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ATDC Radio: Steve Baxter with GATOREVIEWS

February 21, 2020 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Steve Baxter with GATOREVIEWS

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Steve Baxter, COO and Co-Founder of GATOREVIEWS, is a serial entrepreneur. His last startup, Listen360, became the most successful customer review and Net Promoter software solutions with over 30,000 customers. Further, the software was licensed to NCR to become known globally as NCR CustomerVoice and deployed in 10’s of thousands of restaurants.

An accomplished software executive, Steve was also European Managing Director of CDC Software (NASDAQ: CDCS), with revenue responsibility of over $70m and over 460 staff.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode

What kind of business outcomes is GATOREVIEWS providing for their customers?
Why has GATOREVIEWS moved away from traditional emailed surveys for feedback?
Are recommendations on Google and Facebook enough?
How do reviews impact local search and SEO?

ATDC Radio: Michael F. D. Anaya with DEVCON and Amy Love with Invest Atlanta

February 21, 2020 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Michael F. D. Anaya with DEVCON and Amy Love with Invest Atlanta

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Michael F. D. Anaya is the Head of Global Cyber Investigations and Government Relations for DEVCON DETECT, Inc. (DEVCON). Prior to joining DEVCON, he spent approximately 14 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

He began his career as a Special Agent in the FBI’s Los Angeles field office addressing complex cyber matters for eight years, during which time he led numerous, expansive investigations including one that resulted in the first federal conviction of a US person for the use of a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet. He then was named a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) for the Leadership Development Program, charged with bringing together disparate divisions of the FBI focused on a workforce development initiative.

This resulted in a more balanced and inclusive program. After the implementation of the program, Michael went on to lead a cyber squad in the FBI’s Atlanta field office. There, he led a diverse group of Agents, Intel Analysts, and Computer Scientists in neutralizing nation-state and criminal threats. He secured one of the highest performance standards given by the FBI for the entire Atlanta cyber program, and he helped the program achieve a top-five ranking amongst the 56 FBI field offices.

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Amy Love leads the technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship efforts for Invest Atlanta. She leverages Invest Atlanta resources to support a robust innovation ecosystem where technology companies can launch, scale, and locate in the city, and create tech talent opportunities and community impact so all Atlantans can thrive.

Amy has spent the last decade focused on technology-based economic development, most recently at the South Carolina Department of Commerce as the state’s first-ever director of innovation, and at the Georgia Institute of Technology Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), where she grew ATDC’s statewide program to serve technology startups across Georgia. She holds a Masters in PR and Journalism from the University of South Carolina, and a BA in English from Furman University. Amy is a South Carolina Liberty Fellow, part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Connect with Amy on LinkedIn.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

What role Invest Atlanta plays in the city’s ecosystem
How Invest Atlanta serves tech entrepreneurs and companies
Special initiatives or programs with Invest Atlanta
Observations about the criminal mind
The main threats Devcon thinks we should be aware of in the cyber arena
Concerns about the digital supply chain and current cybersecurity landscape
Why organizations should share with the government

ATDC Radio: Take 5 with RoadSync CEO Robin Gregg, GroundFloor CEO Brian Dally and Host Jane McCracken with ATDC

January 23, 2020 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Take 5 with RoadSync CEO Robin Gregg, GroundFloor CEO Brian Dally and Host Jane McCracken with ATDC

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Robin Gregg has over fifteen years of experience building and launching financial solutions to consumers and businesses. Prior to RoadSync, Robin has held leadership roles at FleetCor, alternative payment provider Revolution Money (sold to Amex in 2010), and Capital One. Robin started her career in management consulting at Charles River Associates and has her MBA from Harvard Business School.

How to Connect with Robin

Website: www.roadsync.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robingregg/

Brian Dally is a co-founder and director of GROUNDFLOOR and serves as our CEO. He is responsible for setting long term direction and goals for the company, executive management, financing, and strategic partnerships.

How to Connect with Brian

Website: https://www.groundfloor.us/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bdally/

About Your Host

Jane McCracken returns to ATDC as a Startup Catalyst, having started her career here many years ago. She then moved into venture capital and investment banking both in the United States and Europe before joining an early-stage, medical diagnostics company as chief financial officer. During her time there, she raised $60 million and completed eight international acquisitions. The company was listed on both the London and Oslo stock exchanges.

Jane then worked with two venture-backed companies. She joined the founders of an online travel company as CEO, and took it from startup to the world’s second-largest hotel booking site before Travelocity acquired it. At the request of her venture investors, Jane then joined a computer games developer as CEO and turned around the faltering enterprise before it was sold to a NASDAQ-listed games company.

Most recently, Jane was CEO of an oncology-focused clinical research company, which grew from startup to a multinational firm with $15 million in annual revenue and offices across Europe and the United States. The company was financed through its own cash flow and was sold in early 2012 to a larger clinical research organization.

Jane continues to work with fast growing companies — in interim and full-time positions — as a consultant, board member, and angel investor. In addition, Jane has served on boards for public and private companies, as well as government-related and non-profit organizations. She is a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences, companies, and universities and is an active volunteer in her community. Jane obtained her bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University and her master’s degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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ATDC Radio: ATDC Director John Avery

January 23, 2020 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: ATDC Director John Avery

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John Avery is a serial entrepreneur who was part of four startups. A tech startup veteran with broad experience in data and wireless voice technologies, John was co-founder and chief technology officer of Convergence Corp., a maker of software that connects wireless devices to the Internet. Amazon acquired the company in 1999. Following that acquisition, he joined Amazon as an engineering manager.

How to Connect with John

Website: https://atdc.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwavery/

ATDC Radio: Cloe Guidry with Hire Ground

January 23, 2020 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Cloe Guidry with Hire Ground

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Cloe Guidry is the Founder and CEO of Hire Ground. Hire Ground helps companies better manage their existing suppliers, strategically source diverse suppliers, track and measure economic impact and ensures supplier training and development aligns with 21st century enterprise needs.

With a B.A. in Economics from Agnes Scott College and M.B.A. from Georgia State University, Cloe is passionate about leveraging technology and innovation to accelerate the transition to an equitable and sustainable economy. Prior to starting Hire Ground, Cloe served as Principal and SVP in two global brokerage firms, and has spent over 16 years successfully helping clients solve complex problems around risk, human capital, and supply chain inclusion.

Cloe continues to maintain an investment interest in EPIC. Cloe has a passion for helping small and middle-market businesses build successful teams, identify new opportunities for growth and develop a culture of continuous improvement, learning and development. Cloe is involved heavily with the Atlanta Women’s Foundation, serves on the Board of Advisors for the Metro Atlanta Chamber, and serves as a Pipeline Partners for the Center for Workforce Innovation through the Atlanta Committee for Progress (ACP).

Cloe lives in Atlanta with her husband and four children. She enjoys reading, design thinking, and exploring new ways to solve old problems.

How to Connect with Cloe

Website: https://hireground.io/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cloeguidry/

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

What is Hire Ground?
What made Ashley decide to start Hire Ground?
What has been her biggest challenge?
What does Hire Ground’s ideal client look like?
What diversity means to Ashley

ATDC Radio: Ashley Messer with Transitiv

January 23, 2020 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Ashley Messer with Transitiv

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Ashley Messer is the Founder and co-CEO of Transitiv. He is responsible for all day-to-day operations and technology. Previously, he built the foundational software and data science teams for a venture backed startup which exited for $125MM. Ashley is known for his leadership and analytics skills.

Outside of work, Ashley enjoys spending time with his family, long walks on the beach, skiing and is a frequent contributor to Open Source machine learning & statistics projects.

How to Connect with Ashley

Website: https://transitiv.io/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenashleymesser/

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

What challenges face marketers today?
What is unique about franchise businesses when it comes to marketing?
Why is connecting customer data across platforms and using it for marketing so difficult?
What is a customer data platform?

ATDC Radio: Edward Black with OncoLens

December 18, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Edward Black with OncoLens

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Ed Black is responsible for day to day operations of Oncolens, with a focus on ensuring successful customer onboarding and continued success in using our solution. Previous to this role, Ed held various client facing positions at Ingenious Med, a medical professional fee charge capture software solution company.

As the VP of Implementations and Training, Ed played a key role in scaling the company through an explosive growth period. He also held positions as the VP of Specialty Solutions and Strategic Account Manager.

Prior to working at Ingenious Med, Ed served in the United States Air Force where he was a C-130 pilot. He also served in various senior staff positions including at a US Embassy abroad and with the Space Shuttle Program.

Ed has a Master’s Degree in Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and a Bachelor of Science from The United States Air Force Academy. He is a certified Project Management Professional and member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

In his free time, Ed enjoys spending time with his wife trying to keep up with their teenagers, fly fishing, woodworking, and exercising.

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ATDC Radio: DataSeers Founder Adwait Joshi

December 18, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: DataSeers Founder Adwait Joshi

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Adwait Joshi is the founder and Chief Seer at DataSeers. He has been successfully helping his customers Taming the Data Demon giving them working solutions tailored to their needs.

Adwait was not only a straight-A student in school but was always interested in business opportunities. When he was 15 years old, he won a scholarship and learned C++. This exposure encouraged him to start his first company at the age of 15, AD’s Computers, which was extremely profitable and paved a path for Adwait’s future.

While at University at Buffalo, Adwait’s thesis on Visualization Techniques for Anthropometric Data made the concept of Universal Design easy and became a very important part of UB’s research for the next 10+ years.

Adwait’s IT career in the US began with Fisher Price where he spent his summer creating tools for mechanical engineers to speed up the design of toys and he was successful in automating a lot of trivial tasks. He then went on to work at Intel where he was given a challenge that had not been solved before, migrating a 3D visualization software to a 64-bit architecture. He not only took that challenge but tenuously worked towards finishing the project and won an award for doing it 4 weeks ahead of schedule.

For more than a decade now, Adwait has been working with various verticals solving their Data problems. He has tremendous expertise in Big Data and analytics. After a successful exit in 2016, he is back in the startup mode.

His latest venture DataSeers, is a startup focused on RegTech and helping FinTech companies with Reconciliation, Compliance, Fraud, and Analytics. The product he has engineered, FinanSeer, has been so majorly successful that within the first year the company was already profitable and winning awards.

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Questions and Topics in this Interview

How AI is changing the payments world?
What issues do synthetic identities create in the world of payments? How can we solve them?
Do banks and FIs really know their customers?
How can predictive analytics in payments prevent human trafficking?
What does taming the Data demon mean?

ATDC Radio: Assistant Director Jane McCracken and Entrepreneur in Residence Scott Ryan

December 18, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Assistant Director Jane McCracken and Entrepreneur in Residence Scott Ryan

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Scott Ryan, Entrepreneur in Residence at ATDC, has more than 20 years of experience building and exiting companies and leading teams to develop and sell products in the IT infrastructure and media technology industries. His exits include Concurrent Computer, a microcap Internet of Things (IoT) and video delivery provider; Senoia Systems, a provider of cloud migration solutions; Asankya Networks, a WAN Optimization solution provider, and Elastic Networks, an IPO in the DSL market.

Additionally, Scott’s leadership experience includes successful stints with storage leader, EMC; networking leader, Nortel Networks; and consulting innovator, North Highland.

He received both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from Vanderbilt University.

Connect with Scott on LinkedIn.