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Steve Kilpatrick with Kilpatrick Advisors, Jeremy Bowen with Unishippers, and Janet Young with AWSCPA

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Steve Kilpatrick/Kilpatrick Advisors

Steve has been a member of the financial services industry since 1993, is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) practitioner and holds the securities industry Series 7 and 63 industry exam certifications, and is securities licensed through Investacorp Inc., a registered Broker/Dealer – member FINRA & SIPC. Prior to joining the financial services industry he worked as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with Catarineau & Givens PA of Miami and with Thomson Brock Cherry & Co. of Tallahassee, FL. A graduate of Stetson University, he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration – Accounting. Steve’s industry experience includes previous positions as Vice President of Investments with Prudential Securities (Atlanta) and First Vice President of the Private Client Group of Robert W. Baird & Co. (Atlanta).

In an effort to provide greater service to each client, Steve has also earned the Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) designation. The Personal Financial Specialist designation, established in 1987 by the AICPA, recognizes considerable professional experience in financial planning. The PFS program is administered by the PFP Division of the AICPA, which was formed in 1986 to assist in the growing practice of personal financial planning.

Jeremy Bowen/Unishippers

Local business owner and franchisee Jeremy Bowen with Unishippers Middle Georgia opened his Unishippers business this past June as his second small business since college. Having worked for the Unishippers Macon franchise several years ago in sales, Bowen pursued the opportunity to open his own franchise in his hometown of Griffin for two reasons: 1) Unishippers is one of two resellers for UPS, which is the world’s largest package delivery company and global leader in transportation and logistics, and 2) Unishippers has gone to great lengths to establish partnerships with 40 plus freight suppliers, establishing itself as the largest reseller of shipping services in the nation with the ability to offer the best deals and discounted rates for small to mid-sized businesses.

Janet Young/AWSCPA-Georgia

Janet Young is the National VP of Membership for the American Women’s Society of CPA’s (AWSCPA) and the most recent past president of the Georgia Chapter of the AWSCPA. Her mission for the year was to “Nurture and Grow.” The AWSCPA Georgia chapter is a network of women devoted to tax and accounting. They are in the business of developing future Women CPA Leaders in Atlanta. They offer excellent and affordable Continuing Professional Education, selecting only the best speakers that address today’s issues in a relaxed environment.

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Ken Robbins with Response Mine Interactive, Steve Kapaun with TrainingPros, Perry Bell with Solar Energy USA and Brian Simon with Unishippers

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Ken Robbins/Response Mine Interactive (RMI)

Ken Robbins is the founder and president of Response Mine Interactive (RMI), an award-winning digital agency that helps clients acquire more customers using direct response digital marketing. RMI was founded in 2001 with the goal of taking hard-core direct response techniques and media optimization to Internet marketing.

For the past decade, Ken and his team have generated billions of dollars in revenue for leading brands in the B2B, healthcare, travel and home services channels. RMI is also a leader in acquiring boomers and seniors for clients. Some of the companies his agency has worked with include The Home Depot, Rooms To Go, Carter’s/Osh Kosh B’gosh, Liberty Medical, The Scooter Store, Education First Educational Tours, Maid Brigade, Terminix and formerly Staples, Travelzoo and Hallmark.

With more than 26 years of combined sales and marketing experience, Ken is a well-respected marketing guru and business strategist who has spoken at a variety of tradeshows, conferences and events.

Ken is also a sought-after marketing resource for a variety of leading industry publications. He is a contributor to the book, The Digital Media Innovation Playbook, that hit shelves in August 2011 and was featured on the cover of USA Today’s Money Section in the first article written using only Twitter. He was also quoted in the 2009 book, Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business and is a guest marketing and business lecturer at Emory University and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Steve Kapaun/TrainingPros

Steve Kapaun is the Founder and President of TrainingPros. They specialize in providing learning and development consulting talent to companies when they do not have the internal expertise or capacity to design, develop and deliver training solutions that improve the performance of their employees, the organization and the business. TrainingPros unique serves local markets through local relationship managers who are, themselves, learning and development practitioners having spent 15 – 20 years in the L&D industry managing the design, development and delivery of L&D programs.

Perry Bell/Solar Energy USA

Perry Bell is President and CEO of Atlanta-based Solar Energy USA. His previous career saw him as Co-President of one of the nation’s largest replacement window companies. Recognizing an opportunity in home energy efficiency and savings via the popular ENERGY STAR window offering, Perry made a transition and started an energy focused company. Now, as the head of two energy related companies, Perry is taking the experiences learned in the home improvement world and radically changing the way home and business owners look at paying for power. Solar Energy USA, his first renewable energy venture, is a national provider of Affordable Solar Solutions and the largest residential solar company in Georgia. Net Zero USA, the most recent undertaking, exists to help others understand how energy reduction and energy production can have dramatic effects on a power bill. The term “net zero” refers to a home or building that has zero net energy consumption, or produces 100% of its own energy needs, and Net Zero USA is showing the world how great it is to be energy independent.

Brian Simon/Unishippers