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John McKee is a business development contractor, author, patent awardee, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is author of the 2016 Best New Business Book by Richter Publishing, “Nothing Happens Until The Meeting is Set“, a book with recommendations by Jeff Hoffman, Co-Founder of Priceline.com and Kevin Harrington, an original Shark from ABC’s Shark Tank.
John has 26 years of connecting people, business and products with one meeting at a time and has over 25,000 arranged meetings. His U.S. Patent is on the CosmoGlove. an “As Seen on TV” product and a strategic partner with Kevin Harrington.
McKee has worked for many Fortune 500 companies such as Sprint, Motorola, Pitney Bowes, and Frontier Communications. His latest venture for the last nine years is as an independent business development contractor where he has launched a business alliance with several companies. He currently serves as the VP of Business Development at Captivate Search Marketing in Atlanta.
Mark Galvin/ePresence
ePresence provides personal branding services for individuals, executives and entrepreneurs. They leverage social media on an individual level since that is where the audience is most engaged.
Mark Galvin, CEO and Founder of ePresence, is a personal social media expert with 29 years of business management and hotel industry experience including stops with Marriott, Hyatt, Omni and IHG.





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