Adam English/Gwinnett Stripers Baseball Club
The Gwinnett Stripers are the Triple-A International League affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, playing their 11th season at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville. For tickets, team merchandise or more information, visit GoStripers.com.
Ryan Sauers/Sauers Consulting Strategies & Our Town Gwinnett
Ryan Sauers is the President of Sauers Consulting Strategies, a consulting, speaking, and coaching firm that specializes in national sales, marketing and leadership. He is also the President of two monthly Our Town Gwinnett Magazines which focus on positive family and community happenings, events, and news in Gwinnett County and the surrounding areas.
Tom Pilotti/Tom Pilotti World
For over 23 years, Tom Pilotti has been teaching sales pros how to maser the art of the deal and to help them develop their most powerful gifts and talents. The development of presentations that close sales is the key in next level sales mastery. Tom offers on-site seminars designed specifically to double your company’s monthly billing quickly. He offers field training and hands-on experience that is designed to shave years off a sales persons learning curve. Speaking at nationwide sales events and rallies, Tom also offers one-on-one digital video coaching & learning designed to produce immediate results. It pays to work with the best!
Mayor Rey Martinez/City of Loganville
Before serving as Mayor of the City of Loganville, Rey Martinez was elected city council member in 2010 and re-elected to serve a second term in 2013. He has been the Chairman of the Public Safety Committee and Public Works Committee, and a member of the Public Utilities, Planning and Development, and Transportation Committee. Mayor Martinez served in the U.S. Navy with 3 deployments to the Middle East in support of Operation Noble Eagle and Enduring Freedom. He Earned many awards including the Navy Achievement Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Campaign Medal.
His civic duties include:
• Georgia Municipal Association District 5 Vice-President & Member of GMA Federal Policy Council
• Board Member of State of Georgia Immigration Enforcement Review Board & Commission on Equal Opportunity Board (appointment made by the Governor)
• Board Member of the Walton County Development Authority, Chamber of Commerce & current President of the Walton Municipal Association
• Member & past President (2016-17) of the Loganville Lions Club
• Georgia Lighthouse Board Member
• Honorary Member Rotary Club of Loganville
Keith Cordeiro/Crosstex International
Crosstex International is a manufacturer of infection prevention products with industrial, medical, and dental divisions. Keith is an Account Executive in the dental division and covers 3 states (GA, AL, TN). Crosstex International has a variety of infection prevention products including masks, waterline treatment, amalgam separators, saliva ejectors, etc.
The Philosophy Of Sales is a blog that Keith started to showcase the use of discovery, collaboration, and compassion to sustain a culture of community and cooperation in all sales interactions.
Jacqueline & Tom Sheldon/Bottom Line Tax Solutions
Bottom Line Tax Solutions specializes in tax planning and tax resolution. The firm focuses on proactive tax planning and working with their clients throughout the year lower their tax liability and to help them keep more of what they make. Bottom Line Tax Solutions can assist clients who have back tax issues work out payment terms with the IRS, get penalties reduced, and in some cases settle their tax debts for less than what they owe.
John Monahon/Trusted Counsel
Trusted Counsel is a corporate and intellectual property law firm dedicated to serving the unique needs of companies and investors. Trusted Counsel focuses is to guide and empower clients with exceptional legal counsel, knowledge, and tools that lead to practical, informed business decisions.
Mark Aurand/DAMA Healthy Green Solutions
Mark Aurand is a independent dealer for Vollara, a 35-year old company that specializes in high-tech healthy living technologies with environmental friendly green solution products specifically designed to help meet the needs and problems of their customers, both at home and business. Such as energized alkaline drinking LivingWater that raises the pH and allows you to drink high alkaline filtered water. FreshAir machines remove and eliminate viruses, bacteria, staff, MRSA, mold, mildew, pet and smoke odors on fabric and hard surfaces as well as in the air up to 99.9% in a 3000 sq. ft. area. They have LaundryPure that saves you money because you do not have to use hot water or detergents. They have SteadyPower that attaches to your electrical box and provides whole home protection against lighting strikes, surges, along with removing line noise filtration and reducing your carbon emissions through the power factor correction. SafeHearth is a portable heater that has a tip over, auto lock, & high temp shut off safety features. The heater is output rated at 3400 BTU/5100 BTU and it also cleans & sanitizes the air similar to the FreshAir units.
Tim & Chrystal Mansour/Mansour International
Building and operating over ten businesses within 30 years, all these businesses started from zero. Tim Mansour was fortunate to sell all of them over a period of time for a total of $10.8 million dollars.
Together, Tim and Chrystal have over 50 years of business experience in the Health & Fitness industry through education, coaching and living a healthy way of life. Key elements of this program are motivating people to pursue and achieve their dreams & goals in business, building/managing relationships, health & fitness, as well as helping others manage and overcoming obstacle while remaining focused, persistent and positive.
As a business entrepreneur and motivational speaker, Tim would like to share his business experiences, challenges and passion for success! Receive tips and strategies on “how to” build a business from zero, manage/overcoming obstacles, lessons he learned along the way, how to manage working with family and friends, the importance & power of positive thinking and much more.
Mansour International is Tim and Chrystal’s current business, which allows them to enjoy investing in real estate, flipping houses and living a healthy way of life!
Valencia Giles/Lawrenceville-Suwanee School of Music
With over 500 students enrolled from the U.S and abroad, the Lawrenceville-Suwanee School of Music has been offering quality, private music lessons since 2009 for voice, piano, guitar, bass guitar, ukulele, violin, cello, drums, percussion, mandolin, clarinet, flute, and Greek instruments, early childhood music development classes, and art classes for young children through adult ages. Love is their model and great musicianship is their goal. LSSM provide lessons that inspire, motivate, educate, and instill confidence in students to help them perform at their highest level. They are Gwinnett’s most award-winning school. With a comprehensive music education and modern state of the art facility, everyone is a star.
Brian Sutherlin/Green Go Box
Green Go Box is an Atlanta-based company that rents plastic totes as an alternative to cardboard moving boxes to be used during a move. They deliver the boxes to you at your current address, you pack and move or have a moving company pack and move, then they pick them up from you at your new address once you have unpacked.
Ronnell Richards/Ronnell Richards LLC
Ronnell Richards is an accomplished, inspirational, and resourceful sales executive with a flawless record of guiding start-up and expansion organizations to achieve impressive revenue gains, exponential profit growth, and extraordinary market-share increases. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated expertise in training, coaching, motivating, and mentoring sales teams and sales professionals to high levels of professional achievement, bringing diverse individuals together to form cohesive teams. As a natural, authentic communicator and relationship builder, he has a talent for creating and capitalizing on networks and business connections, and excel in aligning strategy with organizational vision and goals while interpreting the voice of the customer. Moreover, he is thoroughly conversant in all aspects of the sales cycle ‐ an expert in the psychology of sales and what motivates people.
Dr. Alan Miller/Dunwoody Internal Medicine
Dunwoody Internal Medicine is a private practice member of the Emory Healthcare Network. Established in 2011, the Emory Healthcare Network joins together Emory-employed and private practice physicians in communities throughout metro Atlanta and the state, in collaboration with Emory Healthcare, into a single comprehensive care management system.
Dr. Angela Wright/Peach Blossom Dental
Peach Blossom Dental is a family dental practice located in Tucker, Georgia. They specialize in creating a relationship with their patients and making them feel like family. In their office, they focus on your dental health and all patients receive personalized dental care.
Lyn & Bob Turknett/Turknett Leadership Group
Turknett Leadership Group‘s expertise is Leadership. They are Atlanta’s premiere resource for Executive Coaching, Leadership Talent Assessment, Executive Team Development, Cultural Assessment, Executive Selection, and more. Through an approach grounded in science and guided by the Leadership Character Model, they help organizations hire the best people, identifying and developing high potentials, and creating an ethical culture.
TLG is a boutique consulting firm focused on providing personalized guidance and support to their clients. Their professional staff brings both depth and breadth to their clients by combining expertise in the behavioral sciences with practical business and executive management experience.
Tino Mantella/Turknett Leadership Group
Tino J. Mantella became the President and CEO of Turknett Leadership Group on October 29, 2018. TLG is one of the nations top leadership development companies, driven by its proprietary Leadership Character Model and grounded in science. TLG has supported hundreds of CEO’s and their teams over the last 32 years.
Mantella brings over 30 years of leading some of the nation’s largest and most distinguished not-for-profit including the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, the National Arthritis Foundation, and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). Leader, innovator and versatile are three descriptors that collectively provide a framework for Tino’s career. He has supervised a team of over 4,500 employees during his years at the Chicago YMCA Programs ranged from gang intervention to foster care to being the largest provider of SRO’s (Single Room Occupancy Housing) in the state of Illinois. The YMCA and Mantella, during his tenure, were one of the first not-for-profits ever recognized for the prestigious George Land award for Innovation. At the Arthritis Foundation, during Mantella’s tenure, the organization disseminated over $50 million dollars to help find cures for debilitating diseases. And, at TAG (Technology Association of Georgia), over the 12 years Mantella was at the helm, the organization grew from less than 500 members to over 36,000, becoming the largest organization of its kind in North America.
In January of 2017, Tino was appointed President and CEO of Tier4 Advisors. This for-profit company helps senior leaders optimize decisions around their IT expenditures. In 2018, Tier4 was recognized as an Inc. 1,000 company for the first time in its history. Tino will remain a partner at Tier4 and equity owner.
Mantella resides in John’s Creek, Georgia with his wife Deborah.
