Join us for the inaugural episode of Health Connect South Radio on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 9am Eastern, hosted by CW Hall and sponsored by ShareWIK Media Group.
ShareWIK Media Group is The Health & Wellness Solution – Content That Inspires Change. Learn more at www.sharewik.com
Lance Gleason and Nathan Settembrini / Attendalytics 
Attendalytics offers analytics for trade shows and conferences by combining location data with anonymized demographics to provide actionable insights to event organizers. Attendalytics is the brainchild of Lance Gleason, who took his idea to Atlanta’s Startup Weekend in late November 2014 and joined forces with a talented team to create a proof of concept. The team placed third locally and proceeded to the regional and ultimately the global competition, where it placed third out of the top 12 teams in the world.
Lance Gleason has 20 years of software development experience and is also the founder of Polyglot Programming, a local dev shop focused on Ruby on Rails, big data and Mobile projects.
Nathan Settembrini is a Double Jacket from Georgia Tech (EE ’06, MBA ’12), with a varied business and technology background across multiple industries. Currently, Nathan works at Equifax supporting B2B sales through database marketing and sales analytics. 
Adam Wexler / Insightpool
Adam Wexler is the Founder of Insightpool, The Leader in Social Engagement Activation. The software helps many of the most innovative brands in the world like Home Depot, Intercontinental Hotels Group and General Mills drive their social goals and develop stronger relationships with their most relevant influencers, prospects and customers.
Over the years, Adam has been invited to speak in front of thousands of event attendees and students about subjects such as social media and entrepreneurship. Additionally, Adam has written for a wide variety of publications such as The Huffington Post, Digiday and Direct Marketing News. At different times, Adam has also been the voice behind numerous brands on social media including Sprite, NCAA March Madness and Cracker (the band).
Wexler graduated from The University of Georgia with a focus in Leadership studies.
Todd Harris / Hi-Rez Studios
Todd began his career as a software engineer at NCR before taking on product development leadership roles at Radiant Systems and BlueCube Software. In 2005, he entered the games industry when he co-founded Hi-Rez Studios, a creator of online action multiplayer games. Hi-Rez released the first free-to-play game on Steam in 2010, followed by the critically acclaimed shooter Tribes: Ascend in 2012. Todd and Hi-Rez are currently working on the mythology themed, 3D MOBA SMITE which has over 5 million players. Todd has spoken at numerous game industry events including gamescom, GDC, PAX Prime, PAX East, PAX Australia, Dragon*Con, and SIEGE.
Brian Harper / stable/kernel
Brian Harper recently joined stable/kernel, an Atlanta-based software company offering end-to-end mobile solutions, in the role of Director of Design. With almost a decade’s experience designing for mobile apps and mobile web, desktop, gaming and other mediums, Brian brings a diverse background to the position. Brian draws from his experience designing mobile apps for clients such as P&G, Honeywell, Orkin and Whirlpool, to lead strategic user interface and user experience design at stable/kernel. Prior to joining stable/kernel, Brian served as deputy design manager at Big Nerd Ranch, a 2012 Inc. 500 company. Brian started as Big Nerd Ranch’s sole designer and helped grow the company’s design team to more than 10 strong designers. Brian also designed and produced front-ends, gameplay systems, level layouts and sound effects for Blue Heat Games, producing for Nintendo DS and mobile environments.
Donna Peeples / Motiv8ed 
An accomplished senior executive with an extensive P&L responsibility, Donna Peeples inspires change throughout the business world by offering verifiable results in a variety of industries. As a versatile strategist with keen market sense, Peeples incorporates her decades of industry experience into a vast portfolio, diverse enough to cross several plains of business.
Rising through a variety of leadership, operations and revenue-generating roles, Peeples has chartered her own path through highly regulated and uniquely challenging industries. Time and again, in financial services, energy as well as manufacturing, Peeples has introduced category-changing thinking while guiding purposeful and adaptable practices with positive results for customers and profitable returns for her companies.
Peeples’ professional narrative spans top corporations from her role as Regional Sales Manager with Lennox Industries to Chief Customer Officer of AIG Property and Casualty. Moving up through the ranks of corporate America, she has gained a wealth of knowledge that serves many fields. Speaking to over thirty topics that greatly enhance business today, Peeples is an expert on growing and evolving commerce through customer experience, new business concepts and brand management.
The storied career of Peeples’ has garnered her acclaim and recognition from both industry and top regional press over the last two decades. She has been featured in publications such as Atlanta Journal Constitution, Gwinnett Magazine and Insurance Networking News. She was awarded an EMMY at The Southeast Regional Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Television Spot Announcements Excellence, and Best Commercials in 2006 and 2007 during her time as Vice President of Corporate Communications & Chief Marketing Officer with AGL Resources. In 2014 she was given the Women in Insurance Leadership award from Insurance Networking News.
Honing her years of industry experience and expertise, Peeples looks to share her wealth of knowledge with business leaders and entrepreneurs in an effort to improve business development and create change.
Lee Kantor / Business RadioX
Adam Merlin / Merlin Auto Group
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This episode covers some of the growth Atlanta has seen since the start of the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Mobile TaskForce just 2 years ago. Learn more about how individuals can jumpstart their career in mobility through internships, scholarships & additional training.
Keith Hartford & Brad Culp / WNA
Stephen Weber / BlueFletch 
Stephen is currently the Marketing Manager at BlueFletch. Stephen has expertise in marketing automation, creating lead generation campaigns & content creation. He has worked across several industries implementing strategies for a variety of tech companies in Atlanta. He holds a BA in Advertising from the Grady College of Journalism at The University of Georgia.
Jim Eckstein / Founder of The Ignition Project and Partner at The Angel Advisors
Pete Santora / Startup Catalyst & Entrepreneur in Residence at ATDC
Michael Wayne, Co-Founder, Qualia Networks
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Lauren Ohnesorge, Staff Writer, Triangle Business Journal
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Scott Clagett, Program Director, Thingovation
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David Houghton, Director, Bright Wolf
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This week I got to sit down with Three Fantastic Entrepreneurs from the Atlanta area. Diana Keough, CEO and founder of ShareWIK Media Group (Share What I Know), LeeAnn Maxwell, Co-Founder of Vixen Vodka, and Lara Hodgson, multiple-time successful entrepreneur and CEO/Founder of NOWaccount. We talked about some of the challenges they faced as women launching their own businesses, hear what they believe helped them succeed as entrepreneurs, and advice they offer for women contemplating starting a business of their own. For the longest time most of us would envision a man when thinking “CEO” or “Doctor”, or even “Entrepreneur”. And, as our guests shared, many times they’re the only female CEO/Entrepreneur in a room full of men. Times are slowly but surely changing. And today many women are launching successful brands and businesses, some of which are now global brands.
ShareWIK Media Group is a licensed content-generating group, producing high quality, interesting content across all media types for use in population health management efforts, inbound marketing/branding, testimonial content, and pertinent health optimization content. Diana talked about her transition from a journalist for the Plains Dealer newspaper to a Chief Executive Officer in a leadership role. She says, “If you are not surrounding yourself with people who are better than you and open to the fact that you might be wrong; or they might have a better idea on how to do things, then you’re not going to grow.” Over the weeks since I met Diana I’ve had the opportunity to meet several of the folks who make up the team at ShareWIK and seen some of their work. I can tell you: if your organization or agency needs to move an initiative or your business forward and you rely heavily on engaging your target audience to drive awareness you MUST include ShareWIK Media Group on your shortlist of content providers. At their core, the people at ShareWIK Media Group are journalists with expertise across all media types. On top of journalistic skills they bring knowledge and expertise within the healthcare journalism space as well.
Vixen Vodka is an EXCELLENT vodka that was born out of a trip to St. Simons Island, GA where two friends, drinking cocktails by the pool, decided they should launch their own vodka, branded and tailored for women. As LeeAnn says, “We came home, sobered up, and remembered it was a great idea.” “A dream without action is merely a fantasy.” It took them 2 years from beach to shelf. She shared how she and her good friend (also a woman) broke into the spirits business, starting with ZERO knowledge of how to make vodka much less how to bring one to market. After being told her idea was fantastic by a business consultant he turned around and told them, “I’ll never work. The spirits industry is a Good Ol’ Boys network. Those men will chew you up and spit you out!” That was several years ago and now the brand is adding more states to the seven states where they’re currently sold.
NOWaccount got started as a solution to a problem Lara Hodgson encountered as an entrepreneur with an earlier business, the impact of not having access to cash that is tied up holding unpaid invoices, particularly when they aged for several weeks (or more). She firmly believes that a successful business needs to have people behind them who are providing the product/service to solve a particular problem for their customer more so than “to sell lots of ‘X’ and make lots of money because it’s a great product”. She said, “So many people come up with a great idea and they fall in love with the ‘What’. They fall in love with the widget or the product. And if your ego and your passion is in the product then they are going to woefully un-deliver. But if your ego and your passion are in the “So What?” and the impact and the problem you’re solving then the sky’s the limit.” NOWaccount is a merchant services company that provides the B2B company with access to capital by selling slower-paying invoice accounts within 2-5 days for basically the same cost as accepting a credit card. Their solution is invisible to their client’s customers, has no minimum time commitment, and includes only those accounts selected by the B2B they’re helping. The NOWaccount option gives businesses the capital they need to accept larger orders, add staff, often enabling them grow larger and faster than was possible before.
Special Guests:
Lara O’Connor-Hodgson, CEO of Nowaccount Network Corporation 
Diana Keough, CEO/Founder of ShareWIK.com 
LeeAnn Maxwell, CEO/Co-Founder of Vixen Vodka 
John “Skip” Plesnarski/Eighteen Eight Fine Men’s Salons
Franchisee Owner Operator
John Plesnarski is President and Owner of Plezco, Inc. He has recently invested in Eighteen Eight, a franchise which provides Hair Styling and Grooming Services for Men. He owns the territory rights in Atlanta which he plans on developing over the next three years.
John retired from corporate America in 2012. He is an accomplished Senior Supply Chain Leader with a wide breadth of global experience at Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB). John began his career in Finance and moved to several business Operations leadership roles. He spent the majority of his career leading a Global Supply Chain organization which supported the Safety Business Unit in the contract manufacturing, importing and distribution of personal protective equipment.
As Director of Global Supply Chain, John was responsible for vendor management in Mexico, Malaysia, Thailand and China. He also led a shared services organization which included Logistics, Customer Service, Information Systems, Sourcing and Supply and worked closely with the Sales organization to support customer expectations. John was instrumental in the successful expansion of contract manufacturing footprints to support sales growth around the world.
John has been recognized for his expertise in organizational development, strategic planning, operations, and the ability to develop successful leaders. This unique combination of experience and skill set has enabled him to achieve success across the entire organization to meet business objectives in all key areas.
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Drew French/Your Pie
Founder
Like every pizza lover, Drew French wants his own pie, his own way. Drews passion turned into an obsession while he and his wife were honeymooning in Ischia (pronounced: eesh – Key – ah), Italy. Thats where he received his first taste of authentic Italian brick-oven pizza. In 2008, Drew created Your Pie. It was the very first down-the-line, fast-casual pizza concept where customers select their own type of crust, sauce, cheese and toppings and watch the pizza bake in front of them. Today Your Pie is one of the fastest growing pizza concepts with 21 locations.
www.YourPie.com | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
Dr. Tim Kelly/Buckhead Wellness Center
Founder/Owner
Chiropractor in Buckhead for almost 30 years, specializing in Applied-Kinesiology, nutritional wellness, gentle non-force chiropractic.
www.DrTimKelly.net | LinkedIn | YouTube
Trisha Cornett/Diptyque
Boutique Manager
Boutique Manager of Diptyque at Buckhead Atlanta. I’ve worked for Diptyque for 3 years now, in the cosmetic/fragrance industry for over 10 years. Prior to Diptyque I ran the cosmetic/fragrance department at Nordstrom in Nashville, Tennessee. I opened the very first Diptyque counter inside of a Nordstrom department store. I’ve trained with Diptyque Paris in New York several times, working at the Bleeker Street, Nolita & Madison Avenue Boutiques. I’m Nationally fragranced certified with a stellar nose! Diptyque is very dear to me & something
I stand behind as a consumer.
Danielle Rollins
Author/Speaker
Author of bestseller, Soirée Entertaining with Style, (Rizzoli 2012), contributing editor for Veranda and writer for her own website, DanielleDRollins.com, Danielle Rollins has become one of the nations leading lifestyle experts. Designer, sought-out speaker, and mother of three, Rollins has been featured on national and local television, radio, print and websites.
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