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ATDC RADIO: Jesse Lindsley with Thrust Interactive and Andy Okala with UZO

April 17, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC RADIO: Jesse Lindsley with Thrust Interactive and Andy Okala with UZO

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Jesse Lindsley is the Founder & CEO of Thrust Interactive, an Atlanta-based game development studio. The Thrust team has been creating video games and interactive experiences together for 10 years with over 100 product launches.

We are game designers and behavioral scientists who believe that innovation through collaboration can make a difference. Our Game Science philosophy applies a research-based approach to agile game development to create socially responsible habit-forming-fun solutions that influence behavior.

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As a 1st generation immigrant from Nigeria, Andy Okala faced the challenge of going from job to job trying to find the right fit while enrolled at The University of Georgia. Here he speaks about the UGA based startup, UZO: University Staffing, a more flexible solution designed to maximize the student earning opportunity.

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ATDC RADIO: Sneh Parmar with Parka Solutions and Alex Valdes with Trust Stamp

April 17, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC RADIO: Sneh Parmar with Parka Solutions and Alex Valdes with Trust Stamp

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Sneh Parmar is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parka Solutions. After seeing first hand the transition of transportation going from driving individual vehicles to micro-mobility solutions saturating the market, Sneh realized that there’s an opportunity to connect people with their city and surroundings via the new digital transportation networks.

He’s previous experience includes running a machine learning / cybersecurity accelerator, working at Fortune 500 Innovation Labs, and conducting due diligence at an angel investor network. In his free time, Sneh can be caught listening to hip-hop, studying fashion culture, or at a museum viewing art.

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Alex Valdes joined Trust Stamp over two years ago, while the company was still in its first year, because he immediately identified with the company’s mission to protect individuals and enterprises by helping to establish trust and identity for those who are engaged in internet-mediated transactions.

At the time, Alex was working as a CPA in strategy consulting and was very aware of the growing threat against businesses and its owners and executives due to the speed and sophistication of cyber-crimes. It really has become a sophisticated and even dangerous game, which leaves many companies ill-equipped to protect themselves from the variety of cyber-crimes which are targeting businesses every day, costing the economy billions of dollars each year, not to mention the intrinsic opportunity costs associated with poor verification systems.

Alex is an Alum of UGA. While there, he started several businesses. These experiences helped him build a passion for entrepreneurship. One of his most exciting experiences was a microfinance company that he co-created with a friend who he was studying with at an international university in Mexico. Along with his co-founder, he raised capital in the United States and engineered an innovative process to deliver micro-loans cheaply and securely to Mexican entrepreneurs.

While that was certainly an exhilarating experience, Alex decided to come home to the US to finish his business degree. After graduating, he spent a few years in consulting before joining Trust Stamp as a peer advisor. In the summer of 2016, he joined the team full time as Chief Financial Officer.

Trust Stamp is now are in it’s fourth year of operations and has nearly 30 employees with offices in San Francisco, London, Warsaw, Poland, and of course, their headquarters here in Atlanta, GA.

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ATDC RADIO: Will Allred with Sorter, Lynn Perry with Haste and Jason Perez with yardz

March 25, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC RADIO: Will Allred with Sorter, Lynn Perry with Haste and Jason Perez with yardz

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Will Allred is the chief operating officer and co-founder at Sorter, a data science-driven neuromarketing platform for digital teams. Sorter uses personality and decision making science to understand the psychology of a digital audience and recommends marketing actions to be more subconsciously resonate at scale.

After helping Sorter win TechStars Startup Weekend last year, Will joined Sorter with a deep understanding of the marketing technology landscape and with a track record of building and executing scalable go-to-market strategies.

Will has helped non-profits, startups, and Fortune 500 companies optimize and modernize their marketing to build better and more aligned customer experiences.

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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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Jason Perez comes from a pedigree of construction and entrepreneurship. His last firm was an international project management and consulting firm that had great success in the mission critical world. He has sat on several boards and has been a trusted adviser for a widespread of companies. As CEO of yardz he brings a high business aptitude mixed with a passion driven culture.

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ATDC RADIO: Arjun Devarajan with Toucan AI and Kell Canty with Verady

March 25, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC RADIO: Arjun Devarajan with Toucan AI and Kell Canty with Verady

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Arjun Devarajan is the CEO and Co-founder of Toucan AI. His background is in computer science and physics from Duke, and he previously worked on an ag-tech company called Farmshots that was acquired in early 2018.

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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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ATDC RADIO: John Croyle with W9manager, Dr. Yared Alemu with TQI and Hien Ta with QwikCheck

March 25, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC RADIO: John Croyle with W9manager, Dr. Yared Alemu with TQI and Hien Ta with QwikCheck

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John Croyle started W9manager after collecting W-9 forms and preparing 1099s for 20 years as a corporate controller of several different companies. He determined there had to be a better way! Vendors would send in W-9s that were incomplete, unsigned, with no name, with no TIN, and without the LLC type selected.

In addition, the year would always end with missing W-9 forms regardless of the vendor approval process in place. W-9 forms were also often difficult to find at year-end, as they could be saved in multiple places and under various names. Then the work from the prior year had to be reviewed and a determination made on who should receive a 1099 form in the current year (paper…in the digital age!) And all this had to be handled during January, one of the busiest months of the year! W9manager was started with the mission to eliminate the W-9/1099 madness at year-end for all companies!

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Dr. Yared Alemu is a psychologist for 15 years both as a clinician and administrator in variety of settings. He is the founder of TQI, which was founded two and half years ago. He is a thought leader on how digital health, automation and analytics can improve treatment outcomes for mental health patients in the publicly funded mental healthcare.

TQI platform is focused on using innovative technologies in voice/speech recognition technology and ML analytics to help payers and providers at the time of care make data-driven decisions about treatments.

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Hien Ta, CEO of QwikCheck, holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Mercer University. He brings years of industry experience in Fintech, C-Store POS systems, and payment processing.

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ATDC RADIO: Jacqui Chew with ATDC

March 25, 2019 by angishields

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ATDC RADIO: Jacqui Chew with ATDC

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Jacqui Chew is ATDC’s startup catalyst and CMO-in-Residence with a focus on providing customer acquisition and channel strategy as well as investor relations counsel. She is an award-winning go-to-market strategist and principal at iFusion, a digital strategy collective. Jacqui’s experience spans well-known brands and high-growth b2b and b2c startups including Cycloramic, eBay, IBM, Stainmaster, PeopleSoft (now Oracle), and Venture Atlanta. As the senior marketing executive at Silverpop, a marketing automation pioneer, she oversaw its debut and supported the Series B round venture capital raise of $30 million.

Jacqui has spoken at TED and is a sought-after speaker on digital strategy, disruptive business models, and entrepreneurship. She has been featured on FOX 5 Atlanta and quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today, and Fortune.

Jacqui is active in the technology and social innovation communities. She organizes TEDxPeachtree, the largest TEDx event in Georgia and contributes to the TAG Hi-Growth Industry Task Force. Previously, she served on the boards of the Atlanta Press Club, Women in Technology and the Atlanta chapter of the American Marketing Association. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing from the University of Hawaii, Manoa and speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese.

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Bill Hogan and Ben Andrews with ATDC

January 14, 2019 by angishields

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Bill Hogan and Ben Andrews with ATDC

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Bill Hogan has always had a strong interest in technology and business, an interest that led to his obtaining his bachelor’s degree in applied physics from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Early in his career, Bill ran the European operations of a U.S.-based music services business. Stationed in London for three years, he created a pan-European satellite distribution network using cutting-edge MCPC technology. This new technology changed the industry paradigm for delivering music to customers. In 2000, he co-founded a technology-based startup called EGT, an ATDC company. EGT was focused on building products to improve the bandwidth efficiency of transmitting video over various networks. The company raised more than $30 million in venture capital, developed the first software-based video encoder for the cable television industry and generated more than $12 million per year in annual revenue.

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Ben Andrews oversees the ATDC @ initiative, which takes the incubator’s education, resources, and programming to various cities across the state. He will work with ATDC’s catalysts in current ATDC @cities, which include Athens, Augusta, Peachtree Corners, and Savannah. He joined ATDC in 2017 as community engagement coordinator, where he managed relationships with the incubator’s sponsors and external partners. 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. In that position, he 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 he and his team accomplished 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. He received a bachelor’s in business management from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business.

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John Avery and Ben Andrews with ATDC

December 14, 2018 by angishields

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John Avery and Ben Andrews with ATDC

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John Avery, Director at ATDC, 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 engineering manager. In 2001, John became an early employee of Mobliss, a mobile applications and messaging solutions company in the entertainment space. He later became the company’s chief technology officer. Japan’s Index Corp., a developer of mobile phone content and information and other media services such as video on demand, acquired Mobliss in 2004. He holds six patents and owns Onboard Now, a developer of software for embedded devices such as smart phones, Web-enabled cameras, and industrial controls. Most recently, he was engineering group manager of Panasonic Automotive Systems’ Panasonic Innovation Center at the Georgia Tech campus. At Panasonic, John oversaw the innovation center’s development projects in next-generation automotive systems including, infotainment, bio-sensing, machine vision, deep learning, and heads-up displays. He is a Georgia Tech graduate with a bachelor’s degree in engineering.

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Ben Andrews currently works as the Community Engagement Coordinator at the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) in Tech Square In Atlanta. He manages the social media presence, marketing, public relations, and eternal affairs for the ATDC. He also works to promote the businesses housed within the ATDC. As the State of Georgia’s Technology Incubator, the ATDC currently houses over 150 start-up companies, and has graduated over 170 successful companies through it’s program. Ben began his career working for the Community and Economic Development Department for the city of Americus. In 2013, he was promoted to department director, becoming the youngest senior staff member in the city’s modern history. He oversaw a variety of boards and authorities, and worked with recruiting, retaining, and assisting small businesses. Ben 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 as the Senior Market Manager for Community Engagement. After leaving ACS, he worked in various paid and volunteer roles for several political campaigns. Outside of work Ben is active in my community and served as a board member for several non-profit organizations, and managed a capital campaign for a charitable organization. He has participated in multiple leadership training classes both as a participant and an instructor, and has experience and advanced training as a group facilitator. In 2012 he was a team leader for the GeorgiaForward Young Gamechangers program, which brings together young professionals from various fields to tackle policy issues in communities throughout Georgia. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors for GeorgiaForward. In September of 2014 he was included as one of the top four selections for Rural Leader Magazine’s inaugural 40 under 40 publication.

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Corbett Gilliam with ATDC

November 15, 2018 by angishields

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Corbett Gilliam with ATDC

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Corbett Gilliam, Corporate Development Manager at ATDC, is a visionary leader with expertise in business operations, digital/social strategy execution, brand strategy, and content marketing. He has a proven track record of achieving exceptional results within the FinTech, mobile, livestreaming, and SaaS sectors. Corbett has a history of transforming a companies core business model and marketing strategy to achieve objectives in revenue growth and profitability.

Corbett is a graduate of the University of Georgia where he obtained a bachelor’s degree economics. He also earned his master’s degree in business administration from Mercer University’s Stetson School of Business and Economics.

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