Resurgens Orthopedics CIO, Bradley Dick. A CIO’s perspective on how to successfully navigate healthcare today and tomorrow. How Bradley and Resurgens has successfully tackled Meaningful Use, accountable care and value-based medicine.
This Just In Broadcasts LIVE from NeuroLaunch Demo Day
On Monday, August 24, 2015, This Just In host Justin Barnes broadcast live from the Atlanta Tech Village for NeuroLaunch Demo Day, connecting investors with the most promising neuroscience startups, including NeuroLaunch’s 11 portfolio companies, as well as over 20 Poster Showcase companies. The mission is to build a long-term community of stakeholders around neuro-innovation.
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Alan Urech
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Dr. Ayanna Howard
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Phil Gattone
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Bailey Ernstes
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Adam Leonard
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Alexis Turjman
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Dr. Jordan Amadio and Chris Klaus
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Bethany Bray
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Raja Schaar
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Partha Unnava
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John Lanza
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Bill Younker
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Scott Henderson
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Trade Show Radio Broadcasts LIVE from the Gwinnett Chamber Business Expo 2015
On August 20, 2015, co-hosts Mike Sammond, Steven Julian and Trey Odum were at the Gwinnett Center, broadcasting live at the Gwinnett Chamber Business Expo & Job Fair 2015.
Presented by the Gwinnett Medical Center, the 2015 Business Expo & Job Fair provided the ideal avenue to promote a company’s products and/or services. Beginning with the Chamber’s General Membership Meeting, intermingled with top-notch educational seminars and concluding with the largest Business After Hours of the year, the 2015 Business Expo & Job Fair was packed with opportunities to market an organization.
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LeeAnn Bridges
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Netania Walker and Lina Surianto
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Tiffany Kirkland
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Gabriel Meacham and Patrick Scott
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Toni Holmes
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Alec Schimke
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Hope Bennett
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Steve Kendrick
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Samantha Black
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Mark Renier
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James Barber
Training of Champions Ministries
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Beth Marien
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Elissa Dooman
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Tan Mattos
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Aaron Reali and Misty Humphries
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Melissa Martin and Macrae Cain
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Dr. Daniel Kaufman
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Chuck Warbington
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Jennifer Kessler and Taylor Harris
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Steven Julian
Cornerstone Private Client Group
Steven Julian is a Registered Representative of INVEST Financial Corporation, member FINRA/SIPC. INVEST and its affiliated insurance agencies offer securities, advisory services and certain insurance products and are not affiliated with Cornerstone Private Client Group.
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3D Printing: Beyond the Hype Special Edition Episode
Graham Bredemeyer / Reality AM Partners 
Kevin Sumner / ModernTech 
Kevin is the Stratasys Account Manager for ModernTech in Tennessee. Over the past nine years, Kevin has helped his clients design better products and accelerate manufacturing processes through additive manufacturing.
Keith Campbell / 3D Operations, Inc.
Keith Campbell is the President of 3D Ops. 3D Ops is a 3D printing company focused on healthcare. Their passion is to enhance patient outcomes with 3D printing patient-specific models for pre-surgical planning. With the patient’s model in their hands, the surgeon can hold, examine, plan, and even practice the surgery – all before going into the operating room.
Melissa Ragsdale / NovaCopy
Melissa Ragsdale currently serves as President of the 3D division of NovaCopy Inc., a company that represents a wide variety of 3D technology including printers, scanners, print services and educational programs. She has spent the last 13 years in the 3D technology space, most recently with a focus on literacy and outreach in the 3D arena.
Kathryn Foster with INCubator, Cordell Carter with TechTown Foundation, Don Jacobson with Newcomb Spring and Platt Boyd with Branch Technology
Kathryn Foster / INCubator
The BDC was built in the late 20’s and home to American Lava (ceramics manf), 3M, GE and a few others from 30’s-early 80’s. GE donated the building to Hamilton County and from 85-88 it was transformed into a business incubator. Second reno was in 95 and completed a $5 mill renovation in 2011 which is when we received our Silver LEED certification. It is currently the largest Incubator in TN and 3rd largest in the US @ 127,000′. We house 70+ start up businesses for 3 years, helping them achieve financially stability through a staged development program. From those businesses in house, over 400 jobs are created, making it an economic engine which pumps millions of dollars into our local economy. We provide shared services, below market rent, entrepreneurial education, State of the Art Technology Conference Center, Free SBA counseling, Free PO Box, and the synergy is amazing. The INCubator, a nonprofit program managed by the Chattanooga Chamber, has graduated over 525 successful business into the business community as we celebrate our 26th year in operation!
Cordell Carter / TechTown Foundation, Inc.
Executive with 16 years of multi-sector experience. My breadth of organizations and sectors include: – Serving on the leadership team for the world’s largest philanthropic organization – Chief Operations Officer for a national charter school advocate – Education and Information Technology lobbyist for a premier national association of “Fortune 250” Chief Executive Officers – Senior Leadership roles with an urban school district – Attorney for a German bank’s Climate Protection Fund – Management consultant with IBM
Education: B.A. University of Washington M.Sci. Carnegie Mellon University J.D. University of Notre Dame Law School
Don Jacobson / Newcomb Spring
G. Donald Jacobson III is a 4th generation spring maker. He is married to Sara (9 year anniversary 8/19) and has three children Joshua, Noah, and Scarlett. They currently live in Ooltewah, TN with a few stops on the way including Huntington Beach CA, Broomfield CO, and Ringgold GA. Don has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Babson College in Wellesley MA. Besides manufacturing and selling springs, Don spends his free time golfing with his family and helping support public education in Hamilton County. Don is the President of the Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts Foundation and working diligently to raise money and awareness for a new school. CSLA is currently rated as one of the top 5% of public schools in the state. Don is working on building a Catapult with he Newcomb Spring Team for the CSLA fall event that will allow local companies to chuck footballs or tennis balls for prizes and trophies. Come check out the 3D printed catapult parts on November 6th at CSLA in Chattanooga.
Platt Boyd / Branch Technology
Special Edition: Capital Club Radio
Michael Flock / FLOCK Specialty Finance
Michael R. Flock is the Chairman & CEO of FLOCK Specialty Finance. Michael has been involved in the credit, collections, debt buying, and outsourcing businesses for over 20 years beginning with being President of Dun & Bradstreet’s Receivables Management Services. In 2007, he founded Flock Advisors, an M&A and capital provider to these industries. In a move to provide capital and expertise to more industries underserved by traditional financial services, this company changed to FLOCK Specialty Finance in 2013. Michael earned his BA from the University of Virginia and a MBA in finance from Fordham University.
Rich Munroe / Resolution Services Group, LLC 
Rich Munroe has built over 25 years of experience in the distressed debt industry and has been involved in over 400 portfolio acquisitions of different asset classes, totaling in excess of ten billion dollars serving as Vice President of Acquisitions for Outsourcing Solutions, Inc. (OSI) and as the President of Capital Financial Group, Inc. Resolution Services Group, LLC was founded in March, 2013 to purchase delinquent real estate tax liens in Georgia, Maryland and District of Columbia. Mr. Munroe has been a frequent speaker at industry events and has been an active long-term member of DBA International serving as President of the association during 2013-2014. Mr. Munroe also serves as Board Advisor for Lend Street Financial, Inc a lending platform that helps distressed consumers restructure debt and enable investors to buy the debt from creditors at a discount.
Rich Monroe with Resolution Services Group
Rich Munroe / Resolution Services Group, LLC 
Rich Munroe has built over 25 years of experience in the distressed debt industry and has been involved in over 400 portfolio acquisitions of different asset classes, totaling in excess of ten billion dollars serving as Vice President of Acquisitions for Outsourcing Solutions, Inc. (OSI) and as the President of Capital Financial Group, Inc. Resolution Services Group, LLC was founded in March, 2013 to purchase delinquent real estate tax liens in Georgia, Maryland and District of Columbia. Mr. Munroe has been a frequent speaker at industry events and has been an active long-term member of DBA International serving as President of the association during 2013-2014. Mr. Munroe also serves as Board Advisor for Lend Street Financial, Inc a lending platform that helps distressed consumers restructure debt and enable investors to buy the debt from creditors at a discount.
Michael Flock / FLOCK Specialty Finance
Michael R. Flock is the Chairman & CEO of FLOCK Specialty Finance. Michael has been involved in the credit, collections, debt buying, and outsourcing businesses for over 20 years beginning with being President of Dun & Bradstreet’s Receivables Management Services. In 2007, he founded Flock Advisors, an M&A and capital provider to these industries. In a move to provide capital and expertise to more industries underserved by traditional financial services, this company changed to FLOCK Specialty Finance in 2013. Michael earned his BA from the University of Virginia and a MBA in finance from Fordham University.
Spotlight on Tier II Supplier Diversity
Ralph Moore / Ralph G. Moore & Associates
Ralph G. Moore, CPA, is president of Ralph G. Moore & Associates (RGMA) and is recognized as one of the world’s foremost thought-leaders in the area of supplier diversity and minority business development. A former accountant at Arthur Andersen & Co., Mr. Moore was Vice President of Chicago Community Ventures, a Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company (MESBIC) and Controller for Parker House Sausage Company before establishing RGMA in 1979.
Mr. Moore has been the lead trainer for the National Minority Supplier Development Council for over 20 years. During that period Mr. Moore has conducted over 100 seminars for the National office as well as 22 of the Regional Councils which has resulted in RGMA having trained more supplier diversity professionals than any other firm worldwide. Companies and institutions such as Walmart, The Walt Disney Company, the University of Chicago, Major League Baseball and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors have engaged the services of RGMA.
Mr. Moore is the author of the RGMA Five Levels of Supplier Diversity which has been embraced as the gold standard for benchmarking supplier diversity initiatives. His global assignments include conducting seminars in South Africa, France, United Kingdom and Canada. Mr. Moore is also a member of the Procter and Gamble and Macy’s Supplier Diversity Advisory Councils.
Mr. Moore has received numerous awards and recognitions during his distinguished career including the Ron Brown Award from the Chicago Minority Business Development Council and the prestigious National Minority Supplier Development Council Leadership Award which is the organization’s highest honor awarded to a CEO of a minority business enterprise. In recognition of a lifetime of contributions to minority business development, Mr. Moore was inducted into the Minority Business Hall of Fame at the University of Washington in April of this year.
Karmetria Burton / Delta Air Lines
Karmetria Dunham Burton is general manager, supplier diversity for Delta Air Lines. In this position she is responsible for developing a Supplier Diversity program while enhancing the processes to assist the company to achieve its vision of being an industry leader of making minority and women owned business (MWBEs) a natural and integral part of the way the company does business. Karmetria has worked in strategic sourcing at Xerox and AT&T. Before Delta, Karmetria was supplier diversity manager for IHG (Intercontinental Hotels Group).
Karmetria was the 2005 recipient of the Trailblazer Award presented by the Black Business Professionals and Entrepreneurs organization and is a Who’s Who of Black Atlanta in 2010. She is a contributing writer for MBE magazine that focuses on minority business development.
Karmetria holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Southern University-Baton Rouge, La., and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska. Mrs. Burton has instructed business, procurement and diversity related courses at Kennesaw State University as well as Shorter College, Strayer University, Georgia State University and Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y.
WIT Special Episode
Sandy Welfare / WIT 
Since 1992, Women in Technology has had a mission dedicated to promoting the advancement of women in Georgia’s technology community. Through the WIT Foundation, WIT also educates and encourages girls and young women to pursue careers in STEM.
Robert Poole / Emory Continuing Education
Valarie Mackey / The Coca-Cola Company
Valarie W. Mackey, IT Global Performance Leader, The Coca-Cola Company is a Director level professional with 15+ years’ experience focused on strategic planning and execution. She effectively leads and manages global team members and is committed to ensuring employees are well-rounded professionals and enjoy their career growth. At The Coca-Cola Company she has responsibility for creating and executing strategies to improve Information Technology, employee and organizational performance. She brings leadership, educational, and career development opportunities to the organization and makes employees aware of external development opportunities. Valarie has overarching accountability for technology solutions for the business functions of Human Resources, Public Affairs, Sustainability, and Facilities. She is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with STEM organizations and educational institutions to promote community outreach and enhance the talent pipeline of the Coca-Cola IT organization. Employee Engagement and Communication also falls under her responsibility. Prior to The Coca-Cola Company, Valarie was a consultant for Ernst & Young. Valarie serves as a Board member and is an advocate for several nonprofit organizations. She holds an Industrial Engineering Degree from North Carolina A&T State University.
