Randy Davidson/Georgia Entertainment News
Georgia Entertainment News is an active and credible resource for those who work and serve this industry. They publish news and information from numerous sources and conduct interviews and videos with the who’s who of Georgia’s entertainment world. Their mission is to provide strategic and competitive intelligence to movie makers, production professionals, musicians, game developers, educators and all those with a stake in entertainment.
Christy Butler Eckoff/Atlanta Jewish Foundation
Christy Butler Eckoff is the Chief Foundation Officer and Managing Director of the Atlanta Jewish Foundation. Christy is an expert on charitable estate planning, gift planning, asset-based giving, laws surrounding nonprofits, private foundations, supporting organizations, donor-advised funds, and nonprofit taxation.
Previously, Christy served as managing director, philanthropic counsel at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and served as senior director of gift planning at Georgia State University. She previously practiced tax and fiduciary law. She is past-president of the Georgia Planned Giving Council, past-president of the Association of Fundraising
Professionals (AFP) Greater Atlanta chapter and a member of the Junior League of Atlanta.
Christy was a board member of AdNet (the Advancement Network for Community Foundations) and is currently on the board of the Atlanta Estate Planning Council, the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners (CGP), and the Association of Fundraising Professionals National PAC board. Christy co-leads the National Standards for Gift Planning Success task force of CGP.
Randy Gorod/Pisgah Consulting
Randy Gorod is the President & CEO of Pisgah Consulting. He has had a long and diverse career serving in the non-profit sector. He worked with Young Judaea and at Camp Judaea for over three years. After graduate school, he returned to Atlanta to work at Congregation Etz Chaim as its Youth Director and Executive Director for nine years. His development experience began at Etz Chaim and continued at the Jewish Federation of
Greater Atlanta where he helped lead the Community Campaign for Caring for three years and to its highest annual level of over $18 million in one year. He moved to Emory University to be part of the university’s $1.6 billion comprehensive campaign and worked through the campaign completion, nearly six years. After helping The Jewish Agency for
Israel work on a better development process for almost two years, he left to form Pisgah Consulting.
At Pisgah Consulting, he has worked with organizations like Hillel International, ORT Atlanta, local Hillels, the Center for the Visually Impaired and others. Pisgah Consulting offers non-profits the opportunity to focus on core competencies by building strong development operations, plans and staff.
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About Gaslowitz Frankel:
Gaslowitz Frankel is an experienced trial practice firm specializing in all aspects of complex fiduciary litigation throughout Georgia and the Southeast. With a focus on representing individuals, companies, banks, and fiduciaries in dispute involving wills, estates, trusts, guardianships, businesses, and securities law, their experienced and highly qualified litigation attorneys have tremendous credentials and a proven history of success.
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Tricia Houston/MMR LIVE Experience Design
MMR LIVE is an experience design consultancy that puts human emotions at the core of their work. They believe that everything about a brand communicates, and that staying relevant requires consistent adaptation. Their focus is closing experience gaps through the integration of research, creative thinking, and operational expertise. Their process takes the mystery out of brand loyalty and ensures your vision comes to life. They help you become more valuable to the people you care about. They help you become ExperienceBuilt™.
Josh Sweeney/FounderScale
FounderScale helps B2B companies increase sales by optimizing sales and marketing operations. They turn your sales and marketing team into a sales and marketing machine.
Larry Talbert/Talbert Insurance Services
Talbert Insurance Services is an independent agency with a large number of providers with a small company service feel. Live people answering the phones is very important to them, so all the phones in the office ring until someone answers. Of course, Covid has limited this a little, but they try their best. They have won Best in Gwinnett 10 years in a row and Best in Duluth 3 years in a row. They work for the customer, not the carrier.
Lori Lyons/Igniting Your Business
Business owners today are struggling with this new, even more intense online world. They have to be deliberate and plan their digital strategies, but many don’t know how. Igniting Your Business can help. They work with service-based businesses with their online presence through awesome websites and connected digital marketing.
Igniting Your Business is a website design and digital marketing company specializing in seasoned service based businesses and consultants. They design an amazing online presence for them so they attract their perfect clients and grow and flourish. They keep the digital side of the business “in flow” and each component working together from websites, to SEO, to email marketing, to social media.
Kent Suter/OneAmerica
In a world where stability has increasing value, especially for financial services companies, you can count on the companies of OneAmerica. They have built a 140-year foundation of strength, and they will continue to thrive and grow by keeping commitments to stability and ongoing policyholder value.
Among their financial company peers, they continue to outperform. They have become one of the fastest-growing mutual insurance holding companies in the U.S. Today, the companies of OneAmerica rely on a national network of financial professionals to provide customers with products and services such as retirement products and services, individual life insurance and annuities, asset-based long-term care, and employee benefits.
Jane Bishop/Take the Next Step
Jane Bishop, is CEO of Take the Next Step which emerged out of her passion to help others “go for their It.” She helps small business owners and entrepreneurs strengthen and align with their inner core for success by using her coaching and training skills. When you work with Jane you will experience accomplishing your “it” and be a greater influence to those around you. Jane uses her E4U system to help clients get to the core faster to create and execute a plan for effectiveness. Jane is also a professional speaker and published author. Curious? Reach out and book a complimentary session and see where that leads.
Ryan Sauers/President of Sauers Consulting Strategies
Ryan T. Sauers has spent 25 years leading and/or consulting with visual communications and marketing related organizations. Ryan is President/Owner of the consulting firm, Sauers Consulting Strategies; Our Town Gwinnett Magazine (2 monthly magazines); and its parent company End Resultz Media.
Key areas of focus of the consulting firm include: sales training, marketing strategy, personal branding, leadership development, and organizational change.
Sauers is a frequent national speaker and columnist. He has been recognized as one of the top 80 CMO’s in the world and achieved the top designation of Certified Marketing Executive through Sales and Marketing Executives International.
Sauers is an adjunct university professor teaching leadership, marketing, and communication courses to current and aspiring leaders. Ryan is a Certified Myers Briggs, DiSC, and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner.
Ryan is working on his Doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership and is host of the radio show Marketing Matters. Sauers is author of the best-selling books Everyone is in Sales and Would You Buy from You? More info at: RyanSauers.com or OurTownGwinnett.com.
Show Overview
Marketing Matters with Ryan Sauers is a radio show presented the Gwinnett Woman’s Small Business Collective. The show discusses topics as they relate to marketing, communications, sales, customer service, leadership and more. Host Ryan Sauers, a best-selling author and national speaker, discusses how these topics play a role in every aspect of our lives. Each episode shares tangible nuggets of information that listeners can easily understand and apply to their everyday life, whether personal or business. The show challenges listeners’ current state of thinking so they can grow to new heights and see new opportunities in business or life: which is rapidly changing, multi-generational, and noisy in nature.
Casey Clark & Rich Dobbs/Capital Restoration
Capital Restoration, headquartered in Marietta, GA is a General Contractor that specializes in commercial emergency restoration services such as fire, smoke, water, storm damage and Covid disinfecting for Atlanta and the entire Southeastern U.S. Their motto is “Problem Solved!”
Eric Alimena/Alimena Limousine & Worldwide Transportation
Alimena Limousine & Worldwide Transportation is an elite provider of professional, reliable, luxury transportation services worldwide, whose mission is to make a difference one person at a time by making life easier, creating peace of mind and generating unforgettable experiences.
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Corporal Mark Still/Gwinnett County Police Department
The Gwinnett County Police Department is an agency with a long history of excellence, integrity, and fairness. The department enjoys a strong relationship with the diverse community it serves and continues to build that reputation by constantly engaging and interacting with the residents. Due to their reputation, high standards, and commitment to excellence, they only recruit and hire the best and most qualified applicants.
The Gwinnett County Police Department is the second largest police agency in Georgia with an authorized strength of 877 sworn officers, supported by 276 civilian employees. The department is CALEA accredited, originally attaining that designation in 1993. Gwinnett is located in the northeast part of metro Atlanta, serving a population of more than 800,000 residents with an area of 437 square miles.
Matt Hyatt/Rocket IT (Culture Creator Recipient)
Rocket IT is the outsourced IT department for all kinds of businesses, providing the strategy, security, and support needed to help organizations thrive. The organization virtually manages all its clients’ day-to-day technology requirements for a flat monthly fee, with no contracts to tie them down. With businesses becoming more dependent on technology every day, it’s almost impossible for companies to keep up with all the complexity. It’s more than one internal IT person can handle, and it requires more strategic insight than most IT support companies offer.
That’s where Rocket IT come in. Rocket IT’s unique three-pronged approach includes: 1) services built around the people instead of technology; 2) real strategic foresight, not just break/fix hindsight; and 3) a better way to ensure trust and accountability. Rocket IT gives small businesses the capability of a full IT department, with a 98% client satisfaction rate and a 25-year track record of helping people thrive.
Since 1995, Rocket IT has helped businesses meet their goals through the effective use of technology. Today, the organization actively supports a long list of growing companies in diverse industries including finance, healthcare and manufacturing.
Sharmin Arefin/Arefin Law Office (Minority-Owned/Woman-Owned Small Business Recipient)
The Arefin Law Office (ALO) is an Atlanta metropolitan-area based consumer financial services law firm, which specializes in employment litigation, business transactions, commercial
litigation, consumer credit litigation, contested foreclosures, sales practices and advertising of auto dealerships, regulatory compliance, regulatory enforcement and trials, evidentiary
hearings, and child welfare matters. At ALO, their clients’ best interests come first, and everything they do is guided by their values and professional ethics. Building on their client and non-client relationships, they strive to light the way for their clients.
Jennifer DeLoach/Bexley & DeLoach (Support System Award)
Bexley & DeLoach is a full-service boutique law firm located near downtown Lawrenceville, GA. They provide services in business, trademark, family, estate planning, probate, criminal and immigration law. Their signature is their personal, small-firm service coupled with big firm results.
Pierina Anderson/Twin Kookies & Treats (Launch Recipient)
Twin Kookies and Sweets is a home-based cottage food bakery. Pierina makes custom sugar and cinnamon cookies for all occasions. Made with love and with the freshest of ingredients.
Ali Jamal/Stablegold Hospitality (Emerging Entrepreneur Recipient)
Stablegold Hospitality is a real estate investment company that specializes in affordable accommodations for low-income and no income individuals and families. CEO Ali Jamal wanted to do something out-of-the-box for the hotel industry, and so he took a page from Wal-Mart, placing focus on volume vs. room rates. This ingenuity has developed a unique business model that allows the company to serve a demographic most businesses shy away from and, in doing so, performs a service for the local community by saving and re-purposing buildings that might otherwise remain vacant. What started in 2011 as one rundown and shutdown hotel is now a thriving business, with approximately 1500 Metro Atlanta rental units – which includes ten independently operated extended stay hotels in addition to single family residential housing. SGH employs more than 100 people in Georgia.
Chef Rosalind Tucker/Tucker’s Catering (Pivot Pro Recipient)
Tucker’s Catering is a family-owned catering business in Norcross, GA. Chef Roz started the company in 2007 with her husband, James Tucker, and they quickly established a reputation as one of the region’s finest catering companies. Tucker’s Catering was recently named Norcross’s best caterer. Today, the Tuckers and their team provide top-notch catering services to clients throughout Atlanta and the surrounding areas.
Steven Tomlinson/Level Seven Facilities Services (Small Business Award: 25+ Employees)
Level Seven Facilities Services is a commercial and industrial cleaning company founded on the belief that integrity, a rewarding workplace culture, and consistent, exceptional service are the keys to long-term success.
John Reynolds/Slow Pour Brewing Company (Small Business Award: 6-24 Employees)
Slow Pour Brewing Company, which opened its doors in September of 2017, began as a conversation and a what-if between Marty and his brother-in-law John, and they haven’t looked back since. A gift exchange that resulted in a home-brew kit was the beginning of this adventure. While dreaming about leaving the corporate world behind, John began perfecting his recipes, and Marty began scouting for the perfect location, itching to start a brewery. The plans became real when they closed on an old garment factory just off the square in downtown Lawrenceville, Ga. John jumped in full-time learning all he could about commercial brewing, and Marty turned his attention to buildout and prep. They quickly began forming an invaluable team of partners, consultants and talented industry-savvy staff to help create, not only the first brewery in Gwinnett County, but one of the best around.
From the beautifully inviting tasting room and beer garden beckoning friends to sit and chat, to the family friendly atmosphere, Slow Pour Brewing is where people want to be. They come to enjoy delicious, innovative and original brews, laugh and play games, and make the most of every moment because that’s what counts. At Slow Pour, they believe the moment matters.
Andrea Barclay/Because One Matters (Community Contributor Recipient)
The nation’s more than 437,000 children in foster care bounce from place to place with no sense of stability or belonging. People donate toys and other items during the holidays, but most of the children’s physical and emotional needs are unmet the rest of the year. That void needs to be filled so these children can feel loved and supported all year long.
The mission of Because One Matters (a 501(c)3 nonprofit) is to positively impact the lives of children in Georgia’s foster care system by creating lasting memories, sharing love, and empowering them to flourish into adulthood by providing comfort and easing the transition into foster care; celebrating children to show them they are not forgotten while in foster care; helping to provide young adult’s graceful transition into independent living; and providing ongoing support to those in college.
