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Mary-Kay Boler of TAG Education Collaborative and Zach White of ZK White Pressure Washing

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After a 17-year career as a small business consultant, Mary-Kay Boler recently joined the TAG Education Collaborative (TAG-Ed), the charitable organization established by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) to increase interest in technology education and careers in Georgia. TAG-Ed offers meaningful, hands-on science, technology, engineering and math initiatives, including Georgia STEM Day, web-based team challenges and its internship program for high school students. As Development Director, Mary-Kay is responsible for the organization’s strategic and tactical fundraising activities, including building partnerships with corporate donors, securing funds from area foundations, and maintaining relationships with TAG-Ed’s invaluable STEM advocates.

Mary Kay has extensive experience building organizations and a proven commitment to STEM education. She founded Catapult Strategic Consulting and for nearly two decades provided strategic, financial and marketing assistance to emerging companies and non-profits. For the last five years, Mary Kay also has been involved with FIRST Robotics, as a business mentor on the Walton Robotics team, a member of the board of the Walton Robotics Foundation, and as a volunteer with Georgia FIRST.

Mary-Kay also is the president of the East Cobb Business Association (ECBA), a local organization that develops business leaders through networking, and education and community involvement. Information on monthly ECBA activities and special events is available at eastcobbba.com.

Mary-Kay can be reached at 470-823-4306 or at mkboler@tagonline.org. Additional information on all of TAG-Ed’s programs can be found at www.tagedonline.org, https://twitter.com/TAG_Education, https://www.facebook.com/tageducationcollaborative/ and https://www.youtube.com/user/TAGEducation.

Zach White is the owner of ZK White Pressure Washing. He started the company on a whim…and a great deal on a professional pressure washing unit; fast forward five years and He’s expanded that whim to a steady paced full time business. Currently, he works alongside his wife to keep everything rolling. This business rewards me with instant gratification. At the end of each day, they strive to make sure customers are happy. In addition to his experience in the industry, he has been licensed and insured for four years. No matter how much we grow, he will always be ‘your friend with a pressure washer’!!

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Gary Price with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kevin Martinez with Premium Capital Management and Victoria Watkins with East Cobb Business Association

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Gary Price/PricewaterhouseCoopersÂ

Gary Price is an advisory partner with more than 28 years of experience providing a wide range of assurance, advisory and controls services to a wide range of organizations. Gary joined PwC in Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 where he served a number of public manufacturing clients. Gary participated in a industry based tour in the Firm’s public utility practice between 1985-1988. During his tour, Gary was responsible for both audit and advisory services to clients in the utility sector.

Gary was admitted to the partnership in Cleveland in 1995 and transferred to Atlanta in 1999 where he was responsible for delivering a wide range of services to a large, global transportation company. From September 2004 until January 2006, Gary served as the Firm’s Assurance strategy leader. In January 2006 he was appointed the Managing Partner of PwC’s Atlanta office, and in July 2007 he assumed responsibility for PwC’s practices in both Alabama and Tennessee.

Gary is actively involved in the metro Atlanta community with his focus and passion on improving public education. Gary is currently: the Treasurer of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; the Audit Committee Chair of the Woodruff Arts Center; Member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Metro Atlanta; and, Chair of the Georgia Council on Economic Education.

Kevin Martinez/Premium Capital Management

Kevin Martinez is President and CEO ofÂ Premium Capital Management, LLC. He is the author of “The Book on Put Option Writing” and is a noted lecturer on the subject of writing puts to enhance portfolio value.

Kevin is a graduate of the University of South Florida and is a Life Member of its alumni association. He has also served as president to a number of civic organizations.

Victoria Watkins/East Cobb Business AssociationÂ

Attorney Victoria Watkins was born in the Motor City and raised in sunny Southern California. Victoria completedÂ her undergraduate coursework at Randolph-Macon Womanâ€™s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and Reading,Â England. She graduated cum laude from the Georgia State University College of Law, where she was a member ofÂ the Moot Court Board and interned with the Georgia Council on Aging.

Victoria is a member in good standing of the Georgia Bar and the Cobb County Bar Association, is an AccreditedÂ Attorney with the Veterans Administration, and is an active member of the Georgia Association for Women LawyersÂ and the Academy of VA Pension Planners. She serves on the board of the Cobb Services for the Elderly and theÂ Cherokee Services for the Elderly, and is the current President of the East Cobb Business Association.

Victoria enjoys gardening with her husband, playing with her two children, knitting and reading mysteries.

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