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Dr. LaBrita Cash-Baskett with Fundamental Focus and Dan Styf with Piedmont WellStar HealthPlans

November 20, 2013 by Mike

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Dr. LaBrita Cash-Baskett with Fundamental Focus and Dan Styf with Piedmont WellStar HealthPlans

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Dominick Rainey, Dr. LaBrita Cash-Baskett, Dan Styf, Nikole Toptas

Dr. LaBrita Cash-Baskett/Fundamental Focus

Fundamental Focus is a boutique training and development firm located in Atlanta, GA specializing in business communication services. They are dedicated to interpersonal effectiveness, performance management, communication competence and developing a stronger workforce. They are dedicated to success.

Fundamental Focus provides comprehensive services to professionals, for-profit and nonprofit businesses, government entities and academic institutions. Their programs and services support business, organizational, workforce and economic development initiatives. The Fundamental Focus Team administers well researched and validated assessments, speech training and coaching, as well as business communication skill development coaching and training.

Dan Styf/Piedmont WellStar HealthPlans

A comprehensive plan designed to do more than just take care of you when you are sick. Imagine a health plan, created by your doctors and focused on helping you stay well and live better. That’s the promise of the new Piedmont WellStar HealthPlans.

Piedmont Healthcare and WellStar Health System have been leaders in providing quality healthcare across Georgia. Now, these two healthcare systems have come together to create a whole new kind of health plan, designed by the doctors and nurses you already know and trust. Piedmont Healthcare and WellStar Health System have been caring for Georgians for decades – Piedmont Healthcare was founded in 1905 and WellStar Health System was founded in 1993. Today, Piedmont Healthcare and WellStar Health System represent a combined total of 10 hospital facilities across Georgia. There are over 1300 physicians and medical professionals that are a part of the Piedmont and WellStar provider networks.

Piedmont WellStar HealthPlans was founded in October 2012, and will be available to Georgia residents in the coming months. Their plans will offer options for people in all stages of life. Piedmont WellStar HealthPlans will focus on delivering comprehensive healthcare through a new patient experience, focused on better supporting the relationship between patients and healthcare professionals.

Fontaine Huey with Center for the Visually Impaired, Walter Biscardi with Biscardi Creative Media and Brad Rainey with Golden Key International Honour Society

November 13, 2013 by Mike

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Fontaine Huey with Center for the Visually Impaired, Walter Biscardi with Biscardi Creative Media and Brad Rainey with Golden Key International Honour Society

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Dominick Rainey, Fontaine Huey, Walter Biscardi, Brad Rainey, Nikole Toptas

Fontaine Huey/ Center for the Visually Impaired

Located in Midtown Atlanta, the Center for the Visually Impaired (CVI) has empowered people with vision loss to live with independence and dignity for 50 years. As Georgia’s largest comprehensive, fully accredited organization providing vision rehabilitation services, the programs of CVI include: support groups, The Florence Maxwell Low Vision Clinic, New View adult rehabilitation services, STARS program for elementary to high school students, and a BEGIN program for infants and children up to age five. The CVI enterprises located onsite include the non-profit VisAbility Store and the ClearAnswer Contact Center.

Walter Biscardi/Biscardi Creative Media

Biscardi Creative Media, located in Metro Atlanta, is a full service script to screen Creation Company at the forefront of creative media production. Emmy-award winning broadcast programming, episodics, commercials, feature films and corporate marketing video productions are some of the projects their storytellers bring to the screen every day.

A recognized leader in creative digital design, Walter Biscardi, Jr. launched BCM in 2001 with a single purpose: bring art to digital media. Today’s world is overwhelmed with technology, but it takes good storytellers to bring your message to life in an effective and entertaining way. In other words, the latest digital tools don’t make a quality production; the artist using those tools do. Drawing on over 20 years of industry experience, Walter pulls together a creative team that has amassed every major award and traveled to every country in pursuit of a single goal: The story.

Some credits of note: Editor/Animator: “Good Eats” (Food Network); Producer/Editor: “Foul Water Fiery Serpent” featuring Sigourney Weaver (PBS); Managing Producer, “This American Land” (PBS); Producer/Colorist, “Dark Forest Black Fly” featuring Mia Farrow (PBS).

Original programming for both new and traditional media is in development through sister company MTWD Entertainment. Walter is Executive Producer and Director for MTWD.

Brad Rainey/Golden Key International Honour Society

Founded in 1977, Golden Key International Honour Society is a global collegiate honor society established to recognize college students for academic excellence. While membership in Golden Key begins with academic excellence, the Society’s core mission is to enable members to realize their potential through three pillars: academics, leadership and service. The Society, comprised of over 2 million members, has more than 400 campus-based chapters in eight countries, including Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, The Bahamas and the United States.

Jackson Houk with three, Dr. Ralph Gaskins with SPECTROPATH and Peter DelBove with Team Trivia

November 6, 2013 by Mike

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Jackson Houk with three, Dr. Ralph Gaskins with SPECTROPATH and Peter DelBove with Team Trivia

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Dominick Rainey, Jackson Houk, Ralph Gaskins, Peter DelBove, Nikole Toptas

Jackson Houk/three

three is a 40-man corporate communications firm designed around the experiences of a guy formerly charged with managing internal and external opinions. The owners have deep experience running enterprise communications in consumer goods, utility, financial services and not-for-profit categories. three exists to influence the opinions of folks who define enterprise success.

Dr. Ralph Gaskins/SPECTROPATH

SPECTROPATH is an optical imaging company that has exclusively licensed the global rights to novel electronic, optical, chemical and software technologies developed at Emory University and Georgia Tech that allow physicians to identify selected tissue, such as cancer, in real time. They are initially applying this new technology platform to the identification of cancer during tumor surgery.

Peter DelBove/Team Trivia

Team Trivia, Inc. is the dominant licensor of in-house promotional services to bars and taverns in the U.S., featuring their flagship product “Team Trivia”, a live-hosted weekly trivia event where bar patrons compete for prizes within a two hour trivia game in their local favorite bar. Their products are designed to get patrons in the door and keep them in that bar for two hours each night, eating and drinking and maximizing the bar’s nightly profits. Their products are particularly suited for that “slower” night of the week. Team Trivia also features a more adult promotional product known as “Toxic Trivia”, and a family-oriented twist on traditional bingo known as “Team Bingo”. There is never a charge for the bar patron to participate in any Team Trivia product. Authorized Team Trivia licensees are always compensated directly by the bars.

Gabby Bray with Mosaica Online Preparatory Academy and James Swinton with Lifetime Fitness of Johns Creek

October 9, 2013 by Mike

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Gabby Bray with Mosaica Online Preparatory Academy and James Swinton with Lifetime Fitness of Johns Creek

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Dominick Rainey, Gabby, James Swinton, Nikole Toptas — Dominick Rainey, Gabby Bray, James Swinton, Nikole Toptas

Gabby Bray/Mosaica Online Preparatory Academy

Mosaica Online Preparatory Academy is a college prep, liberal arts, K-12 online private school serving primary and secondary students from around the world. Mosaica Online Prep is propelled by the Paragon learning platform.

James Swinton/Lifetime Fitness of Johns Creek

As the Healthy Way of Life Company, Lifetime Fitness delivers the certified professionals, comprehensive businesses and incredible destinations that help people positively change their lives every day. The company’s healthy way of life approach enables its customers to achieve their health and fitness goals by engaging in their areas of interest – or by discovering new passions – both inside and outside of Life Time’s distinctive and large sports, professional fitness, family recreation and spa destinations. Today, the company operates 102 centers under the Life Time Fitness and Life Time Athletic brands primarily in suburban locations, in 22 states and 28 major markets.

Kimberly Jones and Gregory Bradley with Q&A Consulting and Don Walters with The Ephraim Group

September 25, 2013 by Mike

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Kimberly Jones and Gregory Bradley with Q&A Consulting and Don Walters with The Ephraim Group

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Gregory Bradley, Kimberly Jones, Don Walters, Nikole Toptas

Kimberly Jones and Gregory Bradley/Q&A Consulting

Q&A Consulting specializes in the assessment, implementation, upgrade and production support of PeopleSoft HCM, Financial and Supply Chain application software. They strive to ensure that clients use best practices when marrying business processes to software.

Don Walters/The Ephraim Group

The Ephraim Group is an independent agency with the ability to write insurance with over 50 companies on the property & casualty side, and over 50 more on the life insurance side. The company was formed because of Don Walters’ experience as a captive agent and only being able to write with just one main company. There were so many people that he could not help because they did not fit the company box, which was very frustrating to him. So after many years in the captive world, Don looked toward avenues that would allow for more people to be served, thus the independent agency was created five years ago. The Ephraim Group motto is “We represent the Insurance Companies, But We Work for You!”

Doug Foote with Georgia United Credit Union and Trey Tompkins with Admin America

September 11, 2013 by Mike

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Doug Foote with Georgia United Credit Union and Trey Tompkins with Admin America

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Dominick Rainey, Doug Foote, Trey Tompkins, Nikole Toptas

Doug Foote/Georgia United Credit Union

Georgia United Credit Union is one of Georgia’s largest and strongest not-for-profit financial cooperatives, serving more than 122,000 member-owners across the state. From home and auto loans to free checking with identity theft protection, bill pay and mobile banking, Georgia United’s goal is to save members time and money. It’s easy to open an account online at www.georgiaunitedcu.org or at any Georgia United branch. Services are available to all Gwinnett County residents.

Trey Tompkins/Admin America

Admin America is an independent third party administrator of employee benefits based in Alpharetta, GA. Admin America had provided consulting and administrative services primarily to small businesses located in Georgia and adjacent states since 1988. Admin America’s services are focused on compliance with federal rules governing employee benefit plans. Services include FSA and HRA administration, COBRA compliance and ERISA and PPACA consulting.

Admin America’s team of 14 full time administrators is led by Trey Tompkins, a benefits attorney with over 17 years experience helping small businesses plan and maintain compliant benefit programs.

Dr. Benson Karanja with Beulah Heights University, Scott Brandt with eQuorum and Sharon Mason with Cobb Chamber of Commerce

August 28, 2013 by Mike

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Dr. Benson Karanja with Beulah Heights University, Scott Brandt with eQuorum and Sharon Mason with Cobb Chamber of Commerce

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Dominick Rainey, Dr. Benson Karanja, Scott Brandt, Sharon Mason, Nikole Toptas

Dr. Benson Karanja/Beulah Heights University

Founded in 1918, Beulah Heights University (BHU) has become known as one of the nation’s oldest and fastest growing Bible institutions. Beulah Heights University is proud of its heritage as a training institution for students interested in learning ethical leadership for the ministry and the marketplace. Beulah Heights University offers students a curriculum that is centered in its core values of Biblical Inerrancy, Integrity, Global Missions, Dedicated Servant-hood, and Diversity suitable for Christian leadership in a host of arenas.

Scott Brandt/eQuorum

Organizations that rely on engineering content need a better way to securely and simply manage documents. That’s why they turn to eQuorum’s comprehensive, yet easy-to-use solutions to manage their data – from design to manufacturing to production. Whether you are a product engineer, facilities manager or IT executive, eQuorum’s ImageSite helps you improve version control, enhance collaboration and generate more efficient and timely work processes. You save valuable time finding important documents and leveraging intellectual property to drive improvements throughout the enterprise. eQuorum: Engineering documents. Elevating productivity.

Sharon Mason/Cobb Chamber of Commerce

As one of the most influential business advocacy organizations in Georgia, the Cobb Chamber of Commerce is the only organization in Cobb County dedicated to bringing the community and its leaders together to create jobs and strengthen the economy and quality of life so businesses and the community can achieve more. The Chamber achieves this by creating jobs and driving economic development; strengthening the community and the region; growing member businesses and nurturing leadership; and connecting businesses, government and the community.

The Cobb Chamber’s mission is economic and community development, advocacy and world-class member services.

Fred Elsberry with Better Business Bureau, David Geller with GV Financial Advisors and Greg Galvez with PROSHRED Security

July 31, 2013 by Mike

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Fred Elsberry with Better Business Bureau, David Geller with GV Financial Advisors and Greg Galvez with PROSHRED Security

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Dominick Rainey, David Geller, Fred Elsberry, Greg Galvez, Nikole Toptas

Fred Elsberry/Better Business Bureau

The Better Business Bureau’s vision is a marketplace where buyers and sellers can trust each other. They want to be a leader in advancing marketplace trust. The BBB of Metro Atlanta, Athens and NE Georgia is a standards-based organization and is one of five BBB’s in the state of Georgia and 113 BBB’s in North America. They are one of the largest BBB’s and provide pre-purchase information to the public, rating companies from A to F. They handle over 50,000 complaints each year (over 80% are resolved) and receive over three-million inquiries on their web site. The BBB reviews charities against their standards, they offer mediation/arbitration services where they believe it is necessary to resolve an issue between a consumer and a company, they do ad reviews and investigations on practices that need attention, and they invest a great deal of time and resources to consumer education.

David Geller/GV Financial Advisors

Since 1991, GV Financial Advisors, one of Atlanta’s leading wealth management firms, has worked to find ways to help its clients enhance their lives by helping them better manage their money and mindsets. Led by CEO David Geller, eight senior advisors and partners, and more than 40 dedicated professionals, GV Financial believes that its clients can, and should, use their wealth to create the life they desire. GV Financial Advisor’s Guided Wealth Transformation process includes more than 40 tools to help clients overcome the five barriers that often prevent them from effectively using their wealth to build a more satisfying life.

Greg Galvez/PROSHRED Security

PROSHRED Security is a customer service and security focused mobile shredding company, providing the most secure on-site document and hard-drive shredding services available, to safeguard private information, maintain legislative compliance and protect public image.

With more than 25 years building trusted relationships, unmatched mobile paper shredding expertise and a rigorous commitment to ISO 9001 and NAID AAA quality standards, PROSHRED Security offers a proven and effective system that certifies the shredding of confidential documents and electronic data storage devices “at your door”.

As a locally owned and nationally operated network of mobile shredding companies, all PROSHRED Security operators combine unparalleled customer service with absolute document security for business, home office and residential customers.

Cary Ichter with Ichter Thomas LLC, Dr. Paul Feldman with Advanced Aesthetics and Tom Leatherberry with Leatherberry Associates

July 24, 2013 by Mike

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Cary Ichter with Ichter Thomas LLC, Dr. Paul Feldman with Advanced Aesthetics and Tom Leatherberry with Leatherberry Associates

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Dominick Rainey, Cary Ichter, Dr. Paul Feldman, Tom Leatherberry, Nikole Toptas

Cary Ichter/Ichter Thomas, LLC

Ichter Thomas is a new breed of law firm. Their founders bring to bear 75+ years of large law firm and Fortune-100 in house experience in an agile and highly efficient firm structure. They have quickly become the “go to” firm for difficult, complicated disputes due to their successful track record of creative and imaginative, yet coldly efficient results. They identify theories of recovery or dispositive defenses that other lawyers have missed and advocate for their clients with an appropriate degree of aggressive energy coupled with creative solutions. They are the lawyers other lawyers hire.

Dr. Paul Feldman/Advanced Aesthetics

Advanced Aesthetics is the premier plastic surgery practice on Atlanta’s south side. Established in 1987, it has 41 board certified plastic surgeons, four offices and a stet-licensed accredited Surgicenter plus computer imaging.

Tom Leatherberry/Leatherberry Associates

Leatherberry Associates is a performance driven provide of CRM, BI Reporting, marketing and workflow automation software solutions. If you are serious about finding the right solution for your business, one that will provide measurable value through increased employee efficiency, reduced fiscal costs and improved customer tracking, they want to talk to you.