ITEN WIRED RADIO- 2018 ITEN WIRED SUMMIT Wrap Up Show

November 16, 2018 by angishields

ITEN Wired Radio

ITEN WIRED RADIO- 2018 ITEN WIRED SUMMIT Wrap Up Show

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Jim Rhodes/Michelle Gadson/Jay Smith
Planning Committee Memebers

The ITEN WIRED Team

ITEN WIRED is a conference hosted by IT Gulf Coast and Florida West Economic Development Alliance. The annual summit provides networking and learning opportunities for executives, entrepreneurs, technology professionals and academia to foster local economic development efforts surrounding innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.

The ITEN WIRED planning team is composed of volunteers from IT Gulf Coast, Florida West Economic Development Alliance, and other members of our local IT community.

Innovation. Technology. Entrepreneurship. Network.

ITEN Wired is a conference hosted by IT Gulf Coast and Florida West Economic Development Alliance.

The ITEN WIRED Summit comes back to the Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front on October 2nd-4th as a bigger, better, three-day conference.

The annual summit provides networking and learning opportunities for executives, entrepreneurs, technology professionals and academia to foster local economic development efforts surrounding innovation, technology and entrepreneurship.

The ITEN Wired planning team is composed of volunteers from IT Gulf Coast, Florida West Economic Development Alliance, and other members of our local IT community.

Pensacola Business Radio–Poker Run, US Military Vets MC, CROSSBONES Chapter

November 7, 2018 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio--Poker Run, US Military Vets MC, CROSSBONES Chapter

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Andrew G Kelleher (Hagrid)

2nd Annual Communities Caring at Christmas Poker Run

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· Hosted by US Military Vets MC, Crossbones, Pensacola, Florida

The U.S. Military Vets MC, Crossbones Chapter, is hosting their 2nd Annual Communities Caring at Christmas Poker Run, (sponsored by Whiskey Runners Saloon) on Saturday, November 17, 2018. Majority proceeds from this event go towards supporting Communities Caring at Christmas.

Pensacola Business Radio: Foo Foo Fest 2018 in Full Effect, Guests, Maria Goldberg

November 2, 2018 by angishields

BRX National

Pensacola Business Radio: Foo Foo Fest 2018 in Full Effect, Guests, Maria Goldberg

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Foo Foo Fest events – www.FooFooFest.com

5^th Annual Foo Foo Festival Arrives in Pensacola, Florida November 1-12

The “Festival City of the South” Offers 12-Day Arts & Culture Celebration

Pensacola, Fla. – When the modern performance arts have the backdrop of America’s oldest settlement, one of the South’s most charming coastal cities is magically transformed into a delightful, sensory feast. The nonprofit organization, Art, Culture, and Entertainment, Inc. (ACE), presents this sensory event when the 5^th Annual Foo Foo Festival occurs November 1-12, 2018 in Pensacola, Fla. The 12-day Foo Foo Fest celebrates culturally creative happenings, events and moments and invites visitors to “Vacation Artfully” in Pensacola for nearly two weeks.

Pensacola, known as the “Festival City of the South,” is the only city on the stretch of the Gulf Coast from Mobile, Ala. to Tampa, Fla. that boasts having the “big five,” an opera, ballet, symphony, theatre and museum. Foo Foo Festival’s roster of events celebrates art, music, dance, opera, theatre and cuisine with programming from 30 grant recipients, throughout the city of Pensacola for nearly two weeks. The 2018 ACE grant recipients will host individual experiences specific to their craft throughout the festival. Strategically positioned in and around some of Pensacola’s most popular and longer-running events, the Foo Foo Fest encourages cultural tourists to make Pensacola an arts destination and enjoy other events those two weeks including The Greater Gulf Coast Arts Festival, the Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show, Pensacola Eggfest, the 34th Annual Frank Brown Songwriters Festival and the 14th Annual Pensacola Marathon.

To mark the fifth anniversary of the Foo Foo Fest, this year’s 2018 event features a special, large-scale interactive picture mural created from thousands of images of festival-goers. This Foo Foo Festival Picture Mosaic allows visitors to become “part of the art,” actually leaving personal, creative marks on a permanent historical art collage in downtown Pensacola, thus further emphasizing the wider community’s interconnectivity.

“Pensacola, Fla. has established a stellar reputation for its unique, diverse cultural arts offerings,” said David Bear, trustee emeritus for Art, Culture, and Entertainment, Inc. “So, it’s only natural we bring not only a variety of opera, ballet, symphony, theatre and museum culture to visitors and residents, but so many other diverse offerings of high artistic, cultural caliber during the 5^th annual Foo Foo Fest.”

2018 Foo Foo Festival Highlights include:

CUBED Luminous: Outdoor Digital Arts Festival – a four day and night outdoor digital art festival consisting of a 12 foot by 18 foot LED cube and 16 laser projectors projecting on four eight foot by eight foot cubes located at UWF Historic Trust’s Museum Plaza in downtown Pensacola.

On Air with Doc Severinsen with the Pensacola Civic Band – The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson band leader and trumpeter, Doc Severinsen will perform a concert with the Pensacola Civic Band at the Pensacola Saenger Theatre. Doc will be joined by trumpeter Cathy Leach in a program featuring several selections from his musical repertoire of jazz and television tunes. In addition, the Pensacola Civic Band will perform many familiar television theme songs from the Fifties until today in a rollicking concert that you won’t want to miss.

First City Arts Center and Pensacola State College present Women of Fire – Women artists have faced gender bias throughout history and their work has often been undervalued, stereotyping to particular media, such as fiber arts. Women of Fire presents a collaborative event including a diverse group of six female artists including a blacksmith, glassblowers, ceramic artists and a flame worker.

See the Music, Hear the Dance – Pensacola Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and Ballet Pensacola will join forces for a performance combining breathtaking dance with live instrumental music. Featuring Ballet Pensacola’s dancers joined onstage by a septet of PSO musicians, See the Music, Hear the Dance includes landmark Impressionist works from renowned French composers, including Maurice Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro. Carrying the French tradition forward is Golden Fish Under the Arched Bridge by a living American composer, Michael Senturia.

The African American Heritage Society, Inc. – “STORYTELLER’S CIRCLE: The Gullah Experience with Aunt Pearlie Sue.” Unique to the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia and the Sea Islands around Pensacola, the Gullah people are a distinctive group of African Americans who live in small farming and fishing units. Story telling offers rich history from this tightly knit community that has survived slavery, the civil war and the emergence of modern American culture.

Pensacola LGBTQ Film Festival – Stamped is a film festival featuring awarding-winning New York City Broadway performers Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina. Better known as the Skivvies, the comedy-pop duo strips down not only their musical arrangements, but to their skivvies. They perform distinctive mashups and eccentric originals on cello, ukulele, guitar, and a surprising array of bizarre, under-used instruments in a part Weird Al-parody / part sexy burlesque.

Sunday’s Child, the UNITY project – an interactive, public, larger-than-life art structure celebrates our cultural uniqueness and strengthens our ties to each other. The project consists of posts, each with identifiers such as, “I’m a parent; I’m a Veteran; I speak English as a second language; I identify as LGBTQ.” Participants tie colorful ribbons to those posts that reflect their identities. Ribbons intertwine together to create a web of interconnectedness, visually showing the connectivity and diversity that builds a strong, vibrant community.

Truth for Youth, Inc. – Two events by Back On The Blocks include “Motown Madness Music Medley: an evening of sangin’, dancin’, and eatin’- THE SOULFUL WAY!” and “Street Beats, Bands & Bar-B-Que: an afternoon of steppin’, beatin’, and eatin’- THE SOULFUL WAY!”

In addition to the arts, downtown Pensacola offers historic walking tours, a large farmer’s market, quaint shops, food trucks, brewery tours and daily running clubs. Hosting the Foo Foo Festival in the fall offers big fun and a hefty dose of Southern sophistication delivered to boost tourism and travel during the “off season” with its unique slate of events.

For more information about the 2018 Pensacola Foo Foo Festival visit www.FooFooFest.com or follow Foo Foo Festival on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About Art, Culture, Entertainment, Inc. (ACE)

ACE is a nonprofit organization that receives Federal, State of Florida, Escambia County, City of Pensacola, corporate, foundation and personal funds. ACE disperses these funds through an equitable granting process to nonprofit arts, culture and entertainment organizations throughout Escambia County, Fla., and promotes Escambia County as an arts and cultural destination through the annual Foo Foo Festival and other marketing efforts. For more information about ACE, visit www.acepensacola.org.

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Bob & Lyn Turknett and Tino Mantella with Turknett Leadership Group

October 25, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Bob & Lyn Turknett and Tino Mantella with Turknett Leadership Group

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Steven Julian, Bob Turknett, Tino Mantella, Lyn Turknett, Ashley Mengwasser

Lyn & Bob Turknett/Turknett Leadership Group

Turknett Leadership Group‘s expertise is Leadership. They are Atlanta’s premiere resource for Executive Coaching, Leadership Talent Assessment, Executive Team Development, Cultural Assessment, Executive Selection, and more. Through an approach grounded in science and guided by the Leadership Character Model, they help organizations hire the best people, identifying and developing high potentials, and creating an ethical culture.

TLG is a boutique consulting firm focused on providing personalized guidance and support to their clients. Their professional staff brings both depth and breadth to their clients by combining expertise in the behavioral sciences with practical business and executive management experience.

Tino Mantella/Turknett Leadership Group

Tino J. Mantella became the President and CEO of Turknett Leadership Group on October 29, 2018. TLG is one of the nations top leadership development companies, driven by its proprietary Leadership Character Model and grounded in science. TLG has supported hundreds of CEO’s and their teams over the last 32 years.

Mantella brings over 30 years of leading some of the nation’s largest and most distinguished not-for-profit including the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, the National Arthritis Foundation, and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). Leader, innovator and versatile are three descriptors that collectively provide a framework for Tino’s career. He has supervised a team of over 4,500 employees during his years at the Chicago YMCA Programs ranged from gang intervention to foster care to being the largest provider of SRO’s (Single Room Occupancy Housing) in the state of Illinois. The YMCA and Mantella, during his tenure, were one of the first not-for-profits ever recognized for the prestigious George Land award for Innovation. At the Arthritis Foundation, during Mantella’s tenure, the organization disseminated over $50 million dollars to help find cures for debilitating diseases. And, at TAG (Technology Association of Georgia), over the 12 years Mantella was at the helm, the organization grew from less than 500 members to over 36,000, becoming the largest organization of its kind in North America.

In January of 2017, Tino was appointed President and CEO of Tier4 Advisors. This for-profit company helps senior leaders optimize decisions around their IT expenditures. In 2018, Tier4 was recognized as an Inc. 1,000 company for the first time in its history. Tino will remain a partner at Tier4 and equity owner.

Mantella resides in John’s Creek, Georgia with his wife Deborah.

Mark Treager with Cornerstone Media Group and Marc Catalano with ACA GPS

October 23, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Mark Treager with Cornerstone Media Group and Marc Catalano with ACA GPS

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Mark Treager/Cornerstone Media Group

For over 35 years, Mark Treager with Cornerstone Media Group has been labeled as a maverick right from the start of his professional sales and marketing career because he refuses to accept the marketing status quo. He has a long career of stirring the pot, questioning why, tipping over and shooting the sacred cows, and a passion for finding unique uses of today’s modern technology to get his clients’ voice into the minds of potential customers. His simple, logical, diverse and down-to-earth approach to marketing will challenge your thinking way beyond any box in creating generational customers for your brand. His candor when it comes to branding will challenge you to become the next W-O-W brand in your industry.

Marc Catalano/ACA GPS

ACA GPS was founded in May of 2013 with the sole purpose of developing a comprehensive software suite of applications and services that would keep an Applicable Large Employer (ALE) in compliance with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate. They strongly believe that they have accomplished that goal and have created one of the best compliance tools, if not the best, on the market today: ACA Management Tool.

ACA Management Tool is a Software as a Service (SaaS) application that is offered in two variations: as a Full Comprehensive Compliance Suite and as a Distributing/Reporting Only Solution.

Additionally, ACA GPS has developed DECATool, a SaaS application that allows employers and third party administrators to conduct efficient dependent eligibility audits.

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Reno Borgognoni and Reno Borgognoni Jr. from RMBCPA

October 19, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Reno Borgognoni and Reno Borgognoni Jr. from RMBCPA

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Reno Borgognoni

Reno has over 30 years of experience in Accounting and Finance. After an internship as a staff accountant in a CPA firm, Reno began his career in Healthcare services in 1982, with a proven track record of accomplishments. Beginning as a Staff Accountant with one of the nation’s largest and leading healthcare providers, Beverly Enterprises, and progressing upwards to a Director of Finance and Management Information Services position. Reno joined with some close Beverly colleagues and spun off a new affiliate of Beverly, called ADVINET, introducing the first national preferred-provider network of sub-acute healthcare providers coupled with a nurse-staffed patient case management service. Successful in its market entrance, ADVINET was acquired by an insurance firm within just 4 years of operation.

Focused on his passion for his profession, Reno began public practice as a CPA, in May of 1988, in conjunction with his corporate career. Experiencing a relocation from Georgia to Arkansas in 1992 and then back to Georgia in 1999, the public practice endured and continues to grow.

Reno serves, since 1999, as the Chief Financial Officer and Board Member of a legacy client (and employer) MD&E, Inc., an IT staffing firm in Johns Creek, GA. Reno serves, since 2017, as the Chief Accounting Officer of Needle Wrieless Solutions, LLC, A Wireless IT consutling firm. This “Big Business” and executive level experience provides Reno a diversity of knowledge enabling him,and his firm, to provide higher levels of support to his clients today. Reno has obtained the following FINRA licenses: Series 6 – Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Representative; Series 7 – General Securities Representative; Series 63 – Uniform Securities Agent State Law Exam; and Series 65 – NASAA-Investment Advisor’s Law Exam. Reno continues to operate the accounting, tax preparation and investment advisory services firm (nicknamed: RMBCPA) while offering fractional CFO services to clients of all sizes.

Reno Borgognoni Jr.

Reno Jr has shown an interest in accounting since high school. During his high school career, he took all business classes offered! Reno Jr graduated with a BBA in Accounting from the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University. By year-end 2015, Reno Jr completed the additional thirty hours of post-degree credit required to sit for the CPA exam, and continues to work towards that goal. Reno Jr joined the firm in January 2016, and handles monthly accounting services, sales and property taxes, and personal and small business income taxes.

Jeff Bond with Ledgent Technology

October 18, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

ePresence

Jeff Bond with Ledgent Technology

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Jeff Bond/Ledgent Technology

Since their opening in 1994, Ledgent Technology has always believed that they are limited only by their own vision, creativity and ethics.

First and foremost, the fact that Ledgent Technology has a soul and is firmly rooted in their Mission, Vision and Values makes them very different and innovative. How can you operate an organization that affects the very livelihood of thousands of people without being philosophy-driven? How can a business that only deals with people be focused on anything else but people? Their approach struck a chord: when they opened their doors in 1994, Ledgent saw their revenue increase by over 22,000% in the first four years. Customers and job seekers yearn to do business with a staffing partner that listens, cares, admits mistakes and is trustworthy. Ledgent is proud to see a change in the staffing industry as a result of their values-driven approach.

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.

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: How to Finance a New Business

October 12, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: How to Finance a New Business

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Jennifer Rusz/Sterling Rose Consulting Corp

Jennifer Rusz has a long career working for both corporations and as an entrepreneur. Rusz began her career, in the 90’s in market intelligence, business operations and management for companies such as Mid America Research/Fact in Focus, Lucent Technologies, Kyocera Wireless, ARS/ Current Analysis and Websense Software Solutions before starting her first company in 2004. She has since been a business consultant and now Founder and CEO of Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Sterling Rose Consulting Corp is an award-winning full service business consulting firm with three divisions, which include business consulting, marketing consulting and strategic technology consulting. For more information about Jennifer Rusz or Sterling Rose Consulting Corp,visit www.sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com or call (470)202-8659.

About “Strategic Insights Radio”:

“Strategic Insights Radio” is intended to be an interactive radio show hosted by Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Listeners can Tweet their questions for a live response on the radio to @sterling_rose1 or via @strategicradio. Also, suggestions on business topics that listeners would like to learn more about are welcome. Please send suggestions to info@sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com

Pensacola Business Radio: Women In Leadership Series Ep 11, brought to you by Powerful Women of The Gulf Coast

October 12, 2018 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: Women In Leadership Series Ep 11, brought to you by Powerful Women of The Gulf Coast

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Emily Elmore USAF Pilot, Professional Speaker, Management Consultant

Emily Elmore is an Air Force pilot, author, and management consultant stationed at Naval Air Station Pensacola as a flight instructor and Chief of Academics and Simulator Operations.

After earning a Master of Engineering and certification in Lean, Six Sigma, and process improvement, Emily began offering data-driven management services. She later founded Elmore Johnson Consulting, specializing in team development and executive coaching.

Emily served 8 years active duty as a pilot; she is credited with over 300 combat hours in Operations Enduring Freedom and Resolute Support. In 2016 she suffered a catastrophic shoulder injury that required a full replacement. Subsequent nerve injury significantly limited her functional abilities, but afforded her the opportunity to focus on her family. She is a married mother of two, committed to growing relationships and coaching others through their own obstacles to become influential leaders in their career and community. 8 years of experience as an USAF pilot and officer; flight commander and instructor of 400+ students for FAA and ICAO airspace requirements and defense operations for multimillion dollar training program. CPI Green Belt that has led projects that reduce critical manning shortfalls and cost savings initiatives. Summa cum laude graduate of Master of Engineering with focus on project management across all spectrums of industry (finance, production, legal, marketing).

Professional speaker, passionate about empowering the community through training, motivation, and team development. Available for public engagements and private seminars; past topics include leadership, managing generational conflict, secrets of high functioning teams, work-life balance, communication, gender equality, and a women’s mentorship series.
Management consultant services are comprehensive and can be found in detail at ElmoreJohnson.com

Consult@elmorejohnson.com , 334-625-9032 , udemy.com/leadership-essentials-for-high-performance-teams/?couponcode=INTRO_RATE

Michele A Kobielnik CPIW, LUTCF, FSS/Affiliated Insurance Pensacola

– I can handle all of your life and health insurance needs whether you need individual, group or business insurance, or when you reach 65 and need coverage to supplement Medicare. With over 30 years experience, I can get you the coverage that best suits your needs.

Kolleen Edwards Chesley has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and spent the majority of her career as a financial advisor. In that role, Kolleen was responsible for finding her own clients and quickly learned the value of networking, networking, and even more networking. It was in 2004 and during her sales career that she, along with two other professional business women met for lunch with the purpose of helping to motivate each other after Hurricane Ivan had blown through our area and changed not only the physical landscape of the area, but also impacted the business landscape as well. Out of that lunch was born what is now a thriving not-for-profit organization for business women.

Kolleen currently serves full-time as the Founding Director of what was originally called Women’s Business Lunch and is now known as Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast. The organization advocates a culture of confidence building, lifelong learning, collaboration, empowering others and a spirit of charitable giving.

The mission of Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is to promote, advance and improve women in business and the organization accomplishes these in a number of different ways.

Monthly networking meetings in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze. These are open to all women and are free to attend. We run a structured meeting with open networking, an educational segment, a sponsor presentation, an opportunity to hear about the businesses of all attendees, and a whole lot of fun. We frequently hear from attendees that these meeting are chock full of value and a great way to build new relationships to help support their businesses. The Pensacola meetings include lunch paid for by our sponsors.
Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast Magazine. We have produced 4 editions of this print magazine. Each edition features interviewees of local successful leaders in business who share their honest thoughts on leadership, success, obstacles, and inspiration as it relates to women in business. We also include other articles on leadership, networking, and other skill development. It is geared for anyone in business or looking for business motivation and tips. Our goal is for this to be a quarterly publication, however the magazine is currently on hold as we explore graphic designers. Our latest edition can still be found on our website.
Annual Pursue Your Passion Women’s conference. To help celebrate National Business Women’s Week, we hold a full day conference during the third week of October along with several other events leading up to the conference. We feature a national keynote speaker, several local successful leaders in business, along with Speed Networking, an Experience Hall, structured and unstructured networking exercises and plenty of laughter, relationship building and excitement. Our attendees are not only motivated by the conference but they leave with tangible tips they can take back and implement in their businesses to lead them to success. For 2018, our conference will be held on Wednesday, October 17^th and Thursday, October 18^th, 2018 at Sanders Beach.
Power Up Challenge is a 12 week educational series where we hold classes once a week for two hours. Classes focused around four main areas of business: Networking, Marketing, Business Efficiency, and Sales Skills. Open to men and women and all classmates receive the full audio recording of each class along with class notes, expanded notes, and extra resources. Remote classes also available. Classes are affordable and attendees are elated with the amount and quality of the information that is shared.

Women in Leadership radio podcast show – sponsored by Pensacola Business Radio X. We hold monthly shows featuring local community leaders and other men and women in business. We engage our guests in conversational style in-depth interviews.