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5 Interviews With Industry Leaders You Should Hear – Business RadioX

November 4, 2014 by angishields

We were fortunate enough to grab a few minutes with these Atlanta business leaders to talk shop, get their backstory, and find out more about their field and what’s to come.

1. Jason Prater with Sulky of America

Jason Prater (@jason_g_prater) is the President of Sulky of America , a leader in the home sewing industry. In his 20 years with the company, he has been integral in the company’s exponential growth.

Listen to the interview here.

2. Tracie-Ruth Kriete of S4b Social

Tracie-Ruth Kriete (@TracieRuth) has over 16 years in the interactive industry. She is the head of online marketing for the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association and is SVP of Strategy and Operations for S4b Social. Some of her past clients include The Cookie Studio, Vesuvius Pizzeria, Edgewood Speakeasy, and Kudzu.com.

Listen to the interview here.

3. Nelson Mills of Columbia Property Trust

Nelson Mills has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Columbia Property Trust since 2010, and is responsible for the company’s overall strategy, capital transactions and operations.

Listen to the interview here.

4. Jared Degnan of Kellen Communications, (@KellenCompany)

Jared Degnan (@jareddegnan) is a self-proclaimed over-caffeinated brand geek and strategy wonk. He is the Director of Digital Strategy for Kellen Communications, one of Atlanta’s largest public relations firms. He has 12 years of experience in marketing analysis, strategy and online brand development for brands like Kraft Foods, Vespa USA, MetLife, Intel and Pedigree.

Listen to the interview here.

5. Brian Dally with GROUNDFLOOR

Brian Dally (@brian_dally) is a co-founder and CEO of GROUNDFLOOR . He is responsible for marketing as well as setting long term direction and goals for the company. Dally has 15 years of disruptive technology startup experience in Silicon Valley, Boston, London and the North Carolina Triangle region.

Listen to the interview here.

Jose Rodriguez-Diaz with AID Atlanta, Chip Newton with Deloitte Consulting, Arthur Freeman with Chamblee Chamber of Commerce, and Jared Degnan with Kellen Communications

May 22, 2014 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Jose Rodriguez-Diaz with AID Atlanta, Chip Newton with Deloitte Consulting, Arthur Freeman with Chamblee Chamber of Commerce, and Jared Degnan with Kellen Communications

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Jose Rodriguez-Diaz / AID Atlanta

Rodriguez-Diaz comes to AID Atlanta from the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. Before that, he was senior medical consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources Services Administration – Office of Performance Review. Before working at HRSA, he was program director for the Department of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, responsible for conducting HIV clinical trials for women and children.

Chip Newton / Deloitte Consulting

Chip is a senior labor optimization strategist. He is a consulting thought leader with nearly 15 years of professional services experience in healthcare and life sciences industries. Mr. Newton is a savvy, client-facing professional, who has negotiated, developed and directed program strategies, business systems planning and complex workforce management implementations for Fortune 100 companies. Chip has been with the Board of Directors of AID Atlanta for over 5 years and was recently elected as the Board’s Chairman.

Arthur Freeman / Chamblee Chamber of Commerce

Arthur Freeman vast experience has significantly contributed to the social-scientific aspect of nourishing, developing and enhancing human potential. For more than 50 years he’s been involved in private and public initiatives via philanthropic donations and volunteerism for non-profits.

Through Quest International, a consulting practice he started in 1978, he has mentored, founded, operated or consulted over 130 For Profit and Non Profit ventures entities. Since coming out of retirement and moving back to Atlanta from Washington DC 5 years ago, he has founded and operated The Greater Atlanta Community Foundation, Inc. ((a 501(c)(3)),Virtuous Capital, L3C (to provide a means of sustainable financing for Non-profits via for profit ventures) ,the Brookhaven Chamber

of Commerce ((a 501 (c)(6) and Brookhaven Chamber Foundation ((a 501 (c)(3) and Chamblee Chamber and Foundation.

Mr. Freeman’s scientific contributions have also been beneficial to his endeavor to aid in humanistic progress. After receiving his Bachelors in Biology/Chemistry, this one time member of the NY Academy of Sciences and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute award winner, went on to become a contributing author for the BETZ Handbook of Water Treatment. During his career with BETZ Laboratories he received his certification in Water Treatment, became a Registered Environmental Specialist, attended Law School, and represented Betz’s industrial clients before the EPA. Over the course of 19 years, Arthur appeared before Congress as an environmental expert in opposition to punitive EPA guidelines for Steel, Pulp and Paper, Petrochemical and Mining industries.

Whether involved in Non-Profit or For Profit ventures, his core values of personal and professional integrity, stewardship, partnering in the community, education and legal compliance have been the key value factors in his many successes.

Jared Degnan / Kellen Communications

Jared Degnan is an over-caffeinated brand geek, strategy wonk, and Director of Digital Strategy for Kellen, one of Atlanta’s largest public relations firms.

He has a 12-year track record in marketing analysis, strategy and online brand development for brands like Kraft Foods, Vespa USA, MetLife, Intel and Pedigree.

Jared has an MBA from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management and a BBA in Marketing & Hospitality Management from The George Washington University.

You can catch Jared on Twitter or on his blog: Just Friggin’ Peachy

Lydia Caffery Wilbanks with Kellen Communications, Russell Longcore with Abigail Morgan Austin Publishing Company, and Nir Levy and Spencer Barkoff with Campus Bubble

September 20, 2013 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Lydia Caffery Wilbanks with Kellen Communications, Russell Longcore with Abigail Morgan Austin Publishing Company, and Nir Levy and Spencer Barkoff with Campus Bubble

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Lydia Caffery Wilbanks/Kellen Communications

Considered an expert in understanding and forecasting customer trends, Lydia has extensive experience in new business development and target market analysis. In her role as Vice President of Business Development for Kellen Communications, she is responsible for increasing the company’s footprint in the Southeast. In addition to this, she started and continues to lead the editorial direction for Haute Pink, Inc., an online magazine and eccomerce platform that was launched in 2012.

Prior to starting Wilbanks Agency, Lydia held executive positions in New York City with Macy’s Herald Square, Ann Taylor and Henri Bendel as well as serving as Sportswear Editor of the Tobe Report and Worldwide Marketing Director of Cotton Incorporated. After relocating to Birmingham, Ala., she became Creative/Marketing Director for Avondale Mills in Sylacauga, the second largest textile in the South with more then 1 billion in revenue.

She has been honored as one of Birmingham Business Journal’s “Top Women” (2004), nominated by the national Stevie Awards twice for Best Entrepreneur (2006, 2007) and currently serves as a judge for their annual awards event. Ms. Wilbanks has been recognized as a Birmingham Business Journal Rising Star Finalist (2007), the agency was nominated for the Birmingham Chamber Small Business of the Year Award (2009).

Russell Longcore/Abigail Morgan Austin Publishing Company

Russell Longcore is a writer, an Internet Marketing Consultant and lifelong Entrepreneur. He is President of Abigail Morgan Austin Publishing Company (named after the grandkids), which is the parent company for all his entrepreneurial efforts. He owns SuperArticleDirectory.com, a global article directory, with over 150,000 authors that have posted over 1 million articles. He also owns Masterpiece Energy LLC, which has marketing contracts for gas and electricity, mobile phone service and with the FlexKom Customer Loyalty program. Russ also is President of Cornerstone Claim Services, an insurance claims consulting company. Russ has written thousands of articles over the past ten years. He has also written the five-volume “Secrets Revealed” series of books, available at Amazon.com. “Insurance Claim Secrets Revealed”, his first book, is the most widely read book about insurance claims in the history of insurance.

Russ is blissfully married to Deborah Richards, International Voice Actor, Audio Producer, Voiceover Coach and Demo Producer. They have three grown children.

Nir Levy and Spencer Barkoff/Campus Bubble

Nir Levy is a co-founder of Campus Bubble, the Academic Community Network just as LinkedIn is the professional community network, and Facebook is the social community network. Campus Bubble provides academic institutions with a student powered, cross-platform, private online community, focused on user generated content, group management, and community engagement. The Academic Community Network allows students, faculty, administrators, alumni, and invited vendors to connect and share content via user created groups called “Bubbles.” Bubble provides a network of users the ability to share targeted content exclusively with their community. Interactive features facilitate community-wide discussions and disseminate media-rich content relevant to community participants. Campus Bubble provides a proprietary, cloud hosted, device agnostic platform for closed social networking.