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Sheryl LaPlace with Insperity and Troy Deus with Drum

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Sheryl LaPlace is senior human resource specialist with Insperity, a trusted advisor to America’s best businesses for more than 33 years. Insperity provides an array of human resources and business solutions designed to help improve business performance.

Insperity® Business Performance Advisors offer the most comprehensive suite of products and services available in the marketplace. Insperity delivers administrative relief, better benefits, reduced liabilities and a systematic way to improve productivity through its premier Workforce Optimization® solution. Additional company offerings include Traditional Payroll and Human Capital Management, Time and Attendance, Performance Management, Organizational Planning, Recruiting Services, Employment Screening, Expense Management, Retirement Services and Insurance Services.

Insperity business performance solutions support more than 100,000 businesses with over 2 million employees. With 2018 revenues of $3.8 billion, Insperity operates in 78 offices throughout the United States.

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Troy Deus is the Co-founder and head of product at Drum, where he is focused on delivering powerful products that enable any business to stand up an on-demand salesforce using brand promoters called Drummers.

Troy graduated with a degree in digital design and 3-D animation from the University of Georgia. Since graduating, Troy watched as product design, development and user experience gained prominence as a key revenue driver. Troy comes to Drum by way of years of managing design, UX, and product teams in interactive television, mobile, and marketing automation.

In 2011, Rob Frohwein invited Troy to join the scrappy new finance technology startup Kabbage. Troy spent the next 8 years growing the Kabbage, brand, experience, and product. Since then, Kabbage has empowered over 200,000 businesses with funding and has provided over $7 Billion in loans. For the next chapter of Troy’s career, he plans to empower everyone across the globe with the means to earn money promoting the businesses they believe in with Drum.

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Sunset Family Business Radio

Your Family Business and Your CPA - How to Leverage this Key Advisor

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Join us and our guest, John Dillard, CPA on Thursday, February 18, 2010

It’s tax season—and your CPA is probably busy preparing your taxes. But when you know how to work most effectively with your accountant, you can transform that relationship from a tactical one to a highly strategic one that guides you throughout the year to support your pursuit of growth and maximize profits while minimizing taxes.

How do you create a relationship with your CPA that includes both top and bottom line strategies?

With the help of our guest, John Dillard, CPA and President of His CPA, P.C., we will discuss how to build a strong relationship with your CPA that not only includes the basics of tax strategies and driving profits, but ultimately creates a unique strategic partnership that matches the needs of your unique family-owned business.

For more than 30 years John has served as a trusted advisor to business owners. Under his professional and knowledgeable guidance, John has helped businesses grow and prosper while creating value for the family-business owners.

While graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1979 from Georgia State University with a BBA in Accounting he was named to two honor societies, he also received the Upcoming Junior Award and passing most of the CPA exam in school. His work career began with the international CPA firm Touche Ross & Co. for whom he worked in the audit department. For ten years thereafter, he worked as an accountant with several firms while climbing up the corporate ladder. Since then he has worked on his own as a CPA for business owners.

John Dillard lives with his wife and his family in Duluth, Georgia, where they are members of Sugarloaf United Methodist Church. They have two children who are eighteen and fifteen years old. John is a native of Atlanta and has practiced as a CPA for thirty years and his firm tailors their services to the needs of business clients. John is also a prolific writer of Christian fiction.

John Dillard, CPA of His CPA, PC can be reached at www.HisCPA.com – 770-814-9304