Brad Serff / Providence Bank
CEO
Brad Serff is the President, CEO and a Founding Director of Providence Bank in Alpharetta Georgia. He began his 28 year banking career in 1988 with Citizens & Southern National Bank (C&S) here in Atlanta Georgia and spent the next 28 years working as a banker in Georgia. Mr. Serff left Exchange Bank based in Milledgeville Georgia in 2005 to return to Atlanta and open Providence Bank. He is currently the Chairman of the Community Bankers Association of Georgia. He is also active in the local community the Vice Chairman of the Milton First Responders Foundation, Chairman of YMCA Camp High Harbour and a member of the Milton / Windward Rotary Club.
Jenn Graham / Aha! Strategy and Civic Dinners
CEO and Social Innovation Designer
Jenn Graham is the founder and CEO of Aha! Strategy, an Atlanta-based social innovation design firm, that works exclusively with nonprofits—at a city, state and national level—to move the needle on important social and civic issues, from early childhood education to transportation to community engagement. She is also Co-Founder of Civic Dinners, a civic engagement platform designed to bring new voices to the table around conversations that matter.
Through her work, Jenn has helped raise the Millennial voice by leading the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Millennial Advisory Panel and sparked a week-long conversation on regional transit leading the The Great Exchange on Transportation in Gwinnett. In partnership with the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, Jenn helped raise the visibility of bicycling in Atlanta by rebranding and reorganizing Atlanta Streets Alive, which is now the largest open streets event in the country. She’s led the brand strategy, communications and community engagement for Get Georgia Reading and Talk With Me Baby, a coalition funded by United Way working to bridge the 30 million word gap by training nurses to coach parents on the power of language nutrition.
Jenn’s community leadership roles include branding and project lead for (co)lab summit, a Collaborative Leadership Summit organized by Leadership Atlanta in 2013 and TEDxAtlanta co-organizer for 5 years, and over 10 events, helping over 100 speakers prepare for the talk of their life.
Betsy Hall / Hall’s Flower Shop & Garden Center
Owner
Hall’s was founded in 1946 in the Kirkwood neighborhood of Atlanta by Wayne and Mildred Hall; their outstanding reputation for flowers and plants is carried on by their son Kenneth and his wife Betsy. As a florist, we’re given the honor of being a part of life’s precious moments; birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, graduation and funerals. Even a gift for a simple get well or “I’m thinking of you” has special meaning when expressed with flowers. We get to know our customers and the trust they give us is humbling. Give Hall’s a call and let us show you what a difference a Real, Local Florist can make when sending flowers and plants.
