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Scott Weiss with Speakeasy, Inc.

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Scott S. Weiss is CEO and Owner of Speakeasy, a globally renowned communication consulting firm established in 1974 with offices in Atlanta, San Francisco, New York and Amsterdam, as well as ongoing operations in Chicago, Boston, Hong Kong, Bangalore, Dubai, and Mumbai India. The company works with executives and teams in developing the impact and effectiveness of their communication capabilities, both internally with staff and externally with their clients. Last year the company worked with some 5000 executives in 10 different countries. Weiss is the author of the Axiom Business Book Gold Medal Winner and Amazon bestselling book DARE! “Accepting the Challenge of Trusting Leadership.” He is also a frequent guest blogger, and has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, CNN Money, Inc., Investor’s Business Daily, and numerous business blogs. Weiss additionally is a frequent guest speaker at a variety of industry conferences and radio talk shows. Prior to joining Speakeasy in 1994, Weiss served for ten years at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (Time Warner) as an Executive Vice President in charge of satellite distribution for the Turner networks domestically, as well as involvement in many network development projects including creating the CNN Airport Channel and CNN Local Edition. In addition to Turner Broadcasting, Weiss also served four years as Senior Vice President for Southmark CRCA, a New York Stock Exchange financial service and investment banking firm. Weiss is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus for the T. Howard Foundation, a Washington D.C. non-profit, that promotes diversity in the broadcast and electronic media industries. He has served as an “Emmy” voting member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) for some 25 years, and formerly served on the Board of Advisors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Entrepreneur Organization of Atlanta, the Emory University Board of Visitors, and was a Founding Board member of Start Up Atlanta. Weiss attended Michigan State University where he received his degree from the College of Communications Arts and Sciences and has served as an adjunct professor at the Georgia Tech School of Management. He resides in Jupiter, Florida with his wife Marci of 32 years; they are parents to three young adults.

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Will Seippel with WorthPoint Corporation, Len Romano with Christian City, Chad Massaker with Speakeasy

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Will Seippel is the Founder & CEO of an financial data internet company with over with 15,000 paid members and 75,000 visits a day with customers in over 60 countries. The company is an internet Big Data leader with over 200 million pages and 1 Billion images stored in a consumer friendly environment. WorthPoint has won numerous awards including a “threepeat” Inc. 500/5000 company. WorthPoint is a pioneer in data sciences and an early adopter into tools such as NoSQL, elastic search and Grails in what has traditionally been a “computer phobic” industry.

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From the beginning of his career, Len Romano made his colleagues his number one priority. Even after three decades at the YMCA and now serving as the president and CEO of Christian City here in Georgia, he has left many lasting impressions on the lives he has touched. While serving as the CEO of several YMCAs across the United States, Romano strived to make his team feel like family. He is a man of deep faith who is also a creative, outside-of-box thinker. Romano is a great leader who has trained and inspired 14 of his former employees to become C-level executives at several nonprofits all over the country. He is also a believer in promotion and an individual’s potential to succeed. Even today, past employees speak highly of his integrity, generosity and ability to build trust within a workplace. A previous employee and now President/CEO of the YMCA of the Inland Northwest said “If Len Romano were running for office, he would have my vote.” Len Romano is more than the CEO of a nonprofit. He is a leader who truly thinks of himself a team member who has been chosen to help others reach their full potential. He’s what you’d want in a good boss, and he modestly credits his parents’ hard work and dedication to ensuring that their children lived the American dream for the person he is today. As the son of two Italian immigrants who moved to the United States to better their children’s futures, Len had to begin his “learning by doing” principles early on in life. The love of a family is something that Len believes everyone should experience, which is why Len personally tries to make sure everyone who comes to Christian City knows that they are a part of the Christian City “family.”

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Chad Massaker with Speakaeasy is a serial entrepreneur, warrior philanthropist, wine nerd, and renaissance man. #GSD

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