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Cindy Taylor and Frank X. Perissi, Kettering Executive Network

September 3, 2019 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Cindy Taylor and Frank X. Perissi, Kettering Executive Network

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**John Ray, Cindy Taylor, and Frank X. Perissi**

“North Fulton Business Radio,” Episode 160: Cindy Taylor and Frank X. Perissi, Kettering Executive Network

On this edition of “North Fulton Business Radio,” we discussed peer to peer executive networking and other opportunities offered by Kettering Executive Network for C-level executives. Kettering’s President, Cindy Taylor, and Director of Marketing, Frank X. Perissi joined host John Ray in the Business RadioX studio inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Cindy Taylor and Frank X. Perissi, Kettering Executive Network

Cindy Taylor is President and Frank X. Perissi is Director of Marketing at Kettering Executive Network. Kettering Executive Network welcomes senior level executives across all functions and industries including Corporate, Non-Profit and Not-for-Profit. Kettering Members are servant leaders committed to a “Pay it Forward” principle, actively helping each other with business ideas, opportunities, mentoring and introductions, and the community at large through service activities. We are a volunteer, member-run and member-sponsored professional organization that enables, inspires and mentors the next generation of executive leaders in the Metro Atlanta business community. Through peer-to-peer networking, special interest groups (SIGs), motivational speakers, and personal relationships, we empower our members with the readiness, business ideas, and opportunities to thrive and build a better future for ourselves and those we lead. Our culture is rooted in servant leadership, relationships and sense of family.

For more information on Year Up, the mentoring organization supported by Kettering and mentioned during the show, visit their website.

To find our more on Kettering Executive Network, go to their website or email info@ketteringexecutivenetwork.org.

“North Fulton Business Radio” is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®, located inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with approximately $12.9 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Digital Transformation: Disruption with a Purpose

September 17, 2017 by angishields

Cause And Affect

Digital Transformation: Disruption with a Purpose

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UHY Advisors, Inc. is one of the nation’s largest professional services firms in the U.S., delivering financial, tax and business consulting services to companies ranging from mid-sized to the Fortune 500. The firm’s innovative Management & Technology Consulting practice provides a one-stop solution for a company’s financial and operational functions, with a full suite of services to transform a company’s performance and profitability.

Christopher Bean is Senior Manager, Management and Technology Consulting at UHY Advisors. Connect with Christopher on LinkedIn.

Dave King is Senior Manager within UHY’s Technology and Risk Management consulting practice. He has over 15 years of experience in governance, risk, and compliance management. He is responsible for advising business and technology executives on Cybersecurity, PCI Compliance, and technology risk management initiatives. Connect with Dave on LinkedIn.

Michael Heilman is Senior Manager at UHY Advisors. Connect with Michael on LinkedIn.

Anatomy of a Cyber Heist

July 21, 2017 by angishields

Cause And Affect

Anatomy of a Cyber Heist

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Matt Holcomb is the Executive Sales Consultant for the Atlanta Markets with ISU Paragon. Working in the insurance industry for over 19 years, he is licensed in both Property & Casualty and Life & Health while holding the Commercial Lines Coverage Specialist (CLCS) designation. Starting as a carrier representative for several large national firms, he has developed a unique feel for the carrier’s point of view. Therefore, Matt capably ensures excellent customer service while working with both affluent and general markets to provide business owners with protection for the possessions they value most. Connect with Matt, and ISU Paragon, on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Workplace Culture

June 16, 2017 by angishields

Cause And Affect

Workplace Culture

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Frank Fenello is managing director of the UHY Atlanta office, and leads the national management consulting practice. He has more than 20 years of experience in management and professional consulting in the finance, audit and accounting professional services industries. Follow Frank on LinkedIn

Kevin Sharpton is a Staff Consultant with UHY Advisors’ Accounting Automation group, providing a wide range of process optimization and finance transformation solutions for UHY clients. He joined UHY in February 2016, and focuses on business process improvement, strategy, project management, and the implementation and optimization of BlackLine software. Follow Kevin on LinkedIn.

Chad Creasman is a Staff Consultant with UHY Advisors’ Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance group, providing a wide range of IT and accounting controls-related auditing and consulting services. His primary focus is providing clients with service organization controls (SOC) attestations, SOX IT compliance over internal controls related to financial reporting, cybersecurity risk management and PCI compliance. Follow Chad on LinkedIn.

June Choi is a Manager with UHY Advisors’ Accounting Automation group, providing a wide range of process optimization and finance transformation solutions for UHY clients. She joined UHY in June 2008, and focuses on business process improvement, strategy, project management, and the implementation and optimization of BlackLine software. As a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), she serves clients nationwide, bringing expertise in financial and business consulting. Follow June on LinkedIn.

Cheerag Jani is a Manager with UHY Advisors’ Management & Technology Consulting group, providing portfolio, program, and project management; digital transformation services; and operational and financial process optimization. He joined UHY in June 2015, and has seven years of project management and professional consulting experience in various industries. Follow Cheerag on LinkedIn.

Change Management

April 24, 2017 by angishields

Cause And Affect

Change Management

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Frank Fenello / UHY Advisors

Frank Fenello is managing director of the UHY Atlanta office, and leads the national management consulting practice. He has more than 20 years of experience in management and professional consulting in the finance, audit and accounting professional services industries.
UHY Advisors, Inc. is one of the nation’s largest professional services firms in the U.S., delivering financial, tax and business consulting services to companies ranging from mid-sized to the Fortune 500. The firm’s innovative Management & Technology Consulting practice provides a one-stop solution for a company’s financial and operational functions, with a full suite of services to transform a company’s performance and profitability.

Cindy Hannafey / UHY Advisors

Cynthia Hannafey is a Managing Director with UHY Advisors’ Management & Technology Consulting group, providing portfolio, program, and project management; software selection services; and operational and financial process optimization services to client companies. She is a results focused executive with more than 20 years’ experience in analyzing existing operations and implementing the strategies, processes and technologies to address enterprise-wide challenges. Cynthia provides management consulting excelling in the aggressive execution of projects that impact a client’s internal operations.

Continuous Accounting

March 16, 2017 by angishields

Cause And Affect

Continuous Accounting

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Matt Cagwin / First Data Corporation
Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer

Matt began his career at Arthur Andersen and KPMG in Atlanta Georgia providing attest services to public and private clients in the manufacturing and technology industries.

Matt joined Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) in 2004 and held various progressive roles, including from 2010 through 2014 Vice President of Finance Services and Strategic Finance Initiatives, based in London, England. In this role, he is responsible for leading a 200-person accounting team, and overseeing a 200-person outsource contract with Capgemini (based in Krakow, Poland and Chennai, India). Matt also led CCE’s Finance Transition program, which was responsible for transitioning the majority of CCE’s in-country accounting activities to a captive shared service centre in Sofia, Bulgaria.

In 2014, Matt joined First Data as the Vice President, Financial Reporting, Policy and Sarbanes Oxley. In this role, Matt successfully transitioned his team from Denver, Colorado to Atlanta, Georgia. In 2015, Matt assumed the position of Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and played an active role in FDC’s Initial Public Offering.

Matt holds a bachelor and master’s degrees in accounting from Florida State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Tammie Coley / Cox Communications
Executive Director, Enterprise Accounting, Financial Systems & Compliance

For more than 20 years, Tammie Coley has been an innovator and organizational architect in developing enterprise-wide strategies for the implementation of leading practices in the accounting function. Coley joined Cox Communications in 2003 and is currently the Executive Director, Enterprise Accounting and Internal Controls Governance where she oversees the accounting and internal controls governance functions. During her tenure, Ms. Coley provided the vision and leadership that lead to the successful transformation of Cox’s Accounts Payable function, reducing costs by more than 60%. She also successfully transformed the monthly accounting cycle generating more timely financial statements with greater consistency and accuracy while reducing the costs of the accounting function. Furthermore, Ms. Coley led the initiative to shift Cox’s compliance function to an enterprise-wide internal controls governance function incorporating the 2013 updates to the COSO framework.

Brad Baer / UHY Advisors
Managing Director

Brad Baer is a Managing Director in the Management & Technology Consulting group of the firm in the Southeast, which provides high-value consultative services to help clients meet their business, accounting and finance objectives. He is responsible for client service, client management, solution creation and delivering process improvement expertise to help clients enhance and sustain gains in their businesses. Brad has more than 20 years of experience in all facets of finance and accounting, management, client service and operations.

Andrew Borsuk / UHY Advisors
Business Development Director

Andrew Borsuk is a Business Development Director for UHY Advisors in the Southeast, which provides high-value consultative services to help clients meet their business, accounting, and finance objectives. He serves clients nationwide, bringing expertise in business development and relationship building across all the practice areas covered by UHY Advisors. Andrew has more than 20 years of diverse professional experience.

Generational Similarities

February 21, 2017 by angishields

Cause And Affect

Generational Similarities

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Amy Gallagher / UHY Advisors
Principal

Amy Gallagher is a Principal with UHY Advisors and the leader of the Atlanta Resource Solutions practice. Resource Solutions provides corporations with experienced and proven professionals to execute finance and accounting related projects and offers Executive Search and Recruiting Consulting. Amy brings over 20 years of experience in recruitment, talent acquisition advisory and recruitment operations for national and international corporations.

Nikki Springston / UHY Advisors
Senior Recruiter

Russ Woods / UHY Advisors
Consultant

Protecting Company Data

January 20, 2017 by angishields

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Protecting Company Data

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Daniel Blechinger / IST Management Services, Inc.
Vice President of Information Technology

Daniel Blechinger is the Vice President of Information Technology for IST Management Services, Inc. Dan has expertise in the development of state-of-the-art hardware architectures, software solutions and wide area networks for international companies. He has accumulated over 30 years of IT experience managing global projects and designing software applications. Dan has been with IST for over 13 years and has 8 years of prior management experience with 4 years as a CIO and 12 years of systems/software engineering knowledge from careers at TESA Entry Systems, Scientific-Atlanta and Photocircuits Corporation. Dan received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1985. He resides in Auburn, Georgia with his wife and has two adult sons.

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David Barton / UHY Advisors

David Barton is a Managing Director and practice leader for the Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance group at UHY Advisors. He has over 25 years of practical experience in information systems and technology risk, and extensive experience in identifying and reducing information technology risk throughout an organization.

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Business Growth

December 2, 2016 by angishields

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Business Growth

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Stephen Meadows / Westrock

WestRock Company was formed on July 1, 2015 as a result of the merger of Rock-Tenn Company and MeadWestvaco Corporation. WestRock is a multinational provider of paper and packaging solutions for the consumer and corrugated packaging markets. WestRock has operating and business locations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

Maria D’ Alessandro, CPA / Hospitality Ventures Management, LLC

Maria has an extensive and varied background in multiple aspects of finance, including business operations, treasury, financial planning & analysis and financial accounting. Prior to joining HVMG, Maria worked as a consultant for leading organizations such as Gaylord Entertainment, Hilton and Orbitz. Among her positions, she was a senior auditor at Ernst & Young for three years. She also worked for Delta Air Lines for 8 years as the general manager of treasury, manager of financial planning and analysis, and director of accounts receivable. She has had as many as six department managers and 200 employees under her direction and leadership. Most recently she was a principal at the highly regarded consulting firm, North Highland, based in Atlanta where she was the international network leader for the CFO services practice. In addition, Maria was Senior Vice President for Wachovia Treasury & Financial Consulting where she reengineered financial processes, managed working capital optimization projects and restructured finance operations.

Amy Gallagher / UHY Advisors

Frank Fenello / UHY Advisors