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Special Edition: Georgia CIO Leadership Association

June 4, 2015 by angishields

Atlanta Tech Leaders

Special Edition: Georgia CIO Leadership Association

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Karen Renner / Novelis

Karen Renner is Vice President and Chief Information Officer with Novelis, Inc. in Atlanta, GA.

Karen was born in Camp Zama, Japan. She attended Auburn University in Auburn, AL and graduated with a B.S. Degree and M.S Degree – both in Industrial Engineering. She began her career with Lockheed Martin in engineering. While at Lockheed, Karen attended Georgia State University where she received a MBA in Finance. After three years in Atlanta, she moved to Nashville, TN as an Industrial Engineer with Northern Telecom. In Nashville, she transferred to Emerson Electric for three years as Operations Manager in the temperature controls division. In Nashville, Karen also worked as a part-time instructor in Financial Accounting at Cumberland University. She joined General Electric in 1992 in the GE Capital division. She held a variety of positions in engineering, call center management, technology, operations, e-business, IT and Six Sigma. In 1999, she was appointed quality leader TMS and in 2000, CIO for IT Solutions Products division. Karen joined GE Energy in October 2001 in Atlanta, GA to lead Acquisition Integration. In September 2005, she became the CIO GE Security in Bradenton, Florida. In 2010 she was named CIO, GE Digital Energy. Karen was appointed Vice President and CIO, Novelis in October 2010. As head of Novelis’ IT group and member of the company’s Executive Committee, Ms. Renner is responsible for the development and execution of the company’s global information technology and business information strategy. Additionally, she is the executive sponsor or the company’s business process transformation, which is currently under way across its worldwide operations.

Active in her profession, Ms. Renner is a member of the advisory board of Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA.)Ms. Renner was the 2013 Global CIO of Year Award winner. She also serves on the Board of Directors for TechBridge, an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization that provides IT consulting, hosting and outsourcing services to other nonprofit organizations and has served as a volunteer judge for the 2012 and 2013 TechBridge Technology Innovative Awards. She served as the co-host for the 2014 TechBridge Digital Ball.

Throughout her career, Ms. Renner has been active with various IT-related and women in technology groups and has served in IT advisory roles for nonprofit organizations, including the United Way of Greater Atlanta.

Karen is married to Jim and they have a son and daughter. She enjoys golf, tennis, running and football.

Special Edition: TiE Atlanta

June 4, 2015 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Special Edition: TiE Atlanta

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Amyn Sadruddin / TiE Atlanta

Sid Mookerji / SPI

Sid Mookerji is Global CEO and Founder of SPI. He has built the organization with a passion about providing the best client experience for Retailers worldwide looking for services and innovation in IT and is recognized as an expert on outsourcing, IT services and technology solutions for the Retail Industry. He has received the Indian government’s Excellence in IT Exports award twice. In 2008, he helped secure SPI’s placement in the Atlanta Business Magazine’s list of Top Ten Fastest-Growing Companies. He has been honored for SPI’s rapid growth by USPAACC as well as by Inc Magazine several times.

Sid holds a BE (Hons) Electrical and Electronics from BITS, Pilani, India and an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business. He serves on NASSCOM’s Regional Council and the Academic Advisory Board of SDM Institute for Management Development.

Cannon Bailey of Racemark International & Fred Castellucci of Castellucci Hospitality

June 4, 2015 by angishields

Founders Club Radio

Cannon Bailey of Racemark International & Fred Castellucci of Castellucci Hospitality

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Cannon Bailey / Racemark International

Fred Castellucci / Castellucci Hospitality

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Dr. Scott Kelly – Top Docs Radio

June 3, 2015 by angishields

Top Docs Radio

Dr. Scott Kelly - Top Docs Radio

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Dr. Scott Kelly

I sat down with practicing orthopedic physician and author of the book, “What I’ve Learned From You: The Lessons Of Life Taught To A Doctor By His Patients“. He shared the story of how this moving and inspirational book came together. He described how the book was drawn from journaling he did during his medical training over the course of several years.

He has always had a passion for writing and uses the medium as a way to process things that are important to him or that make an impression on him in his daily life. Dr. Kelly talked about how he was going through some things in the attic and came across the journal several years after putting it away and how emotional it was to go back and read his thoughts and experiences from that time in his life.

He thought the interesting experiences and life lessons he picked up through numerous patient encounters would be great for his children to hear about and decided to put it into book for basically for them. He decided to submit the manuscript to publishers and was surprised by the enthusiastic positive response he received.

You’ll enjoy listening to him tell his story and you can readily hear how big of an impact those life experiences had on him that he carries with him today. Check this great interview and learn more at his website.

Dr. Scott Kelly, MD, of Resurgens Spine Center

Sid Mookerji and Tom Delbrook of SPI

June 2, 2015 by angishields

CEO Exclusive Radio

Sid Mookerji and Tom Delbrook of SPI

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Sid Mookerji / SPI

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Tom Delbrook / SPI

Tom Delbrook is SPI’s Chief Financial Officer and leads SPI’s Finance and Legal teams worldwide.

Tom is a highly respected figure in the financial circles particularly in the areas of Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions. Till recently, Tom was Managing Director and Co-Head of the Transportation, Logistics and Shipping group at Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, based in New York, NY. Prior to Credit Suisse, Tom worked for United Parcel Services, Inc. for over 20 years, the last seven years as the Vice President of Finance based in Atlanta, GA. Tom completed over 60 acquisitions and executed over $20 billion in the capital markets through his career at UPS as well as leading the company’s Initial Public Offering.

Tom has also been an Executive in Residence and Visiting Professor of Economics and Finance at Kennesaw State University. He has served as an independent consultant to several private equity and hedge funds in the transportation and logistics industry. Tom has a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Northern Illinois University and a Juris Doctorate from IIT – Chicago Kent College of Law.

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Craig Phinn with The Phinn Group LLC, Troy Gautier with Alliances Progress, Karen Y. Rands with Kugarand Capital Holdings LLC – Buckhead Business Radio

June 2, 2015 by angishields

Buckhead Business Radio

Craig Phinn with The Phinn Group LLC, Troy Gautier with Alliances Progress, Karen Y. Rands with Kugarand Capital Holdings LLC - Buckhead Business Radio

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11350511_1598335707093090_6833235089528555195_n — Rich Casanova (Host), Troy Gautier, Karen Rands, Craig Phinn

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Craig Phinn/The Phinn Group, LLC – Revenue Growth Consulting Company

Business Growth Strategist

Business growth strategist Craig Phinn left his cushy corporate job to follow his entrepreneurial dreams full-time only to fall flat on his face and have not one but four companies go under. However, that all turned around for Craig when his fifth entrepreneurial endeavor exceeded one million dollars in sales in its first eight months. The company is in its fourth year in business and has surpassed five million dollars in sales.

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Troy Gautier/Alliances Progress

International consulting

Troy Gautier is the Founder and Managing Director of Alliances Progress. He is an expert in ecosystem development and runs a Member Firm organization for strategic alliances. Troy is also the President of the SE Chapter of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals and a Director on several Advisory Boards.

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Karen Y Rands/Kugarand Capital Holdings, LLC

Consulting & Education, Investor Relations Services

Karen Rands is a Venture Catalyst, a Compassionate Capitalist- and a dominant force in the entrepreneur and investor markets with her blogs, published articles, frequent speaking engagements and her radio show. Over a decade ago, she left the corporate world to initially serve the entrepreneur and investor community in Atlanta, rapidly expanding to the national stage. Entrepreneurs are helped through expert knowledge and strategic services offered by Launch Funding Network (LAUNCHfn) to develop capitalization strategies and gain access to capital. Hundreds of entrepreneurs have succeeded in obtaining start up and growth capital as a result Karen’s educational programs and her LAUNCHfn Access to Capital System. Karen recognized long ago that to successfully bridge the capital divide for entrepreneurs it was critical to build an educated and motivated investor community. After building one of the most active angel investor groups in the Southeast with the Network of Business Angel Investors (NBAI), she shifted her focus to those high net worth executives that have desire, but little time to be involved angel investment group activities. High net worth men & women learn how to diversify their investment portfolio with equity ownership in private companies by subscribing to the Inside Secrets to Angel Investing and joining the National Network of Angel Investors (NNOAI). We’re excited for Karen to share her insights on this dynamic topic.

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Child Custody

June 2, 2015 by angishields

BRX National

Child Custody

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group — Rich Casanova (Host), Amy Kaye, Allison Hill, & David Garfinkel

David Garfinkel, w/ Levine Smith Snider & Wilson

I have joined Levine Smith Snider & Wilson as an of counsel attorney. I have over 30 years of family law experience, having specialized in complex divorce litigation, paternity, prenuptial and post nuptial agreements, high asset property division, custody, alimony, visitation, and child support issues. I relocated to Atlanta after living in Jacksonville, Florida for 26 years.

I am recognized as a Best Lawyer in America, a top 100 Florida Family Law Attorney, Martindale Hubbel AV rated preeminent lawyer, by Legal Elite, and by Super Lawyers. I am Board Certified by the Florida Bar as an expert in Marital and Family Law. I am a leader both in the legal profession and in the community, and have served as a director and chairman on multiple boards. I have served on the Executive Council of the Family Law Section of the Florida Bar. While serving as co-chairman of the Florida Family Law Equitable Distribution Committee, I co-drafted a proposed statute to submit to the State Legislature. I lecture frequently to attorneys and law students on various marital and family law topics. I am admitted to the bars of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.

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Amy L. Kaye, Partner at Ellis Funk

Amy joined Ellis Funk, as a shareholder in 2005 when her former firm, Leitz, Fink & Kaye, LLC, combined with Ellis, Funk, Goldberg, Labovitz & Dokson, P.C. Amy has practiced law for 25 years. She began her law career in the area of Business and Corporate law, and has focused exclusively on Family Law matters for the last 18 years. Amy handles Family Law cases throughout the metropolitan Atlanta area.

Amy’s practice covers all areas of Family Law including divorce, child custody, child support, alimony, spousal support, equitable division of assets and liabilities, modification, marital agreements including prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, paternity actions, separation agreements, mediation and arbitration. Amy also serves as a Court appointed Guardian Ad Litem in custody matters, and has been a frequent speaker at family seminars. Amy is a member of the Charles L. Weltner Family Law Inn of Court, and has been named to Georgia “Super Lawyers” in the area of family law and named to the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers, and named by The American Lawyer as a Top Rated Lawyer in Family Law.

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Dr. Allison Hill w/ Peachtree Psychological Associates

Dr. Hill obtained her law degree from Villanova University in 2010 and her doctoral degree in Clinical Forensic Psychology from Drexel University in 2012. Dr. Hill obtained her undergraduate degree from Duke University. Dr. Hill is a member of the Georgia Bar, the Georgia Psychological Association, and is a current board member to the American Psychological Association Society for Family Psychology. Dr. Hill works in private practice and continues to supervise psychiatry residents and psychology students at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Hill works with families in transition, couples in high conflict divorce, and conducts parental fitness and child custody evaluations.

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IRC Wealth

June 2, 2015 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

IRC Wealth

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IRC Wealth

This week I sat down with financial experts, David Ragland and Joe Schum, of IRC Wealth. David shared his story about how he has spent his career helping businesses and individuals navigate their financial decisions and planning. We talked about how he gained valuable experience as a consultant with Ernst & Young then as a CFO of a troubled company that helped him bring a high level of strategic advice to companies as an outsourced CFO.

He, along with his team, including Joe, continues to help people develop an effective, simple plan to achieve their financial goals. That may be getting a business on a track that will allow the owners to eventually sell it or transition it to heirs, depending on their particular plan. Or, it may be helping an individual get their family out of craft an effective budget, eliminate debt, develop cash reserves, and even know what they need to do to actually retire safely one day.

We talked about how Dave had experienced a period where he let his fitness decline, ultimately becoming ~75 pounds overweight. He decided to address that by training for an Ironman triathlon, when he had previously been doing little to no physical training. He set a goal to complete a full Ironman in 18 months. By setting a defined time goal, he was able to develop a training strategy that allowed him to evaluate his progress and keep himself on a schedule that continually moved him closer to his goal.

He realized that there are parallels between the way one must approach training for such an event and developing a plan and timeline for achieving financial freedom. He decided to write a book in which he could talk about those analogies to help readers understand they CAN achieve financial freedom, even though it initially seems impossible—much like it can seem impossible to go from not being physically active to completing a full-length Ironman triathlon.

I had the opportunity to read the book, “Wealth Made Simple (Yes, Really)”. It’s a quick read and the comparisons between a training regimen and the mindset needed to achieve an athletic goal and getting out of debt/becoming financially free are easy to understand. He provides several tools to give the reader the chance to develop an understanding of where they are now along with some measure of what to expect over time, given their goals.

After reading the book and meeting these two experts I can say I would easily recommend speaking to them to see how they can help you or your business develop an effective, simple to implement plan to achieve a strong financial position.

Special Guests:

David Ragland, CEO, IRC Wealth