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Special Edition: Cobb County

February 9, 2015 by rhondachale

Desmond Williams and Brad Grimes / Top Scholar

Top Scholar is a learning management system for grades K-12. It is easy to use, engaging and powerful cloud based system for both teachers and students to assist in reaching new levels in education. Key features include classroom management, assignments, analytics, messaging system, calendar and pre loaded content including over 4,000 textbooks, videos and practice standardized test questions.

Desmond Williams is VP of Sales and Business Development focused on initiatives in the public and private education sector, as well as corporate partnerships targeting programs that create value in key communities. Prior to joining Top Scholar, Desmond spent thirty-four years in the technology industry in various sales, engineering and management roles with manufacturing, consulting and service provider companies.

With a background in sales and marketing, Brad Grimes advises businesses, organizations, and individuals on how to use marketing and social media to build relationships and deliver value. Brad works closely with the sales team and manages the marketing team, creating a synergistic bridge of operations.

Trade Show Radio Broadcasts LIVE from Kids Business Expo

February 9, 2015 by rhondachale

On February 7, 2015, Trade Show Radio co-hosts Max Kantor and Ryan McPherson broadcast live at the Cobb Galleria Center for Kids Business Expo 2015.

The Kids Business Expo featured a combination of a trade show expo and educational sessions where companies providing business services and technology can reach young professionals. Attendees and their parents learned about business solutions through keynote speakers, an open forum for discussions and information about hands-on business opportunities in addition to the businesses showcased on the Expo floor.

Designed much like a professional trade show, the Kids Business Expo offered many opportunities for young people to learn as well as share their ideas with others. The “Young Entrepreneur Center” enabled youth to present their ideas to the public and potential buyers. The Expo also featured a “Product Presentation Area” where participants put their products and ideas on display to present business concepts.

Check out these great interviews…

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Amanda Driggers

Brunswick Zone XL

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Amari Johnson

Amari & Mari

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Beau Shell

Lil’ Ice Cream Dude

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Bob Johnson

Club E Atlanta

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Dirk Ebener

Kids Business Expo

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Dr. Maggie Wray

Creating Positive Futures

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Henry Lust

The Tutoring Center

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Jake Johnson

Beaux Up

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Jeff Sheehan

Sheehan Marketing Strategies

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Kayla Abramowitz

Kayla Cares 4 Kids

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LJ Keller

YMBA Group

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Madison Potts

MadisonClarke24

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Mary Margaret O’Neill

Kids Are Heroes

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Nicole Rhoads

Sweet Sassy Molassey Bake Shop

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Remmington Youngblood

Change4Georgia

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RJ Patel

PCT Clean

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Stephanie Nelson

Costco

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Steven Yang

Jars

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Taylin Morris

Princess Singing Telegrams

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Walter Jordan

Youth Leadership Conference

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Healthcare Innovations Series Part 1

February 9, 2015 by rhondachale

2015 Healthcare Innovations Series: Part 1 – Gozio Health

Justin talks to Joshua Titus, Founder/CEO of Gozio Health.

Trade Show Radio Broadcasts LIVE from Kids Business Expo – Business RadioX

February 9, 2015 by rhondachale

On February 7, 2015, Trade Show Radio co-hosts Max Kantor and Ryan McPherson broadcast live at the Cobb Galleria Center for Kids Business Expo 2015.

Check out these great interviews…

Randy Bortles, Director of Architectural Solutions with NanoLumens

February 8, 2015 by rhondachale

Randy Bortles

Randy joins NanoLumens bringing with him over 15 years of electronic hardware experience; several years at TTI, Reptron and Avnet electronics, (Global distributors of electronic components and systems), where he worked in various sales capacities in Florida and Georgia. He was also Corporate Account Manager for NCR – Solectron managing the global operations ($650m), an industry leading contract manufacturer. In his latest role he served as a consultant for Rojoli Technology private cloud infrastructure hosting solution company. Born and raised in Syracuse NY, Graduate of State University of New York–Brockport. He is married to Laura Ann Pierce and they have a daughter Randi Brooke. Randy is a full-time fan of all the “Bortles athletes” Brooke- college soccer, Blake- college/pro football, Colby- college baseball, Alexa- World ranked tennis and Elle- Lacrosse. Randy is also passionate about starting college wrestling programs in Georgia.

Excerpt from NanoCast…

Lee: So now, can you walk us through what’s your typical day or conversation with a new architect that maybe has never heard of you before? What is that?

Stone: Starts with a radio interview. Then he heads over to CBS Studios.

Randy: Exactly. Exactly. I try to build it in my celebrity day. Typically what happens, to get a little bit of inertia, we’ll call them up and ask them if they’re interested in what’s considered in the industry a lunch-and-learn type scenario, which is an educational opportunity for us to get our products in front of them, but as well as . . .

There’s an organization in America here called the Architectural Institute of America. We have some modules that have continuing education credits for those. So each architect, every year, has so many credits they . . .

Stone: They have to have so many credits. Right.

Randy: Exactly. So we try to offer that. So we’ll try to take 20 or 30 people and throw them in a room.

Lee: Teach them something.

Randy: Yeah, try to teach them something and then do a little commercial for NanoLumens. Also, some of those people are there for the continuing education credits and the lunch. Right? They’re there for the free lunch, which is fine. Then we try to deliver something there that if their role changes, and they have a need for a design, we’d like to provide an avenue for them to come and talk to us a little bit more about it.

Gary Feather, Executive VP Operations with NanoLumens

February 8, 2015 by rhondachale

Gary Feather

A consummate expert in display technology, imaging, lighting and energy systems, Gary began his career at Texas Instruments before moving on to Sharp Electronics where he eventually became Senior Vice President of LED Lighting. He is the holder of three United States Patents in Networked Video Devices, Method for Processing Saturated Intervals in Video Sequences and Presence Based Technology.

Excerpt from NanoCast…

Stone: So now can you explain the difference between LED and LCD?

Gary: Absolutely. LCD is a transmissive technology, a technology that opens and closes a little window and lets a large amount of light go through a color filter, and subsequently shows you a pixel element on the display. The LED approach is much more elegant. It’s a single pixel that’s RGB, red, green, blue, and it lights up and emits the light that you wanna see for that particular pixel as part of an element of the entire picture.

Stone: So now NanoLumens, some of their secret sauce is kind of having a flexible display? Does that add another element to this?

Gary: It does. NanoLumens provides solutions that are flexible. More importantly we provide custom solutions. Every display we build is hand-designed and crafted to the particular needs of the application of the customer. So whether the venue that they have is retail, commercial, an airport environment, or shopping mall, they’ll know that the display they get fits exactly in the space they’re looking for and gives them an elegant look when it’s completed.

Nathan Remmes, VP Marketing with NanoLumens

February 8, 2015 by rhondachale

Nate Remmes

With a background in inside sales, Nate Remmes joined the NanoLumens team with a goal of revamping our sales operations. Now, Nate manages our inside sales team as well as marketing, creating an integral bridge between the two operations.

Excerpt from this NanoCast…

Lee: When you’re going to the marketplace with something that’s so revolutionary, is it something that you have to lead the customer? Or is it something where you just show them that this is possible and then what do you want to do? Who is leading who?

Nathan: I think it depends on who you’re talking to. If you’re talking, which we do, to the architects or the design community, you show them what’ possible, and then let them go with it. With other people, you may want to lead and try to give examples, but we’ve shipped products to five continents, dozens of countries. It’s out there, now. People know it. We’ve established that, but at first, it was like Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come.” That’s how we started. We showed it to people. They wanted to do unique stuff, and from there, it’s been a lot of fun.

Lee: The industries that embrace this, I would imagine off the top of my head, would be casinos or convention centers or some place that has big spaces, maybe sporting events.

Nathan: That’s a pretty good assessment. Retail is real big, too, because retail, right now, is all about creating the immersive environment, trying to engage the customers at the point of sale. So you see us a lot in retail locations, but besides that, there are convention centers. But I’ll tell you…sports is big… But I’ll tell you, one that you’re seeing more and more is higher education. These large universities are looking to engage their students, whether in the student center or some other public forum, and they’ve gone to Nanolumens over and over. Everybody from LSU to Elon, University of North Carolina, you see it all over the place.

Special Edition: Cobb County

February 6, 2015 by rhondachale

Joseph Malbrough / The UPS Store

Joseph Malbrough owns and operates The UPS Store Cumberland Galleria in Smyrna, Georgia. He has over 20+ years in business development roles at The Metro Atlanta Chamber, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, Entrepreneur Advisors and Motorola Communications.

Joseph is Past President of the Smyrna Business Association and Chairs the Smyrna Business Expo. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Coalition of Cobb County Business Associations, The Campbell High IB Foundation and Chairs the Antioch Christian Entrepreneurs.

A native of Beaumont, Texas, he received a Bachelor of Communications degree from Lamar University. He and his wife Cara are active members of Antioch Baptist North and reside in Smyrna with their sons Evan and Jared.

Spotlight on TiE Atlanta

February 6, 2015 by rhondachale

Paul Lopez / Element Funding

Dr. Lopez is a Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Element Funding, a residential mortgage lender with branches across Georgia, Florida and North Carolina (www.elementfunding.com) that has served over 18,000 families with $3 billion in mortgage financing since opening as a startup business in the summer of 2007 when the housing industry was not the place to be!

In his corporate career, Paul was Executive Vice President of Business Development & Sales at HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation. Prior to that, he was employed in high tech for 20 years at IBM and Xerox in field and headquarters positions, and has been a faculty member at the business schools of Kennesaw State University and California State University.

Paul is highly involved in the community, currently serving on the boards of MUST Ministries and Action Ministries, and co-chairs the TiE-Atlanta chapter’s Entrepreneurship Competition for universities across Georgia.

Dr. Lopez holds a doctorate in business administration from Louisiana Tech University, and an MBA from the Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Jeff Patterson / SBDC at Georgia State University

Jeff has extensive financial industry experience that includes leadership roles in credit administration, commercial lending, operations management, regulatory compliance, and audit administration. His expertise includes loan proposal and business plan preparation, cash flow management, budgeting, and customer satisfaction. He also has brokerage and financial planning training as well as his Commercial Lending Diploma from RMA. He received his MBA from Brenau University.