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John Benton with FuturePlan

August 28, 2025 by Mike

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John Benton with FuturePlan

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Harper Lebel, John Benton, Steven Julian

John Benton/FuturePlan

FuturePlan is a dynamic network of leading third party administrators (TPAs) from across the nation, united to become one dedicated organization with a shared vision for transforming the retirement industry. They’ve created a new national model to deliver the highest possible levels of expertise, care and service to advisors and their clients. Their visionary way of working preserves the local TPA relationships, expertise, and entrepreneurial ingenuity you’ve always trusted, now backed by the strength and security of Ascensus.

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Aysha Abdullatif & Nasser Nammari with Spherion Staffing & Recruiting and Ryan Lucia with Aaron Overhead Doors & Markinuity

September 19, 2024 by Mike

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Aysha Abdullatif & Nasser Nammari with Spherion Staffing & Recruiting and Ryan Lucia with Aaron Overhead Doors & Markinuity

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Aysha Abdullatif , Nasser Nammari, Ryan Lucia

Aysha Abdullatif & Nasser Nammari/Spherion

Spherion Staffing & Recruiting is a staffing and recruiting pioneer that’s been driving careers and helping businesses grow for over 75 years. Their NE Atlanta office is locally owned and operated by a Gwinnett family who cares deeply about the communities they serve. Spherion is committed to helping you advance your career or business through direct placement and variable staffing solutions.

Spherion puts more than 150,000 Americans to work each day across many different industries. That’s a privilege they take seriously. Their recruiters take the time to get to know you and your career goals, so we can find you the right job, not just the next job.

Their workforce solutions focus on direct placement and variable staffing including temporary staffing, temp-to-hire, on-premise staff management, and outsourced talent acquisition. While they specialize in administrative, customer service, light industrial, and professional roles, their teams have the connections and insights needed to find your area’s most capable employees in any industry.

Ryan Lucia/Aaron Overhead Doors & Markinuity

Aaron Overhead Doors is a local family-owned garage door repair and installation company, founded on the concept of “WOW CUSTOMER SERVICE”. They’re a radical customer service company in the garage door industry that strives to deliver the most amazing experience possible. They would love to be considered for your garage door repair and installation needs.

Markinuity offers local marketing for home service businesses. Their passion lies in pursuing niches that has lead them to become experts in the industry. Rather than offering generalized, mediocre services, they focus on specializing in industries they’re passionate about. This has allowed them to perfect their local SEO services for home services, automotive, technology, and local businesses.

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Dan McCann with SymTrain and Avis Bowen & Christopher Telo with The Enzo at Ariston

September 5, 2024 by Mike

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Dan McCann with SymTrain and Avis Bowen & Christopher Telo with The Enzo at Ariston

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Christopher Telo, Avis Bowen, and Dan McCann

Dan McCann/SymTrain

SymTrain AI Coaching automates role play exercises so customer-facing employees learn how to perform their jobs better and faster. Their Mission is to optimize employee performance through automated role-play, AI-coaching, and digital assessment exercises by creating a digital coach for everyone.

Avis Bowen & Christopher Telo/The Enzo at Ariston & Rangewater Real Estate

Discover elevated living at The Enzo at Ariston! Nestled in the vibrant heart of Buford, GA, The Enzo at Ariston redefines luxury living. Just moments from the Mall of Georgia, their upscale apartment community offers 1, 2, and 3-bedroom floor plans, each designed with open concept layouts with premium finishes and quality craftsmanship. Their boutique style community features a stunning array of resort inspired amenities, curated to enrich your daily life. Your search ends here. The home of which you’ve always dreamed of is waiting.

RangeWater Real Estate leads the rental housing industry by leveraging the insights learned across its unique Development, Property Management, Acquisitions, and Investment Management platform to benefit partners, clients, and residents throughout the Sun Belt and Mountain West. With offices in Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, and Tampa, RangeWater targets high job growth markets with demand for new housing.

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Steve Fisher with Strategy Partners Group and Doug Brooks with LAZ Parking

October 12, 2023 by Mike

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Steve Fisher with Strategy Partners Group and Doug Brooks with LAZ Parking

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Steve Fisher/Strategy Partners Group

Strategy Partners Group is an Atlanta-based team of experts who help companies overcome challenges to achieve desired corporate goals and complete successful equity transactions. Along with their highly reputable channel partners, clients benefit from their accelerated capabilities and their engaged team of experts to strategically support their clients’ operational and financial goals.

Doug Brooks/LAZ Parking

LAZ Parking is the largest, fastest-growing privately owned parking operator in the United States and a pioneer in digital parking technology. Founded in Hartford, CT, LAZ has been providing best-in-class parking management and transportation services since 1981 and operates over 1.4 million parking spaces in over 4,250 locations in 41 states and 452 cities in the U.S. LAZ is an industry leader in business intelligence, remote monitoring, eCommerce solutions, and Proximity On-Demand Services or “LAZ PODS”. They leverage their national network of parking facilities to offer cutting edge, tech-enabled solutions, that include EV charging, micro warehousing, last-mile logistics, working across the hospitality, commercial, healthcare, airports, transportation, universities, government, retail, events, residential, and shuttle service industries. LAZ is a people first, conscious capitalist company, committed to elevating humanity through business.

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Tina Johnson with Northeast Georgia Health System and Brian Riggins with Magnolia Golf Group

October 5, 2023 by Mike

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Tina Johnson with Northeast Georgia Health System and Brian Riggins with Magnolia Golf Group

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Tina Johnson/Northeast Georgia Health System

Since 1951, Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) has been on a mission of improving the health of our community in all they do. With hospitals located in Gainesville, Braselton, Winder, Dahlonega, and Demorest, the five NGMC campuses have a total of more than 850 beds and more than 1,300 medical staff members representing more than 60 specialties. NGMC is part of Northeast Georgia Health System, a non-profit that cares for more than one million people across more than 19 counties. Learn more at nghs.com.

Brian Riggins/Magnolia Golf Group

Magnolia Golf Group partners with non-profit organizations and corporate groups to INSPIRE you to exceed your fundraising goals while creating an extraordinary golf tournament experience for your players and sponsors. They do this by offering four independent products and services that will make your next golf tournament a success. They strive to fit your tournament needs and establish a long term relationship with your organization to ensure future years of golf tournament success.

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Ruth King with Financially Fit Business and Chip Smith with Chip Smith Performance Systems

September 14, 2023 by Mike

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Ruth King with Financially Fit Business and Chip Smith with Chip Smith Performance Systems

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Ruth King/Financially Fit Business

Ruth King is the founder of Financially Fit Business. Since 1987, Ruth and her team have been analyzing financial statements and giving business owners the tools/processes to get and stay profitable and build wealth. Her clients have grown profitably and achieved their business and personal goals. Financially Fit gives business owners and managers financial reports in as little as five minutes. Business owners enter the values printed on their profit and loss statements and balance sheets, click a link and get monthly and trending data.

Profit and Loss statements and balance sheets were probably the furthest thing from your mind when you started your business (unless you are a CPA or bookkeeper). However, understanding and taking action based on these financial statements give you the best chance to survive and grow. Financially Fit Business is a tool to:

Easily and quickly discover what your financial statements are telling you each month
Spot minor issues and take care of them before they become major crises
Make better business decisions based on accurate financial information
Grow a profitable, wealthy business

Chip Smith/Chip Smith Performance Systems

Chip Smith is the founder of Chip Smith Performance Systems (CSPS) and the Director of Sports Performance for the NFL Alumni Academy and the Atlanta Vibe professional women’s volleyball team. He has trained more professional athletes than any other coach or training facility in the world. He and his staff have trained over 1600 NFL players to date, countless MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS, and Olympic athletes dating back over 30 years. He has been called the “Godfather” of the sports performance training industry, and continues to train athletes on a daily basis in our Atlanta facility.

CSPS trains and manages programs for all their professional athletes. Their individual offseason and preseason training programs will prepare you for the rigors of professional sports. You will get a custom tailored program designed specifically for your needs and goals. Whether its speed/agility and conditioning, strength training, weight loss/weight gain, comprehensive nutrition, or return to play after injury, they can accommodate your every need.

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Ben Armstrong with NETHERWORLD Haunted House & Escape Rooms and Matt Moeck with Next Star Technologies & KonectaEV

September 7, 2023 by Mike

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Ben Armstrong with NETHERWORLD Haunted House & Escape Rooms and Matt Moeck with Next Star Technologies & KonectaEV

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Ben Armstrong/NETHERWORLD Haunted House & Escape Rooms

Created in 1997 by Billy Messina and Ben Armstrong, veterans in the film and television industry, NETHERWORLD is Atlanta’s most popular self-guided, dark attraction. Recognized as one of the most highly acclaimed haunted houses in the world, NETHERWORLD is known for its over-the-top special effects, unique make-up, elaborate costuming, skilled stunt actors, and unusual themes. Since relocating to Stone Mountain in 2017, NETHERWORLD has expanded its offerings to include year-round escape games, known as Escape the NETHERWORLD.

Over the years, NETHERWORLD has garnered local and national attention from media including CNN, Gwinnett Business Radio, “The Today Show,” “The Early Show,” The Travel Channel, and Wall Street Journal, and has been voted the top haunt in the nation by publications such as Hauntworld Magazine, Dread Central, Fangoria, and USA Today. NETHERWORLD’s innovative horror experiences and attractions continue to draw in generations of thrill-seekers eager to see what new nightmares have been unleashed! For more information, visit www.fearworld.com or call 404-999-FEAR. Keep up with all things spooky by following NETHERWORLD Haunted House on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Matt Moeck/Next Star Technologies & KonectaEV

Next Star Technologies is a technology driven company with a business team that serves companies of all sizes, from small to medium businesses to enterprise businesses, plus the public sector. Next Star Technologies partners with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, along with a variety of technology companies, to provide a solutions-centric focus to ensure the wireless products and mobility services are in line with business needs to grow and expand.

Next Star Technologies works with KonectaUSA with In-building coverage solutions & IoT technologies to fix poor coverage, poor voice quality, dropped calls, and dead zones that plague occupants in all types of buildings. Next Star Technologies also works with KonectaEV, a preferred partner with ChargePoint to provide all your EV charging solutions. KonectaEV and Next Star offer inhouse financing and are nationwide.

ChargePoint is the market leader in EV charging, operating the largest and most open network in the world with best-in-class hardware and advanced cloud-based services. At Next Star, the goal is to serve their customers and the community by providing superior customer care through listening to your unique needs to help you find the wireless solutions for your business needs.

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Atlanta Sportscaster Sam Crenshaw

June 1, 2023 by Mike

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Atlanta Sportscaster Sam Crenshaw

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Steven Julian, Sam Crenshaw, Harper Lebel

Sam Crenshaw/Atlanta Sports Broadcaster

Sam Crenshaw is a veteran sports reporter and television sports anchor. He is a weekend morning host on Sports Radio 92.9 The Game and the sports anchor for Atlanta’s CW69 News at 10. Crenshaw is also a broadcaster and content producer for GPB Sports. He currently serves as the sideline reporter for the Georgia State University Panther Football Radio Network and is the play-by-play voice for Georgia State basketball on ESPN3. Sam is known in the Atlanta community for his knowledge of local athletes and teams as well as his passion for playing tennis.

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Duffie Dixon with Gwinnett County Public Library and Jess Villegas with ACUITY Business Consulting

May 25, 2023 by Mike

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Duffie Dixon with Gwinnett County Public Library and Jess Villegas with ACUITY Business Consulting

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Steven Julian, Duffie Dixon, Jess Villegas, Harper Lebel

Duffie Dixon/Gwinnett County Public Library

Gwinnett County Public Library is the largest system in the state and of the most robust in the nation. There are 15 library branches in Gwinnett County serving more than 2 million customers.

Jess Villegas/ACUITY Business Consulting

The mission of ACUITY Business Consulting is to demystify the challenge of business excellence for Leadership Teams by bringing actionable clarity and execution resources to the areas of Strategic Design, Execution, and Leadership Development. ACUITY’s typical client will be managers requiring an improved profitability plan, a business turnaround, or preparation for a business acquisition or sale.