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Marc Gorlin with Roadie

July 9, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Marc Gorlin with Roadie

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Marc J. Gorlin is a serial entrepreneur who founded Roadie in 2014 when he needed a few boxes of tile from a warehouse a few miles away.

Before starting Roadie, Marc co-founded and was Chairman of Kabbage Inc., which provides working capital to small and medium-sized businesses. To date, Kabbage has raised more than $250 million in venture funding and has a $270 million credit facility from Guggenheim Securities. The company has provided over $3.5 billion in capital to small businesses.

Marc assisted with the initial formation of PGP and oversaw the financing, growth, and eventual sale of the company (to Network Associates (Nasdaq: INTC), a public company worth over $1 billion) in December of 1997.

After PGP, Marc co-founded VerticalOne Corporation, a content personalization service that was sold to S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: ACIW) for $166 million.

Marc was Executive Vice President of VerticalOne and worked in multiple areas of the company including financing, business development, sales, M&A, and security issues.

Marc is an active speaker on serial entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture funding. Marc has spoken at SXSW, RILA Supply Chain, The Montgomery Summit, Internet Summit, Southeastern Venture Conference, and Finovate among others. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and remains an avid Bulldog fan.

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What You’ll Learn in this Episode

The concept behind Roadie (how and why the brand was established)
Growth of the platform since its inception
Retail trends and same-day delivery
Impact of Roadie in helping small businesses
The COVID crisis, and how Roadie is a solution for helping businesses of all sizes
Recent growth (new agreements with large entities like Tractor Supply)
Tractor Supply case study highlights
Projecting for the balance of 2020

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Nick Santora with Curricula, Marc Gorlin with Roadie and Bijal Patel with Synamedia

February 28, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Nick Santora with Curricula, Marc Gorlin with Roadie and Bijal Patel with Synamedia

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Nick Santora founded Curricula after a 7-year career at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the enforcement agency responsible for regulating the power grid across North America. Nick spends time advocating and advising critical infrastructure utilities on how to improve their cybersecurity programs. Nick is internationally recognized as a cybersecurity expert and speaks regularly at security conferences across North America on the psychology behind influencing employees within security awareness programs.

Nick holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration from Rider University. He also earned his CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor). Nick also serves on the board of advisors for Veracity, and industrial control systems SDN company.

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Before starting Roadie, Marc Gorlin Co-Founded and was Chairman of Kabbage Inc., which provides working capital to small and medium-sized businesses. To date, Kabbage has raised more than $250 million in venture funding and has a $270 million credit facility from Guggenheim Securities. The company has provided over $3.5 billion in capital to small businesses.

In 1996, Marc was a co-founder and an original board member of Pretty Good Privacy (“PGP”), a company formed to commercialize one of the most prevalent security standards used on the Internet, popularized in the book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Marc assisted with the initial formation of PGP and oversaw the financing, growth and eventual sale of the company (to Network Associates (Nasdaq: INTC), a public company worth over $1 billion) in December of 1997.

After PGP, Marc co-founded VerticalOne Corporation, a content personalization service that was sold to S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: ACIW) for $166 million. Marc was Executive Vice President of VerticalOne and worked in multiple areas of the company including financing, business development, sales, M&A and security issues.

Marc is an active speaker on serial entrepreneurship, innovation and venture funding. Marc has spoken at SXSW, RILA Supply Chain, The Montgomery Summit, Internet Summit, Southeastern Venture Conference, and Finovate among others. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and remains an avid bulldog fan.

Connect with Marc on LinkedIn.

Bijal Patel is Synamedia’s Chief Financial Officer and brings over 20 years of experience in international high-tech and software companies as well as private equity-backed technology firms. Bijal has extensive experience driving business transformation, integrations and process improvements.

Bijal joined Synamedia from hospitality technology innovator, HotSchedules where he served as CFO for 3 years. Prior to HotSchedules, Bijal was CFO at Aptean and before that he held the position of Vice President of Finance at Finastra and was interim CFO between 2012 and 2014. Bijal spent the early part of his career in a variety of senior roles at IBM.

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About Your Host

Joey Kline is a Vice President at JLL, specializing in office brokerage and tenant representation. As an Atlanta native, he has a deep passion for promoting the economic growth and continued competitiveness of communities in and around Atlanta, as well as the Southeast as a whole. He has completed transactions in every major submarket of metro Atlanta, and works primarily with start-ups, advertising/marketing agencies, and publicly-traded companies. With a healthy mix of tenacious drive and analytical insights, Joey is a skilled negotiator who advises clients on a myriad of complex real estate matters.

With a strategy and business development background, Joey is first and foremost a pragmatic advisor to his clients. Most recently, he was the Director of Business Development for American Fueling Systems, an Atlanta-based alternative energy company. While at JLL, he has become a member of the Million Dollar Club, and has built a reputation as an expert on the intersection of transit-accessibility and urban real estate. With intimate involvement in site selection and planning/zoning concerns, Joey approaches real estate from the perspective of the end user, and thus possesses a unique lens through which to serve his clients.

Joey holds a Master of Business Administration from Emory University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a founder, board member, and the treasurer of Advance Atlanta, and also sits on the Selection Committee for the Association for Corporate Growth’s Fast 40 event. In addition, he is a member of CoreNet and the Urban Land Institute. Finally, he is part of LEAD Atlanta’s Class of 2019.

Connect with Joey on LinkedIn.

Elizabeth Hoemeke with Elavon, Marc Gorlin with Roadie and Matt Sander with Mint Ventures

February 11, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Elizabeth Hoemeke with Elavon, Marc Gorlin with Roadie and Matt Sander with Mint Ventures

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Elizabeth Hoemeke is the Senior Vice President of IT Strategy & Global Business Services for Elavon, a leading global provider of merchant acquiring services and integrated payments processing. With more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology, Elizabeth specializes in developing global sourcing partnerships, building high performance IT teams, optimizing software development life cycle and driving transformation through a metrics-driven approach. She is an advocate of leveraging partnerships and a vast professional network to accelerate the development and integration of new technologies and strategies. A native of Atlanta, Elizabeth is an active mentor and volunteer. She is involved with Women in Technology, Technology Association of Georgia and charitable organizations such as Junior Achievement and Year Up, an organization that helps urban youth. She is Board President for Improve International, an organization dedicated to sustainability of clean water and sanitation projects worldwide. Elizabeth has two sons, and holds BS in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech.

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Marc Gorlin is the Founder and CEO of Roadie, the first on-the-way delivery service. Marc is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in successful startups (including Kabbage, PGP and VerticalOne).

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Matthew Sander is with Mint Ventures. A graduate from UGA, Matt began his career in the insurance business, but found a talent for software sales in 1992. However, by 1994 Matt knew he’d wanted to start his own company, so he launched Natural Pet Litters and introduced the first flushable, biodegradable pet litter. With eventual distribution into 7200 outlets nationwide, Matt sold his company to a competitor and turned his attention to helping small businesses grow and expand their client base. In 2004, Matt saw the furied pace of the real estate industry and entered as an investor/appraiser and began to value and invest in properties across Atlanta. Then 2008 arrived. Recognizing early the industry had hit the wall, Matt turned his attention to an idea a friend brought his way. The result was Court Revenue Systems; a SAAS platform allowing citation recipients to pay their fines, and court mandated cost online. CRS went the extra step by adjudicating the case within the software reducing the court’s workload by 30%. The results were phenomenal, and the company entered the radar screen of a larger court software company who offered Matt a chance to roll his company into theirs and grow across the southeast. By 2012 the results were meeting management expectations and Matt turned his attention to the wellness industry. The goal was to drive physical activity into areas of commerce and WALQUE was born. WALQUE was great example of failing forward. The company launched well before the market wanted it, a pivot was implemented but still no one wanted the end results. Today, Matt spends his time helping SMBs achieve greater results with their human capital strategy as a business advisor with Insperity (NSP). Matt still works pro-bono helping entrepreneurs reach their dream of starting their own endeavor. He also works with companies preparing for the ICOR experience and is active with multiple organizations looking to build the business culture of Atlanta. His back-burner endeavor is under R&D and is collecting data at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/scanpop.

Follow Matthew Sander on LinkedIn and can be reached at 678.491.1640

Marc Gorlin with Roadie, Jack Daly with BullsEye Telecom and Arash Harzand with Forge

April 1, 2015 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Marc Gorlin with Roadie, Jack Daly with BullsEye Telecom and Arash Harzand with Forge

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Marc Gorlin / Roadie

Marc Gorlin has been a successful entrepreneur in Atlanta for almost 20 years. Marc previously co-founded Kabbage Inc., which provides working capital to small and medium-sized businesses and has raised more than $100 million in venture funding and has a $270 million credit facility from Guggenheim Securities. In 1996, Marc was a co-founder and an original board member of Pretty Good Privacy (“PGP”), a company formed to commercialize one of the most prevalent security standards used on the Internet, and recently popularized in the book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Marc assisted with the initial formation of PGP and oversaw the financing, growth and eventual sale of the company (to Network Associates (Nasdaq: INTC), a public company worth over $1 billion) in December of 1997. After PGP, Marc co-founded VerticalOne Corporation, a content personalization service that was sold to S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: ACIW) for $166 million. Marc was Executive Vice President of VerticalOne and worked in multiple areas of the company including financing, business development, sales, M&A and security issues. Marc is an active speaker on raising venture funding and has spoken at the Technology Association of Georgia, Internet Summit, Southeastern Venture Conference, and Finovate among other conferences. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia and remains an avid bulldog fan.

Jack Daly / BullsEye Telecom

BullsEye Telecom Inc. is a leading telecommunications provider empowering enterprises nationwide with the tools needed to consolidate and better manage critical business functions. BullsEye sets the industry standard for voice and data solutions designed to increase employee productivity, reduce costs and enhance the overall business performance. One telecom partner for complete phone and converged network solutions and support.

Having built a legendary reputation as a unique, different and innovative telecommunications provider, BullsEye is a high-growth, Inc. 500 company. BullsEye has earned the trust of SMBs and Multi-Location National Corporations alike, with telecom solutions that leverage new technologies. Their customers gain operational efficiencies and save with the simplicity and convenience of one accountable supplier, competitive pricing and a single invoice for all locations nationwide. BullsEye guarantees reliability, performance and security. Add to that the peace of mind customers receive from their proprietary online telecom expense management tools and unsurpassed customer support.

Founded in 1999, BullsEye,offers Hosted PBX, voice, data, digital voice, cellular, hosted IP, network security, unified communications and cloud-based managed services. Recipient of the prestigious ChannelVision Magazine 2015 Channel Deployment of the Year Award and recognized for its ongoing innovation with the 2014 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award as well as the 2013 Internet Telephony Award, BullsEye successfully migrates single and multi-location businesses from traditional phone service to Hosted IP PBX, Digital Voice and much more. For more information visit www.bullseyetelecom.com or call 877-438-2855.

Arash Harzand / Forge

Arash is a Chief Medicine Resident at Emory University School of Medicine and the Managing Director of Forge, an initiative that supports healthcare startups by connecting founders, engineers, clinicians and designers. You can reach him at arash@forgehealth.org or linkedin.com/in/arashharzand.