Princess Modupe Ozolua with Empower 54, Sean Henry Founder/CEO of Stord and Tony Sakich Director of Marketing for Augur

April 18, 2016 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Princess Modupe Ozolua with Empower 54, Sean Henry Founder/CEO of Stord and Tony Sakich Director of Marketing for Augur

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Modupe Ozien Ozolua / Empower 54

CEO and Princes from the Benin Kingdom

Modupe Ozolua is a social Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Body Enhancement limited in Nigeria. Body Enhancement Ltd pioneered cosmetic surgery in Nigeria in 2001 and aesthetic lasers in 2007. She is also the founder and president of Body Enhancement Annual Reconstructive Surgery (BEARS) Foundation. From cosmetic surgery procedures, Modupe Ozolua now gives hope to the less privileged. Modupe Ozien Ozolua is a Princess from the Benin Kingdom. She was born in Benin City, Nigeria October 10, 1973, the youngest of four siblings born to Mr and Mrs M.S Ozolua. Her parents hail from Sabongida Ora area of Edo State. Her name, Modupe, means “I praise or thank God” in Yoruba.[3][4] Ozolua had her early education in Nigeria, where she attended University of Benin primary and secondary school, and Queen Idia Girls College in Benin City. Her secondary education was completed at Apata Memorial High School, Isolo, Lagos. To further her education, Ozolua left for the United States of America in 1989. She studied in Southwestern College, San Diego (California), and Devry International University, Los Angeles, California (1989–1995). She was recognised in the 1994-1995 edition of the NATIONAL DEANS’S LIST. Modupe Ozolua has a dual citizenship of Nigeria and America. Ozolua is a businesswoman and philanthropist; she started earning money “at the age 18, by working in McDonalds’ in America while in college, 1991” (Olatunji, 2006).[5] The first business Ozolua had was a communication business in Los Angeles prior to pioneering cosmetic surgery to West Africa at the age of 27. Miss Ozolua describes herself in her interview with Adeseun (2004) [6] as a “workaholic” –to which one might add; intelligent and an ambitious woman. Ozolua has been recognised by the public through her following awards: • Nigeria Women Awards. • Dame International for Pioneering Action Award 2003. • City People for Female Achiever in the Beauty sector 2001. • Moremi Hall Executive Council • Oba Femi Awolowo University for Award of Excellence 2002. • City People for Beautician of the Year 2001. Likewise, Ozolua has been featured on CNN, BBC and many other international media publications. In Africa, in numerous magazines and press publications. The aim of Ozolua’s charity organization, BEARS Foundation, is to treat individuals [children, adults, and people who have serious injuries like acid burn and severe accidents] with deformities and create HIV/AIDS awareness. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the Patron of BEARS Foundation.

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Tony Sakich / Augur

Director of Marketing

Tony Sakich is the Director of Marketing for Augur. Tony’s been responsible for many successful campaigns in the tech space, including: – Creating, managing and executing the successful crowdfunding for Augur, raising $5.3 Million Dollars and becoming one of the 25 most successful crowdfunding campaigns in history. – The #BitcoinBowl social media campaign on ESPN in which $10,000 was given away for free on Twitter utilizing “guest tippers” including Country artist Shooter Jennings, Warner Bros. Records, NewEgg.com, UFC Fighter Jon Fitch, WWE performer Curtis Axel and many others. – Named a finalist in 2016’s MAX Awards for marketing the Augur crowdfunding campaign, putting our 6 person startup side by side with Coca Cola, The Atlanta Hawks, Cricket Wireless and other Fortune 500 companies. – Managed the production, script and project details of BitPay’s two commercials that aired nationwide on ESPN, the first ever for a blockchain company. – Utilized my music history connections from the past to partner with 50 Cent, Warner Bros. Records and Atlanta artists Mastodon for national coverage of BitPay. – Managed the digital campaign around Microsoft’s acceptance of Bitcoin, the largest organization to get involved with blockchain technology to date, resulting in global coverage for both Microsoft and BitPay. – Named an industry leader in Blockchain Technology by Bitcoin Magazine, the largest and most respected publication in the space. This honor was shared with huge names like Tyler Winklevoss, Adam White of Coinbase, Stephen Pair of BitPay (infographic featuring the full list is found at https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-is-growing-up-an-infographic-of-the-bitcoin-ecosystem-1447865097)

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Sean Henry / Stord

Founder / CEO

Sean is the Founder and CEO of Stord. He has an extensive background in entrepreneurship, and a passion to innovate static industries. At age 11, Sean launched his first successful tech business, an iPhone repair company, in a personal effort to afford his first phone. Sean received the Deans Scholarship to the Scheller college of business at Georgia tech, to pursue operations and supply chain management. Prior to Stord, Sean spent a summer as a lean management consultant in 5 different countries.

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Steve Palmer with The Cottage School, Dr. Dionne Poulton with Poulton Consulting Group, and Jeff Plank with HLB Gross Collins

April 13, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Steve Palmer with The Cottage School, Dr. Dionne Poulton with Poulton Consulting Group, and Jeff Plank with HLB Gross Collins

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Steve Palmer, Dr. Dionne Poulton, Jeff Plank, Dominick Rainey

Steve Palmer/The Cottage School

The Cottage School has a 31-year history of serving students with mild to moderate learning differences including ADD, ADHD and Anxiety Disorders. The students learn in addition to the State of Georgia required classes for graduation, a business model that is based on time accountability and financial reward and balance. This fall for the first time they are adding 4th and 5th grades to their current 6-12th grades.

Dr. Dionne Poulton/Poulton Consulting Group

Poulton Consulting Group is an HR and Leadership Consulting business specializing in diversity and inclusion. They serve all businesses from small to large, government, educational institutions, non-profits, and social groups. PCG is led by President and owner, Dr. Dionne Poulton, who for the past 16 years, has been researching and teaching in areas of diversity, inclusion, equity, bias, intercultural dialogue, adult education, adult learning, and adult behavior. PCG offers targeted, research based professional development opportunities, education, advisement, and conflict mediation to HR professionals, leaders, and employees in all workplace settings.

Jeff Plank/HLB Gross Collins

HLB Gross Collins is an Atlanta-based full service certified public accounting and consulting firm that has been providing excellence in client service for over forty years. Serving clients both locally and around the globe, the firm offers tax, auditing and assurance, business consulting, valuation, estate and personal financial planning, and international services.

Marie Fratoni with Get Clients Everywhere, Rick Loose with Milton Park Partners, and Elizabeth Burgner with Planned PEThood of Georgia

April 7, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Marie Fratoni with Get Clients Everywhere, Rick Loose with Milton Park Partners, and Elizabeth Burgner with Planned PEThood of Georgia

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Marie Fratoni/Get Clients Everywhere

Get Clients Everywhere provides coaching support to entrepreneurs so that they find more clients, make more money, make a greater impact, and have more fun! They work with smart, talented business owners providing coaching, training, and speaking around important entrepreneurial topics that help businesses grow.

Rick Loose/Milton Park Partners

Milton Park Partners is a staffing company providing a broad array of solutions designed to meet the needs of today’s small businesses. Their purpose is to enable the small business owner to “get on with business” by relieving executives of the many burdensome and time consuming aspects of employment from hiring to well after the employee has left the organization. Business owners and their employees can rely on Milton Park Partners to be their HR department and provide a full scope of administrative and professional HR support.

Elizabeth Burgner/Planned PEThood of Georgia

Planned PEThood of Georgia reduces the overpopulation and suffering of dogs and cats through education and low-cost spay/neuter programs and to rescue, vet and place adoptable dogs and cats into good permanent homes. Adoptable is defined as dogs and cats that pose no health or safety risk, which makes the animal unsuitable for placement as a pet.

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Marc O’Conner with Curant Health and Vera Watkins with The Marena Group

April 6, 2016 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Marc O'Conner with Curant Health and Vera Watkins with The Marena Group

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Marc O’Conner/Curant Health

Curant Health is one of the fastest-growing healthcare companies in the nation including being listed #4 on the 2015 INC 500/5000 for large healthcare companies. Curant Health is a national thought leader on developing and implementing chronic disease state patient focused protocols and providing robust medication management for their patients. Curant Health’s robust patient experience dramatically improves patient outcomes while significantly reducing the health spend associated with these problematic disease states. Their nearly perfect patient retention rate is a testament to their patient focused care and services.

Vera Watkins/The Marena Group

The Marena Group is a Lawrenceville-based company that manufactures the next generation of medical grade compression life wear made to fit every moment of life. Marena offers proven medical-grade compression wear to help the body heal faster in order to feel better, look better and play better.

Their USA-made garments are not only functional but uniquely engineered for long-term comfort with their patented ComfortWeave® fabric, exclusive to Marena. They believe in curve appeal, a healthy lifestyle, and feeling your absolute best whether at the gym or on the couch.

Their team of caring professionals are dedicated to exceptional client support. They don’t simply sell – they serve needs. Their proprietary made-to-measure program allows you to accommodate every individual and every patient to ensure the optimal results. They are the Doctors’ partner to reduce patient complaints and garment hassles while increasing revenue with their Marena Lifestyle products. Their passion for comfortable, high compression textiles is second only to their passion for helping improve lives.

Dan Lucas with CREDO Financial Services and Brenda Lopez with The Lopez Firm

March 31, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Dan Lucas with CREDO Financial Services and Brenda Lopez with The Lopez Firm

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Steven Julian, Dan Lucas, Brenda Lopez, Mike Sammond

Dan Lucas/CREDO Financial Services

CREDO Financial Services has been servicing clients of all sizes, both internationally and domestically, for many years. Whether you are an entrepreneur in start-up phases, or a longstanding pillar of the business community, CREDO’s commitment to forming a true partnership with their clients is exactly what you have been missing from your typical CPA or CFO.

Brenda Lopez/The Lopez Firm

The Lopez Firm is a law office that specializes in immigration matters. Brenda Lopez is a proud Gwinnettian for over ten years, living and working in District 99. As a resident and business owner in the district, she is fully invested in the economic development of the communities in her district and understands firsthand the challenges faced by residents and business owners daily. Brenda is committed to using her legal background and expertise in community development to zealously advocate for her constituents in the State General Assembly.

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Veterans Connect Radio Episode 3

March 31, 2016 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Veterans Connect Radio Episode 3

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Veterans Connect Radio

A spotlight episode of Atlanta Business Radio and powered by Business RadioX. Co-Hosted by Ryan “Redhawk” McPherson and Brandon Skolnick with Gathering Of Angels. Featuring veteran entrepreneurs, support organizations, outreach groups and more in the Atlanta area continuing to serve our families, our communities and our country.

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Brandon Skolnick, Everett Steele and Ryan Redhawk

Everrett Steele / Steele Technology Partners

Chief Operating Officer

As the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kanga Technology, Everett led the company through raising millions in funding, building an award winning mobile and web application, and being named “Atlanta’s Best Startup” by General Assembly. Everett’s global vision for Kanga helped grow the small operation into a well-known brand that has been covered in The Motley Fool, TechCrunch, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Atlanta Business Chronicle, and countless others. The company was a Finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt and was selected to the prestigious “Signature” program of the Advanced Technology Development Center in 2014.

Everett was named one of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “40 Under 40” in 2015, graduated from LEAD Atlanta in 2014, and is an active participant and board member of several non-profits. Everett is a Veteran of the United States Army, where he earned awards for his participation in combat operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn. Everett is a proud native Atlantan, a graduate of the University of Georgia, and a diehard Atlanta sports fan. When he isn’t at the office, Everett enjoys spending time exploring the city, dining out, and writing music.

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SAFEGUARDING YOUR DATA: Olivia Rose Jenkins with QloudSecure

March 30, 2016 by Mike

On the Money

SAFEGUARDING YOUR DATA: Olivia Rose Jenkins with QloudSecure

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On this episode of “On the Money”, host Joe Moss talks to Olivia Rose Jenkins from QloudSecure about how cyber threats and online security breaches can affect a small business and how to monitor them.

Olivia Rose Jenkins/QloudSecure

QloudSecure was founded by Olivia Rose Jenkins in 2016 to address the concerns of law firms about exposure to the risks of data breaches, leakage, theft and subsequent liabilities. QloudSecure is a technology consulting services company, offering law firms the strategy, guidance and support they need to migrate to, and continually to successfully operate on, a centralized cloud computing infrastructure. This type of infrastructure offers a turn-key solution for law firms’ explicit needs.

Olivia has over 15 years’ experience in the cybersecurity field with the last ten years as a consultant helping organizations achieve and maintain best security practices to safeguard their assets and comply with regulatory and industry requirements. A love of using technology as an enabler for clients to achieve and exceed their business goals led to an interest in cloud computing.

One of the foremost concerns of a law firm is the threats of exposure, and understandably so due to the following reasons:

• Legacy IT systems are widely in use.

• Data has become more disparate across multiple locations and systems.

• Employees blur the lines between personal and corporate technologies.

• Security awareness is lacking among firm employees and third-parties

• There is a shortage of qualified IT staff to manage it all.

These issues are also very present at any type of small business.

QloudSecure has a proprietary six step process to help you close gaps for good called QloudPrint. It includes discovering your risk, assessing the potential business impact, designing a plan to close the gaps, deploying your security controls and even providing policies and procedures you can use, educating your employees on best security practices to reduce potential going forward, and then managing it for you if you don’t have access to a good IT resource. Everything is customized to your specific environment and tailored towards small to medium law firms.

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“On the Money” focuses on topics and issues allowing small businesses to better navigate the financial services minefield, with analysis and opinions from today’s industry experts on banking and loans. “On the Money” also introduces you to some of the top small business leaders in the Atlanta market.

Hosted by Joe Moss, the president of Embassy National Bank, “On the Money” airs live every Wednesday at 3:00 PM EST from the Business RadioX studio in Gwinnett.

Change Leaders Exclusive Episode 4

March 29, 2016 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Change Leaders Exclusive Episode 4

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Change Leaders Exclusive: Showcasing and Learning From World-Class Change Agents

March 29th, 2016

Topic: Dare to Reach Your Full Potential

FullSizeRender — Yvonne Bryant-Johnson and Becky Blalock

Tune into Change Leaders Exclusive as we talk with Becky Blalock, Speaker and Best Selling Author of DARE, and Yvonne Bryant-Johnson, President and CEO of Bryant & Associates. They will give their expertise on today’s topic of “Dare to Reach Your Full Potential”. Listen in on what it has taken both Becky and Yvonne to become successful in their careers as well as the risks they took as “women” in the c-suite.

Yvonne Bryant-Johnson, Becky Blalock and James Dallas

Dr. Hughan Frederick with NILE Women’s Healthcare, Jordan Lisvosky with Atlanta Parent Magazine and David B. Wright with W3 Group Marketing

March 25, 2016 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Dr. Hughan Frederick with NILE Women's Healthcare, Jordan Lisvosky with Atlanta Parent Magazine and David B. Wright with W3 Group Marketing

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Dr. Hughan Frederick / NILE Women’s Healthcare

Founder & CEO

A board-certified OB/GYN practicing for nearly 20 years, Dr. Frederick has had the experience of helping thousands of women with childbirth through menopause and everything in between. Trained in the fields of obstetrics, gynecology, bio-identical hormones and bariatrics, he has the unique expertise to help women through lifes many stages.

While he manages several high-risk pregnancies, Dr. Frederick maintains a low c-section rate compared to the national average. He has performed hundreds of gynecological surgeries including hysterectomies, laparoscopies, and routine OB/GYN examinations.

Since establishing Nile in 2006, Dr. Fredericks practice has grown to be among the largest women’s care practices serving the North Fulton area. The reason women choose Nile is not its size, however, but rather the personal attention and emphasis on patient participation in their own holistic care. Known for his friendly beside manner, Dr. Frederick is most popular for his naturalistic approach to women’s health. Pills and surgery are given as final options not the first suggestion. His philosophy has garnered him many accolades including being voted one of the best doctors in Roswell, GA, best on Kudzu.com and Atlanta Parent Magazine.

In addition to Nile Womens Health Care, he serves as the medical director for Glow Anti-Aging Center and Medical Spa. For the privacy and convenience of several clients, he offers his bio-identical hormone replacement therapy, novel therapies for vaginal atrophy, urinary leakage and vaginal dryness in this full-service, luxury space.

Dr. Frederick currently serves as Chairman of Womens and Childrens Services at North Fulton Hospital. He is board certified by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), a Fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FACOG), a member of the American Medical Association (AMA) and the National Medical Association (NMA). He is also active in the community, a supporter of the March of Dimes and is a member of the North Fulton Chamber of Commerce. He is married, has two sons and one daughter.

Jordan Livosky / Atlanta Parent Magazine

Special Events Coordinator

Jordan Lisvosky started her journey with Atlanta Parent 4 years prior to her officially joining the AP family as a a volunteer at their annual Family Festival. After college, she made her way back to Atlanta Parent as an intern in special events and was quickly hired on full time. From there, she became Special Events Coordinator and now runs the annual Family Festival with the help of great volunteers and loves getting students from her alma mater, Chamblee High School. In her spare time (if there is any!) she loves volunteering with local animal rescue groups, helping with the Young Professionals of Dunwoody and watching Shark Tank. She loves getting out into the community and hearing about how parents use Atlanta Parent to plan their birthday parties, summers and weekends year round.

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David B. Wright / W3 Marketing Group

President & Chief Marketing Officer

David B. Wright is a bestselling author and is President & Chief Marketing Officer of W3 Group Marketing, a marketing firm that helps growth-oriented businesses get more customers, clients or patients. David provides marketing services ranging from high-level strategic direction down to the tactical implementation including SEO, video marketing, mobile, local, social, online PR, and more. Video SEO is a particular sweet spot – David has gotten to Page One of Google in as fast as two minutes!

David is an international speaker, has lived in Tokyo, Japan, done business around the world and has been quoted in numerous publications including Inc., The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, AMEX Open Forum, About.com, CEO.com, and Business Insider. He has climbed Mt. Fuji and dozens of other mountains, loves SCUBA diving, kayaking, music and all sorts of adventures. He is a champion fish taco chef, learned to surf in Bali, shot archery in the crater of a Japanese volcano, was a radio DJ in Atlanta, rode an elephant through the jungle in Thailand, and is ready for his next adventure. He lives in Tucker, GA with his wife and stepdaughter.

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