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Shene Commodore/ Commodore Consulting

Ms. Commodore enjoys serving as a consultant, speaker, industry spokesperson, mentor, author and media host.

For over 20 years of Ms. Commodore has helped businesses of all sizes in the government and commercial sectors manage contracts and prepare proposals.  She founded Commodore Consulting, LLC in 2002 to provide proposal writing, strategic planning, procurement training, & acquisition assessments. In 2014, Ms. Commodore was awarded the SIA Statesman Award for her leadership contribution to address the public policy challenges impacting the electronic physical security industry.  Ms. Commodore provided expert testimony for Congress and helped draft new legislation on Acquisition Planning for TSA. As a certified professional contract manager (CPCM), she has in-depth knowledge of the FAR, advanced skills to draft and negotiate complex contract and proposal language, pricing, program management, as well as providing GSA schedule services.  She has helped win and manage more than $4 billion dollars in government contract awards in IT, healthcare, and engineering.

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Sabrina Lowery was born and raised by a single mother in Elizabeth,NJ. She graduated from North Miami Senior High School, where she was voted “Most Likely To Succeed” by her High School classmates and graduated with Honors in the Top 10% of her Class. She has always had an Entrepreneurial spirit and worked her way through college. Sabrina has an Undergraduate degree in Computers & Information Systems from the University of Florida. She is a “Geek” for Technology (always embracing current trends in Technology for Business); and, calls herself a “Technology Evangelist” whose mission is to empower others through Technology and educate everyone on how to pursue greatness in every aspect of life. After graduating college, she relocated to Atlanta in 1996, and has called Smyrna/Vinings her home for 18 years. She has over 25 years of Professional I.T. experience in Corporate America. After a rewarding 7 year career working as a Senior Computer Programmer/Analyst for Carter’s Childrenswear in Griffin, GA. Sabrina began her Real Estate Career as an Independent Contractor/REALTOR with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in 2003. She quickly ranked among the Top Sales Agents in her office, and in 2006, she became an Associate Broker with the same firm. Sabrina’s leadership and exceptional Sales and Marketing experience has consistently generated multi­million dollar annual sales volume in her Real Estate Business. She was the Co­Founder/Partner and Qualifying Broker of Maximum One Realty & Management (a subsidiary of Maximum One Greater Atlanta Realtors) in 2011. In 2012, Sabrina founded her own Real Estate Boutique, Legacy Realty & Management, LLC, which is a full service, Residential & Commercial Real Estate Sales, Leasing & Property Management Brokerage headquartered in Vinings (Atlanta), GA. There she has trained, inspired and motivated her Team of Professional REALTORS into Sales, Leasing & Professional Property Management Businesses for themselves. She teaches accredited G.R.E.C. (Georgia Real Estate Commission) Georgia Real Estate Contracts, Leases, and How to Successfully operate a Property Management division of their Real Estate businesses. Sabrina has successfully transacted thousands of real estate sales closings (including Short Sales) generating multi­million dollar sales volume annually in her 12 year career. Sabrina has also transacted thousands of Leases, and also provides Professional, Full Service Property Management services for Residential & Commercial properties throughout the State of Georgia. Sabrina’s mission is to inspire and educate fellow REALTORS by giving them the technology tools to be productive and profitable, by embracing technology, and incorporating Social Media in their respective businesses. Sabrina’s Coaching Program “Legacy MasterMinds” is available to Realtors looking to take their businesses to the next level. Her 1st publication will debut as an eBook in the 1st quarter of 2015. Sabrina’s company’s mission at Legacy Realty & Management is to leave a legacy for every family through Home Ownership and Real Estate Investing.

 

Special Edition: Cobb County

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Desmond Williams and Brad Grimes / Top Scholar

Top Scholar is a learning management system for grades K-12. It is easy to use, engaging and powerful cloud based system for both teachers and students to assist in reaching new levels in education. Key features include classroom management, assignments, analytics, messaging system, calendar and pre loaded content including over 4,000 textbooks, videos and practice standardized test questions.

Desmond Williams is VP of Sales and Business Development focused on initiatives in the public and private education sector, as well as corporate partnerships targeting programs that create value in key communities. Prior to joining Top Scholar, Desmond spent thirty-four years in the technology industry in various sales, engineering and management roles with manufacturing, consulting and service provider companies.

With a background in sales and marketing, Brad Grimes advises businesses, organizations, and individuals on how to use marketing and social media to build relationships and deliver value. Brad works closely with the sales team and manages the marketing team, creating a synergistic bridge of operations.

 

 

Special Edition: Cobb County

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Joseph Malbrough / The UPS Store

Joseph Malbrough owns and operates The UPS Store Cumberland Galleria in Smyrna, Georgia. He has over 20+ years in business development roles at The Metro Atlanta Chamber, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, Entrepreneur Advisors and Motorola Communications.

Joseph is Past President of the Smyrna Business Association and Chairs the Smyrna Business Expo. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Coalition of Cobb County Business Associations, The Campbell High IB Foundation and Chairs the Antioch Christian Entrepreneurs.

A native of Beaumont, Texas, he received a Bachelor of Communications degree from Lamar University. He and his wife Cara are active members of Antioch Baptist North and reside in Smyrna with their sons Evan and Jared.

 

 

Special Edition: “Mompreneurs” with Lenise Williams

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Lenise Williams / Attorney Twitter Facebook

Lenise Williams is a mother, entrepreneur educator, Small Business Attorney and Business Consultant. She provides female entrepreneurs with legal and business consulting to navigate them through the challenges of launching their business and building a lucrative brand. She also assists entrepreneurs in protecting their brand through proper legal agreements, federal protection through trademark and copyright, investor agreements, contract review, legal formation and much more.

Lenise also provides resources and guides to the aspiring and existing entrepreneur. She travels nationally speaking to women about building and growing their own business. Her goal is to launch 1,000 women into entrepreneurship over the next 3 years. She further seeks to aid an additional 500 female owned businesses with expanding their business & their income.

Janelle Perilliat / Mother Hustler Linkedin Twitter Facebook

Janelle Perrilliat is a single mother to a tween son, blogger at MotherHustler.com, owner of Joonie & Jake’s Face and Body Art, and Contract Manager at an Atlanta based law firm. Janelle launched MotherHustler.com as a platform for modern moms to share information, encourage philanthropy, and inspire each other! She has worked in the field of real estate law at the Atlanta based firm, McCalla Raymer, LLC for the past 13 years. Nurturing her passion for children and the arts, she spends most weekends as a face painter and much of her free time volunteering with various non-profits in the Atlanta area.

Shanicia Boswell / Yeyo’s Organic Body Products Linkedin Twitter Facebook instagram

Shanicia Boswell is Owner & Founder of Yeyo’s Organic Body Products, the newest revolution to organic skincare. Her company provides alternatives to the chemically ridden products and forces consumers to confront the fact that no matter how healthy you eat, your skin still absorbs everything you apply topically. “Feed your skin something good!”

Kelly Sirois / Atlanta Hollywood Entertainment & PR Linkedin Twitter Facebook

Kelly T. Sirois is a Digital Marketing and PR Specialist with a focus in entertainment industry. She is owner and president of AtlantaHollywood.com, an online hub for talent. Kelly has over 30 years experience in the Entertainment Industry and applies that experience towards helping her 2 children break into the into the music industry and YouTube world. Kelly has her BA in Film and Video Production and minor in marketing leaving her with the creative skills and business sense to build an entertainment empire in Atlanta.

Kelly works directly through referrals and is often presented with marketing opportunities for small businesses. Her niche is with Entertainers and Real Estate.

Kelly is married to her husband Jim Sirois. They have been together for 14 years. Kelly’s has two children, and is “momager” to Garland and Devan, both are students working in the entertainment industry.

Cheri Flake / The Stress Therapist for Moms Linkedin Twitter Facebook

Cheri Augustine Flake is The Stress Therapist for Moms. She believes that creating healthy habits is the key to stress reduction and happy living and has made this belief the focus of her private practice. In a high energy and engaging style, Cheri teaches her clients and workshop attendees how to work on establishing long-term change and healthy habits without stress, procrastination or excuses. The result is that clients not only generate motivation, but are able to sustain it for the long-term.

“Moms that are consistently doing whatever makes their heart sing, are happier moms. This instills a value that is more likely to be passed on to our kids.”

“One thing I know about kids is they don’t always do what we tell them to…they more likely do what they see us doing.”

“So, how can we expect our kids to go for their dreams when we’re not even thinking about ours?”

As a mother of two small children, Cheri understands firsthand how stressful and hard it can be to live your life and be a mom. Cheri believes that performing, recording and touring with Atlanta pop band 13 Stories for 12 years prior to becoming a mom, actually helped prepare her for her journey into motherhood. To the benefit of her clientele, the marriage of all of these experiences prompted a recent decision to focus on serving the mommy community — Because Cheri truly believes that every mom is a rock star.

Cheri is currently working on her forthcoming book entitled, “Be A Rock Star Mom: Be Cool, Keep Your Cool and Make Music Among Mayhem”

Cheri Augustine Flake is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 20 years of experience helping people in the Atlanta area. Cheri has worked as a social worker and therapist in numerous settings including inpatient, outpatient, pharmaceutical research, and private practice. Her training includes Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Michigan State University, and a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Georgia. Cheri is also a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist as well as a Certified Distance Credentialed Counselor. Cheri is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers, the National Association of Social Workers, the Georgia Society of Clinical Social Work and the International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapy.

 

 

Rebecca Rogers Tijerino with The Intersect Group, Michael Giglio with Georgia Life Settlements, Joe Lindenmayer with TSS Photography and Attorney Lenise Williams

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Rebecca Rogers Tijerino / The Intersect Group Linkedin Twitter Facebook

As Chief Executive Officer, Rebecca focuses The Intersect Group’s vision, empowers our capabilities, and drives sales and operational disciplines on a day to day basis.

Prior to her appointment as CEO at The Intersect Group, Rebecca was CEO of Astadia, a leading, global provider of innovative business and technology solutions with expertise in delivering full software development lifecycle and infrastructure solutions in several key areas of digital strategy, marketing automation, design, application development, application management, infrastructure services, and customer support.

Rebecca was previously with Adecco Group NA, where she began as Senior Vice President and rose to Chief Sales Officer for Adecco Staffing U.S., a leading National and International firm, where she served in a variety of leadership roles in Account Sales and Management, Alternative Delivery, Implementation, and Supplier Diversity. Prior to Adecco, Rebecca served as Chief Sales Officer with SeatonCorp, and as Vice President of Business Development and Principal for the ProStaff group of companies.

Rebecca holds bachelor’s degrees in business administration and psychology from Carroll University in Wisconsin.

Michael Giglio / Georgia Life Settlements

Michael Giglio is the owner of Georgia Life Settlements, LLC located in Milton, Georgia. Georgia Life Settlements offers life settlement services to seniors in North Fulton county. A life settlement is the sale of a life insurance policy on behalf of a senior, to a third party, for more than the policy’s cash surrender value. On average, life settlements return many times more cash than a policies cash surrender value and is a great option for seniors who plan to surrender or lapse their life insurance policies. The Georgia Life Settlements team has two decades of experience brokering nearly 24,000 policies with a face value of approximately $1 billion. Leveraging an innovative life settlement exchange, Georgia Life Settlements provides its clients access to more than 20 institutional investors who compete to purchase their policies. The outcome is a competitive bidding process that drives up the commercial value of a client’s life insurance policy. Michael is also a licensed life, accident, and sickness agent. He has partnered with the Crump Insurance Group, one of the largest brokers of insurance products in the United States. Michael enjoys helping individuals and families address their life, disability and long term care insurance needs. Michael is a 29 year veteran of the United States Coast Guard. He commanded several ships, was the chief of the Coast Guard’s Office of Law Enforcement, and served as a member of the National Security Council staff. Michael is a current member of American Legion Post 201 in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Joe Lindenmayer / TSS Photography Linkedin

Employment & Volunteer Activity:  COO/President TSS Photography 2006 – Present  Chairman IFA’s VetFran Committee 2012 – Present  CEO/President Young Masters, Inc. 2008 – 2014  Vice President – Sales TSS Photography, Inc. 2000 – 2006  Board of Directors KV Foundation 2005 – Present  Vice-Chair Southeast Franchise Forum 2012 – Present  President, Berkeley Hills CC Board of Governors – 2006-2008; 2013 – Present

Education: West Canada Valley Central School  B.S. – Oneonta State University, NY  United States Marine Corps 1988 – 1996 (Active Duty & Reserves), Operation Desert Storm Veteran
Family: Wife Kristen, Daughter Riley. Youngest of 7 children (6 boys & 1 girl)

Lenise Williams / Attorney Twitter Facebook

Lenise Williams is a mother, entrepreneur educator, Small Business Attorney and Business Consultant. She provides female entrepreneurs with legal and business consulting to navigate them through the challenges of launching their business and building a lucrative brand. She also assists entrepreneurs in protecting their brand through proper legal agreements, federal protection through trademark and copyright, investor agreements, contract review, legal formation and much more.

Lenise also provides resources and guides to the aspiring and existing entrepreneur. She travels nationally speaking to women about building and growing their own business. Her goal is to launch 1,000 women into entrepreneurship over the next 3 years. She further seeks to aid an additional 500 female owned businesses with expanding their business & their income.