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Cory Thompson & Cynthia Jackson with Georgia Piedmont Technical College and Neil Stevens with KeyWorth Bank

August 13, 2014 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Cory Thompson & Cynthia Jackson with Georgia Piedmont Technical College and Neil Stevens with KeyWorth Bank

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Nikole Toptas, Cory Thompson, Cynthia Jackson, Neil Stevens, Dominick Rainey

Cory Thompson/Georgia Piedmont Technical College

Georgia Piedmont Technical College (GPTC) is proud to offer two new and exciting career paths that will offer students the opportunity to work in the growing fields of Television, Film and Music. In the fall of 2013, GPTC began offering a Technical Certificate of Credit (TCC) and a degree in Design Media Production Technology (DMPT). In the fall of 2014, a degree in Recording Arts Technology (RART) was added to the curriculum.

Design and Media Production Technology prepares students for employment in a variety of media production industries. This program of study emphasizes hands-on production in specialized areas. Graduates of the program receive a Design and Media Production degree with specializations in graphic design and prepress, computer animation, web interface design, or motion graphics.

The Recording Arts Technology degree program prepares students for a career in the audio engineering field including working with live sound, such as for concerts and church services or recording, studio engineering, field recording, production of beats, audio for gaming, sound for film and television and sound for interactive applications such as animation, multimedia and web audio.

Cynthia Jackson/Georgia Piedmont Technical College

Established in 1961, Georgia Piedmont Technical College (GPTC) is one of the oldest and most respected of Georgia’s 33 technical colleges. Recognized for their student-centered atmosphere, Georgia Piedmont Technical College prepares individuals with the education, training, and skills to enter the workplace ready to make a difference in hiring companies and in the ever-changing global economy.

Residents of DeKalb, Rockdale, Newton, and Morgan counties have the opportunity to attend classes at one of two campuses and five centers conveniently located throughout the service area. GPTC provides real-world skills for rewarding careers. In fiscal year 2010, the College served 24,590 students and conferred 1,118 awards to graduates earning associate degrees, diplomas and technical certificates of credit. Graduates have a 99% job placement rate with 69% graduate placement in jobs in or related to their program of study or in further education.

Neil Stevens/KeyWorth Bank

KeyWorth Bank is a $400 million dollar community bank headquartered in John’s Creek, GA with locations in East Cobb, Dunwoody, Alpharetta and Duluth. KeyWorth Bank’s main focus is small to medium sized businesses and professionals including physicians and dentists.

Jim Clark and Les Adkins with The APocket Company and Neil Stevens with KeyWorth Bank

October 23, 2013 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Jim Clark and Les Adkins with The APocket Company and Neil Stevens with KeyWorth Bank

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Dominick Rainey, Neil Stevens, Jim, Les Adkins — Dominick Rainey, Neil Stevens, Jim Clark, Les Adkins

Jim Clark & Les Adkins/The APocket Company

The APocket Company is a Social Relationship Management platform designed to help members deepen relationships with their most productive, highly valued connections.

Neil Stevens/KeyWorth Bank

KeyWorth Bank was established in 2007 with a vision of serving the expanding North Metro Atlanta market. Steady growth, profitability and maintaining a sound financial condition has been accomplished by providing a service-oriented “community banking” experience for businesses and individuals in the area. They operate multiple locations and have grown to $350 million in assets. KeyWorth associates are experienced professionals with a wealth of banking knowledge to assist clients in reaching their financial goals. KeyWorth has developed a focus on small and mid-sized businesses, medical practices and individuals by hiring bankers with a keen understanding of those client needs. They offer unique lending products and new technologies like Remote Deposit Capture to help businesses run more efficiently.

Neil Stevens with Keyworth Bank, Chuck Paul with A Closer Look and David Read with Printpack

August 21, 2013 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Neil Stevens with Keyworth Bank, Chuck Paul with A Closer Look and David Read with Printpack

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Neil Stevens, David read, Chuck Paul, Dominick Rainey — Neil Stevens, David Read, Chuck Paul, Dominick Rainey

Neil Stevens/Keyworth Bank

Keyworth Bank is a $350 million Community Bank with three full-service offices and a loan office, serving small businesses in North Metro Atlanta.

Chuck Paul/A Closer Look

It’s The Experience. Creating customer loyalty in today’s “multiple choice” marketplace goes beyond product, presentation and price. Repeat business is a direct result of providing your customers with positive, memorable experiences. By asking the right questions, collecting on-point data and synthesizing it into intelligent information, A Closer Look helps you measure your customer’s experience and deliver solutions tailored to drive repeat visits and build brand loyalty. For over 15 years, A Closer Look has developed innovative, intelligent and actionable systems with one goal in mind: Capturing your customer’s experience and then delivering solutions to elevate their experience beyond expectations.

David Read/Printpack

Printpack is a major converter of flexible and specialty rigid packaging with an over fifty-year history of innovation. Twenty-eight manufacturing plants throughout the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Poland, and China, allow Printpack the flexibility to offer a broad range of packaging options globally. Every product that Printpack designs and produces addresses a real world marketplace challenge for our customers. Packaging is the differentiator and your products demand packaging that performs. Maximize your potential with solutions from Printpack.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE with John Ernst: Jim Lester with Uncommon Property and Mike Fulton with Keyworth Bank

March 7, 2013 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

MAKING A DIFFERENCE with John Ernst: Jim Lester with Uncommon Property and Mike Fulton with Keyworth Bank

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE is hosted by John Ernst with Ernst & Partners.

Jim Lester/Uncommon Property

Jim Lester of Uncommon Property owns and manages a portfolio of single and multi-family properties. As an agent, he helps investors find, renovate, manage and sell investment properties in emerging and high growth areas. He works with HR departments to provide their employees with a home purchase benefit of a rebate of one percent of the home’s purchase price. The program has no cost to the employer as the rebate is paid at closing from the commission paid by the seller.

Mike Fulton/Keyworth Bank

KeyWorth Bank was established in 2007 with a vision for serving the expanding North Metro Atlanta market. They operate multiple locations and have grown to over $350 million in assets. KeyWorth associates are experienced professionals with a wealth of banking knowledge to assist their clients in reaching their financial goals. KeyWorth’s focus is on the communities they serve including small to mid-sized businesses, medical and dental practices, and individuals. It is their desire to develop a strong and lasting relationship with you. They take banking seriously, and they want to show you that at KeyWorth Bank, the experience is worth it.

Mike Fulton is a 22 year banker specializing in commercial lending and business banking in the North Metro Atlanta market with KeyWorth Bank. He specializes in lending to small and midsize businesses for the construction and acquisition of real estate, working capital credit lines, equipment loans and SBA.

John Ernst/Ernst & Partners

Ernst & Partners is a law firm that handles Personal Injury, Real Estate Closings, Bankruptcy, Criminal and Divorce.

John A. Ernst Jr. is a graduate of Emory University and University of Georgia, School of Law. After graduating from Emory, Mr. Ernst was the assistant to Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, in which capacity he had the opportunity to meet with the leaders of the state and from around the world. Mr. Ernst is also a veteran of many political campaigns around the state. He then continued his education and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia School of Law. During his tenure in law school, Mr. Ernst was a member of the prosecutorial clinic where he served as a prosecutor in the Athens-Clarke County District Attorney’s office and was a summer clerk for the Honorable John J Ellington, Georgia Court of Appeals. After law school, Mr. Ernst served as the Attorney of the Majority Caucus in the Georgia House of Representatives for the 2004 Legislative Session. John opened his own law firm in 2005 where he handles Real Estate Transactions, Bankruptcy cases, and Personal Injury Clients.

Wanda Weegar with KeyWorth Bank, Norwood Davis with 12Stone Church and Nicholas Trishin with Atlanta Tax & Accounting

December 11, 2012 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Wanda Weegar with KeyWorth Bank, Norwood Davis with 12Stone Church and Nicholas Trishin with Atlanta Tax & Accounting

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Wanda Weegar/KeyWorth Bank

KeyWorth Bank is a customer focused local community bank serving small and mid-sized businesses, professionals, medical/dental practices and individuals. Established in 2007, KeyWorth Bank has experienced steady growth and sound financial results. KeyWorth Bank operates full service offices in Duluth, Johns Creek, and Alpharetta and a loan office in Marietta. The value proposition KeyWorth Bank brings to each customer relationship is safety and security, experienced bankers, local decision making and money to lend. Their motto is “The Experience is Worth It” reflecting the dedicated experienced staff combined with a unique “high touch” customer service approach. “You will feel comfortable banking with us”.

KeyWorth Bank is active in the community providing support to the Gwinnett and Johns Creek Chambers, Habitat for Humanity, Summit Counseling Center, The Impact Group, Toys for Tots, Gwinnett Children’s Shelter, Rainbow Village, Gwinnett Medical Center Cornerstone Society, Hope Clinic, Dentistry from the Heart and several Community Improvement Districts such as the Gwinnett Place CID, Gwinnett Village CID and the Lilburn CID.

Wanda Weegar is the Financial Center Manager of the Sugarloaf location of KeyWorth Bank since it’s opening over three years ago. With over 25 years of experience in the banking industry at various large banks, Wanda prefers the culture of a small community bank because of the “high touch” customer service approach and community involvement. Wanda is a Gwinnett County native and is passionate about providing support to the local Chamber of Commerce as well as a variety of non-profit organizations within the community.

Norwood Davis/12Stone Church

Named the 2010 Fastest Growing Church and among the Top 30 Largest Churches in America by Outreach Magazine, 12Stone® Church (with four locations) serves more than 13,000 adults and children weekly with its unique worship and teaching styles. In addition, 12Stone partners with over a dozen local non-profit agencies to offer hope and help among the poor, sick, homeless, addicted, immigrants and prisoners.

As Chief Financial Officer, Norwood Davis leads the finance, human resources, information technology, marketing, facilities and legal initiatives for 12Stone® Church. He also leads the church’s outreach initiatives in Metro Atlanta and around the world. Norwood has significant experience with non-profit and philanthropic organizations having served boards of ten non-profit organizations over the last 10 years. Currently, he serves as board chair for Street GRACE, an Atlanta based organization combating the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Norwood also serves as a Trustee of the Georgia Gwinnett College Foundation and on the board of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. Prior to his current role with 12Stone® Church, he spent 12 years in a variety of executive roles with Duke Energy, a Fortune 500 global energy company and 15 months as a senior executive with a privately held firm in Gwinnett County.

Nicholas Trishin/Atlanta Tax & Accounting Co.

Atlanta Tax & Accounting provides tax and accounting services for Small Businesses and Individuals. They coach companies how to make more money and grow their business, and can demonstrate where companies make and lose money with running accurate up-to-date books. They work hard to ensure companies pay the least amount of tax on their hard earned dollars and specialize working with small and new businesses with 1 to 15 employees. Experts with QuickBooks, Atlanta Tax & Accounting can train you to use software effectively on your own. They use the latest state-of-the-art technology making interaction with them easy. They offer innovative tax planning and can discover hidden credits and deductions for your business. With unbeatable low rates, they assist multi-state businesses prepare returns for ALL 50 states.