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Jim Barnish, Orchid Black

September 22, 2021 by John Ray

Business Leaders Radio

Jim Barnish, Orchid Black

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Jim Barnish, Orchid Black

High-growth technology firms often experience a plateau in their growth, and that’s where Jim Barnish and the Orchid Black team come in. As Jim discussed with host John Ray, Orchid Black helps technology companies get “unstuck.” Their work turns high-level strategic objectives into actionable plans which produce demonstrable and significant increases in company valuations, examples of which Jim shared. Business Leaders Radio is produced virtually from the Business RadioX® studios in Atlanta.

Orchid Black

Orchid Black partners with tech-forward companies to build smarter, better, game-changing businesses. Orchid Black ensures clients hit bigger milestones and see greater returns faster. You could say we’ve cracked the code.

Human capital is their greatest asset.

Their differentiator is their team. Behind Orchid Black’s customized assessments, strategy and effective execution is its people. They are skilled problem solvers, operators, and entrepreneurs. They get it.

They use their collective business intellect, insights, and experience to interpret client company data and give it insight. Then, with this knowledge, their operators clear a path to alignment, healthy growth, and results-driven success.

Orchid Black’s formula for success starts with their Team who combines Data and Insights in their Value Creation Assessment. Learn more at www.orchid.black.

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Jim Barnish, Co-founding Managing Partner, Orchid Black

Jim is a strategic change leader with over 15 years of leadership experience in global and integrated operations, M&A, and strategic go-to-market planning. Drawing on deep operational and investment experience at startup and scale-up businesses, he has created and curated a collection of proven, data-driven processes and methodologies to help companies build scalable and fundable VC-ready solutions—accelerating organic growth.

Business Leaders Radio is hosted by John Ray and produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta. The show can be found on all the major podcast apps and a full archive can be found here.

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 over $13 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.

Matt Johnson with Johnson Venture Partners

May 29, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Matt Johnson with Johnson Venture Partners

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Johnson Venture Partners (JVP) is a micro VC fund investing in high-growth startups in the Southeast. The fund seeks long-term capital growth through a diversified portfolio of startup companies with high potential for growth to acquisition, IPO, or other liquidity event. JVP was founded in 2006 and is based in Atlanta, GA.

Matt Johnson is the Managing Partner of Johnson Venture Partners and has been responsible for the daily operations of the fund since its inception. In his role, Matt identifies and analyzes investment opportunities, performs due diligence, assists portfolio company management teams, and administers all investments made by the fund.

He has executed investments in 30+ venture-backed companies throughout 14 years of fund management experience, resulting in 4 successful exits. Matt is an active member of many regional and national venture investor networks including AIM Group, Florida Funders, Keiretsu Forum, and VentureSouth.

He is a popular public speaker on the topics of startup investing, innovation and entrepreneurship, and has served as a mentor and advisor to numerous startups.

Matt earned a BA in Economics from Clemson University and is currently pursuing an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Connect with Matt on LinkedIn.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

What Johnson Venture Partners does
The state of venture capital
Predictions of Atlanta’s tech and healthcare industries in light of the pandemic
2020 investment trends

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Peter Baron with Carabiner Communications, Denise Powell with DP Global Media and David Feldman with 3 Owl

December 2, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Peter Baron with Carabiner Communications, Denise Powell with DP Global Media and David Feldman with 3 Owl

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As Founder and Principal at Carabiner Communications, Peter Baron drives business development and also serves as a senior-level consultant,offering advice to clients in such areas as product positioning, leadgeneration and nurturing, digital marketing, and more.

Peter has the skills to recognize new trends and opportunities, helping companies to plan strategies accordingly. His client experience spans telecommunications, networking,healthcare technology, mobile computing, and a range of software solutions. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and PR from the University of Utah.

Follow Carabiner on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Denise Powell is an author, photographer, videographer,whose love for the written word and for capturing people and places on camera, have been passions of hers since childhood.

Her company, DP Global Media, Inc. is the creator and primary sponsor of International Unity Day 2019.

A graduate of Florida A&M University, with an MBA from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Denise is the author of Welcome to the A: A Smart ATLien’s Guide to Life in Metro-Atlanta.

Connect with Denise on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

David Feldman is the founder and creative director of 3 Owl, a brand, web, and content agency that creates nimble identities, elegant technologies, and beautiful tools that equip clients for success.

An accomplished guitarist and music-lover with an entrepreneurial mindset, he graduated from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School with a unique dual degree in business and music. He has since dedicated himself to supporting and growing Atlanta’s booming creative community.

“Atlanta has an exceptionally collaborative and imaginative culture,” he says. “I love this community, and I love how Atlantans come together as partners in our city’s unfinished creation.”

From 2008-2012, David was the business development and marketing director of Alliance Biomedical Research (now VitaLink), a clinical research firm founded by his father, Gregory J. Feldman, M.D. He rebranded ABR and helped grow the company into one of the world’s largest privately owned networks of clinical research sites.

David founded 3 Owl in 2015 with a team that includes some of Atlanta’s brightest creative professionals. The award-winning agency has helped build the brands and digital experiences of major Atlanta-based organizations including Mellow Mushroom, Mizuno USA, Emory University, and Center Stage Atlanta. Now a team of eight, the agency has already won many prestigious awards for brand identity, graphic design, and website design.

3 Owl is also the branding and design partner for ATL Collective, a nonprofit David co-founded to enrich Atlanta’s music community. The organization brings musicians together to perform live covers of classic albums at venues all over Atlanta. He is now the vice president of the organization’s board.

David is a frequent guest lecturer at Emory’s Goizueta Business School, The New School (Atlanta) — of which he was a founding faculty member — and General Assembly.

He lives with his wife Alisa and their two Labradoodles in a Cabbagetown loft.

Connect with David on LinkedIn and follow 3 Owl on Facebook and Instagram.

Questions and Topics in This Interview

What kinds of companies Carabiner Communications serves
What businesses can do to get ahead with their marketing and branding
The importance to your company of volunteerism and giving back
Advice to consider when working with a marketing firm
Where did the idea for International Unity come from?
Will International Unity be an annual event?
What does 3 Owl provide for it’s clients?
What makes 3 Owl stand out from other creative agencies?
Atlanta as a creative business hub
What is ATL Collective?

Stacie Mallen with CampusLogic and Special Co-Host Kathleen Gramzay with Kinessage

June 11, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Stacie Mallen with CampusLogic and Special Co-Host Kathleen Gramzay with Kinessage

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Stacie Mallen with CampusLogic and Special Co-Host Kathleen Gramzay with Kinessage

CampusLogic’s student financial services platform enables colleges and universities to provide easy, mobile, personalized financial aid that drives student engagement and improves enrollment. More than 400 institutions—serving 1.4 million students—improve their enrollment yield, process efficiencies, and student satisfaction by better engaging students from the initial college search through graduation.

BlueRepublic is a new concept in personal fitness that shifts the focus of change to three core areas: Movement, Nutrition and Recovery. Each area is weighted evenly within programming. BlueBites is part of the Republic, providing healthy meal options for clients.

Being called a Rebel, Troublemaker and Entrepreneur all mean the same thing to Stacie Mallen: you are doing your job if you are pushing your organization toward change, growth and purpose. After spending her 20 year career in a progression of successful start-up companies as well as leading a large scale team in a Fortune 50 company, she quickly realized that she was not capable of
“blending in”. Now specializing in leading cultural revolution for high growth companies, she constantly absorbs, writes and speaks about the tangible actions that leaders can take to build a purpose driven/values based company that also drives top line growth while exhibiting bottom line stewardship. Currently Stacie is the Chief People Officer for the High Growth Ed Tech
company CampusLogic, contributor to Forbes Magazine, Published Author, and Speaker.

Leading a dual life has always been an integrated part of Stacie’s path as she has been coaching, teaching and leading fitness and wellness programs for over 25 years. In 2003, back before wellness was “hip” she was asked to combine her love of culture and wellbeing leading efforts for Caremark to lead initiatives to change habits for employees. Since that time, she has launched programs at
every organization as an element of cultural evolution. Wellbeing integrates the work of self into every aspect of the People practice making people more aware as they lead, develop and grow their organizations. Recently she and her husband launched a new concept in fitness, Blue Republic, that takes 20 years of her practical application to help achieve true integration of wellbeing in the
lives of clients.

Connect with Stacie on LinkedIn and Facebook, and follow CampusLogic on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Kinessage LLC serves wellness-conscious companies and individuals who understand that people cannot be productive or present with clients, colleagues or loved ones if they are in pain or can’t move comfortably in their bodies. Kinessage® Self-Care is a do-it-yourself solution to relieve the stress, muscular pain, and chronic tension underlying musculoskeletal conditions without drugs or need of a practitioner.

Kathleen Gramzay, BCTMB, is a 17-year Board Certified Massage Therapist, Author, Speaker, Wellness Educator, Developer and Continuing Education Provider of Kinessage® Self-Care. Her life-long passion for movement, understanding the human body, and personal challenges created the conditions that brought Kinessage® into being.

Kathleen has an engaging knack for simplifying and sharing how the body/mind works and how you can partner with it, not just for greater physical health but to a live a more joyful life. Her interactive “Lessons from the Body/Mind” speaking presentations serve as a unique platform for stress relief and experiential team building across the spectrum of industries from architectural and financial services to healthcare, sales, and manufacturing.

Not surprisingly, for fun, she loves to move whether that is dancing or out in nature hiking, biking, or rollerblading. She also enjoys travel, nature photography, and meditation.

Connect with Kathleen on LinkedIn and Facebook.