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ATDC Radio: Connie Casteel, Kenji Takeuchi and Shauvik Roy Choudhary with MoQuality

July 17, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Connie Casteel, Kenji Takeuchi and Shauvik Roy Choudhary with MoQuality

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Connie Casteel helps ATDC clients around the state understand and secure federal funding from the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs — highly competitive research awards up to $1.5 million. As an interface with Georgia’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (GaMEP), she also helps connect ATDC startup companies with manufacturers and manufacturing resources. Connie’s background is in proposal development, competitive intelligence, data management, and innovation.

Kenji Takeuchi is an entrepreneur with extensive Fortune 500 executive technology management experience. As an entrepreneur, Kenji has founded and successfully exited several high-tech startup companies. He has led product development for several multinational technology firms, including Honeywell, Flex (Flextronics), Cisco/Scientific-Atlanta, Nagravision, and Iomega. He has served as vice president of engineering and chief technology officer at Flex and Honeywell, where he led global engineering teams and product development across multiple lines of businesses.

Kenji holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in engineering/robotics, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively.

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Shauvik Roy Choudhary is CEO of MoQuality.

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ATDC Radio: Allyson Eman with Venture Atlanta

July 17, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Allyson Eman with Venture Atlanta

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Allyson Eman is currently the Executive Director of Venture Atlanta. Allyson has been leading this organization since it’s inception in 2007 and planning the 12th event. This is one of the largest venture capital conferences in the country and was established by Metro Chamber, TAG and Atlanta CEO Council.

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ATDC Radio: Nathan Huynh with NextJuris

July 17, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Nathan Huynh with NextJuris

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Nathan Huynh is the CEO of NextJuris, a knowledge sharing and expertise matching platform for the legal industry. Nathan is a lawyer who also has a BS in electrical engineering.

Nathan began his career as a Silicon Valley technology lawyer with over 15 years of professional legal practice with world-class law firms and cutting-edge technology companies. He has advised major technology companies on business transactions driven by the use, management and acquisition of technology and intellectual property assets, including extensive experience in tech sector M&A transactions, cross-border transactions and tech sector venture capital investments to structure the transfer and protection of technology and intellectual property assets.

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ATDC Radio: Matt Golden and Stuart Zola with MapHabit

May 23, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Matt Golden and Stuart Zola with MapHabit

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Matt Golden is Co-Founder and CEO of MapHabit.

Stuart Zola is Co-Founder of MapHabit.

Impressive gains in our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have not created therapies that are safe and effective. In March of last year, MapHabit was founded out of a mutual passion to help people with memory impairment live better.

The MapHabitTM System (MHS) is a personalized, mapping software for mobile devices that is safe, noninvasive, and low in cost, which helps memory-impaired individuals and caregivers accomplish activities and improve independent function. The innovative part about MapHabit’s patent-pending process is that it is highly adaptable so that as a person’s cognitive abilities change, the accessibility features also evolve with the individual.

MapHabit’s software is being translated to various languages/cultures and will be potentially used across a myriad of medical conditions spanning AD/related dementias, special needs (developmental and physical disabilities), mental health, physical/occupational therapy, etc.

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ATDC Radio: Monique Mills with ATDC and Pete Santora with Softwear Automation

May 23, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Monique Mills with ATDC and Pete Santora with Softwear Automation

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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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Pete Santora is the Chief Commercial Officer of Softwear Automation and responsible for commercialization and growth of the company in Asia, US, Europe and Central America. He’s a previous 2-time All American and professional soccer player and founder of two technology companies, one of which was Blue Sombrero, named after a soccer move. It was acquired by Dick’s Sporting Goods in 2010. Pete made it a point to share his entrepreneurial experience and knowledge with technology founders in Georgia to help them launch and grow successful companies by previously serving as Research Faculty at Georgia Tech as an Entrepreneur in Residence at ATDC and as a Member and Coach at Flashpoint.

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ATDC Radio: Fintech Catalyst Charles Potts

May 23, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC Radio: Fintech Catalyst Charles Potts

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Charles Potts is a recognized leader in the financial technology and payments industry with 25+ years of hands-on experience in building, growing, and leading organizations. In addition to starting his own companies, Potts’ ability to achieve profitable revenue growth and exceed business objectives in a combination of start-up, early-stage and public-companies has landed him Executive roles at Jack Henry, Goldleaf, Fiserv and most recently First Performance, where he led the start-up’s Business Development activities.

His expertise in corporate strategy, business development and product management as well as his leadership success in international markets brings important insights to executive management teams and venture firms on crucial matters dealing with the evaluation, integration and deployment of financial services and emerging payments-related technologies with a key focus on digital and mobile channels and their related operational efficiencies.

A frequent industry speaker and author, Potts is an active member and former board member and past president of The Association for Financial Technology Providers (AFT), former director for The Financial Managers Society and former board member of PROFORMANCE. Potts currently serves on the advisory boards of several start-ups.

ATDC RADIO: Brandy Nagel with Georgia Tech Economic Development Lab and Joy Hymel with ATDC

May 23, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC RADIO: Brandy Nagel with Georgia Tech Economic Development Lab and Joy Hymel with ATDC

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One of the connectors in the Atlanta ecosystem, Brandy Nagel works at Georgia Tech’s Economic Development Lab. She helps universities and communities grow with innovation-led economic development programs. She teaches Lean Startup and other topics to support entrepreneurship and economic development.

Brandy’s background includes marketing communications and trademark licensing. From strategy to execution, she’s developed and launched marketing plans at startups, corporations, non-profits, small businesses and agencies. She wrote two books on social media, and is working on a new book now.

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Joy Hymel connects ATDC Companies with GT talent, faculty & resources. She also connects GT with world-wide strategic partners.

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ATDC RADIO: Puga Sankara with Smart Gladiator

April 17, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC RADIO: Puga Sankara with Smart Gladiator

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Puga Sankara is the CEO and co-founder of Smart Gladiator. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology for retailers, distributors and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator Wearables have been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 50 million boxes.

Users love them for the lightweight, easy-to-use soft overlay keyboard and video chatting ability, data collection ability etc. Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 17 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard.

Puga has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at puga@smartgladiator.com

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ATDC RADIO: Brad Schweizer with ATDC

April 17, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC RADIO: Brad Schweizer with ATDC

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Brad Schweizer, Investor Relations Manager with ATDC, holds a joint JD/MBA degree from Emory University, with a strong focus on the intersection of corporate law with finance, accounting, venture capital and strategy. He has a demonstrated history of performing extensive due diligence ranging from venture capital investments and M&A to compliance with securities laws.

Brad also has experience practicing law with a focus on venture capital, private equity, M&A, and general corporate governance matters. Brad has direct experience leading the development of a go-to-market, commercialization and financial strategy for an innovative spinal implant used in spinal fusion surgeries.

With the help of some exceptional colleagues, Brad’s work on this spinal implant helped him and his team win several awards at national business plan competitions across the country. With a strong grasp of both business and the law, Brad has developed the ability to navigate the ever-changing healthcare industry, particularly when it comes to innovative medical devices and SaaS based information technology solutions.

His strong skill set includes Public Speaking, Legal Writing and Contract Drafting, Leadership, Negotiations, Financial Modeling, and Microsoft Excel.

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