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Kent Davies, Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce

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**Host John Ray and Kent Davies, President and CEO of the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce**

“North Fulton Business Radio,” Episode 142: Kent Davies, Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce

Kent Davies, President and CEO of the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce, speaks with Host John Ray about the growth of his Chamber, how the Chamber unifies the broader Johns Creek community, and how Chamber membership benefits business owners.

Kent Davies, President & CEO, Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce

Kent Davies is the President and CEO of the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce.

Prior to joining the Johns Creek Chamber, Kent retired as Vice President of the World Financial Group, as well as President of the WFG Foundation. WFG’s Worldwide Headquarters is located in Johns Creek. As Vice President, he worked with a large financial services sales force in both the USA and Canada. As President of the WFG Foundation, he led fund raising efforts, operations, and grant distribution to help serve those in need across the world. He is also a licensed life, accident & health agent and a securities registered rep, holding a supervisory license.

Kent also serves as a Board Member on Johns Creek Advantage helping with ‘smart growth’ of Johns Creek bringing & growing business and jobs to Johns Creek.

Kent and wife Susan met while both attended college at Brigham Young University. They have 4 children and 10 grandchildren. Kent also is a community volunteer in many projects, including a program that helps find employment for those in need and directly facilitating an emergency preparedness program involving 200 families through his church. Past positions held include Division Manager for GNC/DCI with responsibility for 1,800 franchises and 30 company units and VP of Operations for over 100 restaurants. For recreation Kent enjoys scuba diving, travel and spending time with family.

“North Fulton Business Radio” is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®, located inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with approximately $12.9 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

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Marilyn Margolis and Dr. Adedapo Odetoyinbo with Emory Johns Creek Hospital

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Marilyn Margolis, CEO of Emory Johns Creek Hospital, began her career at Emory Healthcare more than 35 years ago at Emory University hospital as a staff nurse in CCU. After caring for patients at the bedside for 15 years, she went to the Emergency Department as the Unit Director and began a career in leadership roles at EHC that included Director of nursing for emergency services and neurosciences, and Nursing Director for Operations. Marilyn has extensive experience leading quality initiative teams throughout the Emory Healthcare system in areas such as Emergency Services and ICU at Emory University Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown. She has also worked with teams to develop operational changes with patient flow and transfer services. Marilyn has been a champion for patient and family centered care and has worked with patient family advisors to institute change with our patients and family input. In March 2011, she was named interim Chief Nursing Officer of Emory Johns Creek Hospital before being named permanent CNO in August 2011. In April 2013, Marilyn was promoted to CNO and Vice President of Operations. On September 1, 2014, she was named interim Chief Executive Officer before being named permanent CEO in January 2015.

Notably, Marilyn is the recipient of the Nursing Management’s Visionary leader award in 2007 and the Georgia Hospital Association’s 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Marilyn received a master in nursing administration from the Nell Hodgson Woodruff Emory University School of Nursing. She also has done post graduate work at Harvard Business School and the Woodruff Leadership Academy. She is the newly elected Chair of the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce for 2017-2018, and is an active Board Member of the Johns Creek Advantage and North Fulton Community Charities. Additionally, Marilyn is a member of the Rotary Club of Johns Creek. Follow Emory Johns Creek on Twitter and Facebook.

Dr. Adedapo Odetoyinbo has been with Emory’s Hospital Medicine Division since 2006. He graduated from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria in 1990 and completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Lincoln Medical Center in Bronx, NY.

Since joining Emory he has served as Associate Chief Medical Officer at Emory Eastside Medical Center, Medical Director of Care Coordination, ACU Medical Director and currently Chief Medical officer at Emory Johns Creek Hospital.

Dr Odetoyinbo was awarded Emory Hospital Medicine’s Director’s award for excellence in 2009 and 2010. He led an initiative in 2009 to sensitize the Medical Staff to the methodology and potential impact of the HCAHPS survey. In 2010 he championed the hospital-wide implementation of Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (SIBR) at EJCH. He has led several projects on Revenue Integrity, Length of Stay reduction, Discharge Process Efficiency, Patient Safety and Physician Communication.

Dr Odetoyinbo received Emory University’s Department of Medicine Outstanding Clinician Award in 2012.