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Biz Radio U Featuring Lee Kantor and Stone Payton with Business RadioX

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Lee Kantor / Business RadioX
Founder

Lee founded Business RadioX out of frustration with traditional media’s cronyism, onerous gatekeepers and anti-business bias. Business RadioX is a disruptive media platform that helps companies of all sizes get the word out. Now the dominant business radio network in the Atlanta area Lee has put Business RadioX on an aggressive national and international growth path.

Most recently, Lee helped Business RadioX successfully launch its Radio In My Booth product – giving companies an innovative way to drive tradeshow booth traffic and authentically engage with prospects to boost lead generation.

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Stone Payton / Business RadioX
Managing Partner

For over 25 years, Stone Payton has been helping organizations and the people who lead them drive their business strategies more effectively.

Stone literally wrote the book on SPEED ® – Never Fry Bacon In The Nude: And Other Lessons From The Quick & The Dead (2nd Printing Book Logix, 2012), and has dedicated his entire career to helping others produce Better Results in Less Time.

As managing partner for Business Radio X ® and co-host for the network’s most popular shows, Stone is constantly learning from innovative, passionate, driven people who have chosen to live into their dreams, and serve others who wish to do the same.

His career began with the change management consulting firm, Conner Partners (formerly ODR), and has included sales, marketing, design, and delivery roles for some of the most respected training and consulting firms on the planet.

Stone is a popular radio personality, published author, accomplished speaker, and trusted advisor to business owners, sales leaders and senior executives.

Stone, his wife Holly and daughters Katie and Kelly, make their home in suburban Atlanta. His leisure interests include boating, hiking, and travel. Stone’s Personal Mission: Helping businesses Get The Word Out about the great work they’re doing to serve their market, their community, and their profession.

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Biz Radio U Featuring Turner Levison with CommissionTrac

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Turner Levison / CommissionTrac
CEO

Turner Levison focuses his time and effort in writing, building relationships and growing CommissionTrac. A 2012 graduate of The University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, Turner started his career as a marketing associate at JPMorgan. In 2014, he joined David Cummings’ software start-up, Rivalry, as the first hire and was tasked with creating and scaling the sales operations. In his time with Rivalry, Turner grew the sales from one customer paying $0 to over 35 customers and $150,000 in annual recurring revenue. During his time there, the company raised a series A investment of $500K in venture capital from Buckhead Investment Partner (BIP), which showed a valuation increase of $3.2mm in less than 18 months.

In 2015, a unique opportunity was presented that gave him the opportunity to co-found CommissionTrac with long time commercial real estate software engineer, Bill Crichlow of LeasCom. The two launched the cloud based commission management platform to the North American market in 2016.

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Biz Radio U Featuring Ben and Sammy Amor

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Ben and Sammy Amor / Cloud 9 Smoke and Vape Co.

Ben Amor is graduating in May from Kennesaw State University with a degree in Management, while Sammy Amor is graduating in December of this year with a Management major. They are from immigrant parents that instilled an extreme work ethic and a passion to follow their dreams. Ben and Sammy own and operate Cloud 9 Smoke & Vape Co., SBK International, and Skyline Hookah Lounge. They started their hookah lounge, Skyline, in 2010. At the time, there were no hookah lounges in Cobb County.

In 2011 Ben and Sammy founded Cloud 9. Cloud 9 is a chain of smoke and electronic cigarette retail stores with 6 locations in the metro Atlanta area.  They vertically integrated to a wholesale company when they realized they needed a warehouse to store their products, and it only made sense to use their buying power to sell to their competition.

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KSU Entrepreneurship Center The Shrimp Tank Featuring Ben and Sammy Amor

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Where can a young entrepreneur figure out how to turn their dreams into reality? Just take a step into the Shrimp Tank. The Shrimp Tank brings you interviews with some of the most successful business owners in the United States to learn the do’s and don’ts of starting and running a successful business. Then, the fun really starts when we bring in high school and college students to pitch their business ideas to the Shrimp Tank. We don’t fund any business, but we do teach kids how to turn their business ideas into a successful business.

Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks, Ted Jenkin and Lee Heisman

 

Ben and Sammy Amor / Cloud 9 Smoke and Vape Co.

Ben Amor is graduating in May from Kennesaw State University with a degree in Management, while Sammy Amor is graduating in December of this year with a Management major. They are from immigrant parents that instilled an extreme work ethic and a passion to follow their dreams. Ben and Sammy own and operate Cloud 9 Smoke & Vape Co., SBK International, and Skyline Hookah Lounge. They started their hookah lounge, Skyline, in 2010. At the time, there were no hookah lounges in Cobb County.

In 2011 Ben and Sammy founded Cloud 9. Cloud 9 is a chain of smoke and electronic cigarette retail stores with 6 locations in the metro Atlanta area.  They vertically integrated to a wholesale company when they realized they needed a warehouse to store their products, and it only made sense to use their buying power to sell to their competition.

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KSU Entrepreneurship Center The Shrimp Tank Featuring Mark Fonseca and Mike McCarthy

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Where can a young entrepreneur figure out how to turn their dreams into reality? Just take a step into the Shrimp Tank. The Shrimp Tank brings you interviews with some of the most successful business owners in the United States to learn the do’s and don’ts of starting and running a successful business. Then, the fun really starts when we bring in high school and college students to pitch their business ideas to the Shrimp Tank. We don’t fund any business, but we do teach kids how to turn their business ideas into a successful business.

Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks, Ted Jenkin and Lee Heisman

 

Mark Fonseca / Pragmetrix
Co-Founder and Partner

Mark has over 20 years of experience in consultative sales, sales management and client relations. As a top producer at Lanier Business Products, he sold document management solutions to a range of businesses and was prolific at establishing long term relationships.

Mark consults one on one with the most successful CEO’s and Executives in Atlanta and has interviewed thousands of Executives and Business Professionals. He has experience in Sales, Sales Management and Sales Training Best Practice. Currently Mark is the owner of his own private men’s custom clothing and executive image consulting business. He has developed strong business relationships with heads of State, CEO’s, top-level executives and successful entrepreneurs, through one on one consulting and exceptional customer service.

As a Partner in Pragmetrix, Mark is responsible for Client Relations, Business Development and conducting Client Interviews.

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Mike McCarthy / Pragmetrix
Co-Founder and Partner

Mike McCarthy has been passionate about delivering exceptional customer service since he started his career in the 1980’s with GE Technical Services Company.   Eleven years on the front lines of mission critical, capital intensive projects at client sites  instilled in him a core belief that every business decision must first and last be looked at through the customer’s eyes.  Mike has since held senior leadership roles in GE and Siemens Corporation and is a veteran of business and operational excellence methodologies such as Voice of the Customer, Six Sigma and the Net Promoter System®.

As an entrepreneur and small business owner, in 2004 Mike launched Pirtek Fluid Transfer Solutions in Atlanta. Today it’s the market leader in its industry in Georgia.  In 2011 Mike co-founded Pragmetrix to help small and medium size “B to B” businesses become the Loyalty Leaders in their industries, thus fueling their compound annual growth rate to more than twice that of the competitors.   Mike holds an honors degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Ireland and an MBA in Strategic Marketing from Trinity College Dublin.

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Biz Radio U Featuring Jeff Jahn with DynamiX

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Jeff Jahn / DynamiX
Founder

Jeff Jahn founded DynamiX in 2005 as a college sophomore. Today it’s one of the most respected website development and software companies in the world, having been recognized with more than 585 awards in just the past three years. More importantly, DynamiX has created significant bottom line improvement for hundreds of amazing local, national and international businesses. DynamiX was named a 2016 Top 25 Small Business, and Jeff was recently recognized as one of three finalists in the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Small Business Person of the Year awards, in the experienced entrepreneur category.

In addition to DynamiX, Jeff has founded, or co-founded, five companies, including the world’s first neighborhood-based social media platform. He has contributed to Forbes, Inc. and Huffington Post, among others, and is a regular speaker on entrepreneurship and digital technologies.

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Biz Radio U Featuring Joe Guthrie with Avrian, LLC and Bryan Keller with Keller Guitars

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Joe Guthrie / Avrian, LLC
CEO

Joe Guthrie is a serial entrepreneur and the current CEO of Avrian, LLC. He’s founded several for-profit and non-profit ventures and organizations over the past 18 years. Joe has established himself as a well-rounded business expert with experience throughout the business cycle, from startup to acquisition.

In 2010 Joe founded Avrian Consulting, an Atlanta-based consulting agency with an expertise to help other businesses and their leaders achieve goals through executive coaching, mentoring, and advisory roles.

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Bryan Keller / Keller Guitars
Owner

Bryan Keller is a Senior at Kennesaw State University and will be graduating in May with a degree in Business Management. Bryan’s passion is music, specifically guitar, and he enjoys utilizing that passion for worship. Because of this passion, Bryan started Keller Guitars, which sells acoustic and electric guitars that have bible verses burned, or foil pressed, onto the face of the guitar.

Bryan recently began the venture, and will be launching the first line of acoustic guitars, called The Carpenter Series, in March, 2017. The line will display Psalms 95 on the guitar.

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KSU Entrepreneurship Center The Shrimp Tank Featuring Jeff Jahn

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Where can a young entrepreneur figure out how to turn their dreams into reality? Just take a step into the Shrimp Tank. The Shrimp Tank brings you interviews with some of the most successful business owners in the United States to learn the do’s and don’ts of starting and running a successful business. Then, the fun really starts when we bring in high school and college students to pitch their business ideas to the Shrimp Tank. We don’t fund any business, but we do teach kids how to turn their business ideas into a successful business.

Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks, Ted Jenkin and Lee Heisman

 

Jeff Jahn / DynamiX
Founder

Jeff Jahn founded DynamiX in 2005 as a college sophomore. Today it’s one of the most respected website development and software companies in the world, having been recognized with more than 585 awards in just the past three years. More importantly, DynamiX has created significant bottom line improvement for hundreds of amazing local, national and international businesses. DynamiX was named a 2016 Top 25 Small Business, and Jeff was recently recognized as one of three finalists in the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Small Business Person of the Year awards, in the experienced entrepreneur category.

In addition to DynamiX, Jeff has founded, or co-founded, five companies, including the world’s first neighborhood-based social media platform. He has contributed to Forbes, Inc. and Huffington Post, among others, and is a regular speaker on entrepreneurship and digital technologies.

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Biz Radio U Featuring Stephanie Carvajalino with Chococar and Quality Line

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Stephanie Carvajalino / Chococar / Quality Line
Co-Founder and Motivational Speaker

Stephanie was born in Columbia, and at the age of six, Stephanie, along with her sisters and $15, founded Chococar, “a home-based company that produced and sold chocolates.” She gave her first lecture at a private university when she was nine, and this started her career as a motivational speaker. Around this same time, Stephanie and her sister founded Quality Line, a speaking and training company that helps serve anybody who strives to succeed, lead, and start a business. When she was 13, she wrote and published a book with her sister, called Parents and Coaches, which helps parents know how to raise and nurture an entrepreneur. In 2012, her family started an investment group that branches into different industries. Now at age 20, she is going to school at Kennesaw State University and still managing her many businesses abroad.

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