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Gary Price with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kevin Martinez with Premium Capital Management and Victoria Watkins with East Cobb Business Association

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Gary Price/PricewaterhouseCoopersÂ

Gary Price is an advisory partner with more than 28 years of experience providing a wide range of assurance, advisory and controls services to a wide range of organizations. Gary joined PwC in Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 where he served a number of public manufacturing clients. Gary participated in a industry based tour in the Firm’s public utility practice between 1985-1988. During his tour, Gary was responsible for both audit and advisory services to clients in the utility sector.

Gary was admitted to the partnership in Cleveland in 1995 and transferred to Atlanta in 1999 where he was responsible for delivering a wide range of services to a large, global transportation company. From September 2004 until January 2006, Gary served as the Firm’s Assurance strategy leader. In January 2006 he was appointed the Managing Partner of PwC’s Atlanta office, and in July 2007 he assumed responsibility for PwC’s practices in both Alabama and Tennessee.

Gary is actively involved in the metro Atlanta community with his focus and passion on improving public education. Gary is currently: the Treasurer of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; the Audit Committee Chair of the Woodruff Arts Center; Member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Metro Atlanta; and, Chair of the Georgia Council on Economic Education.

Kevin Martinez/Premium Capital Management

Kevin Martinez is President and CEO ofÂ Premium Capital Management, LLC. He is the author of “The Book on Put Option Writing” and is a noted lecturer on the subject of writing puts to enhance portfolio value.

Kevin is a graduate of the University of South Florida and is a Life Member of its alumni association. He has also served as president to a number of civic organizations.

Victoria Watkins/East Cobb Business AssociationÂ

Attorney Victoria Watkins was born in the Motor City and raised in sunny Southern California. Victoria completedÂ her undergraduate coursework at Randolph-Macon Womanâ€™s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and Reading,Â England. She graduated cum laude from the Georgia State University College of Law, where she was a member ofÂ the Moot Court Board and interned with the Georgia Council on Aging.

Victoria is a member in good standing of the Georgia Bar and the Cobb County Bar Association, is an AccreditedÂ Attorney with the Veterans Administration, and is an active member of the Georgia Association for Women LawyersÂ and the Academy of VA Pension Planners. She serves on the board of the Cobb Services for the Elderly and theÂ Cherokee Services for the Elderly, and is the current President of the East Cobb Business Association.

Victoria enjoys gardening with her husband, playing with her two children, knitting and reading mysteries.

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Burr Forman's Results Matter Radio

WIT's Women of the Year in Technology 2012 Awards

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WIT announced the winners of its 13th annual Women of the Year in Technology Awards at an awards gala on Thursday, November 1st at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Results Matter Radio is pleased to host the winners for Enterprise, Medium and Small Business.

Jackie Breiter/Goizueta Business School at Emory University, Winner – Small Business

Jackie Breiter is the Senior Director and CIO at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. She has over two decades’ experience building and leading teams in Fortune 1000 companies and combines extensive technological knowledge with strong strategy and communication skills. Jackie has a particular expertise in aligning organizational objectives with real-world solutions and a “get it done” approach. At Goizueta, Jackie drives the strategic direction and management for all aspects of technology relating to teaching, faculty research, students, and administration.

Prior to joining Goizueta, Jackie served for nearly four years as vice president of global customer success for CA Technologies, an IT management software and solutions company. At CA she managed a team of VP- and director-level associates responsible for increasing customer loyalty among the firm’s top global CIO clients. She previously served for nearly three years as vice president of technical services at PharMerica Inc., where she led a team of technology directors responsible for setting the technical vision and managing the operations of PharMerica’s IT services.

Lora Weiss, Ph.D/Georgia Tech Research Institute, Winner – Medium Business

Dr. Lora Weiss is a Lab Chief Scientist and Technical Director of Autonomous Systems at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Her research focus is on the design and development of technologies for unmanned and autonomous systems. She has conducted research on systems spanning the domains of air, ground, sea-surface, and undersea. She has chaired technical sessions at professional conferences and has provided over 300 technical presentations. Dr. Weiss was on the Board of Directors for the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), which is the world’s largest unmanned systems organization. She was on the Technical Advisory Board of the Nation’s Robotics Technology Consortium, and she was an Executive Board Member of the National Defense Industrial Association. She currently chairs the ASTM Committee on Unmanned Maritime Vehicle Autonomy and Control. Dr. Weiss has provided testimonial to the Science and Technology Committee of the Georgia House of Representatives, she developed a video for IEEE Educational Services, and in 2012, she was recipient of the AUVSI Foundation Award for Academic Champion.

Carolyn Holcomb/PricewaterhouseCoopers, Winner – Enterprise Business

Carolyn Holcomb is a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Atlanta with over 21 years of experience helping clients manage their risk and systems of internal control, specializing in information technology and business process. Carolyn leads the Risk Assurance Data Protection & Privacy practice and in so doing, assesses and provides recommendations for improving companies’ information security and privacy programs. Carolyn helps organizations build and enhance their privacy and information security programs and ensure they will be sustainable over the long term. She focuses on governance and risk assessment, data inventories, flows, and classifications. Carolyn helps organizations assess their program models, training and awareness programs, communications across the organization, and systems of control. In addition, Carolyn helps organizations build control mechanisms and implement monitoring programs that include reporting to senior management and the Board of Directors. Carolyn also assesses her clients’ controls and monitoring of third parties and provides advice to such clients to help them enhance, and often remediate, such controls and programs. She also signs attestations when PwC serves as the Assessor in response to requirements from various regulators such as the FTC and OCR. Carolyn also serves public external audit clients by auditing the internal controls and information systems for both financial statement audits and Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 attestations. In addition, Carolyn signs AICPA SOC and other attestation reports.