamber Business Expo & Job Fair 2015.
Presented by the Gwinnett Medical Center, the 2015 Business Expo & Job Fair provided the ideal avenue to promote a company’s products and/or services. Beginning with the Chamber’s General Membership Meeting, intermingled with top-notch educational seminars and concluding with the largest Business After Hours of the year, the 2015 Business Expo & Job Fair was packed with opportunities to market an organization.
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Krystol L. Sanders/Agents Alliance LLC, Women Grow ATL.
President & Insurance Advisor
Krystol Sanders, President and Founder of Agents Alliance, LLC, has over eighteen (18) years of experience in the financial services industry. As an Insurance Advisor who works regularly with individuals and small business owners, she specializes in insurance planning and financial education for women business owners. Her primary focus is on long-term, prudent accumulation and preservation of wealth for her clients. She works with business owners that have a serious interest in the accumulation and preservation of wealth and who are interested in next generation planning.
Before founding Agents Alliance, she held the positions of VP at Popular Community Bank and Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, she originated loans for both commercial and residential real property and luxury yachts.
She studied International Business at Hofstra University and has traveled extensively abroad. She is a licensed Insurance Advisor her licenses include Life, Accident, Health as well as Property and Casualty lines of insurance. She is also a registered Investment Advisor and holds NASD Series 7 and 66 securities licenses. She is bilingual in Spanish and English, frequently speaks on the topic of insurance and financial planning, teaches financial education and has been featured in ‘Atlanta Woman’ magazine and appeared on Radio Sandy Springs and Successful Woman Radio.
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Terry L. Hester/Hempfully Green Inc.
CMO (Chief Marketing Office) and SVP (Senior Vice President)
Grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., raised on a farm in North Carolina during her summers. Spent over 30 years in Houston, TX, and has recently relocated to Georgia, just last month.
Business Entrepreneur and owner of several successful businesses during the last 38 years, with focus on Business Development and Marketing. She currently serves as CMO…(Chief Marketing Officer) and SVP (Senior Vice President) for Hempfully Green, A Green Sustainability Company located in Vermont.
As a National & Global Community Coordinator, in 2010 she is listed on record at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. for developing and proposing plans for the City of Atlanta/College Park, GA, to obtain NASA space shuttle ATLANTIS for the building of an international Peace Museum.
In September 2004, she coordinated community events on bio-terrorism which led to Houstons former Mayor, Bill White, recognizing and proclaiming Houston as the first city in the United States to proclaim September 11th as 9-1-1 Unity In The Community Day.
Collaborated with Houstons current Mayor, Annise Parker to raise awareness and promote usage of electric vehicles, campaigned to have electric car charging stations installed in front of Houstons City Hall, which contributed to Houston being named the Renewable Energy Capital in the Country.
An Holistic Healer- with focus on Mind, Body & Spirit who is currently studying to earn her doctoral degree as a Metaphysics Counselor at the University of Sedona.
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Daniel Macris/Halcyon Organics
Founder & CEO
Daniel Macris founded Halcyon Organics in 2012. He was intrigued by the alleged medical value of cannabis and began researching cannabis over 13 years ago. Mr. Macris guides Halcyon Organics vision, product development, and strategy. His cannabis experience includes cultivation, processing, distribution, extraction, infusion, marketing, branding, and advocacy.Prior to Halcyon Organics, Daniel was president of GreenWave Solutions. GreenWave Solutions was the first eco-friendly painting contractor in Atlanta. He was responsible for marketing, sales, estimating and color consultations. GreenWave Solutions still serves as one of Atlantas premier residential painting contractors.
Mr. Macris dabbled in chemical engineering for a few years at Georgia Tech before receiving his bachelors of business administration in marketing from The University of Georgia.
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Joe Salome/Social Joe Marketing & Chief Fire-starter at Halcyon Organics
Founder & CEO
Social Joe Marketing is a Full-Service Marketing Communications Agency located in Atlanta, GA. Social Joe Marketing works with clients to strategize marketing plans & maximize budgets to drive client business goals. Our focus is on Brand Immersion creating fully integrated marketing plans to include Traditional Media,PR, Interactive Solutions, Social Media, Promotions, Sales, and Event Activation. There is no such thing as bad publicity…see any politician that has won office after a scandal Eminem, 2 Live Crew, and any Kardashian.
In today’s ninja sliced advertising world, marketers bombard consumers with messages through phones, tablets, computers, radio, tv, billboards, video games and anything else that people see, hear, smell, taste, touch or pee on. Consequently, consumers have become skilled at blocking out those sneaky ways of targeting them.
Getting consumers to hear your message through all the other noise is both an art and a science. Social Joe specializes in making your message louder than your competitors’. Sure, we are traditional marketing and advertising “experts”, but we are also much more. We are smart, we don’t know what the inside of the box looks like, and we are fearless.
Our specialty is developing campaigns and creating ideas that traditional agencies are scared to touch because well we have balls the size of boulders…yep even the girls.
Bottom line is we start fires and spread them. And where there’s smoke, there’s Social Joe Marketing…and probably something else burning behind the scenes.
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Kelly Lynn Prime/Fitness for the Soul
Founder
Kelly Lynn Prime is Founder of Fitness for the Soul and is committed to helping women who have experienced sexual traumas experience emotional healing so they can create balanced and empowered lives. Unlike traditional therapy Kelly combines her personal experience with action steps to create lasting changes. Kelly is committed to help women regain their power and teach them how to love themselves back to L.Y.F.E…
If you are looking for a proven professional who can guide you to address why you keep saying yes when you really mean no, why you always put the needs of others before your own, and why you feel so damn guilty when you do anything for yourself then you have come to the right place.
With seven years of experience working with amazing clients with similar concerns and guiding them to remarkable transformation, Kellys mission and commitment is to be a healer of the S.O.L. (self others and life) through acceptance and love while creating space for others to become the best version of self by uncovering their authenticity and releasing guilt and shame.
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Mike Ames/The Biz Garage, CEO
Startup Pirates Atlanta, Event Organizer
A business coach by day, and one of the organizers for the recent Startup Pirates Atlanta event, Mike has more than 30 years of management experience across several industries, but has a passion for helping people unleash their potential and thrive. This passion led him to volunteer to help coordinate and teach at the week-long Startup Pirates Atlanta event held recently (the first of its kind in the United States).
www.TheBizGarage.com | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook
Nathan Fu
Start-up Pirates attendee
Georgia Institute of Technology alumni. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Currently an embedded engineer at Panasonic Automotive Systems of America.
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On this week’s show I sat down with Radiation Oncologist, Dr. Chad Levitt. We talked about how he decided he wanted to go into radiation oncology as his chosen field of practice. He shared how he enjoyed the fact that the specialty allowed him to call on his liberal arts schooling, helping him to be able to be perceptive to his patients’ needs and concerns, and allowing him to communicate effectively with them in a period of significant stress.
Chad explained how important it is for oncology physicians to make time to insure their patients’ questions are answered and that their concerns have been addressed. He believes the patient needs to be well-informed so they can hopefully experience less anxiety and allow them to make educated choices about their care. He stated the patient should be the “Captain of the Ship” and the health team the crew that helps them get to where they want to go.
We talked about the importance of getting 2nd and even 3rd opinions when facing life-changing illnesses such as cancer. Chad shared that it is vital to do so before engaging in treatments that cannot be undone. Given the political and personal alliances that can be present in a given hospital ecosystem, it is wise to seek 2nd opinions in hospitals or systems that are outside that of the primary physician to allow for likelihood of a more objective opinion.
Special Guest:
Dr. Chad Levitt, MD, of Radiotherapy Associates of Forsyth
Molly Dye, a true southern bell, was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, and developed her love of sewing as a home-economics major at the University of Georgia. After a long and successful career in politics in the office of United States Senator Paul Coverdale, Molly went home to help take care of her aging mother. It was there, watching her Mom and her caregiver struggle and strain to remove her mother’s outer clothing before even getting to the adult diaper underneath, Molly thought, “There has just got to be a better way to do this….” She said she “dug up her sewing machine from college” and thus was born the first prototype of CareZips pants.
After more than several prototypes, Molly enlisted the help of Savannah College of Art & Design to arrive at the final design for CareZips patented unisex pants with unique three zipper system that makes changing an adult brief faster and easier! She then contracted with Incompass Manufacturing, a well-established and successful manufacturer of surgical scrubs and other clothing to make and warehouse the pants. Today, CareZips can be ordered directly from the CareZips website: www.carezips.com and shipped anywhere! They can handle orders of a single pair of pants up to quantities of a hundred or more. CareZips can also be found in several local drugstores and on Amazon.com. They are currently available in 4 colors and 7 sizes from Extra Small to 3XL.
If you know someone who could benefit from this product, please check out www.carezips.com or call Molly Dye at 800 206 4713 and order a pair! Quick turnaround, reasonable price point and money back guarantee makes this new product a “MUST HAVE” for anyone suffering with incontinence!
Thanks to Griswold Home Care for sponsoring today’s show. Griswold Home Care has been a preferred provider of high quality, affordable in-home senior care in Atlanta for more than 23 years.
