Al Simon/Sandler Training by Simon Inc.
Sandler Training is an international training and consulting organization. Sandler utilizes distinctive, non-traditional sales and management methodologies, supported by continual reinforcement through ongoing training and individual coaching sessions. Typically, clients engage with Sandler Training to fatten their opportunity pipeline, close a higher percentage of opportunities, and close deals without discounting.
Ellen Diamond/FleetGuardian
Preventing driver hand-held phone use while driving prevents accidents. FleetGuardian eliminates the manual and visual distractions caused by mobile phone use while driving by helping drivers keep their eyes on the road, hands on the wheel, and in compliance with federal and state regulation.
In addition to preventing distractions, FleetGuardian provides safety-minded management insight into driver behavior through analytics related to the rules and regulations set by not only your company, but also federal and state law. Managers and drivers have a fresh start to work together with one common goal: to stay accident-free. FleetGuardian is built for the driver that needs to stay connected and the company that is serious about safety.
Dr. Kimberly Birds/Creekland Middle School
Creekland Middle School is located in the Gwinnett County Public School system. It is a school that serves a very diverse community and roughly about 2000 students, grades 6th, 7th, and 8th. They focus on teaching and learning by serving their students through quality education and focusing on reaching the total child. At Creekland Middle School they seek to do this with Every Child, Every Classroom, and Every Day.
Marsha Anderson Bomar/Gateway85 CID
The CID is a special benefit district that works to increase property values, promote economic development and improve the overall quality of life in the southwest portion of Gwinnett County, including portions of Norcross and Peachtree Corners.
The Gateway85 Community Improvement District (CID) is the largest single CID in the state of Georgia. They are a public-private partnership funded by commercial property owners in the 14-square mile area spanning the I-85 corridor in southwest Gwinnett County. Formed in 2005, the formerly named Gwinnett Village CID represents more than 550 owners, accounting for more than $1 billion in commercial property value. Three thousand six hundred businesses employ almost 40,000 workers within the CID, making the district one of metro Atlanta’s most important employment centers.
Gateway85 is the threshold between the city of Atlanta and its largest suburban county, Gwinnett. They work to increase commercial property values in the district by promoting redevelopment and new business, investing in infrastructure improvements that enable safe travel by bike or on foot, enhancing public safety with sidewalks and crosswalks, and creating an attractive roadside landscape that makes traveling, living and working in our district a pleasure.
Joe Profit/Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives 4th District
After college, Joe Profit was selected in the first round of the 1971 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons. Due to a season-ending knee injury suffered in his first game in the NFL, Joe eventually retired his cleats, but the lessons he learned on the football field were invaluable.
Lessons regarding perseverance, discipline, and teamwork on the football field are partly the reasons he is recognized as one of the most prominent small businessmen in America. As a successful businessman, his company, Gourmet Profit, Inc., owned Burger King Franchises in Atlanta. Joe was the first African-American to own a franchise for International House of Pancakes (IHOP) in the state of Georgia. He is the founder and CEO of a $100 million international multimedia firm, Communications International Corporation. It is ranked by INC. 500 Magazine as one of the fastest growing privately-held companies in America for three consecutive years. Joe contributes to the nation’s economic engine by providing over 800 jobs to people in 37 states and nine countries.
Today, former Atlanta Falcon and successful businessman Joe Profit is on the November ballot for U.S. Congress for Georgia’s 4th Congressional District.
Joe Profit believes we all deserve opportunity, economic growth and fair pay for hard work. Joe Profit is pro business, pro affordable education, and pro prosperity for all.
This special episode of “Case in Point” was broadcast live on-site from the Gwinnett Small Business Summit at the Infinite Energy Forum.
Don Ansley & Rob Drake/ACG Solutions
ACG Solutions serves all industries with a complete portfolio of information technology, security and telecommunications solutions for powering the intelligent building.
As a single-source supplier of solutions that protect, connect and manage business infrastructures and operations, ACG Solutions offers a wide range of products and consulting services, including a turnkey architectural blueprint for the Intelligent Building that incorporates the very latest technology to meet each client’s desired function and vision.
Earlier this year, the company introduced a threat response solution, called Synchronized Orchestrated Response (SOR), and more recently broadened SOR with situational awareness graphics of buildings that first responders can access via their smart devices or computers. Created for school administrators and business owners, SOR’s combination of networked, integrated technologies is designed to remove human error in emergencies to save lives, protect property damage and reduce liability exposure.
Teddy Russell/Russell Landscape Group
In 1987, William E. Russell, “Bill”, initiated Russell Landscape Group as a family managed commercial landscape contract business headquartered in Norcross, GA. Over the past 30 years, the firm has grown to over 350 employees in seven branches throughout the Southeast under the careful guidance of Bill Russell, CEO and Teddy Russell, President. Today, Russell Landscape Group is Georgia’s largest privately-held Georgia based commercial landscaping firm.
Aaren Dieffenbacher/Gwinnett County Police
The Gwinnett County Police Department is a nationally accredited and rapidly growing police agency located in the Northeastern quadrant of the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Department currently has an authorized strength of 813 sworn officers supported by 280 civilian employees with the responsibility of providing law enforcement services to approximately 800,000 residents within an area of 436 square miles. The Department is organized into the Office of the Chief and two Bureaus with four Divisions: Administrative Services, Support Operations, Criminal Investigations and Uniform Divisions.
Matt Reeves/Andersen, Tate & Carr
Matt Reeves is a litigation partner at Andersen, Tate & Carr. Matt is passionate about private property rights and litigating important client matters in an excellent manner. His practice covers a wide range of matters within the areas of real estate litigation, commercial and banking litigation, and probate litigation, including representing private property owners and business owners in eminent domain and disputed zoning matters.
Matt has represented clients in the following road projects: Georgia Highway 316, Sugarloaf Parkway Extension, Georgia Highway 20, Pleasant Hill and Buford Highway, Highway 29, Friendship Road/Lanier Islands Parkway. He also provided representation in the Archer High School condemnation and represented the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church in its sale of the Simpsonwood property on the Chattahoochee River to Gwinnett County.
He has successfully obtained justice for clients from juries and judges across Metro Atlanta and the State of Georgia, the Georgia Supreme Court and Georgia Court of Appeals, federal courts, as well as matters in which the parties were able to reach a meeting of the minds before the case went through verdict and appeals.
While in law school, Matt was a Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn of Court Pupil, and defeated the University of Florida’s moot court team in the Hulsey-Kimbrell Georgia-Florida Moot Court Competition. He also attended the National Institute of Trial Advocacy deposition seminar at Duke University Law School in 2005.
