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ATDC Radio: Ben Andrews and Rad Harrell with ATDC

September 18, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Ben Andrews and Rad Harrell with ATDC

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Statewide Program Manager Ben Andrews joined ATDC as Community Engagement Coordinator in the fall of 2017. After graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business in 2009, Ben began his career working for the Community and Economic Development Department for the city of Americus. While working for the city, he earned his MBA from Georgia Southwestern State University.

In 2013 he was promoted to department director, becoming the youngest senior staff member in the city’s modern history. Ben oversaw a variety of boards and authorities, and worked with recruiting, retaining, and assisting small businesses. He was regularly invited to speak at various conferences about the work being accomplished by him and his team in Americus.

In 2016 he returned to Atlanta to work for the American Cancer Society in the role of Senior Market Manager for Community Engagement. There he worked with various verticals within the Atlanta market, ranging from fundraising to mission delivery.

Outside of work Ben is active in his community. He has served as a board member for several non-profit organizations and has worked to address issues ranging from affordable housing and cyclist and pedestrian safety, to improving childhood literacy. He has managed capital campaigns for various charitable organizations.

Currently, he is a board member of GeorgiaForward, a non-partisan think tank focused on policy issues across the state. He also is chairman of alumni engagement for GeorgiaForward’s Young Gamechanger program. In September 2014, Rural Leader Magazine named him one of the top four selections for its inaugural “40 Under 40” publication.

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Radford Harrell is the new ATDC Startup Catalysts in Savannah, Georgia. In that role, he will manage the ATDC @ Savannah programming and work with entrepreneurs looking to build technology companies and product-based startups in the greater Savannah region.

Harrell is a serial entrepreneur. His most recent venture was as CEO of TalentSoup.com. After serving in the U.S. Navy, Harrell earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from Auburn University, where he was a Dean’s List graduate. He relocated to Savannah from Atlanta in 2009, and has been active with the Creative Coast in Savannah ever since.

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ATDC Radio: Kell Canty with Verady, Anthony Maley with Vouch and Chris Maurice with Yellow Card Financial

September 18, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Kell Canty with Verady, Anthony Maley with Vouch and Chris Maurice with Yellow Card Financial

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Kell Canty has over 25 years of experience in technology development and building companies that capitalize on identity, audit, and payments utilizing advanced technology. Kell is Co-founder of Verady, a blockchain asset accounting and audit technology company, and leads its product direction and business development efforts.

Previously in the Blockchain space, Kell started Coinpliance in 2013 as one of the first ventures to advance regulatory innovation in Bitcoin particularly in the areas of KYC and AML. He has co-founded multiple Fintech startups including a market leading real-time identity, credit, and risk assessment company that was acquired by HNC Software Inc. which then merged into Fair Isaac Corporation(FICO.)

Kell holds a BS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a licensed pilot, advanced scuba diver, and volunteers locally.

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Anthony Maley is Co-Founder and CTO at Vouch.io where he also leads strategy for products and intellectual property. Anthony has 25 years of executive and leadership experience performing CTO or Chief Architect roles for Toyota Europe, AGCO, SunTrust in both the USA and Europe.

He has extensive expertise in building innovation and transformation teams as well as designing and implementing full end to end solutions within the Blockchain, Digital, IoT and Enterprise spaces.

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Chris Maurice is the CEO and co-founder of Yellow Card Financial. Chris started his first company in High School sourcing clothing and metalwork from India and Pakistan, giving him his first experience with international markets, partnerships, and currency exchange.

While studying finance at Auburn University, Chris and his co-founder Justin Poiroux started selling Bitcoin with the mission of giving people access to financial resources in a scalable, efficient manner. They made many mistakes and founded Yellow Card on the back of everything they learned. Chris is an Eagle Scout and was a finalist for both the 2019 Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships.

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ATDC Radio: Betsy Plattenburg with Curiosity Lab

September 18, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Betsy Plattenburg with Curiosity Lab

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Betsy Plattenburg has been connecting corporate innovation teams and startups for mutual benefit for more than a decade. She created both the Industry and Investor Connect programs at ATDC and has worked as a consultant advancing innovation.

Curiosity Lab is a unique economic development innovation investment that has allowed her to facilitate innovation in the smart city, IoT and mobility space on a global scale.

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ATDC Radio: Anju Mathew with Oncolens, Puja Vadodaria with DLA Piper, Jude Rasmus with Properly and Lynn Perry with Haste

August 22, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Anju Mathew with Oncolens, Puja Vadodaria with DLA Piper, Jude Rasmus with Properly and Lynn Perry with Haste

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Anju Mathew, Co-Founder and CEO of Oncolens. Oncolens has created s software solution that replaces the manual and labor-intensive process of collecting, presenting and reporting of cases for cancer tumor board conferences and health system accreditation. It is a multi-disciplinary approach that has shown increased positive outcomes for cancer patients.

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Puja Vadodaria is a business lawyer with DLA Piper, assisting entrepreneurs, companies and investors with venture capital investments, merger and acquisitions, and commercial transactions. She advises her clients on various legal and business matters, including entity formation, corporate governance, partnership matters, tax, capitalization, equity compensation, capital raising and customer contracts.

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Jude Rasmus is the Co-Founder & Head of Real Estate of Properly, a venture backed Real Estate Tech company founded in Atlanta. Jude has over 25 years of real estate experience, primarily focused on the stabilization of distressed assets.

Jude holds brokers license in seven states and is responsible for acquisition and disposition of over 20,000 residential assets in Atlanta MSA ($2 billion+ value) and the Southeast. She is a top three volume broker in Wall Street Journal’s “The Thousand” consistently.

Selling a home is the largest transaction most people make in their lives, and Jude has always believed it should be simple and transparent. She Co-Founded Properly because she knows that real estate can be better and more affordable for the average homeowner, and wants to help bring about that change.

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Lynn Perry, CEO of Haste. Haste is the next generation of internet optimization software for gamers and the esports industry. Their technology fixes lag and allows for better play by improving ping, packet loss and jitter.

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ATDC Radio: Tamara Lucas with Bamboo Services

August 22, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Tamara Lucas with Bamboo Services

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Bamboo Services was created in 2018 in the community of Oakhurst in Decatur, GA.

Tamara Vrooman Lucas is a busy, entrepreneurial single mom of two school-age boys. Amanda Farahany is an attorney who owns her own successful law firm and has started several successful technology-based businesses.

An idea conceived by a busy mom on a budget and a female employment attorney with no extra time, they saw the opportunity to use technology to connect the hyper-local gig economy with their time-starved neighbors to help them complete errands and their day-to-day task list while combining affordability, convenience, and trust.

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ATDC Radio: Danielle Claffey with Kuck Baxter Immigration and Danielle Major with Smart Convos

August 22, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Danielle Claffey with Kuck Baxter Immigration and Danielle Major with Smart Convos

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Danielle Claffey is a Partner with Kuck Baxter Immigration LLC and practices in all areas of U.S. immigration and nationality law. She has more than 12 years of experience in business immigration matters including employment-based visa petitions, investor petitions, family based immigration, affirmative asylum, nonimmigrant visas, consular processing and federal court litigation.

Ms. Claffey is also highly experienced in deportation, cancellation of removal and asylum proceedings before the immigration courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Danielle Major, CEO of Conversational Marketing Startup company Smart Convos, is a creative tech-loving executive with a desire to break communications barriers between businesses and consumers through new technology. She enjoys using her strong communication skills , creative chaos, and ingenuity to help build innovative ideas and relationships with others.

Danielle has a background in web design and marketing. She has a deep passion for helping others succeed, is always positive and loves meeting new people for great conversation.

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ATDC Radio: Nakia Melecio with iDesign and Conrad Cornell and Drew Williams with Press Sports

August 22, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Nakia Melecio with iDesign and Conrad Cornell and Drew Williams with Press Sports

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Nakia Melecio, Founder of iDesign Innovation Project, is a serial entrepreneur and an executive with over 20 years of experience in founding, operating, and growing successful companies. He has successfully started and grown businesses both nationally, as well as internationally; in countries like Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Africa.

Nakia’s current passion is inspiring and helping entrepreneurs and startups out of universities. His objective is to identify great entrepreneurs with love for taking a risk, aligning strategy, and executing on their ideas.

Nakia is an active member and mentor of the technology community and a frequent contributor to numerous business organizations like SCORE Association, a resource partner to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). He currently mentors for the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). He has been intimately involved with many new emerging growth technologies, companies with the government, and corporate innovation.

He shares in the thought leadership community through speaking at conferences, publishing works and engaging the community as a business advisor, business mentor, deep tech/deep science mentor, and startup coach.

Mr. Melecio has a master’s degree in Education, Teaching, and Learning, and Educational Technology, bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science and he also has a Doctor of Psychology, Educational Psychology, Educational Leadership.

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Conrad Cornell and Drew Williams realized there wasn’t a single athlete from any level around the world that had a publicly accessible profile with highlights from their entire career dating back to the multi-sport middle school and high school days. They are currently solving this problem for many of the top young athletes in the United States with Press Sports.

Drew Williams is 24 years old and was born and raised in Atlanta, GA. Growing up, he attended The Lovett School. Drew was a big fan of sports, playing multiple sports growing up like baseball, football and basketball. Drew attended and studied Marketing and Corporate Relations at the University of Mississippi and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

Conrad and Drew have known each other since the age of 4 and always ran small businesses growing up. When they were in elementary school, they would make bats out of bamboo and duct tape wallets for people in the neighborhood.

In high school, Drew and Conrad attended rival schools and actually decided to start a car wash business at the age of 16 called “DC Carwash”. They knew at a young age they would want to start something together. Once in college, Conrad and Drew discussed multiple ideas, but decided on a business that would allow athletes to upload and share their sports highlights to a fan base that actually wanted to see them, while also having an easily accessible, mobile profile to hold these highlights.

Drew and Conrad decided to pursue this dream, and began looking for an accelerator program. They looked at ATV, WeWorks, and ATDC. At the end of the day, they chose ATDC, not only because of the great reviews and success ATDC brings to start ups, but also because they were big Georgia Tech fans growing up. They used to attend football games together, watching Calvin Johnson and Reggie Ball play.

Drew and Conrad look forward to the success of Press Sports and are working everyday to bring their vision to a reality.

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ATDC Radio: Kirk Barnes with ATDC and Arletha Livingston with Morehouse School of Medicine

July 17, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Kirk Barnes with ATDC and Arletha Livingston with Morehouse School of Medicine

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Kirk Barnes is the Co-Founder of TransPharMed, a consulting firm focused on business development and commercialization for healthcare and health care focused start-ups. He has a life sciences background with experience related to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, nanotechnology, diagnostic, digital health and medical device industries. Kirk has a broad background encompassing leadership, sales, sales excellence coaching and training, business development, global marketing, lobbying and managed markets. Currently, Kirk also serves as a Start-Up Catalyst for new and emerging healthcare and digital health start-ups at the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) incubator housed at the Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, where he recently raised the funds to launch its first Healthcare Technology Program.

Kirk served in various positions of increasing responsibility for the following companies in the pharma/ biotech sector: Inventiv Health, Zogenix, Takeda, Janssen Biotech and Pfizer. Therapeutic categories included endocrinology, cardiology, pain management, central nervous system disorders, oncology and hematology. During his time in the pharma/biotech sector, Kirk helped to launch several blockbuster drugs in the diabetes and oncology therapeutic areas.

Kirk was also a Global Business Development Executive for the NanoProfessor & NanoGuardian divisions of NanoInk, a private equity funded start-up company commercializing research-based nanotechnology from Northwestern University. Kirk marketed innovative anti-counterfeiting solutions to pharmaceutical, defense, consumer and medical device companies in the US, EU and Asia. Furthermore, Kirk led lobbying efforts that contributed to the first draft of the FDA REMS for Long-Acting Opioids, US Health Import Safety Legislation and the E.U. Falsified Medicines Directive. He served as a Board Member of the International Authentication Association (IAA), which monitored and provided guidance regarding authentication techniques and counterfeiting trends.

Kirk continues to serve as a Together.Health Steering Committee Member (Founded under leadership from HHS/ONC), Coulter Foundation Oversight Committee Member, TAG Health Board Member, GA BIO Commercialization Committee Member, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce BioScience Council Member and a Board Observer for Patientory (Blockchain Digital Health Company). Kirk holds a B.A. in Economics from Florida A&M University.

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Arletha Livingston is the Director of Innovations Learning Laboratory and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine with Morehouse School of Medicine.

ATDC Radio: Sid Mookerji with Silicon Road and Corbett Gilliam with ATDC

July 17, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Sid Mookerji with Silicon Road and Corbett Gilliam with ATDC

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Sid Mookerji is a leader of Retail Innovation as the Founder and Managing Partner of Silicon Road – which is defining the Future of Retail; Funded by Retailers. He is also CEO and co-founder of Silver Spirit Global LLC which operates tech parks in India and the US.

Prior, Sid was Global CEO and Founder of SPI for 22 years. Software Paradigms International Group, LLC (SPI), founded in 1994, was an award winning full-service global technology solutions partner of choice for retailers worldwide. SPI was acquired by Cognizant Technology Solutions in 2018. SPI provided IT Services as well a suite of products including supply chain management and analytics aimed at solving the omni-channel puzzle for retailers.

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Corbett Gilliam is Corporate Development Manager for ATDC.

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