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Cathy Hogan-Smith, Owner of Cachet Corporate Gift Services

January 28, 2022 by Mike

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Cathy Hogan-Smith, Owner of Cachet Corporate Gift Services

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Cathy Hogan-Smith/Cachet Corporate Gift Services

Cachet Corporate Gift Services has been the go-to gift service for major corporations in Atlanta and nationally since Cathy Hogan-Smith started her business in 1997. Cathy is an expert in design and marketing. She has won numerous awards as a gift designer, writer, instructor and trainer in the gift industry. Her clients have included CNN, Cox Media Group, Turner Broadcasting System, Auto Trader, the Atlanta Braves, the Atlanta Falcons, Williams Sonoma and the Marriott Corporation. Cachet’s award-winning design team specializes in unique creations that feature delectable gourmet food and specialty gift items from around the world. Gifts are tailored to specific occasions or events and can include business logos. Cachet has provided gifts that fit with conventions, hotel room amenities, marketing, promotion and branding, grand openings, swag bags, celebrity or professional sporting events and much more.

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Donna Linden, Founder & CEO of Trinity Staffing and Career Resources

January 21, 2022 by Mike

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Donna Linden, Founder & CEO of Trinity Staffing and Career Resources

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Donna Linden/Trinity Staffing and Career Resources

Donna Linden is the Founder & CEO of Trinity Staffing and Career Resources a BBB A+ Rated Accredited Business located in Lawrenceville, GA.

After a 25-year corporate career in the insurance industry, Donna Linden founded Trinity Staffing and Career Resources after hearing a story of a friend registering with a staffing agency. Getting a job was the most important thing in her friend’s life as her family needed the money. Yet, the staffing agency treated her like a number, did not follow up with phone calls, and she felt her messages were ignored. Trinity Staffing and Career Resources was birthed out of wanting to show the love of God to people who are in a job transition, and to provide them with career opportunities. Her company provides direct hire placement for various industries including insurance, business professional services, financial services/banking, and IT.

Volunteerism and serving the community are essential to Donna. She not only wants to make an impact in the lives of others through job placement, but she also wants to make an indelible impact in her community through volunteerism. Donna was born in Jamaica, but was raised in Mount Vernon, New York. She graduated from the Howard University School of Business. She is a licensed property & casualty agent in Georgia and has earned four prestigious insurance designations: CIC, AINS, CSRM, and CISR. She is a licensed minister and the coordinator of the Career Ministry at Berean Christian Church in Gwinnett. Donna serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Peachtree Corners Business Association, and is an active member of the Gwinnett Chamber.

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Danielle Cheung, Vice President & Market Executive with Bank of America

January 14, 2022 by Mike

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Danielle Cheung, Vice President & Market Executive with Bank of America

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Danielle Cheung/Bank of America

Danielle Cheung is Senior Vice President and Market Executive for Metro Atlanta Business Banking at Bank of America, which focuses on delivering financial solutions to middle market companies. She is accountable for business strategy/execution, sales performance, and revenue growth. Danielle was recognized as a national Pinnacle Club winner in 2019 for market sales performance.

With over two decades of experience in commercial banking at JPMorgan Chase Bank, Danielle joined Bank of America in 2016. After completing a formal management training program in credit, she spent sixteen years as a senior relationship manager focused on the non-profit healthcare industry. Danielle also managed new hire training and campus recruiting nationally, after which she relocated from New York to Atlanta to run middle market business development in Georgia and Alabama.

Danielle is a member of Bank of America’s Atlanta Market Leadership team, which focuses on setting business and community engagement strategies across metro Atlanta. In that capacity, she co-leads efforts around cross line of business client acquisition strategies. Danielle is Executive Sponsor for LEAD for Women, a network dedicated to promoting professional women’s development and has maintained a leadership role in the Business Banking Diversity & Inclusion Council.

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Linda Schoepf, Franchise Owner and Community Coordinator with Little Caesars

December 17, 2021 by Mike

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Linda Schoepf, Franchise Owner and Community Coordinator with Little Caesars

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Linda Schoepf/Little Caesar’s Pizza

Little Caesars was founded by Mike and Marian Ilitch in 1959 as a single, family-owned restaurant. Today, Little Caesars is the third largest pizza chain in the world, with stores in each of the 50 U.S. states and 27 countries and territories.

Little Caesars recently introduced contactless options for both delivery and carry-out through the Little Caesars app. Pizzas are baked in 475-degree ovens to ensure food safety and never touched after baking. The chain has also reinforced cleanliness and sanitization procedures, increasing the frequency of cleaning commonly touched surfaces including door handles, glass, countertops, Pizza Portal surfaces, phones, and cash registers.

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Renée Byrd-Lewis, President and CEO of Gwinnett Coalition

December 3, 2021 by Mike

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Renée Byrd-Lewis, President and CEO of Gwinnett Coalition

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Renne Byrd-Lewis/Gwinnett Coalition

Renée Byrd-Lewis serves as the President and CEO of the Gwinnett Coalition, an organization dedicated to leading systems change to address Gwinnett County’s most complex social issues. Her nearly three decades of private and public sector experience fuels a diverse portfolio of capabilities in community development, social responsibility, and communications. Her previous roles include serving as the Vice President of Advancement and Strategic Communications at Georgia Gwinnett College; Director of Community Relations at Cisco Systems and Scientific Atlanta; and senior consultant for nonprofits seeking to increase organizational effectiveness. She is adept at transcending industry and functional boundaries, and leveraging an extensive network to achieve her desired outcomes.

Renee has been a Gwinnett County resident since 1995 and is an engaged leader with deep community knowledge. She currently serves as Board Chair of the Leadership Gwinnett Foundation, and is a Board member of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce and the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation. She earned a master’s degree from Georgia State University, with a dual bachelor’s degrees in psychology and sociology from Emory University, and she resides in Buford with her husband and two sons.

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Jessica Rantamaki, Business Development Specialist at Geo-Hydro Engineers

November 19, 2021 by Mike

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Jessica Rantamaki, Business Development Specialist at Geo-Hydro Engineers

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Jessica Rantamaki/Geo-Hydro Engineers

Jessica Rantamaki serves as the Business Development Specialist for Geo-Hydro Engineers. She resides in Gwinnett County and is a 2020 graduate of Leadership Gwinnett. She is currently pursuing a degree in Public Administration at Georgia Gwinnett College and hopes to enroll in law school. She is active in several organizations including Associated Builders and Contractors of Georgia, CREW (Commercial Real Estate for Women), Urban Land Institute, and is a Chairman’s Club member with the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. She serves on numerous Boards of Directors including the Aurora Theatre, Water Tower Gwinnett, while also volunteering at Annandale Village.

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Angela Ammons, CEO of Clinch Memorial Hospital

November 12, 2021 by Mike

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Angela Ammons, CEO of Clinch Memorial Hospital

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Angela Ammons/Clinch Memorial Hospital

Angela Ammons, RN, BSN is the CEO of Clinch Memorial Hospital in Homerville, GA. Located in Southeast Georgia, CMH is a 25-bed critical access hospital serving Homerville, Clinch County, and surrounding counties. Starting in late 2017, Ms. Ammons led a successful turnaround effort at CMH, which was close to shutting down. Working with outstanding female hospital executive mentors, Angela implemented a business strategy based on working with other South Georgia hospitals. CMH has also grown other revenues, successfully recruiting a physician from New York City to come to rural South Georgia and launching a Family Practice.

Angela was named “Hospital Leader of the Year” by HomeTown Health in 2018 and CMH was recognized by HomeTown Health as “Hospital of the Year” for 2019. In November 2020, she and her hospital were featured in a story in TIME Magazine. Angela was also a recent guest on the “HIT like a Girl” podcast where she shared some of the experiences that she has had as a rural hospital CEO.

Angela is proud of her origins as a nurse, having worked her way up to an opportunity to lead as a hospital CEO. Prior to joining CMH, Angela served as Nurse Director of the Behavioral Health Unit and Nurse Manager for the Medical/Surgical Unit at Memorial Satilla in Waycross, GA, and was a Critical Care RN at Southeast GA Health System in Brunswick, GA.

She obtained her Associates Degree in Nursing from Coastal College of Georgia in Brunswick, and her BSN through Western Governors University. She is pursuing her Masters in Nursing Leadership with Western Governors. Originally from Macon, Angela currently lives in South Georgia. In addition to her work at the hospital, she is the founder of a nonprofit organization that will build and sustain a free medical clinic in San Antonio, Intibuca Honduras and is passionate about mission work, and finding missions in your every day life.

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Lorri Christopher, Peachtree Corners City Council Member

November 5, 2021 by Mike

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Lorri Christopher, Peachtree Corners City Council Member

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Lorri Christopher/Peachtree Corners City Council

A 34-year resident of Peachtree Corners, Lorri Christopher brings many years of leadership in business, education, and community service to her current role as a City Council Member.

Lorri was a principal in CAP Associates, a human resources consulting firm, and retired from Gwinnett Technical College in 2012 as a CIS Faculty Program & IA Director. She is an adjunct faculty member, and a Trustee of the Gwinnett Senior Leadership program. A former IT Project Manager for the 1996 Olympics, she managed, recruited, planned, trained, and coordinated technology volunteers and vendor education needs for Game venues.

Additional career stops include serving as COO of Atlanta Desktop, co-President of United Mortgage Company, and a Founding Director of Paces Bank & Trust.

Lorri is an alumnus of Leadership America, Leadership Atlanta, Senior Leadership Gwinnett; past President of The International Alliance and GEWN; former Chair of the Georgia Council on Vocational Education, the Employment & Training Council, and the Georgia 21 Commission. She is a recipient of the 21st Century Award from The International Alliance, Atlanta Business Chronicle’s DECA award, the Triumph Inspiration 21st Century Woman Award, and a member of the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers.

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Deirdra Cox, Founder & President of Community Sustainability Enterprise

October 29, 2021 by Mike

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Deirdra Cox, Founder & President of Community Sustainability Enterprise

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Deirdra Cox/Community Sustainability Enterprise (CSE)

With over 36 years of community development and banking experience, Deirdra Cox, Founder and President of Community Sustainability Enterprise (CSE), leads the Georgia-based non-profit in their impactful regional community and economic development work. Deirdra has dedicated the past 14 years of her career focused on the development, implementation, and outcome management of innovative Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects that move the socioeconomic needle, through business development and community engagement, in urban and rural communities, while impacting the enterprise-wide bottom line, through strong community based strategic partnerships.

Deirdra’s uncanny knack to forge impactful cross collaborative partnerships that drive business and community development, has resulting in several large regional cross collaborative revenue producing partnerships that are impacting individual, family, small business, and corporate growth.

Deirdra is a well-respected pioneer in the banking industry’s CRA-Community Development landscape, and Corporate Social Responsibility arena. CSE has been named the 2021 recipient of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce D. Scott Hudgens Humanitarian of the Year Award, and she has been nominated for the Chamber’s Moxie Award two years in a row.

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