Andrew Q. Leba is a co-founder of Fanaticus, Inc., a VR, XR, e-sports start-up based in Atlanta, Georgia. Fanaticus, Inc. encourages people to “Dream with Your Eyes Open” and seeks to unite great story-telling with VR.
By day, Andrew is an intellectual property attorney, where he works with innovative companies to protect their ideas and defend against copy-cats. He manages all facets of intellectual property for his clients, enforcing patents, conducting freedom-to-operate analyses, managing trademark portfolios, handling patent licensing issues, and drafting and negotiating intellectual property transfers and assignments.
Outside of work, Andrew represents unaccompanied immigrant children in asylum proceedings stays active in civic life. He is currently President of the Vietnamese American Bar Association Georgia, Board Member of the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Co-Chair of the National Conference of Vietnamese American Attorneys, and an alumnus of Lead Atlanta 2019.
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Lynn Perry joined gaming network company Haste, as CEO in May 2018. Prior to Haste, she held sales, marketing and service leadership roles for Sage Software, marketing automation company Salesfusion, and Cloud Sherpas, which was acquired by Accenture in 2015.
An Atlanta native, Lynn is a graduate of The University of Georgia and has a Masters degree from Georgia Tech.
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Andrew McConnell is the Founder and CEO of Rented.com, the largest marketplace in the world helping property owners find the right property manager. With an expansive network and the ability to guarantee rental income, Rented.com facilitates a relaxed short-term rental experience for second home owners while simultaneously helping property managers grow and scale more easily.
Andrew holds degrees from Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Cambridge University, and has worked with some of the world’s largest public and private entities as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co., and as a Director, Solutions Design at Axiom Global, Inc. In addition to speaking and writing about vacation rentals and the sharing economy, Andrew also contributes more general business insights and advice to publications like Inc.com, Forbes, and Huffington Post.
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Joey Kline is a Vice President at JLL, specializing in office brokerage and tenant representation. As an Atlanta native, he has a deep passion for promoting the economic growth and continued competitiveness of communities in and around Atlanta, as well as the Southeast as a whole. He has completed transactions in every major submarket of metro Atlanta, and works primarily with start-ups, advertising/marketing agencies, and publicly-traded companies. With a healthy mix of tenacious drive and analytical insights, Joey is a skilled negotiator who advises clients on a myriad of complex real estate matters.
With a strategy and business development background, Joey is first and foremost a pragmatic advisor to his clients. Most recently, he was the Director of Business Development for American Fueling Systems, an Atlanta-based alternative energy company. While at JLL, he has become a member of the Million Dollar Club, and has built a reputation as an expert on the intersection of transit-accessibility and urban real estate. With intimate involvement in site selection and planning/zoning concerns, Joey approaches real estate from the perspective of the end user, and thus possesses a unique lens through which to serve his clients.
Joey holds a Master of Business Administration from Emory University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a founder, board member, and the treasurer of Advance Atlanta, and also sits on the Selection Committee for the Association for Corporate Growth’s Fast 40 event. In addition, he is a member of CoreNet and the Urban Land Institute. Finally, he is part of LEAD Atlanta’s Class of 2019.
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