
Lisa Dean//
Broadcast Live from Collaborate in Nashville, TN.
You can contact Lisa by emailing her at ldean@salesxceleration.com
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Lisa Dean//
Broadcast Live from Collaborate in Nashville, TN.
You can contact Lisa by emailing her at ldean@salesxceleration.com
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Kirsty Hughan // Seamless Marketing
Broadcast Live from Collaborate in Nashville, TN.
You can contact Kirsty by emailing her at kirstyhughan@gmail.com
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Adrian Davis / MYidealDOCTOR Telehealth
CEO
MYidealDOCTOR™ is a venture-backed mHealth company reinventing the way healthcare is delivered. By blending technology and the best physicians in the healthcare world, we believe that we offer a better way to consult and diagnose the issues that many of us face daily. Telehealth will become one of the first access points to healthcare in the future and we are ready to be there when our patients need us.
Amal Bhatnagar / First Aid For All
Founder and President
Amal Bhatnagar, a senior at Northview High School, leads a journey to fight against medical poverty worldwide by leading his nonprofit organization called First Aid For All.
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Greg Lang/Good Samaritan Health Center
Good Samaritan Health Center of Gwinnett is a non-profit organization committed to caring for the uninsured and under-insured working poor in Gwinnett County. It is the aim of Good Samaritan Gwinnett to not only meet physical needs, but to also address the spiritual needs of their patients through prayer and biblical counseling. They serve the community by helping to eliminate health disparities for uninsured and under-insured populations, and their programs help reduce the cost of indigent care on the public health care delivery system.
Jay Moran/Followed Social Media for Business
Followed Social Media for Business takes social media off your marketing “to-do” list and keeps you top-of-mind with your target market to influence their buying decisions, all while saving you time, money, and keeping your work-life balance in harmony.
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Sugra Naqvi / Stellar Consulting Solutions
Co Founder
Sugra Naqvi is the co-founder of Stellar Consulting Solutions. She has over 10 years of experience in sales and being a successful entrepreneur. In her role, she serves as a primary hunter of new businesses and client relationships. Sugra has been in sales under the retail vertical prior to starting her current venture. She brings deep understanding of operations, culture and relationships. Sugra has earned her dual bachelors from Georgia State University, in Sociology and Business. She currently enjoys volunteering her time to WIT, enjoys reading and traveling with her two sons.
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Sandy Welfare / WIT
Sandy Welfare is the Executive Director of Women In Technology (WIT). Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of Cool Girls Inc, an award-winning early intervention after-school program dedicated to the empowerment of girls (2009-2015).
Sandy’s career began in 1989 in Greenwich, Connecticut where she joined Rand Insurance as the Controller. Six years later, she accepted a position with Lucent Technologies, an international telecommunications leader, holding a number of positions including serving as Accounting and Treasury Manager in Singapore (1999-2000) and then as Senior Manager in Australia and New Zealand (2000-2002). Sandy returned to Atlanta in 2002 as Senior Manager of Global Financial Services.
In 2003, Sandy accepted a position as Director of Operations for Xchanging, a business processing outsourcing company. In 2006, her career took her to London, England as Managing Director for professional services, where she managed global business processing services for bank financial transactions, insurance and retail.
Sandy received her undergraduate degree from St. John’s University in New York, and a Master of Business Administration from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. She serves on the board of several non-profits, including Kiwanis Club of Atlanta. Sandy resides in Marietta, Georgia with her husband, Cliff and son, Soloman.
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JoAnn Holmes, Esq. / HOLMES@LAW, LLC
Attorney and Founder
JoAnn Jo Holmes is the founder of HOLMES@LAW, LLC(www.holmesatlaw.com), where her practice focus is Business Law & Contracts, Trademark & Copyright, Software & Tech. She works with a broad array of clients, including professional service providers, consultants, software and creative content developers, and manufacturers. Having practiced law for nearly 17 years, her goal is to live the firms slogan Your Business Ally™.
A graduate of Stanford University and Emory School of Law, her career began in the Technology & Intellectual Property (IP) practice group of Troutman Sanders, a prominent Atlanta based law firm. There, she successfully represented a gamut of diverse clients, from startups to multi-billion dollar companies like Chick-fil-A, Microsoft and WalMart.
Moving in-house, Jo served on business management and legal teams in senior leadership roles for both public and private manufacturing companies. For more than a decade, she was the go-to lawyer for her business units with presence in North and South America, Europe, Africa and the Pacific Rim. She has overseen IP portfolios in more than 130 countries, is well accomplished in negotiating sophisticated domestic and international commercial contracts, and in resolving high dollar disputes.
Jo has spoken extensively about business law, technology, and intellectual property. Currently, she writes the business law section for the Gwinnett Citizen newspaper, and speaks for SCORE, a longstanding resource partner of the Small Business Administration. Likewise, Jo volunteers with Leadership Gwinnett, Discovery High Schools Entrepreneurship Academy, the SE Gwinnett Coop food pantry, and the Stanford Alumni Association.
Kevin Geraghty / Revenue Research, Inc.
President
Kevin is responsible for the creation of $3 billion in documented corporate value. He has built successful analytic departments and profitable business models for Fortune 500 clients. Kevin received the Edelman Laureate Award in 1996 and 2016 for outstanding Operations Research practice and received the DM News Martech Award for Data Science in 2015. He is the author of machine learning patents for Dynamic Pricing and Paid Search marketing.
Thad Oviatt / ParkENT Cycles
Founder & CEO
ParkENT Cycles just wants to HUG your bicycle and keep it safe. We produce an electronic bike rack. The rack is a bicycle locking system built into a custom bike rack. To use the rack a person just needs to push their bike into the rack, activate it with the paired phone app (or key card, or attached kiosk), and the bike rack locks up the bicycle. The electronic bike rack locks the wheel and frame of the bicycle. The rack is safer than any other bicycle lock on the market.
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Kenneth Burke ft. Jeremy Boudinet// Text Request
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Do you have “SaaS”?
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James Dawson ft. Alex Lavidge// Text Request
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What is the single biggest pitfall entrepreneurs run into in the startup world?
Chattanooga entrepreneur, investor, and marketing consultant Alex Lavidge joins James Dawson to discuss the importance of Market Research in the beginning stages of business development. They discuss not only the types of research, but also the tools available and things needed to get started!
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Steve Collins/Integrated Insurance Solutions
Integrated Insurance Solutions is an independent insurance agency located in Johns Creek, GA specializing in all types of business insurance products and professional liability lines. No matter what type of business insurance is needed, they have the knowledge, experience, and support team to assist you. Though IIS is large enough to place and handle the most complex risk, they consider their number-one strength to be the personal service that they provide to the client. Each of their clients are treated as an “individual” from the origination and throughout follow-up. Their agency’s objective is to provide the best possible commercial insurance available. They know you have options out there, but what they feel sets them apart from the competition is the superior and courteous customer service they provide. Their agency’s success depends on the happiness and satisfaction of you, their valued client.
Josh Axelberd/Displayit
Displayit produces portable displays for a wide variety of trade show and event marketing applications. They generate 90% of their leads through digital marketing channels such as Google Adwords. They started selling via the internet in 1997.
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