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ATDC Radio: Tommy Marshall with University System of Georgia

November 20, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Tommy Marshall with University System of Georgia

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Tommy Marshall, Executive Director, Georgia Fintech Academy, University System of Georgia – Tommy has spent his 20+ year management consulting career focused on digital financial services and fintech. He works to bring his depth in payments, banking, capital markets, finance & regulation together with the Georgia and global fintech ecosystem to lead and support the objectives of the Georgia Fintech Academy.

Tommy is a graduate of Davidson College and holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University. He has called Atlanta home for the past ten years.

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ATDC Radio: Brian Holloway and Tommy Zavieh with Frazier and Deeter

November 20, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Brian Holloway and Tommy Zavieh with Frazier and Deeter

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Brian Holloway has more than 18 years of experience providing valuation, litigation, and consulting services to attorneys, accountants, chief financial officers, corporate controllers, tax directors, and other upper-level management.

Brian has valued the following types of business entities, securities, and assets: publicly-traded corporations, closely held corporations, closely held corporation fractional ownership interests, foreign-domiciled corporations, intangible assets, stock options, general and limited partnership interests, limited liability company interests, and franchises.

Brian’s industry experience includes healthcare, technology, life sciences/biotechnology, hospitality, financial services, retail, food/beverage, insurance, media, consumer products, manufacturing, telecommunications, advertising, auto parts, transportation, professional services, real estate, and governmental entities.

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Tommy Zavieh, Principal with Frazier and Deeter, has over 20 years of professional consulting experience, 15 of which have been dedicated to R&D Tax Credits. He has extensive experience in addressing complex business and specialty tax needs [R&D Tax Credit, Section 199 (DPAD), Meals & Entertainment (M&E), Cost Segregation] for a variety of industries, including automotive, bio-sciences, consumer products, financial services, medical device, oil/gas, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and technology (software and hardware).

Tommy has served startup companies that have gone on to be listed on NYSE to Fortune companies that are household names, helping them improve cash flow, earnings per share and effective tax rates. He has helped his clients receive more than $1.4 billion in credits and deductions and successfully defended clients’ claims when audited.

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ATDC Radio: Community Engagement Manager Adam Gautsch

November 20, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Community Engagement Manager Adam Gautsch

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Before joining ATDC, Adam Gautsch spent most of his career helping to run a website development company in Greenville, South Carolina. For fun, he helped start and run different organizations and events in the tech and entrepreneurial sectors. These included a co-working space, a social entrepreneur meetup, an idea collection website for cities, an app tracking the Greenville trolleys, and Startup Week Greenville.

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ATDC Radio: Karl Falk, Tracy Fox and Jonathan Steenland with BotDoc

November 20, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Karl Falk, Tracy Fox and Jonathan Steenland with BotDoc

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Karl Falk, CEO of BotDoc, is a visionary behind refined and simple processes. US Air Force Academy graduate, former AF officer, responsibility over $1B, Government consultant on emerging tech and rapid software prototyping. Entrepreneur with ability to lead, inspire others and take action.

Tracy Fox, CRO and Director of Business Develpment and Sales with BotDoc, is a seasoned entrepreneur and visionary business leader; building, growing, and scaling multiple Founding, Fortune 500, and Fortune 100 companies. Passion for building people and teams to achieve market leading growth.

Jonathan Steenland is Chief Innovation and Security Officer at Botdoc. Prior to that, he was the Chief Strategy Officer at the National Cybersecurity Center (NCC) and co-founder and Principal of CISO Services with Zyston where he was responsible for co-leading Zyston’s CISO Advisory and Consulting Services.

Jonathan is passionate about creating innovative security programs that are aligned with business needs, providing sustained competitive advantages for business and developing next-generation cybersecurity professionals.

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ATDC Radio: Araz Feyzi with Syfer

November 20, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Araz Feyzi with Syfer

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Araz Feyzi, Founder and CEO of Syfer, is an Engineer with a Masters in Information Systems, a technologist and data scientist with over 10 years of experience at Caesars Entertainment and Duetto Cloud.

Syfer provides security for the internet of everything. They grew from a physical device that helps individual households better secure their internet and connect devices to a piece of software that helps internet service providers (ISPs) better protect all their customers.

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ATDC Radio: Monique Mills with ATDC Retail Tech Program, Steve Baxter with GATOREVIEWS and Pavleen Thukral with Stackfolio

October 17, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Monique Mills with ATDC Retail Tech Program, Steve Baxter with GATOREVIEWS and Pavleen Thukral with Stackfolio

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Monique Mills, Serial Entrepreneur and ATDC’s Retail Tech Program Manager, is a degreed electrical engineer turned serial entrepreneur, having founded 4 companies. She began her career in the semiconductor industry then went on to hold positions in the energy, aviation, real estate, and technology industries.

Now working with startups and small businesses on their strategy, Monique partners with various incubators and accelerators around the country and brings her talent to ATDC to support founders with technologies to transform the retail industry.

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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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Pavleen Thukral – Founder and CEO at Stackfolio, former NSA and Bloomberg engineer, research with Thad Starner, father of Wearables, founder of HackGT.

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ATDC Radio: ATDC Investor Relations Manager Brad Schweizer

October 17, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: ATDC Investor Relations Manager Brad Schweizer

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Brad Schweizer, Investor Relations Manager with ATDC, has extensive background in venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, significant financial modeling experience and private equity as an associate at Morris, Manning & Martin (MMM). He will be able to help companies understand the impact a financing round might have on their cap table, pro-formas, and option pools, among other considerations.

As an entrepreneur, Brad was co-founder and chief operating officer of Dedo.ai, a health technology company.

Prior that, he served as COO of Aces Health, a startup with a focus on complex clinical trials. In that role, he not only gained the operating experience of leading a startup, but also the experience of navigating complex regulatory environments and communicating these intricate details to investors in a way that was easy to understand.

At Aces Health, he led the financing rounds and raised approximately $2.5 million for the company through a variety of instruments, including SAFEs (simple agreement for future equity), convertible notes, warrants, and preferred shares.

A St. Louis, Missouri native, Brad has a joint law degree and MBA from Emory University, and a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

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ATDC Radio: Benjamin Damiani with Solar Inventions

October 17, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Benjamin Damiani with Solar Inventions

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Ben Damiani, CEO of Solar Inventions, has spent his career in solar. His innovations have enjoyed global reach through his work at early solar pioneers, Suniva and SolarWorld. He has worked across the world commercializing new solar technologies and building solar manufacturing facilities.

Ben received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and did part of his grad work at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. After graduating he joined Intel’s Process Technology Development (PTD) group and lead the medium current ion implant group. Bridging the technology from the integrated electronics industry into the solar industry, Ben was responsible for the 1st ever implementation of Ion Implanted Solar Cells in high volume production for Suniva, Inc.

Ben successfully realized this USA born technology from concept and feasibility to 180 MW’s production capacity in less than 28 months, a process that normally takes 6 years. As the Director of Industrial Technology Development for Semco Engineering in France he developed new processes for plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, low pressure diffusion and oxidation, bifacial solar modules, and n-type PhosTop solar modules. He holds several patents and has authored more than 30 papers.

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ATDC Radio: Greg Coonley with Wahsega

September 18, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Greg Coonley with Wahsega

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Greg Coonley is a Georgia Tech Graduate with a EE degree. He worked for Motorola designing 2-way RF pagers as well as manufacturing lines for the pagers.

Greg founded an embedded operating system company (Unicoi Systems) in 2002. Unicoi is still going strong and provides a full suite of embedded software offerings.

Greg founded Wahsega in 2015. Wahsega is an IOT Life Safety, Mass Notification company with an initial focus in the K-12 market segment. Wahsega manufactures a wide range of communication equipment from IP speakers, IP Displays, IP Intercoms.

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