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Matt Pieper of Open Hand Atlanta and Jess White of Good Measure Meals

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Matthew (Matt) Pieper is the Executive Director for Open Hand Atlanta, a community-driven non-profit organization providing nutritious and medically appropriate meals, nutrition education and counseling to those challenged by chronic disease or disability. Additionally, Open Hand provides services to those at risk who desire to prevent the onset of chronic conditions. Open Hand’s goal is to empower individuals with the resources needed to manage their health and make better lifestyle choices. Open Hand’s clients include seniors, people living with cancer, renal failure, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and many other chronic conditions. Through the support of collaborative partners, 8,000 volunteers annually and the community at large, Open Hand prepares, packages and delivers more than 5,000 meals daily to those in need.

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Jess White / Good Measure Meals

Jess White is no stranger to the world of health and wellness as Senior Vice President of Good Measure Meals. As a Georgia Native and daughter of a health care professional and exercise enthusiast, Jess spent much of her life active in outdoor sports, fitness, and healthy eating. It wasn’t until her studies at Georgia Tech, that Jess started connecting all of the dots and decided that optimizing health promoting behaviors in the community would become a personal mission. From Georgia Tech, Jess traveled west to pursue her Master’s degree in Exercise and Sport Science at Oregon State University, focusing on Exercise and Sport Psychology, specifically Behavior Modification and prevention of obesity and diabetes in special populations.

White worked in the corporate sector before getting back to her wellness roots and taking the position of Director of Corporate Wellness and Interim General Manager of Peachtree Center Athletic Club. While at PCAC, she partnered with Good Measure Meals to incorporate nutrition into their wellness programing. Shortly thereafter, Good Measure Meals came calling when they decided to develop a Corporate Wellness program of their own, so Jess came on board in the beginning of 2010 to head that initiative. Jess has since developed strong relationships around the community in both the corporate and medical sectors and implemented a wide variety of wellness initiatives to promote healthy lifestyles within these populations.

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Silver Lining in the Cloud

Rich Parlontieri with Speedemissions, Charles Hall with Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia and Jess Parsons White with Open Hand/Good Measure Meals

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Dominick Rainey, Rich Parlontieri, Jess Parsons White, Charles Hall, Nikole Toptas

Rich Parlontieri/Speedemissions

Speedemissions is a 14-year old company that was among the first to develop and build the emission-test-only store in Atlanta. They’ve grown to 43 location in four major cities: Atlanta, Houston, St. Louis and Salt Lake City. In 2010, they developed CARbonga, the first iPhone app for consumers to diagnose their own vehicles for emission problems and more. That app was followed up with CARbonga-SRI, a revolutionary iPhone app that provides details about a car’s safety recall status and technical services bulletins. Most recently, they have been piloting an emissions repair model that has lead to re-branding the company with two new brands: Expresso Emissions and Expresso Car Care Café. The names, logo design and store were just introduced in mid- January. In addition, they just signed a joint venture, Retail Vehicle Registration, to provide the consumer with an easy way to renew their vehicle registration without the hassle of a DMV.

Charles Hall/Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia

Hyperbaric Physicians of Georgia is a medical practice focused on resolving wounds that are not healing with basic care. The physicians in their group are certified in wound healing and hyperbaric medicine. Each of their four locations (Whitcher Street Medical Office Building attached to Kennestone Hospital; St. Joseph Hospital lower level; Northside Forsyth Hospital campus, Bldg 1505; and Lithonia near Hillandale Hospital) are UHMS Accredited hyperbaric medicine centers. With hyperbaric medicine and a full armament of evidence-based wound resolution products, their physicians are able to heal (or at a minimum, significantly improve) the majority of wounds, thermal injuries and late effects of radiation presented to them. In most cases a physician referral is not necessary to be seen by one of their doctors for evaluation (depending on insurance requirements). Most insurance and Medicare/Medicaid is accepted.

Jess Parsons White/Open Hand/Good Measure Meals

Good Measure Meals is the social enterprise for the nonprofit Open Hand/Atlanta. Good Measure Meals is a fresh, local portion and calorie-controlled meal plan designed to help with weight, disease and time management. 100% of the net proceeds from GMM go to Open Hand to support its mission of providing healthy meals and nutrition education programs at no cost to the underserved and chronically ill in the communities.