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Gerald McDowell with Lilburn CID, Matt Hyatt with Rocket IT and Ryan Bonilla with Office Product Gurus

November 7, 2013 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Gerald McDowell with Lilburn CID, Matt Hyatt with Rocket IT and Ryan Bonilla with Office Product Gurus

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Ryan Bonilla, Matt Hyatt, Gerald McDowell, Mike Sammond

Gerald McDowell/Lilburn CID

The Lilburn Community Improvement District (CID) has been working over the last three years designing and implanting programs and projects to focus on the revitalization and redevelopment of the greater Lilburn community.

Matt Hyatt/Rocket IT

Rocket IT has served metro Atlanta and Gwinnett County businesses since 1995. Rocket IT provides best-in class technology guidance, implementation and support to businesses and other organizations from their headquarters in metro Atlanta. Their mission is to empower people through human connection and better IT. Recently, they acquired a start-up office supply company through relationships at the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce.

Ryan Bonilla/Office Product Gurus

Office Product Gurus provides fast delivery of quality office products at a fair price. For the absolute best prices in town on office supplies, janitorial and breakroom supplies, toner cartridges, copy paper, and office furniture, send your Office Manager, Administrative Assistant, Controller, CFO, or whoever in your business works to find ways to save your company money straight to www.OPGurus.com. Save 45-85% on the items you buy most!

Jackson Houk with three, Dr. Ralph Gaskins with SPECTROPATH and Peter DelBove with Team Trivia

November 6, 2013 by Garrett Ervin

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Jackson Houk with three, Dr. Ralph Gaskins with SPECTROPATH and Peter DelBove with Team Trivia

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Dominick Rainey, Jackson Houk, Ralph Gaskins, Peter DelBove, Nikole Toptas

Jackson Houk/three

three is a 40-man corporate communications firm designed around the experiences of a guy formerly charged with managing internal and external opinions. The owners have deep experience running enterprise communications in consumer goods, utility, financial services and not-for-profit categories. three exists to influence the opinions of folks who define enterprise success.

Dr. Ralph Gaskins/SPECTROPATH

SPECTROPATH is an optical imaging company that has exclusively licensed the global rights to novel electronic, optical, chemical and software technologies developed at Emory University and Georgia Tech that allow physicians to identify selected tissue, such as cancer, in real time. They are initially applying this new technology platform to the identification of cancer during tumor surgery.

Peter DelBove/Team Trivia

Team Trivia, Inc. is the dominant licensor of in-house promotional services to bars and taverns in the U.S., featuring their flagship product “Team Trivia”, a live-hosted weekly trivia event where bar patrons compete for prizes within a two hour trivia game in their local favorite bar. Their products are designed to get patrons in the door and keep them in that bar for two hours each night, eating and drinking and maximizing the bar’s nightly profits. Their products are particularly suited for that “slower” night of the week. Team Trivia also features a more adult promotional product known as “Toxic Trivia”, and a family-oriented twist on traditional bingo known as “Team Bingo”. There is never a charge for the bar patron to participate in any Team Trivia product. Authorized Team Trivia licensees are always compensated directly by the bars.

Desire Rider with Metropolitan Capital Funding and Kathee Hawkins with Stage 2 Accounting

November 5, 2013 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Desire Rider with Metropolitan Capital Funding and Kathee Hawkins with Stage 2 Accounting

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Desire Rider, Kathee Hawkins, Steven Julian

Desire Rider/Metropolitan Capital Funding

Metropolitan Capital Funding is a commercial finance consulting and intermediary firm that assists qualified small businesses with conventional and alternative business capital. In addition to local and regional banks, MCF also works with several non-bank commercial finance institutions that provide several products and services not offered by the local lending community.

Kathee Hawkins/Stage 2 Accounting

Stage 2 Accounting is an outsourced CFO/Controller company. Their target market is emerging Stage 2 businesses who need more than just basic bookkeeping, they need strategic accounting. In most cases, these businesses have a bookkeeper who is beginning to fail because the accounting is becoming too complicated. These businesses need the experience and expertise of a CFO/Controller but don’t need that expertise full-time and don’t have the monetary resources for that six figure salary and benefits.

Stage 2 Accounting enters into a relationship with the business owner, comes alongside and teaches them how to use their financial information to support the vision of the company. They will establish policies, procedures and internal controls that will allow their bookkeeper to become successful again. They have a passion for educating the management team and helping the company get to the next level.

Don Glass with Tech Rentals, Sparrow Marcioni with Linux Labs and Blue Shift Wireless, and Mark Barlow with Finest Event Rentals, Services & Accessories

October 31, 2013 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Don Glass with Tech Rentals, Sparrow Marcioni with Linux Labs and Blue Shift Wireless, and Mark Barlow with Finest Event Rentals, Services & Accessories

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Mike Sammond, Don Glass, Sparrow Marcioni, Mark Barlow

Don Glass/Tech Rentals

Tech Rentals AV is a full service audio visual rental, event production and staging company. Since 1985, Tech Rentals has supported meeting and event planners, associations, conventions and tradeshows, the hospitality market, production companies and the corporate community, in Atlanta and across the country.

Don Glass is currently the National Accounts Manager for Tech Rentals. Don’s daily activities include new business development, sales and marketing of the Show Services division. His responsibilities include selling and managing live events for corporate, associations and government

Sparrow Marcioni/Linux Labs & Blue Shift Wireless

Linux Labs International is a hybrid engineering firm specializing in technologies that expand the field of high performance supercomputing. They design and build high-performance supercomputers utilizing their proprietary NimbusOS™, optionally housing them in their own high-performance data center. The Linux Labs team is responsible for developing some of the most innovative Linux based technologies today and they remain on the forefront of secure operating systems, database development and search engine functions.

Blueshift Wireless offers proprietary long range wireless technologies, high speed content distribution services, broadcasting services and music on demand through their line of BlueShift Technology devices. BlueShift provides turnkey services for live event broadcasts as well as customized music services for their clients.

Mark Barlow/Finest Event Rentals, Services & Accessories

It is hard to tell the difference from afar, so come see and feel the difference of the products and services offered by Finest Event Rentals, Services & Accessories. Thirty years of expertise in event products has given them the edge in offering you the best products for the best quality and value. Offering the most comprehensive selection of crystal stemware, they supply all types of events. They also offer their Beverage Tending and Coordination services. Event coordinator, Mark Barlow, and the team of seasoned industry professionals welcomes the opportunity to meet with you.

Mark Thompson with HouseMaster and Elizabeth Pope and Annette Broadwell with Rentals.com

October 30, 2013 by Garrett Ervin

Squawk Talk

Mark Thompson with HouseMaster and Elizabeth Pope and Annette Broadwell with Rentals.com

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Mark Thompson, Annette Broadwell, Elizabeth Pope, Kate Schermerhorn

Mark Thompson/HouseMaster

HouseMaster Alpharetta owners Mark and Mary Helen Thompson have lived and worked in the Atlanta area for the past 18 years, and their combined experience in construction, real estate and customer service means they know how to provide the best home inspection services to their customers. They start with good communication, flexible scheduling, certified professional inspectors and a thorough understanding of the inspector’s role in the real estate process. By the time they’re done, they make sure that the client not only receives a complete detailed inspection report, along with a written limited inspection guarantee to back it up, but has a clear understanding of what their inspection report means for their home. They realize that purchasing a home is as stressful as it is exciting, and that you want the right team on your side – Someone who will make the process as stress-free and comprehensible as they can. HouseMaster Alpharetta is that team.

Elizabeth Pope & Annette Broadwell/Rentals.com

Rentals.com is one of the nation’s leading online rental resources with rental homes, apartments and much more. Their strategic vision is to reinvent how consumers find a place to live.

Whether you’re looking to find homes, apartments, condos, townhouses or other properties to rent – or you want to fill your vacancy quickly and easily – Rentals.com is the right place. Every day, thousands of renters use their comprehensive database to search rental properties, making Rentals.com the place for renters and property owners and managers to connect online.

Wes Warrington and Tracy Wingate with Confirmatrix Laboratory, Bukky Olaoye with APremium Healthcare Solution and Jason Tatum with Gateway Center

October 30, 2013 by Garrett Ervin

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Wes Warrington and Tracy Wingate with Confirmatrix Laboratory, Bukky Olaoye with APremium Healthcare Solution and Jason Tatum with Gateway Center

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Wes Warrington, Jason Tatum, Bukky Olaoye, Tracy Wingate, Dominick Rainey

Wes Warrington & Tracy Wingate/Confirmatrix Laboratory

Confirmatrix Laboratory, Inc. is an independent laboratory in Lawrenceville, GA specializing in providing comprehensive clinical quantitative urine and oral fluid drug testing, medication monitoring and support services. In addition, Confirmatrix provides time saving, economical drug screening and occupational health testing.

They are committed to quality testing with a guaranteed turnaround time of 24 to 36 hours. Confirmatrix Laboratory prides itself on individualized customer service based on the unique needs of your organization.

Bukky Olaoye/APremium Healthcare Solution

APremium Healthcare Solution, LLC is a Georgia state licensed private home health care company committed to providing its valuable clients with the highest quality healthcare service in accordance with the best industry practices. They were established to meet the need for compassionate, viable, cost-effective and beneficial alternatives to institutional healthcare.

Being locally founded, owned and operated by well-experienced managers makes APremium Healthcare Solution able to meet the needs of the individuals they serve. They have a firm commitment to provide timely, caring and quality service to the 49 counties they cover.

Their services include certified home health, educational and skilled nursing covering a wide range of care such as home management, personal care, disease process teaching, pain management, wound care and more.

Jason Tatum/Gateway Center

The Gateway Center works to end homelessness, and particularly chronic homelessness, by providing the support and framework people need to achieve self-sufficiency. Through therapeutic programs and services, the Gateway helps homeless individuals in metro Atlanta move into transitional and permanent housing.

Dr. Bill Williams with Suwanee Dental Care, Rich Casanova with Atlanta Business Networking and Ty White with Buffalo’s Cafe

October 29, 2013 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Dr. Bill Williams with Suwanee Dental Care, Rich Casanova with Atlanta Business Networking and Ty White with Buffalo's Cafe

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Mike Sammond, Bill Williams, Ty White, Rich Casanova

Dr. Bill Williams/Suwanee Dental Care

Suwanee Dental Care is a full service dental practice where patients can get all dental care in one place or as they say, “All under one roof!” Four well-qualified and experienced dentists are available to complete orthodontics, cosmetic makeovers, TMJ, dental implants, reconstruction and sedation dentistry as well as root canals, gum treatment and laser dentistry. They have won “Best of Gwinnett” for ten straight years

Rich Casanova/Atlanta Business Networking

Atlanta Business Networking (ABN) came about after eight years of networking in the Atlanta market. Known as the “Prince of Networking”, Rich Casanova wanted to create a resource for professionals as a way of giving back to the business community. The philosophy behind ABN is “Networking Builds Relationships, and Business Will Follow”. Launched in 2012, the ABN website features over 100 of Atlanta’s top business networking events. It’s FREE to register and many events are free or at a nominal cost to attend. Members receive a weekly list of events and are able to bookmark the site as a quick reference guide during the week to enhance their networking schedule and strategy.

Ty White/Buffalo’s Café

Buffalo’s Café offers world famous buffalo wings and classic American dining in a family friendly atmosphere.

Jason West with the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center and Andy Vabulas with I.B.I.S. Inc.

October 24, 2013 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Jason West with the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center and Andy Vabulas with I.B.I.S. Inc.

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Mike Sammond, Jerry, Andy Vabulas, Steven Julian — Mike Sammond, Jason West, Andy Vabulas, Steven Julian

Jason West/Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center

The Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center is a unique partnership among the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners, the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center Foundation, the University of Georgia, and the Gwinnett County Board of Education. The Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center offers a unique mix of recreational, educational and rental opportunities. Visitors can enjoy an exciting experience in the misty, multi-sensory Blue Planet Theater and wet fun in the Discover H2O room. Various traveling exhibitions connected to the Center’s mission also provide informative and fun ways to explore both science and heritage programming. In addition, recreation opportunities are available such as bike riding, hiking and swinging through the trees on the Treetop Quest adventure course.

As Director of Programming for the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center Foundation, Jason West holds a master’s degree in education with a concentration in social studies. He has experience as both a classroom teacher and school administrator. In addition, he has served in marketing and human resource roles in the corporate world. West has also held public office as a school board trustee.

Andy Vabulas/I.B.I.S. Inc.

I.B.I.S., Inc. is a premier provider of Microsoft Dynamics next-generation supply chain software and services. While other supply chain solution providers continue to retrofit yesterday’s technology for today’s needs, I.B.I.S. solutions are designed from the ground up to anticipate a new generation of ERP users and challenges. Based on 25 years of proven success helping midmarket companies optimize their supply chains for profitability and embedded with Microsoft’s next-generation ERP system, Advanced Supply Chain Software powered by I.B.I.S. is uniquely designed to address supply chain planning, management, and execution challenges for a new generation.

In this interview, Andy Vabulas, CEO of I.B.I.S., Inc., reflects candidly upon nearly 25 years of success helping midmarket companies optimize their supply chains for profitability. He also shares his thoughts on being named to Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Best Places to Work list two years running, his greatest moments and challenges as CEO of a fast-growing company, and what he envisions for the future of I.B.I.S., Inc.

Jim Clark and Les Adkins with The APocket Company and Neil Stevens with KeyWorth Bank

October 23, 2013 by Garrett Ervin

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Jim Clark and Les Adkins with The APocket Company and Neil Stevens with KeyWorth Bank

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Jim Clark & Les Adkins/The APocket Company

The APocket Company is a Social Relationship Management platform designed to help members deepen relationships with their most productive, highly valued connections.

Neil Stevens/KeyWorth Bank

KeyWorth Bank was established in 2007 with a vision of serving the expanding North Metro Atlanta market. Steady growth, profitability and maintaining a sound financial condition has been accomplished by providing a service-oriented “community banking” experience for businesses and individuals in the area. They operate multiple locations and have grown to $350 million in assets. KeyWorth associates are experienced professionals with a wealth of banking knowledge to assist clients in reaching their financial goals. KeyWorth has developed a focus on small and mid-sized businesses, medical practices and individuals by hiring bankers with a keen understanding of those client needs. They offer unique lending products and new technologies like Remote Deposit Capture to help businesses run more efficiently.