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Ted Cummings with ONYX MS Group

January 18, 2018 by Mike

ePresence

Ted Cummings with ONYX MS Group

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Ted Cummings/ONYX MS Group

Ted Cummings is the founder and CEO of ONYX MS Group. Since its inception in 2006, Ted’s extensive background in management consulting has allowed ONYX MS to secure contracts with Coca-Cola, Volkswagen Group of America, and AARP, to name just a few.

Ted is mostly proud of his recent completion of the Goldman Sachs -10,000 Small Business Program at Babson College in Boston, MA. Over the past two years, he has expanded the services of ONYX MS in a number of areas to include events planning, facilities management, information technology, and parking lot management. He has managed contracts in excess of $35 million from formation to the completion.

Additionally, Ted was elected to the Board of DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce where he is currently serving a three-year term. He describes serving the community as not just a duty, but a rewarding experience and encourages his employees to volunteer within their communities as well. He is a tireless supporter of minority-owned and women-owned businesses and was the recipient of the GMSDC 2013 Eagle Award, a testament to his efforts and success in teaming with and promoting minority-owned and women-owned businesses. He also spearheaded his company ONYX MS Group to winning the DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce Apex Small Business of the Year Award in 2012.

His humble beginnings began in Jamaica from a large family that migrated to New York City. He successfully escaped a gang-riddled environment after which he carefully searched for a path in life that was better than what he was experiencing in his environment. He often talks about education and how an inquisitive mind saved his life. He continuously strives to educate himself and his employees. He understands the power of continuous education and life lessons is key to building a successful business.

Mark Galvin/ePresence

ePresence provides personal branding services for individuals, executives and entrepreneurs. They leverage social media on an individual level since that is where the audience is most engaged.

Mark Galvin, CEO and Founder of ePresence, is a personal social media expert with 29 years of business management and hotel industry experience including stops with Marriott, Hyatt, Omni and IHG.

Summaya Adam with TeamLogic IT, Brad Fried with College Nannies+Sitters+Tutors, and Wendy Brant with Homeowner Management Services

December 19, 2017 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Summaya Adam with TeamLogic IT, Brad Fried with College Nannies+Sitters+Tutors, and Wendy Brant with Homeowner Management Services

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John Ray, Wendy Brant, Summaya Adam, Brad Fried

Summaya Adam/TeamLogic IT

TeamLogic IT is a full-service managed services provider that takes the worry out of technology by providing the services that keep business operations running smoothly. The team works with small-medium sized businesses to provide them with the optimum solutions for their business needs. They integrate new technologies with legacy networks, design systems and coordinate implementation by using strategic partnerships which have been fostered with key industry suppliers. This enables TeamLogic IT clients to leverage technology to drive revenue, increase customer satisfaction, and reduce operating costs. The beauty of the team is that they bring with them a large national network while maintaining a small business mentality through local-ownership. TeamLogic’s approach is unique in that their objective is to understand how the client’s business operates and how technology can best be used to increase the efficiency and profitability of the business. By providing highly available, highly secure, and easy-to-use technology, TeamLogic IT strives to become the “Trusted Technology Advisor” to help the client manage and grow their business.

Brad Fried/College Nannies+Sitters+Tutors

College Nannies+Sitters+Tutors is the nation’s most respected, complete and professional resource helping busy families raise smart, confident, well-adjusted kids from cradle to college. The company’s mission of Building Stronger Families is something they take to heart and work very hard at, which is why they live by their core values: Can Do, Results Matter, and Leave it Better. Whether families need a part- time or full-time nanny, large spectrum of sitter services ranging from event care to overnight back-up care, or one on one tutoring, College Nannies+Sitters+Tutors has it covered.

Wendy Brant/Homeowner Management Services

Homeowner Management Services (HMS) is an Association Management Company. They handle single family home communities, townhomes and condominiums, as well as office parks. HMS is an AAMC accredited company, one of only five in the state of Georgia. They have a 24-year history in Atlanta, and an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. HMS offers their properties a variety of unique products and industry leading solutions to common problems, including no-cost options for collections, lease monitoring and even savings plans for homeowners through a nationwide buying group.

Lisa Machado of Visiting Angels, Brad Serff of Providence Bank and Dan Simmons of Virtual Management Technologies

May 24, 2016 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Lisa Machado of Visiting Angels, Brad Serff of Providence Bank and Dan Simmons of Virtual Management Technologies

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John Ray, Lisa Machado, Dan Simmons, Brad Serff

Lisa Machado/Visiting Angels

Visiting Angels is a non-medical home care company where Certified Nursing Assistants (the angels) provide assisted living services in the home or a facility for seniors. Assisted living services include such things as bathing, dressing, meal preparation, personal care, mobility assistance, transportation, med reminders and meal prep. Care plans are customized as each person is different, but care plans have general scopes of services and are RN supervised. Most services are provided in the care recipients’ home.

Brad Serff/Providence Bank

Providence Bank is a locally owned community bank located in Alpharetta, GA. The bank opened on April 10, 2006 and just celebrated its 10 year anniversary. Providence Bank offers a wide array of deposit, savings and loan products. The bank’s use of technology allows customers to monitor their accounts, pay their bills, and even make deposits with their phone. Providence Bank customers appreciate individualized attention and local decision making when working with a staff that live in and support the local community.

Dan Simmons/Virtual Management Technologies

Virtual Management Technologies (VMT) is an Information Technologies company focused on data protection. They provide data backup and patch management and anti-virus protocols are up to date, assuring data is well protected and secure. They monitor their customers’ infrastructure 24/7/365, correcting problems as they may occur in real time. They also maintain a data center at their location in Alpharetta where they provide hosting services, co-location services, and private cloud services. VMT also maintains a 24/7/365 help desk to solve desktop problems for their customers.

What You Need to Know About Protecting Your Digital Assets

April 27, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

What You Need to Know About Protecting Your Digital Assets

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Millie Baumbusch, Putnam Smith, Elizabeth Faist, Jim Dougherty, Craig Frankel

On this week’s episode of “Wealth Matters”, hosts Millie Baumbusch and Craig Frankel discuss “What You Need to Know About Protecting Your Digital Assets”. Guests include Jim Dougherty, Technology Services Director at Bennett Thrasher LLP; Elizabeth Faist, Associate at Sutherland LLP; and Putnam Smith, Attorney at Lipscomb, Johnson, Sleister, Dailey & Smith LLP.

Jim Doughtery/Bennett Thrasher

Jim Dougherty is a Director in the Technology Services Department at Bennett Thrasher. He has ten years of industry experience and a commitment to customer service. Jim has streamlined internal operations, designed and built networks for small to medium sized businesses and provides outsourced CIO Services.

Prior to joining Bennett Thrasher, Jim was the Chief Operating Officer for Graves Technology Group, LLC. Jim joined Graves Technology in 2010 and focused on streamlining process and procedures for day-to-day activities. He got his start at an L.A. based IT Service Company providing technical support and project management.

Jim graduated from Loyola-Marymount University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, with an emphasis in Information Technology. He views IT as a tool for businesses to leverage and design network plans around not only their day-to-day operations, but also their goal for growth in the future.

Elizabeth Faist/Sutherland LLP

Elizabeth Faist of Sutherland LLP practices tax law, primarily serving clients in the areas of trusts, estates, and the taxation of tax-exempt organizations. She manages a variety of matters, including gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues, preparation of estate-planning documents, administration of estates, IRS tax disputes, and tax advice regarding private foundations and public charities. Elizabeth also counsels clients on tax and succession planning for their businesses. Additionally, she provides guidance on how to most efficiently safeguard assets during multi-generational wealth transfers, incorporating insurance planning and charitable giving programs as appropriate.

Prior to joining Sutherland, Elizabeth practiced at a law firm in Sarasota, Florida where she drafted estate plans, prepared federal and state filings for tax-exempt organizations and administered estates and trusts. Elizabeth provided research assistance to Professor Patricia E. Dilley during the LL.M. program, and, while in law school, she served as a judicial extern for the United States Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Florida.

Putnam Smith/Lipscomb, Johnson, Sleister, Dailey & Smith, LLP

Attorney Putnam C. Smith represents Main Street business owners and executives, professionals of all types and local, regional and national real estate investors, developers and operators, concentrating on business and commercial real estate transactions and tax and estate planning. Common transactions include start-ups, acquisitions and sales of closely held business, tax-free mergers and reorganizations, asset purchases, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures and partnerships in a wide range of industries.

He has practiced corporate law in Atlanta and the surrounding metropolitan area since 1988, initially with Nall & Miller, LLP and later with Robert W. Fisher, P.C., a tax boutique that was instrumental in the creation of Nextel and a number of international ventures in the telecommunications industry before disbanding in 1994. Before attending law school, he incorporated Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign and worked as a legal assistant with other leading Atlanta law firms, including King & Spalding, LLP and Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, gaining invaluable experience with public corporations and investment banks.

During his tenure with Lipscomb, Johnson, Sleister, Dailey & Smith, LLP, Mr. Smith has handled private equity investments in shopping centers and industrial and commercial property in several southeastern states, land assemblages requiring services ranging from quiet title actions to road closures and a $116 million buyout to resolve a shareholder’s dispute involving a closely held technology business.

About Gaslowitz Frankel:

Gaslowitz Frankel is an experienced trial practice firm specializing in all aspects of complex fiduciary litigation throughout Georgia and the Southeast. With a focus on representing individuals, companies, banks, and fiduciaries in dispute involving wills, estates, trusts, guardianships, businesses, and securities law, their experienced and highly qualified litigation attorneys have tremendous credentials and a proven history of success.

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Talking IT Strategy with Atlanta’s CIO Samir Saini

May 12, 2015 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Talking IT Strategy with Atlanta's CIO Samir Saini

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IT Strategy in Atlanta

This week I had the special treat of sitting down with a long-time acquaintance of mine, Samir Saini, Atlanta’s recently-appointed CIO (2014). He shared the story of his professional journey, beginning as an IT program manager with General Electric and his experience of successful completion of their 2 yr leadership training program.

He spent 10 years with this well-respected organization before accepting the opportunity to step into the role of VP, Corporate Strategy in IT for the MGM International Resorts in Las Vegas. They were in the middle of tackling the IT challenges that come with acquiring several established companies into an existing enterprise, in this case, several well-known hotels.

He was able to successfully lead them through the process of moving the hotels onto a common platform, allowing the company to begin to leverage their company’s size through its expanded buying power and maximize efficiencies in numerous other areas.

Samir returned to Atlanta several years ago, this time bringing his leadership and IT expertise to bear in the public sector, taking a role with Atlanta’s Housing Authority. Four years later he was appointed to be the new CIO for the City of Atlanta by Mayor Kasim Reed.

We talked about the challenges a municipality the size of Atlanta faces, balancing budgetary constraints against a myriad of government agencies, the world’s busiest airport, large population and infrastructure necessary to support them, along with a fast-growing business sector.

Samir discussed several of the tech solutions he and his team are working on and several that are already implemented to the benefit of Atlanta residents. Until we spoke I wasn’t aware that the city provides free Wi-Fi access in Piedmont Park, Grant Park, and numerous other hotspots (with more coming).

He shared the city’s plans to update the fiber optic network to allow for numerous tech upgrades such as synchronized traffic lights to alleviate gridlock, applications that allow drivers to easily locate available parking, and more. I also had the chance to ask him about the priorities he has laid out for the city going forward to address the enormous tech needs of our city to prepare us for the years to come that will make the city a better place to live as a resident and a solid choice for businesses looking for a place to plant their flag.

Special Guest:

Samir Saini, CIO, Commissioner, City of Atlanta