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Princess Modupe Ozolua with Empower 54, Sean Henry Founder/CEO of Stord and Tony Sakich Director of Marketing for Augur

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Modupe Ozien Ozolua / Empower 54
CEO and Princes from the Benin Kingdom

Modupe Ozolua is a social Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Body Enhancement limited in Nigeria. Body Enhancement Ltd pioneered cosmetic surgery in Nigeria in 2001 and aesthetic lasers in 2007. She is also the founder and president of Body Enhancement Annual Reconstructive Surgery (BEARS) Foundation. From cosmetic surgery procedures, Modupe Ozolua now gives hope to the less privileged. Modupe Ozien Ozolua is a Princess from the Benin Kingdom. She was born in Benin City, Nigeria October 10, 1973, the youngest of four siblings born to Mr and Mrs M.S Ozolua. Her parents hail from Sabongida Ora area of Edo State. Her name, Modupe, means “I praise or thank God” in Yoruba.[3][4] Ozolua had her early education in Nigeria, where she attended University of Benin primary and secondary school, and Queen Idia Girls College in Benin City. Her secondary education was completed at Apata Memorial High School, Isolo, Lagos. To further her education, Ozolua left for the United States of America in 1989. She studied in Southwestern College, San Diego (California), and Devry International University, Los Angeles, California (1989–1995). She was recognised in the 1994-1995 edition of the NATIONAL DEANS’S LIST. Modupe Ozolua has a dual citizenship of Nigeria and America. Ozolua is a businesswoman and philanthropist; she started earning money “at the age 18, by working in McDonalds’ in America while in college, 1991” (Olatunji, 2006).[5] The first business Ozolua had was a communication business in Los Angeles prior to pioneering cosmetic surgery to West Africa at the age of 27. Miss Ozolua describes herself in her interview with Adeseun (2004) [6] as a “workaholic” –to which one might add; intelligent and an ambitious woman. Ozolua has been recognised by the public through her following awards: • Nigeria Women Awards. • Dame International for Pioneering Action Award 2003. • City People for Female Achiever in the Beauty sector 2001. • Moremi Hall Executive Council • Oba Femi Awolowo University for Award of Excellence 2002. • City People for Beautician of the Year 2001. Likewise, Ozolua has been featured on CNN, BBC and many other international media publications. In Africa, in numerous magazines and press publications. The aim of Ozolua’s charity organization, BEARS Foundation, is to treat individuals [children, adults, and people who have serious injuries like acid burn and severe accidents] with deformities and create HIV/AIDS awareness. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the Patron of BEARS Foundation.

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Tony Sakich / Augur
Director of Marketing

 

Tony Sakich is the Director of Marketing for Augur. Tony’s been responsible for many successful campaigns in the tech space, including: – Creating, managing and executing the successful crowdfunding for Augur, raising $5.3 Million Dollars and becoming one of the 25 most successful crowdfunding campaigns in history. – The #BitcoinBowl social media campaign on ESPN in which $10,000 was given away for free on Twitter utilizing “guest tippers” including Country artist Shooter Jennings, Warner Bros. Records, NewEgg.com, UFC Fighter Jon Fitch, WWE performer Curtis Axel and many others. – Named a finalist in 2016’s MAX Awards for marketing the Augur crowdfunding campaign, putting our 6 person startup side by side with Coca Cola, The Atlanta Hawks, Cricket Wireless and other Fortune 500 companies. – Managed the production, script and project details of BitPay’s two commercials that aired nationwide on ESPN, the first ever for a blockchain company. – Utilized my music history connections from the past to partner with 50 Cent, Warner Bros. Records and Atlanta artists Mastodon for national coverage of BitPay. – Managed the digital campaign around Microsoft’s acceptance of Bitcoin, the largest organization to get involved with blockchain technology to date, resulting in global coverage for both Microsoft and BitPay. – Named an industry leader in Blockchain Technology by Bitcoin Magazine, the largest and most respected publication in the space. This honor was shared with huge names like Tyler Winklevoss, Adam White of Coinbase, Stephen Pair of BitPay (infographic featuring the full list is found at https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-is-growing-up-an-infographic-of-the-bitcoin-ecosystem-1447865097)

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Sean Henry / Stord
Founder / CEO

Sean is the Founder and CEO of Stord. He has an extensive background in entrepreneurship, and a passion to innovate static industries. At age 11, Sean launched his first successful tech business, an iPhone repair company, in a personal effort to afford his first phone. Sean received the Deans Scholarship to the Scheller college of business at Georgia tech, to pursue operations and supply chain management. Prior to Stord, Sean spent a summer as a lean management consultant in 5 different countries.

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Spotlight Episode: Doing Good Atlanta

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This is a spotlight episode of Atlanta Business Radio featuring non profit organizations in metro Atlanta. Highlighting the good work, community involvement and how to operate a succesful not for profit business. 

 

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Megan Bowman, Todd Shifflet, Alex Gossett Shifflet, Jim Hamm

 

 

 

Todd Shiflett / Georgia Highlands Medical Services
CEO

For more than 16 years, Todd Shifflet served as a key member of the management team at one of the most successful community health centers in South Carolina, and the nation. In that time, he served as the lead in garnering the funding as well as organizing and implementing the strategies that resulted in increased access to more than 16,000 new patients. He also served as architect of the organization’s corporate compliance; community health worker; communications; and private sector fundraising strategies – among other successes. He earned a Master of Arts degree from Winthrop University and has received several trainings and certificates in community health. He has served on many local and state boards, including the Byerly Foundation, the Butler Heritage Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, SC Rural Health Association, and several others. He has also received numerous accolades and awards for his work improving community health including a legislative resolution from the State of South Carolina for his tireless efforts to improve the health and life care system in the northeast region of the state. He joined Georgia Highlands Medical Services as its new CEO this year and has made some significant accomplishments – including a $1 million dollar grant to renovate and open a new specialty center in Forsyth County – over the past several months. He is married to Alex Gossett Shifflet and is the father of twins, Grace and Whitman.

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Megan Bowman / Angels Among Us Pet Rescue
Development Director

Megan Bowman provides nearly 20 years of progressive nonprofit leadership experience in the fields of executive management, philanthropy, and media relations. She began her career working in marketing and media relations for two trade associations in Washington, DC. In 1999, Bowman accepted the role of Executive Director of the Prince William County Chapter of the American Red Cross in Virginia. During her time there, Bowman transformed the struggling office into a strategic leadership chapter within the country, and was invited to participate in executive leadership and planning sessions at the national Red Cross headquarters office in DC.Bowman received the prestigious Gail B. Kettlewell Leadership Award for her management of the Red Cross response to the 9-11 Attack on the Pentagon, where she helped to orchestrate the organization’s largest disaster response in history. Since that time, Bowman has held other senior management positons for the Red Cross in development and, in 2003, created her own independent nonprofit consulting firm called Bowman Development Solutions. Her clients have included theFoster Care Support Foundation, Mommy’s Light, Angels Among Us Pet Rescue, and West Chester Public Library in Philadelphia. Today, Bowman serves as the Development Director of Angels Among Us Pet Rescue based in Atlanta. Her goal is to expand the organization’s development program beyond social media support alone. Bowman earned both an undergraduate degree in communications and public relations and a master’s degree in nonprofit management with a concentration in Philanthropy from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She has been married to her husband, Andrew, for 17 years, and has three daughters ranging in age from 7-12. In her limited spare time, Bowman enjoys exercise, cooking, travel, and spending time with her family, including their two rescue dogs, Luna and Jake. She resides in Milton, GA

 

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Jim Hamm / Special Populations Tennis 
Executive Director

Married (Jeanie). Graduated from Chamblee High School; attended DeKalb Junior College (now Perimeter College) and Georgia State (before it was a university). Moved to Atlanta in 1959 from Kentucky (pre-date I-285). Selected to the Chamblee High School Hall of Fame.

Business: Executive Director – Special Pops Tennis since 2005 and also employed by Cobb County School District in Transportation Department since 2011 as school bus monitor for the special needs students.

Special Pops Tennis: Founding member of Special Pops Tennis; elected to the Board of Directors in 2005. Chairman of the United States Tennis Association – Southern section Special Populations sub-committee; Member of the Special Olympics North America Tennis Development Committee; Tennis Coach of Team USA – Southeast Region at the 2003 Special Olympics Summer World Games in Dublin, Ireland; Head Coach of Team USA – 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece; recipient of the USTA Southern Section Adaptive Tennis Community Service Award; Tommy Nobis Foundation Philanthropy Award; Atlanta Alliance on Developmental Disabilities Vital Service Award; and Cobb County and Cherokee County Volunteer of the Year; Atlanta Falcon Community Service award. 

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KSU Entrepreneurship Center Presents The Shrimp Tank

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Ted Jenkins,Stephanie Carvajalino, James Hall and Chris Hanks.

 

 

 

 

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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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Jim Hall / CEO Triatek

James (Jim) Hall serves as the CEO of Triatek and has over 27 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He led an investment group that purchased the assets of Triatek in 2008 and successfully transformed the company into an international leader in the critical environment airflow controls industry.

He is an accomplished executive with a proven track record of increasing sales, developing organizations, and exceeding objectives for Fortune 500 companies, start-up ventures, and privately held organizations. Jim has served in leadership roles at several healthcare companies including US Surgical Corporation (which was later acquired by Tyco), ViaCirq, Prism Controls, and MAST Biosurgery.

Thanks to Jim’s strong leadership, Triatek was named a “Small Business Rock Star” by the Georgia Department of Economic Development and the Georgia Economic Developers Association, saluting the innovations and contributions of the company to the economy. Jim also represented Triatek at the Georgia Capitol during the ceremony where Governor Nathan Deal proclaimed Georgia’s first ever “Small Business Week.” He was also named the 2014 “Business Person of the Year” by the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.

Jim volunteers as a member of the Distinguished Clown Corps for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and also as a speaker for the University of Georgia Terry School of Business Leadership Speaker Series. He is an active member of ASHRAE® and received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from College of the Holy Cross. He enjoys disc golf, regular golf, and playing bass in several local bands.

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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.

 

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 Chris Hanks/ KSU EC
(Co – Host)

Christopher C. Hanks is the founder and executive director of the KSUEntrepreneurship 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.

 

Jim Farmer Festival Director of Out On Film, Atlanta’s LGBT Film Festival

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Jim Farmer / Out on Film
Festival Director

Jim Farmer has been coordinating Out On Film, Atlanta’s LGBT film festival, since 2008. A graduate of the University of Georgia, he has served as a juror for other film festivals and is also an area arts and entertainment writer.

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Veterans Connect Radio Episode 04

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Veterans Connect Radio

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

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Tanya D Bryant / Just Lovely Lipstick LLC
Personal Branding Expression Artist

Tanya Bryant is a retired twenty-one-year veteran who has been in two war campaigns. While the fatigues and combat boots are as close as the closet door, Tanya’s entrepreneurship journey led her right into the beauty industry. Today Tanya is the owner of Imagine Makeup Artistry, LLC and founder of Just Lovely® Lipstick, she markets herself as the Personal Branding Expression Artist. She helps business women to enhance their personal brand image so they can express who they are in their industry by using the power of color so they look and feel confident when presenting their business.

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Garrett Cathcart / Team Red White and Blue
Southeast Regional Director

Team RWB’s mission is to enrich the lives of America’s veterans by connecting them to people in their community through physical and social activity. Join!

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John Philips LTC, U.S. Army Retired / Boots To Loafers
Author, Speaker, Leader / Vice Chairman VETLANTA

John has had a distinguished career in both military and civilian service. John is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the US Army where he served in the Field Artillery as well as a Financial Comptroller.  With more than 20 years of service, he served  in Corps Artillery, Division Artillery, Army Headquarters and Forces Command, the largest command and the generating force provider for combatant commanders – at home and abroad. He has served in Europe, throughout the Middle East and the United States. Among his awards and decorations are the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, and the Air Assault Badge.

John is the Author of Boots to Loafers, Finding Your New True North which outlines a proven process of transitioning out of the military and into the private sector.  He is also a contributing author to Paddling Guide to the Sunshine State and An American Crisis, Veteran Unemployment, Stand by Them/How You can Help/Solution.  He has been featured on The Mike Huckabee Show, the Dennis Miller Show as well as a number of radio appearances across the country.  

John is a finance executive at The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia. In his spare time, John spends his time travelling with his wife, Sailing in the British Virgin Islands, remote wilderness trips in the western United States, and helping our nation’s military and veterans make the transition into society and finding a job in the private sector.  

John holds a BS in Finance from University of Central Florida and an MBA from Syracuse University. He lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Georgia with his wife, the former Melissa K. Smith and their Australian Shepherd, Bear.

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Freeman Fields with iVault Home Protection

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Freeman Fields CEO of iVault Home Protection is a decorated Navy Veteran.

 

 

Freeman Fields / iVault Home Protection
Owner and CEO

A successful entrepreneur, Freeman Fields I has many years of experience with start-ups. He developed his leadership skills while serving in the Armed Forces as the youngest person on his command to ever lead an entire division to oversee multi-million dollar operations. Since medically retiring from the Navy in 1997 due to an injury suffered during Desert Storm, he has diligently pursued his passion for entrepreneurship. Some of his many achievements include successfully becoming a real estate investor, twenty plus in construction, publishing two books, acquiring multiple patents and his latest endeavor, iVault Home Protection.

 

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iVault Home Protection does more than simply deter burglars as traditional home security companies and home alarms, it is one of the first home protection company to essentially turn your existing doors into security doors to actually STOP BURGLARS FROM ENTERING YOUR HOME IN THE FIRST PLACE. This is done by seamlessly reinforcing the door jambs to make the doors kick proof.

 

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Atlanta’s Most Trusted Advisors: Why You Should Care about Social Security Planning

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Faye Sykes, Laurie Attaway and Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk

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.

 

 

Faye Sykes / Social Security Benefit Planners
Retirement Planner NSSA, CLTC

Faye Sykes, NSSA, CLTC is a financial planner with 11 years of experience assisting clients view their financial life from a holistic approach. Faye’s company Social Security Benefit Planners is a flat fee social security planning firm that helps baby boomers understand and implement their optimal plan.  fsykes@socialsecuritybp.com 877-270-7727 to find out more.

 

 

Laurie Attaway / Attaway Linville
Partner

Laurie has been a real estate investor for more than 20 years.  She has purchased, rehabbed, managed, rented, and or sold single family homes, multi family structures, commercial properties and even trailers and trailer parks.  Laurie was frustrated with the CPA assistance that was out there for her and her partners.  So in the late 1990’s she became a CPA, retired from corporate America and began providing Entrepreneurial Services to Real Estate players.  In addition to being a CPA, Laurie has two business degrees from Mercer University and a Masters in Taxation from Georgia State University.

 

 

 

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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Dar’shun Kendrick with Kendrick Law Practice and Georgia House of Representatives, Suprit Patel with The Bestige Group and Bob Littell with NetWeaving

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Dar’shun N. Kendrick / Kendrick Law Practice/GA House of Representatives
Attorney/State Representative

Attorney Dar’shun N. Kendrick was born in Atlanta, Georgia to 2 parents that were Georgia entrepreneurs and small business owners. She was raised in South DeKalb, Georgia and graduated from DeKalb County public schools. She received 2 bachelors’ degrees from Oglethorpe University and her law degree from the University of Georgia. While in law school, she was on a Member and Editor of the International and Comparative Law Journal and started the law school’s first ever Business Law Society which prepares law students to practice transactional business law as opposed to business litigation. In August of 2011, she received her Master’s in Business Administration from Kennesaw State University. She is now the owner of Kendrick Law Practice, a private securities law firm that handles legal compliance and investor agreements and negotiations for private placement offerings. After law school and passing the Georgia bar, she was employed at a litigation firm in downtown Atlanta, Georgia serving as counsel for large corporations like American Express, the City of Atlanta, Dell, Avis Rent-A-Car Systems, Clarke Atlanta and other large entities. Her practice is exclusively business law, with a focus on transactional law including document drafting, document reviewing and negotiating services as well as strategic planning and business counseling services and training. Dar’shun is admitted to practice law in the state and superior courts of Georgia, the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Middle District of Georgia. She is a Member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) of the State Bar, the Business Law Committee of the YLD of the State Bar, the DeKalb and Rockdale Chamber of Commerce. She is also a founding Board Member/attorney for the Stonecrest Mall Business Alliance, Inc. She received the “30 under 30 Awards” in the spring of 2011 and is a finalist for the “Under 30” Awards in Atlanta by Under30FTV Magazine. Dar’shun was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in November of 2010 to represent over 50,000 residents in East DeKalb and Rockdale counties in the Georgia General Assembly. She now represents over 54,000 Georgians from DeKalb and Gwinnett counties and serves on the following committees: Small Business Development and Job Creation (ranking Democrat), Judiciary Non-Civil, Juvenile Justice and Interstate Cooperation. In the spring of 2016, she chaired a series of public hearings of an ad hoc committee made of House members to discuss private capital investments in Georgia. She was also an Adjunct Professor at Oglethorpe University teaching business law to undergraduate students. In January of 2016, Dar’shun started Minority Access to Capital, Inc., which is a non-profit committed to EDUCATION and EMPOWERMENT of minorities on how to access private capital to grow their business and create generational wealth. In March of 2016, she was appointed by the Chairs of the Economic Development and Tourism Committee and Small Business Development and Job Creation Committee to Chair an ad-hoc committee to conduct a series of hearings throughout the state of Georgia on private investment policy in Georgia.

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Suprit Patel / The Bestige Group
Managing Partner

Suprit is the Managing Partner and Founder of The Bestige Group, which is based here in Atlanta. He has spent the last 12 years working in the Healthcare Industry for leading firms such as The Advisory Board Company and Ernst and Young. He’s worked with Healthcare providers across the country to improve operations and effectively use data to manage their organization. He founded The Bestige Group when he saw the need for Providers to better understand their patient populations so they can drive down the cost to acquire new patients, grow to new markets, and be better prepared to handle the new Healthcare consumerism trend.

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Bob Littell / NetWeaving International
Chief NetWeaver

Although Bob’s background for the last 47 years has been in financialservices, his real passion for the last 17 years is a concept he createdcalled Netweaving. NetWeaving is almost the reverse of more traditional ‘networking’ because it’s focused on helping others, rather than the more ‘self-serving’ networking. With permission of Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of the book on which the popular movie was based – “Pay It Forward”, NetWeaving is now known internationally as the ‘business’ version of ‘pay iit forward’. Bob was the first elected of the Pay it Forward Foundation and still serves on their Board.

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Exclusive With Ricky Steele CEO of Steele Technology Partners

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Ricky Steele / Steele Technology Partners
CEO

Ricky Steele is a life long entrepreneur. Steele Technology Partners, www.steelejobs.com, is his 7th startup beginning with a restaurant in 1976. In 1986 Steele was named the Georgia Small Business Person of the Year by the SBA and represented Georgia in Washington, DC with the other 49 State winners. Steele is known for his passion for business but also for the community. Steele presently serves on the Board of Councilors for The Carter Center, Board of Advisors for Atlanta’s Table, a project of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Board of Advisors for the Kennesaw State University Entrepreneurship Center. Steele has been married to the “Love of his Life” for 36 years and the proud father of three children, Everett, Andrew and Rebecca. He is also blessed with two beautiful granddaughters, Sophie and Zoe.

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Georgia Tech Entrepreneur in Residence, Jane McCracken and TC Productions Owner/Cinematographer, Trenton Carson

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Jane McCracken / Georgia Tech ATDC
Entrepreneur in Residence

Jane McCracken is an Entrepreneur in Residence at the ATDC at Georgia Tech, one of the oldest and most successful high tech business incubators in the US. Jane uses her experience as a serial entrepreneur to mentor and coach a variety of technology businesses from ideation through product development, fund raising and business growth. Jane started her career in venture capital and investment banking in both the US and Europe before joining an early stage medical diagnostics company which grew from start-up through an IPO and beyond. She then worked as CEO and co-founder of an online travel company, growing it from start-up into the second largest hotel booking site in the world before it was acquired by Travelocity. And followed that experience by leading a computer games developer through a turn around before it was sold to a NASDAQ-listed company. Most recently, Jane was CEO of an oncology-focused clinical research company, which grew from a start-up with one office into a multi-national company with offices across Europe and North America. The company was financed through its own cash flow and was sold in 2012 to a larger CRO. Jane has served on boards for public and private companies, as well as government-related and non-profit organizations. She is a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences, companies and universities and is an active volunteer in the community. Jane earned her BA at Wake Forest University and her Masters degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Trenton Carson / TC Productions
Owner, Cinematographer, Editor

Trenton Carson has a bachelor’s degree in Cinematography from Southern Illinois University. That educational background as well as on the field work experience, allows him to create stunning video visuals. He utilizes his creativity to help his clients, business owners, better connect with their audience by allowing the audience to connect visually with his clients.

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