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Samrat Sharma with PwC Strategy, Chris Godfrey with Buckhead Business Association and Author Chris Butsch

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Samrat Sharma / PwC Strategy&
Principal

Samrat Sharma is an advisor to executives in the consumer and retail sectors for Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business.

Mr. Sharma is a recognized thought leader and has several publications to his credit, including “Creating an Organic Growth Machine,” which appeared in the Harvard Business Review, “Escaping the Consolidation Mentality in CPG” and “Shaping Category Dynamics to Win in CPG” in strategy+business magazine. He has also written and contributed to many other s+b articles and viewpoints.

Prior to joining Strategy&, Mr. Sharma spent six years in marketing, business development, and strategy with Honeywell International and General Electric, and in executive search with Korn/Ferry International.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce, with Honors, from the University of Delhi, and an MBA in Strategy, Marketing, Finance and International Business from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Chris Butsch / The Millenial’s Guide to Making Happiness
Author

Chris Butsch is Atlanta Business Radio’s “Millennial Correspondent.” Author of The Millennial’s Guide to Making Happiness, Chris educates other generations on how to decrypt and connect with his unique generation.

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Chris Godfrey / Buckhead Business Association
President-Elect

Chris Godfrey joined Avison Young’s Office Advisory Team as an Associate in the fall of 2015. He is a Metro-Atlanta native, and a graduate of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Chris focuses on creating relationships with clients and learning about their culture so he can provide innovative solutions to positively impact organizations and grow talent retention. Chris has served as president of the Buckhead Business Association’s young professional group where the pillars focus on leadership, philanthropy and connecting others. He is involved with the Metro Atlanta Chamber and has served on several committees, helping provide insight into the commercial real estate needs of the city and how it aligns with the talent pool.

As Atlanta continues to be an international beacon where hospitality meets hustle, Chris is at the forefront of helping organizations with their real estate strategies to meet the needs of what will soon be the largest group of employed talent, the Millennials. His unique background provides an advantage to clients as he can focus on their needs, bridging their real estate and people.

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James Lloyd with TITLE Boxing Club

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James Lloyd / TITLE Boxing Club
Franchise Development Manager

James LloydJames Lloyd started his career at TITLE Boxing Club back in 2009, working on the front lines of the franchise business as a trainer, assistant manager and eventual general manager of the original, and first, TITLE Boxing Club in the country in Overland Park, KS.  Working every position in the business allowed James to see the real needs of the business through multiple channels, and in 2011 he became a franchise owner himself.   His career path shifted when current CEO John Rotche purchased part of the company in 2012 and asked James to move to Ann Arbor, MI in order to build out a new corporate location.  Over the last 5 years James has served in various roles for the company, from a regional director of franchise operations, to his current position as a franchise development manager.   Today James uses his in-depth knowledge of the TITLE Boxing Club franchise system to help individuals achieve lifelong goals and embark on the path of franchise ownership.

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Kurt and Kyle Sobotka with Prime Technical Services, Jeffrey Stepakoff with Georgia Film Academy and Author Chris Butsch

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Kurt and Kyle Sobotka / Prime Technical Services
President and Co-Founder

Kurt Sobotka started Prime Technical Services with his twin brother Kyle in 2014.  Prime Technical Services is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned small business supporting customers in the private and public sectors.  Prime has been selected as a finalist for this year’s Pacesetter Awards in being one of the fastest growing privately held companies in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

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Jeffrey Stepakoff / Georgia Film Academy
Executive Director

Jeffrey Stepakoff was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He is an accomplished writer-producer and an experienced academic, with a twenty-eight year entertainment industry career that includes sweeping internationally-recognized credits, leadership roles in content creation and production management, and a track record of collaboration, innovation, and success in virtually all forms of commercial media.

After earning a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and then completing his Masters of Fine Arts in Playwriting at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, Stepakoff moved to Hollywood and began writing and producing film, television and digital entertainment. He has “written by” or “story by” credits on thirty-seven television episodes, has written for fifteen different series, and has been a writer and/or writer-producer on eight prime time, or first-run cable staffs. He’s been credited on more than two hundred episodes of popular television. TV credits for which he is most known include the Emmy-winning The Wonder Years, Sisters, Wild Card, Hyperion Bay, The Magic School, C16:FBI, Robin’s Hoods, Land’s End, Flipper, Sons & Daughters, Major Dad, The Yakov Smirnoff Show, Beauty & the Beast, Have Faith, Simon & Simon, and Dawson’s Creek, where he was Co-Executive Producer. Until July 2015, he worked as the Co-Executive Producer of Chasing Life for ABC Family.

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Chris Butsch / The Millenial’s Guide to Making Happiness
Author

Chris Butsch is Atlanta Business Radio’s “Millennial Correspondent.” Author of The Millennial’s Guide to Making Happiness, Chris educates other generations on how to decrypt and connect with his unique generation.

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Pat Falotico with The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, Yves Neidlinger with CulinaryLocal and Drew Dawson with The Headshot Truck

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Pat Falotico / The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
CEO

Patricia Falotico is the CEO of the Robert K Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Founded in 1964 by Robert Greenleaf, the Center advances the philosophy and practice of Servant Leadership which enriches individuals, builds better organizations and ultimately creates a better more caring society. The ultimate measure of success for a servant leader is how those served grow.

Pat retired from IBM following 31 years leading a broad range of projects including technical sales, sales management, service business development, software distribution, marketing and development of business partner relationships on the local, regional, national and international level. She served as IBM’s Senior State Executive for Georgia and Senior Location Executive for Atlanta; providing leadership for IBM in the community and across the state, linking Corporate Citizenship and Employee Engagement activities with strategic IBM initiatives.

Pat is active is several civic organizations and is committed to ensuring that all students have the opportunity to get a high quality education which enables them to becoming contributing members of society. She currently chairs on the United Way of Greater Atlanta’s Community Engagement Council and is an active alumn and volunteer of Leadership Atlanta. Pat mentors emerging women leaders through Pathbuilders’ Achieva program.

Pat holds a B.S. in math and computer science from Manhattan College. Originally from New York, Pat now lives in Marietta, Georgia with her family.

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Yves Neidlinger / CulinaryLocal
President and CEO

Yves Neidlinger has worked in sales and marketing for technology companies for the past twenty years. He is an amateur chef and has 11 years experience working in the hospitality industry, including as the founder and CEO of CulinaryLocal.

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Drew Dawson / The Headshot Truck
Photography Director

Drew Dawson is a Georgia native from Coweta County. Sharpsburg to be exact, which is where the The Walking Dead is filmed. Drew pursued a career in photography for 8 years in Los Angeles, learning and working with the top photographers in the business.

Drew mentored with, and learned to shoot from Adam Hendershott, a close friend and Co-Founder of the Headshot Truck. Drew joined The Headshot Truck after years of working for other photographers and freelancing in some pretty fantastic locations, like Hawaii, Alaska, and… Delaware. Drew left his home in rainy Seattle for sunny Los Angeles and has been with the Truck ever since, partnering up with the company to have a third truck brought to Atlanta.

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

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Hosted by Adam Wozniak and Darren Parkinson

 

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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Neighborhood Business Radio Episode 2

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Jalal Lewis / Rolling Shades Painting

Born in Dayton, Ohio, Jalal Lewis was taught to be a leader at a young age. Jalal always considered himself to be an opportunist, and sold candy and mowed lawns in middle school to make money. In high school, he picked up painting and his ambition developed and transformed into an entrepreneurial venture that inspired him to start Rolling Shades Painting with his own capital.

The company’s goal is to make their clients happy and satisfied through their excellent service. With their commercial and residential painting services, Rolling Shades Painting gives your home and business establishment a new shade of color, and makes it a comfortable place to stay in.

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Stephanie Carvajalino / Cookies and Cookies

Stephanie Carvajalino is a young Colombian entrepreneur, author, trainer, motivational speaker, practitioner of Neuro-linguistic Programming, and investor. She started doing business with her sisters with $15 when she was 6 years old and founded Chococar, a home-based company that produced and sold chocolates.

When she was 9 years old, Stephanie gave her first lecture in a private university and started her career as a motivational speaker. She discovered a strong passion for fostering entrepreneurial spirit in young people and energizing individuals to achieve their best potential. Stephanie and her sisters also founded Quality Line, a groundbreaking speaking and training company that serves corporations, educators, students, parents and entrepreneurs. They have been able to reach and impact the lives of thousands of people with their message of success, leadership and entrepreneurship.

In 2009, at age 13, Stephanie, along with her sisters, published Parents and Coaches, a book that provides parents with very helpful and essential information on how to raise an entrepreneur. In 2012, they created a family investment group that operates in different industries. Today, Stephanie is 20 years old, and in addition to running her businesses, she is a crafting a revolutionary entrepreneurship education program for high school students that will be launched in the near future.

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Brandon Smith On March Madness — Businesses Should Embrace the Bracket

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Brandon Smith / Emory University’s Goizueta Business School
Professor, Workplace Health

Brandon Smith is a leading expert in workplace health and dysfunction. He currently serves as faculty at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School where he teaches and researches on topics related to healthy workplace dynamics, leadership and communication.

He is the founder of www.theworkplacetherapist.com – a resource dedicated to eliminating dysfunction at work, improving workplace health and restoring a sense of optimism and hope in the workplace.

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Neighborhood Business Radio Episode 1

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Anton Watt / Networth Realty
Wholesale Real Estate Salesman

A licensed agent with Networth Realty of Atlanta 2 years of combined experience. An unsurpassed level of market knowledge, contacts in the industry, and exceptional wholesale opportunities. He knows exactly He conducts business in the most honest, professional, and friendly way. The deal is never done until our investors are fully satisfied and we see to it with the utmost integrity and top-of-the-line customer service.

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Shari Morris / Law Office of Shari Morris, LLC

Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Shari’ Morris developed a passion for the law at the very tender age of nine. Her passion and interest stemmed from her personal experience of going through the aftermath of her parents’ divorce and a difficult child custody and support battle. The experience fueled her desire to not only educate but also to counsel and guide her clients through the stress of difficult matters with the utmost of ease. Throughout the years of practice, Shari’ has represented clients with difficult divorces, child support matters as well as heavily contested child custody disputes; all of which have resulted in the most favorable outcome for her clients as well as ensuring the child’s interest were considerably safeguarded.

Attorney Morris has been a resident of Georgia since 2013. She has been a practicing attorney for five years and she has been a solo practitioner since August 2016. She is licensed in three states(Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi). Her specific practice areas of law are Family Law and Personal Injury Law.

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Digital Marketing Series Episode 7

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Raychel Leong-Sullins / Maid Simple House Cleaning
VP of Operations

Raychel Sullins has been a part of Maid Brigade, Inc., since 1999. Her most recent position as VP of Operations, has provided the opportunity to oversee the Maid Simple concept since the first franchise opened in 2012. Raychel has worked in all aspects of the Maid Simple model, including new franchisee acquisition. Working with the franchise development team, Raychel assisted in locating and selecting AIS Media to be the SEM vendor for Maid Simple.

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Thomas Harpointner (Co-Host) / AIS Media

Thomas Harpointner is founder & CEO of AIS Media, Inc., an Atlanta-based, award-winning digital marketing firm. Thomas is a recognized subject matter expert on digital marketing strategy development and execution.

Thomas has served as a keynote speaker at trade organizations, conferences, and corporate events. He has appeared on Fox Business, Bloomberg Television, CNN Radio, CNBC, The Advertising Show, The Today Show and many other TV and radio programs. He’s been featured in publications such as Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, CFO, AJC, Fortune, and Wired.

At AIS Media, Thomas consults executives at leading companies on digital strategy. He’s led hundreds of digital marketing initiatives for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations such as AT&T, Synovus Financial, Emory Healthcare, Wake Forest Innovations, Pfizer, and Maui Jim Sunglasses. Under his leadership, AIS Media has been recognized with dozens of prestigious industry awards.

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David Sheehan with Robert Half Technology, Margaret Lisi with ST!R Marketing and Author Chris Butsch

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David Sheehan / Robert Half Technology
Branch Manager

David Sheehan is branch manager of sales and recruiting for 2 divisions within Robert Half, including The Creative Group and Robert Half Technology. His practice areas include contract, direct hire, consulting, freelance. David’s specialties include UX/UI, design, development, e-commerce, advertising, creative, social media, digital,  and ERP. He finds jobs for technology professionals that consist of software developers, project managers, database specialists, networking and infrastructure specialists, and help desk support professionals.

Robert Half Technology is a leading provider of skilled IT professionals, specializing in consulting services on a project or full-time basis. A combination of online recruiting activities for job seekers and personalized service enables us to identify and provide the talent our clients need – when they need it most. For more information about Robert Half Technology, please visit our website at rht.com.

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Margaret Lisi / ST!R Marketing
Owner

Margaret Lisi owns ST!R Marketing, a communications firm devoted to helping clients define and tell their stories to create a bond between people and business. A combination of disruptor, guide, corporate anthropologist and culture builder, Margaret uses these skills to help companies understand where they are and where they want to go, driving engagement, awareness and loyalty along the way.

Her expertise is around building dimensional programs of work for clients—whether it’s around a new or revitalized brand, changes to people, processes or technology, or simply building a strong culture. A constant learner, she’s touched virtually every aspect of communications and marketing, so she can see how to maximize the impact of a program on employees, customers and partners.

Margaret’s clients have ranged from major corporations to nonprofits and universities. She also has been committed to community service, serving on at least one nonprofit board at almost every point in her career.

Her efforts have resulted in successful marketing and advertising campaigns, millions of dollars in unearned media, and public speaking engagements on what she does and how she does it successfully.

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Chris Butsch / The Millennial’s Guide to Making Happiness
Millennial Correspondent

Chris Butsch is BRX’s official Millennial Correspondent. A Millennial workplace and psychology expert, Chris published The Millennial’s Guide to Making Happiness in January 2017 and now works to reconnect Baby Boomers and Millennials.