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Ron McMurtrie with Sage and J Cornelius with Nine Labs

October 1, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Ron McMurtrie with Sage and J Cornelius with Nine Labs

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Ron McMurtrie oversees all marketing disciplines across Sage’s 23 markets, driving new customer acquisition and customer loyalty in Sage Business Cloud. He first joined Sage as EVP of Customer Marketing in 2016 and oversaw the integration of market leading US cloud accounting solution Sage Intacct in 2017.

Mr. McMurtrie aligns the strategic direction of product, brand, digital marketing and communications and oversees key functional areas for new customer acquisition, building customers for life and advancing Sage’s cloud strategy. He is a multi-dimensional leader with P&L and personnel responsibility spanning direct sales, marketing, enterprise consulting and professional services in private and public-sector markets.

He has more than 23 years of global business experience leading high performance sales, marketing and business operations teams for companies such as First Data, Verizon and Cerberus. Mr. McMurtrie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Managerial Economics from the University of California at Davis.

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J Cornelius has been building digital products since 1996 and has helped countless startups and corporate product teams create products and services you probably use today. He is the founder and president of Nine Labs, a digital product strategy, design, and experience consultancy operating in Atlanta and New York City.

He speaks at conferences and leads workshops around the world, and serves on the advisory board of multiple venture capital groups, accelerator programs, and private companies.

A serial entrepreneur with multiple exits, J started his first business in high school and never looked back. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, three kids, and two dogs.

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Todd Stanton with Stanton Law LLC, Brad Weaver with Nine Labs, Darren Miller with Elite Crowdfund and Jack Curtis with Corporate Health Partners

January 6, 2016 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Todd Stanton with Stanton Law LLC, Brad Weaver with Nine Labs, Darren Miller with Elite Crowdfund and Jack Curtis with Corporate Health Partners

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Todd Stanton/ Stanton Law LLC

Founder

Building upon his decade of big law experience with the reputable firms of Fisher & Phillips and Bryan Cave (formerly Powell Goldstein), and demonstrating the same entrepreneurial drive he admires in his clients, Todd founded Stanton Law LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. Seeking to combine the quality of large firm representation with the flexibility, responsiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a nimbler shop, Todds practice remains dedicated to the employer side of the employer-employee relationship. From on-boarding new talent and assisting with the development of workable job descriptions, personnel policies, and compensation plans, to guiding clients through sticky disciplinary, performance, and leave issues, to executing respectful and amicable separations, Todd provides practical bottom line-oriented legal advice to small and medium-sized employers.

As legal counsel, Todd is focused on helping companies avert employment-related issues without sacrificing managerial efficiency. In most instances, a proactive approach to employment issues can prevent months of disruptive headaches down the road. When the inevitable disputes do arise, however, his litigation experience allows his clients to consider all available options to efficiently resolve the problem. He regularly represents employers in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies such as labor departments, equal opportunity and human rights commissions, and employee safety administrations.

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Brad Weaver/Nine Labs

Chief Experince Officer

Brad went to school to be a lawyer, then came to his senses and has spent the last 18 years as a Creative Director, User Experience Designer, Information Architect, Author, and Content Strategist. Day to day, he guides the creative team in usability, design, content strategy, product development, interactive, branding, and data visualization. He and his teams have created leading work for clients including IHG, Verizon, Bank of America, AT&T, ESPN, Disney, NATO, The PGA, and Coca-Cola.

Along the way, he’s been the big cheese, the plebeian, the middle manager, and the class clown. Not one to shy away from hard work or his blue collar upbringing, he’s also folded clothes, pumped gas, bagged groceries, sold cell phones, and climbed the Great Wall of China. In addition to serving as CXO, he is the author of Creative Truth, and regularly teaches workshops, mentors students, and speaks at conferences around the world.

His likes and loves are design, film, whiskey, Oxford commas, and Jesus, but not in that order. His superpower, naturally, would be mind-reading.

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Darren Miller/Elite Crowdfund

Co Founder & COO

Darren Miller is the Co-Founder and COO of Elite Crowdfund. He has a diverse background of operations management and digital marketing and development. As the COO Darren oversees the day to day operations of ECF and drives the planning and implementation of the company’s goals. He is also the VP of Digital Marketing for US Strategic Capital, the parent company of Elite Crowdfund. USSC is a boutique investment bank which focuses on raising capital for banks, real estate funds, VC funds and companies.

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Jack Curtis/Corporate Health Partners

Founder & CEO

Jack Curtis founded Corporate Health Partners, Inc. in 2002 and serves as its CEO. Jack has a BS in Biomedical Engineering and a MS in Engineering Management from the University of Tennessee. With more than 30 years of experience, Jack offers a high-energy leadership style, analytical strength, team development and authenticity.

Prior to CHP, Jack’s systems engineering training and Quality Improvement experience taught him how to create and value strong culture, while his strategic leadership within Berkshire Hathaway prepared him to engage employees for outstanding performance. Jack also led a comprehensive physical exam start-up organization with an entrepreneurial spirit and an ignited passion to make a difference in the health and performance of employers and employees within his sphere of influence.

Over the past 15 years, Jack has demonstrated his commitment to helping employers, communities, and our nation’s health and competitiveness. He often reflects on his clients who have invested in wellness and have seen tangible results. One such client example is Couer, Inc., led by Jay Cude, who benefited from health as an integral part of their culture, while health risks and costs steadily declined.

With an ongoing commitment to influencing serious change in corporate wellness, Jack enjoys his membership and Leadership Committee chair position at an industry Think Tank of thought leaders within employee health management, called Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO). Jack is also a member of the “League of Leaders”, the Institute for Healthcare Consumerism (IHC), and Wellness Councils of America (WELCOA).

Jack’s life mantra: “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28)

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Nine Labs, Polygon, Casey Gilson, Nelson Mullins, and SoundRiver Advisors

November 18, 2014 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Nine Labs, Polygon, Casey Gilson, Nelson Mullins, and SoundRiver Advisors

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Nine Labs, Polygon, Casey Gilson, Nelson Mullins, and SoundRiver Advisors

This week we heard from experts in corporate law (workers compensation and mergers & acquisitions), web design and customer experience, and corporate executive compensation and financial planning. I hosted folks from Nine Labs, Polygon, Casey Gilson, Nelson Mullins, and SoundRiver Advisors.

J. Cornelius is the President of Nine Labs, a web design and customer experience company based in Atlanta. He also started Polygon, an event space designed and dedicated to support Atlanta’s growing technology industry. Nine Labs is a user experience consultancy that helps businesses improve the look and feel of their digital technologies, making sure that a customer’s experience is useful, intuitive, and branding is maintained across the variety of digital media, mobile devices, and other user interfaces. The company will provide message content or work with their client’s internal team to optimize the way the client presents their brand to the public. Nine Labs is able to help businesses that are putting effort into making sure their customers can have a consistent experience across all digital/mobile platforms. They often encounter situations where a user’s experience on a mobile device is very different in terms of look and feel of a company’s branding, along with less-than-optimal navigation or functionality. Nine Labs’ experts are able to bring a consistent, positive experience to a company’s web visitors, regardless of technology used to access it. Polygon is an event space located in popular Atlantic Station in Midtown Atlanta that was created to provide technology companies and associations with a place to have productive networking, planning, and educational events. The space is located, laid out, and equipped with the Atlanta technology industry in mind.

Rayford Taylor is an attorney with the firm, Casey Gilson PC, admitted to practice law in Florida and Georgia. The majority of his practice is providing advice and representation to employers, insurance companies, insurance funds, and third party administrators in the defense of workers’ compensation claims, whether at trial or on appeal. Rayford also represents such entities in disputes with both Florida and Georgia state governments and regulators involving the operation of their companies and businesses. He has handled workers’ compensation cases all over Georgia and North Florida since 1990. The law firm of Casey Gilson is a firm that practices in the areas of labor law, personal injury defense, business litigation, trademark matters, patent disputes, bankruptcy cases and general litigation throughout all parts of Georgia. Rayford talked about some key areas where businesses make mistakes that can create increased exposure to workers compensation costs. He shared recommendations that employers could use to improve relations with injured employees as well as reducing risk for fraudulent behaviors.

Michael Hollingsworth is an award-winning attorney with Nelson, Mullins, Riley, and Scarborough LLP, located in Atlanta. He is a managing partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough’s Atlanta office, and is co-head of the Firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Mr. Hollingsworth focuses on middle-market corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures. He also serves on the Firm’s Executive Committee, the governing body of seven partners who oversee firm standing committees, strategic initiatives, and firm operations. Michael represents private equity and hedge funds relative to their formation, operations and investments. He has a broad range of industry experience including food and beverage, consumer-branded products, healthcare, construction and aggregates, technology and telecommunications, media, manufacturing and distribution, and business services. Michael is also a transactional lawyer in the Firm’s multidisciplinary National Healthcare Practice Group.

Nelson Mullins provides advice and counsel in litigation, corporate, securities, finance, intellectual property, employment, government relations, regulatory, and other needs of clients ranging from private individuals to large businesses, including many publicly held companies. Nelson Mullins offers services in over 40 practice areas and as such they are able to provide expertise to a wide range of legal and business problems while offering value-added service to clients. Many Nelson Mullins clients—including growth companies, expanding local businesses, and major international companies—retain the Firm to provide all of their legal services. Other clients are national companies requiring assistance with specific regional or local legal matters. The Firm also has experience representing international companies interested in locating facilities in the Southeast. Start-up assistance for entrepreneurial endeavors, multi-action litigation defense, and representation of underwriters and investment bankers are only a few of the services that are provided by Nelson Mullins attorneys. Michael talked about how rewarding it is to become a trusted adviser for his clients as well as helping them to successfully navigate the sale of a successful business to the betterment of their financial situations.

Bo Wilkins, of SoundRiver Advisors stopped by to talk about the way their firm helps privately-owned businesses plan for generational transitions of ownership as well as preparation for sale or merger should those options be the chosen path for their clients. SoundRiver Advisors is an independent wealth management and life insurance advisory firm providing strategies to help privately held business owners invest, protect, and perpetuate their wealth. We talked about how challenging it can be for companies to retain high-performing, key executives (as well as how expensive it can be to replace them). SoundRiver Advisors is able to help the business owner develop a compensation plan that affords their key executives with a compelling pay and bonus structure along with effective investment/benefit vehicles that will optimize the tax picture of that compensation package, making it much more likely those important executives will remain in place. The firm provides certified financial and insurance experts and is a Registered Investment Advisor. SoundRiver is structured to offer their clients unbiased and untethered solutions. They avoid selling captive investment or insurance solutions. You don’t have to talk with their folks very long before you realize they are in the business of finding the best solution for each of their clients.

Special Guests:

J. Cornelius, President of Nine Labs, Founder of Polygon

President, Atlanta Web Design Group
Former VP Operations, CoffeeCup Software, Inc.
Mentor, ATDC
Creative Circus Advisory Board Member

Rayford Taylor, Attorney of Casey Gilson PC

Former VP, Stiles, Taylor, and Grace
Former General Counsel and Legislative Counsel, Florida Bar
Juris Doctor, Florida State University College of Law
Fellow, National Workers Compensation Lawyers

Michael Hollingsworth, Managing Partner, of Nelson, Mullins, Riley, & Scarborough

Juris Doctor, Samford Cumberland School of Law
Master of Laws, Taxation, University of Alabama School of Law
Member, Executive Committee, Managing Partner-Atlanta, Co-chair Mergers & Acquisitions
Recipient: BTI Client Service All-Stars (2012), Chambers & Partners (M&A), International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, SuperLawyers (Georgia)

Bo Wilkins, Partner, SoundRiver Advisors

Former Executive Managing Director, Wealth Management, Reliance Trust Company
Former Partner, Nease, Lagana, Eden, & Culley
BA, History & German, Hampden-Sydney College
CLU – Chartered Life Underwriter; ChFC – Chartered Financial Consultant; CAP – Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy

Peter Tokar with City of Alpharetta, J Cornelius with Nine Labs, Drew Morris with Pipefish and Brian Cochran with Atlanta CS

August 21, 2014 by angishields

Atlanta Tech Leaders

Peter Tokar with City of Alpharetta, J Cornelius with Nine Labs, Drew Morris with Pipefish and Brian Cochran with Atlanta CS

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Peter Tokar / City of Alpharetta

I have been at the City of Alpharetta for just over 2 years, previously I lived in South Florida for 13 years doing economic development. I grew up in Virginia, attended college at Liberty University, majored in Advertising, Marketing and Graphic Design. MBA from Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University.

J Cornelius / Nine Labs

J has been making websites and software for the web since 1998, and has been credited with creating several software features web designers and developers take for granted today. He’s passionate about efficient, usable, aesthetically pleasing design, and founded Nine Labs, an experience and usability consultancy, where he works with companies far and wide to improve their products and services. He’s also the President of the Atlanta Web Design Group and the creator of the Web Afternoon event series.

Drew Morris / Pipefish

Prior to joining Pipefish, Drew Morris has been a consultant to private businesses since he was 15 years old. It was at 15 that he was approached to build a website for a local business in his hometown of Auburn, AL- launching his career. Over the past decade, he dedicated his career to programming in serverside software languages and building complex websites. Through the years, he has built an extensive clientele that continues to return for his reliability and job well done.

With over a decade of experience under his belt, Drew realizes the potential that web-based marketing and applications can have on a new business as well as the possibilities they have on growing existing businesses. Thus fueling his passion to develop amazing applications.

Drew graduated with his B.A. in French from Auburn University (Magna Cum Laude); he also studied Graphic Design and Business. Drew now lives in Atlanta, GA and continues to contribute to the business world as Lead Developer for Pipefish. He is fluent in many computer technologies including JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Ruby, CSS, and HTML, as well as fluent in English and French. He can be found regularly at technology-based events in the Atlanta area. His other hobbies include guitar, piano, painting and archery.

Brian Cochran / Atlanta CS

Brian Cochran is CEO and Founding Partner of Atlanta CS. In that role he is responsible for making sure Atlanta CS continues to help organizations remove the technology constraints from their business. During his 15-year career, Brian has worked with Fortune 100 companies and startups alike in industries ranging from healthcare and financial services to social media. He specializes in Big Data technologies, Internet Of Things solutions, cloud adoption, enterprise integration, strategy, and technology assessments.

Brian has led numerous large-scale efforts to construct mission critical applications starting with proof-of-concept all the way through enterprise rollout, training, and operational support.

Through his own entrepreneurial ventures, and with Atlanta CS, Brian has also worked with numerous startups, and has extensive experience in helping startup founders smoothly go from idea to MVP and beyond.

Prior to Atlanta CS, Brian served as Lead Architect of Online Insight. In this role he led development of advanced analytics and e-commerce automation products targeted at the financial services and health insurance industries.

Mr. Cochran holds a BS in Computer Science with Highest Honors from Georgia Tech and is a private pilot.