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Launch of Simply Buckhead Radio, how to market your Business RadioX show, Band of Coders with MemberSuite, BlueFletch with NCR and IHG, Affiliate updates, plus much more…
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Trade Show Radio spotlights Booth 61 with Ricky Steele who was broadcasting live at the 2014 Georgia CIO of the Year® Awards, held at the Cobb Galleria Centre on Friday, October 31, 2014.
Established in 1998, the Georgia CIO of the Year® Awards is the premier technology executive recognition program in the state. This annual awards program honors chief information officers who have demonstrated excellence in managing their organization’s enterprise-wide information systems. CIOs and those in equivalent positions are nominated and recognized in five categories: Global, Enterprise, Corporate, Non-profit / Public Sector, and Lifetime Achievement. CIOs are evaluated on innovation, leadership, business value creation, and community involvement.
During this event, Host Ricky Steele spoke with some of the presenters and award recipients.
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John Trainor
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Sally Greer
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Alan Stukalsky
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David Guthrie
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Jackie Breiter and Dennis Lu
Goizueta Business School of Emory University
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Jay Ferro
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Walt Carter
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Praveen Ghanta / HiddenLevers 
Praveen Ghanta is responsible for the HiddenLevers engine and product development. Praveen has a deep background in financial technology, having built credit derivatives trading and risk management systems at Deutsche Bank. Previously, he founded and led SmartWorkGroups, an online collaboration startup, until its acquisition by Intralinks (NYSE:IL) in July 2000. Praveen has also served as a co-Director of the Founder Institute Atlanta chapter, and is the author of a SeekingAlpha-certified blog called TrueCost, which looks at economics and government policy through the lens of cost-benefit analysis. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Bachelor’s degrees in computer science and economics, and a Master’s degree in computer science.
Ed Pimentel / MobileMonday Atlanta 
Randall Toussaint / Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber 
Randall Toussaint is the Vice President of Economic Development at The Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce. In this capacity he leads an economic development program that works to recruit new companies to his community, while helping local businesses to grow and expand. Prior to moving to Forsyth County Randall worked in the field of economic development in such communities as Clayton County, Georgia and Savannah, Georgia. Randall holds a bachelors degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia; a Masters in Public Administration from Savannah State University; a certificate in Spanish Studies from La Universidad de Benito Juarez in Oaxaca, Mexico; a certificate in Economic Development Leadership from the Georgia Academy for Economic Development; and a certificates in Strategic Planning and Business Marketing & Attraction from the International Economic Development Council.
Ruben Boling / University of North Georgia
John Rogener / Bank of New York Mellon 
John A. Rogener is President of the New York City chapter of the Association for Talent Development, formerly known as ASTD. He has over 25 years of progressive and diverse global experience in training, leadership and management development, sales and organizational effectiveness, change management, coaching and facilitating teams in the financial and professional services sectors.
John is also currently Vice President of Learning and Development for BNY Mellon University, at BNY Mellon. John has advised and coached executives on learning, talent development and organizational effectiveness interventions that supported business strategy and developed future leaders. He has provided strategic direction for management and leadership development that included researching current models, best practices, competencies and assessments to build talent pools that guide businesses towards sustained growth. He has also led large scale organizational change initiatives which included assessing leadership needs essential to supporting change, and he has coached executives on managing and sustaining change.
John was an adjunct professor for 14 years at New York University (NYU) in Human Resources and Learning and Development, and he received NYU’s Award for Teaching Excellence. He also co-authored “Address Learning Needs, Not Wants” with his supervisor David DeFilippo, which was published in Chief Learning Officer magazine. John holds a B.A. in English and a Master’s and Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Rehabilitation Counseling. He is certified in Myers Briggs and DiSC assessment tools, and is completing his Executive Coaching certificate at New York University.
John considers the New York City chapter of the Association of Talent Development (ATD) a dynamic organization that provides relevant and timely training interventions to learning and development professionals in the greater New York area. John considers the New York City chapter of the Association of Talent Development (ATD) a dynamic organization that provides relevant and timely training interventions to learning and development professionals in the greater New York area.
Melissa Milani and Albert Siu / PAREXEL Academy
PAREXEL is a global clinical research and regulatory consulting and outsourcing company with the headquarters located in Waltham, Massachusetts, with more than 70 offices distributed over 50 countries.
Dr. Albert Siu is Vice President and General Manager of the PAREXEL Academy, a unit of Human Resources that manages the Learning and Leadership Development function for PAREXEL. This organization serves internal and external clients of PAREXEL.
In this current role, Dr. Siu manages the learning and development functions within PAREXEL including leadership and organizational development, learning technology applications, all functional training and the PAREXEL Academic Institute, an externally focused clinical and regulatory training organization and a degree granting institution offering a bachelor of science degree in Clinical Research Management.
Before joining PAREXEL, he was Vice President for Learning and Development at Boston Scientific, a global life sciences R&D and manufacturing company.
Dr. Siu was the Chief Learning Officer for AT&T from 1996 to 2002. In that role, Dr. Siu managed AT&T’s investments in learning and people development.
Before joining AT&T in 1994, Dr. Siu spent sixteen years with Hewlett-Packard, serving in a variety of business unit and corporate human resources leadership roles; including eight years in China and Hong Kong managing the human resources function for Hewlett-Packard’s China operations.
Dr. Siu earned a bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate from Purdue University, both in counseling psychology. He retired (February, 2012) from serving as a member of the board of directors at Thrivent Financial, having served the full 14 year terms, and currently he is a director at Wittenberg University. He was a director (2009-2012) at the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and had served on ASTD’s Public Policy Council and the Awards Strategy Committee. In 2013, Dr. Siu was awarded the “Distinguished Alumni Award” from Purdue University. He is currently residing with his family in the Boston area.
Melissa Milani is the Associate Director for the Learning Content Design & Development Team within PAREXEL Academy. This team consists of 3 managers and 13 instructional designers located in the US, Argentina and Germany. Their goal is to apply adult learning principles to design and develop best in class learning to maximize employee performance and achieve outstanding business results. They do this by working effectively within the PAREXEL Academy structure and designing learning that will not only achieve business results but engage the learner!
Prior to coming to PAREXEL, Melissa worked within the L&D department of Unum and previous to that, she was with Datex International supporting learning for their sales team. Before moving into Learning & Development Melissa began her professional career teaching communication at several Midwestern Colleges, including North Dakota State University, Concordia College, Minnesota State Moorhead, and The University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Melissa holds a bachelor’s degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, and a master’s degree from North Dakota State University, both in communication. Melissa currently resides with her family in Nashua, NH.
Greg Friedman / PAREXEL
Greg Friedman has practiced Organization Development at some of the best known Boston based global companies – including Keane, PTC, Boston Scientific, and PAREXEL. With almost 20 years of OD experience, strong academic credentials, and a sense for what OD really is; OD is less a job to Greg and more a passion. His goal is to help shape what OD is by learning and thinking about it, talking about it, and practicing it.
Candice Carpenter Olson / The Fullbridge Program
Candice is the co-founder and co-CEO of The Fullbridge Program, a revolutionary business boot camp for high-performing college and graduate students worldwide, giving them the skills to make a significant contribution to the workplace on day one.
Prior to founding The Fullbridge Program, in addition to holding new business positions at Time Warner and American Express, Candice was the co-founder and chief executive of iVillage.com, which was a pioneer in online social networks for parenting, health, and other topics of interest to busy women. She led the company from 1994 until 2001 and was one of the first women in the U.S. to lead an IPO. NBC purchased iVillage.com in 2006 for $600 million.
In recognition of Candice’s business contributions, she received an Emmy Award for prime-time documentary television programming; the Matrix Award; and the MIT Institute Award for Entrepreneurial Leadership. She was voted to the Saatchi and Saatchi Board in 2000. She received a B.A. from Stanford University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a Masters in History/Theology from Union and in Education from Columbia University.
She is a founding Board member of the Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, which seeks to offer high level IB college preparatory education to a student population broadly reflective of Brooklyn neighborhoods. She was a NOLS/Outward Bound instructor and an accomplished rock climber for 7 years. Her first book, Chapters: Create a Life of Exhilaration and Accomplishment in the Face of Change, was published in September 2001. Candice is married to her soul mate and has seven children. She spends her free time mountain biking and snowboarding.
Diana Rivenburgh / Seniorlink
Diana Rivenburgh is the Senior Vice President of People and Culture for Seniorlink Inc., an innovative healthcare organization changing the way we care for seniors and adults with disabilities. Named as a top 100 Thought Leader for Trustworthy Business 2014, Diana speaks and writes on culture, leadership and creating shared-value business models. Diana’s recent book, THE NEW CORPORATE FACTS OF LIFE, an Axiom Business Book Award winner, was published recently by AMACOM. Prior to joining Seniorlink, Diana launched and led two consulting firms, and served in various leadership roles for Gartner, Gentiva Health Services, Olsten Corporation, and NEC. She has her MS in Positive Organization Development from Case Western Reserve University and her BS in Business Administration from NYIT.
