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Amanda Farahany with Barrett and Farahany, LLP, Valentia Alleyne with Alleyne Law Firm, LLC Premiere Episode

May 6, 2014 by Rich Casanova

Emily Rowell (ALE Show Host), Valentia Alleyne, Amanda Farahany

Amanda Farahany/Barrett and Farahany, LLP

Amanda Farahany is the managing partner at the Atlanta law firm of Barrett & Farahany, LLP, representing individuals in employment, libel, overtime, and sexual harassment litigation. Through her practice, she is dedicated to pursuing civil justice for employees, as well providing consultation and support to management employees. In addition, she is an adjunct faculty member of Emory Law School, teaching Advanced Trial Advocacy.

Prior to beginning her practice, she clerked for the Honorable John H. Ruffin, Jr. at the Georgia Court of Appeals. Known as an attorney who only takes serious and important cases, Amanda has proven this by achieving the highest verdict in a Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) case in the nation for her client and the largest libel verdict in Georgia. Amanda has also been recognized by her peers as a Super Lawyer – an award which acknowledges the top lawyers in Georgia as chosen by Georgia Super Lawyers and through the independent research of Law & Politics. She has been elected to the executive board of the National Employment Lawyers Association, Georgia Chapter and is on the Executive Board of the Atlanta Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Section.

A sought after speaker and commentator, Amanda has been featured as a legal thought leader in publications and news segments, including a two-night special on CBS Atlanta News on a Survival Guide for the First 24 Hours After Losing Your Job and most recently, on GPTV. Human resource professionals and employment defense attorneys seek out her experience to teach them how to overcome the common employer mistakes from a plaintiff’s perspective. An experienced trial lawyer, Amanda has been awarded status as a Fellow of the National College of Advocacy by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. This designation signifies commitment to effective representation of her clients and her dedication to achieving a high level of competence. Additionally, Amanda is a Fellow in the Lawyer’s Foundation of Georgia. Membership in the Fellows Program is an honor which recognizes lawyers whose public and private careers demonstrate outstanding legal abilities and a devotion to their communities. In addition to her law practice, Amanda currently serves as co-chair of the American Association of Justice Wage and Hour Litigation Group and on the Boards of the Atlanta Bar Association Labor and Employment Section and National Employment Lawyer’s Association – Georgia Chapter. Amanda has previously served as the president of the Atlanta Council for Younger Lawyers; president of the National Employment Lawyers Association, Georgia Chapter; member of the Executive Committee to the Atlanta Bar Association; member of the Advisory Council to the National Crime Victim Bar Association; and on the Boards of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, Crime Victim Advocacy Council, State Bar of Georgia Younger Lawyers Division, and several domestic violence and women’s rights organizations.

Amanda has spoken and been published extensively on litigating cases for civil justice for crime victims, sexual assault and employment cases, including for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the American Association for Justice, the National Crime Victim Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia’s Institute for Continuing Legal Education and the National Employment Lawyers Association. In addition, Amanda has been an invited faculty member for the Emory School of Law Trial Advocacy Program. Recently, Amanda was one of a selected few employment lawyers asked to serve on the Eleventh Circuit Committee to revise the Pattern Jury Instructions on employment related issues.

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Valentia P. Alleyne/Alleyne Law Firm, LLC

As the Managing Attorney of The Alleyne Law Firm, Ms. Alleyne focuses her practice on consumer bankruptcy, debt collections defense, and estate planning. Ms. Alleyne is devoted to providing dependable service and quality legal representation, while still being sensitive to the delicate nature of bankruptcy cases and estate planning matters. Her estate planning practice focuses on simple estate planning, such as drafting as wills, trusts, and powers of attorney to working with high-net-worth individuals and families, creating ways to manage their assets, address gift and estate tax issues, and to translate their aspirations into a legally sound and sustainable plan. Ms. Alleyne’s bankruptcy practice helps business owners, individuals and families throughout the Atlanta metro area eliminate or restructure their debt. By virtue of federal bankruptcy laws under Chapter 7 debt elimination and Chapter 13 debt restructuring, The Alleyne Law Firm helps clients look forward to a successful financial future, free from the overwhelming burden of debt. Ms. Alleyne can also assist clients with a credit education program to ensure that they retain the sort of credit they need to resume their life plan. Giving back to the community is essential for an attorney, and Ms. Alleyne regularly volunteers her legal services to low-income clients through community organizations.

Ms. Alleyne received her B.A. from the University of Virginia, her M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix, her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she received special honors for her public interest work, and her LL.M. in Taxation from Northwestern University School of Law. While attending law school, she clerked with the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, Cook County State’s Attorney, and the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, and served as an editor of Loyola’s Public Interest Law Reporter.

Prior to practicing law and founding The Alleyne Law Firm, Ms. Alleyne lived in Japan and worked as a marketing and business development executive in the corporate sector for over 10 years. Ms. Alleyne is licensed to practice law in the state of Georgia and in the United States District Court, Northern District and Middle District of Georgia, Court of Appeals of Georgia, and the Supreme Court of Georgia. She is a member of the Atlanta Bar Association, Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, Georgia Association of Women Lawyers, where she serves on the Board and is the host of the Cobb/Cumberland Neighborhood Networking Breakfast, Metro Atlanta Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, and the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.

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Caline Jarudi, Cherita Kempson, Patricia Williams and Jeanna Bailey

February 8, 2014 by phoebe

Caline Jarudi-Co-owner/COO-Cacao Atlanta Company

Caline Jarudi is a Co-Owner of Cacao Atlanta Chocolate Company and has served as its Chief Operating Officer since 2009.

Founded by Kristen Hard, Cacao Atlanta Chocolate Company is the premier bean-to-bar chocolate experience, using the highest quality Cacao varietals and minimal processing to create exquisite origin-driven chocolate and confections. Cacao has been nationally recognized, by top publications including Food and Wine and Travel and Leisure, as one of the world’s best chocolate makers and shop experiences.

At Cacao, Caline has served in many capacities that are critical for a small business, including Finance, Human Resources, and business process design. She has performed these roles during a high growth period for the company, during which the company grew from 3 employees to 25 during the seasonal peak. She has supported the rollout of two ground-breaking retail stores in Atlanta, and a factory relocation and expansion to Atlanta’s booming Westside.

Cherita Kempson and Patricia Williams-Co-owners/Cupcake Endulgers’ Boutique

Cupcake Endulgers’ Boutique is the creation of two former educators, Cherita Kempson and Patricia Williams, that decided to take the leap and BAKE our derrieres off!.

Cupcake Endulgers’ Boutique is Atlanta’s premier cupcakery. We offer delectable goodness in a petite treat. Light, fluffy and moist gourmet creations for every palate to enjoy. We pride ourselves in using all high quality, natural ingredients; including organic products when possible.

” We became good friends, working in the school system for years. We explored infinite possibilities of how to continue serving children as innovative entrepreneurs. While jabbering one evening on the phone, as we do quite often, we discovered that we both acquired a new love for baking. We created masterpieces by mixing, frosting, learning and perfecting recipes as we go. Before long, we designed light, fluffy and moist cupcakes to suit any palate.

Now we have the best of both worlds, baking for children, including the one that is still inside of YOU!”

” We pride ourselves in using all high quality, natural ingredients; including organic products when possible. Committed to baking daily in small batches, our cupcakes are fashionably scrumptious!! Walk on down our runway and indulge in an Endulge Cupcake. It is nothing more than divine ’til the END.”

Jeanna Bailey-Owner/partner- your floral matters llc.

Jeanna Bailey is owner/partner, along with fellow designer Martin Kemp, of your floral matters, llc. Jeanna and Martin started floral matters in late 2009 in the midst of the great, worldwide recession. Determined to survive, Jeanna and Martin built their business client by client and now have a beautiful retail shop in the heart of Midtown Atlanta at W. Peachtree and 14th.

Working closely with your vision, floral matters creates world-class floral décor, making your event unique.

Jeanna is originally from Long Island NY but fell in love with Atlanta during her years at Spelman College. Upon graduating from Spelman, Jeanna lived in Chicago for 10 years where she experienced a major personal shift and moved from corporate advertising into flowers. Now having been back in Atlanta for nearly 15 years, Jeanna continues to be just as passionate about floral design as she was in the “early years” and values the marketing and client service skills developed in corporate life.

Desiree Scales and Sander Biehn Interview Mark Little and Obom Bowen about Entrepreneurship and Rob Woomer about Real Estate Investments

January 17, 2014 by bellawebdesign

Mark Little, CEO:

Mark Little is the CEO and founder of Diversified Funding Services, Inc. a company dedicated to excellence for 15 plus years. Diversified Funding Services, Inc. is a highly successful commercial finance business founded and managed by Mark.

Mark is a shining example of what can happen through the power of a solid residual income based business model. Today Marks focus is to create residual income and opportunities that surrounds todayâ€™s youth, his goal is to teach his time tested success principles to others and make a sizeable mark on todayâ€™s economy through innovation perseverance and desire.Â This has led to the Creation of a 501c-(3) that guides each individual through a structured course of proven success.

As the President and Founder of The Society of Young Entrepreneurs (SOYE) Mark proudly represents this new age Non-Profit Created to empower young adults and show there is a better way and the future is full of opportunity. SOYE is taking qualified students through an intense internship of the skills necessary to become an entrepreneur and successfully equip them with the mindset, philosophy and disciplines required to become an entrepreneur and build a legacy business.

The curriculum will include but not limited to: The philosophies for Success through self-employment. Happiness comes before success, thought patterns for high performers and disciplines for high performance, business development, attraction marketing and laws of success.

Mark truly is a lifelong entrepreneur who started out as a child in his fatherâ€™s family owned business.Â After several failed and successful business ventures Mark has mastered the balance of valuable business lessons as all successful entrepreneurs do.

Mark has experienced the lows of failure and the highs of success that comes with being an entrepreneur. From these experiences Mark has a passion for sharing his experiences and a desire to help others enjoy the freedom of self-employment. Find Mark at www.societyofyoungentrepreneurs.org.

Obom Bowen, CEO:

Obom Bowen is a retired, decorated Marine who, as an Infantry Commander, received the Purple Heart for his service and wounds sustained in combat. Obom hails from very humble beginnings, he elevated as a Master Career Strategist and a consummate entrepreneur who has a passion for studying human behavior, personal development, psychology, philosophy, and creating strategies that work.

His expertise has helped Fortune 500 companies, including Chevron, Wal-Mart stores, Walgreens, Intel, and others.

Obomâ€™s expertise in helping individuals achieve business and life success has landed him in collaborations with: Success From Home magazine 2012, Brian Tracy, The Psychology of Achievement, Knightscove Media Corp: A multi-national social media company, and Heidi Lerner, author of Grey Matters.

Obom has also been seen on Fox News, KUSN, SIGN ON San Diego, featured in Top Coastal news, Union Tribune and has spoken and taught as a facilitator for NVTSI, Reboot and at a number of colleges and universities (i.e. UCLA, UCSD, Central Texas College).

Today, Obom is CEO and co-founder of Society of Young Entrepreneurs, a nonprofit company committed to helping Teens to College Graduates and Job Seekers learn solid strategies that will impact their jobs for their entire careers, while realizing their dreams. Obomâ€™s strategies to date have helped thousands of people across the globe. Obom has been working with many prominent and influential leaders with a purpose and passion for bringing positive change to the planet. Helping individuals break through psychological barriers that hold them back.

Obom is a published author with his book The Philosophy of Success- A Journey through Idioms, Obomâ€™s next book, The Journey Home, will describe the journey that began from within. It will show how self-reliance and the reliance on community must work together. It details his recovery and return from life-threatening injuries sustained in the Iraqi-war. Obom shares from personal experience the hard life-lessons that finally carried him back home. Find Obom at www.obombowen.com

Rob Woomer, President:

Rob is the president of Stonehill Investors and in that role is responsible for developing and executing the companyâ€™s growth capital strategy and serves as the primary contact with the investor community.Â Prior to joining Peachtree Hotel Group, Rob spent 14 years as a real estate investment banker, focused on mergers and acquisitions, and private equity placement for public and private real estate entities and asset portfolios.

Most recently he was Director and Head of Private Equity of KeyBankâ€™s real estate team, and prior to that held similar positions at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a boutique investment banking firm based in New York and Wachovia Securities (now Eastdil Secured).Â Â Rob has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and BS from the College of William and Mary.Â He also spent the first part of his career as a CPA.

Find Rob atÂ www.stonehillinvestors.com.

Business Radio Interviews: This Week At Business RadioX® Sandy Springs October 21 – 25, 2013 – Business RadioX

October 25, 2013 by rhondachale

This Week At Business RadioX® Sandy Springs

October 21 – 25, 2013

Featuring Business Radio Interviews with Executives and Entrepreneurs from our Sandy Springs Studio

High Velocity Radio

Special Edition: Atlanta Tech Village

Desiree Interviews Sean McGinnis, Head of Marketing for Sears PartsDirect

Atlanta Business Radio

Special Edition: TiE Atlanta

Malenka Warner with Daybook Network, Jacqui Chew with TEDx Peachtree, Neale Martin with Sublime Behavior Marketing, and Peter Bowerman the Well Fed Author

Eugeria

The Ten Step Plan for Effective Senior Caregiving Today – Clarice Dowdle on Eugeria! Radio!

Learning Insights

Dawn Gartin with Manhattan Associates

Meeting Pros Radio

Lou Guzzo with Spectrum Entertainment, Jennifer C Nieman with Jennifer Nieman Makeup Artistry, Gayle Greenley with Loaves and Fishes Catering, and Veronica Oliver with Save the Date Weddings and Events

Booth 61 with Ricky Steele

Bill Winter and Ned Coker with CCP Games Take Booth 61 Into Outer Space and What A Great Trip It Was

The Doctors Roundtable

Venous Reflux Disease

Growth Matters

C. David Moody of C. D. Moody Construction and Sanquinetta Dover of DoverStaffing

Business Radio Interviews: This Week At Business RadioX® Sandy Springs October 21 – 25, 2013

October 25, 2013 by rhondachale

This Week At Business RadioX® Sandy Springs

October 21 – 25, 2013

Featuring Business Radio Interviews with Executives and Entrepreneurs from our Sandy Springs Studio

High Velocity Radio

Special Edition: Atlanta Tech Village

Desiree Interviews Sean McGinnis, Head of Marketing for Sears PartsDirect

Atlanta Business Radio

Special Edition: TiE Atlanta

Malenka Warner with Daybook Network, Jacqui Chew with TEDx Peachtree, Neale Martin with Sublime Behavior Marketing, and Peter Bowerman the Well Fed Author

Eugeria

The Ten Step Plan for Effective Senior Caregiving Today – Clarice Dowdle on Eugeria! Radio!

Learning Insights

Dawn Gartin with Manhattan Associates

Meeting Pros Radio

Booth 61 with Ricky Steele

Bill Winter and Ned Coker with CCP Games Take Booth 61 Into Outer Space and What A Great Trip It Was

The Doctors Roundtable

Venous Reflux Disease

Growth Matters

C. David Moody of C. D. Moody Construction and Sanquinetta Dover of DoverStaffing

Special Edition: TiE Atlanta

October 14, 2013 by rhondachale

Andre’ Schnabl/Andre’ Schnabl Advisors LLC

Andre’ Schnabl is formerly a Managing Partner of Grant Thornton LLP, Atlanta office. He now serves on boards and provides financial consulting support to early stage technology companies and more mature companies on global matters.

Mac Martirossian/MThree Advisory LLC

Born and raised overseas, Mac immigrated to the United States at the age of 13, speaking three languages. He graduated with honors from Long Island University’s School of Professional Accountancy and spent 12 years of his career with the New York and Dallas offices of Price Waterhouse, first in audit and then management consulting.

Mac has served as the Chief Financial Officer of two publicly traded companies, transitioning his career to positions of greater responsibility in General Management, Operations, and Sales and Marketing, globally on five continents. Most recently, he served in Senior Finance and Operations executive roles at the home services division of The Home Depot. He started MThree Advisory Services in December 2009, now serving clients in five states.

Profiles in Diversity

October 8, 2013 by rhondachale

Ashby Kent Fox/Burr & Forman

Profiled in 12th Annual “Women Worth Watching” issue of the Profiles in Diversity Journal

Ashby Kent Fox has practiced in Burr & Forman’s Litigation section since 2003 where she specializes in general commercial litigation. She has handled a wide variety of business disputes (tort and contract) for both plaintiffs and defendants, and her clients range from individuals and small businesses to large national financial institutions, including banks, lenders, mortgage companies and insurance companies.

Ashby represents her financial services clients in a variety of consumer finance and real estate matters, including actions for wrongful foreclosure, predatory lending, consumer protection law claims and other state and federal lender liability claims. In representing her title insurance clients, Ashby has handled numerous matters which involve evaluating and litigating bad faith claims, boundary line and easement disputes, one-half interest defects, lost or unrecorded security instruments issues, disputes over damages and loss valuations and other issues that frequently arise in the title insurance industry.

Ashby has nearly 10 years of experience litigating in Georgia’s state and federal courts, and has tried cases (bench and jury trials) in both. Additionally, she has successfully, efficiently and cost-effectively resolved numerous disputes through effective settlement negotiation and/or participation in alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, including mediation and arbitration.

Heather Generes/Recall Corporation

Profiled in 12th Annual “Women Worth Watching” issue of the Profiles in Diversity Journal

Heather Generes serves as Global Vice President, Marketing for Recall. She is responsible for Recall’s marketing, product management and digital services business located across more than 20 countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia/New Zealand.

Heather joined Recall from Pitney Bowes, Inc. where she spent over 15 years serving in increasingly senior positions. Most recently, she was Vice-President, Global Product Management where she managed new product development and active product management of software, business services, and hardware solutions for one of the company’s key line of business. Prior to this role, Heather was Vice President, Customer and Product Marketing, for Pitney Bowes’ Asia Pacific Region where she worked closely with both commercial and government customers in markets such as China, Japan and Australia.

Heather holds a B.S. degree in Communications Studies from Northwestern University located in Evanston, Illinois and has completed executive management programs at both the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, and the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business Administration.

Deborah Marshall/InGirls

Sunday September 29, 2013

October 2, 2013 by showbizatlanta

On this past Sunday’s edition of Week In Review (aired on Biz1190AM in Atlanta), Host Dana Barrett aired the following BusinessRadioX clips:

From Growth Matters: James Franklin, CEO of TechBridge talks about the perception of running a non-profit and how people think you should be able to do it on the cheap.
From Gwinnett Business Radio: Travis and Patsy Gatson, the husband-wife owners of the “Popcorn Palladium”, talk about many of the 41 flavors of popcorn they offer and how they’ve added birthday parties and movies to their offerings. Of note: There is a difference between talkers and doers. Travis and Patsy are doers!
From the Burr+Forman Results Matter Radio show: Dorothéa Bozicolona-Volpe, a strategic digital marketing executive and owner of Social Espionage talks about how to use social media to draw attention and to make money.

Spotlight on NAWBO – National Association of Women Business Owners

September 24, 2013 by rhondachale

NAWBO is the National Association of Women Business Owners. It is the oldest and largest business membership organization exclusively for women entrepreneurs who own their business. NAWBO was founded in 1975 to represent the interests of women business owners particuarly in public policy matters that impact thier businesses, incuding and especially what we are discussing today, the Women’s Business Ownership Act. Today NAWBO has 5,000 members across 3 chapters nationwide. The NAWBO Atlanta Chapter was formed in 1997 and meets monthly on second Thursdays at The Buckhead Club for a business education program and lunch.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NAWBO/67883022683 AND https://www.facebook.com/NAWBOAtlanta

LinkedIn: National Association of Women Business Owners

Twitter: @NAWBONational AND @NAWBOAtlanta

Nancy Chorpenning/C-Suite Advisors

Nancy Chorpenning is Founder and Managing Director of C-Suite Advisors, a business advisory practice helping business owners, especially women entrepreneurs, grow their companies by planning and focusing on the right priorities. Nancy spent nearly 30 years in corporate America before founding C-Suite Advisors in 2006, punctuated by a 2-year stint as a midlife Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea in the late 90s. She moved to Atlanta in 1999 as part of the management team that started up WebMD, where she launched the first physician website. She is a Director on the National Board of NAWBO where she serves as Chair of the Governance Committee. She has been a member of NAWBO since she started her business, and served on the Board of the Atlanta Chapter for 6 years including as Chapter President. She is also a member of the Presidents Assembly of NAWBO, past presidents who support current chapter leaders, where she has responsibility for 17 southern tier chapters of NAWBO. Nancy is a new bride, and she and her husband Paul live in Atlanta.

Dorothéa Bozicolona-Volpe

Dorothéa Bozicolona-Volpe is a strategic digital marketing executive who is fluent in 4 languages and specializes in developing business for international brands (Fortune 500) via initiating and integrating social media and digital strategies and enterprise social networking, as well as, building strategic partnerships and implementing marketing technologies. Dorothéa teaches marketers and business leaders how to measure, optimize and build current new media efforts to increase value and develop strong relationships between brands and fans Additionally, Dorothéa has appeared as a social media marketing strategy subject matter expert on CBS and CNN’s Ali Velshi show. Some of her clients include: Boy Scouts of America, Mashable, Ryan Seacrest, Ryan Seacrest Productions, Chrysler, The Weather Channel, AT&T, Georgia Tech, InterContinental Hotels Group, Mercer, Jewish Family & Career Services, Ogilvy & Mather, Reader’s Digest, Qualcomm, Turner Network Television, Coca-Cola. She is a new NAWBO member, and is presently leading a social media effort to engage interest in NAWBO’s upcoming Women’s Business Conference in Miami, October 3-5 this year.

Jill Peck/Henderson Shapiro Peck, Inc.

Jill Peck is Vice-President & COO for Henderson Shapiro Peck, Inc., a relationship-driven, award winning marketing and business support company. Areas of practice include healthcare, bioscience, pharma, communications/technology, publishing and non-profit. She is a member of National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Certified Women’s Business Enterprise Council (WBENC), Metro Atlanta Chamber, North Metro Chamber of Commerce, Roswell Business Alliance. Board of Directors (NAWBO Atlanta), Board of Directors (Emerge Scholarships), Volunteer Arthritis Foundation, Tolerance Education Program, Atlanta Food Bank.

Tonya Hicks/Power Solutions, Inc.

Tonya Hicks is founder and President of Power Solutions, Inc., a 13-year old commercial electrical contracting and engineering firm in Atlanta; Power Solutions also has a newer Maintenance Division. Tonya became the first woman journeyman electrician in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Meridian, MS in 1994. She is starting up another company “MaryAnn Works” providing work clothes designed for women in construction and uniformed services. Tonya is an avid blogger, and started “Women Do Everything,” to help women maintain, manage and renovate their homes. A single mother to two sons, aged 7 and 20, she is self-described as half Martha Stewart and half Oprah.

Linda Hughes/GreatRidge

Linda Hughes is the CEO of GreatRidge a consulting company focused on helping companies grow to meet their potential. Linda founded GreatRidge in 2008 after a 25 year career including leadership positions at companies including The Coca-Cola Company, AIG, and NorthHighland. Linda has been a member of NAWBO for over 3 years and is currently serving as the President of the NAWBO Atlanta chapter.