KSU Entrepreneurship Center “The Shrimp Tank” Featuring Shantel Khleif Imagine Media

January 26, 2016 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

KSU Entrepreneurship Center "The Shrimp Tank" Featuring Shantel Khleif Imagine Media

00:00 /

Where Young Entrepreneurs Turn Their Dreams Into Business.

Meet The Brightest Entrepreneurs From Today and Tomorrow…

Where can a young entrepreneur figure out how to turn their dreams into reality? Just take a step into the Shrimp Tank. The Shrimp Tank brings you interviews with some of the most successful business owners in the United States to learn the do’s and don’ts of starting and running a successful business. Then, the fun really starts when we bring in high school and college students to pitch their business ideas to the Shrimp Tank. We don’t fund any business, but we do teach kids how to turn their business ideas into a successful business.

Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks and Ted Jenkin.

Ted Jenkin, Shantel Khleif and chris Hanks — Ted Jenkin, Shantel Khleif and Chris Hanks

Shantel Khleif/Imagine Media

Owner

Stemming from a deep love and respect for small businesses, Shantel built Imagine Media to give an online voice to companies who wouldn’t otherwise have the time to do so. As the previous owner of a Wedding Planning company, and as the current co-founder of an Non Profit aimed at assisting students in need, Shantel is a go-getter through and through with a huge heart. When she’s not networking her way through Atlanta, selling our services to business owners in need, and motivating the team to be the best that they can be, you can find Shantel exploring Atlanta with her big and lovable pup, Gunnar.

Twitter Imagine Media Facebook Pinterest Instagram

Ted Jenkin/Oxygen Financial

(Co – Host)

Ted Jenkin has spent the past 22 years giving personal financial advice to thousands of people across the United States. After graduating from Boston College in 1991, Ted spent more than 16 years working for American Express Financial Advisors/Ameriprise Financial. He was one of the youngest people in the history of the company to reach both Field Vice President and Group Vice President level. He managed more than 800 financial advisors throughout 8 states in his last position with the company. He won the premier performer award, leader of the year award, and had the number one office in the country for more than two years in a row. In 2008, Ted founded oXYGen Financial to help revolutionize the financial services industry by creating a new company that focused on serving the X and Y Generation. oXYGen Financial now has more than 1,700 clients throughout 25 states across the country. Ted has been featured in over 25 magazines and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and The Huffington Post. He has six advanced designations from the College for Financial Planning (CFP®, CRPC®, CRPS®, AWMA®, AAMS®, CMFC®) and is an on air radio personality featured on the popular drive time Atlanta radio show The Rock 100.5 Morning Show on Rock 100.5 FM. Ted lives in Milton, GA with his wife Genna and three kids Olivia, Lyla, and Louden.

Chris Hanks/ KSU EC

(Co – Host)

Christopher C. Hanks is the founder and executive director of the KSU Entrepreneurship Center. Prior to this, Hanks was the founder and director of the entrepreneurship program at the University of Georgia. He has owned multiple businesses, including music, e-commerce, publishing, and export ventures. He is also the co-author of a best-selling book on low risk entrepreneurship.

Hanks leads the International Entrepreneurship Institute and is certified in business valuation, providing expert witness testimony. Before teaching at UGA, Hanks taught entrepreneurship at Georgia State University and assisted in leading the Russell Center for Entrepreneurship. He earned a BBA from University of Georgia and an MBA from San Jose State University. Before launching his first business, Hanks held corporate risk management positions in the pharmaceutical and beverage industries.

KSU Entrepreneurship Center “The Shrimp Tank” Featuring JC Ordono with First Fence of Georgia

January 12, 2016 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

KSU Entrepreneurship Center “The Shrimp Tank” Featuring JC Ordono with First Fence of Georgia

00:00 /

Feeding Young Entrepreneurial Minds & Businesses Plans Entrepreneurs come to the Shrimp Tank to compete for funding to grow their dreams.

Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks and Ted Jenkin.

JC Ordono/First Fence of Georgia

Majority Partner, President

Mr. Ordono is the Founding Partner and majority owner of First Fence of Georgia. He has fifteen years fence industry experience in a broad range of Operations, Sales and Executive positions. He has achieved CFP (Certified Fence Professional) status, certified by the American Fence Association and is recognized for professional achievement in the Industry.

FaceBook Twitter YouTube

Ted Jenkin/Oxygen Financial

(Co – Host)

Chris Hanks/ KSU EC

(Co – Host)

Christopher C. Hanks is the founder and executive director of the KSUEntrepreneurship Center. Prior to this, Hanks was the founder and director of the entrepreneurship program at the University of Georgia. He has owned multiple businesses, including music, e-commerce, publishing, and export ventures. He is also the co-author of a best-selling book on low risk entrepreneurship.

KSU Entrepreneurship Center “The Shrimp Tank” Featuring Steven Eisenstein with Classic Tents & Events

January 5, 2016 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

KSU Entrepreneurship Center “The Shrimp Tank” Featuring Steven Eisenstein with Classic Tents & Events

00:00 /

Feeding Young Entrepreneurial Minds & Businesses Plans Entrepreneurs come to the Shrimp Tank to compete for funding to grow their dreams.

Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks and Ted Jenkin.

Ted Jenkin, Steven Eisenstein, Chris Hanks

Steven Eisenstein/Classic Tents and Events

Steven Eisenstein is the President of Classic Tents & Events. His background is in Hotel/Restaurant Management and he is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University in Providence.

Twitter Facebook

KSU Entrepreneurship Center “The Shrimp Tank” Special Holiday Edition

December 23, 2015 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

KSU Entrepreneurship Center "The Shrimp Tank" Special Holiday Edition

00:00 /

The Shrimp Tank

Feeding Young Entrepreneurial Minds & Businesses Plans Entrepreneurs come to the Shrimp Tank to compete for funding to grow their dreams.

Special Holiday Episode featuring the children of your Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks and Ted Jenkin.

Ted Jenkin, Chris Hanks, Catherine Hanks and Hannah Heisman

Ted Jenkin/Oxygen Financial

(Co – Host)

Chris Hanks/ KSU EC

(Co – Host)

Christopher C. Hanks is the founder and executive director of the KSUEntrepreneurship Center. Prior to this, Hanks was the founder and director of the entrepreneurship program at the University of Georgia. He has owned multiple businesses, including music, e-commerce, publishing, and export ventures. He is also the co-author of a best-selling book on low risk entrepreneurship.

Ted Jenkin, Chris Hanks, Bryan Hanks, Molly Heisman

KSU Entrepreneurship Center

KSU Shrimp Tank features Tom DiGregorio on Atlanta Business Radio

December 15, 2015 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

KSU Shrimp Tank features Tom DiGregorio on Atlanta Business Radio

00:00 /

The Shrimp Tank

Feeding Young Entrepreneurial Minds & Businesses Plans Entrepreneurs come to the Shrimp Tank to compete for funding to grow their dreams.

L to R Co-Host Ted Jenkin, Tom DiGregorio and Co-Host Chris Hanks

Tom DiGregorio is President and Owner of AquaGuard Basement Systems, Tom has strived to raise his customers expectations of residential contractors by developing and running his business with his slogan “A Service Company with Integrity, A Contractor who Cares” as his guide.

Tom DiGregorio/Aquaguard

As President and Owner of AquaGuard Basement Systems, Tom has strived to raise his customers expectations of residential contractors by developing and running his business with his slogan “A Service Company with Integrity, A Contractor who Cares” as his guide.

With over 21 years in residential home services, Tom has an extensive understanding of the residential basement waterproofing industry and foundation repair. He brings a focused and intelligent approach to each job and is a true waterproofing and foundation repair expert. Tom achieved his certifications from premiere organizations including The National Association of Waterproofing & Structural Repair Contractors, The Basement Systems International Waterproofing Contractors Network and Foundation SupportWorks International.

Ted Jenkin/Oxygen Financial

(Co – Host)

Chris Hanks/ KSU EC

(Co – Host)

Christopher C. Hanks is the founder and executive director of the KSUEntrepreneurship Center. Prior to this, Hanks was the founder and director of the entrepreneurship program at the University of Georgia. He has owned multiple businesses, including music, e-commerce, publishing, and export ventures. He is also the co-author of a best-selling book on low risk entrepreneurship.

Ben Hendrick, Managing Director, Global Delivery – Enterprise Systems & Networking for the Dell Corporation

November 18, 2015 by angishields

Ben-Hendrick-and-Ricky-Steele-at-the-2015-CIO-of-the-Year-Awards-11-13-2015

Booth 61 with Ricky Steele

Ben Hendrick, Managing Director, Global Delivery - Enterprise Systems & Networking for the Dell Corporation

00:00 /

As always it was an honor and privilege to have Ben Hendrick join me in Booth 61 at the GCLA 2015 CIO of the Year breakfast. I met Ben in 2006 or 2007 while he was earning his MBA at Kennesaw State University. Ben and I became more than friends. Many call us Brothers from different Mothers. 🙂

I am in awe of what Ben has accomplished since joining Dell in 2009. Everyone knows who Michael Dell is and the great success of his company. In 2009, I did not know anyone who worked at Dell nor did I ever see anyone from Dell at industry events. Within a year of Ben joining the company he became the Face of Dell in Atlanta. There were not 10 CIO’s in Atlanta who could have given you the name of their sales executive from Dell in 2009. Today there is not a CIO in Atlanta who does not know and respect Ben Hendrick. Ben is the Face at TAG, TechBridge, WIT and so many other organizations in our community. The Dell After-Party at the annual Techbridge Digital Ball is legendary.

If you don’t know Ben Hendrick, I hope you will listen to this short interview and then connect with Ben on LinkedIn or other social media. You will connect with one of the greats!

Chris Arrendale of Inbox Pros and Andy Green with Kennesaw State University

September 23, 2015 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Chris Arrendale of Inbox Pros and Andy Green with Kennesaw State University

00:00 /

Chris Arrendale/Inbox Pros

Inbox Pros is your partner in Email Deliverability. To this effort, they assist in evaluating mailing infrastructure set up, authentication, sender reputation, bounce and complaints management, list quality and permissions, domestic and international compliance, message content and delivery tracking. They also provide ISP remediation and outreach, domain specific volume and policy guidelines, and industry updates. Services include:

Deliverability Audits – This deliverability audit suits any client of any provider and will include a comprehensive report on the state of the ESP.
24/7 Monitoring & Alerting – Their monitoring alerts keep an eye on your email deliverability 24/7. These alerts monitor IP/domain blacklists, as well as IP/domain reputation.
Reporting & Analysis – They work with you to design custom reports for better overall email deliverability analysis.
Reputation Building – From IP warming plans to helping establish or rebuild your reputation, they are focused on achieving solid email deliverability.
IP & Domain Authentication – Making sure that you have the proper IP/domain authentication set up is a valuable piece to getting emails delivered.
Whitelisting Assistance – They look at your program and provide feedback on how to get white-listed with those ISPs and domains that accept white-listing.
Bounce Code Reasoning & Assistance – They analyze your bounces, determine the cause, and provide assistance on either suppression or getting those emails delivered.
Block Removal Assistance – ISP blocks can be difficult, but their consultants have expertise in working to get these blocks removed.

Andy Green/Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw State University is a comprehensive university recognized for its entrepreneurial spirit, global engagement and sense of community. As Georgia’s third-largest university and one of the fifty largest public universities in the country, Kennesaw State offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degrees, including an increasing number of doctoral programs. Kennesaw State is committed to becoming a world-class academic institution positioned to broaden its academic and research missions and expand its scope on a local, national and global level.

Kennesaw State University offers the only undergraduate degree in Information Security and Assurance in the state of Georgia.

Can Serial Entrepreneurs Make a Lasting Leadership Impact?

March 29, 2013 by angishields

Global Leader Radio

Can Serial Entrepreneurs Make a Lasting Leadership Impact?

00:00 /

Can serial entrepreneurs impact the leadership of those in corporate and not-for-profit sectors? Can we learn a set of ideas, principles and values to better predict the long-term impact of our leadership? Karen Robinson-Cope helped answer these questions as she joined host Alvin C. Miles to share her experience, insights and advice in this edition of Global Leader Radio!™.

Listen, learn and apply these seven takeaways from our discussion:

Customers don’t want to hear all the details, they want you to solve their problem.
An entrepreneur’s job is to identify what needs to be done – then do it!
Smarts & enthusiasm are sometimes more important than experience.
Give your team the opportunity and the ability to fail.
Tolerance for ambiguity & making timely decisions are essential.
When operating internationally, focus the culture/process bias of the country and company first.
Having the external viewpoint of a board can make your company much more successful!

Listen in as Karen explains her leadership style through the lens of entrepreneurship. Add her ideas to your leadership toolkit to help increase YOUR influence. Leadership IS a conversation!

Karen Robinson/ SVP Sales & Marketing, NanoLumens

Karen leads the NanoLumens sales team and oversees all new business development and marketing. She has been instrumental in the planning, strategy and growth of NanoLumens.

Karen is a serial entrepreneur who has been CEO of four different high-growth, venture or angel-backed companies over the last 20 years. Most recently, Karen was president and CEO of Prime Point Media, one of the largest alternative out of home advertising companies in the United States which she successfully led to a lucrative exit when it was acquired by a publicly traded company in 2006. Prior to Prime Point, Karen was chairwoman, president and CEO of Enrev Corporation, a technology company that was acquired in 2001.

She has been recognized by Atlanta-based Women in Technology when she won its Woman of the Year in Technology Awards in 2000, and is the incoming board chair of the Atlanta chapter of TIE, an organization that fosters entrepreneurship globally. She was also named to Wireless Weekly’s list of top 20 Women in the wireless industry. Karen is a frequent speaker at both the regional and national levels and she has spoken at MIT, Georgia Tech, Harvard and Emory Universities. She is also an investor and board member at numerous private and public companies in the United States and Canada. Her passions are her family and her involvement in micro-lending in both Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America.

Contact Karen: (678) 974-1539, krobinson@nanolumens.com

Which Book Has Most Impacted Your Leadership Ability?

Karen:

Does “IQ + EQ + LQ + BQ” = Success for Financial Leaders?

March 5, 2013 by angishields

Global Leader Radio

Does "IQ + EQ + LQ + BQ" = Success for Financial Leaders?

00:00 /

In this edition of Global Leader Radio!™, we discuss the common denominators of success for financial leaders. Mike McCracken joined host Alvin C. Miles to explain leadership through the lens of finance, along with several strategies, tools and tips to help your leadership emerge!

Here are seven takeaways from our discussion:

“If you have the ability to influence others into action, you are a leader!”
Always empathize with the people you lead.
Under duress, people fall back on their core values.
Knowing your strengths & struggles is valuable to becoming a better leader.
Have you built a team that can survive without you?
Like athletes, leaders must continue to practice .
The best leaders celebrate as a team.

Mike provides great insight to help you understand the dimensions of financial leadership. Add his ideas to your leadership toolkit to help increase YOUR influence. Leadership IS a conversation!

Mike McCracken / Founder, McCracken Alliance LLC

Mike McCracken has been the founder of many companies throughout his career including McCracken Alliance, LLC (MA) which focuses on building business and leadership networks that foster peer-to-peer relationships, provide leverage through knowledge sharing and facilitate access to innovative value added business solutions. Previously, Mike was a founder of Tatum LLC, which became the first National Professional CFO Firm with annual sales of $200 million, and in 2010, merged with a $2.0 billion NYSE registrant.

Earlier Mike formed an internet services provider which sold in the late 90’s for several million dollars. He was also a partner with Ernst & Young LLP in New York, reporting to the Chairman and CEO, after being a Regional Director of Marketing and Strategy for the seven-state SE Region during a reorganization period to introduce a specialized industry focus and merger with Arthur Young which created the largest professional services firm at that time. He served as coordinating partner on the team of professionals that designed the spin-off of Eastman Chemical Company, a $4.0 billion Fortune 500 manufacturer, from Eastman Kodak and was business development advisor to the member firm in Japan. Previously a CPA in four states and CMA, he has served on numerous boards including serving as a founding member of more than 10 university based leadership networks.

Contact Mike: (770) 696-5312, mike.mccracken@mccrackenalliance.com

Which Book Has Most Impacted Your Leadership Ability?

Mike: