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Anita Reed is the Chief Operating Officer for mySupplier, Anita is a driven professional with over 20 years of demonstrated success in developing and optimizing business efficiency. She is highly adept at designing and implementing business operations, establishing policies that has promoted mySupplier’s company culture and vision, in addition to overseeing the day-to-day operations of the company. She has spent the past 6 years working with mySupplier to innovate and position themselves as a women-owned global technology company transforming facilities into smarter, safer, and sustainable workplaces that help businesses realize sustainable development.
The mySupplier team is continually pushing the limits to turn the cogs of IoT, digitization, and renewable energy among other technologies to deliver high-end solutions that make infrastructures scalable, robust, and equipped for the future. Our journey as an energy efficiency company is to enabling businesses to achieve their energy consumption goals and improve their bottom line. Technological prowess and innovation space enabled us to establish our very own Smart Buildings, Sustainable Solutions, and Health and Safety divisions to channel our efforts in making facilities better and the world a better place.
Jim Berryhill spent over 30 years in enterprise software sales and sales management, leading high-performance teams at ADR, CA, Siebel Systems, and HP Software with a focus on value selling. He founded DecisionLink with a vision to make Customer Value a strategic, competitive asset in the Digital Economy by delivering the first enterprise-class platform for Value Management.
“It’s been hard, if it were easy, somebody would have done it already. We’ve solved some tremendously difficult problems and have great customer-partners like ServiceNow, DocuSign, VMware, Marketo, Crowdstrike, and Caterpillar participate in the journey. We’re not done, but DecisionLink ValueCloud® is the first-ever enterprise-class business application for value selling. And we’re just getting warmed up.”
Chris Dowse, Global Senior Director of Value Insights for ServiceNow shares, “As CEO of DecisionLink, Jim has been a great partner to ServiceNow. He’s built a transformative technology for value management and an incredible team that has been instrumental in shaping the Value Management Program into a digital weapon at ServiceNow. Jim’s knowledge of the Value space is unparalleled. When the industry invented the term ‘trusted advisor’ they were talking about Jim.”
Jim is a graduate of the University of Georgia, resides in Atlanta with his wife Elise, and has 2 children and 3 grand-children.
James Garrett is the CEO of Sourcelink Capital Partners and Sr. Partner of Accelerated Growth Partners; both firms specializing in early-stage venture funding and strategic consulting, focusing on innovation and disruptive application technology. As a successful serial entrepreneur, Mr. Garrett currently serves on the boards of Trilith Studios, Sutikki, Icon Source and Hirewire; providing valuable strategic insight and access to growth capital having raised over $1B from more than a dozen of the nation’s top VC firms. Mr. Garrett holds several e-commerce related patents and is recognized as the chief architect and industry pioneer for electronic banking industry as well as mobile and web e-commerce applications for the $600B restaurant industry.
Mr. Garrett is most notably recognized for his innovations and contributions to bringing the restaurant industry into the digital age holding patents mobile and online ordering, POS integration, call center ordering integration, rapid re-ordering, group-ordering, pay-at-the-table, and geo-fencing order release to the POS. He is a frequent speaker on digital customer engagement.
In 2014 Mr. Garrett launched his latest venture, Hirewire, with $4M of capital from private investors. Today Hirewire is the leading mobile hiring application targeting hourly and part-time workers for the restaurant, hospitality and retail industry.
In 2013 Mr. Garrett sold his industry leading mobile technology company Snapfinger, to the private equity firm of Sid R. Bass and Associates for $40M. Mr. Garrett has been recognized by Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Red Herring, and Fast Company as one of the world’s top 100 most successful mobile technology entrepreneurs and is a five-time nominee for entrepreneur of the year.
Prior to starting Snapfinger, Mr. Garrett was responsible for engineering successful investor exits for direct marketing giant Response Marketing Group, which sold to Snyder Communications for $88M in 1998, and online banking pioneer Servantis, which sold to Checkfree for $200M in 1993.
Between 1980 and 1992, Mr. Garrett worked for Scientific Atlanta and Harris Corporation in an executive marketing capacity creating commercial applications for high-speed video and data satellite communications networks. Applications included the launch of CNN, ESPN, CBN, TWC and several other major entertainment and news networks; including serving on the board of “The Family Channel.”
Mr. Garrett earned his MBA from Georgia State University and his BAJ from the University of Georgia. Mr. Garrett lives with his wife of 36 years, Debbie, in North Atlanta. They have three grown children and three grandchildren. They both serve in leadership at North Point Community Church and they are both involved in and support a number of Christian ministries.
About Your Host
Joey Kline is a Vice President at JLL, specializing in office brokerage and tenant representation. As an Atlanta native, he has a deep passion for promoting the economic growth and continued competitiveness of communities in and around Atlanta, as well as the Southeast as a whole.
He has completed transactions in every major submarket of metro Atlanta, and works primarily with start-ups, advertising/marketing agencies, and publicly-traded companies. With a healthy mix of tenacious drive and analytical insights, Joey is a skilled negotiator who advises clients on a myriad of complex real estate matters.
With a strategy and business development background, Joey is first and foremost a pragmatic advisor to his clients. Most recently, he was the Director of Business Development for American Fueling Systems, an Atlanta-based alternative energy company. 
While at JLL, he has become a member of the Million Dollar Club, and has built a reputation as an expert on the intersection of transit-accessibility and urban real estate. With intimate involvement in site selection and planning/zoning concerns, Joey approaches real estate from the perspective of the end user, and thus possesses a unique lens through which to serve his clients.
Joey holds a Master of Business Administration from Emory University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a founder, board member, and the treasurer of Advance Atlanta, and also sits on the Selection Committee for the Association for Corporate Growth’s Fast 40 event. In addition, he is a member of CoreNet and the Urban Land Institute. Finally, he is part of LEAD Atlanta’s Class of 2019.
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