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Month: February 2016

Symmetrics Group, LifePlan Financial Advisors, Inc. and SCOUT

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Micael Perla, Warren Shiver, Gwen Garrison, Mark Goldman and Cheryl Maher

 

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Managing Partner (Warren); Principal (Michael)/Symmetrics Group 

Warren Shiver and Michael Perla are the authors of 7 STEPS TO SALES FORCE TRANSFORMATION: Driving Sustainable Change in Your Organization (Palgrave MacMillan). Warren Shiver is the Founder and Managing Partner of Symmetrics Group (www.symmetricsgroup.com)and has more than 20 years of sales, management and consulting experience. Michael Perla is a Principal with Symmetrics Group, and has more than 20 years of sales effectiveness consulting and strategic marketing experience.

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Gwen Garrison/LifePlan Financial Advisors

Now with 16 years experience in financial planning and investments, Gwen Garrison enjoys being a guide for the journey to her clients. She helps them move towards the life they want to create with their current assets and income. She helps them identify and work towards their financial goals, and take steps to help protect their wealth from taxes and risks. She helps people faced with the problems and opportunities of sudden wealth from receiving retirement plan assets, life insurance benefits, lottery winnings, lawsuit settlements or divorce.
Gwen has been involved with helping people reach their goals for most of her working life. Gwen graduated magna cum laude from University of Georgia with a degree in communications, then focused on marketing communications for the next 18 years. She worked primarily for advertising and public relations firms, and then became a business owner in 1987. To adapt to the needs of her young children, she then shifted from healthcare and technology marketing into direct sales of medical products, then to medical and life insurance. Before transitioning to financial services, Gwen was a divisional manager for National Health Insurance, where she consistently placed in the top 10% of representatives in the country.

Gwen lives in Newnan, GA with her husband, Nick. She has raised three adult daughters, primarily as a single parent. Her community involvement includes serving as worship assistant for Christ Our Shepherd Lutheran Church, and a ministry for families affected by alcoholism. Gwen is a member of the Newnan Coweta Chamber of Commerce. She also has served her community through the Rotary Club of Peachtree City, American Business Womens Association, Peachtree City United Methodist Church, McIntosh High School, and Booth Middle School. She volunteered with the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce and has been Chair of the Board of Trustees for Providence United Methodist Church, where she also has taught adult Sunday school. Gwen has three beautiful grandchildren and will brag on them at any opportunity.

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Office 678-364-9677. Cell 770-853-8456

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Mark Goldman & Cheryl Maher/SCOUT
President/Sr. VP Director of Client Services

Mark is the President of SCOUTs Consumer and B2B Division and former CMO of Viking Range Corporation. In 1994, he
co-founded an integrated marketing services firm called 360, earning the distinction of Inc Magazines Top 200 fastest growing US companies in 1996. In 2002, he sold the 8 year old agency to Grey Global Group and became the president of Grey/Atlanta, before moving to SCOUT.

He is passionate about the arts and served 6 years on the board of The Metro Atlanta Arts Fund. Today he serves on the boards of The Atlanta Ballet, Arts ATL and Atlanta Celebrates Photography. He was, for three years, intimately involved with the TJ Martell Foundation dedicated to eradicating childhood leukemia.

As SVP, Director of Client Services at Scout, Cheryls responsibilities include leading the client management department as well as development of innovative products/services and partnerships. Passionate about professional development, Cheryl also heads up the Leadership Development program for SCOUTs Consumer Division.

Most recently Cheryl has led initiatives to bring new innovative services to SCOUTs clients, from a proprietary research panel to a content studio, she continues to focus on innovation and improve the way we arrive at meaningful consumer insights. Prior to SCOUT, Cheryl held senior positions in Atlanta and New York.

Outside of Scout, Cheryl lives with her husband, two kids and her dog Ivy in Peachtree Hills. She is a yogi and a health food nut.

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Exclusive with “UNSTOPPABLE” Kelly Roach

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Unstoppable: 9 Principles For Unlimited Success In Business & Life

 

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Kelly Roach/Kelly Roach Coaching
Founder & CEO

Kelly Roach is an NFL Cheerleader and Fortune 500 Executive turned CEO, Million Dollar Marketing Mentor and Author of her upcoming book, UNSTOPPABLE: Nine Principles for Unlimited Success in Business and in Life. She helps individuals, businesses and entrepreneurs skyrocket productivity, growth and income. She is also the host of top-rated podcast, Unstoppable Success Radio on ITunes and Sticher. Kelly focuses heavily on exercise integration, personal development, and key healthy living rituals to help her clients achieve sustainable business success couple with a fulfilling freedom based lifestyle.

 

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610-910-3600 or 1-800-230-9115

 

 

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Spotlight Episode Featuring Veteran Entrepreneurs; Veterans Connect Radio

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Veterans Connect Radio

 

A spotlight episode of Atlanta Business Radio Co-Hosted by Ryan “Redhawk” McPherson with Business RadioX and Brandon Skolnick with Gathering Of Angels featuring military veteran entrepreneurs in the Atlanta area continuing to serve our families, our communities and our country. 

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Left to Right; Ryan Redhawk, Brandon Skolnick, Edgard Sanchez and Samir Patel

 

 

 

 

 

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Edgard Sanchez and Samir Patel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Samir Patel/Mobilization Capital

Samir Patel is an Atlanta native. He graduated from West Point (2008) and served in numerous leadership positions with the US Army to include platoon leader, commander, chief of operations and a procurement/contracting official.  He has deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.  He’s part of an investment group and his current focus is on building  Mobilization Capital. This company solves some of the most challenging cash-flow issues facing government contractors.
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Edgard Sanchez/C’est Tout Bon 2 Eat

Edgard Abraham Sanchez (45) – Born and raised in New Orleans, LA. The youngest of 4. Learning my way around the kitchen started at an early age with my mother  cooking up meals from my mom and dad’s native land, Nicaragua. I Started working at Mandinas Restaurant in New Orleans at age 15 and picked up some Cajun and Creole cooking till I enlisted the United States Marine Corps at 18. Caught in a drawdown, I was forced out of the Marines after four years and I reluctantly crossed over into the U.S. Army where i continued to be an infantryman. At my 12 year mark my body had taken all that it could after sustaining injuries from a mine-strike in Bosnia. A med board convened and I was instructed to reclassify or get out. I reclassified into supply and logistics and finally retired after an illustrious 22 year career. Upon retirement in 2011 I drove through Atlanta (to see my high school crush) enroute to a GS job I had accepted in Tallahassee, FL. In 2012 I moved to Atlanta after commuting to Atlanta every other week. 2013 married Angel, my high school crush, started working in a warehouse as the inventory assistant to who is now my partner, Milton Mouzon. In 2014 graduated from Kennesaw State University’s Culinary Apprenticeship Program and The Entrepreneurial Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities held at Cornell University. Started C’est Tout Bon 2 Eat in November 2014.
I have 2 daughters from a previous marriage Brittany (23) and Hailey (20).

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Chris Everett with Captivate Search Marketing

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Chris Everett/Captivate Search Marketing
President

Chris is a veteran search engine marketing consultant with nearly a decade of industry experience using both organic and paid strategies to assist brands of all shapes and sizes grow revenues through increased online visibility. Chris has a proven track record planning and executing complex search engine marketing campaigns with varying target audiences and conversion types.

Chris has developed ROI producing SEO/SEM campaigns for brands such as Park N Fly, Bayer Cropscience, The National Society of High School Scholars, and dozens of small to medium sized businesses across the United States.

Google Adwords and Analytics certified, Chris is member of Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO), and his search experience spans a wide variety of industries including education, healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, and e-commerce.

In addition to growing the Captivate Search Marketing business, Chris is an active board member of Rebuilding Together Atlanta (RTA). RTA is a non-profit organization rehabilitating the homes of Atlanta’s underserved elderly, handicapped and military veteran populations and their families.

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Captivate Search Marketing is an interactive search engine marketing agency serving Atlanta, Georgia and Jacksonville, Florida,

 

 

 

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The Shrimp Tank Featuring Mike Russell with ETS Solutions

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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.

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Mike Russell/ETS Solutions
Founder

11263064_1590122594581068_8926286324631199718_nMike has a B.S. Degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MBA in Accounting & Finance degree from Kennesaw State University. Mike took his experience managing companies and law firms and formed Elite Telecom Services in 2002, re-branding his company to ETS Solutions in 2014 to include Cloud Services.

 

 

 

 

 

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Ted Jenkin/Oxygen Financial
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Ted Jenkin has spent the past 22 years giving personal financial advice to thousands of people across the United States. After graduating from Boston College in 1991, Ted spent more than 16 years working for American Express Financial Advisors/Ameriprise Financial. He was one of the youngest people in the history of the company to reach both Field Vice President and Group Vice President level. He managed more than 800 financial advisors throughout 8 states in his last position with the company. He won the premier performer award, leader of the year award, and had the number one office in the country for more than two years in a row. In 2008, Ted founded oXYGen Financial to help revolutionize the financial services industry by creating a new company that focused on serving the X and Y Generation. oXYGen Financial now has more than 1,700 clients throughout 25 states across the country. Ted has been featured in over 25 magazines and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and The Huffington Post. He has six advanced designations from the College for Financial Planning (CFP®, CRPC®, CRPS®, AWMA®, AAMS®, CMFC®) and is an on air radio personality featured on the popular drive time Atlanta radio show The Rock 100.5 Morning Show on Rock 100.5 FM. Ted lives in Milton, GA with his wife Genna and three kids Olivia, Lyla, and Louden.

 

 

 

 Chris Hanks/ KSU EC
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ChrisHanksChristopher C. Hanks is the founder and executive director of the KSU Entrepreneurship Center. Prior to this, Hanks was the founder and director of the entrepreneurship program at the University of Georgia. He has owned multiple businesses, including music, e-commerce, publishing, and export ventures. He is also the co-author of a best-selling book on low risk entrepreneurship.

Hanks leads the International Entrepreneurship Institute and is certified in business valuation, providing expert witness testimony. Before teaching at UGA, Hanks taught entrepreneurship at Georgia State University and assisted in leading the Russell Center for Entrepreneurship. He earned a BBA from University of Georgia and an MBA from San Jose State University. Before launching his first business, Hanks held corporate risk management positions in the pharmaceutical and beverage industries.

 

 

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Mike Stark with American Financial Advisors, LLC and Josh Seides with Technocademy, Inc.

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Mike Stark/American Financial Advisors, LLC
Founder & CEO

RIA – Investment Advisor – 1991 to Present w/ over $500M under mgmt. — Marietta, GA HQ
Current Active Delta 767 Captain – 29 years – Atlanta based since 1987
Retired Marine Corps LtCol — Executive Officer of FA-18 squadron and Test Pilot @ VX-5 China Lake

 

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Josh Seides/Technocademy, Inc.
Founder & CEO

 

Josh Seides is a high school senior from Alpharetta High School in Atlanta. He is the Founder/CEO of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization called Technocademy, Inc. We help senior citizens and veterans connect with their family and friends by offering free technology lessons throughout the community. We have helped over 170K people learn technology and have spread awareness of digital illiteracy to over 18.3 million people through online campaigns. We have been featured in US News and World Report, Yahoo!, Entrepreneur, AllBusiness, and others.

Josh is a serial entrepreneur, startup adviser, and business writer. He’s published in 20+ major business publications, including Yahoo! Finance/Small Business/News, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Fast Company, Harvard JEI for research, and others.

 

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Exclusive Interview with Dean Erika James of Emory University Goizueta Business School

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Sandy Welfare Executive Director of WIT Atlanta and Ryan “Redhawk” McPherson talk with Dean Erika James of Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

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Goizueta has been ranked No. 1 in the world for MBA employment and among the world’s best for career opportunities. Additionally,  graduates are positively impacting the marketplace and our alumni, as they advance in their careers, continue to increase their influence worldwide.

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ErikaJamesErika James was appointed Dean of Goizueta Business School on May 19, 2014.  Prior to this prestigious appointment, James served as Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education at the Darden Graduate School of Business (Virginia). She introduced the Women’s Leadership Program at Darden, which has the top-ranked faculty for open enrollment programs (Financial Times, 2014). Open enrollment programs at Darden are currently ranked No. 3 in the world (Financial Times, 2014). James is a published researcher, award-winning educator, admired administrator, regarded speaker and proven consultant. Her expertise in workplace diversity and crisis leadership has led to recognition in scholarly journals and mainstream media. She has also taught and consulted on topics including decision making under pressure, trust and change management. James grew up in Texas and completed her undergraduate work at Pomona College (Calif.). While fulfilling coursework James started in the field of organizational psychology and pursued an M.A. and Ph.D. in the subject at the University of Michigan. She served as an assistant professor at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business and Emory before joining the faculty at Darden. James also spent a year as visiting professor at Harvard Business School. In more than a decade of service at Virginia, James worked in various roles including Associate Dean of Diversity — the first to hold the position. She was also course head for the MBA core organizational behavior course and served as area coordinator for the Leadership and Organization Behavior unit at Darden. For the university, James was a member of the executive council of the Faculty Senate.

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Sandy D. Welfare is the Executive Director of Women In Technology (WIT). Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of Cool Girls Inc, an award-winning early intervention after-school program dedicated to the empowerment of girls (2009-2015).

Sandy’s career began in 1989 in Greenwich, Connecticut where she joined Rand Insurance as the Controller. Six years later, she accepted a position with Lucent Technologies, an international telecommunications leader, holding a number of positions including serving as Accounting and Treasury Manager in Singapore (1999-2000) and then as Senior Manager in Australia and New Zealand (2000-2002). Sandy returned to Atlanta in 2002 as Senior Manager of Global Financial Services.

In 2003, Sandy accepted a position as Director of Operations for Xchanging, a business processing outsourcing company. In 2006, her career took her to London, England as Managing Director for professional services, where she managed global business processing services for bank financial transactions, insurance and retail.

Sandy received her undergraduate degree from St. John’s University in New York, and a Master of Business Administration from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. She serves on the board of several non-profits, including Kiwanis Club of Atlanta. Sandy resides in Marietta, Georgia with her husband, Cliff and son, Soloman.

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MAG Bookkeeping, The Vine Church and Promise686

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MAG Bookkeeping helps busy pastors and growing churches by serving as their virtual church bookkeeper connected to the duties of church accounting, payroll and donor management.Randy Ongie has been the President of MAG BK since 2013. He previously worked as a Project Consultant for, Cogun Inc., a national church construction company. Before his time at Cogun, he served as an Executive Pastor at Grace Fellowship Church in Johnson City, TN.
Ronna Roth is a Client Relations Manager at MAG Bookkeeping, and has served on the team since 2013.

David Walters is the Lead Pastor at The Vine Church, which has campuses in Hoschton, GA and Flowery Branch, GA.

Andy Cook is President and CEO of Promise686, a ministry that assists families and churches who care for vulnerable children by providing financial assistance, community support, and adoptive and foster care related education.

 

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Atlanta’s Most Trusted Advisors: IT Security, Common Mistakes and How Business Can Avoid Them

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Atlanta’s Most Trusted Advisors interviews industry experts from in and around the Metro Atlanta Area. Our goal is to provide valuable information that all business owners and managers can use in their day-to-day work to help them succeed.

 

 

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Karl Sigler with Trustwave and David Gracey with Network 1 Consulting

 

Karl Sigler/Threat Intelligence Manager at Trustwave

Karl is Threat Intelligence Manager at Trustwave where he is responsible for research and analysis of current vulnerabilities, malware and threat trends. Karl and his team run the Emerging Threat advisory service, serve as liaison for the Microsoft MAPP program, and coordinate Trustwave’s responsible vulnerability disclosure process. Before joining Trustwave in 2013, Karl worked as the lead of the IBM X-Force Education group. With more than 20 years experience working in information security, Karl has presented on topics like Intrusion Analysis and Penetration Testing to audiences in over 30 countries.”

 

 

David Gracey/Network 1 Consulting

David is the founder and president of Network 1 Consulting, Atlanta’s leading provider of IT services for small and medium-sized businesses. Network 1 specializes in IT support for law firms, medical practices, financial services and real estate markets.

 

 

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 Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk (Host)/ bbr Marketing 

Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk has been a member of the creative and marketing services community for over 20 years and does not appear to be leaving it anytime soon. As president of bbr marketing, she has relished the challenges of entrepreneurship as she worked to grow and nurture a new business. Since the firm’s inception in 2009, Bonnie has led the young company to become widely recognized and respected within the professional services marketing niche, with award-winning client websites and an outstanding history of business success having worked with clients in 23 states and 2 Canadian provinces.

 

 

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Spotlight on Digital Marketing

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Don Dodds / M16 Marketing Facebook Twitter

Don Dodds is a Managing Partner and an innovative digital marketer with more than 18 years of experience demonstrating his idiosyncratic combination of creative, technical and business acumen. He has managed and delivered successful projects for large corporations like AT&T, the Southern Company, John Deere, Heidelberg, the state of Georgia and hundreds of small businesses.

Dodds is a serial entrepreneur and founder of 3 multi-million dollar corporations and has a keen understanding of how to grow a business. He holds a registered trademark and patent as the creator of Frand® WiFi, a wifi marketing automation system that allows traditional brick and mortar businesses an opportunity to generate leads, automate engagement, market, analyze and monetize campaigns using WiFi. Mr. Dodds shares his marketing expertise both as a speaker and writer for online publications like the Huffington Post.

Bonnie Mauldin / The Mauldin Group Facebook Twitter

Bonnie Mauldin aka “The Rainmaker” is a Senior SEO Specialist who has helped countless small and medium size business owners propel their business to greater heights. She is also a top-notch sales marketing copywriter who has published four bestselling books and has been featured on CNN, Fox News, The Huffington Post and The Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Bonnie is also the founder and CEO of The Mauldin Group, a North Fulton based company that specializes in providing world class yet affordable online marketing services designed to elevate small and medium sized businesses to the next level of success.

 

Ankit Patel / K-3 Technologies Facebook Twitter

Ankit Patel is the CEO and Co-Owner of K-3 Technologies. A local Atlanta based web design and internet marketing firm.