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“Smaller is what makes us different” Tapestry House on Eugeria! Radio!

June 25, 2015 by angishields

Eugeria

“Smaller is what makes us different” Tapestry House on Eugeria! Radio!

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Born and reared in Atlanta, Molly Robinson worked in the banking industry after graduating from the College of North Georgia until one of her favorite customers convinced her that the senior care arena would be a better fit for her personality and skills. Three years ago Molly made that move to Tapestry House and has never looked back. Today, she is the Community Relations Director there, and couldn’t be happier! Molly appreciates the attention Tapestry House gives to providing the community and services that seniors are looking for today.

Tapestry House has just completed a new commons area including an Activity Center; Theater Room; covered portico; lobby area with fireplaces and outdoor patio and scenic walking trails allowing their residents to have new opportunities to gather and build community. The corporate philosophy of “always focusing on their residents” has served Tapestry House and Insignia well. Meeting the demand for service customized to the resident’s lifestyles has seen Tapestry House grow to four properties in Atlanta and three in Puerto Rico.

If Tapestry House sounds like a place that you would like to live, visit them on the web at: www.tapestryhouseassistedliving.com or call 770-649-0808.

We want to thank 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.

Cobb County Edition: Denise Wiggins, Entrepreneur and Author

June 24, 2015 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Cobb County Edition: Denise Wiggins, Entrepreneur and Author

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Denise Wiggins/ Lip Synk Cosmetics

LipSynk Cosmetics was founded in 2014 by Mrs. Denise Wiggins a dynamic woman of God. Mrs. Wiggins has always had a passion for helping others, especially women. Mrs. Wiggins has learned many valuable lessons from being a single mother raising 3 children independently; struggling to make ends meet by working 2-3 jobs; and realizing opportunities missed due to a lack of education. She now, inspiringly shares those lessons in hopes of empowering women from all walks of life to know that whatever situation you may find yourself in, as long as you can dream and have faith – there is no mountain too big to overcome. Mrs.Wiggins’ motto is “You must believe that all things are possible through Christ.” Mrs. Wiggins always remained a faithful servant of God, and her dream of encouraging, inspiring and giving hope to other women is now being realized through LipSynk Cosmetics. Mrs. Wiggins created this cosmetic line for women of all ethnicities, while having difficulties finding appealing colors complimentary to her skin tone. LipSynk Cosmetics encourages women to embrace their natural beauty. Our products naturally enhance the woman’s beauty, and are long lasting for longer wear.

We are dedicated to providing exceptional customer service and quality products to our customers. LipSynk Cosmetics is a brand that empowers women around the world while serving as a platform that will give back and make women feel beautiful, confident, inspired and empowered.

LipSynk Cosmetics is currently donating $1 of every purchase to help fight the war against Ebola and provide for children orphaned by Ebola in West African countries.

Denise Wiggins is currently celebrating the release of her new book “My Struggles God’s Glory”

Sales Influencers Radio 06-23-15 Hosted by Jeff Sheehan with Guest Jon Newman with True North Growth – Buckhead Business Radio

June 23, 2015 by angishields

Buckhead Business Radio

Sales Influencers Radio 06-23-15 Hosted by Jeff Sheehan with Guest Jon Newman with True North Growth - Buckhead Business Radio

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Sales Influencers Radio Hosted by Jeff Sheehan

Jon Newman/True North Growth

Over 30 years of Business Development and Marketing. Held key executive positions at Honeywell International as well creating new businesses ventures across North America. He has

taken a vast amount of business experience and has created a coaching and business services business helping small and medium sized businesses with new business development,

sales training, and leadership coaching.

www.TrueNorthGrowth.com

Show Host: Jeff Sheehan/Sheehan Marketing Strategies

Jeff is a marketing consultant and job search mentor, as well as the volunteer director of the Holy Spirit Catholic Church Career Ministry in Atlanta.

Jeff ranks in the top 1% of people on LinkedIn and over 310,000 followers on Twitter.

He has been recognized as the #1 Marketer In The World To Follow On Twitter #2 in Social Media and #1 in Sales. Ranked number 6,481 out of 554,000,000 users on Twitter, Jeff is ranked number 23rd in Atlanta right after The Weather Channel, ahead of both Diet Coke and the music group Collective South. He co-authored the book: “HIRED! Paths to Employment in the Social Media Era.”

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Jeff Cunningham of Seyfarth Shaw and Dr. Robert Willis of Foxcode, Inc.

June 23, 2015 by angishields

CEO Exclusive Radio

Jeff Cunningham of Seyfarth Shaw and Dr. Robert Willis of Foxcode, Inc.

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Jeff Cunningham / Seyfarth Shaw

Mr. Cunningham, a partner in the Atlanta office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP and member of Seyfarth’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Tax practice groups, serves as outside general counsel to many growing mid-sized businesses, and concentrates his practice in mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, and general corporate matters. He counsels clients—from entrepreneurs and start-ups to large privately held companies—through each phase business: choice of entity, business plan development, capital raising, equity and ownership agreements, commercial transactions, and exit strategies.

Mr. Cunningham represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, both buy-side and sell-side, as well as joint ventures and significant financing transactions. He develops strategies on both business and legal aspects of marketing, sales, negotiating transactions and relationships, and corporate governance. Mr. Cunningham advises clients on commercial financing matters and negotiates acquisition financing, private debt and equity financing, and venture capital. He works with clients across many industries including manufacturing, distribution, business and professional services, staffing, residential and commercial construction, and distribution.

In addition to business and transaction counseling, Mr. Cunningham utilizes his background in federal, state and local taxation gained while working in two of the Big Four accounting firms to provide advice on effective tax rate minimization, tax compliance, and tax optimized structuring.

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Dr. Robert Willis / Foxcode, Inc.

As the Founder & CEO of Foxcode, Robert Willis leads the company’s investment activities, advisory services, capital raising and strategic direction. He has more than 25 years of experience in industries from investment banking and finance to energy, infrastructure, telecommunications and technology.

In 2008, he led the acquisition of nsoro, LLC by MasTec, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange-listed company. nsoro is a telecommunications services firm responsible for building and maintaining the wireless network for companies such as AT&T in the United States and India. He is senior advisor and acting President of the nsoro/MasTec division.

Prior to Foxcode, he founded Alpine Computer Systems, a network operating systems company, at the age of 15 and as the Principal Owner and Chief Executive Officer grew the company to over $35 million in revenue. Alpine was on the Inc. 500’s list of the fastest growing companies in the United States for three consecutive years before he orchestrated a $25 million strategic merger of Alpine with the Delphi Group, a UK company listed on the London Stock Exchange. As President of the IT division and CIO of the Delphi Group, he supervised the acquisition of 35 companies. He helped to orchestrate the sale of Delphi to Adecco S.A., a Fortune Global 500 company, and served as the Executive Vice President of the IT division.

In July 2004, he formed Gaming VC, an entity that he used to acquire a European online gaming company. In December 2005, under his lead, Gaming VC acquired and subsequently performed an initial public offering in the amount of $160 million on the London Stock Exchange. He served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the publicly traded company. He has since sold all of his interests in Gaming VC although the company continues to operate and trade on the London Stock Exchange.

He received an honorary Ph.D. from Newbury College and served on its board of directors. He lives in Miami and Philadelphia. He is on the board of the nsoro Foundation.

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Kevin Mobley with The Ian Thomas Group

June 23, 2015 by angishields

Let's Talk Small Business

Kevin Mobley with The Ian Thomas Group

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On June 23rd we were joined by Mr. Kevin Mobley of the Ian Thomas Group. With the focus of Cyber Security this month in the Chamber of Commerce, the GMSDC wanted to highlight the real threats and benefits involved in securing organizational data. A veteran in the security space, we could not have chosen a better candidate than Mr. Kevin Mobley to speak on the evolution of cyber security throughout the years, and best practices for companies of any size.

Knowledge about your company’s cyber and software security, Mobley says, is not something CEO’s have the luxury of being absolved from knowing these days. CEO’s need to be aware of just how important it is to keep their systems secure, how to keep them secure, as well as where the real dangers lie.

Mr. Mobley talks to us about his fascinating real-life experiences with major organizations, banks, federal agencies, and small businesses alike. Through an extensive tenure in development and IT, he has seen the results of bad security- from stock prices falling, loss of confidence, to stakeholder pull-out, the cautionary stories are varied, and plenty, he warns.

A huge proponent of being pro-active and building checks and balances into your systems to secure your accounts, whether that be your personal email accounts, your software, or your hardware, the take away from this segment is clear: identifying the weaknesses in your system should be every company’s imperative.

Kevin Mobley / The Ian Thomas Group, LLC

Kevin Mobley is a Six Sigma Black Belt with over twenty years of experience creating software systems for Fortune 1000 companies in the entertainment, financial services, government, retail and travel sectors. Kevin Mobley is the Chief Executive Officer of The Ian Thomas Group, LLC (ITg). ITG provides strategic and tactical software performance engineering and deployment services to organizations deploying complex software systems — solving the types of complex performance problems that have recently plagued Healthcare.gov.

The services of The Ian Thomas Group are being leveraged by Bank of America, Capital One and AT&T during the replacement and management of their enterprise software. Engineering teams led by Mr. Mobley have managed the performance engineering of complex multi‐tier systems of more than 100 customer implementations. Mr. Mobley’s teams have rewritten the core components of software architectures with increases in performance of several by more than 1300%.

Mr. Mobley has a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering from George Mason University and Masters of Science in Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech.

NC Tech Talk by NCTA: Coder Foundry and Tiger Eye Sensor

June 23, 2015 by angishields

Raleigh Business Radio

NC Tech Talk by NCTA: Coder Foundry and Tiger Eye Sensor

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Bobby Davis, Co-Founder & CTO – Coder Foundry

Bobby Davis is a serial entrepreneur, he has been involved in multiple start-ups. With his custom technology development consulting group is a Microsoft Gold Partner. As a consultant he leads efforts to design, build, and deploy applications for companies. Also, through his consulting practice, he has been providing IT job placement in the region for the past fifteen years. He has extensive experience in training, mentoring and developing IT talent. Bobby holds a Bachelor of Science degree from UNCG.

Lynn Yanyo, CEO – Tiger Eye Sensor, Inc.

Dr. Lynn Yanyo, Chief Executive Officer, spent the first half of her career creating and patenting new materials and technologies for aerospace, automotive and electronics industries. In the last 2 decades she has led technical, marketing and sales teams to create profitable new businesses based on innovations in adhesives, controllable steering and vehicle suspensions, chip manufacturing and biometric sensing.

Dr. Yanyo has a B.S in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. Polymer Science and Engineering from The University of Akron. She has published articles on materials development, modeling, new business development, and branding and customer engagement; received numerous awards for her publications, presentations and marketing communications. She holds eight US patents and their foreign equivalents, and serves on several university and corporate advisory boards.

Will Caraway Chief Networking Executive – Buckhead Business Radio

June 23, 2015 by angishields

Buckhead Business Radio

Will Caraway Chief Networking Executive - Buckhead Business Radio

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11412103_1605301339729860_1883840235608255860_n — Rich Casanova (Host) with Will Caraway

Will Caraway

Chief Networking Executive

Attended U of S Mississippi. Past 100 Ton Coast Guard Captain, Dive Instructor Teach Business Networking on line. 800+ students (Udemy.com) Largest on training in the world, Best selling Author, Amazon. (The professional Networker) consulting and taught elementary schools how to network. Most of my clients are physicians attorneys and professionals.

www.ChiefNetworkingExecutive.com | LinkedIn | Facebook

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Transition Planning

June 23, 2015 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Transition Planning

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Transition Planning

I sat down with NOWaccount CFO, Archie Jones and his colleague, NOWaccount Chairman, John Hayes. They stopped by to share some thoughts on how business owners need to start planning for how they intend to transition their business when it comes time, whether that’s selling it to a buyer or passing it to family members.

John and Archie talked about some of the common missteps business owners make that can complicate or delay sale of a business, or even cause the sale to fail. We talked about how important it is to choose capital sources carefully, taking a few minutes to discuss factoring, business loans, and NOWaccount’s innovative merchant services option that gives the business access to their accounts receivable cash and preventing the need to acquire debt.

We discussed how important it is for business owners to insure they are on the same page with all partners with regard to what the plan is for the “end game”—sell or transition the business to family. Archie and John shared the pros and cons of various business structures such as LLC’s versus C Corp, for example. Three topics of conversation that owners need to have: How will the company be operated? Will all members/partners have roles or equal votes in decisions? How much revenue will be taken for salaries for partners? What is the “horizon” for deciding if/when to sell if that’s the goal?

John and Archie shared a number of critical points that make a business very attractive for a seller (or unattractive). Archie talked about how important it is for business owners to educate themselves on the potential market for buyers of their business when they go to sell.

Special Guests:

Archie Jones, VP of Finance/CFO of NOWaccount

MBA General Management, Harvard Business School
Previous Principal and Charter Member, Parthenon Capital
Member, Board of Directors, AIT Worldwide Logistics
Founder, Tubman Ventures

John Hayes, Chairman of NOWaccount

JD, Law, Emory University School of Law
Previous CEO/Chairman, FTRANS Corp.
Founder and Former CEO, OneCoast Network
Founded Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at Georgia Tech

Criminal Defense & More

June 23, 2015 by angishields

BRX National

Criminal Defense & More

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T Roberts, T Holder, E Stone, M Pociask, E Rowell (Host)

Tiffany W. Roberts, Attorney at Law

Tiffany Williams Roberts is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. She obtained a B.A. from Emory University in 2003. In 2008, Tiffany obtained her J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law, graduating with pro bono distinction and several other honors. While at Georgia State, Tiffany studied in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, Panama City, Panama and Durban, South Africa.

As a staff attorney at the Office of the Public Defender, Atlanta Judicial Circuit, Tiffany represented hundreds of clients facing felony charges in the Superior Court of Fulton County. While in public defense, she committed herself to providing the very best representation to her clients, despite limited resources and time. Through the nationally acclaimed Gideon’s Promise (formerly Southern Public Defender Training Center), Tiffany continued her legal education. Tiffany also serves as Deputy Director of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism, housed at the Georgia State University College of Law.

In addition to her legal career, Tiffany dedicates numerous hours to the community organizing around issues of police accountability, public safety and civil rights. She is a volunteer and leader of Ishmael’s Promise, a youth pretrial diversion program launched by the Board of Deacons at Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Tiffany’s solo practice, specializes in criminal defense and civil rights issues. Her commitment is one to professionalism and client-centered representation.

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Tom Holder w/ Long & Holder, LLP.

Tom Holder graduated from Case Western Reserve U. He also spent his Junior Year Abroad at Lancaster U. in England. He received his J.D. from Emory.

He has practiced with the firm of Long & Holder, LLP for the last 28 years, with a practice exclusively devoted to the representation of injured workers in workers’ compensation cases. He is AV rated, has been designated as a Georgia Super Lawyer every year since 2004 and was in the Top 100 for 2012, 2013 and 2015. He is a Fellow of The College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers. He is a member of the Board of Directors of WILG, the national claimants’ attorneys’ organization.

He is a Past Chair of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the State Bar of Georgia, the Founding Chair of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Atlanta Bar Association, and a longtime member of the Executive Committee of WCCL, the Georgia claimant’s attorney organization. He is a frequent lecturer on workers’ compensation topics.

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Erin Stone w/ Bovis, Kyle, Burch, & Medlin, LLC

Erin is an experienced family law attorney and has handled cases in all areas including divorce, child custody, child support, alimony, division of property/debt and contempt. In 2012, Erin joined the family law practice at Bovis, Kyle, Burch & Medlin, LLC as a partner. Erin began her private practice with Schulten Ward and Turner in 1996 with a general civil litigation practice that included some family law as well as business litigation, construction litigation, contract disputes, dissolution of partnerships and personal injury. As her practice grew, Erin decided to focus her practice exclusively on family law.

Erin is an experienced trial lawyer having participated as lead counsel in jury trials, bench trials and numerous hearings in many counties of metro Atlanta as well as in Savannah and Macon. Erin has also participated in cases in federal court in the Northern District of Georgia and Southern District of New York. Erin feels that in family law her courtroom experience is crucial because clients often need the assistance of the court in order to protect their safety and financial security. Erin is a trained mediator and is able to bring that training and insight to her own clients’ settlement negotiations and mediations. Erin also offers her clients a network of relationships with professionals such as accountants, financial advisors, security experts and private investigators.

Erin is an Atlanta native. She grew up in Sandy Springs, graduated from Riverwood High School and now lives in Dunwoody with her husband and two children.

PROFESSIONAL OR TRADE AFFILIATIONS

State Bar of Georgia
American Bar Association
Atlanta Bar Association
DeKalb Bar Association
Georgia Association of Women Lawyers

HONORS & AWARDS

Top 50 Women for Georgia Super Lawyers, 2013 and 2014
Georgia Super Lawyer, 2009-2014
Georgia Trend’s Legal Elite, 2013

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Matthew Pociask w/ Hiscox

In short, I’m currently a claims counsel for Hiscox. Since that leaves many asking a what?, for who?, I’ll explain further. Starting with “who,” Hiscox is a leading specialist insurer. Founded in England, where it’s a member of Lloyd’s of London, Hiscox’s history in America is short by comparison. However, in that short time, Hiscox has already pioneered direct liability insurance, so now American small business owners can shop online or call for their insurance needs, the same way individuals already shop online for auto or health insurance.

The direct business is important to me, because I’m a claims counsel on the start-ups and small business claim team. When one of our direct customers sends in a claim, they’ll be getting a call from us. Once I receive a claim, I examine it for coverage. For covered claims, I then work with the customer to help them resolve the problem at hand. That may include appointing defense counsel and making sure our customer’s interests are being protected, or negotiating a fair resolution directly with claimants.

Prior to coming in-house with Hiscox, I worked in private practice at Foltz Martin Knapp as a litigation associate. I also worked for a short time at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the Staff Attorney Office.

A double dawg, I graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, and received my AB in History from the Franklin College of Arts & Science at Georgia. In between, I worked in non-profit fundraising, managing dozens of student callers who annually raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the UGA Annual Fund.

In my personal time, I spend time with my family, read old books, and try to write when I can.

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