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Sasha-Gay Trusty with Quaint Revolt and Lawrence Chen and Nishant Sinha with Observe

November 7, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Sasha-Gay Trusty with Quaint Revolt and Lawrence Chen and Nishant Sinha with Observe

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Sasha-Gay Trusty is an Arts and Culture editor living creatively in Atlanta with roots in the countryside of Jamaica, where she was born and spent her early childhood. Having this duality in her background gives her unique cultural experience, which inspires every aspect of Sasha-Gay’s life – from her educational path and career aspirations, to her lifestyle habits and spirituality.

All of these influences, along with her curiosity and passion, birthed the Quaint Revolt publishing and retail concept. Sasha-Gay has always been fascinated with and stimulated by the arts. Some of her earliest memories are how artistic expressions played on her senses, how it made her feel. Words, images, sound and movement – those things always impressed upon Sasha-Gay. There was no way she wasn’t going to work in, or adjacent to, creative industries.

Sasha-Gay graduated from GSU for the second time this May with a BAS in Journalism and minoring in Anthropology. Since then, she’s jumped into the role of Entrepreneur and Freelancer with no regrets. She is now a founding member of The Lola, and a member of The Gathering Spot. However, she developed a knack for shared workspaces right here at LaunchGSU, where she is still heavily involved. On the horizon is publishing our first print issue, curating the coinciding product line and building a hybrid magazine-shoppe app experience. These concepts have been in ideation for a few years, so she’s excited to finally begin turning them into tangible goods.

Connect with Sasha-Gay on LinkedIn and follow Quaint Revolt on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Lawrence Chen is the Founder of Salt Creative House and the Co-founder of Observe.

Nishant Sinha is a Presidential Scholar at Georgia State University and is currently a Computer Science Researcher at Georgia State University; in addition to being the Co-founder of Observe.

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Jonathan Pinder with OshunPay and Jonathan Cornelius with Winners Circle and Meet and Innovate

November 7, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Jonathan Pinder with OshunPay and Jonathan Cornelius with Winners Circle and Meet and Innovate

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Jonathan Pinder, CEO of OshunPay, is a senior computer science major here at Georgia State University. He was born and raised in The Bahamas and has found a passion in financial technology as a means for inclusion progressing society.

He enjoys working in the start-up sphere since high school where he started his first business in dealing with getting items that Bahamians purchased in the United States into The Bahamas.

He has realized that entrepreneurship helps to solve problems in society. His team recently placed in the Caribbean Climate Innovation Challenge’s Bootcamp in Nassau, Bahamas this past summer.

As Jonathan comes onto a close with his studies at Georgia State University he looks forward to pursuing his dream of financial inclusion for everyone.

Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Jonathan Cornelius is an entrepreneur, public speaker, and influencer of youth. He specializes in personal development. A simple conversation with Jonathan will end up helping you both.

Jonathan currently runs two organizations Winners Circle and Meet & Innovate, both have target goals of setting minority students up for success. He is fluid with his words and has a work ethic of a man who does not accept failure.

Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn and Instagram, and follow Winners Circle and Meet & Innovate on Instagram.

Umama Kibria with SweatPack and Viraj Patel and Vishwa Mudigonda with KemNu

November 7, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Umama Kibria with SweatPack and Viraj Patel and Vishwa Mudigonda with KemNu

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Umama Kibria is the Founder and CEO of SweatPack. Umama is passionate about connecting people through fitness. After working out at 400+ gyms and playing recreational sports for 10 years, she founded SweatPack. SweatPack is a fitness team for friends! This app connects people to group workouts and sports leagues.

A highly sought after social media + community influencer in her own right, Umama knows exactly what it takes to build brand-loyalty, traction, and impact. With more than 100k members across her Instagram, Youtube, Twitter and LinkedIn channels @smallandstrong.fit, Umama has connected the health and wellness communities across the nation with her event series, Sweat With US.

She also founded SASS Brands, the digital marketing agency behind some of nation’s leading gyms, influencers, and startups in the health and fitness industry. She was named Atlanta Magazine’s Best Fitness Influencer, 11 Alive’s Community Spotlight Leader, and one of the 39 Atlanta Female Leaders to Follow on Social Media by Startup Sisters USA. She brings her insight on the fitness and marketing industry as a Board of Director for the Cowart Family YMCA. She’s a trusted leader in the fitness industry with her client portfolio including Nike, Adidas, Mercedes Benz Stadium, Bumble, Under Armour, Lululemon, F45 Training, Equinox, LA Fitness to the College Football Hall of Fame.

Her leadership at SweatPack is thriving under the mentorship of the Atlanta Tech Village Pre-Accelerator and $10k Main Street Entrepreneurship Seed Fund Grant.

Connect with Umama on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram, and follow SweatPack on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Viraj Patel, Founder & CEO, KemNu LLC.

Vishwa Mudigonda, Co-Founder & CTO, KemNu LLC.

KemNu is a lifestyle mobile app that enables people to discover local activities, connect with nearby people, and enjoy building their social circles. It also allows businesses to make more sales by offering deals and discounts to those who actively participate on KemNu. With KemNu, people can build communities in a fast and simple way.

The Problem (Harvard Research Findings | Trevor Haynes, May 2018):

Research by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences concluded that 92% of Millennials are developing feelings of anxiety, social inadequacies, insecurities, obesity, depression, and other negative thoughts and emotions. Why? It is because they don’t have enough face-to-face and emotional conversations with people. This generation is the most connected in terms of quantity, yet the loneliest in the quality of relationships. They go to social media to voice their concerns and try to get attention, but they are further disappointed to find out that other people are leading exciting lives without them. This problem will continue to grow as technology becomes increasingly addicting.

The Solution: KemNu App

KemNu is the next-generation social networking platform that enables people to easily meet new people and expand their social circle over exciting activities. It’s a simple way to pick an activity, send invites to people, and schedule a time & place. The groups built on KemNu will automatically expire after a week, and encourages users to try new activities with new people. When groups of people meet, they will receive 1 KemNu Coin. The goal is to collect KemNu Coins and redeem them at local businesses. The more you hang out, the more perks you will earn. (5 KemNu Coins = 1 Free Caramel Frappuccino at Starbucks). KemNu uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to personalize activities, improve user experience, and grow local businesses.

Overall, Vishwa and Viraj want you to find the right group to enjoy socializing and growing your emotional intelligence.

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Lauren Fajardo with Dador Havana, Carlos Gomez with Wajiros Films and Adriana Heredia Sanchez with Beyond Roots

November 7, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Lauren Fajardo with Dador Havana, Carlos Gomez with Wajiros Films and Adriana Heredia Sanchez with Beyond Roots

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Lauren Fajardo is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Dador, a forward thinking Cuban fashion and lifestyle brand based in Havana.

Inspired by her biggest passions: fashion, art and design, Dador produces locally made, thoughtfully designed garments that capture the essence of the modern Havana style.

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Carlos Gómez is a Cuban producer and filmmaker. Graduated in Journalism at the Universidad de Oriente and as Director of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television.

Founder of the independent production company Wajiros Films, he has produced more than twenty audiovisuals in Cuba and participated in films in Venezuela, Spain, Germany, France and the United States. His work with Wajiros Films seeks to create a more complete and modern vision of Cuba, making artists and stories visible without the cultural and geographical stereotypes of the country.

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Adriana Heredia is a young Cuban graduated from the Economics Faculty of Havana University. Currently, she works as a professor at the same University and is coordinator of InCuba, the first innovation incubator in the island.

The combination of her vocation as an educator and her passion for the entrepreneurship led her to found Beyond Roots, a venture focus on promoting Afro Cuban Culture from different perspectives. With that purpose she hosts several Afro Cuban Experiences in Havana to educate foreign visitors about this subject, designs and commercializes products to stand out African identity, and organize workshops of Afro aesthetic in the communities.

Connect with Adriana on LinkedIn.

Perry Binder, Eleanor Foxwith and Bryan Girard with GSU

October 3, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Perry Binder, Eleanor Foxwith and Bryan Girard with GSU

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Perry Binder is an award-winning legal studies professor in Robinson, and the co-founder of GSU’s Corporate Intellectual Property Institute, a premier two-day annual conference for practitioners. Perry is a founding Board Member of the Georgia IP Alliance (GIPA). Though GIPA, he secured five Governor Proclamations to recognize IP’s value to Georgia businesses. October 2019 is IP Month in Georgia – the only state in the nation to have a dedicated IP Month.

Prior to his teaching career, Perry litigated complex business cases in Florida, with stakes in excess of $10 million. Presently, he conducts law training for large companies and law firms at PerryBinder.com. Perry’s interactive and entertaining sessions for companies and HR professionals include: Employee Use of Social Media, Leadership Ethics, Harassment training, Negotiation, Intellectual Property, and Minimizing Business Risk.

Perry volunteers his time speaking with middle school, high school, and college students on how to succeed in college and life, based on the lessons from his book, 99 Motivators for College Success. Each year since 2016, Randolph College in Virginia sends 99 Motivators to hundreds of rising high school seniors nationwide, as the centerpiece of its Book Award Program.

Connect with Perry on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.

Eleanor Fox is a senior in the Robinson College of Business studying economics. She has focused her undergraduate studies in urban economics and legal studies taking classes such as Internet Law, Introduction to the Law, Economics of Cities and Urban Sociology.

She works at a small business in Smyrna, Georgia managing public relations including their social media accounts and transactional relationships with equipment vendors.

Bryan Girard is a recent graduate from the Georgia State university Robinson College of Business. He majored in Computer Information Systems with a concentration in cyber security. He was a student of Professor Binder in his ENI 4060, IT Law course. After graduating from Georgia State, he enrolled back into Georgia State and he decided to a pursue a Masters in Information Systems Audit and Control. Bryan was awarded a Graduate research assistantship to work with Dr. Varshey in the Computer Information System Department during his Masters. He is currently assisting Dr. Varhsney in his research of Mobile Health and Security.

He has an interest in FinTech, more specifically RegTech. He is interested in the use of blockchain to assist in audits. Also, the use of AI in auditing. He plans to try and enter the FinTech or RegTech industry upon completion of his masters in May 2020.

Mikayla Oberlton with Sisters, Timi Faderin and Immanuel Powell with Gilmer Street and Branding Strategist Miya Burrus

October 2, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Mikayla Oberlton with Sisters, Timi Faderin and Immanuel Powell with Gilmer Street and Branding Strategist Miya Burrus

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Mikayla Joy Oberlton is a transfer student to Georgia State University. She is a junior with a love for writing, people, and pageantry. She has been published in Our Voice magazine, received the Miss America DC congeniality award, the Harper Avery and Biggest heart award.

As the Founder of Crowns Without Boundaries, and the new start up app, Sisters, entrepreneurship is a new venture for her, but an exciting one.

Timi Faderin and Immanuel Powell are two students from GSU, who major in Film and Media Entrepreneurship. They Co-Run Gilmer Street, a Production Startup mainly focused on film and photography. Our main goal is to achieve the aspects of cultural representation in their works.

Connect with Timi and Immanuel on Instagram, and follow Gilmer Street on Instagram.

Miya Burrus came up with the idea to start her company Miya Burrus & Co a little over year ago. After working with platinum producer Polow Da Don, she decided she wanted to help more than artists with their brand. As an striving expert in PR, Miya picked her up first client in April of 2019 and begin full throttle into starting her PR firm.

Connect with Miya on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.

Jag Sheth with Emory University, Charles Shapiro with World Affairs Council Atlanta and Wolfgang Schloer with GSU Office of International Initiatives

October 2, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Jag Sheth with Emory University, Charles Shapiro with World Affairs Council Atlanta and Wolfgang Schloer with GSU Office of International Initiatives

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Jagdish N. Sheth is Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Professor Sheth has over 50 years of combined experience in teaching and research at the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Columbia University, MIT, and Emory University.

Professor Sheth is the recipient of all four top awards given by the American Marketing Association: the Richard D. Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, the Charles Coolidge Parlin Award for market research, the P.D. Converse Award for outstanding contributions to theory in marketing, and the William Wilkie Award for marketing for a better society. He is also a Fellow of the AMA, ACR, AMS, and APA.

Professor Sheth is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Science, awarded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2016), and Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, awarded by Shiv Nadar University (2017). In 2019, he was presented the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest faculty honor at Emory University. Professor Sheth has authored or coauthored more than three hundred papers and several books. His latest book is Genes, Climate and Consumption Culture: Connecting the Dots (2017).

He is the co-founder, with his wife Madhuri Sheth, of the Sheth Foundation, which funds the AMA Doctoral Consortium and the Sheth Family Foundation, which supports local community projects and cultural events.

Connect with Professor Sheth on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Charles Shapiro, President, World Affairs Council of Atlanta, held numerous senior positions at the U.S. Department of State, including Ambassador to Venezuela, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere and Coordinator for Cuban Affairs. From 2011-2013, he was the president of the Institute of the Americas, a think tank at the University of California San Diego. He is a member of the Agnes Scott College Board of Trustees.

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Wolfgang Schlör is Associate Provost for International Initiatives at Georgia State University (GSU), serving as the Senior International Officer for the institution. Prior to joining GSU in 2017, he was Associate Provost for the Diether H. Haenicke Institute for Global Education at Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He also served as Interim Associate Provost for International Affairs and Interim Director of International Programs and Studies (IPS) as well as Associate Director of IPS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and held similar positions at the University of Pittsburgh.

Schlör has held research and postdoctoral appointments at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London; and the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1994 to 1996, he served as the US Director of the International Affairs Network, a major project to develop international affairs training capacity in Central and Eastern Europe, based in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Schlör holds PhD (Dr.Phil.) and M.A. (Dipl.Pol.) degrees in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin.

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Usama Muta-Ali with Bukhari Tutoring & Health, Ashley Bella Daramola with ArtyBella and Gynella Ngounou with SELF

September 12, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Usama Muta-Ali with Bukhari Tutoring & Health, Ashley Bella Daramola with ArtyBella and Gynella Ngounou with SELF

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Usama Muta-Ali is the founder of Bukhari Tutoring & Health in Stone Mountain Ga. He is Majoring in Chemistry in hopes of becoming a researcher after he graduates college.

Connect with Usama on LinkedIn and follow Bukhari Tutoring & Health on Twitter.

Ashley Bella Daramola was born and raised in Atlanta, GA. Ashley got her first job at 14 and has been working ever since. “At 17, people around me told me college was too expensive and that art and theatre were pointless career options, so I went to college, got confused, dropped out, and went back to work.”

In Ashley’s mid-20’s, she developed a passion for working with children, teen girls, and women whose life struggles paralleled her own, especially those that had experienced trauma or who had difficulty understanding their self-worth. In 2016, Ashley quit her job and became an artist full-time using her last $50. “well, I originally
started ArtzyBella to have a studio to do art therapy in and to fund my personal art career that I hope includes global exhibitions.”

Ashley uses ArtzyBella to create jobs and contribute to the economic development of communities in South Metro Atlanta. “Now I get to give back to the young talented artists in south metro Atlanta and create the opportunities I didn’t get to have” says Ashley.

Ashley wants to help the world learn the power that art has to be a healing tool, and a driver of economic development and an important industry in america’s economy.
Ashley has completed over 40 commissions in three years including 15 murals, 7 canvas portraits and 2 installations. Ashley just opened her second art studio and completed her first solo exhibition.

Connect with Ashley on LinkedIn and follow ArtzyBella on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Gynella Ngounou is a Cameroonian-American fashionpreneur and Creative Director and CEO of Students Expressing Life through Fashion (SELF). SELF is a fashion sewing company and agency based in Atlanta, GA that provides an adequate education in sewing, fashion buying and branding with industry-level bookings.

Her team of Design Instructors consist of passionate and gifted fashion designers and SCAD alumna who share a motive to give back to the community. Today, Students Expressing Life through Fashion is pushing 80 students to produce their best work, exposing them to fashion events, and securing them with fashion internships and opportunities. The courses include womenswear, pattern-making, draping, sketching, fashion business, retail, and manufacturing. Each course is leveled from beginner to master. The sewing studio is a 24/hour space located in the heart of Atlanta.

Gynella is completing her B.I.S. in Social Entrepreneurship at Georgia State University, and was recently accepted with a full-ride scholarship to Parsons School of Design’s certificate program. Her life mantra is: “I am more than what they can see.”

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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.