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Randy Bortles, Director of Architectural Solutions with NanoLumens

February 8, 2015 by angishields

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Randy Bortles, Director of Architectural Solutions with NanoLumens

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Randy Bortles

Randy joins NanoLumens bringing with him over 15 years of electronic hardware experience; several years at TTI, Reptron and Avnet electronics, (Global distributors of electronic components and systems), where he worked in various sales capacities in Florida and Georgia. He was also Corporate Account Manager for NCR – Solectron managing the global operations ($650m), an industry leading contract manufacturer. In his latest role he served as a consultant for Rojoli Technology private cloud infrastructure hosting solution company. Born and raised in Syracuse NY, Graduate of State University of New York–Brockport. He is married to Laura Ann Pierce and they have a daughter Randi Brooke. Randy is a full-time fan of all the “Bortles athletes” Brooke- college soccer, Blake- college/pro football, Colby- college baseball, Alexa- World ranked tennis and Elle- Lacrosse. Randy is also passionate about starting college wrestling programs in Georgia.

Excerpt from NanoCast…

Lee: So now, can you walk us through what’s your typical day or conversation with a new architect that maybe has never heard of you before? What is that?

Stone: Starts with a radio interview. Then he heads over to CBS Studios.

Randy: Exactly. Exactly. I try to build it in my celebrity day. Typically what happens, to get a little bit of inertia, we’ll call them up and ask them if they’re interested in what’s considered in the industry a lunch-and-learn type scenario, which is an educational opportunity for us to get our products in front of them, but as well as . . .

There’s an organization in America here called the Architectural Institute of America. We have some modules that have continuing education credits for those. So each architect, every year, has so many credits they . . .

Stone: They have to have so many credits. Right.

Randy: Exactly. So we try to offer that. So we’ll try to take 20 or 30 people and throw them in a room.

Lee: Teach them something.

Randy: Yeah, try to teach them something and then do a little commercial for NanoLumens. Also, some of those people are there for the continuing education credits and the lunch. Right? They’re there for the free lunch, which is fine. Then we try to deliver something there that if their role changes, and they have a need for a design, we’d like to provide an avenue for them to come and talk to us a little bit more about it.

Gary Feather, Executive VP Operations with NanoLumens

February 8, 2015 by angishields

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Gary Feather, Executive VP Operations with NanoLumens

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Gary Feather

A consummate expert in display technology, imaging, lighting and energy systems, Gary began his career at Texas Instruments before moving on to Sharp Electronics where he eventually became Senior Vice President of LED Lighting. He is the holder of three United States Patents in Networked Video Devices, Method for Processing Saturated Intervals in Video Sequences and Presence Based Technology.

Excerpt from NanoCast…

Stone: So now can you explain the difference between LED and LCD?

Gary: Absolutely. LCD is a transmissive technology, a technology that opens and closes a little window and lets a large amount of light go through a color filter, and subsequently shows you a pixel element on the display. The LED approach is much more elegant. It’s a single pixel that’s RGB, red, green, blue, and it lights up and emits the light that you wanna see for that particular pixel as part of an element of the entire picture.

Stone: So now NanoLumens, some of their secret sauce is kind of having a flexible display? Does that add another element to this?

Gary: It does. NanoLumens provides solutions that are flexible. More importantly we provide custom solutions. Every display we build is hand-designed and crafted to the particular needs of the application of the customer. So whether the venue that they have is retail, commercial, an airport environment, or shopping mall, they’ll know that the display they get fits exactly in the space they’re looking for and gives them an elegant look when it’s completed.

Nathan Remmes, VP Marketing with NanoLumens

February 8, 2015 by angishields

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Nathan Remmes, VP Marketing with NanoLumens

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Nate Remmes

With a background in inside sales, Nate Remmes joined the NanoLumens team with a goal of revamping our sales operations. Now, Nate manages our inside sales team as well as marketing, creating an integral bridge between the two operations.

Excerpt from this NanoCast…

Lee: When you’re going to the marketplace with something that’s so revolutionary, is it something that you have to lead the customer? Or is it something where you just show them that this is possible and then what do you want to do? Who is leading who?

Nathan: I think it depends on who you’re talking to. If you’re talking, which we do, to the architects or the design community, you show them what’ possible, and then let them go with it. With other people, you may want to lead and try to give examples, but we’ve shipped products to five continents, dozens of countries. It’s out there, now. People know it. We’ve established that, but at first, it was like Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come.” That’s how we started. We showed it to people. They wanted to do unique stuff, and from there, it’s been a lot of fun.

Lee: The industries that embrace this, I would imagine off the top of my head, would be casinos or convention centers or some place that has big spaces, maybe sporting events.

Nathan: That’s a pretty good assessment. Retail is real big, too, because retail, right now, is all about creating the immersive environment, trying to engage the customers at the point of sale. So you see us a lot in retail locations, but besides that, there are convention centers. But I’ll tell you…sports is big… But I’ll tell you, one that you’re seeing more and more is higher education. These large universities are looking to engage their students, whether in the student center or some other public forum, and they’ve gone to Nanolumens over and over. Everybody from LSU to Elon, University of North Carolina, you see it all over the place.

Special Edition: TiE Atlanta

December 8, 2014 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Special Edition: TiE Atlanta

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Rachel Zick – TiE Atlanta Program Director

Karen Robinson Cope / NanoLumens

Karen Robinson-Cope is a serial entrepreneur who has been CEO of 4 high growth companies, all of whom had angel or venture capital. As one of only a handful of women who have raised over $75 million USD in the Southeast, she has successfully built and sold three companies.

She is currently Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at NanoLumens, Inc. an award-winning privately-held corporation that is transforming the way creative professionals and businesses perceive, utilize, and benefit from large format, patented digital displays.

Previously, Karen was CEO of Prime Point Media, one of the largest Alternative out of Home advertising companies in the United States that was acquired by a Canadian publicly traded company in 2006. Prior to Prime Point Media, Karen was Chairwoman, President and CEO of Enrev Corporation, a technology company that was sold in 2001.

Karen is an investor and board member for a number of private, non-profit and public companies on the local, national and international level. She is currently serving as the first female president of TiE Atlanta, a non-profit organization focused on promoting Entrepreneurship with over 15,000 members worldwide. She is founder of the Council of Board Advisors (COBA), a non-profit organization that aligns executive level talent with profitable, privately held companies.

Special Edition: TiE Atlanta

December 2, 2013 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Special Edition: TiE Atlanta

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Raj Rajan/TiEAtlanta

Palaniswamy “Raj” Rajan is currently the co-founder, Chairman & CEO of Virima Technologies, Inc., an IT Operations and Datacenter software developer serving the fortune 5000 companies. He brings more than 15 years experience in the technology industry and combines a deep understanding of current technologies with the ability to articulate the application of these technologies in various business contexts and models. A highly versatile and proven entrepreneur, he has co-founded several ventures including, Vigilar, Inc, a leading network security technology firm; eLaunchpad, LLC, an early stage venture capital firm/incubator focusing on Internet infrastructure and network security technologies; and Resourcis, an executive recruiting firm. During his tenure at Vigilar, he conceived the company’s business plan and methodology, raised venture capital funding, recruited a talented management team and grew annual revenues from $0 in 2000 to $32M in 2005 in probably the most difficult technology industry climate. Another previous success, VerticalOne, a financial aggregator; was sold to S1 in 1999 in a deal valued at $166 million.

Mr. Rajan serves on the Board of Directors of the above companies and as well on the advisory boards of several early stage technology firms around the country. A leader in the business community, he is also involved in several professional and community related organizations. Mr. Rajan was instrumental in establishing the Atlanta CEO Council, a non-profit networking group of more than 1000 CEOs, CxOs, and investors in the Southeast. Mr. Rajan served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the CEO council from 1999 through 2011 and is currently one of its Board members. Mr. Rajan also co-founded and is the current President of the Atlanta Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), a national mentoring organization for entrepreneurs.

Karen Robinson/NanoLumens

Karen Robinson is the EVP – Business Development with NanoLumens. Karen leads the sales team and oversees all new business development and marketing at NanoLumens, a privately held corporation engaged in the research, product development, marketing and sales of unique flexible and fixed large-format LED displays that address a yawning technology gap in the $14 billion digital display industry. NanoLumens technology is not constrained by standard sizes and shapes, or by the weight, noise and cost issues traditionally associated with commercial LED products. Robinson 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.

In 2012, Karen received the Inspiritor Award presented by Turknett Leadership Group. 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 President of the Atlanta chapter of TIE, an organization that fosters entrepreneurship globally. Karen also serves as the Governors Chairman and board member for Opportunity International, the largest faith-based microfinancing organization serving over 20 countries.

Karen 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.

Can Serial Entrepreneurs Make a Lasting Leadership Impact?

March 29, 2013 by angishields

Global Leader Radio

Can Serial Entrepreneurs Make a Lasting Leadership Impact?

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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.

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

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