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Elizabeth Eichinger and Dr. Zachary Saylor with Institute for Biomedical Sciences and Corey Andrews with SafeStrip

September 12, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Elizabeth Eichinger and Dr. Zachary Saylor with Institute for Biomedical Sciences and Corey Andrews with SafeStrip

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Elizabeth Eichinger is the Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences. She works with all B.I.S. students to discover and attain their academic and career goals.

Zachary Saylor is a lecturer in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences. He teaches several classes at the Institute including “Careers in Biomedical Sciences” and “Scientific Communication”.

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Corey Andrews is an aspiring biomedical entrepreneur, who will be receiving his Masters in Biochemistry next Spring. He is also a previous alumni of Georgia State, receiving his B.S. in Neuroscience in 2018. His previous business experience has been performing campus customer discovery for Sony Electronics, and managing chain restaurants while earning his Bachelors.

Connect with Corey on LinkedIn.

Erica Bracey and Cameron Geer with LaunchGSU, Tia Forbes with The Knack Brand and Todd Campbell with Alpha Phi Alpha

September 12, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Erica Bracey and Cameron Geer with LaunchGSU, Tia Forbes with The Knack Brand and Todd Campbell with Alpha Phi Alpha

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Erica Wright Bracey currently manages the new student business incubator on campus, LaunchGSU. Erica stepped into this role at LaunchGSU in September 2017 but her GSU roots are much deeper. Prior to working at LaunchGSU, Erica worked as a business consultant for the Small Business Development Center at Georgia State University for eleven years assisting local Atlanta entrepreneurs start and grow small businesses. In addition to serving as a dedicated employee for over a decade, Bracey is a proud alum and graduate of the Robinson College of Business. However, the title she is most proud of is that of Panther Parent which was earned in Fall 2015 when the toddler who was in arms during her 2001 MBA commencement ceremony stepped on the Georgia State campus as a new freshman.

As manager of LaunchGSU, Bracey is responsible for supporting, nurturing and developing the dozens of members that utilize the incubator on a daily and weekly basis. This support is accomplished through coaching, consulting and implementation of entrepreneurship themed programming throughout the semester. Erica uses her background which spans across retail, academia, banking and the government to expose bright-eyed Panther-preneurs to as many areas of small business ownership as possible.

When Erica is not at LaunchGSU, she can often be found… or rather heard in the stands alongside her husband… supporting their youngest son, Steven under the Friday Night Lights of Lovett Lion Football or cheering her oldest son Brandon and his history making Panther Football team-mates to victory at Georgia State Stadium. Erica loves to lead by example and demonstrate what it means to be a part of this wonderful #PantherFamily and literally has the blue blood to prove it.

Cameron Geer is a Junior Global Studies major at GSU. She is expected to graduate in 2021. She is a marketing coordinator student assistant at LaunchGSU as well as a member of the Executive board for GSU’s Collegiate Entrepreneurs’’ Organization.

She is here with us to talk about LaunchGSU, and her own experience at GSU as a student and Panther-prenuer.

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Tia Forbes is a PhD student at Georgia State University in the Learning Sciences Department. She is a former media development and teacher that started a boutique firm after working in film and television education industries for 15 years.

Her company, The Knack Brand, focuses on professional development for entrepreneurs. Tia uses research-based techniques to help build a more media ready entrepreneur.

Connect with Tia on LinkedIn and follow The Knack Brand on Twitter and Facebook.

Todd Campbell is the Treasurer and Financial Literacy Program Chair of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. – Pi Gamma Lambda Chapter. He delivers the programming primarily through financial seminars and by playing the CashFlow 101 board game from Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad Poor Dad” book.

Todd attended Morehouse College with a BA in Economics and obtained an MBA in Personal Financial Planning from GSU. Todd is currently a Financial Coach for SmartPath and a part-time real estate investor in the metro Atlanta area as well.

Connect with Todd on LinkedIn and follow Pi Gamma Lambda on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Ken Mathis with GSU ENI, Jennifer Daniels with Flying Laboratories and GSU Startup Mentee Adesuwa Imafidon

March 7, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Ken Mathis with GSU ENI, Jennifer Daniels with Flying Laboratories and GSU Startup Mentee Adesuwa Imafidon

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Ken Mathis is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence in Georgia State University’s (GSU’s) Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute(ENI) where he teaches a course on How to Scale a New Venture and runs the Incubator for Startups.

He has an extensive track record of developing and implementing Large Scale, High Impact, Innovative Enterprise Payment Solutions for the Banking, Utility, and Health Care industries. He has over 30 years of Financial Services/Payments Industry experience as well as running a startup in the Payments Software-as-a-Service Businesses for the B2B market segment. Prior to GSU and starting two businesses, Ken held leadership positions at IBM, MasterCard and PriceWaterHouseCoopers.

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Jennifer Daniels is a bold and inspiring strategic leader, entrepreneurial growth adviser, certified coach and experiential workshop facilitator. She helps business leaders achieve better outcomes and greater impact by infusing entrepreneurial approaches into leadership development, strategic planning, operations, marketing and sales.

Jennifer serves as President at Flying Laboratories®, a strategic advisory and leadership coaching company. She is also an adjunct professor at Georgia State University teaching entrepreneurship in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business. She’s a member of Cherry Bekaert’s innovation advisory board and is Chairperson of the Catholic Charities Atlanta Leadership Program.

For over 20 years, Jennifer held progressive leadership roles in technology, process improvement, sales, marketing and innovation acceleration at GE. Most recently she was a commercial organization executive leading an intrapreneurial startup that provided management consulting services to GE’s most strategic customers. Jennifer also served in sales and marketing executive leadership positions at ChoicePoint, USIS, and LexisNexis, and was co-founder of Slimpressions® with a patented line of women’s shapewear.

Jennifer earned her B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland and MBA from Georgia State University.

Connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn, and follow Flying Laboratories on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Adesuwa Imafidon is a recent graduate from Georgia State University with a Bachelors in Managerial Science and a minor in Entrepreneurship. She is a certified dermatology technician and an entrepreneur. Adesuwa is an active woman within the community and church. She volunteers with anti-human trafficking organizations on numerous actions.

Adesuwa is currently starting her own unisex natural skincare company that is on a mission to change the skincare industry. She has participated in many pitch competitions, placing 4^th in her very first one at Clayton State University and 1^st with a team in a class at Georgia State University. Adesuwa recently participated in the TYE University Business Pitch Competition. She is fond of international business as she took a course abroad in Sweden.

Connect with Adesuwa on LinkedIn.