Alicia Carr, Erica Stanley and Todd Barton
Todd Barton / Renters Warehouse Atlanta
Managing Director
Renters Warehouse is one of the fastest-growing and highest-reviewed property management companies in America. This full-service company offers homeowners a quick and convenient way to turn their house into a long-term investment property and provides peace-of-mind for both owners and tenants. In 2015, the company officially trademarked the term Rent Estate™ to redefine the entire industry as real estate gives way to this new lucrative asset. As President of Renters Warehouse Atlanta, Todd Barton is dedicated to continually improving the company’s service offering and creating the best client experience in the industry. Before opening Renters Warehouse Atlanta in 2012, Todd practiced commercial real estate law and worked in the wholesale mortgage business. Todd remains a licensed attorney specializing in Residential Landlord law, as well as currently oversees a team which manages more than 1,000 properties (and growing!) in and around the Atlanta area.
Alicia V. Carr / Women Who Code Atlanta
Director, Atlanta Network
My vision and goal is to advance women in technology and grow confidence in changing their career to mobile development and technology opportunities. As a certified Life-Coach and CEO/Founder of Purple Evolution, Inc. (PEVO). I have been a strong advocate against family violence and crimes against women for many years. Being a child of domestic violence and losing a close friend to these unspeakable acts, led me to counseling and speaking out against domestic violence at any venue that would allow me.
PEVO was established in an effort to empower women of Domestic Violence with the essential tools required to develop a safe, secure exit plan. Furthermore, by shining the spotlight on this horrible crisis PEVO is bringing awareness to the community at large.
Being in touch with the digital age and my experience with technological advancements. My effort turned to creating a tool modern enough to attract millennial’s, but visual enough to live in the social media universe. The first option was creating a tool on the Apple IOS mobile platform that was becoming the go to program for mobile devices. For a little over a year I studied and worked with programmers to learn and develop an app that would give me access to what my goal and vision was. What was created was “The Purple Pocketbook” IOS mobile app.
Purple Evolution, Inc. (PEVO) formerly The Purple Pocketbook, was established as an effort to
empower women experiencing domestic violence with the essential tools required to develop
a safe, secure exit plan. As someone who’s had family and friends fall victim to domestic
violence, Alicia wants her app to help the millions suffering from abuse across the country.
Erica Stanley / Women Who Code Atlanta
Founder & Director, Atlanta Network
Erica Stanley is the Co-founder of the Atlanta Network of Women Who Code, where she organizes tech talks, workshops, hack nights and networking events for women technologists. She collaborates with companies within the Atlanta tech community to help improve strategies around diversity and inclusion. She also develops and teaches youth coding programs, mentors at local hackathons and speaks at various conferences and user groups.
Erica is a software engineer, researcher and tinkerer with over 15 years of experience with Fortune 500 companies, as well as successful startups, including Boeing, FOX Interactive Media, Turner Broadcasting, and Oracle. She holds a B.S and M.S in Computer Science from Clark Atlanta University. She also conducted post-graduate research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Erica is passionately working towards gender and multicultural inclusion in tech, via education and exposure to opportunities.